The price of gas around here changes daily, and yesterday it went up twice in 24 hours. The price of postage keeps climbing, food is getting more expensive, and those economic stimulus checks are absolutely useless. The government issues these checks to stimulate spending and the economy, yet everyone is in debt up to their eyeballs and is banking it or paying a credit card.
The fact that there are no jobs, stores are closing, big Fortune 500 companies are downsizing with some even taking away employee stock options because they are hurting so bad is adversely affecting how people spend, and what people are willing to invest in.
My main source of income is eBay, and I list about 10 high end items per week and the ones that do sell for over $100 bucks all go overseas. The items I sell for $15 bucks, are within the U.S. I don’t mind where my items end up as long as the cash is green that’s all I care about, but it makes my life very difficult wen I am trying to sell items like Yankees tickets, or Yankee related merchandise.
With all of this said, the baseball card aspect of eBay still seems to be doing fine according to completed listings and current ones. (I am doing my part in helping this part of eBay continue to strive.) My partner in crime and myself are working on opening an eBay store for baseball cards, and sports collectibles within the next month or two. Since we both collect cards ourselves, we figure this business will hopefully help us make money for profit, as well as get rid of some cards that we don’t really have a need for.
Swing by our baseball card blog to read about what we’re doing and buying.
