eBayers to take Chicago by Storm

Well, it is called the Windy City after all!

Starting June 19th for most eBayers, and several days earlier for eBay Developers and Education Specialists trained by eBay, Chicago will be infused with thousands of eBayers at their annual eBay Live! conference, to be held in the convention center.

While it's probably too late to schedule now - what I'd like to see is an entire audience of comprised solely of eBay Sellers on "The Oprah Winfrey Show".

Can you imagine? Well, first we'd be seeing all sorts of photographs of Oprah behind a big eBay sign starting to appear on eBay. Some will be personally autographed by Oprah herself! Of course, we won't have any idea how this got done, but someone, somehow would be selling them - and they will be certified.

Then, we'll start to see "item's Oprah touched" up for sale, along with the ticket to show. The tickets of course will be on eBay as well, sold alone or in combination with anything else even remotely involved with the show. Some past items from other shows will be sold with the tickets as well - so be sure to read the descriptions over carefully.

Of course, anything else that might be given away on the show would be up for sale on eBay before the show even ended! You heard me, no time to waste here! Any good eBay Seller is going to have their digital camera and laptop with them! As soon as an item is handed to them (we've all seen the troops come out handing packages to the audience) - a quick photo and description later, and in minutes you'll see it being sold. Of course the savvy seller's will have listed the item as soon as it's announced... they'll just find a stock photo and they're good to go.

Now I imagine there are people who will be able to get items from the set of the eBay Audience Show and sell those items - now we may be getting into big-ticket!!! I mean, that's a no-brainer. Of course, one enterprising eBay seller, (probably a Platinum Power Seller) will somehow manage to procure and auction off the entire set Oprah team managed to re-created of "The Mary Tyler Moore" special reunion show. Many might have tired, but I'm sure some eBayer will get the scoop on that and.... sell it on eBay.

Of course, the tape of the eBay-Oprah show will also be sold on eBay. Now of course, there are no digital downloads, but the show can still be sold as a CD.

Gosh, I should have tried to organize this as soon as I heard about eBay Live.. being in Chicago at eBay Live! in Boston. Maybe I should get in touch with Micky Mouse now about Orlando in 2010.

Ok, so some people going to the Convention in Chicago may want to see a the Cubs... That's another post.

P.S. Disclaimer: No show of just eBay Sellers on the show or in the audience is scheduled to be on The Oprah Show during eBay Live! in Chicago or for any other time that I know of. A girl can dream.... Of course, if a producer from the Oprah show is reading this, feel free to contact me at

But in the meantime...

I invite all of my fellow eBayer Sellers, and even non-eBayers to comment on what they would sell if they got to be in the All-eBay Sellers audience of the Oprah Show.