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Dec 3 3:59 PM EST

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To: Glenn D. Rudolph who wrote (4369)	5/15/1998 3:08:00 PM
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I just did a search for one of my favorite books on acses.com an internet shopping robot. It took about 35 seconds. AMZN came in fourth at $52.91 and shipping was indicated at 3-7 days. amazon.com Spree.com came in first at 46.92 with 2-3 day shipping. spree.com spree.com I had never even heard of Spree until 2 days ago, and here they are showing up at #1 and thier site looks about the same as AMZN to me. And they were 9% cheaper than AMZN. Another try took 52 seconds and found: All Direct books alldirect.com All Direct Books was $52.70 and AMZN was $56.45, once again with 3-7 day delivery. Again that is over 9% less than AMZN. I think that is a lot and this is for two fairly easy to find books on trading. If I were to buy 4-5 books this way I could easily save 20-30 dollars, perhaps more if any are specialty books. That adds up to at least one more book free for every 4-5 I buy through acses.com. I think that is a very big difference, and will definitely sway the repeat buyers who buy a lot of books on line. And that is what its all about, right? Getting repeat business? How can AMZN do this with this kind of shopping "bot" free to everyone? Keep in mind that Acses is just ONE....many more are here and coming. I understand that both Yahoo and Excite have shopping search engines of their own, although I have not yet tried them. I see a bleak future for a retailer of commodity items, which is how I define AMZN ...........;^)

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