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To: Doug Fowler who wrote (5888)	10/23/1999 1:25:00 PM
From: LTK007	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 7772

a well considered post from EBAY once fanatical bull,posted today on Yahoo! though I am registered to EBAY,I never use it so I depend on reports like this to get an idea of what's going on --by the way it appears EBAY is or was down again today << Ebay down again, enough is enough... by: fearlessrick_53 80965 of 80995 I used to be very bullish on Ebay, to the point of being fanatical. I am an active seller there and have made plenty of money, however, I have had enough of their bush-league antics and the site being down agian this morning is just about the last straw. I have maintained privately to friends that Ebay succeeds despite themselves. I make this statement on the following bases: 1. The site is down so much now, it is materialy affecting auctions. They have scheduled outages on average of three times a week, for 4-6 hours. They also have the "unplanned" outages, which account for another 3-5 hours per week. Add to that the overall poor performance of the site: slow loading pages, functions that work intermittently, listing a single item can take 4-6 minutes instead of the 1-2 minutes it should if the system is up to speed. when listing 20-40 items at a time, this can really add up. Yesterday, they could not get end of auction notices out. They continue to have site performance problems. Guys, you know how important "performance" is. As with a woman, poor performance leads to departure of partners. Ebay is setting themselves up for failure. 2. Improvements: Most of the improvements they have made are not cutting it: Great Collections (what a joke), new listing policies, categories, extra messages on listing pages, their magazine (the absolute height of stupidity - they're an internet business - who the hell needs an OFFLINE magazine). 3. Their lack of business acumen (they keep "asking' the "community" for their input, and then go ahead and do what they "think" is best). Tell me one successful business that not only makes public their plans, but then asks for advice from often anonymous sources. The advice they are getting ususally comes from their "forums", where the loudest and those with nothing better to do are hinging around. I have offered suggestions to them on numerous occasions, on matters that count (I have been in business much longer than they have), and they don't even respond. Meg Whitman as CEO: come on, the Wall Street analysts mush be laughing their asses off. ...continued next post...>>

To: Doug Fowler who wrote (5888)	11/6/1999 2:23:00 AM
From: Doug Fowler	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 7772

eBay auction count update: Active auctions as of November 5,,,,3,214,711 Active auctions as of October 22,,,,,,3,161,033 Active auctions as of October 8,,,,,,,,3,034,911 Active auctions as of September 24,,,2,900,914 Active auctions as of September 3,,,,,2,691,400 Active auctions as of August 27,,,,,,,,,2,701,332 Active auctions as of August 20,,,,,,,,,2,691,551 Active auctions as of August 13,,,,,,,,,2,646,523 Active auctions as of July 30,,,,,,,,,,,,,,2,554,221 Active auctions as of July 23,,,,,,,,,,,,,,2,469,608 Active auctions as of July 16,,,,,,,,,,,,,,2,426,913 Active auctions as of July 9,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,2,390,357 Active auctions as of July 2,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,2,261,254 Active auctions as of June 25,,,,,,,,,,,,,2,366,999 Active auctions as of June 18,,,,,,,,,,,,,2,253,414 Active auctions as of June 4,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,2,227,902 Active auctions as of May 28,,,,,,,,,,,,,2,265,843 Active auctions as of May 14,,,,,,,,,,,,,2,128,275 Active auctions as of May 7,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,2,079,027 Active auctions as of April 30,,,,,,,,,,,,,2,041,087 Active auctions as of April 23,,,,,,,,,,,,,1,988,897 Active auctions as of April 9,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,1,914,401 Active auctions as of April 2,,,,,,.,,,,,,,,1,873,394 Active auctions as of March 26,,,,,,,,,,1,877,765 Active auctions as of March 19,,,,,,,,,,1,903,873 Active auctions as of March 12,,,,,,,,,,1,871,314 Active auctions as of March 5,,,,,,,,,,,,1,796,459 Active auctions as of February 19,,,,,,1,591,035 Active auctions as of February 12,,,,,,1,544,149 Active auctions as of January 29,,,,,,,,1,457,406 Active auctions as of January 22,,,,,,,,1,378,705 Active auctions as of January 15,,,,,,,,1,308,663 Active auctions as of January 8,,,,,,,,,,1,281,084 Active auctions as of January 1,,,,,,,,,,1,208,832 Active auctions as of December 18,,,,,,,871,225 Active auctions as of December 11,,,,1,032,073 Active auctions as of December 4,,,,,,1,125,353 Active auctions as of November 27,,,,,,,998,481 Active auctions as of November 20,,,,,,,980,435 Actuve auctions as of November 13,,,,,,942,949 Active auctions as of November 6,,,,,,,,,901,626 Active auctions as of October 30,,,,,,,,,,861,802 Active auctions as of October 23,,,,,,,,,,832,486 Active auctions as of October 9 ,,,,,,,,,,,794,279 Active auctions as of October 2 ,,,,,,,,,,,762,731 Active auctions as of September 25,,,,,,722,745 Active auctions as of September 18,,,,,,708,964 Active auctions as of September 11,,,,,,687,649 Active auctions as of September 4,,,,,,,,645,491 Active auctions as of August 28, 1998: 649,169 Active auctions as of August 21, 1998: 625,810 Active auctions as of August 14, 1998: 612,893 Growth from 13 weeks (one quarter) ago: 23.6 percent