Source: detnews
Margaret Rogosienski has seen the future for getting rid of old stuff: It’s an 1,100 square-foot retail store on a busy stretch of Broadway.
The store, C-it-Sell, is thought to be the first in Maine devoted solely to selling items on eBay for customers. Nationwide and overseas, hundreds of eBay drop-off stores are popping up in strip malls and on street corners from Maine to California, and beyond.
For Americans with jewelry, electronics, clothing, collectibles or any of thousands of other unwanted items, these shops have become 21st-century consignment stores.
Rogosienski, 52, of Portland, brought an old brass railroad lantern to C-it-Sell because she felt she could get a better price on eBay than at a live auction or an antiques store. But she didn’t want to go through the hassle of putting it on eBay herself.