You may have seen the article in the Wall Street Journal on 2/28/06, describing the Chinese collective buying website 51tuangou.com.  51tuangou.com is one of a new kind of Chinese online experience–finding people in your local area who want to buy the same (usually big ticket) item that you do, and approaching the merchants as a group in order to…

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