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To: Candle stick who wrote (4973)	6/3/1998 8:41:00 PM
From: Oeconomicus	Respond to of 164684

CS, speaking of competition, BKS has some pretty good ads running on TV and radio now. These ads are specifically for "dot com", not the bricks and mortar. Heard the radio spot this afternoon on Atlanta's top alternative rock station, probably the top station among the 'net savvy in this market, and saw the TV spot just before Spin City on ABC tonight. Move over Amazon. The big boys are shifting gears and stomping on the gas (not to mention AMZN). Ooooh, noooo! ~ :^[] Bob

To: Candle stick who wrote (4973)	6/3/1998 8:50:00 PM
From: Mark Fowler	Respond to of 164684

Thank you.

To: Candle stick who wrote (4973)	6/3/1998 11:24:00 PM
From: F The	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

CS, I checked 151.200.0.20 It is nice that they link theirs with AMZN side by side, but their price is more expensive and it is a kind of embarrassing that they asked the customer whose price is lower if their price is higher. I posted you earlier books.com They ask us to compare with AMZN & BKS but usually if their price is higher, "We're lowering our price to beat Amazon !" and click for new price. There are 318 booklovers inside our store. Books.com is a NetMarket store and a Cendant company. Wow, CD owns this company cendant.com CD is 19 billion market cap. biz.yahoo.com. Well, that is one competition that definitely will affect AMZN and if BKS does the price comparison and will honor lower price if customers find somewhere cheaper, everybody will buy books from BKS. This is just like buying office equipment or computers, or TV/home appliances. This would be a good gimmick and credibility for BKS to convince their customers that they are the lowest although in real life, most people would not care with several dollars. It is just a good gimmick that BKS will tell their customers that they beat every book store.