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To: Jan Crawley who wrote (36765)	1/26/1999 4:32:00 PM
From: Robert Leverton	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

E-bay has me a little nervous. Their rise may bleed over into Amazon if they report neutral earnings. Hope the Amazon PR machine doesn't throw out too many curves tonight. Cheers, Bob

To: Jan Crawley who wrote (36765)	1/26/1999 4:43:00 PM
From: Glenn D. Rudolph	Respond to of 164684

e-bay has a 3 to 1 split; hope that no one here will be negatively impacted!!! It says that e-bay is up $21 currently...after market.. Jan, EBAY was up $21 right after the annoucement. Now still up but only $9. Glenn

To: Jan Crawley who wrote (36765)	1/26/1999 5:07:00 PM
From: Rob S.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

I've heard a rumor from someone at AMZN that the loss will not be as large as expected. Whether that will be taken as a big positive, who knows? -------- InfoWorld magazine, JAN 25, page 61, mentions a report put out by Marketing Corporation of America (MCA) that estimates that consumers spent a whopping "$8.2 billion on online retail purchases during the 1998 holiday season - almost three times as much as the organizations pre-holiday estimates of $2.3 billion. . . . As anticipated, books were the single most popular item, followed by computer goods, and music and video products." That's a huge increase over last year - I wonder if Amazon is keeping up or falling behind in this growth? We should know more shortly. The cc starts at 2:30 PST.