By Alissa Arford-Leyl
Shop Site of the Month
Batson Tire & Automotive Center, Inc. - Bryan, Texas.
www.batsontire.com
This site was selected because of its impressive graphics and detailed staff section.
Web Wise
Online Auctions
You may have heard about the eBay auction Web site - maybe on one of television's morning talk shows, or possibly in The Wall Street Journal. Online auctions are getting a lot of attention in mainstream media as more people use the Internet to buy and sell their products.
The eBay Internet Web site (http://www.ebay.com) is probably the most successful online auction site. With more than one million items for sale in over 1,000 categories each day, eBay offers an impressive selection of new, used and antique merchandise.
Since its inception in September 1995, more than 40 million items have been placed for sale with over 148 million bids made on those items. eBay is the world's largest personal online trading community with more than 600 million page views per month.
To use eBay, free registration at the site is required. Registrants will be issued a username and password. To ensure that all transactions are conducted in a professional manner, there is a feedback process where buyers and sellers can offer positive and negative feedback on each other. Prospective buyers and sellers can then review the information and decide whether or not to conduct business with a specific individual. Customers can place bids for free, but certain fees apply for posting items for sale on eBay.
Net Numbers
6.7 million U.S. adults used the Internet to make a travel reservation in 1998, up from 5.4 million in 1997.
Source: Travel Industry Association of America , January 1999
ASA Web Ways
Register Online for the Annual Convention
Online registration is available at the ASA Web site for the 1999 ASA Annual Convention. The convention will be held March 16-21 at Marriott's Castle Harbour Resort in Hamilton, Bermuda.
Online registrants have three options for registration: submit the form electronically with credit card information on a secure page; fill out the form online, print it and write in credit card information to fax to ASA; or fill out the form online and print it to mail in with a check. Reservations made after Feb. 5 will be handled on a space and rate available basis.
Visit the Events section at the ASA Web site for complete details. For more information, call (800) 272-7467, ext. 235, or send e-mail to robbiet@asashop.org.
Note: Web sites listed in Net Worth do not serve as endorsements of the sites themselves or of any companies or products associated with these sites. In addition, ASA does not verify the factual accuracy and does not necessarily share the opinions expressed by those within these other sites.
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