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Do you buy from EBay

Posted: Tue May 04, 2004 5:03 pm
by Timmy
Does anybody out there bid for their wines at auctions like EBay ?

Re: Do you buy from EBay

Posted: Tue May 04, 2004 5:04 pm
by Guest
Timmy wrote:Does anybody out there bid for their wines at auctions like EBay ?


How do you find the experience ?

Posted: Wed May 05, 2004 10:59 pm
by Rob
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

Posted: Wed May 05, 2004 11:05 pm
by AlanK
Based on my experience, I estimated around 20-30% of the wines are dud in the auction houses, let alone ebay!

Posted: Thu May 06, 2004 5:34 pm
by Guest
How about selling wines at eBay? Any better experience?

Posted: Thu May 06, 2004 5:39 pm
by Kieran
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

Posted: Thu May 06, 2004 9:46 pm
by Rob
I have not had the need to sell any wine I bought yet.