The eBay Auctioneers
eBay consignment selling, and a guide to opening an authorized shipping outlet
- Era
- Before Asheville
- Years active
- c. 2004-2005
- Status
- Dormant
- Confidence
- Verified in a primary document or official record
The company's records identify The eBay Auctioneers as the first company involved with Maddison Lake, which is best read as the first company involving the group of people who went on to build everything afterward. The colleague who later became chief operations officer of Boost Liquidation acquired his formative eBay experience here.
The archived 2004 site shows a consignment business, selling items on behalf of clients for a commission. It also sold something else: a guide to opening an authorized shipping outlet. The company was therefore selling both the service and the knowledge of how to perform the service, from two pages of the same small website.
Dated to roughly 2004 and 2005 from one archived capture and the company's records. No logo or brand asset survives, and the homepage capture is the entire visual record.
The strategic point
Why it mattered
Selling the service and the manual for the service is a minor idea in 2004 and a business model by 2013. Inventory Scouts packaged the group's sourcing expertise as a credit-checked supplier directory, and Vendor Bible packaged it as a handbook, both on precisely the logic a consignment shop had already tested nine years earlier: the knowledge is separable from the labor, and it can be sold even to the people who might otherwise become competitors.
It is also the point at which the team assembles. The record treats this as the first venture involving the group rather than the individual, and the operations discipline that runs through Boost Liquidation entered the portfolio here.
Cross references
Related brands
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Its habit of selling the knowledge alongside the service matured nine years later into Inventory Scouts.
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Its information product is the direct ancestor of Vendor Bible.
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The entry point of the man who became chief operations officer of Boost Liquidation.
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The venture it immediately follows in the founder's record is L.E.D Moonlit Productions.
Archive
Screen capture
The theebayauctioneers.com homepage in 2004, offering consignment selling on commission alongside the shipping outlet setup guide.
Reference
The record
- Portfolio group
- Legacy record
- Years active
- c. 2004-2005
- Status
- Dormant
- Confidence
- Verified in a primary document or official record
- Domain
- theebayauctioneers.com
- Mark source
- No mark recovered, set typographically