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To: Doug Fowler who wrote (920)	11/26/1998 2:02:00 AM
From: Andy San Francisco	Read Replies (2) of 7772

You mentioned that eBay had stopped posting the exact number of auctions, and wondered why, whether it was to make it harder for us to keep a true auction count. One reason may be signaled in their S-1 filing, where they mention that the number of listings tends to fall during Thanksgiving and Christmas seasons. This is the first Thanksgiving/Christmas season that they have been public, so perhaps this is the time they want to hide the seasonal decline, especially with most investors betting on eBay being a Christmas shopping site. When people who bought on Christmas-shopping news see that its listings actually go down during the holidays, they may be inclined to change their minds and sell their stock.

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