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To: Jenna who wrote (64309)	10/2/1999 5:52:00 PM
From: puborectalis	Respond to of 120523

Christmas Gift....."from RB thread" "" 30 REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD BUY BGST! (10/2/99) 1. INCREDIBLE low price ($6 7/16 / share) 2. SMALL market capitalization (54.93 million) 3. TINY share float (2.5 million) 4. HIGH buyout probability 5. EXPERIENCED management (CEO David Friedensohn - Former CEO SonicNet, VP Prodigy, Director of Corporate Development Viacom; VP David Levitsky - Former Marketing Director Columbia House, Responsible for helping build Columbia House's online video operations) 6. INSIDER trading (100,000 shares bought during August) 7. NO brick and mortar warehouses 8. ONLY 55 employees on the payroll 9. 100,000 TITLES for sale (All formats including videos, digital video discs (DVDs), and laserdiscs) 10. STRONG second quarter financial results (Revenues increased 106.5% over first quarter 1999; third quarter financial results will be released during the third week of October) 11. STRONG BUY recommendation from Prudential Securities 12. BUY recommendation from FS Van Kasper 13. BUY recommendation from Wasserstein Perella Securities 14. ANNOUNCEMENT of a strategic content and commerce agreement with FortuneCity.com (BigStar will be the exclusive video/DVD retailer) 15. ANNOUNCEMENT of confirmation as the number one online retailer of movies both in terms of traffic and actual purchases by Media Metrix, NextCard and PC Data 16. ANNOUNCEMENT of global expansion with international partnership with UK-based BlackStar.co.uk 17. ANNOUNCEMENT of a marketing alliance with America Online 18. ANNOUNCEMENT of a strategic content and commerce agreement with Spree.com (BigStar will be the exclusive video/DVD retailer) 19. ANNOUNCEMENT of a strategic content and commerce agreement with Gay.com (BigStar will be the exclusive video/DVD retailer) 20. ALERT from Dayinvestor.com (BGST could pick up steam on soaring DVD sales) 21. ALERT from Briefing.com (BGST will gain visibility as perennial e-commerce Christmas rally approaches) 22. ANNOUNCEMENT by Sanyo (Will begin producing DVD players) 23. ANNOUNCEMENT by Sony (Playstation2 will support DVD-format) 24. ANNOUNCEMENT by Jupiter Communications (online video market was estimated to be worth $50 million in 1998 and is expected to reach $575 million by 2002) 25. ANNOUNCEMENT by Jupiter Communications (1999 holiday online sales will double to $6 billion and new online buyers will drive retailers success well past holiday season 26. SURVEY by Greenfield Online (70 percent of Internet users planned to do some or all of their holiday shopping online) 27. SURVEY by Forrester Research (U.S. online retail sales should reach $20.2 billion this year as 7 million Internet shoppers make their first electronic commerce purchases) 28. POKEMON videos for sale 29. POPULARITY of videos, digital video discs (DVDs), and laserdiscs as Christmas gifts 30. CHRISTMAS rally coming soon ""