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To: Alomex who wrote (108653)	9/20/2000 1:08:37 PM
From: H James Morris	Respond to of 164684

>E-tailers -- who needs them 10 months a year? By Matt Berger September 19, 2000 12:00 AM PT Get-rich tip: Open your e-commerce site two months of the year. With all the reports of skyrocketing expectations for Internet retailers during the two-month shopping madness also known as the holiday season, it is a wonder that e-commerce sites even bother staying open the other 10 months of the year. Forrester Research released its holiday spending estimates today and reported that consumers will spend $10 billion -- nearly two times last year's figures -- clicking merrily on those "buy" buttons between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day. A report by another Internet research group, Jupiter Communications, released Monday, estimates that online holiday sales -- those made from Nov. 1 through Dec. 31 -- will grow to $11.6 billion in 2000, up 66 percent from the $7 billion spent in 1999. Since companies only make a fraction of that amount during the rest of the year, they could probably save a lot of money taking a long, off-season vacation.