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To: jbn3 who wrote (55411)	7/30/1998 9:45:00 PM
From: Tweaker	Respond to of 176387

Hey kids, buy a DELL: biz.yahoo.com Phil

To: jbn3 who wrote (55411)	7/30/1998 10:01:00 PM
From: Boplicity	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 176387

Thread, Today was one bad day for me, not the market mind you, my computer at my store went down, it's not a DELL, too bad. It's almost impossible for me to run my store with out a computer. I had customers all over the place turning in used CDs, mothers with kids, construction workers, guys with green and yellow hair, the normal record store shoppers. <gg> I turn it off since it hung up (rarely does that once twice a year) turn it back on and I lost the port to one of the terminals. After switching cables to the a quad card, the terminal worked find. Then I go to print out something and the printer doesn't work. Called the software vendor (TRAX system sort-a Ok software bad support) vendor no luck. I have burned out part of the mother board, some cheap over seas model. NEVER BUY A COMPUTER UNLESS IT IS A DELL with a INTC motherboard. Called DELL I can get a new computer by the middle of next week, now that is fast. I'll swap out the hard drive plug in cards and presto I'll be up and running. As we were talking the fax came with the quote, they had it on file from two years ago, didn't even tell them to send one. Now that is service. Greg p.s. I find it hard to believe that I could burn out a section of the motherboard, the printer and terminal port area. Has anyone else seen this happen??? Please help???

To: jbn3 who wrote (55411)	7/30/1998 11:07:00 PM
From: AmericanVoter	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176387

DELL OPTIONS... Thanks for all the replies. To just clarify a point, I am not really trying to squeeze every 1/8 I can get out of the options I am holding... on the contrary, I purchased the Aug 105 at 7 1/2, but I paid 8 for the Aug 120 calls, then bought more at a lower price and averaged down to 6, so you see, I am still in the negative... I think DELL will do very well the coming two weeks, but if the August call options are losing their time value, should I bite the bullet now and switch to September calls or the increase in the options price will be more than the loss in time value... that was really my question... I am tempted to get out of the August calls at break even and switch to September calls.... any thoughts... thanks to all.

To: jbn3 who wrote (55411)	7/30/1998 11:52:00 PM
From: PAL	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 176387

Re: Dell options Good point Bachman. 80% of options expire worthless. Many of thiose actually could make profit if they close the position early. For example August 110 call more than tripled in about one week. But people would expect more. Maybe because the upcoming of earnings and split, or just wanting more. A few days ago those calls dropped significantly. You have a good rule of thumb: if it doubles, sell half and let the other half ride. I might add, if the original position is cut in half, run. Tomorrow is another day and another trade. Good Luck to All Paul.

To: jbn3 who wrote (55411)	7/31/1998 5:56:00 AM
From: tsyl	Respond to of 176387

JBN3, Outstanding post re Options. I agree!