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To: Erik T who wrote (6515)	6/19/1999 4:23:00 PM
From: g_m10	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 20297

I would suspect that EBAY may be quite a ways off The reason I included EBAY was that CF chose EBAY for the demo, not Yahoo, AOL, Quicken or someone else. Of course, there might have been some other reasons behind the choice. Still, CF must be pretty sure that the deal will go through and reasonably soon to put EBAY into the picture. especially if there is to be an escrow service component Agree with you that EBAY is "a bit of a new animal". I am not quite familiar with how EBAY works. Someone is already doing escrow services, I assume. Is it possible to split the transaction into two parts? The first transaction would be to deliver money from the buyer to the escrow. Then, when escrow is satisfied that that the goods has been delivered to the buyer, it sends money to the seller. This way all the technology is already in place and CF gets a double volume. I'm not sure though how the escrow service works, please comment if I am wrong.