[OrrieG]

I started around that time too, when it was little known. For about three years my wife and I made really good money buying at yard and estate sales and selling on ebay. Then around 2003-4 after ebay made it easier to post photos and you could write ads in plain text everyone started doing it. Now you can't find anything good because its already been put on ebay. I have been pulling car parts I have from the 70's and listing them and doing ok. Probably my most interesting story is buying Army shelter halves "pup-tents" at an estate sale that the guy had for painting tarps for $1 a piece. I knew they were at least pre WWII. When I put them on Ebay the bidding went crazy. I got requests for detailed photos of the snaps, stitching and some other markings on them. They had came from the U.S Army Guard unit here in Boise as surplus in the 1950's. A museum in Oregon bought them and told me that they were the only known ones left from Roosevelts Rough Riders unit that assaulted San Juan hill, the buttons and unit markings were unique to that unit and that campaign. They sold for over $200.00!