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To: StreetAdvisor who wrote (84171)	11/15/1999 11:00:00 AM
From: Jay Rommel	Respond to of 164684

> Amazon Profitability I had to laugh at that. Aren't they mutually exclusive?

To: StreetAdvisor who wrote (84171)	11/15/1999 11:05:00 AM
From: Skeeter Bug	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

sa, that is a bunch of crap analysis based on a house of cards. raise prices 15%? cheaper? how about adding the 10-20% shipping bogey. that makes amazon more expensive - JUST TO BREAK EVEN! so much for net efficiency. cut advertising? growth would stop. justifying the ridiculous is an absurd exercise. amazon would have to earn well over a billion bucks to even come close to justifying today's price. funny, all those absurd assumptions still fell $1,000,000,000 short of proving amazon could be a vlue play. what a joke. time will expose it.

To: StreetAdvisor who wrote (84171)	11/15/1999 11:20:00 AM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 164684

Hi StreetAdvisor, thanks for the article. I read your comments on AOL about a month ago... amusing, created quite a stir! Well I just ordered a bunch of electronics from amzn and noticed their hotlist contains a bunch of gift-type items. I'm convinced they are moving a ton of electronics this xmas - no competition there, they will dominate electronics it looks like. So the only real risk for profitability is too rapid expansion.

To: StreetAdvisor who wrote (84171)	11/15/1999 5:05:00 PM
From: Glenn D. Rudolph	Respond to of 164684

The first step to realizing instant profits at Amazon.com is to raise prices (remember, the goal of this exercise is instant profitability). I assumed that Amazon.com could raise prices by an average of 15%, still keeping prices below the "real world," and would suffer from a loss of 10% of their customers due to this price hike. People bould not go to BNBN, etc. with a 15% increase? Surely someone jests. Glenn