Filed pursuant to
                                                                  Rule 424(b)(3)

                                                          Registration Statement
                                                                  No.: 333-89593

Prospectus Supplement No. 9, dated August 4, 2000
(To the Prospectus dated January 14, 2000)



On August 1, 2000, Virtual Communities Inc. (the "Company"), a provider of Web
development and site management software, and Intercoastal Financial Services
Corp ("Intercoastal"), an NASD member firm, announced a $5.5 million follow-on
financing package for VCIX. Pursuant to a Convertible Preferred Stock Purchase
Agreement entered into by the parties on July 28th, VCIX will sell 5,500 shares
of Preferred Stock by August 31st to several institutional investors. The
Preferred Stock is convertible for a period of three years into shares of VCIX
Common Stock at the lesser of a) 110%-120% of the closing bid price on the
conversion date and b) 90% of the lowest closing bid price of the Common Stock
over a 20 day period prior to the conversion date. The agreement also calls for
VCIX to issue 978,000 three-year warrants to the investors exercisable into
Common Stock at $2.25 per share subject to upward adjustment in the exercise
price.

VCIX previously raised $3 million from investors placed by Intercoastal in April
2000 and received a Bridge Loan of $1 million from one of those investors in
June 2000 which loan, and related accrued interest, has been converted into
1,010 shares of Preferred Stock as part of the first tranche of the financing
completed on July 28th.

The Company is a developer and marketer of next-generation Web development,
e-commerce and site management software. The integrated VCIX applications are
based on object-oriented technology, and provide native support for emerging
data structure formats including XML (Extensible Markup Language), while
combining sophisticated business-process modeling and component re-usability.

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