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To: Mike Johnston who wrote (24754)	10/23/2004 12:47:25 AM
From: X Y Zebra	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

Honestly, can you find just one person anywhere, whose cost of living has increased only by 2.7 %. ah yes... Well... Bush supporters, but rational people... = none. -g what is it with all those companies missing earnings estimates because of higher costs. Indeed... yet one must admit that a company like e-bay, which keeps outperforming most measures seems to be the real essence of whoever meant to say that the Internet would change our lives... I was surprised to read that a considerable (sorry, I forgot the exact statistic), amount of people's livelihood depends on their participation in this huge world-wide market that is channeled through e-bay... Surprisingly too is the way brokers continue to treat e-bay in terms of the margin requirements... yet quarter in and quarter out... e-bay keeps making mush of whatever courageous fool shorts the stock... Too bad the rest of the Internet companies have not been able to match e-bay performance...

To: Mike Johnston who wrote (24754)	10/23/2004 1:30:30 AM
From: Les H	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

[quote]At least after paying all my monthly bills i can erase any memory of rising prices by buying a dvd recorder or digital camera for $100 cheaper than last year. Unfortunately those things will last me for a few years while the next set of bills will arrive in 30 days.[/quote] The problem with the products with the falling prices is that they often replace obsolete products (dvd's replace vcr's, flat panel tv's replace crt tv's, and so on) or older models. This planned obsolescence is a burden on budgets.