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To: Scott Moore who wrote (2446)	12/10/1998 2:33:00 AM
From: Don Roberts	Respond to of 4903

Another study forecasts holiday spending By Reuters Special to CNET News.com December 9, 1998, 5:30 p.m. PT Time for another guess at online holiday spending: Internet retail purchases for the holiday season will reach $2.35 billion worldwide as more consumers find online shopping convenient and secure, according to a new study by Dataquest Dataquest analysts said the number was based on surveys of consumers' past spending and future online buying plans, as well as projections for more first-time Internet buyers this Christmas season. It said this year's holiday online spending would compare with about $1 billion last year. "Shoppers have seemingly gotten past the major security issues, especially with the major credit card players getting heavily into ad campaigns, which implies their approval of online shopping with credit cards," Allen Weiner, director of Dataquest's Internet and Enterprise Strategies Worldwide program, said in a statement.

To: Scott Moore who wrote (2446)	12/10/1998 7:08:00 AM
From: sam	Respond to of 4903

All may be true, but EBAY costs the seller money. And YHOO (ONSL) doesn't. Revs are ad generated. Thus, eyeballs DO matter. If YHOO pushes person to person well, it and ONSL should do very, very well. This is not to say I don't like EBAY. I do -- very much. I just think that the potential market for person to person auctions is enormous. I, too, use it all the time.

To: Scott Moore who wrote (2446)	12/10/1998 9:42:00 AM
From: D.J.Smyth	Respond to of 4903

Scott, good points. i believe the big ticket items, though, would be in the busines to business arena not the junk to junk. Ebay has much growth, no doubt.