Has anyone else noticed brick-and-mortar stores that offer auction services through eBay? There are two in my area that I’m aware of so far. One is TheTradingBay, in Marietta, which I pass each day on my way to work. The second is iSoldIt, which has a store in Woodstock. Basically, they operate sort of like a consignment shop which fronts your items through eBay.
“Clicks-to-Bricks” isn’t exactly a new idea. But for some reason, I find this particular venture facinating. I don’t know why, because I’ve only bought one item through eBay (I did have an OnSale.com habit many years ago, though). But it just caught my eye when I passed by TheTradingBay, and the sign said “eBay the easy way.” I had to wonder if this was just somebody leeching off of the eBay name, or if it was officially sanctioned (which it is).
eBay Trading Posts — Now Luddites can use eBay, too!
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I saw a shop in Blackpool here in the UK, that sold your item on ebay. You took in your crap from the charity shop and they put it on ebay and sold it for you.
yep, i think its kinda of ridicuslous, theres actually two less than half a mile from eachother near me. It’ll be interesting to see how long they last.
Try it sometime, and they will gladly explain the procedure. I bought an old cob webbed antique for twenty dollars and sold it for almost 500.00 thru the Woodstock store-spiders and all. They make it easy!