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To: Kenya AA who wrote (57557)	4/13/1999 10:18:00 AM
From: QuentR	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 97611

Kenya, Will they be checking answers with a polygraph?

To: Kenya AA who wrote (57557)	4/13/1999 10:19:00 AM
From: Mao II	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 97611

K: Well that will be something to see. ***OT*** (on the non-CPQ world of the real future) There was a little item in today's WSJ about an Amazon acquisition of LiveBid and an eBay deal with MailBoxes Etc for shipping services. In describing the import of the eBay-Mail Boxes link, this little factoid was casually dropped into the piece: "Currently, eBay users ship 150,000 to 200,000 items A DAY, accounting for nearly 5 percent of ALL person-to-person package shipments in the U.S." That is from virtually nothing in less than a year. Excuse me, why are we here and not there? M2