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To: w molloy who wrote (30072)	5/14/1999 7:58:00 PM
From: Jon Koplik	Respond to of 152472

To all - eBay and SkyTel to use wireless stuff to communicate information for those all-important Pez dispenser auctions. May 14, 1999 eBay, SkyTel in Online Auction Pact Filed at 10:12 a.m. EDT By The Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- SkyTel and eBay Inc. have announced plans to establish a wireless person-to-person online auction service. The service is to begin in July and will allow eBay users to receive auction updates and participate in auctions via wireless devices such as pagers, cell phones and personal digital systems. ''This is the beginning of what I think will be a series of electronic commerce-oriented killer applications,'' said J.C. Bradford analyst Bob Bolen of Nashville. Jackson-based SkyTel also will have the ability to send auction notices to eBay users who already own wireless devices with Internet e-mail addresses, including cell phones and personal digital assistants. Steve Wesley, vice president of marketing and business development for the San Jose, Calif.,-based eBay, said in a statement that the company's customers ''often tell us they would like to follow eBay away from the home or the office.'' ''SkyTel will make it possible for eBay users to get the very latest information on the items they are bidding on and selling when they are running errands, doing the shopping or driving the kids to school.'' SkyTel provides wireless messaging services. The company had 1998 revenues of $518.3 million. EBay operates a 24-hour Web service which lists items such as collectibles, computers, memorabilia and stamps. The company had 1998 revenues of $47.4 million. Copyright 1999 The New York Times Company