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To: Imran who wrote (6344)2/11/2000 7:14:00 AM
From: Doug Fowler  Respond to of 7772
 
I guarantee you this: If eBay is bought out, it will be at a premium to the market cap on the day the offer is made.

Sure, anyone can build their own auction site. There are thousands of active auction sites right now.

Getting the high volume, high quality traffic of both buyers and sellers is the hard part and the ONLY company that has been successful at attracting BOTH is eBay.

CMGI would love to own eBay. Imagine the AltaVista being the only search site allowed to include all eBay auctions.

Yahoo would also love to own eBay. AOL would love to own eBay.

And if Microsoft weren't being hounded by the Feds, they would jump all over eBay.