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  • VIDEO:  Ed Curran reports.

    Apr 5, 2004 11:25 pm US/Central
    CHICAGO (CBS 2) This suburban Chicago home is a store that thousands of customers visit, but never set foot inside.

    It's the eBay business of Bill and Marsha Pater: the perfect marriage of her ebay involvement since 1998, and his thirty years in the tool business. They serve customers that want special tooling supplies, at very good prices.

    Bill showed us diamond abrasive wheels that would cost as much as $200 from a supply house. On eBay he'll sell these surplus tools for $40.

    Their store is based in a beautiful suburban home, custom built with the help of their eBay business. t's a home where the two car garage is a warehouse, and where the boss is never looking over your shoulder.

    "I can pick and chose what days I want to work,” explains Marsha. “And if I want to get dressed or be in my pj's, I can."

    eBay has become the storefront for hundreds of thousands of people just like the Pater's.

    There are 430,000 people who make extra money, and even make their entire living, selling on eBay. It's like setting up shop in a high traffic mall, with 95 million registered users and 24 billion dollars in sales last year.

    Another e-bay business is Express Drop on Belmont. They help you sell your stuff on eBay. They take the photos, write the description, ship it out, and you get a check in the mail 30 days later. Express drop is paid out of your proceeds. You keep about $67 of a $100 sale.

    It's a new concept. There are fewer than 200 eBay storefronts.

    So start selling on eBay yourself. They say it's easier than it looks.


    Ed Curran

    (MMIV, CBS Broadcasting Inc., All Rights Reserved.)


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