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To: Randy Ellingson who wrote (25638)	11/11/1998 10:43:00 AM
From: llamaphlegm	Respond to of 164687

randy thanks. lp

To: Randy Ellingson who wrote (25638)	11/11/1998 10:50:00 AM
From: llamaphlegm	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164687

longs: if i'm not mistaken, a basic premise of your argument has always been: i'll use amzn because it's good and i don't need to save a few bucks here and there because switching costs, bookmarking, clicking around renders the monetary savings immaterial to me. now, if i'm not mistaken, if you were able to register at a portal once, and they would handle all of your billing for all of your purchases on the web through a network of retailers, books, cds, cars, software, whatever -- there would be no costs, to also having this portal at some point add a simple comparison shopping mechanism. you click around to whatever retailers you like and then ask the portal shopper to purchase for you at the cheapest site. or, you simply tell the portal, "today, i know precisely what i'd like, here's the lists kindly purchase it for me at the cheapest site, shipping included, thank you, oh mighty bot-portal." Wednesday November 11 10:35 AM ET Excite Offers Web Retail Billing System REDWOOD CITY, Calif. (Reuters) - Excite Inc. (Nasdaq:XCIT - news) said it will offer a new electronic commerce purchasing system called Excite Express Order, which lets users buy from several retailers without having to enter billing information many times. The initiative will be supported by MasterCard with national broadcast and print advertising for online shopping. For the launch of Excite Express Order, Excite teamed up with an advance group of retailers, including 800-FLOWERS, Toys R Us Inc. (NYSE:TOY - news) and Footlocker, and the company said it expected to add more merchant partners. Excite said it would screen all participating merchants for customer service, notification and delivery of purchases and credit card information security. Excite Inc. is a global Internet media company that attracts over 17 million consumers monthly to its portal services -- excite.com and webcrawler.com.

To: Randy Ellingson who wrote (25638)	11/11/1998 10:53:00 AM
From: IceShark	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164687

either exchange or SEC rule that says one must register for such a service, free or otherwise. Anybody know if this is correct, Randy, That is correct regarding real time quotes. Plus there is a difference between use by an "amature" and pros. Don't ask me why they require registration - I suspect it harks back to the days when the securities industry wanted to really rip off the little guy by depriving him of timely information. -ng- Regards, Ice

To: Randy Ellingson who wrote (25638)	11/11/1998 1:54:00 PM
From: Terr	Respond to of 164687

No, registration is the exchanges rule - I believe mostly in order to limit liability in case incorrect data is given (which happens). Here are some free/cheap RT sources: wallstreetcity.com - free w/registration One-at-a-time unlimited RT quotes freerealtime.com - free w/registration One-at-a-time almost almost unlimited (1000/day?) RT quotes datek.com - Datek gives free multiple RT quotes to all its customers. Fast. etrade.com - E*Trade gives free one-at-a-time RT quotes to all its customers (and maybe to non-customers if you register - check). Also multiple quotes for a fee or to reasonably active traders. pcquote.com - pcquote has a few different services - one of them is RealTime MarketSmart - you pay only the exchange fees for real time web-based multiple quotes (for the 3 exchanges comes to ~$14/month?). Someone told me recently they upped it to $9 + exchange fees. Still a bargain. casecom.com - web-based multiple quotes fairly cheap (check the price on their web site) There is a shareware prog - Medved QuoteTracker - that allows you to use Web based RT quote sources to track your portfolios, plot live intraday RT charts, give stock price alerts, track major indexes, show historical data charts etc.. One advantage of it is that if one source fails - you switch to another one and see the data in exactly the same format. Try it at medved.net