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To: CookiePuss who wrote (5083)	8/24/1999 10:07:00 PM
From: Hubert Few	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 7772

SourPuss said:"that gold site sucks, plain and simple. from a user interface pov it's a blatent ebay ripoff and they have undoubtedly already heard from ebay's intellectual property attorneys. you must have some sort of financial interest in that organization to be such a cheerleader." Windows was/is a blatant rip-off of the Mac interface which was/is a rip-off of a "GUI" nobody wanted. For you to say that Gold's sucks just shows how dishonest you are. It is not so much that you don't agree with me but that you are WRONG there my little dough sluffing friend. Me a cheerleader for Gold's? The complexity of your thought processes boggles, it is a privately held company as I already stated. I AM A CUSTOMER OF THEIRS, and yes, in some "progressive" circles of thought that DOES INDEED make me a financial benefactor. I have said a dozen times here already that I do not own Ebay stock, short or long. I initially posted here to give some of the STOCKHOLDERS insight into what MANY sellers at Ebay were thinking, chatting about, etc. Rather than THANK ME, you simple-minded stooge, you choose to attribute my communications to BASE PROFIT MOTIVATED AGENDA. Hey, clue this, I DON'T PLAY DAT! Chow now ya'll!

To: CookiePuss who wrote (5083)	8/24/1999 10:33:00 PM
From: mrknowitall	Respond to of 7772

Cookie . . .I'm afraid you're missing something, IMO, ebay is now like a McDonalds that decides to stop selling cheeseburgers . . . because someone decided the cheese cut into their mainstream profits for hamburgers. They're misguided in the area of user/consumer marketing and the little start-up cheeseburger stands will have some impact. This is the perfect example of competitive forces at work: the established leader stubs its toe too many times and takes at hit in market share. Failure to appropriately address the reasons (i.e., defensive mentality) results in further losses. Pretty soon reality catches up with the management's recalcitrance and shareholders force action (if they have a significant share, that is). From what I can tell, the handful of executives are not equipped to deal with competition, and are wealthy enough that they are personally insulated from any business downturn impact - this is not at all unlike McAfee / Network Associates which cost investors dearly when the executives built themselves a personal economic fortress and let the company drift into only cosmetic performance that the nitwit and sycophant "analysts" played into profits for a few at the expense of the many. Beware - IMO the hand supposedly at the helm is apparently not equipped to deal with the influences of all of the constituencies. After all - when you're a billionaire, how much better can you eat? Mr. K.