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To: Smart Investor who wrote (1926)	3/5/1999 8:36:00 AM
From: J. C. Dithers	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 7772

If they are selling rocket launchers. The days will be near that government will shut it down, and your share will go to zero. Think this through! If you were running the ATF and needed to stop illegal trading in weapons, would you prefer that: (A) Guns, bazookas, rocket launchers etc. are being sold in alleys behind abandoned warehouses somewhere in the country at 3:30 in the morning, or (B) That they are being sold on Ebay with a complete electronic paper trail of everyone's email address, name, home address, etc. Could you think of a better sting operation to catch these people? The government will shut Ebay down? I don't think so.

To: Smart Investor who wrote (1926)	3/6/1999 5:35:00 PM
From: h.l. meeks	Respond to of 7772

>the days will be near that the gov't will shut it down< You're dreaming. It's not the business of the federal gov't to shut down businesses, especially public ones. Last time I looked this was still America. EBAY itself is neither in a environmentally dangerous business, nor a fraudulent or illegal one. If the feds are investigating some of the transactions done on EBAY by individuals then fine, I'm sure that EBAY will need to put tighter controls in place; but to flatly state that they could be shut down-----totally naive.