1.   After taking a break to write the book, he started OnSale Inc., a Web-based auction house that lets users bid for items online.

2.   Now eBay users can bid and run.

3.   On-line auctions, where Web users bid by computer for a range of goods and services, have been a runaway success on the Internet.

4.   Priceline, another online travel site, for example, requires users to bid for seats and accept the lowest fare offered.

5.   The list of items still was posted on eBay Wednesday morning, although users could not bid on them.

6.   Unlike Priceline, which requires users to bid for seats and accept the lowest fare offered, Hotwire will let them select an actual fare for the desired route.

7.   The government wants existing users to bid for the nine wharves in a public tender.