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Many people first got a real opportunity to experience online sales for themselves when Ebay launched and revolutionised the whole trading market. It meant that you didn’t have to have you own physical shop to make money buying and selling, and people could find items online that they may not have been able to find elsewhere. It is likely that Ebay will remain a highly used site for many years to come, but the prominence of online trading has now been taken to a new level by sites such as Twitter and Facebook that boast a more social capacity.

Facebook was among the first social networking sites that had the foresight to realise the potential of allowing their members to advertise items on their site. The Facebook ‘marketplace’ was an instant success and people jumped at the chance to combine social interaction with making a little extra money via trading items. Now it can be argued that sites such as Gumtree and Craig’s List have been providing this trading platform for over a decade, but the newer social powerhouses have taken it to another level. They allow buyers and sellers to interact with each other in many more ways, including being able to trade photos easily, see friend’s recommendations or even ask online experts before they buy. For example, before you make that commitment to buy one of those second hand bikes you can request more pics, query your friends about it, or ask those people who are hanging out in the cycling community section if you are making the right choice, and if not, what is the right one?

Further more, with the likes of Twitter to your disposal you can flip the advertising process on its head by requesting second hand items that you are seeking. For example an extreme sports enthusiast might post on their twitter profile that they are looking for 7’6” surfboards, and because of the potential size and power of the networks here, they will likely find multiple people very quickly who have suitable surfboards for sale