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To: Tom Kearney who wrote (72511)	8/7/1999 12:04:00 PM
From: Bilow	Respond to of 164684

Hi Tom Kearney; Regarding EBAY and the advantage of being first... This is definitely the case with EBAY, because the place you want to auction your valuable is the place where you will have the most bidders for it. Naturally, having a lot of business attracts more business to EBAY. For this reason, I may eventually load up on EBAY if it gets cheap enough. (A long ways down from here.) AMZN on the other hand, doesn't have this advantage. I get the same book no matter where I buy it from. AMZN's auction business will probably never compete with EBAY's. And I say that knowing that EBAY must have underestimated their computing needs considerably. (Or maybe some techno-bear has been sabotaging their web site...) -- Carl