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Dates: during 1990-1999
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And she has lots of company, among buyers and sellers alike. eBay makes a lot of people happy, and not just because it makes some people rich. The surprise--in more enthusiastic moments, you might even call it the miracle--of eBay is that it offers online consumers something rarer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Auction Nation: Auction Nation | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

"Community" is an overworked term, too often applied artificially to any motley of people who share a skin color, an income level or a set of political bugaboos. But from the limitless ether of cyberspace, eBay has managed to conjure up the real thing. For many people, eBay does what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Auction Nation: Auction Nation | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

Consider Carol Sangster of Edmonton, Canada, who seven years ago had to quit her job as an engineering clerk at Canadian National Railways because she was struggling with systemic lupus and diabetes. For several years, she fought for her life. In time she partially recovered. "I became well enough to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Auction Nation: Auction Nation | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

In their travels over the years, she and her husband had acquired acres of stuff. She started posting lots of it for auction. When she was well enough, she began attending public auctions and buying up lots. Today she tests her strength, challenging herself with eBay, working as much as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Auction Nation: Auction Nation | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

Many antiques dealers, who would seem most threatened by eBay, have seen their livelihoods transformed. David James, for example, opened his shop in Alexandria, Va., eight years ago. He deals mostly in what the trade calls smalls: candlesticks, glassware and other such collectibles. He's still got the store, but...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Auction Nation: Auction Nation | 12/27/1999 | See Source »

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