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Nick from iPosters sells posters and other printed gifts. He is based in Needham Market, Suffolk in England and he has been selling online since 2003. They’re a real multichannel seller with Amazon, eBay, Ratuken and their own website. They have over 90,000 pieces of feedback on eBay and they are a Top rated eBay seller.

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Some thoughts from the interview

“We got into it by mistake really, by accident I guess the business I was running before was there a courier business so we were delivering parcels all over the country and so we had some spare Warehouse space and at the time eBay starting up and there was another company on the same state that stocked posters or warehoused posters so we just thought I’d give it a try to sell a few on eBay and they are going from there really that was in about 2003 ”

“You have to be careful with (copyright). Our stock is ordered from a licence publishers so he knows people on eBay or other channels that will sell bootleg items or unofficial items but we always stay away from that.”

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Glen from miniatureparts.co.uk sells pit bikes, mini motos and all the parts associated with mini motos.  He is based in Bristol and has been trading online for the past five years after starting his business from home and building it from eCommerce trading only to branching out to a bricks and mortar store.

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Some thoughts from the interview

“I started with £1000 and the shelves in my extension it my house and it grew from there”

“Kind of a back up plan I was never intending to do this, just to make a little extra money”

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Adrian is from Blackpool and is the founder of The Ink Squid. Together with a small team, Adrian specialises in selling compatible ink and toner cartridges for brand-name printers. Having been in business for over 5 years the company have established themselves on multi-channel platforms such as Amazon and eBay as well as their own eCommerce website.

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Some thoughts from the interview

“I started on my own out of necessity really because my family company got very badly hit in the recession.”

“I’d always played around on computers and liked eBay and it was an ideal opportunity to just start with a clean slate and to pick something to try and sell.”

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Rob from Parade Antiques sells items in the area of collectibles, memorabilia and antiques. Based in Plymouth, the business was established in 1997. Around five years ago, Rob started the Company’s eCommerce business alongside friend and business partner Alex. Parade Antiques trade through their own website and through eBay and are based in an old early 18th century warehouse near the waterís edge of Plymouth.

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Some thoughts from the interview

“The online sales kinda started around five years ago when we went into a family run antiques shop and started selling online for them.”

“They didn’t have an online presence and we seen a niche that needed to be filled.”

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