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[LOGO OF FENWICK & WEST LLP APPEARS HERE]
March 7, 1997
VIA EDGAR
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Errol Sanderson, Esq.
Securities and Exchange Commission
450 Fifth Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20549
Re: ONSALE, Inc.
File Number 000-21945
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Registration Statement on Form 8-A filed on January 9, 1997
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Dear Mr. Sanderson:
ONSALE, Inc. filed its Form 8-A Registration Statement via EDGAR on
January 9, 1997. As a consequence, absent action on the Company's part, the
Company's Form 8-A would go effective automatically on March 10, 1997. The
Company is currently reactivating activity on its initial public offering and
anticipates filing its amendment responding to SEC comments next week but does
not wish its Form 8-A Registration Statement to go effective prior to the time
that its Form S-1 Registration Statement goes effective. Consequently, we are
requesting by this letter the withdrawal of the Company's Form 8-A Registration
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Statement. The Company intends to refile an identical Form 8-A shortly and
plan to seek to have it go effective simultaneously with its Form S-1
Registration Statement. The expected time for effectiveness is early April.
Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to give me a
call.
Sincerely yours,
/s/ Laird H. Simmons III
Laird H. Simons III
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March 7, 1997
VIA EDGAR
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Errol Sanderson, Esq.
Securities and Exchange Commission
450 Fifth Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20549
Re: ONSALE, Inc.
File Number 000-21945
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Registration Statement on Form 8-A filed on January 9, 1997
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Dear Mr. Sanderson:
ONSALE, Inc. filed its Form 8-A Registration Statement via EDGAR on
January 9, 1997. As a consequence, absent action on the Company's part, the
Company's Form 8-A would go effective automatically on March 10, 1997. The
Company is currently reactivating activity on its initial public offering and
anticipates filing its amendment responding to SEC comments next week but does
not wish its Form 8-A Registration Statement to go effective prior to the time
that its Form S-1 Registration Statement goes effective. Consequently, we are
requesting by this letter the withdrawal of the Company's Form 8-A Registration
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Statement. The Company intends to refile an identical Form 8-A shortly and
plan to seek to have it go effective simultaneously with its Form S-1
Registration Statement. The expected time for effectiveness is early April.
Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to give me a
call.
Sincerely yours,
/s/ John F. Sauerland
John F. Sauerland
Chief Financial Officer
