Good luck!
About me, the seller:
For those of you who don't know me, here's a current update:
My son Jake completed his 4 year College degree with a Bachelor of Science, major of percussion performance from Berklee College of Music in Boston in 2015.
A
huge thank you to my eBay customer base during those college years that
made it possible to fund this endeavor one sale at a time over the college years when the funds to send him there went dry.
The
gratification of being able to do such a momentous task without
saddling my son with a huge student loan at the end is truly
gratifying.
Now with tuition
payments behind us, I can start lowering those home equity loans that
were part of the mix & help him pay off his small student loan.
I
started doing eBay "full time" about 5 years ago when I realized that
my saved college funds for my musically inclined son Jake was running
out quickly.
His studies at Berklee have been successful in preparing him for a career in the music industry.
Jake moved out to LA in March 2019 after traveling the world playing for a cruise line.
Things were going well...until the world of performance entertainment came to a halt early in 2020.
Still
engaging in electronic and virtual work, he is making ends
meet...barely...and is hoping this COVID pandemic is over soon and his music
career can get back on track!
His web site is also up and running: JakeDick (dot com)
Take a look if you're curious!
Me?
I've been doing Flea Marketing and Antiquing ever since I was in my
20's, and my love for the search has helped me complete this seemingly
impossible journey.
My
eBay store is called Ziggy's Vault. Ziggy is my Quaker Parrot who was a
rescue from a broken home and I found him at a flea market during
spring of 2010.
He has quite a vocabulary now with "Good Morning" and "Hello" topping the repeat over and over list.
We've now added "Love you" and "No..No..no!" to the conversation :-)
Anyways...I mostly list jewelry...vintage unusual jewelry
How did I acquire it????
I
got my initial stash of stuff back in the 70's and 80's when my mom
Helen & I used to go flea marketing, and antique hunting together.
Oh,
every Thursday was garage sale day, and we'd go off and spend lots of
quality time together. Saturday's and Sundays we hit the flea markets
and antiques shows.
Mom
is now is gone, but I have all our treasures...and there are boxes and
boxes of them. They are all in my crawl space, and I've been taking out
and discovering treasures I never even knew I had!
Why? Well....
Mom used to always tease me that out mother-daughter hobby would become my "inheritance" and that it would make me wealthy.
You know...I've been doing this now for over 3 years...and I still have boxes and boxes of untouched undiscovered treasures.
It's like going down memory lane when I dig & photograph!
Yes,
I'm still digging out old boxes out, but, I'm also picking up new
pieces weekly from local resale/flea markets/antique shows in NE
Ohio....so, when you see "newer" pieces....that's where they are coming
from.
So...there
you have it! I'm not so sure of the wealthy part selling it on eBay,
but it's a piece of the financial puzzle that made it possible for my
son to attend the College of his dreams one sale at a time!
~Becky