Congratulations!It's your 14-year eBay anniversary

[Lancemountain]

Member since: Nov-10-00

 

[ballerskrip]

Can anyone tell me how you are pulling your first purchases on ebay?

 

[Mamunrud]

I signed on August 30, 1997 so my 18 year anniversary is coming up soon.

 

[mrmopar]

Seems like forever ago. I hit 17 years in April of this year. I can go see my first feedback, but I doubt it will show what the item was, and it may not have been my actual first win either, just the first person who left me feedback.

 

[Lancemountain]

Can anyone tell me how you are pulling your first purchases on ebay?

There is no way unless you are a recent joiner. Of allllll the people in this thread only two people know their first purchase. The OP who remembered and another member who admitted to keeping detailed spreadsheet.

 

[ASTROBURN]

How have you been with eBay more than 20 years? eBay started publically under that name in September 1997.
Even if you were a member of its predecessor, the tiny unknown AuctionWeb, that began in late 1995, which hasn't even been 20 years yet.

whoops, my bad. I got the anniversary email a few months ago and thought it had said 20. So i just checked my ebay name and ive been a member for 18 years. Not sure how i could be a member if they didnt start until september of 97 like you said...

Member since: Mar 04, 1997

so that email must have said 18. Ive been buying since 94. Used to use the AOL chat rooms. Anyone else use them?

 

[Gwynn545]

whoops, my bad. I got the anniversary email a few months ago and thought it had said 20. So i just checked my ebay name and ive been a member for 18 years. Not sure how i could be a member if they didnt start until september of 97 like you said...

Member since: Mar 04, 1997

so that email must have said 18. Ive been buying since 94. Used to use the AOL chat rooms. Anyone else use them?

I did! My email address was [email protected] and that was my Ebay screen name when I joined. Not sure what year it was, but Ebay would not let you use email addresses as your username, so they changed it to Gwynn5453l4u, thus my "new" name...
I was Gwynn5453l4u for a long time here on FCB until they finally let me shorten it.

 

[MaineMule]

Can anyone tell me how you are pulling your first purchases on ebay?

I have all Ebay emails saved, so I had my registration email and first bid and winning bid email.

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[69MetsFan]

Oct-3-99 for me. I was stationed in Alpena, Michigan when I joined this flash in the pan site called eBay.;-)

 

[swish54_99]

I joined in '02. Compared to most of you, looks like I was a little late to the party. Pretty sure the reason I joined was to purchase a playstation2.

 

[Pinbreaker]

Jan-12-99

I looked at my total sales as well..

 

[gracecollector]

I originally joined because someone on the AOL boards told me there was a Grace 1 of 1 up for auction on that eBay site. This was my first eBay purchase and first 1 of 1 card in my collection.

 

[MrMet]

Looks like I was only a couple years late to the party, member since 2000

 

[weight333]

11-17-00. The day I turned 18

 

[All In Cards]

Member since: Jul-12-00 in United States

 

[deujr61]

Member since: Apr 05, 1998

 

[Juan Gris]

I sold cards on eBay for a few years through my LCS owner before I finally joined in 2006. Definitely helped my profit margin by getting off my ass and figuring out the interwebs.