An entertaining, touching, and inspiring chronicle of the author’s most memorable eBay adventures, this book uses the world of online auctions as the setting for a story of friendship, loss, and growth. The author weaves memories of her grandmother with stories about the items she has sold on eBay, creating a memoir of the woman who inspired her as well as a look at what it really takes to [...]

By day, Paul Meadors is a fifth grade teacher in a small California town. By night, he trolls the millions of items for sale on eBay, posing as his alter ego Art Farkas, and catching sellers off guard with his ludicrous and bizarre questions about their auctions. As he amusingly demonstrates time and time again, even in today’s hyper-vigilant and impersonal digital world, the spirit of human [...]