rise2it - 4:28 am on Nov 6, 2009 (gmt 0)

From about 1989-1991, a baseball card shop sprung up in just about every small town throughout America...any moron it seemed could open up and make $30K to $50K a year.

Even the nightly news was touting it as the next big thing, and doing stories on owners and collectors (customers).

That lasted about two years...then most of them went under.

The internet (ecommerce, that is) seemed to start out the same way in the mid to late 90's...then it turned into REAL business, requiring real business knowledge, sense, and decisions.

Those that had those traits usually survived....those that didn't...