Taking Your Garage Sale To The Web

With online spending on a serious surge in recent months, web-entrepreneurs are taking cues from the likes of retailers like eBay and overstock.com-case in point: Darren Anderson's Qwixo.com, a bare-boned online classified site selling anything and everything with next-to-nothing listing fees. One dollar gets Joe Neighborhood a one-month listing for his collection of rare Pez dispensers. Ten bucks earns Sally Realestate a one-month listing for a half million-dollar home. There's no auction, no middleman, no pre-arranged shipping. The experience leaves everything in the hands of the buyer and the seller. Participants are given the choice to haggle, whether to market locally or nationally, and to decide exactly how the deal goes down. "We are revolutionizing the way people do business with each other by providing an affordable way for sellers to connect with buyers," reads the