Why eBay Tells Manufacturers in China What You're Searching for

In a recent conversation with some colleagues about cool—OK, memorable—things from the early 1990s, our chatter turned, as it does, to Crystal Pepsi, Pocket Rockers and Cross Colours—all of which you can find on eBay, along with what seems like an infinite number of material portals to another place and time in memory.

eBay has always been a special kind of nostalgia machine, a rabbit hole where fuzzy memories meet actual physical things from years gone by.