I only sold a few items on eBay in the late 90’s. My college roommate sold a lot and offered to help me post a few items. I sold a book on how to watercolor, and the soundtrack to the Gettysburg movie on cd (which I’ve never seen, but got for Christmas one year). I didn’t have much to sell, since I was in a tiny dorm room and most of my possessions were back at home.

My roommate sold a lot. After selling some random items, she somehow figured out that selling her underwear was extremely profitable. She’d wear them, post a picture of them on eBay, they’d sell, she’d mail them off. She did this most of the school year and made hundreds of dollars each month. Unwashed (I don’t think eBay allows this anymore but I am not about to dig into that policy). Best prices for granny panties with a little bit of period stain. Plainer underwear like Hanes she bought at Walmart sold better for whatever reason than a lacy thong. She stayed vague with personal details but did say she was a university student.

Then she got really sleeved out one day and immediately stopped selling underwear on eBay. One guy started repeatedly buying from her. This guy was using a email account from a university in upstate western New York, with his initials and last name attached to it. At first she figured he was a student there, but after looking at the university website she found he was a professor and looked to be in late middle age. She started thinking about how it’d feel to have one of her own professors buy her panties, freaked out, and said she was done.