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To: Irene Lynn who wrote (1225)	7/15/1998 11:53:00 AM
From: Irene Lynn	Respond to of 4903

Wednesday July 15, 11:00 am Eastern Time Company Press Release ONSALE Expands Management Team MENLO PARK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 15, 1998--ONSALE(R), Inc. (NASDAQ:ONSL - news), a leading electronic retailer in interactive online auctions for businesses and consumers, today announced that it has named John Dean and Brian Fawkes as vice presidents of travel products and corporate communications, respectively. ''I am very pleased to have John and Brian join our management team,'' said Jerry Kaplan, ONSALE's president and chief executive officer. ''Each of them has more than 20 years experience in their field, and I am confident that they will help accelerate the company's expansion plans into new business areas.'' Dean will oversee the acquisition of new travel and vacation products and services for ONSALE's web site (www.onsale.com); Fawkes will be responsible for the company's public relations and financial communications. Dean joins ONSALE as the company diversifies its customer offerings into the travel and vacation marketplace. ONSALE recently entered an exclusive arrangement with the world's largest timeshare-exchange company, Resort Condominiums International LLC (RCI(R)), a subsidiary of Cendant Corporation (NYSE:CD - news). Dean will oversee the program which gives ONSALE exclusive rights to market certain resort condominium rental weeks from RCI at auction over the Internet. Before joining ONSALE, Dean was vice president of Uniglobe Travel International, a multinational travel company, where he developed worldwide marketing and sales programs with airlines, hotels, car rental companies, tour wholesalers, cruise lines and global distribution systems. He also worked for several years creating sales and marketing programs for a major Canadian airline. Prior to joining ONSALE, Fawkes was senior vice president of marketing at Richter Paradigm Corp., an Australian-based software start-up company. Earlier he served as vice president of marketing communications at Insignia Solutions(R), and has served in marketing management positions at Symantec(R), Dell(R) Computer and IBM(R). About ONSALE ONSALE (NASDAQ:ONSL - news) is a leading electronic retailer pioneering an efficient and entertaining new distribution channel -- the interactive online auction. The company specializes in selling excess merchandise and services -- such as personal computers, consumer electronics, housewares, sports and fitness equipment, vacation and travel packages, and specialty foods -- over the Internet. ONSALE is located on the World Wide Web at www.onsale.com. Note to Editors: ONSALE is a registered trademark of ONSALE, Inc. All other companies and brand names mentioned are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders The statements in this press release relating to matters that are not historical are forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those anticipated, including but not limited to, rapid technological changes in the industry; increased competition; and timely introduction and customer acceptance of the company's products. These risks and uncertainties are described in reports and other documents filed by ONSALE with the Securities and Exchange Commission. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Contact: ONSALE, Inc. Stefanie Elkins, 650/470-2448 selkins@onsale.com or Brian K. Fawkes, 650/470-2713 fawkes@onsale.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ More Quotes and News: Cendant Corp (NYSE:CD - news)ONSALE Inc (Nasdaq:ONSL - news) Related News Categories: computers, internet, leisure/travel, retail ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Help ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Copyright c 1998 Business Wire. All rights reserved. All the news releases provided by Business Wire are copyrighted. Any forms of copying other than an individual user's personal reference without express written permission is prohibited. Further distribution of these materials is strictly forbidden, including but not limited to, posting, emailing, faxing, archiving ina public database, redistributing via a computer network or in a printed form. See our Important Disclaimers and Legal Information. Questions or Comments?