Tuesday, January 9, 2007

eBay launches business high-fliers

Auction sites are increasingly being recognized as a breeding ground for serious business men and women, as the growing band of entrepreneurs making a healthy living out of selling their wares online can testify.
Clare Price is one of them.
The 32-year-old left the security of a high-flying job to set up in business on eBay.
Once operations director of an IT services business -- working on the customer service, not technology, side of the business -- she started trading online two years ago, after netting a bargain in the January sales.
Price, from Hayling Island, near Portsmouth, snapped up limited edition Italian designer lamps for £5 ($9.79) each, and made six times that after selling them for £70 per pair.
She then sourced other lamps from a department store supplier and bought a car-full. She sold them within a week.

Read more http://www.cnn.com/2007/BUSINESS/01/02/ebay.career.reut/

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