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UBUY news.....auctionanything.com Tuesday August 17, 11:49 am Eastern Time Company Press Release SportsAuction Hosts Its Largest Auction Ever This Week's Auction Approaches $0.5 Million Milestone ORLANDO, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 17, 1999-- AuctionAnything.com, Inc. (OTC BB:UBUY - news) announced Tuesday that this week's SportsAuction, which started on Monday, Aug. 16 and ends on Sunday, Aug. 22, contains nearly 3500 lots whose cumulative list price is approximately $0.5 million. SportsAuction 110 contains 45 lots whose list price is at least $1000 and includes high-end collectibles featuring Honus Wagner, Ty Cobb, Mickey Mantle, Roberto Clemente, Ted Williams and Willie Mays among others. The crown jewel in the auction is a complete 407 card set of 1952 Topps baseball cards which includes the Topps Mantle rookie card. While list price may not be a true measure of street value, it is an indication of the rarity of the merchandise in the auction. The SportsAuction web site can be found at sportsauction.com . AuctionAnything.com's services are in competition with other Internet companies such as eBay Inc. (Nasdaq:EBAY - news), uBid Inc. (Nasdaq:UBID - news), Onsale Inc. (Nasdaq:ONSL - news), Excite Auction (Nasdaq:XCIT - news), Bid.Com International Inc. (Nasdaq:BIDS - news) and Yahoo Auction (Nasdaq:YHOO - news). This release contains forward-looking statements with the meaning of the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Although the Company believes that the expectations reflected in the forward-looking statements and assumptions upon which forward-looking statements are based are reasonable it can give no assurance that such expectations and assumptions will prove to have been correct. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contact: AuctionAnything.com, Inc., Orlando Martin M. Meads, Investor Relations, 407/481-2140 Email: marty@auctionanything.com Website: auctionanything.com