EBay based its ranking on transactions posted during three weeks in November, when more than 46,000 listings originated from Lumberton and its ZIP code — 08048 — for items ranging from bedding to books to camping equipment. In all, eBay says on its Web site, more than 3,000 people in the Lumberton ZIP code are members.
It is hard to pinpoint a reason for eBay’s popularity in Lumberton. The members here, by and large, are the mom-and-pop auctioneers who drove the site’s early success and not full-time sellers who make their living on eBay, the company said.
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