Die Firma C.GARS Ltd Vintage Cigar Auctions organisiert in London seit 2009 regelmässig Auktionen von Aged-Zigarren und Sammlerstücken. Nun wird das Angebot ausgebaut. Auf der Seite Online Cigar Auctions werden neu auch Online-Auktionen angeboten, wie der Inhaber Mitchell Orchant schreibt:

Our Summer and Winter Cigar Auction events have outgrown themselves! We’ve been holding twice yearly Cigar Auctions since 2009 and literally knocked down millions of Pounds worth of great cigars. Davidoff, Dunhill, Pre embargo, Aged, Rare and Mature – you name it and we have sold it at our auctions in substantial quantity. Our problem is that our auction catalogues are bursting at the seams when we get to 300 Lots, we have even auctioned up to 400 Lots and still have more sellers asking us to include their late entries which just becomes impossible. So… The only solution to keep the sellers happy was to start our very own Online Cigar Auction website. That will also keep the regular bidders happy as well no doubt as we are frequently asked if we can do more regular auctions. … And of course we will still be holding our regular Summer and Winter Auctions at the fabulous Boisdale Canary Wharf. Laura, my Managing Director of C.Gars Ltd – Norfolk and her team have been hard at work creating an online cigar auction platform as we didn’t want to use any off the shelf auction software and wanted it to function very specifically for our cigar auctions. Now, if all goes to plan it should function fairly easily if not similar to eBay. In fact I wanted to call the website cBay but was dissuaded as we didn’t want to upset eBay!