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To: Cap_Loss_Cfwd who wrote (65120)	6/28/1999 2:04:00 PM
From: H James Morris	Respond to of 164684

Cap, I got my eBay short shares last week from DLJ, there was no problem. I also tried to get some Hlth, but they had none. I'm pissed. Trust me. Ps Now is it furniture next?? >>Are Home Furnishings Ripe for Amazon-ing? To touch or not to touch - that is the question for online furniture shopping. As every industry comes under the e-commerce microscope, entrenched businesses must jump in or face the prospect of being Amazon-ed. But some goods just don't seem suited for online shopping. Furniture, for instance, would be difficult to picture from a tiny JPEG and expensive to ship. MSNBC's Jane Weaver says that hasn't stopped home-furnishing upstarts like Furniture.com, Homepoint.com and even established retailer Williams-Sonoma (WSM) from going Webward. The companies believe homebodies in their 30s and 40s are becoming more comfortable shopping online, and Williams-Sonoma already has done brisk business with its catalog sales of kitchenwares and other smallish home items. And then there's the Amazonian spectre: "It's a real risk if they're not online," said Ralph Jean, specialty retail analyst with Wheat First Union (FTU) . But Jean also gave the counterpoint, telling Weaver that "the e-commerce opportunities for traditional home products like furniture are not as attractive as books and CDs," while another analyst said that most consumers will want to jump up and down on a bed before buying it. Still, Weaver found that customer service at stores is abysmal, and many customers surveyed by MSNBC were at least open to shopping online - if not buying. One woman told Weaver that she negotiated for a better deal on a dining room set at a store because she was armed with prices from Web stores. <<