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To: Olu Emuleomo who wrote (128674)	7/20/2001 10:25:56 AM
From: H James Morris	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 164684

>a) yahoo shopping b) amazon.com c) ebay I'll take (c) since ebay has about eliminated Amazon and Yhoo from the on-line auction business.

To: Olu Emuleomo who wrote (128674)	7/20/2001 6:35:46 PM
From: hdl	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 164684

amzn stock has performed quite sweetly for longs lately. i thought there were a number of other sites on the web for buying

To: Olu Emuleomo who wrote (128674)	7/21/2001 3:13:47 PM
From: Glenn D. Rudolph	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 164684

BTW: These days, there are only 3 online sources to buy from: a) yahoo shopping (from merchants rated "top service") b) amazon.com c) ebay Really??? davidjewelers.com up 900% this year in revenue and far higher percentage in profit. This is 60 days worth of work. The first month I had no reputation in this forum. If you can fine one non extremely high compliment, pease let me know: cgi2.ebay.com Amazon is a joke in both selection and service. Try talking via phone or email to anyone about a product and see what they know. Delivery typically takes four days after spending hundreds of millions on DCs. The contant talk of "first mover advantage" of which I strongly disagreed, is crap. Grow revenue at all costs is crap. The first movers are deeply in debt, been laying off employees, closing divisions and stopped marketing except to give away free shipping???? We added six employees, 2000 sq. ft. for fulfillment, two casting machines and have zero debt. The only real public player out there is Ebay and they overlap Amazon in lots of areas. In particular, I see they are using half.com as a fixed price retailer and far more efficiently. This is not a game. It is real business. This is not the kind of the business to make huge deep laughing sounds about burning hundreds of millions of dollars. This is not a job where the CEO should grow the company at all costs due to that is what Wall Street wants. This is a job to grow a business and if the CEO had more than a pea size brain and could think for themsleves, the long term shareholder would be doing great. If I wanted stupidity, I would look at myself being short in relation to the stock market of the late 1990s. The average joe bid things like Amazon and Ktel(yes Ktel went up a lot when they announced they were selling on-line)for no real fundamental reason and wonder how I could have been so stupid. I am no longer stupid at least from a financial point of view. One figures out what the public wants and provides it with excellent service at a revenue amount to provide a profit. That more than makes up for the losses of being short. I use to believe hard work pays off and was unsure a few years ago. I am no longer unsure. Working hard and working smart pays off and it pays well. It also makes one feel good about themselves due to providing the public with a desired service. This benefits society since it makes a more enjoyable world for many in which to live. The "whores" and "sluts" of Wall Street should be taken out of society and placed in prison for a lack of ethics and for the lack of caring of fellow human beings. They owe a debt to society the same as any other criminal that breaks laws through methods of buglery, robbery, embezzelment, etc. Examples of people who belong in this group that come to my mind are Henry Blodget, Mary Meeker, and many of the management people from Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, etc. This is strictly my opinion of course. This is simply how I feel about these people.