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TAGnotes Thur 8 Jun 2000 Vol 2 Number 88 Issue 170

From: The Auction Guild <tagn-@theauctionguild.com>
Date: Fri Jun 9, 2000 1:28am
Subject: TAGnotes Thur 8 Jun 2000 Vol 2 Number 88 Issue 170

The Auction Guild Notes for Thursday 8 June 2000
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TAG is participating in a joint effort by several different OAI
organizations to attempt to influence eBay into removing their
big corporation banner advertising. If you have any ideas or
suggestions on this or any subject please email us at
tagn-@t...
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eBay is doing its regularly scheduled maintenance and will be
unavailable on Friday 9 June between 01:00 PT and 05:00 PT.
They expect the down time to cause search to be 12 to 15 hours
behind on Fri and Sat.

In addition to its new co-branded site with Go.Com eBay has
joint sites with America Online properties ICQ, Digital Cities,
CompuServe and Netscape.
http://ebay.aol.com/aolcom/
http://ebay.compuserve.com/
http://ebay.icq.com/
http://ebay.digitalcity.com/
http://ebay.netscape.com/
http://pages.ebay.go.com/

eBay has licensed another meta search site called BidXS.Com.
The site offers the usual offerings, an empty chat board, auction
tools, bidder watch tool, pic hosting and counters. It also has a
comparison shopping search for new items. The site is
somewhat primitive in design, and has a terrible yellow background.
http://www.bidxs.com

eBay electronic check system with Billpoint will charge sellers
35 cents for each echeck. This promotional fee will end in late
summer, but eBay has not decided on the regular fee.

http://www2.ebay.com/aw/announce.shtml
Listings, approx 4.54 mil current
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Yahoo Auctions Keep track of What's New at Yahoo Auctions
http://auctions.yahoo.com/phtml/auc/us/promo/whatsnew.html
To see the base information and latest offers use
this link – http://www.auctionguild.com/generic.html;
$sessionid$JNIBZCYAAAAGJWGIHUVUTIWYZA4S1PX0?pid=5
Approx 1.96 million auctions currently running
http://auctions.yahoo.com/
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Amazon Auctions has acquired PlanetAll.com the freestanding
PlanetAll Web site will be discontinued on July 2, and integrated
into Amazons friends page. http://www.amazon.com/friends

To see the base information and latest offers
use this link http://www.auctionguild.com/generic.html;
$sessionid$JNIBZCYAAAAGJWGIHUVUTIWYZA4S1PX0?pid=5

Listings based on a combination of actual counts in 13 of 19
categories and extrapolated counts in 6 of 19 categories
as of 3 June 916,277
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QXL.Com Plc, the UK's largest Internet auction company, and
eBay competitor, doubled their revenue in the fourth quarter. It also
increased losses due to expenses for sales and marketing. They
currently have approx 181911 listings. They also have a very
interesting online antique collectible magazine affiliated with
their site that you might find of interest.
http://www.qxl.com/cgi-bin/qxl.storefront/860523821/
UserTemplate/500
http://www.qxl.com
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Fairmarket.Com is adding a Web network in the U.K. that will
include the MSN, Excite, Virgin Net and FiredUp.com sites.
This site will provide online auctions and other selling methods.
11:59:59 PM ET June 9, 2000 is the last day to enter Fairmarkets
$10,000 sweepstakes via the net. Bid on any item on any
Fairmarket auction for an entry.
http://www.fairmarket.com/js/10krules.htm
http://www.fairmarket.com
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OAUA keep current on the Banner ad issues and other issues
important to OAI users. There is an interesting analysis of the
banner ad problem, and it is a MUST read at
http://www.auctionusers.org/newsletter/0006-extra.shtml
JOIN the OAUA today. http://www.oaua.com
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If you would like an Auction House or Service Provider added to
this list, please email us at tagn-@t...
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