FutureShop: How to Trade Up to a Luxury Lifestyle Today

Thus far, the buying and selling of used goods on eBay has been a fun way for a certain dedicated eBay using public to make some extra money and get good deals. Some people have even made a great deal of money by starting eBay stores. But, as Dan Nissanoff writes, as big as eBay has become, it has still made only a dent on mainstream consumer culture. For example, 95% of people who have bought items on eBay have never sold anything on the site. There's been strong resistance to the hassle of getting set up to sell online and shipping packages.

But now the tide is turning. Nissanoff reveals that a massive change is underway in which a host of service providers are cropping up which will make buying and selling online so easy, so hassle-free, that so many more people will start participating that the secondary goods marketplace that it will become a truly major force.