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To: Rob S. who wrote (27401)	11/20/1998 7:04:00 PM
From: Tom D	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 164684

<<But it's fairly transparent to see that the company is playing the stock movement to the max while insiders are doing a round of selling.>> I don't think anybody knows this to be true or false. Think about what it would take to address this question in a meaningful way. You would need some published study of at least a few dozen new companies, probably at least ten in the internet industry sector. And you would need to have the studies quantitate what percentage of the shares held by the insiders had been sold at, say, six month intervals, over the first few years of the company. Against this industry background information, you would then need to compare AMZN's percentage of insider holdings that had been sold. The above information is the ONLY way to say anything meaningful about insider sales--are they more or less than usual. To say anything about this topic without having the above information is just meaningless, in my opinion. I doubt anybody on this thread has been even tracking insider sales on AMZN as a percentage of total insider holdings, not to mention on the industry group, in a rigorous way. I think people who really don't have any quality information should not speculate about this. Respectfully, Tom