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A Strange Way to Make Friends

About 20 years ago, Tina and I started our business selling on eBay. This was back before we conducted our own online auctions, or in-person auctions or blended auctions with both live and on-line bidding, or even estate sales. Back then we sold on eBay. This was back in in the 1998-1999 timeframe. We had somehow picked up what the seller told us was a light from a St. Louis Bordello. When we sold it on eBay that’s exactly how we marketed it. We said something like “Lovely Victorian Light From a St. Louis Whore House” Our winning bidders were a husband and wife from a tiny town in New… Read More »A Strange Way to Make Friends

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