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To: H James Morris who wrote (131071)9/9/2001 5:30:26 PM
From: Glenn D. Rudolph  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 164684
 
>Wine.com launched with the backing of big-name investors such as Amazon.com Inc., New York Times Co. and venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. It went out of business in March after running into a thicket of regulations governing the sale of alcohol across state lines.


James,

Does it not seem their inventory was way too extensive considering they never made money? That seems like a poor business decision.