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To: Doug Fowler who wrote (5373)	9/17/1999 2:16:00 AM
From: Dwight E. Karlsen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7772

Doug, the 70,000 auctions is only what will be online at the launch of the new network. That doesn't include any auctions from MSN's auction site, which is just starting. MSN has eyeballs, lots of them. More eyeballs than eBay. Another thing, which is interesting, which eBay doesn't have, which the new alliance will: The auction items will come to you, where you go. If you go to MSN.com for example, all the items listed on Lycos, Dell (refurbished equip), Cityauction.com and Excite@Home, will also be listed on MSN.com auction site, in the MSN.com auction format. All the items listed on MSN, Dell, Excite@Home and Cityauction will also be listed on Lycos, in the Lycos auction format. See? Same item, listed on many sites. That is something that has potential to increase. What will happen, who knows. But it's a start. And everything must start somewhere. 70,000 is just Monday's number.

To: Doug Fowler who wrote (5373)	9/17/1999 10:01:00 AM
From: GCAT	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 7772

Your right Doug. Ebay has nothing to worry about. Nothing + nothing + nothing + nothing = nothing. 4 or 5 bad auction sites do not add up to 1 good auction site.

To: Doug Fowler who wrote (5373)	9/17/1999 11:11:00 AM
From: radames	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7772

the biggest part of the article that is being missed is that they are targeting the millions of users that are not on line yet that have no loyalty to anyone,,don't think yhoo and amxn are just going to sit back they know they are behind and i wouldn't be surprised to see them go on board with the fair market system,,imo this competition should make a dent in the 20 billion dollar market cap as it will now be harder for ebay to continue with it's substantial growth to justify it's market cap,,as their becomes bigger players it will be harder for ebay to grow and if it does it will have to spend major money,hence eating into it;s bottom line,,in addition if ebay has any more outages and people go to the new auction site and like it better their will be no loyalty,,ebay better pray they don't have an outage now !!!!