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To: tiquer who wrote (90)	9/19/1998 3:44:00 AM
From: Doug Fowler	Respond to of 7772

The analysts may try to pressure eBay into not publishing these numbers (because they want only themselves to know the current state of affairs). eBay actually already publishes not only the current number of active auctions, but the number of auctions since inception, the number of bids since inception, and the number of hits per week. Even if eBay were to stop publishing this information, there would be other relatively easy ways to find it out. (One could total category auctions. And if eBay stopped showing that, one could look at the auction item numbers. They go in sequence, so one could look at the auction number of an auction just started and one from a week ago and subtract to get the number of new auctions in the past week.) Essentially, eBay would have to go seriously out of its way to make gathering this data difficult.