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Technology Stocks : eBay - Superb Internet Business Model
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To: James Overko who wrote (1601)2/8/1999 3:41:00 AM
From: Doug Fowler  Read Replies (2) of 7772
 
Why would eBay buy Egghead?

Their business models are completely polar to one another.

eBay doesn't have any inventory and has very high margins. Egghead has very low margins and will probably never make a dime (not that lack of profitability means anything in the Internet world).

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