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To: Doug Fowler who wrote (4036)	7/9/1999 1:24:00 AM
From: Stewart Elliot	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7772

Well, although it has been briefly touched upon here, I decided to do a bit more in depth analysis of the impact of the relatively new 10 day auction on ebay's current auction count. Out of 447 random auctions (spread out, but tending to emphasize the categories with larger auction counts), 101 were 10 day auctions, or 22.6%. Even if I discount this a bit to 20% just to be conservative, this works out to overstatement of EBAY's auction count by 200,000+ auctions relative to the counts recorded before the introduction of the 10 day auction. This 10 day auction appears to be getting more popular within the community - perhaps as a way to boost what appears to be a declining number of bids (no data to back this up - just "eyeball analysis") EBAY's growth continues to be unimpressive.

To: Doug Fowler who wrote (4036)	7/10/1999 8:46:00 AM
From: Robert Rose	Respond to of 7772

<Anyway, I do believe that eBay should try a little harder to sell more advertising IN ADDITION to their listing fees and commissions. (By the way, the listing fees account for about 2/3 of eBay's revenue.) > Doug, you do remember that ebay has publicly stated that they want to keep advertising to a minimum, yes? Their rationale, as I remember, is to defer to customers' wishes and not downgrade performance.

To: Doug Fowler who wrote (4036)	7/10/1999 8:54:00 AM
From: J. C. Dithers	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7772

Doug- I read somewhere that whenever the eBay gang gets together to discuss a new idea their catch phrase is, "Is it eBayish?" At least that tells us that they ARE thinking about new ideas. Maybe advertising on eBay could be indirect. A while back Landsend ran an auction on eBay and advertised it on their own website; I think they might have done that a second time. When you called up their auction on eBay, it gave you an option to click over to the Landsend site to shop there. To me, that seems like an "eBayish" way to woo big advertisers to tap into the eBay customer base. Seems like that should be worth big bucks to heavy-hitting advertisers?