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To: JF2155 who wrote (6119)	11/7/1999 10:27:00 PM
From: ken hui	Respond to of 7772

I think its time to pick up the stock. Auction counts had been up the last week. with Xmas coming the bulls will win.

To: JF2155 who wrote (6119)	11/7/1999 10:53:00 PM
From: Terr	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7772

The "increase in auction counts" this Sunday is fake. The #s on the front page are wrong. Add up the #s on the auction categories page and you get 45K or so less. Look at auctioncounts.com

To: JF2155 who wrote (6119)	11/8/1999
From: Doug Fowler	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7772

To be sure, you need to wait until Monday morning to check the counts. If the counts have in fact risen, it would most likely be because sellers are trying to unload their merchandise into the Christmas market. Come a week before Christmas up until about the New Year, you will see eBay counts drop dramatically from their peak at about two weeks before Christmas. (That is because of the length of the auctions, the turn-around time, etc.) If eBay is smart, it will provide some kind of special auction format so that sellers can sell closer to Christmas, such as "Instant auctions", First Bid Wins, etc. Other online auctions have been offering these options for quite some time, but eBay has thus far done nothing to provide this kind of flexibility for the sellers and buyers.