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To: Bald Man from Mars who wrote (7226)	6/23/1998 6:14:00 PM
From: wmf	Respond to of 164684

Would like to short this one but Etrade cannot borrow stock. Will resorts to puts instead. Just to tempting. Overvalued, overhyped, overextended and competition getting into the game. Bertelsmann from Germany with their online plans is absolutely something AMZN should be worried about. These guys know how to do business !!

To: Bald Man from Mars who wrote (7226)	6/24/1998 1:04:00 AM
From: H James Morris	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 164684

Bm,you wrote<It is prime time to short this stud when no one can bear the pain ... I am taking on the longs ...> It's nice to meet again. On behalf of the few critics of Amzn left here on this thread, welcome to America's most successful investment. Like most of the new and curious just coming in, the only thing at this time I'd like to mention is, there have been no shares available to short in almost 30 day's. Now that's good for me, and a few others because every day as we became more cynical and more vulnerable to short, the real money makers Morgan Stanely (Vinik and 4-5 Mf's) kept us out of the feast.(thank God). I think it would be safe to say that, unless today, the only people that were able to be caught in this short squeeze were, the unfortunate one's that got 100- 500 short shares from a little on-line trader called Datek. Is there anyone out there that thinks differently?