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Technology Stocks : NetZero Inc-(NZRO) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: James T. who wrote (78)	9/27/1999 1:21:00 AM
From: Lucky888	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 513

NZRO -- How about the advertisers spend big $$ on TV commericals? Don't they also know people using that time to go bathroom or fetch a cup of water? :) Your narrow mind makes me laugh. The thing NZRO really needs to work out is to generate enough revenue to cover their telecom costs. If they can't do that before the IPO money being spent, they are dead. L.

To: James T. who wrote (78)	9/27/1999 4:08:00 AM
From: PartyTime	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 513

JamesT--Obviously you're writing with a specific anti-NZRO slant. Let's examine some of your points below: >>>Sorry, but the only route for this stock is failure. Why? Well, simply because once the advertisers realize that no one is seeing their ads, then they will stop funds to Netzero. I suspect this has happened already.<<< NetZero in under a year attained 1.7 million subscribers using only a word of mouth vehicle. Just from June to August it picked up 500,000 subscribers. This without an advertising budget. If you read the respective NZRO threads all you see is testimony of folks downloading NetZero and signing up for the very first time. And meanwhile, you're telling us that advertisers have already bailed. Man, what distortion. No advertiser is going to stop their campaigns during prime time. And I'm telling ya, right now, NetZero is in its prime time. So don't tell us you "suspect" advertisers have already given up on NetZero. It's distortion at best! >>>This means, sooner or later, Netzero will end up with zero. This is what happened to the last two or three companies who tried the free Internet route in the US. Yes, they went bankrupt.<<< Yes, some free Internet providers that offered regional access, not national access, went belly up. NetZero is different than those companies. Ever hear of Goldman Sachs? Quite a group to have behind ya, don't you think? And guess what! Most Goldman IPOs are successful companies. Also, Compaq Computer owns eight to nine percent of NetZero. Ever hear of them? NetZero is not going bankrupt!!! >>>As many have already heard, little young hackers out there have developed numerous applications/tools which allow people to use Netzero to access the Internet without ever seeing a single advertisement. These tools are being distributed for free through out the Internet. People who were able to find netzero find those applications the same way. I'd like to get my hands on one of those tools.<<< Well, let's start this one by using your own remark. You'd "like to get [your] hands on one of those tools." Fact is that you haven't. And even if you did, would you use it? I'm a pioneer user of AOL. And I remember, as years passed, all kinds of spam mail coming into my box describing how I could get free AOL service. Guess what? I didn't go for it. Why? Because I'm honest. I also had a sense of respect for AOL as a provider. However, this respect was only rooted in the fact I was a virgin Internet user. Once I became aware of the realities of the Internet, I was no longer subservient to AOL. I'm savvy enough now to know that NetZero works. I've used it since it's inception and do my stock trading on its service. I have more problems with Schwab than I do NetZero. >>>Think of it this way, if you were an advertiser, would you pay thousands of dollars for ads that might never get seen? No, you wouldn't.<<< How many Guinesses you wanna bet that when Media Metrix reports its new stats for the month of September and October that AOL's subscriber base will be down and NetZero's will be up? Again, why would advertiser's ignore NetZero when it's now in the midst of its prime? Your comments don't make sense and tend only to support a slanted negative view. >>>If it does get seen, then it gets seen by people who want things for free.<<< JamesT, this is America and America is a captilistic society. Very little in America is for free. But if it is for free, there's a reason behind it. And the driving reason behind NetZero's free service is ecommerce. Do your ecommerce research than come back and tell us about things for free. >>>The smart buggers who are developing these hacked tools work faster than Netzero could ever keep up with. This is a problem with the Internet service it self. People are developing things all over the world, and at numbers larger than the company can afford to protect against.<<< Again, it all comes down to honesty--doesn't it? Do you run out of the restaurant because you know your waiter/waitress isn't looking? >>>Now, if a company that already has a great product/service were to begin providing the Internet access for free, then it might be a success. I think that kind of company might be able to pull it off, since it would be making money off its product. This is basically what is done in Europe.<<< One more time: What's wrong with a company that has ownership interests from Compaq and the folks who own Ticketmaster, Etoys and GoTo.Net? That's about 50-60 percent ownership of NetZero. And then add in Goldman Sachs as the lead underwriter. JamesT, are you all done trying to distort NetZero? I hope so.

To: James T. who wrote (78)	9/27/1999 11:58:00 AM
From: donkeyman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 513

James: Free Internet is here to stay just like regular tv and radio. The first free Internet company, x-stream Network,(XSNI:Nasdaq) brought the giant, AOL-UK, to it's knees in the UK. FreeServe (FREE:Nasdaq) knocked AOL-UK out of 1st. place. When the slogan, "advertising on the Internet is only one click away from a transaction", gets out all those free Internet ISP's should fly, Billions $$$ up for grabs. In the UK they are two years behind the USA in the Internet. I hope the European's are loyal to the company that first offered the world free Internet, X-stream Network-UK.