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To: Zeev Hed who wrote (43310)	11/27/2000 12:18:04 AM
From: TideGlider	Respond to of 44908

Zeev, I don't believe I didn't leave room for the possibility of koolaid. What I did tell her is that I would trust her with my teeth, but not her appraisal of this company. I think many have been seduced by the company and a guy called REW or Brother1 You did see Bruss is involved now also? TG

To: Zeev Hed who wrote (43310)	11/27/2000 11:58:35 AM
From: ztect	Respond to of 44908

Zeev. Regarding PNLK, people's preference not to buy internet services were what imo doomed the revenue model. Your reasons were irrelevant especially as those ideas pertained to the cost of bulk mailing, since that wasn't even the marketing strategy. So please don't let your oversized ego get any bigger then it already is. Now when you mention PET.com and many other etailors like EGGs that always itemized revenues in their balance sheets (before backing out costs of goods sold) to give inflated gross rev numbers while, at the same time, grouping TIGI in with this group of excessive cash burners, you again seem to entirely miss the point of what TIGI's model tries to accomplish.... The whole reason PET.com and KOOP.com have closed and others like EGGS and PCOM may also do the same, is that the costs of marketing for these respective companies, dependent upon direct marketing, required exorbitant amount of dollars to be spent to obtain and retain customers with the incentive being slim or negative margins. EGGS, CDNW, PCOM, AMZN and PET.com and others have burnt through hundreds of millions of dollars ANNUALLY. TIGI's model isn't depended upon these high direct marketing costs, and has relatively burnt through little cash. Whether TIGI's model will ultimately work or not, I don't know. However, unlike many other internet companies, TIGI still is in business, and per today's news release still seem to be on track to close their acquisitions albeit with a longer time frame. Also per the last 10q, the commitment from the IB is still in place, irrespective of your rhetoric. Whether money is ever drawn, or needs to be drawn under terms unfavorable,,still has yet to be determined. Since no money has been drawn yet, either the need for cash isn't as dire as you present or the money is unavailable.... Though again TIGI unlike KOOP and PET.com still has its doors open and TIGI hasn't been trying to obtain alternative financing. Contingent upon RIMC being acquired is access to the IB's money. Per today's release, RIMC is still in the mix. Kevin Harrington has a very good track record. Jeff Bruss is very young, and has had his youthful indisgressions. Unlike yourself, neither has had to ever shamelessly solicit SI members for venture capital. Maybe Harrington's success when and if it comes officially on board will be contagious. What has seemed more apparent than anything else is that irrespective of the business type, businesses need time to succeed or fail with many hurdles along the way. As with biotechs in '92, probably 85 to 90% of internets will also be busts. So any one can be negative and equally as prophetic as yourself...the odds are in your favor, even if your reasoning is, at times, very suspect. So...time will tell.....though the only thing I'm certain of is that when and if TIGI closes its doors, your big ego will be here on this thread taking credit and telling people you told them so. z