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To: Bill Harmond who wrote (61998)	6/11/1999 5:02:00 PM
From: GST	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 164684

CMGI's news is more of a long term problem -- to be repeated by AMZN soon?

To: Bill Harmond who wrote (61998)	6/11/1999 7:34:00 PM
From: Tradegod	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

>You made me laugh! William, I didn't say they were a bad company, just mediocre. Certainly not of the caliber of AMZN. Granted, this may be due to keeping expenses down early on. The strength of EBAY is it's communitity, period. This is no small strength, as the size of the community is what gives it the power. Example, I'm sure each of us has some pet stock that's under followed on SI. You wind up going to YHOO to see if their's any news. That's the whole new paradigm of the net. Value is created by abundance, not rarity. So if your a seller of some junk, you'd rather post at the most visited site. Now, if that strength were threatened, it would be disastrous.

To: Bill Harmond who wrote (61998)	6/11/1999 9:38:00 PM
From: Doug Fowler	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 164684

William: As a long-term buyer, seller and investor in eBay, I can tell you these problems over the past two days are more than the euphemistic term "inconvenience". The site was down all night Wednesday, most of last night and all day today. The eBay auction sellers are extremely frustrated (showing their dependence on eBay). eBay has been extremely slow for most of the past month. What concerns me is their system infrastructure, and whether the whole system may need to be redesigned. I'm not a big fan of Amazon auctions (yet), but they have a better user interface, are almost always quick, and I have never seem them go down. AND, they always respond to my questions where eBay is totally unresponsive. eBay needs to hire the people who designed the Amazon auctions, and get some real engineers who know a thing or two about mirroring, redundancy, etc. eBay is THE traffic leader by far, but there is no sense in letting others get their foot in the door needlessly. Still bullish on eBay but very unhappy with their system performance...