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To: benwood who wrote (204277)	11/12/2002 10:16:48 PM
From: At_The_Ask	Respond to of 436258

Makes sense. Seems like I recall some companies are selling new products on EBAY. Some of those b2b companys will survive also, particularly if deflation continues.

To: benwood who wrote (204277)	11/12/2002 10:29:04 PM
From: GraceZ	Respond to of 436258

has me thinking that some firms will abandon their own webs & let Amazon do it for a fee. They already are: Amazon's annual inventory turns in the second quarter had increased to an impressive 19 times, meaning that its entire inventory was turning over every 19 days. Amazon once made money-losing investments in startups that went belly-up. It's now hosting online operations and fulfillment for more established retail rivals like Target and Circuit City (CC) in return for a cut of sales. And it's amortizing the fixed costs of its core assets -- technology, fulfillment, customer service operations, and, most of all, its customer base -- across as many partners as it can feasibly accommodate. "We've built up enormous expertise in e-commerce," Bezos says, "and we can offer people these services at a much lower cost than they can do for themselves." business2.com\|4,FF.html