eCHARGE and ClassMates.com Offer Unique Ecommerce Solution for Those Reuniting With High School Contacts.

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 21, 1998--

Transaction system allows customers to charge purchases to their

phone bill

eCHARGE Corporation and ClassMates.Com today signed a deal that provides the eCHARGE billing method to people pursuing information about former high school classmates. The ease and simplicity of the eCHARGE transaction system will allow the growing number of internet users not using credit cards online to gain membership and access to the ClassMates.Com website by clicking on the eCHARGE icon and instantly charging the fee to their monthly phone bill.

By integrating the eCHARGE system into their selection of payment options, ClassMates.Com enters the cutting edge of the exponentially expanding field of electronic commerce. With this partnership, the eCHARGE system offers a quick and secure way to pay for ClassMates membership to those who had not joined because they lacked a credit card or did not want to use a card. Because sales on the ClassMates' site are impulse driven, the convenient eCHARGE payment option will increase customer transactions by enabling the charge to go to their phone bill, an option that is not credit card based. At the cost of $20 for a 36-month membership, the Classmates.Com implementation is a perfect fit for the eCHARGE subscription model.

Erica Beyer, Vice President of Marketing for eCHARGE, sees the ClassMates business model as a natural fit for the eCHARGE approach to commerce on the Net. "Our studies have shown that there continues to be a general reluctance on the part of the online customer to actively use a credit card on the Net," states Beyer.

"In ClassMates' case their baby boomer demographic may well magnify that reluctance factor. ClassMates broad market appeal makes them an ideal alliance partner to showcase the eCHARGE commerce system."

Randy Conrads, President, ClassMates.Com, echoes Ms Beyer's comments, "For us, eCHARGE presents some exciting opportunities. We feel there continues to be a large segment of our market that for one reason or another does not possess a credit card. eCHARGE makes our impulse buy work for anyone with a telephone."

About ClassMates.Com

Headquartered in Seattle, Classmates.Com is the largest high school directory on the Internet. With 1,000,000 registrants, ClassMates.Com is setting the standard for finding your old high school friends on the Net. ClassMates and alliance partner Delphi.com in Boston are now activating message boards for 30,000 high schools across the country. These boards will serve as precursors to national online reunions. ClassMates.Com has been in business since 1995, breaking monthly internal growth records on a regular basis. www.classmates.com.

About eCHARGE Corporation

Based in Seattle, WA and Vancouver, B.C., eCHARGE Corporation is a leading provider of transaction processing systems on the Internet. eCHARGE(tm) is an Internet payment technology that enables consumers to charge digital goods and services to their phone bills in one seamless and secure transaction. Founded in 1996, eCHARGE offers payment solutions to Internet merchants worldwide in the ISP, ESD, subscription, information download, online games, and donations categories. Web site address http://www.echarge.com.