Do you buy from EBay

Timmy · Post by **Timmy** » Tue May 04, 2004 5:03 pm

Does anybody out there bid for their wines at auctions like EBay ?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue May 04, 2004 5:04 pm

Timmy wrote:Does anybody out there bid for their wines at auctions like EBay ?

How do you find the experience ?

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Wed May 05, 2004 10:59 pm

No!. I don't trust EBay.

I will only bid from reputable auction house where I can inspect the wine prior. I don't mind paying a few bucks more just to be sure.

Cheers
Rob

AlanK · Post by **AlanK** » Wed May 05, 2004 11:05 pm

Based on my experience, I estimated around 20-30% of the wines are dud in the auction houses, let alone ebay!

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu May 06, 2004 5:34 pm

How about selling wines at eBay? Any better experience?

Kieran · Post by **Kieran** » Thu May 06, 2004 5:39 pm

What I've seen on my few jaunts into Ebay is that the prices aren't even that great - so many people clamber in looking for a bargain that the prices for a lot of wines look stupidly high.

I prefer F2F auctions - at least you don't get a thousand people all around the country killing every bargain in the last five minutes.

My luck with auctions has been pretty good so far - out of fifty bottles, one oxidized and one a bit tired (both 91s bought late last year).

Kieran

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Thu May 06, 2004 9:46 pm

I have not had the need to sell any wine I bought yet.

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