AuctionOctopus.com Selects NetCreations, Inc., to Provide Opt-In Email Management.

Content Offerings Enhance AuctionOctopus.com User Experience

HERNDON, Va., Feb. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- AuctionOctopus.com, the most powerful real time auction search engine on the Internet, today announced a partnership with NetCreations (Nasdaq: NTCR) which will enable its users to receive targeted email content managed by the leading provider of opt-in list management.

NetCreations' software utilizes a unique double-opt-in technology which allows users to receive email only if they choose to, and only those email messages directly related to their topics of interest.

Joel Haspel, VP, Strategic Development, of Bid Outlet, Inc., creators of AuctionOctopus.com, said, "we feel this is a great addition to our site. By partnering with the leading provider of opt-in list management, we're ensuring that our users receive only the best content and complete privacy when they choose to receive email."

AuctionOctopus.com will join more than 200 other sites in NetCreations' 100% Opt-In(R) Email Network. Through this network, AuctionOctopus.com users will have access to over 3,000 categories of content, and over 1,500 direct marketing companies.

"We're delighted to welcome AuctionOctopus.com into the PostMasterDirect.com 100% Opt-In email marketing network," said Rosalind Resnick, Chairman and CEO of NetCreations, Inc. "We feel confident that we can deliver a value-added information service to AuctionOctopus.com's online shoppers and provide a list of targeted and responsive consumers for our e- commerce and direct marketing customers."

About AuctionOctopus.com:

As featured in The Washington Post's Business section (February 7, 2000: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18204-2000Feb6.html), AuctionOctopus.com simultaneously searches items at hundreds of individual auction sites and delivers the results in real time. AuctionOctopus.com's real-time search feature ensures that the user receives up-to-date information. AuctionOctopus.com, awarded "Editor's Pick" by AuctionNews (December 6, 1999: www.auctionews.com), outperforms other sites which use indexed data instead, leading to outdated and incorrect results.

AuctionOctopus.com and Opie, 'the most powerful real time auction search animal on the internet' were created by the four partners of AliVE Multimedia Group, LLC. Bid Outlet, Inc., and the eighteen month old AliVE Multimedia Group, LLC, were founded by Tim Simms and Basil Carter, both from the University of Maryland, and two brothers, Joel and Daniel Haspel, both currently attending the University of Virginia. AliVE Multimedia Group, LLC (www.alivemm.com) was chosen by Sytel, Inc. (www.sytel.com) as their first greenhouse program partner.