Marcia Cooper and Harvey Levine hoped for a blissful retirement, until they both were laid off from their jobs. They hadn’t planned to quit working so soon and hadn’t saved enough. Feeling unprepared to compete with 20-year-olds in the traditional job market, the 60-something New Jersey couple turned to eBay Inc.Ms. Cooper and Mr. Levine started small, standing in line to buy concert tickets for acts like Phish and Bruce Springsteen and then reselling the tickets for a profit on eBay, the global Internet auction site.
From there, they moved to selling wine glasses, antiques and more valuable items such as baseball memorabilia. Those endeavors turned into a business the couple named General Enterprises. The average monthly sales this year: more than $10,000.
“It’s been a boon to us,” Ms. Cooper says of the business they started back in 2000. “We didn’t expect it to grow quite as fast, because at our stage in life it’s very, very difficult for somebody to enjoy what they’re doing and make money at it.”
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