Secrets of the eBay

124 Secrets of the eBay Millionaires
Business name We Got the Beats
Seller name Tony Cicalese
of eBay boils down to a few principles: his own passion and love for music;
his commitment to raising money to fight AIDS through his music sales;
his gift for being able to anticipate what styles are about to become popular;
and his ability to find CDs in the U.S. that will appeal to overseas buyers.
“Even if the U.S. economy is down, looking overseas hedges your bets and
keeps you in business,” he says.
Web site http://stores.ebay.com/we-got-the-beats
Sells CD dance remixes, club mixes, dance artist compilations
“Buying CDs from My Van with My Kitty
Was a Great Opportunity”
When you get really passionate about something, it takes over your whole
life. Tony Cicalese has always had a passion for music. He’s collected CDs
most of his life, and originally became a member of eBay in 1999 in order
to expand his own collection. In the
course of hunting down the CDs he was
looking for, he noticed that certain disks
sold for much higher prices than he paid
for them. He began looking for music
that others might want to buy on eBay.
In his first batch, he found a CD for $6
that sold for $110.
From then on, Tony went looking for
CDs to resell as well as CDs to collect.
He’s now become a PowerSeller who
typically has 2,000 or items for sale at
any one time in his eBay Store, which
is simply called we-got-the-beats. For
many years, he roamed the country in
his van with his pet cat (Figure 6-6),
FIGURE 6-6 Tony’s pet cat still helps with his CD
sales on eBay.
attending concerts, making connections,
and buying up CDs.