View Full Version : How Long Have You Been Ebaying It?
jaybird
03-22-2003, 07:37 PM
I was looking over my eBay feedback today & noticed how long I've been a member:
Jul 30, 1998
I set up my account on a WebTV unit & started bidding on eBay for Mark McGwire baseball cards. It was the summer of '98 (70 HR) after all. :)
I was curious if others on this board have been ebaying it even longer.
Also, does anyone know when eBay was "established"?
y-bot
03-22-2003, 08:20 PM
I sold a Dark Tower board game under a friends account in '97 but I didn't get my own account until '99. I think ebay started in '95 or '96 as a Pez auction site.
y-bot
Starcade
03-22-2003, 08:48 PM
I only started about a month ago, when I got a computer in my room, along with a broadband internet connection.
gamergary
03-22-2003, 09:09 PM
About 6 months but i don't buy or sell more than 1 item every month or so. :-D
CrazyImpmon
03-23-2003, 12:02 AM
I've been on eBay since early '98 although I never won a single auction for several months. back then I didn't have much of a job and had to keep the restraint on bidding amount. Today I still do but for a different reason: too many noobs driving up the auction to insane amount and usually "rare" items will pop up in a week or so. ;)
portnoyd
03-23-2003, 01:17 AM
Late '99, with a oversized SMB2 mug and a SMS. Yay.
dave
badinsults
03-23-2003, 03:20 AM
The first time I used ebay was early 2001.
briskbc
03-23-2003, 04:45 AM
I've b registered since June 25th 1997 but I have been visiting the site for a year before that. I was a little apprehensive about giving personal information to an internet site back then. Hell, I still am.
Chunky
03-23-2003, 11:39 AM
as the auction says:
Member since: Apr-02-98
Mayhem
03-23-2003, 12:53 PM
January 99...
Six Switch
03-23-2003, 01:14 PM
Sunday, May 16, 1999
I don't really use it as much anymore.
Darth Vader
03-23-2003, 02:20 PM
August 1999. Bought an atari and a few games, thats when I started building my collection.
Danny
zektor
03-23-2003, 04:57 PM
DEC 1998
Doesn't seem like 5 years really. Alot of people knock ebay, and there is just cause most of the time..but still...it to me is a great thing. I would have never found alot of items I wanted any other way.
Atar1G1rl
03-23-2003, 05:51 PM
Oct-23-98
Wow. :)
Dec 30, 1996
Sold a 2600 and some games
Syclone
03-24-2003, 03:42 AM
I joined May 15, 1999
What did i buy you ask?..... lol..... I hate even thinking about admiting this. But i purchased the Ultra-Rare Vanilla Ice Mind Blowin' Album...... uhg i hate my life....... Since then. I have had around a half a dozen ebay accounts. The one that i use now, is ofcourse the oldest.
-Chris
Sylentwulf
03-24-2003, 02:16 PM
Sometime in 1998.
Feel free to check out how far I've come at this link - http://www.ebaystores.com/id=3614179
:)
xbamx
03-24-2003, 02:21 PM
i started hunting on ebay in 96 and then i made an account in 97 or 98... first thing i bought off ebay was a motherboard and cpu.
Kairi
03-24-2003, 03:57 PM
July of 2000.
For some kind of poster.
Achika
03-24-2003, 04:26 PM
August 1999. I came on for Kickle Cubicle with instructions. I was SO happy.
Queen Of The Felines
03-24-2003, 10:26 PM
March 7, 1998.
I have NO Idea what the first thing I bought was.
Kristine
boatofcar
03-25-2003, 10:02 AM
June '98. I bought a Mac Plus and a hard drive, both of which got fryed a little after i bought them :(
slapdash
03-25-2003, 04:36 PM
Hmm, I've been a member since Jul 30, 1997.
Almost exactly one month since I moved to IL, and I was probably browsing at work. What a great job that was...
ventrra
03-25-2003, 05:14 PM
December 4, 2000
The first thing I bought on eBay was a soundcard for my computer (the PC I had built and was using for the bid didn't have one).
Charlie
03-26-2003, 05:28 AM
Let's see...
First Account was early 1998. My dad wanted a copy of the John Wayne movie "The High & The Mighty" and Ebay was the only place it could be found. The first thing I got off of Ebay was a promotional poster for Donkey Kong Jr. coin op. My mom got a copy of Boxxle 2 for the Gameboy (BTW, that's a confirmed very-rare game, make no mistake). We were happy. Then I quit playing Magic: The Gathering because they were bringing out too many sets too quickly and they were fucking up the rules of the game, so I auctioned off a ton of my cards. Some cocksucker won almost 100 auctions of mine for some really expensive cards, racking up a few thousand dollars owed to me. He never paid, yet he told Ebay he did and Ebay refused to (A) remove all 100 negative feedbacks this scum fucker (who already had several negative-feedbacks himself) left against me and (2) refused to let up on their cut of the money from the auctions. I never paid the bill, and the account was closed.
I just returned to Ebay so I could get my mum a copy of Lolo for the Gameboy, and it wasn't even a full year before some ass clown tried to screw me again. At least I'm not stupid enough to put up any auctions. That's opening up a can of works and for guys like Sylentwulf who have hundreds of auctions going at the same time, let me just say I feel for you... I really do.
l_lamb
03-27-2003, 06:53 PM
According to the feedback page: Saturday, June 14, 1997 as sesudient. First feedback left is dated July 6, 1997.
dave2236
03-29-2003, 03:32 AM
Sunday, Jun 21, 1998
first thing I bought was a Plextor 12/8/32 CD burner and the third thing I bought was a James Bond Slot Machine.
Bighab
03-30-2003, 02:38 PM
I have been a member since aug15 99' I was looking for some genesis games I could no longer find used in my area. The first auction I won was for Might and Magic genesis. It took 3 months fo rme to get the game though :/