I could hire my own trading assistant.

Depending on the person and what you're selling, the trading assistant might pick it up from your house.

Mr. Salzano, 56, became a trading assistant a few years ago, after having been an avid eBay player for some time.

Unlike many trading assistants, he has a set commission - he's raised it to 10 percent from 5 percent over the last year.

His big sale as a trading assistant?

A personal trading assistant was an option.

EBay has no more of a relationship with them than with any other trading assistant listed on its site, he noted.

It holds weekly training sessions to teach trading assistants how to market themselves, both online and off.

More than 30,000 "trading assistants" are registered with eBay, to help sellers auction their goods.

Through its trading assistants program, eBay fans the consignment market by encouraging experienced, well-regarded sellers to offer their selling services to the public.