Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Technology Stocks : Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Glenn D. Rudolph who wrote (69526)	7/25/1999 10:34:00 PM
From: Jeff Dryer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 164684

The customer count is exaggerated due to inactives are not removed and I believe a lot are people that just bid on auctions. However, most people use the same browser on the net or a few browsers on different computers. Amazon places a cookie in the browser and so one really does not need to remember their password. I suspect duplicate accounts for the same person is the least of the customer account skewing. This is the problem. Cookies encourage people not to remember their UserID and Password. When a user switches computers (work, home, school, multiple computers at these locations), a user no longer has a cookie. Many people often decide to re-register.