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eBay should not be having such a big problem. Look at all the niche trends that are being empowered by the internet: - Vintage mechanical watches - Vintage fo
by twblalock 8y ago
eBay should not be having such a big problem. Look at all the niche trends that are being empowered by the internet:
- Vintage mechanical watches
- Vintage fountain pens
- Vintage mechanical keyboards
- Vintage woodworking hand tools
- Vintage European bicycle parts
- Vintage film cameras, especially SLRs and Leicas
- New things that look like those vintage things (often superficially) and make a lot of money on Kickstarter and Massdrop and Hodinkee and get resold when the hipster buyers move on to the next thing.
eBay is the best place to buy this stuff. It's hard to believe they can't figure out how to make money.
- dagw 8y agoIt's hard to believe they can't figure out how to make money. Making a bit of money is not a problem. Making so much money that all their investors are happy is a problem. Their investors don't want a modest company that makes modest profits on modest revenue.