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To: Notting Hill who wrote (5876)	10/22/1999 4:46:00 AM
From: KeepItSimple	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7772

> This is just about Ebay and AuctionWatch latest battle to access ebay's data, which it considers proprietary. Rightly so, ebay is trying to protect its turf. Wouldn't you? > But there is no getting around the fact that they will FAIL. They can sue a website that indexes their data, but they can't stop individual users from looking at the data using various software to compare prices. Shopbot software already exists, and auction watching software is starting to appear. Eventually auctions will be networked together, whether Ebay likes it or not. Yahoo has over a million auctions right now, just 1/3 of Ebays. Anyone who thinks Ebay will dominate forever is just going to be blindsided. In the end, this sort of bot-shopping is going to be the biggest threat to profits that capitalism has ever seen. Margins will shrink to razor-thin proportions. But then again, any smart internet CEO already knows this and is making money the NEW ERA way, by selling stock. The profit margin on a stock certificate is 100%. That will be the ultimate legacy of the internut stock mania.