As with so many of the internet auction site’s users they soon became hooked and began their own auction, selling old clothes the children had outgrown.
Stuart had been working with computers and got the idea of buying cards which enhance the sound quality of personal computers wholesale and selling them on the site. There was a huge demand for them and the couple decided to branch out into cards that when installed allowed computers to act as televisions plus a line of tripods for digital cameras, shifting up to 30 items a week.
“Last October it just went bang with the TV cards,” says Catherine. “We were selling up to 20 a day before Christmas and struggling to keep up with demand. We thought