Some Interesting Statistics from the auction site world - if you're counting. (Note that these are self-reported figures.)

• BidBay Stats
  BidBay http://www2.bidbay.com was launched in January 2000. It recently filed with the SEC to go public, and an inside source tells us they expect to be trading on the NASDAQ exchange by early April. BidBay says it has 5 million registered members with an average of 1.2 million items listed for sale on a daily basis. It has plans to expand worldwide to create local auction sites all connected to the BidBay site.
• Epier Stats
  http://www.epier.com
  Number of registered users: 50,000+
  Number of completed transactions per day: 200+
  February: membership growth rate: 78%
  
• Andale Counters Stats
  http://www.andale.com Counters are tools that allow you to see how many visitors have viewed your auction listing. Andale reports that it adds 3.7 million new counters every week and had a recent reliability metric of 99.98%. It serves more than 19 images per day in an average of 19 milliseconds per image.
• Yahoo Auctions
  http://auctions.yahoo.com The Wall Street Journal reported that Yahoo's sell-through percentage grew 550% since it recently instituted fees. (WSJ, 2/22/01)
• Bidville
  http://www.bidville.com 405,026 auctions in 2,020 categories
  It reports "NoBidding, Inc. has plans to be traded publicly before January 2002."