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To: GemSeeker who wrote (2477)	4/4/1999 8:30:00 PM
From: Impristine	Respond to of 7772

gemmy, short this stock, if you feel you must, be a hero, if you feel you must, i can't believe, anyone would, if they could, short this stock, based, if for nothing else, on the float, would you rather buy, a manipulated small cap, would you rather buy a carp stock, that the MM's hold and fold, and bend into a piece of garbage, or would you rather own a real brand, a real company, with real earnings, with 50 percent of the auction market, 5 years from now, would you care to guess what the auction market will be 5 years from now, mr portfolio lightener....

To: GemSeeker who wrote (2477)	4/5/1999 3:41:00 AM
From: Doug Fowler	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7772

While Amazon poses a threat, we will know very soon whether that threat is significant, or whether it is minor. Yahoo is a strong brand, but it hasn't hurt eBay one bit. Amazon is off to a good start (but so was Yahoo). I am looking to see how long it takes Amazon to get to 300,000 ongoing auctions. If they get there within 60 days, I think eBay has a serious problem. I think you should consider where the new people Amazon brings into the online auction process will go when they find out eBay has 30 times as many items for sale. As far as valuation: in my opinion, Amazon is far more insanely valued than eBay. I think they are all insane, but I'm not very good at predicting stock price.