A recent newspaper article about TradeMe’s “Top Guns” made interesting reading with the ‘people’ stories behind the screen names. Recently we were at a lunch with some TradeMe Sellers – some who are Auctionitis users and some who are not (yet!) and putting a face to the ‘screen name’ always brings a few surprises!
“A table of the 20 Top Guns was listed in the article. It was no surprise to see 50%+ of them are current Auctionitis Customers – Well Done!!”
Here are a few snippets from the article (abridged for brevity).
Mark Esdot aka esdot and esdotpc uses profits from trading to pursue his dream of opening a national chain of toy stores, the first of which has just opened in Wainuiomata.
Cathy Phillips aka Morzart was able to give up the life of a travelling sales rep as a result of her books, gifts and linen trading business. She says surviving as a trader is getting harder as TradeMe grows. “It’s a numbers game. The more product you put up, the more you sell.
TradeMe is a perfect place for former nurse Sue Vlug-Smith, who trades under the name womantics to sell her adult toys and clothing. She began selling health books, but says customers started asking for sexual health books; from there requests came in for guides to more rarified practices.
An electronics trader on TradeMe who asked not to be named, works full-time as an educator and has gathered his 6440 feedbacks through after-hours operations. An immigrant from Fiji, he starts at 4am or 5am and he is often not to be in bed before midnight. He’s living proof, he says, that TradeMe can change lives, having paid for his first stock using the $3000 limit on a credit card.
“If you are finding you are ready to expand beyond Auctionitis – talk to us – we have some great new products being released and we can customize solutions to meet your needs including webhosted Auctionitis and Tradar”
Bejewelled Sandra Boston from Whangarei is TradeMe’s cake lady. Boston, who also runs the website www.kiwicakes.co.nz, generally has 500-700 auctions on the go. Selling everything cake-related, including Jewish and Masonic cake and sweet molds (both of them big sellers), she says she got into trading when she struggled to find cake supplies. That was back in November 2002, and a business was born.
If you are looking to be come a Top Gun on Trade Me in 2008 contact us today! Auctionitis enables sellers to scale their business from small homebased hobby to huge warehouse and beyond!
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