OT...How long have you been on ebay?

[npa589]

Started one while at University of Miami in 2004 when I was 18 --- Member since: Sep 14, 2004

[pitchernut]

For me it was mid to late 90's, the one thing I do remember or it seemed to me, is that over-clocking your computer (it was a thing, don't know if it still is), helped getting in bid very rapidly

[gabrinus]

Rjutley...came to me at 4 AM...Jerry

[davidb]

March 6, 1999

[FrankWakefield]

To answer the question, 20 years, 7 months, two weeks; that's how long,


Had browsed without an account for a few month, a bit scared of the unknown... Finally had to get on because there was a Duster Mails caramel card about to end, it showed him with St. Louis, so I hastily joined, bid, won, and thought wow what have I done. that was June 7, 2001.

[JollyElm]

Just imagine, back in the days when everyone here started on eBay, seeing a Mickey Mantle card priced at $25 was "OUTRAGEOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Some things never change.

[warrior1978]

Feb 2000

[Cliff Bowman]

10-07-2000

[toppcat]

It will be 23 years last month. Those early days were great.

[sgbernard]

October 12, 1999: 23 years this October. I remember the first several years, you really could find absolute gems on there, often mislabeled or in the wrong category, etc. I had a bunch of alerts set up. Rare things would pop up, too, I got a lot of my T209-IIs off eBay in the early days. There are no bargain cards on eBay anymore!

[scgaynor]

August 1997.

My first sale was a Vlad Guerrero signed card for $41. My first purchase was an 1880's Baseball Tintype in case for about $150. I think it ended at like 7AM in the morning and had to get up early to bid. No sniping back then.

Does anybody remember that Ebay's servers were named after reptiles and if you got a slow server, you could reload the page and get a faster server named after a different reptile?

Photos of an item were the exception and not the norm. You had to find somebody to host the photo and then insert html code to allow people to view it.

[LEHR]

My first account was started March 1997. so almost 25 years ago.

[steve B]

Too lazy to look it up, but I think sometimes in 98.