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To: Tom Markowski who wrote (5680)	10/1/1999 8:12:00 AM
From: mrknowitall	Read Replies (2) of 7772

Tom - ebay's listing charges are $.25 to a maximum of $2.00 for most items, not "$2-3" as you indicated. The power of FREE is mitigated by the fact that in commerce as well as life, you usually get what you pay for. The biggest threat to ebay, IMO, is Amazon's new expanded scope and it will undoubtedly increase with their new credit-card acceptance program. Surely, some shoppers will gravitate toward what is the rough equivalent of a giant mall with an auction-house in it. I believe ebay was too slow to respond to their mounting technical problems and has not taken the steps necessary to maintain dominance, but their competitors are going to have to have deep pockets over a fairly long time in order to make themselves viable. With Amazon's recent actions, I expect consolidation among them and the end of some of them as we know them now. I completely agree that there can be no doubling or quadrupling of ebay's revenues - I've noted before there are natural limitations to the numbers of persons who will, let alone can, participate in auctions over the internet. Mr. K.

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