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To: Cary Salsberg who wrote (40507)12/5/2000 7:25:04 PM
From: Robert O  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 70976
 
Cary:

I was first to 'break this story.'
Message 14945864

To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (40459)
From: Robert O Tuesday, Dec 5, 2000 12:53 AM ET
Reply # of 40507
RE; EBAY analysis...
I'm not following>
'do this type of analysis with a company like Ebay, whose market cap is currently less than the cash on the balance sheet'

Ebay has a market cap of $8.6 billion and latest filing has TOTAL current assets (including *all* their cash) of about 1/2 billion dollars.

RO

Then came Robert Grutza losing by a neck at his reply time:

To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (40459)
From: Robert Grutza Tuesday, Dec 5, 2000 2:16 AM ET
Reply # of 40507

And Cary your time sends you off to the Glue barn, I'm sorry to say ;-)

Here's Jacob's response:

To: Robert O who wrote (40463)
From: Jacob Snyder Tuesday, Dec 5, 2000 2:57 AM ET
Reply # of 40507

The Roberts are right about Ebay,
I had heard wrong, and hadn't checked.
Thanks for correcting my mistake.



To: Cary Salsberg who wrote (40507)12/5/2000 7:59:35 PM
From: Jacob Snyder  Respond to of 70976
 
You are the third poster who has pointed that out. That's what these threads are very good at, correcting mistakes of fact. Sometimes useful for correcting mistakes of logic, too......