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To: Glenn D. Rudolph who wrote (134331)	11/7/2001 11:48:09 AM
From: Bill Harmond	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 164684

She's good! BTW, If you follow the USP formula and pound away the same message, you win. That's what built P&G. You still see it in all their advertising.

To: Glenn D. Rudolph who wrote (134331)	11/7/2001 11:51:44 AM
From: H James Morris	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

LOL! >"I own two jewelry stores," my husband replied. I thought it was three...what's wrong with four? Btw I still think you should consider YHOO for listing your crystal glass.;) >SUNNYVALE, CALIFORNIA, Nov 07, 2001 (Newsbytes via COMTEX) -- Web portal Yahoo [NASDAQ:YHOO] is revamping the schedule of fees it charges sellers at it online-auction site, generally reducing the costs to get started, but adding a commission on items that actually get sold. The move - to take effect Nov. 20 - changes a fee structure introduced in January for what was, until then, a free service. Those costs - which included "insertion fees" beginning a 20 cents for items with a starting price of under $10 and rising to $1.50 for items kicked off at $50 or more - brought about an immediate decline in the number of auctions posted at the service. Yahoo officials said then that the pay-to-sell policy was helping to rid its auctions of junk. In addition, the charges were still lower than those at auction giant Ebay [NASDAQ:EBAY], where insertion fees now begin at 30 cents and, for an item with a starting price of between $50 and $200, rise to $2.20. On Tuesday, Yahoo said insertion fees for its service will range from 5 cents to 75 cents, and a new commission will be charged on a sliding scale from 2 to 0.5 percent, depending on the final sale price of auctioned items. The new Yahoo commission schedule is also lower than what Ebay calls its "final-value fees," which begin at 5 percent and drop to 1.25 percent only for that portion of the selling price above $1,000. Yahoo also said it will also refund the duplicate listing fees for items sold only after being posted a second time. "Since introducing a listing fee back in January, we achieved our objective of greatly improving the quality of our site, Norm vice president and general manager for Yahoo Auctions, said in a prepares statement. "With this new pricing model and recent enhancements to our overall commerce offering, we are ... clearly demonstrating our commitment to our sellers' success."