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Strategies & Market Trends : Anthony @ Equity Investigations, Dear Anthony, -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Anthony@Pacific who wrote (70840)	4/28/2001 11:15:11 PM
From: Tradelite	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 122087

Well, I dunno, Anthony. I know I used to work for a really big brokerage firm which guaranteed HOMS that a certain number of its 8,000 agents would buy web pages at a reduced price from HOMS. It's not just individual agents who spend money to advertise on that site....virtually all brokers pay major bucks to be on that site, whether their agents wish to advertise there or not. Point is, money comes in from many sources.

To: Anthony@Pacific who wrote (70840)	4/28/2001 11:23:33 PM
From: Jay Fisk	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 122087

Ya mighta missed this: ""HOMS also saw its number of subscribers increase from 184,000 to 359,000 in the first quarter of this year, a very impressive increase of 175,000. However, a staggering 166,000, or 95% of those, were direct adds by Cendant. ""On the flip side, a majority of the company's subscription revenues are from Cendant (CD:NYSE - news), which also happens to be Homestore.com's largest shareholder, with a 20% stake. Cendant clearly has a strong vested interest ..."" from: thestreet.com This reminds me of Terayon giving away stock to make sales. Some idiot promised to turn me into the SEC for posting a TERN press release. Ha ! ragingbull.lycos.com Still short that one too. Your interviews are a riot - do more !