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Sellers are charged a fee of five percent of the sales. Quintin Thompson, co-founder and executive partner of the site told Reuters that the firms clients including professional athletes and actors and already has more than 25,000 millionaires among its members. Of course the first place I clicked was the celebrity listings category and I saw a few old friends, the Coral Gables, Florida mansion that Alex Rodriguez has been trying to unload for over a year and Dwayne Wade's slow seller in Pinecrest, Florida (shown above) are both on the site.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
BijouxConfections Nov 10th 2009 10:55AM
It would be interesting to see the completed auctions on that site, although I don't see a way to do so. Perhaps they don't want the ended auctions to be viewed, or maybe Ijust missed how to do so. But it's a fun site nonetheless.
The site seems pretty buggy. I clicked on many links and got wacky server errors.
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