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To: Billsig who wrote (11701)	7/25/1998 1:05:00 PM
From: Ron Kline	Read Replies (2) of 164684

It's hard to be objective if you own the stock and only buy books from Amazon and haven't even looked at the other sights. People do like convenience and AMZN offers this but price does make a difference. I always go on Yahoo and search my book under their shopping network. I find all prices and choose the lowest. I also look the ease of use and the way they handle orders. I will say so far Amazon does come in the top area for this. One thing I don't like about AMZN is they manipulate prices on what they charge for books. They have a newsletter they send out and many times when they recommend a book they will change the sale from 40% to 30%. Once they get a bunch of orders they sometimes change it back to 40%. I got pretty mad because I happened to by an investment book before they covered it in their newsletter. When I went back in it changed from 40 to 30%. Then I bought a book from their newsletter and went back in weeks later and it went from 30 to 40%. I'm not sure they still do this but I've cancelled getting the newsletter for this reason. Ron

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