Wayne Stoler - eBay Bookseller

How this all got started:
About 15 years ago my father-in-law got his first VCR. He had to make some room on his bookshelf, so he cleared out about 100 OLD paperbacks from the early 1940s and 1950s. He handed these to me and said I could have them, or try to sell them and I could keep the money. Nice guy, huh? Well, I went around to all the bookstores in Baltimore and found I was sitting on a goldmine worth about 25 bucks - tops! So I figured it would be better to pack the books up in a box, store them in my office, and maybe I'd get a chance to read them myself sometime. I promptly forgot about them.

About 1-1/2 years ago someone on the rec.arts.disney.parks newsgroup mentioned that this new service - eBay - had lots of Disney stuff that they were auctioning off at really good prices, and that I should take a look. I did, and I bought some stuff (my wife collects Disney pinback buttons, my sons collect Disney stuff, and I collect Disney comics). I searched around the site and found the Books section. Some people were selling Used Paperbacks from the 1940s and 1950s and getting a bit more than the two bits (25 cents) I could have sold them for in the mid-1980s. So I got myself a camera and started listing these books. In about a month and a half I had sold 80 of the 100 books for about $240. Figuring this was pretty good, I located sources of newer used paperbacks and hardbacks, and started listing the books on a more regular basis.

At the time, my oldest son was 12 years old and summer was approaching. I made him a deal - I'd buy the books and pay all the eBay expenses. His job was to take the pictures, crop them, load them on my website, and help me with some of the listings. I'd handle contacting people and the shipping. All the profit we'd make (after taxes) would go towards our next trip to Disneyworld. He took to the idea, and even learned HTML and Java programming, and always had something to fill in the idle, boring times of summer. (A year later, we booked our two-week stay at Disneyworld, paid for by our eBay work).

My Bookselling Philosophy:
I sell pre-owned "reading quality" books on eBay. Occasionally there's a first edition, sometimes a signed copy, and some books could pass for new, but most of my books are good condition used books, the kind you'd buy in a used book store back home. I maintain a low shipping fee of only $2.00 to encourage you to buy more books. And I'm pleased to say that my little "bookstore on the net" has taken off - I'm selling 200 or more books each month to people who enjoy reading.

In early October 1999 I purchased 12 skids (a skid is about 50 boxes) of new hardbacks and paperbacks from a bookstore that was closing down. All of these books are new, and I'll be listing them as well as the used books I've been listing over the past 1-1/2 years. Many of the paperbacks will be sold in lots of 10-20 of the same type (mysteries, romances, westerns, sci-fi, fantasy, etc.). My estimate is that I have about 7500 paperbacks and about 7500 hardbacks in all. This is in addition to the 2000+ used books already in my collection.

