Teaching myself how to sell on EBAY with my boss's computer was fine for a time but the day did come when I had to buy my own. I loved my Gateway computer and managed to teach myself how to use it. I actually got quite good with buying on EBAY but selling was another thing. But I was resolved to be a success and to NOT have to find another job.
With the Clash of the Titans toys I had stored and the Beanie Babies I was now buying, I did quite well attracting the attention of EBAY. I was profiled by Newsweek (the magazine) and featured on ABC News Los Angeles. Things seemed to be going well - I was making a living, paying my bills and still managing to go to London each year. There was a short spell where I actually went in for a job interview but it didn't work out and I thought maybe that was the Universe's way of telling me to stick to the Internet. So I did.
Trips to England were getting to be a little expensive so I decided to look elsewhere for inventory. I decided to visit my aunt and uncle in St. Louis as they had told me that the garage sales and antique malls there were good. So off I went and there I learned that the Midwest was absolutely the BEST place to find inventory - well, next to London that is.
My aunt and uncle lived in Maryland Heights and one of the first places my aunt directed me to was the Warson Woods Antique Mall. I would that particular location the "high end" mall of St. Louis. Wonderful items with (what I considered) fair prices that caused me to spend my money as quickly as I could pull it out of my pocket. In 2 days I had spent every penny I had brought to St. Louis and even had to resort to borrowing from my uncle. When I got back to Los Angeles and hit the antique shows, I sold everything right away. So what else to do but schedule another trip to St. Louis!
Trip after trip after trip I made to St. Louis until finally it dawned on me that I probably would do a whole lot better if I just moved from Los Angeles to Missouri so I decided to do just ONE more trip to St Louis and vowed that if I sold everything I bought once more - either at a show or on the Internet - I would make the move. Well, I did and I did and that story will be the subject of my next post.
Until then.
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