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To: H James Morris who wrote (144916)8/6/2002 11:43:35 PM
From: Oeconomicus  Read Replies (1) of 164684
 
HJ, I wasn't talking to you and you obviously don't have a clue what a start-up might quite legally and ethically do to get the equipment, services and other things it needs without expending scarce cash. I also wasn't talking about shady deals between anyone. And I don't even know why a vendor might bribe a customer who is a startup. Shouldn't it be the other way around? Or maybe a startup bribing their potential customers? Is it you or I who is confused?

PS: Not that it's any of your business, but I dumped Avici. Sales aren't falling any more, but they aren't rising either and the company hasn't done enough to conserve its cash or lower its breakeven point, which I estimate to be about 5x current revenue levels. They still have a few years of cash left, last I looked, but they're behaving like everything's just hunky-dory and they can just keep on keeping on. With my luck, somebody bigger will buy them out now - you get almost $2.80 per share in cash plus the technology and a little bit of revenues for only 86 cents today. But I doubt they're interested in selling right now and they may still find a way to burn up the cash before their business recovers, so I'll watch them and think about buying again when all their potential customers are no longer broke.
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