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To: Victor Lazlo who wrote (26635)	11/18/1998 12:54:00 AM
From: Glenn D. Rudolph	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

Glenn, seems to me the internet model in some ways is a no-win situation. The things like books and cd's that have no qualitative difference from seller to seller will thus be necessarily sold successfully only by the lowest-price seller, and margins get wiped out. Victor, This is the main point. The item bought retail on the net will be commodity. No need to see or compare with another. Price is a key. items with qulaitative differences, as you say, like jewlery, cannot be compared well on a screen, and the emotional experience is just not there. I recently searched the inet for tea caddies, a type of antique my wife collects, but which are hard to find. Found a couple of interesting sites, but could not come close to buying- simply too wary of not being able to view it in person. These are the items with better margins. They never will do well on the net. There are some items that have decent margins that will sell on the net but they will be business to business. Cisco's products is a good example. DELL may fit that category but their margins are dropping I believe. On that note. Goodnight. Talk with you tomorrow. Glenn