retail founded 1998 headquarters san francisco california united states key people tom johnson president & ceo products antiques collectibles website www.rubylane.com ruby lane is the world s largest curated marketplace for antiques vintage collectibles vintage fashion fine art and jewelry . contents 1 business profile 2 history 3 ruby read 4 references 5 external links business profile edit ruby lane is home to 2 500 active shop owners who sell over 125 000 worth of merchandise daily . there are over 1m visitors every month viewing over 15m products . 1 ruby lane s inventory consists of antiques vintage collectibles vintage fashion jewelry and fine art for retail sale by independent member dealers . ruby lane shops sell items at set prices rather than in an auction format and the company does not take commissions from sales . each ruby lane shop is pre screened by an in house team of art and antiques professionals and must meet specific standards before opening for business . 2 all open shops are required to follow an ongoing standard set of quality guidelines to help ensure that all items buyers see for sale are genuine and accurately represented . all items are sorted into the following lanes or categories antiques vintage collectibles dolls fine art furniture & lighting glass jewelry porcelain & pottery silver vintage fashion . along with lilter.com goantiques and tias.com it is considered one of the four major online vintage and antique marketplaces . 3 as of july 2014 the site lists more than 528 000 items from more than 2 500 dealers around the world . history edit ruby lane was founded by tom johnson and jim wilcoxson in 1998 4 and named in honor of johnson s mother ruby . in 1998 tom was collecting 1950 s dishes and found it cumbersome to complete a set . as the internet was in its infancy searching shops online was difficult and often proved fruitless . from there the idea was hatched to create an easy to use online community of shops that showcase quality pre screened antiques and collectibles finally allowing consumers to find the unique items they sought with ease . in 1999 ruby lane along with biddersedge and auctionwatch were involved in a notable disagreement with ebay over 3rd party sites indexing ebay listings . 5 in 2005 wilcoxson departed from the company leaving johnson as president and ceo . ruby lane was voted the top site to sell on in the 2010 ecommerce bytes sellers choice awards ; voted third place in 2011 and second place in both the 2012 and 2013 surveys . the ecommerce bytes sellers choice is voted on by over 11 500 online sellers . the same 2012 and 2013 surveys awarded ruby lane first place in both customer service and communication . 6 the tagline vintage begins here was introduced in 2013 . ruby read edit ruby lane also publishes a digital magazine ruby read . this online monthly magazine features articles on antiques and art vintage collectibles and trending interior design fashion and culture . 7 in february 2014 ruby read was awarded the silver addy award for creative excellence in the category of best online digital magazine from the american advertising federation aaf . 8 references edit media kit . top reasons to sell on ruby lane . sell your stuff online malls tias rubylane goantiques . collectibles.about.com . 2010 06 16 . retrieved 2012 01 15 . internet archive wayback machine . web.archive.org . 1998 12 12 . archived from the original on december 12 1998 . retrieved 2012 01 15 . ebay warns rival to stop bid searches . sfgate.com . 1999 10 05 . retrieved 2012 01 15 . ecommercebytes.com . ruby read . aaf . business description . ruby lane press kit . retrieved 2007 08 09 . external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title ruby lane & oldid 725612506 categories online retailers of the united stateshidden categories pages using infobox company with unsupported parameters navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 16 june 2016 at 19 34 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view