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3587089560	Feb-10-04	Nov-10-09 23:29:08	$5.00	1953 Facts & Speculations about Science Book	Available
3587089585	Feb-10-04	Nov-10-09 23:29:26	$5.00	GUNS IN THE SADDLE Rare 1958 Vintage PB nr	Available
3587089597	Feb-10-04	Nov-10-09 23:29:34	$5.00	LAFF PARADE Humor Jokes Rare 1957 Vintage PB	Available
3587089599	Feb-10-04	Nov-10-09 23:29:37	$5.00	MARY ANNE du Maurier Rare 1960 Vintage PB nr	Available
3587089603	Feb-10-04	Nov-10-09 23:29:41	$5.00	NEW STORIES FOR MEN Rare Vintage PB 1951 nr	Available
3587089643	Feb-10-04	Nov-10-09 23:29:47	$5.00	WEST OF THE LAW Rare 1960 Vintage PB Western	Available
3587089636	Feb-10-04	Nov-10-09 23:29:56	$5.00	THE RAFT Rare 1961 Vintage PB nr Marine	Available
3588656124	Feb-16-04	Nov-16-09 19:11:46	$5.00	THE POCKET READER Rare 1941 Vintage PB nr	Available
3589084972	Feb-18-04	Nov-18-09 19:25:21	$5.00	NORTHERN AFFAIR Rare 1964 Vintage PB book nr	Available
3595392948	Mar-14-04	Nov-13-09 20:02:13	$5.00	MENACE Rare Vintage PB Mystery 1964 book nr	Available
3595392955	Mar-14-04	Nov-13-09 20:02:14	$5.00	THE CHINESE ROOM Rare Vintage PB 1954 Strange Marriage	Available
3717767135	Apr-12-04	Nov-12-09 17:30:37	$3.00	FOOLED 1955 sheet music Perry Como piano nr	Available
3723668084	May-10-04	Nov-10-09 19:04:49	$3.00	ITS A BIG WIDE WONDERFUL WORLD music 1940 VAUGHN MONROE	Available
3723679011	May-10-04	Nov-10-09 20:17:22	$3.00	IF THERE IS SOMEONE LOVELIER THAN YOU sheet music 1935	Available
3820877537	Jun-09-04	Nov-10-09 18:47:10	$3.00	TO EACH HIS OWN sheet music OLIVIA DeHAVILLAND Lund nr	Available
3729627610	Jun-09-04	Nov-10-09 18:47:12	$3.00	WHOLE WORLD IS SINGING MY SONG sheet music PERRY COMO	Available
6906095633	Jun-14-04	Nov-15-09 21:53:52	$4.00	GEOGRAPHERS AND WHAT THEY DO careers hb nr	Available
6104401751	Jun-22-04	Nov-23-09 00:19:17	$5.00	6 DAYS OF YAD-MORDECHAI book 1948 Military Israel War	Available
6908694661	Jun-24-04	Nov-25-09 18:21:53	$4.00	LOVE HAS NO FEAR healing after cancer book nr	Available
6908694670	Jun-24-04	Nov-25-09 18:21:56	$5.00	SNORING How to correct it before your murder him hb nr	Available
6909239686	Jun-27-04	Nov-28-09 13:36:14	$5.00	ASTRONOMY college textbookhb nr Read Index	Available
6909676727	Jun-29-04	Nov-30-09 18:13:00	$4.00	BIOLOGY OF SEX textbook pics drawings health book	Available
6909676766	Jun-29-04	Nov-30-09 18:13:11	$3.00	WOMEN'S NETWORKS Getting a better job book nr	Available
6909882554	Jun-30-04	Dec-01-09 19:46:34	$4.00	ONLY ONE EARTH Living for the Future book ecology nr	Available
6911303945	Jul-07-04	Nov-08-09 19:50:11	$4.00	THE UNKNOWN MURDERER psychological look true crime	Available
6912182659	Jul-11-04	Nov-12-09 06:33:36	$6.00	DETECTING HERITABLE MUTATIONS IN HUMANS book research	Available
6912182662	Jul-11-04	Nov-12-09 06:33:37	$4.00	THE MANY HUMAN SENSES psychology hb dj nr	Available
6912182683	Jul-11-04	Nov-12-09 06:33:43	$3.00	FIELD GUIDE TO NEIGHBORHOOD DOGS pictures nr	Available
6912357021	Jul-11-04	Nov-12-09 19:41:21	$4.00	ABOVE OURSELVES Art of True Happiness hb dj nr	Available
6912357033	Jul-11-04	Nov-12-09 19:41:25	$4.00	Drought by Edward F. Dolan (1990)	Available
6912357042	Jul-11-04	Nov-12-09 19:41:27	$4.00	Presidential Elections by Nelson W. Polsby (1991)	Available
