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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Young's niche is quirky but lucrative: selling bubble wrap over eBay, largely to other eBay sellers, who use it to wrap their own items for shipping. That Young supports herself through an eBay business is not unusual; an estimated 75,000 Americans do. But her rise illustrates just how powerful eBay's 22 million-user platform can be for aspiring entrepreneurs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Her Own Bubble Economy | 3/27/2001 | See Source »

Many of the stickiest sites are tiny. SimSlots, for example, gets only about 600,000 users a month, or 5% of the traffic of eBay. But there's more than one way to measure popularity on the Net, and stickiness rankings do a great job of spotting trends and ferreting out Net addictions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Net Addictions | 3/26/2001 | See Source »

...past month, nearly 10,000 items relating to the Atari 2600 have shown up on eBay: joysticks, manuals and rare games, plus the systems themselves, which in good condition usually sell for $25 to $50. (Atari's old opponent Colecovision, in contrast, had fewer than 1,000 listings.) On the swap site Switchouse, the number of people with a 2600 to trade are outnumbered nearly 2 to 1 by those looking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Atari 2600 | 3/19/2001 | See Source »

JEFF BEZOS SEC probes Amazon stock dump. Should've just sold the whole company on eBay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Mar. 19, 2001 | 3/19/2001 | See Source »

Surviving the greaser attack made us giddy, the way we always were when we walked out of a jam. We made it the rest of the way to the drugstore and got that month's "Famous Monsters." Here's what the cover looked like; this issue recently sold on eBay for $45. (What the world needs now - yet another robust collector's niche...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Monkey On My Back | 3/9/2001 | See Source »

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