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Technology Stocks : Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: damniseedemons who wrote (22781)	10/23/1998 5:31:00 PM
From: Bill Harmond	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 164685

Sal, My take is that all this piling-on about lying, and hyping, and manipulating, and conspiracy, and whatever-else is simply a blame game. Some shorts here (actually lately all of them I can think of) believe so resolutely that Amazon is a loser that they figure any trading action or commentary to the contrary is either irrational or sinister. It makes a good excuse not to dig deeper into the proposition. OC takes it into a completely new level by misquoting to serve his emotions.

To: damniseedemons who wrote (22781)	10/23/1998 5:36:00 PM
From: Oeconomicus	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 164685

I don't follow where all your stuff about Meeker/MSDW "lies to the public" for devious profit purposes is coming from. Perhaps the same place as the idea that AMZN will ever turn a profit - fantasy land. But do you really doubt that a MSDW analyst would spin the story and ignore basic financial principals in order to justify a buy rec that only serves to maintain an investment banking relationship? Did you read the load of crap those guys at DLJ call "analysis"? Perhaps I missed it if someone already posted it, but could someone share more of Meeker's "analysis"? I really would like to see what facts, assumptions and reasoning she uses to justify recommending AMZN at any price. TIA, Bob