Mark Radcliffe owns a £700,000 pound home, a £150,000 Ferrari and a £188,000 Aston Martin. His company employs 19 staff and has an annual turnover in excess of £3 million. What you may be surprised to hear however is that Radcliffe’s success stems from an eBay shop he set up from his parents garage ten years ago.
Today, Mark Radcliffe is the UK’s first eBay millionaire, running the business from an enormous warehouse near Southport, he sells over 3,700 different items and with monthly orders of around 36000 – he is officially the 6th largest eBay business on the planet.
In 2003, he established his brand “First 2 Save” and left his parents garage to move into his current 30,000 sq ft site.
In an interview with the DailyMail, Radcliffe said:
“I could have continued working at Tesco and become a manager, which would have been a safe job but it would not have stretched me. I couldn’t have got where I am today without the right people to help. Also being aware of the latest technology has always been important,”
He ends with wise words that should ring true for many an internet entrepreneur:
“The internet means that virtually anyone can succeed in business from a low start-up point. All it takes is a lot of hard work and determination.”
Image Credit: Daily Mail
Mark Radcliffe’s eBay success is a nice story, but it’s a shame a HUGE part of it has been conveniently left out by journalists.
He was trading on the internet via L8shop, Coral Phones and Blueunlugged long before taking eBay seriously. He made his first million via those channels not the auction site.
I like this post. Shows that people can surely succeed if they put their mind to it. I like the ferrari hehee…
Thanks mate.I am really surprised and thanks for letting everyone know the hidden facts.How can media ignore the fact that he was already trading before trading onto ebay and that he was already a millionaire.Sometimes the media is just onesided(in this case media is trying to side ebay).Cheers