It’s Alive! Bringing the Creepy to Life

Greetings from SLC,

Perhaps no post is as fitting for Friday the 13th as this one. As I have mentioned in earlier posts, many of our SLC employees were avid eBay users long before they decided to join the company in an official capacity. One of these early eBayers, and now a member of the eBay Trust and Safety Account Management team, is Brandon Fox. Brandon discovered eBay early in 1999. At the time, like many of our Community, he had a niche business (for Brandon, an amazing talent for bringing the creepy to life) and was looking for the best way to get his product out there. He had contacted local retailers and even considered creating his own catalog. Luckily, he had just heard the buzz about eBay and decided to give it a try. Eight years later and his business is going strong. There he is to the right, working on one of his many creations.

eBay turned out to be the perfect fit for Brandon (eBay User ID: silentcreations) as he specializes in creating, ummm, unique, hand crafted, one of a kind items — “horror and oddities” in his own words. Things that you hope never haunt your worst nightmares (although the pictures of his creations below might). But for Brandon, the more terrifying the better.

“There was nothing like making that first sale. The first time you sell something it is the best feeling, the best win-dorphin. After that, I was hooked.”

So hooked in fact that Brandon jumped at the opportunity to join eBay in November of 2002 as a member of the Customer Support team. With his experience on eBay, Brandon has been able to help out a variety of other eBayers over the years in his Customer Support role.

Brandon definitely keeps busy. With his work at eBay assisting other Community members, as well as his efforts trying to keep his store stocked with severed limbs, skeletal remains, and rotting flesh, Brandon knows all to well that Halloween is only 7 short months away.