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Strategies & Market Trends : AMAZON.COM RIDICULOUSLY OVERVALUED BY ANY MODEL (AMZN) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Candle stick who wrote (54)	3/24/1998 12:57:00 AM
From: Candle stick	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 182

Here are three rather negative articles on AMZN that are out today: From CBS market watch: Bertelsmann all booked up for online retailing Amazon: Book seller poised to slide? By Thom Calandra & Emily Church, CBS MarketWatch Mon Mar 23 17:29:29 1998 cbs.marketwatch.com. German media group Bertelsmann AG's purchase of American publisher Random House could keep online book seller Amazon.com in red ink well into the next century. From Forbes ASAP: forbes.com An excerpt, This company defines dynamic, even as it scrambles to make money. Founder Jeff Bezos, a former Wall Streeter, seized technology and created opportunity. The result? The world's first online bookstore and a total upheaval in the centuries-old art of bookselling. The problem? Amazon.com as a business is far from perfect. Its costs are out of whack; its service orientation weak. Wall Street now wants better business fundamentals, less fairy tale. From CBS, Bertelsmann buying Random house, cbs.com. "Random House will also provide a wealth of titles for a new online book-selling venture that Bertelsmann is planning to compete with Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble. Bertelsmann announced plans last month to develop BooksOnline, which aims to sell titles by all publishers in several languages." .....I really like the part in the Forbes article that refers to the AMZN company as "fairy tale"............;^)

To: Candle stick who wrote (54)	4/8/1998 11:53:00 PM
From: ping quin	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 182

Next Amazon? Being the largest Internet grocery provider, with sales doubling every year, will Peapod become the Amazon of groceries? It is trading about $6.5 with over $3 in cash. What Motley Fool said April 6, 1998 The rising customer count, coupled with projected profitability, soon attracted another kind of high-yielding interest -- that of the investing public. After having spent last year bidding up the first tier of Internet-based stocks like Amazon (Nasdaq:AMZN <http://quote.yahoo.com/q?s=AMZN&d=t> - and Yahoo! (Nasdaq:YHOO <http://quote.yahoo.com/q?s=YHOO&d=t>, Wall Street began to look for more obscure players like Peapod (Nasdaq:PPOD <http://quote.yahoo.com/q?s=PPOD&d=t> - news <http://biz.yahoo.com/n/p/ppod.html>)