6912965590	Jul-14-04	Nov-15-09 19:09:29	$5.00	EARTHMAN COME HOME James Blish rare 1955 vintage SF PB	Available
6912965603	Jul-14-04	Nov-15-09 19:09:32	$5.00	HERRICK poetry poems rare 1969 vintage PB collection nr	Available
6914789234	Jul-23-04	Nov-24-09 20:19:53	$5.00	PSYCHOLOGY OF THE CHILD by Watson textbook hb nr	Available
6914977420	Jul-24-04	Nov-25-09 18:44:12	$5.00	HOUSE OF HOPE rare 1964 Vintage PB Israel Kibbutz nr	Available
6918052939	Aug-08-04	Nov-10-09 19:59:06	$5.00	LIGHT INFANTRY BALL 1960 vintage PB CIVIL WAR novel nr	Available
6918053582	Aug-08-04	Nov-10-09 20:03:34	$5.00	WRECK OF THE MARY DEARE rare 1957 vintage INNES nr	Available
6918053973	Aug-08-04	Nov-10-09 20:06:43	$5.00	CARRINGTON American Frontier Western 1961 vintage PB nr	Available
6918600190	Aug-10-04	Nov-12-09 19:46:46	$4.00	Los Gusanos by John Sayles (1992)	Available
6918600777	Aug-10-04	Nov-12-09 19:48:46	$4.00	Death in Jerusalem by John C. Boland (1994)	Available
6918601777	Aug-10-04	Nov-12-09 19:52:22	$4.00	Lovesong by Flora Devatine, Gwen Davis (2000)	Available
6921305078	Aug-21-04	Nov-23-09 21:36:40	$8.00	PRACTICUM OF GROUP PSYCHOTHERAPY psychology hb $2s/h nr	Available
6921305079	Aug-21-04	Nov-23-09 21:36:40	$6.00	Readings in HUMAN DEVELOPMENT Read List nr $2s/h	Available
6921305082	Aug-21-04	Nov-23-09 21:36:42	$6.00	METHODS FOR LEARNING DISORDERS Myers teaching hb $2s/h	Available
6921305087	Aug-21-04	Nov-23-09 21:36:43	$6.00	ACCOUNTING GOES PUBLIC API by Levy hb $2s/h nr	Available
6921522164	Aug-22-04	Nov-24-09 18:21:41	$6.00	Definition and Measurement of MENTAL HEALTH hb $2s/h nr	Available
6921526127	Aug-22-04	Nov-24-09 18:36:28	$5.00	The Inner Planets book MERCURY VENUS MARS EARTH MOON +	Available
6921526148	Aug-22-04	Nov-24-09 18:36:33	$8.00	INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGY Morgan King $2s/h textbook	Available
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6921537428	Aug-22-04	Nov-24-09 19:31:21	$4.00	Micromanagement by William A. Delaney (1981)	Available
6921538273	Aug-22-04	Nov-24-09 19:36:04	$8.00	Macroeconomics by Robert J. Gordon (1984)	Available
6921538470	Aug-22-04	Nov-24-09 19:37:10	$5.00	Japanese Company by Rodney Clark (1981)	Available
6921568022	Aug-23-04	Nov-25-09 02:18:40	$4.00	FIVE ECONOMIC CHALLENGES hb finance $2s/h nr	Available
6921568024	Aug-23-04	Nov-25-09 02:18:41	$4.00	BUT WE WERE BORN FREE by Elmer Davis McCarthy Era $2s/h	Available
6921568029	Aug-23-04	Nov-25-09 02:18:43	$4.00	Dean Witter GUIDE TO PERSONAL INVESTING hb $2s/h nr	Available
6921749475	Aug-23-04	Nov-25-09 19:49:06	$9.50	Economic Issues for Consumers With Infotrac by Roger...	Available
6927350895	Sep-14-04	Nov-17-09 20:02:10	$4.00	The Gorbachev Generation (1989)	Available
6927351635	Sep-14-04	Nov-17-09 20:06:40	$4.00	A Sense of Shadow by Kate Wilhelm (1981)	Available
6927351643	Sep-14-04	Nov-17-09 20:06:43	$4.00	Remembrance Day by Henry Porter (2000)	Available
6932083752	Oct-11-04	Nov-14-09 18:39:53	$5.00	Thomas Wolfe a Biography by Elizabeth Nowell	Available
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4502417364	Nov-07-04	Nov-11-09 10:25:07	$6.00	Modern English Readings by RG Loomis and DL Clark $2s/h	Available
4502417440	Nov-07-04	Nov-11-09 10:25:20	$6.00	The Measurement of Writing Ability $2s/h	Available
