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Technology Stocks : iVillage (IVIL) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mark Strong who wrote (56)	3/19/1999 1:12:00 AM
From: JIMMY LIU	Respond to of 598

Hi: What is your ref#? Maybe WIT members can look towards WIT's IPO... Hopefully they'll treat their insiders right! Looks like I'm getting zilch from Wit... No confirmation, probably just a message in the AM saying "Due to first come first serve policy, we didn't even ask you to confirm" I've seen that a bunch lately, although I feel like I get to the IPOs quickly... Just not quick enough!

To: Mark Strong who wrote (56)	3/19/1999 1:28:00 AM
From: calvis	Respond to of 598

I can't even win with technology. I've been a member of ETrade since its pre-public days and have fully supported them and made money off their stock. I've been in several IPOs including NETG, EBAY, GCTY, and a few other that slip my mind. For the past 2 months I haven't been able to get on an IPO because I just wasn't around on their IPO page. What did I do? I wrote a program that checks the IPO page every 5 minutes and if a change does occur it will send an email to my alpha pager. In essence I was completely 'wired' to the Etrade IPO page. It was Wed, I was watching the Jerry Springer show, and my pager went off alerting me to a change on the IPO page. Sure enough it was for the I-village offering. I hurried to the computer and finally got in to fill out my IOI. It was accepted. This was done about 5 minutes after I received the page. I would guess that I was done filling out the IOI aprox 3:40 PST. Boy I was proud of myself. My wife was telling me how smart I was and wrote email to her parents telling them of my sly way to get into the E-Trade IPOs. (Don't worry I don't let it get to my head) I too, haven't received any announcement of share allocation, nor have I received a note saying that I didn't get any shares. My wife now realizes that I am human after all. :) Moral of the story: Even the best can't win against a corrupted system.