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To: Jim Duffett who wrote (3126)	1/4/1999 6:54:00 PM
From: Doug Fowler	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 4903

OK, so I was off by a month as well. I had remembered Yahoo auction counts at about 95,000, which was apparently early December, and had seen them last week at around 80,000. (So a month in Internet times seems like a few months in real time.) The real key is whether Yahoo will do what it needs to do to make Yahoo auctions take off, or whether they will let nature take its course. Right now, even at 90,000 plus auctions, Yahoo auctions are producing a much lower number of bids than eBay. Yahoo needs to bring in many more BUYERS and SELLERS. Yahoo could spend a few million dollars and offer for a month or two a financial incentive for people to list and bid on auctions. The key to success is the traffic, and eBay dominates in that right now. I would love to see Yahoo get it right, and thought they would by this time.