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To: cellhigh who wrote (2544)	3/30/1998 4:36:00 PM
From: Oeconomicus	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 164684

I read the post. Did you? He was talking about quarter end window dressing and he said "fluff", i.e. buying with no real, lasting substance to it. Sort of like your posts - no substance. I do hope you have a buy and hold strategy for these internet stocks. Laugh while you can, Ronnie boy!!!!!!

To: cellhigh who wrote (2544)	3/30/1998 5:49:00 PM
From: Candle stick	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

I like this part of the AMZN 10K filed today from page 6 titled Competition: COMPETITION The online commerce market, particularly over the Web, is new, rapidly evolving and intensely competitive. In addition, the retail book industry is intensely competitive. The Company's current or potential competitors include (i) various online booksellers and vendors of other information-based products such as CDs and videotapes, including entrants into narrow specialty niches, (ii) a number of indirect competitors that specialize in online commerce or derive a substantial portion of their revenues from online commerce, through which retailers other than the Company may offer products and (iii) publishers, distributors and retail vendors of books, music and videotapes, including Barnes & Noble, Inc., Bertelsmann AG and other large specialty booksellers and integrated media corporations, many of which possess significant brand awareness, sales volume and customer bases. The Company believes that the principal competitive factors in its market are brand recognition, selection, personalized services, convenience, price, accessibility, customer service, quality of search tools, quality of editorial and other site content, reliability and speed of fulfillment. Many of the Company's competitors have longer operating histories, larger customer bases, greater brand recognition and significantly greater financial, marketing and other resources than the Company. Certain of the Company's competitors may be able to secure merchandise from vendors on more favorable terms, devote greater resources to marketing and promotional campaigns, adopt more aggressive pricing or inventory availability policies and devote substantially more resources to Web site and systems development than the Company. Increased competition may result in reduced operating margins, loss of market share and a diminished brand franchise. There can be no assurance that the Company will be able to compete successfully against current and future competitors.