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To: mrknowitall who wrote (3912)	6/28/1999 4:56:00 PM
From: Doug Fowler	Respond to of 7772

Mr K: What we're saying we REALLY want to know is how much money eBay is making each day. They are not going to report that, directly. The auction count method has worked very, very well at predicting eBay revenues for the past three reported quarters, and despite the addition of 10 day auctions and variations in sellers' success, I am extremely confident it will be a very good indicator for this quarter. The formula is (current quarter's auction count)/(last quarter's auction count) * (last quarter reported revenues) - (about $3.5M lost in the outage).

To: mrknowitall who wrote (3912)	6/28/1999 6:46:00 PM
From: FR1	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7772

What we're missing, IMO, is something akin to the semiconductor industry's "book-to-bill" ratio... You know, I noticed that all this information is available in ebay's database and a lot of it is posted right now on ebay's web (how many active auctions exist on a given day and how many auctions closed on a given day). It seems to me that if we could intelligently articulate a measurement, there is no reason why that number could not be posted.