This article is aimed at informing eBay sellers about some of the things that they can do to enhance their ability to sell on eBay. There are many sources available to assist those who are willing to roll up their sleeves, including eBay itself, as the article mentions

If you've ever read an article about eBay, you will have seen the kinds of incomes people make - it isn't unusual to hear of people making thousands of dollars per month on eBay.

Yes, you read that correctly: ten years. eBay was created in September 1995, by a man called Pierre Omidyar, who was living in San Jose. He wanted his site - then called 'AuctionWeb' - to be an online marketplace, and wrote the first code for it in one weekend.