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To: regine who wrote (6719)	12/22/2000 9:46:15 AM
From: AJ Berger	Respond to of 7772

Ebay to Enjoy Dot Bomb Liquidations As a buyer of computer equipment for a $100mil company, I have recently turned to Ebay as a valid source for the products my company consumes. I have noticed a major surge in the past few months of 'open box' big ticket items, presumably from .com's going out of business sales. I'm quite certain that Ebay will see a strong quarter from this factor alone. I was able to pick up a $16,000 54" HP Plotter at half this price still in it's 300 lbs. crate that was never even opened, and I even got several $3,500 Thinkpads still with full 3 year warrentees 'open box' for under $2,000 and these Notebooks were only opened to change the OS from Win'98se to Win'2K, otherwise they are not used at all! These big ticket items are not only generating a windfall of commissions for Ebay, but help to establish them even further as a reliable source of equipment, not only consumers, but for cooporate buyers as well.