It doesn’t get much better than this: French Ebay
I am without words to describe the pleasure that discovering there is a specific ebay for France caused me. Silly that I didn’t know sooner — I’ve read tons of profiles in The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, etc on Ebay’s global expansion (into China, and all that) and somehow had never connected the dots…. well they are connected now. I started looking for more scraps like the ones I bought at the Paris Flea Markets and discovered literally hundreds of them on ebay.fr.
This last one is my favorite … as it shows how the scraps would have been used. This seems to be a happy spring card, with multiple signs of good luck pasted onto the pig.
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June 11th, 2007 11:30
I remember when we were in Paris and you found a stall in one of the flea markets that had thousands of these arranged in drawers that ran up to the ceiling. I think if I hadn’t evenutally had to drag you out of there you would still be in there. I don’t think I will be able to drag you away from French eBay…..
You know, I don’t think I had actually seen an example until now of how these would have been used - you had only shown me the sheets as they would be purchased new. The pig is pretty spectacular, especially the fish in the middle. I wonder if the date, April 1, has anything to do with April Fools Day??