An unusual item kept popping up across ecommerce sites in India last week: goats.
The flurry of goat listings from sellers hoping to sell their animals were a result of Eid-al-Adha, a Muslim holy day celebrated by sacrificing goats and then eating them with the family.
One ecommerce site, OLX, had hundreds of goats for sale in the lead up to Eid-al-Adha, with prices ranging from 1 US dollar to 10,000 US dollars.
When CNN contacted many of these online goat-sellers, however, they found that none of them had had any success in selling their goats.
One buyer succinctly surmised the problem: it is difficult to tell the health of a goat just by looking at goat pictures online.
With the health of the goat being important to Muslims, this may explain why online goat-selling was the success that many sellers hoped it would be.Â
