I was a disillusioned comp sci major who realized he wasn't going to make more than 35k a year out of college, about half what I was lead to believe I would be making when I started. I decided to drop out and start my own business instead of spending the next 6 years building up massive amounts of debt with student loans. I spent an afternoon brainstorming and browsing Ebay for retail ideas and found a handful of people from Japan selling doujin which struck me as a great niche market in anime. I then found a doujin store that had a decently high google pagerank but was obviously in neglect(bdr517.com) and offered to take the site off the hands of the owner in exchange for me buying all his inventory outright.
pizzabite wrote...
How did you get into the business of selling doujins?