4502421713	Nov-07-04	Nov-11-09 10:36:01	$5.00	GEN. ADM. IN NURSING HOME Rogers textbook hb nr $2s/h	Available
4510489896	Dec-06-04	Nov-10-09 20:56:17	$5.00	GREAT PEOPLE OF 20th CENTURY Time hb bios Pics $2sh nr	Available
4510489930	Dec-06-04	Nov-10-09 20:56:48	$5.00	Favorite Brand Name LIGHT COOKING cookbook PICS hb $2sh	Available
4510490052	Dec-06-04	Nov-10-09 20:58:41	$5.00	BILL COSBY - Love and Marriage hb dj HUMOR COMEDY $2s/h	Available
4510705151	Dec-07-04	Nov-11-09 19:45:27	$5.00	Chicken Soup for the Mother's Soul by Jack Canfield,...	Available
4510705219	Dec-07-04	Nov-11-09 19:46:02	$10.00	World Weather Records 1971-80 Europe	Available
7125486289	Jan-03-05	Nov-08-09 19:59:25	$5.00	Timber Trail Riders Horse Book - Texas Tenderfoot $2s/h	Available
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4516890909	Jan-03-05	Nov-08-09 20:03:07	$6.00	MEDUSA AND THE SNAIL Biology book hb nr	Available
4517061911	Jan-04-05	Nov-09-09 13:23:54	$5.00	Vision and Eye Health guidebook Mayo Clinic by Buettner	Available
4518864542	Jan-10-05	Nov-15-09 17:08:15	$6.00	Equal Time by Marcia Lasswell, Norman Lobsenz (1983)	Available
7127285854	Jan-10-05	Nov-15-09 17:11:16	$5.00	HEALTH AND PHYSICAL FITNESS College PE100 course NR	Available
4524955177	Feb-02-05	Nov-08-09 19:23:53	$5.00	BANDIT AND THE PRIEST rare 1954 vintage PB book nr	Available
4524955595	Feb-02-05	Nov-08-09 19:25:27	$5.00	JEAN CHRISTOPHE rare 1949 vintage PB by Rolland music	Available
4524957041	Feb-02-05	Nov-08-09 19:30:08	$5.00	FLIGHT FROM NATCHEZ Frank Slaughter rare vintage PB nr	Available
4524957102	Feb-02-05	Nov-08-09 19:30:18	$5.00	LOUISVILLE SATURDAY by Long Rare Vintage PB 1958 nr	Available
4524959555	Feb-02-05	Nov-08-09 19:38:35	$5.00	The Village Beyond by Livingston Biddle Jr. hb $2s/h	Available
4524959972	Feb-02-05	Nov-08-09 19:39:42	$5.00	The Boy Who Made Good by Mary Deasy hb $2s/h	Available
4525425818	Feb-04-05	Nov-10-09 03:18:58	$4.00	The Purple Quest by Frank G. Slaughter sea adventure	Available
6509891391	Feb-04-05	Nov-10-09 03:19:04	$15.00	ROTC Manual Infantry Rare Military Rules College $2s/h	Available
4525660550	Feb-04-05	Nov-10-09 20:54:08	$4.00	The Content Assignment by Holly Roth	Available
4525660933	Feb-04-05	Nov-10-09 20:55:19	$4.00	Portrait in Brownstone by Louis Auchincloss vint hb	Available
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4525661249	Feb-04-05	Nov-10-09 20:56:53	$4.00	The Marble Forest by Eaton K. Goldthwaite crime mystery	Available
4525662039	Feb-04-05	Nov-10-09 21:00:17	$6.00	MINIMAL BRAIN DYSFUNCTION in kids children $2s/h nr	Available
4525662050	Feb-04-05	Nov-10-09 21:00:20	$4.00	Dangerous Ground by Francis Sill Wickware vintage hb gc	Available
4525662066	Feb-04-05	Nov-10-09 21:00:24	$4.00	The Season of Danger by Rosemary Gatenby vintage hb	Available
4525662081	Feb-04-05	Nov-10-09 21:00:29	$4.00	Gideon's Wrath by J.J. Marric vintage hb $2s/h	Available
4526131049	Feb-06-05	Nov-12-09 18:47:51	$5.00	THE OPERATION by Boltar rare 1962 vintage PB medical NR	Available
4526131362	Feb-06-05	Nov-12-09 18:49:11	$5.00	OUTLAW OF LONGBOW by Dawson RARE 1958 vintage PB nr	Available
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7306287379	Mar-06-05	Nov-10-09 19:52:05	$3.00	IF THERE IS SOMEONE LOVELIER THAN YOU sheet music 1935	Available

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