This class includes: intermediation service activities, i.e. of facilitation of transactions between sellers and buyers for the ordering of goods for a fee or commission without supplying or taking ownership of the goods and services intermediated Including: - activities of commission agents, commodity brokers and other wholesalers trading on the account of others without owning the intermediated goods at any time - activities of bringing sellers and buyers together - activities of undertaking commercial transactions on the account of a principal, including on the Internet. This class also includes: - activities of central purchasing units, if they are only intermediaries and do not own the goods - activities of wholesale auctioneering houses of third-party goods, including Internet wholesale auctions
This class excludes: - wholesale on own account, see 462 to 469 - activities of commission agents who assumes ownership of the goods, even if they are acting in the name of a third party, see 462 to 469 - activities of opaque intermediaries (intermediaries that are acting in the name of a third party), see 462 to 469 - intermediation service activities for retail trade, see 479 - intermediation service activities for real estate activities, see 6821 - websites providing searches for goods that link the customers to sellers