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To: Bill Harmond who wrote (5862)	10/21/1999 5:21:00 PM
From: KeepItSimple	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 7772

>Secondly, right now the number of auctions on Yahoo isn't as relevant >as how many that actually close. Yahoo's can be automatically >restarted if they fail. Pot Kettle Black. Ebay doesnt report how many of their auctions close successfully, nor do they even count how many of the auctions have at least 1 bid! A random walk through their website in most categories shows 75% or more stuff never gets bid on, which is why they won't break that number out. >eBay has a much higher proportion of sucessful auctions. Show me one single figure where you can get a count of "successful" auctions. Ebay doesnt break out this info and you're just making this up.