lol - In the old days my dear mother bought and sold dolls. This was in the 1970's up until around 1992 or so. A few years ago after Dad passed I was given the project of going through a lot of boxes and found our mother's doll purchase and sales records in several packed binders.
When computers became available to the general public around 1979 or 1980, my first computer was a TRS-80 I bought used in 1981, our father wanted to put the doll inventory on a database. My mother would have nothing to do with the idea. She had the date, amount paid, description and an inventory I.D. number assigned to every doll with a box number associated for easy locating when she went to doll shows all hand written in the binders. If she sold a doll the sale price was recorded on the original line in the binder for each doll or item. There is a corresponding tag attached to each doll so we could know which box to return it to if it did not sell.
To answer your question, yes, even we can keep basic records for the items we sell, in a binder that isn't subject to software and operating system "upgrades" or power outages. We cannot rely on ebay to keep our information for years upon years. Now if you excuse me I need to grab a doll from box number 22 and check how much mom paid for it in 1987 before I list it here. 🙂
