There’s a lot to know, and while you can do it casually, people need to understand that this is a job like any other job. Again, last year I sold part-time, because I don’t do this full-time. I go around the country doing a lot of presentations on how to become a more effective seller. There’s a lot of things to do as a seller in everyday steps. That’s something we’re actively working on, and some auction houses have talked to us about, to cut down on fraud. Eventually you’ll be able to track who owned things before on WorthPoint and find out their history that way. We have over 13,000 paid members today, and we’re quickly becoming, and it’s a trademark that we’ve registered, we’re becoming the internet of stuff. You can actually in some cases go back and find things that sold 15 years ago on eBay. eBay has a lot of the data here on WorthPoint. We partner to auction houses around the world, especially eBay, who’s committed to making research in the market more transparent. A lot of people use it, and it’s a trusted destination. If you look at Quantcast, we’re actually 803 today. I was showing Danna today that it’s shocking to believe that WorthPoint is in the top 1,000 US trafficking websites. WorthPoint gets better every day with the great people that we have here. Now we have over a billion item images on WorthPoint, and over half a billion items, auction records. It was like, why can’t somebody save all this stuff in one place and create databases for us to do our research on? That was really the beginning of WorthPoint. It would take so long to go out on Google, which I think was a better tool than it is today, and try to find what I need out on the internet browsers. When I started to do my research, occasionally I’d get a reminder from eBay that something wasn’t listed correctly. I think research is critical to us getting our listings right and, for a lot of reasons, getting more money. WorthPoint, I needed a better place to do research for what I was selling on eBay. I still make mistakes occasionally and invite people to help me edit my eBay listings, because I sell about anything. When I started selling on eBay about 10 or 15 years ago, I promise everybody I did not drop out of the womb and know everything about everything about antiques, and I still don’t know everything about antiques. That’s exciting! WorthPoint and who we are One of them is coming in the mail in another week. I am the father of five great kids, and I have four dogs. It’s not the only place I sell, but it’s the primary place I sell. I think I have somewhere around 16,000 feedback on eBay, and I’ve sold about a million dollars on eBay over the years. Really took the background I had from growing up in rural northwest Virginia and buying and selling a lot of Civil War relics that we would find in the ground and learning about history and turning it into a career later and become a power seller on eBay. Decided at 50 I was going to quit all that, and I became an eBay seller. I went out in the fortune world and was a C level executive at many very large companies that are household names.
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