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Auctionbytes-Update, Number 42 - July 14, 2001 - ISSN 1528-6703     Previous Story | Contents

Letters from Readers
July 14, 2001
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Dear Ina
Continuing to enjoy your newsletters and newsflashes.... Have you ever done stats on eBay auctions? As in: gallery sales vs. non gallery sales - buy it now stats - etc. Would be most interested. Have learned much from your "on top of it" articles. Keep up the great work. -N

Dear N,
I asked Kevin Pursglove of eBay about these statistics. He replied, "We do not break down the gallery vs non-gallery figures. To date, Buy It Now account for approximately 30% of all the listings."

When I asked him if he had any figures on the percentage of Buy It Now auctions that are ended early with the Buy It Now feature, he said they do not release that information. We don't have the tools to analyze eBay's numbers. If anybody has any thoughts on this, please be sure and write me!
-Ina

**** Hello Ina,
I don't know if you have heard the buzz about Gegy.com, but their bubble has been burst.

I appears that the CEO, Troy E. MacDonald has been spamming newsgroups for months and was advertising for Someone to harvest email address for him. He has stated he has not affiliation with www.auctioneagle.com, but he was spamming news groups on their behalf as well. www.auctioneagle.com was shut down for spam yesterday.

This has the auction community up in arms. I have included links to the threads reporting about this information. I thought this would be something you would be interested in. Sincerely,
D

Dear D,
Thanks for alerting us to the Gegy story. See the July 6th Newsflash for our coverage of this bizarre tale!

We ALWAYS appreciate tips from readers.
Ina



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