Timeshares.com Joins ebuddies.com to Create Premier Online Timeshare Venue: timesharebuddies.com

SAN FRANCISCO, April 17, 2000 - Timeshares.com (www.timeshares.com), one of the most comprehensive portals focusing on the timeshare industry, today announced its merger with ebuddies.com (www.ebuddies.com), a Silicon Valley start-up, to create timesharebuddies.com (www.timesharebuddies.com). Timesharebuddies is positioned to be the ultimate destination for the timeshare arena. It will host rich content and services for consumers and industry participants with regard to resort sales, exchanges, rentals, and resales.

This remarkable new initiative will be launched in May of this year. As part of the ebuddies network, the timesharebuddies.com team will soon announce an array of product and service offerings. "Timeshares.com has built a loyal audience based upon on trust, and providing a needed service free of charge. We're building timesharebuddies.com with the same concern for reliability and customer experience. Unique customer feedback is among the tools we will use to provide an enjoyable experience for our users," said Chip Ballew, timeshares.com founder, and now timesharebuddies.com VP of channel development. "Moreover, our content and service partners provide extra value, giving our individual and corporate users the confidence to peruse, buy, sell, trade, or rent timeshares online."

"ebuddies grasps the significance of the Internet for creating communities that include member feedback on behalf of participants. ebuddies also understands the potential for cross selling ebuddies channels via targeting best prospects active in each new channel. Transaction data and user feedback allow for market research opportunities and market targeting that have heretofore not been addressed by any other internet startup, " said David Cwi, a marketing consultant to ebuddies now at work on timesharebuddies. "We expect that timesharebuddies' unique and comprehensive service offerings, combined with ebuddies' network of complementary trading channels will result in synergies to all channels, not only for consumer to consumer and business to consumer, but also for business to business activities."


About ebuddies
Launched in 1999, ebuddies.com is an angel-funded start-up in Silicon Valley, founded to create ultimate destinations for various niche vertical markets where members and industry partners can buy, sell, rent and exchange goods and services. ebuddies will soon emerge as a branded network of over 5 dozen trading channels. The first channel to launch is the timeshare channel which will appear online in May, 2000.

General information regarding the company can be found on its pre-launch web site (www.ebuddies.com) or by contacting corporate relations at 650-616-4304.

About timeshares.com
Timeshares.com (www.timeshares.com) has provided one of the most comprehensive and trusted sources of timeshare information on the Internet over the past four years. In 1996, RCI veteran Chip Ballew saw a huge need for consumers to receive information and assistance in selling their timeshares. Timeshares.com soon amassed an extensive collection of resources and links. Ballew now feels that timesharebuddies.com is in an effective position to deliver all of the services that he has envisioned.

Contact information

Mark Cahsens                Chip Ballew
CEO, ebuddies.com                V.P., timesharebuddies.com
(650) 616-4304                (317) 513-3294
mark@ebuddies.com            chip@timesharebuddies.com




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