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To: James Overko who wrote (1601)2/5/1999 9:37:00 PM
From: Jake0302  Respond to of 7772
 
dell might have an auction site coming

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To: James Overko who wrote (1601)2/6/1999 9:41:00 PM
From: Howard Hoffman  Respond to of 7772
 
What is your source?
What impact do you think this will have on EBAY?
WSJ article yesterday on e-stock acquisitions. Stock for stock is the way these are going "funny money for funny money"



To: James Overko who wrote (1601)2/8/1999 3:41:00 AM
From: Doug Fowler  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 7772
 
Why would eBay buy Egghead?

Their business models are completely polar to one another.

eBay doesn't have any inventory and has very high margins. Egghead has very low margins and will probably never make a dime (not that lack of profitability means anything in the Internet world).