Similar story to Spark, I started a small company to sell on ebay in late 98 or early 99... I made around 6k-8k a month typically for until late 2003, almost every item I got I bought from garage, got them for on pennies on the dollar. The highest profit (percentage wise) item I sold on eBay was a Sasha Doll (some European doll I guess), bought it at a garage sale for a quarter and sold it on eBay, netted around $200.00 profit, or something like 80000% profit lol. During 2003 though, profits got slimmer and slimmer really fast as more and more people around here found out about eBay. By 2004, it just wasn?t really worth my time, profit went from 6-8k to like 1k max? and same amount of work
I miss those old days.