
Ben Hemminger
CEO of Fashionphile
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Jun 16, 2026
From eBay Side Hustle to $500,000,000 in Sales - A Sit Down With Fashionphile’s CEO and Co-Founder Sarah Davis and Ben Hemminger
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Ben HemmingerGUEST
I look back, you know, retrospectively to say like, why would I be willing to do a little law swap thing even though I had a full-time job? And why would I be willing to sell stuff on eBay and then jump in with Sarah in 2006? And I was like, oh, it's a no brainer.
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Fashionphile’s Rise: Where Resale Meets Reinvention
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5:57Ken PilotHOST
Ben, what were some obstacles that you faced in addition to the ones that Sarah just called out, getting this business up and going and actually beginning to get into this circular luxury space?

Ben HemmingerGUEST
At the very beginning, taking it from what was a fairly scrappy eBay business and trying to say, how do we get this to become acceptable by luxury shoppers? and accepted in the luxury space.

Ben HemmingerGUEST
And early on in those very early days, I mean, probably not too honest that we were thinking, we're gonna be the next luxury brand.

Ben HemmingerGUEST
Like I think when we started like selling, well, hey, this is working, let's organize it, let's systemize it, let's get off of eBay onto our own site.

Ben HemmingerGUEST
The first mission when we partnered up in 2006 was, let's take this from eBay and let's put Fashion Files as an eBay handle, put it on a website, let's get a brand on it, let's put nice packaging together.

Ben HemmingerGUEST
And I think just soon after that, we kind of realized, wait a minute, this actually could be a brand and got pretty confident relative to where we were at the time that we could actually stand alongside some of these luxury houses.
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