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To: Ted The Technician who wrote (144149)	7/23/2002 8:16:04 PM
From: Ted The Technician	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

The last question (unfortunately) asked during the conference call was how much the option expense would have been for this quarter had the options been expensed. AMZN was not able to answer the question other than the expensing will be negative. Assuming that the option expense for this year is the same as last year (see 10k, SFAS No. 123 Pro Forma Disclosure), I estimate the expenses to be about $400M this year. This comes down to about 12% of revenues or $0.27 per share per quarter. This will have a significant impact on the operating model.