Online Auctions: Pricing Bordeaux Wine on eBay
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The popularity of online auctions is a relatively recent phenomenon. eBay, the leading online auctioneer, is one of the most popular websites and has become synonymous for trading online. Wine is a good well suited for online trading and there is a huge market for it on eBay's websites in France and Germany. Buying and selling Bordeaux reds is especially popular on eBay in Germany where about 2,000 offers of single bottles or bundles are available at any given time. In Germany, many wine enthusiasts and traders have discovered online auctions to trade wine and availability of Bordeaux is even larger than on the French site.
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