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To: Randy Ellingson who wrote (25828)	11/12/1998 8:02:00 PM
From: llamaphlegm	Respond to of 164687

from TMF Here are 4 random books, one chosen from each shelf of my office bookcase. We will insist on large expensive hardbacks, since there is little point in ordering paperbacks online. Obviously my bookcase is a biased sample in some sense, but what can I do. Try your own bookcase. Amazon.com Spree.com Feynman Lectures vol 1. $50.63 $37.00 Numerical Recipes in C 57.95 46.36 Nelson Japanese Dictionary 48.96 55.96 Art of Electronics 64.95 51.96 One of the four books actually was cheaper at Amazon.com, but the overall basket was $31.21 cheaper at Spree.com. If we relax the hardcover rule, we could get the paperback Feynman Lectures at Amazon for $37.50, only 50 cents more than the hardback at Spree.com -- then Spree.com is only $18.08 cheaper overall. Of course, one could get the Japanese dictionary at Amazon (or Borders or whatever) and the rest at Spree.com, and save even more. In conclusion: On average, Amazon does not have the best prices online. It probably has the worst prices on average. You will save significant money by shopping around. If you don't like shopping around and prefer to use only one site, the one site you use should probably not be Amazon. That's probably my last word on this subject since I don't want to repeat myself endlessly. I realize the stock price has nothing to do with Amazon's actual ability to beat the competition.