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November 1, 2007 Is This It for the It Bag? New York Times, Eric Wilson Click Here For Full Article “The new condo market today is comparable to the It bag,” said Stephanie Phair, the vice president for merchandising for Portero, an online auction house that specializes in the resale of luxury goods. “Every bag has a name. At least in New York, you see the same thing with all those condo buildings going up with valets, pools, dog parks and fancy names. At some point, people are going to decide that, in fact, what they’d like is to go back to the tried and tested, the classic prewar or the apartment on lower Fifth Avenue.” |
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October 25, 2007 Marked-down luxury The Journal News, Heather Salerno “The wares on Portero.com might be secondhand but, the site is no online thrift store.” |
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October 18, 2007 Christie’s online goes global Computing, Lara Williams Click Here For Full Article “Online bidding is an important mechanism for setting the prices of luxury goods, said Michael Sheldon, chief executive of luxury brands site Portero.com. “Consumers participate in setting a price through bidding, allowing sellers to learn what the price should be,” he said.” |
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September 22, 2007 Tiffany vs. eBay; Why is the jeweler taking the auction website to court? Financial Times, Syl Tang Click Here For Full Article “KarenKooper.com and Portero.com resell nothing but authenticated luxury goods. Michael Sheldon, chief executive of Portero, says: “eBay is ... facilitating a bunch of sellers they can’t control. It’s so easy to put a photo of a real item and then sell a fake item. The eBay marketplace doesn’t work for luxury goods.” |
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August 24, 2007 Buying luxury with and eye on resale Cape Argus (South Africa) “Portero positions itself as sort of an online Christie’s to eBay’s fleamarket. Portero has hosted about 70,000 auctions, focusing only on high-end merchandise in a few limited categories such as jewelry, watches & handbags." |
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August 19, 2007 Strategic Shopping; A Virtual Retail Row Los Angeles Times “Portero.com: Unlike eBay, this luxury auction site guarantees that it’s Cartier tank watches, Hermes bags, Jimmy Choo stilettos and Rauschenberg canvases are the real deal.” |
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July 30, 2007 Secondhand Nose Washington Post, Robin Givhan Click Here For Full Article "Portero wants to appeal to buyers who appreciate the convenience of online shopping but who are more interested in getting their hands on a specific, genuine item than in getting a rock-bottom bargain. |
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October 28, 2007 Shopping Buzz Blog: High falutin' Ebay: Portero.com Dallas Morning News, Jason Sheeler Click Here For Full Article “Have you checked out portero.com? It's the luxury Ebay, really.” |
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July 16, 2007 The Fast and the Fabulous, The Millionaire's eBay Zoo Zoom Click Here For Full Article "The success of a marketplace of this nature is the result of Portero’s ability to identify and reach the emerging community of high fashion-forward, tech-savvy shoppers." |
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June 14, 2007 Style Spotlight: Collectible Watches Forbes.com, Hitha Prabhakar Click Here For Full Article "Women have handbags and jewelry as a way to accessorize what they are wearing, says founder and Chief Executive Michael Sheldon. Men have watches." |
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June 14, 2007 Score Daily Candy Click Here For Full Article "The fancy-pants auction site has launched an accessories section, chock full of Birkins and bling." |
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June 7, 2007 Money Bags Style.com, Nancy Macdonell Click Here For Full Article "Portero.com, the luxury online auction house that functions as a sort of eBay for the Amex Black Card set, has launched an accessories section." |
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June 2, 2007 The next BIG thing The Toronto Star, David Graham Click Here For Full Article "We will be able to buy more of the things we really want or need. We'll be transformed from an `accumulation nation' into an `auction culture,'" writes Daniel Nissanoff, the New York-based author of Future Shop and founder of portero.com, a resale site for luxury items." |
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May 7, 2007 Internet Accessories Sales Proving a Gem WWD, Sophie Chabbott Click Here For Full Article "Also tapping into the trend is Portero.com, an auction web site that offers used art, watches and fine jewelry, Portero.com will launch an accessories segment next month selling used handbags from luxury houses such as Hermes, Chloe, and writing instruments from Montblanc and Cartier." |
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April 30, 2007 Portero Opens up to Accessories WWD, Sophie Chabbott Click Here For Full Article "Like the other product types the firm offers, each accessory for sale is certified and rated from fair to Pristine (the best) by experts employed by Portero." |
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April 11, 2007 In pictures: Luxe ways to spend your tax return Forbes.com, Hitha Prabhakar Click Here For Full Article "The Rolex Oyster is a staple for the most fashionable, but at $7,000 it could take years' worth of tax returns to afford. Solution? A pre-owned one bought at a luxury auction. This version has a stainless steel case, 18-karat yellow gold detailing and a stainless steel strap. For more information, visit www.portero.com." |
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April 5, 2007 Ensuring That Your Cartier Is Really a Cartier Wall Street Journal, Christina Binkley Click Here For Full Article "One of the best options on the Web for buying authentic merchandise right now is Portero.com, an online auction site that does the dirty work -- manually authenticating every item that trades on its site. The solution is labor intensive for the company but not for consumers. The company's claim to fame: not a single item returned as fake in 60,000 auctions." |
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