10/19/99
ConsumerREVIEW.com Blasts Into Online Auction Arena With New Auction Capabilities for Mountain Bike Review Site Company joins FairMarket Network with more than 250,000 sports enthusiasts ready to start the bidding

Santa Clara, CA -October 19, 1999--- ConsumerREVIEW.com, the leading source for quality consumer-generated product reviews, today announced its new online auctions (http://auctions.mtbreview.com), which will be hosted on the FairMarket Network. ConsumerREVIEW.com generates detailed, qualified reviews from avid users on specific products, and is now offering the additional service of auction purchasing to visitors of its mountain bike review site (www.mtbreview.com). Through these auctions, mountain bikers can purchase complete mountain bikes or mountain bike parts from other enthusiasts around the country or globe.
 
"ConsumerREVIEW.com continues to lead the online review community by enhancing consumer services with these new auctions, says Francis Cebedo, ConsumerREVIEW.com Founder and CTO. And working with FairMarket Network ensures that our auctions are being conducted by the top player in their field."
 
The auctions will carry free, unlimited product listings, providing consumers the ability to sell multiple products at no advertising cost. Slated to host hundreds of products in its auctions, MtbREVIEW.com is the first of the ConsumerREVIEW.com sites to offer auctions, to be followed shortly by AudioREVIEW.com in time for the holiday season.
 
"Coupling online auctions with online product reviews will provide consumers with the knowledge they need to make the most well informed purchasing decisions," said Susan Zaney, vice president of marketing at FairMarket, Inc. "This new site promises to expand the reach of the FairMarket Network and the scope of products available to auction customers."
 
The FairMarket Network is a collection of FairMarket-powered, private-label merchant and community auction sites connected through a single massive database of goods and services. The primary benefit of the FairMarket Auction Network is that buyers and sellers have unlimited auction resources available to them without ever leaving the comfortable environment of their favorite portal site or ecommerce vendor.