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Where Regular Folks Buy and Sell NFTs for Regular Money

Bernard
4 min readJan 16, 2022

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Image created (and NFT sold) by the author.

The original title for this began with “The Secret World…” to draw more eyeballs and clicks, but I had to change it.

After all, this not-so-secret world is one of the most popular websites that exists and one that you have likely utilized yourself.

Art NFT listings on this very popular website. Screenshot by the author.

As a matter of fact, as a rookie entry-level wannabe NFT mogul, myself, the only marketplace that I have succeeded in selling my own digital art is on this marketplace that boasts nearly 200 million users.

You undoubtedly know the site that I am referring to and per Fundera,

Overview: 15 eBay Statistics for 2021
There are 182 million eBay users worldwide.
eBay has more than 109 million visitors each month.
eBay has more than 1.5 billion active listings.
eBay generated $10.8 billion in revenue in 2019.
$27.1 billion worth of goods were bought and sold on eBay in Q2 2020.

Long before either you or I had ever heard of NFTs, my family bought and sold books, clothing, and assorted knick-knacks on eBay for years.

It was one of my primary side-hustles for a while, contributing the bulk of the funds that I utilized to…

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Bernard
Bernard

Written by Bernard

A married father of two adult children and a Morkie. Long-time economic developer, former P.O., avid reader, thinker, investor, and walker.

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