Information taken from www.ebay.com

Founded in September 1995, eBay is a powerful marketplace for the sale of goods and services by a passionate community of individuals and small businesses.

Today, the eBay community includes 18.9 million registered users, and is the number one most popular shopping site on the Internet when measured by total user minutes according to the Media Metrix September 2000 web report.

OUR MISSION
We help people trade practically anything on earth. eBay was founded with the belief that people are basically good. We believe that each of our customers, whether a buyer or a seller, is an individual who deserves to be treated with respect.

We will continue to enhance the online trading experiences of all - collectors, hobbyists, dealers, small business, unique item seekers, bargain hunters, opportunistic sellers, and browsers. The growth of the eBay community comes from meeting and exceeding the expectations these special people.

OUR MARKET
In 2000, the eBay community transacted over $5 billion in annualized gross merchandise sales (value of goods traded on the eBay site).

eBay is not just a place for collectibles, beanies and Pez dispensers. On any given day, there are millions of items listed on eBay across thousands of categories. People come to eBay to buy and sell everything from the practical, unique, and interesting - such as automobiles, jewelry, musical instruments, photographic equipment, computers, furniture, and sporting goods.

With the recent acquisition of Half.com, eBay's community now benefits from a marketplace combining traditional auction style trading and fixed-price trading.

eBay enables trade on a local, national and international basis. It features a variety of specialty sites, categories and services that aim to provide users with the necessary tools for efficient online trading.

Information about ubid taken from Ubid.com

Welcome to uBid.com, the Internet's premier e-commerce auction site. In a marketplace that changes more often than the Chicagoland weather, we are very proud of our ability to maintain a well-established position within the industry.

We are committed to providing all customers with the highest quality auction experience on the Internet. We strive to keep abreast of the latest trends and are ever mindful that without our strong relationships with our customers and vendors uBid.com would not be the success that it is.

uBid.com meets the Better Business Bureau online standards, providing customers the confidence and security to bid safely online. In addition, uBid.com has been honored as a Bidder's Edge Trusted Auction site - an auction site at which buyers can make purchases with complete confidence. uBid is an AOL Certified Merchant, and meets or exceeds AOL high levels of service.

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