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To: Doug Fowler who wrote (1723)	2/21/1999 12:56:00 AM
From: McNabb Brothers	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7772

Doug, If a buy out were to happen, at what price do you believe it would take for EBAY to sell out? Could it be like some of the other deals where the stock price would go down such as LCOS? Hank

To: Doug Fowler who wrote (1723)	2/21/1999 8:54:00 AM
From: Brian K Crawford	Respond to of 7772

Doug, thanks for your active auction updates. That is an outstanding leading indicator for the quarterly results. You commented: <<I do think eBay has the person-to-person online auction market sewn up. The question is how big will this market get?... >> I have been wondering if ebay will follow the aol model, having several service versions running on the same engine. This would permit, in addition to the persion-to-person service: 1. a commercial users/bulk buyers only service. 2. an auto dealer only auction by geographical region. 3. a US Department of Defense excess inventory auctions (for friendly third world regimes only) ;-) etc... I think Ebay is THE example an "open ended market opportunity". Like you, I scratch my head trying to figure what the stock is worth, but I am long. Brian