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To: KeepItSimple who wrote (87132)	12/11/1999 6:02:00 PM
From: re3	Respond to of 164684

kissy pots i think they know only too well...what they don't tell is another story... imo dec 31/99 may be the opportunity of a lifetime to buy poots, if things don't work re y2k, the market imo is toast...

To: KeepItSimple who wrote (87132)	12/11/1999 6:31:00 PM
From: dbblg	Respond to of 164684

>>Web companies don't know the difference between banner-bartering and actual revenue. There's not a single internut company that has yet broken that down in their revenue statement. from the footnotes to IVIL's consolidated financial statements when they went public: Sponsorship and advertising revenues include barter revenues, which is the exchange by the Company of advertising space on the Company's Web sites for reciprocal advertising space or traffic on other Web sites. Revenues from these barter transactions are recorded as advertising revenues at the estimated fair value of the advertisements delivered, unless the fair value of the goods and services received is more objectively determinable, and are recognized when the advertisements are run on the Company's Web sites. Barter expenses are recognized at the value of advertisements received when the Company's advertisements are run on the reciprocal Web sites, which typically occurs in the same period as when the revenue is recognized, and are included as part of sales and marketing expenses. Barter revenues represented 1%, 10% and 20% of total revenues for the years ended December 31, 1996, 1997 and 1998, respectively.