Little did I know that a toy train salesman would put me at the forefront of what would eventually become the ecommerce industry. He made his living buying and selling antique toy trains and collectibles, long before Shopify, Amazon marketplaces, A2X or any of the other technology we associate with ecommerce accounting today. He would buy collections of old toy trains at estate sales and auctions, often purchasing a large group of items at once. He would go through what he purchased, clean and repair the better pieces, determine what was worth selling and take the best items to trade shows. In fact, he had left his regular job and was making a living buying and selling collectible trains.