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To: Glenn D. Rudolph who wrote (76098)	9/1/1999 10:18:00 PM
From: Dwight E. Karlsen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

>"Not every person shops every quarter. So a steady decline is exactly what you would expect to see," said Bill Curry, an exasperated Amazon spokesman. >>This has been my complaint right along. They want their cake and eat it too. Some customers are dead. I wonder how much they will buy int he future.<< That's exactly right. What's the metric touted (besides sales) by net companies like amzn, ebay, yahoo, etc?: The number of total registered users. That and page views per day. And then they won't disclose the number of inactive accounts. They should take any account not active in the past 12 months, and remove it from the total number of registered users that they report to the investment community.