posted on September 1, 1999 06:04:18 AM new
Greetings!
It is my great pleasure to announce the launch of the Online Auction Users Association, or OAUA. This launch is the culmination of months of effort by many dedicated individuals. But that's not important. We gave freely of our time because we care.
What's important is not where we've been but where we're going. We aim to be a voice for our members to bring together the many of you who have needs, concerns, issues and interests relating to the online auction industry. We're not contentious, but we will have strength. The strength that numbers of you with a unified goal can have. The power of that will make changes happen.
I don't want to take the space here to tell you all about how we can do that...I urge you to visit our web site to review our plans. http://auctionusers.org
This is your organization. Some extraordinary people have worked hard to turn a vision into reality. That vision has inspired us, and we believe in it. Providing a voice for auction users is the most important part. Now it is you who must give us your voice and tell us what you need from the OAUA. You and all of our members will join together to shape our direction and policy.
We who have planned this have waited so long for this day! It has enormous meaning to us. But we know it won't have meaning to you until you see the results. You need that. We'll get there through numbers, and we need many of you to join with us and talk with us.
If you can do that, the day is not far when thousands of us, or tens of thousands will be saying the same things in a voice too loud to ignore! We *will* make this industry serve us, not the other way around. Come see what we're about.
