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To: red_dog who wrote (11944)	6/30/1999 8:02:00 PM
From: red_dog	Respond to of 29970

Excite@Home and Billpoint Make Online Buying and Selling Easy in Excite Classifieds and Auctions BusinessWire, Wednesday, June 30, 1999 at 10:06 REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 30, 1999-- Billpoint's comprehensive e-commerce service provides a method for online payment between individuals on Excite Classifieds and Auctions Excite@Home (NASDAQ:ATHM) and Billpoint today announced that Excite Classifieds and Auctions users will now be able to use Billpoint's person-to-person payment service to securely buy and sell in the computers, general merchandise and collectibles categories using their credit cards. Billpoint's suite of payment processing and reporting services will enable individual sellers on Excite to accept credit card payments easily and safely over the Internet without incurring the costly set up fees normally associated with credit card processing systems. "As the leading provider of classifieds, and with a growing base of auction users, Excite provides a convenient and user-friendly marketplace for our users to conduct person-to-person e-commerce," said Andy Halliday, VP of Commerce. "By integrating the Billpoint service, we now offer an integrated, safe, easy-to-use method of payment for private party Web transactions." Excite buyers will be able to purchase items with a credit card and buy with confidence from individuals online when both buyer and seller use the Billpoint service. "We expect Billpoint to make e-commerce transactions between individuals as easy as buying from an established online store," said Hope Chen, chief operating officer and co-president of Billpoint. "By working with Excite@Home, Billpoint will offer Excite's classifieds and auctions users an easy and hassle-free way to buy and sell from each other online." When an Excite classifieds or auctions user places an item for sale in the computers, general merchandise or collectibles area, they will be given the option of accepting credit card payments right from their classified or auction listing. When a seller chooses to use the Billpoint service, a 'Buy Now with Billpoint' button will appear on their classified ad or as a link in the email that goes out at the end of their auction. When a buyer clicks on the button or link and enters their credit card information, Billpoint verifies the availability of the buyer's funds and notifies the seller that it is OK to ship the item. For buyers, payment now becomes an integral part of the overall online transaction. With Excite's leadership in the online classifieds space and a growing presence in auctions along with Billpoint's innovative payment processing and reporting services, these two companies hope to make person-to-person e-commerce an even safer, more convenient and satisfying experience for online consumers.

To: red_dog who wrote (11944)	6/30/1999 8:58:00 PM
From: yihsuen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 29970

The link you that provided makes me think about another turbulence might surface soon for ATHM. Let's see… On the bottom of yesterday CBS article we have this little extract... Asked by CBS.MarketWatch.com if AtHome Excite would do a deal with America Online to broaden its content and subscriber base, Jermoluk said the Internet player was "open" to talks Here comes the new headache for ATHMers... Excite@Home and AOL reached an agreement to allow AOL members to access its pipe with no more than $5/month extra Possible outcome: This actually is a good contract to milk AOL, NOT. ATHM didn't get too much out of this deal because most AOL users already used to the AOLwide wait. ATHM had to put ads on NetZero to give special deal to talk users out of leaving their AOL accounts with “Bring your AOL email to broadband with 10% off.” Steve Case was exhilarated anyway, he climbed up to a pile of contracts which were signed with every possible infrastructure and hardware players, and laid the cable contract on the very top and told the board members the last and most important piece of puzzle has finally put in place. At the same time... Marc Andreessen, the $10 billion boy, rushed in, waiving software, and shouting "This is the greatest version of Netscape browser ever."... "If you can spend a billion or two to buy this and that and integrate with Communicator, we can bury Internet Explorer!" Six months later, Gates demoted Ballmer for failing IE7. One the same day, Yahoo announced the best browser for its next generation web site is the indisputable New Communicator (download for free). The news shocked the whole world, as Steve busy talking to WSJ, BW, and Fortune about the possibility to topple Microsoft, and AOL keep smashing all time high every day for the exciting news, Yahoo is quietly adding continents and countries to the bottom of www.yahoo.com... Europe: Denmark - France - Germany - Italy - Norway - Spain - Sweden - UK & Ireland Pacific Rim: Asia - Australia & NZ - Chinese - HK - Japan - Korea - Singapore - Taiwan Americas: Brazil - Canada – Spanish For the following four years, Case found himself playing golf with nobody but Mr. bells, including the reborn mombell, He felt so sick of it because he had to managed to loose most the games for the bells' golfing skill is so pathetic. And yes, AOL stock hit all time high again because it just signed a free PC deal with DELL – contracts just won't stop piling and AOL PC is everywhere. At Yahoo, Yang looked at the bottom his home page and asking Filo… "Where the heck is this Republic of Zambia?" I think the free PC deal will be just another nail to the coffin. I can assure you AOL will keep signing contracts and buying nails.