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To: Jim S who wrote (6580)	9/8/2000 5:23:04 PM
From: Gary M. Reed	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17683

Jim, Heck, that's nothing...have you seen the latest news on their new pricing policies? Apparently if you're an active customer, you get screwed when pricing merchandise...however, you get better discounts if you're a first-time visitor to their site (through the magical use of cookies). Seems kind of a$$-backwards to me...we always learned in B-school that it was your loyal customers who you needed to take care of the most, and if you were going to put the screws to someone, it was the newbies...then again, I went to LSU (a school that will NEVER be referred to as "the Harvard of the South), so what the hell do I know? -g- Since J.P.Morgan's and Goldman Sachs' analysts think this is such a keen marketing strategy, then I guess those two firms will start giving all of their hot IPO allocations to brand-new clients and tell the big volume customers that they're S.O.L. And the biggest commission discounts will be given to the new accounts--the customers who do the bulk of the business will have to pay full-freight. Think about it. Gary