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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (70397)	7/28/1999 7:21:00 PM
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EBay ranked top auction site; Survey says Amazon.com is No. 2 Washington, DC, Jul. 28, 1999 (The Content Factory via COMTEX) -- The Internet's most popular auction site is also ranked the best auction site on the Web, according to a quarterly survey conducted by Concord, Mass.-based Gomez Advisors. EBay.com was top ranked in a survey of several hundred sites, 18 of which came in for deeper analysis based on their longevity, bidding activity and breadth of products offered. "EBay owns 70 percent of this market and is clearly the auction leader, and will remain so for a long time," senior analyst Sue Rothberg told CBS.MarketWatch.com. "But the surprise is that Amazon.com and Yahoo.com have also relatively recently entered the market place and have performed very well." Amazon.com was ranked second and Yahoo.com was third. Speaking of Amazon, Rothberg said the company's critics who say it's expanding into too many categories too quickly should learn from Amazon's auction effort. "These guys are a force to be reckoned with. Their name counts for something with users. And no one should minimize the attention they have paid to customer service. They 'get' the Web," she said. Rothberg estimated that auction sites will account for 15 percent of all e-commerce spending this year, possibly as much as $5.5 billion. -0- Copyright 1999 The Content Factory *** end of story