Are you downsizing to a smaller house, or preparing to move to a new city? Are you considering an estate sale, but want more value for your items than what they’ll receive from only local buyers? Or do you just have so much “stuff” that you can’t get it all in to one of our stores? If so, you’ll be as excited as we are about iSold It at Home, our new in-home appraisal and pickup service.

With iSold It at Home, we come right to your door to help you identify the items that are likely to sell well on eBay. Then, using our notebook computer and a wireless broadband connection, we do the same online research and appraisal of each item’s value that we do in our stores. Armed with this information, we work with you to determine the best pricing strategy for each item. For very large items, we will even take photographs while we’re there. Then we check the items in, give you a receipt, and bring your treasures safely back to our store in our brightly wrapped iSold It truck (affectionately nicknamed the “WeBay Wagon”). A few weeks later, your check will arrive in the mail. It doesn’t get any easier than that!

All three of our iSold It stores are now authorized dealers for Professional Sports Authenticator (PSA), the world’s largest and most trusted sports trading card grading and authentication company, and its sister company PSA/DNA, the world’s leading authentication service for autographs and memorabilia.

If you’re serious about maximizing the value of your sports and autographed collectibles and realizing top prices when you sell on eBay, there’s no better way than with PSA and PSA/DNA’s services. Items certified by PSA or PSA/DNA are worth considerably more than those that are not, because buyers trust the company’s impartial grading and authentication. This increases the number of potential bidders and gives them the confidence to buy sight unseen... often increasing the eBay final value of your item ten-fold or more.

Be sure to watch Good Morning Texas on Channel 8 at 9:00 a.m. today, February 9. David and GMT host Brenda Teele will discuss the best-selling book FutureShop: How the New Auction Culture Will Revolutionize the Way We Buy, Sell, and Get the Things We Really Want, by visionary entrepreneur Daniel Nissanoff.

FutureShop proposes an entirely new way of thinking about ownership of goods: with eBay providing a secondary market for just about everything, savvy consumers can buy goods with the expectation from the outset of selling them in a few months or years, and then trading up to new and better replacements. It’s a new culture of what Nissanoff calls “temporary ownership”, facilitated by eBay drop-off stores like iSold It.

If you miss Good Morning Texas, a video clip of the interview will be available on the WFAA website within a few days. And you can find FutureShop (in hardcover and in CD or downloadable audiobook formats) on our website if you would like to enjoy this fascinating book yourself.

Did you know that eBay is a great place to sell your extra tickets to sporting events, concerts, theater shows, and much more?

iSold It can help you get top dollar for your event tickets by making them available to the enormous eBay audience. We know how to list your tickets for maximum exposure. For most sporting events, we can even include in the listing a photograph showing the view from your seats!

iSold It’s corporate headquarters is exploring some ideas for television and media relations that would highlight the personal stories associated with the items we sell for people. If you have a personal interest story about an item that we’ve sold for you (or that you would like us to sell for you!), we’d like to hear about it. You could be featured in a press release, a newspaper article or even a television show. Call 972-991-EBAY, ext. 8, or email news@isolditdallas.com, and share your story!