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Technology Stocks : Personal Digital Assistants (PDA)
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To: Win-Lose-Draw who wrote (631)12/4/2000 10:12:53 PM
From: KevRupert   of 817
 
Yes, WLD. I still have nightmares about AMZN! I was living in Seattle at the time of the AMZN IPO. I was planning to buy AMZN based upon a WSJ writeup -- but I couldn't figure out how B&N would not be a category killer.

I used the proceeds to buy big MO instead based upon valuation (dividend, low P/E).

I sold my big MO at the same price (my purchase price) a few years later -- the day following Clinton's tobacco bashing speech. I could have made a ton...

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