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The eBay Diaries - Part One: Getting Started

I first published my interview with Janiece Smith of Express Profits Online in January 2005. I’d always dabbled in online auctions and eBay and love both buying and selling, so the information I’d gleaned from reviewing her book and the interview stayed in the back of my brain.

My retail experience consisted of lemonade stands as a kid and a brief and forgettable stint as a stock counter. But the more I looked at eBay, the more I thought – why not me too?

I decided to shed my amateur status in October last year. Following the advice in Janiece's book, I talked with my accountant and the tax office here in Australia to make sure I was set up properly to take in and pay out sales tax. My husband helped me brainstorm names and we researched them on a government web site.

Then I registered my name with our state government and set up a bank account for the business. Homeware Haven was born!

I grabbed the domain name and set up a small hosting account so that I could have an email account related to my business name. My hubby re-sells hosting, so I got a pretty good deal. ; ^ )

I decided that initially I only wanted to sell domestically – as international selling involves layers of complexity in terms of postage and customs that I just didn’t have the time or energy to learn.

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