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Technology Stocks : Cyberian Outpost (Symbol: COOL) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Elroy who wrote (358)	12/1/1998 2:09:00 AM
From: CGarcia	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1932

Internet stocks are not about profits today...they are speculation on the future...COOL has set itself up to be an explosive stock tomorrow...by the time they get out of the red in a couple of yrs, they may be selling other things that will bring in higher margins...for now what will drive the price of the stock is the earnings report due out next month...you take into consideration the Christmas season, the online shopping trend that's growing, the TV and print ads, the shopperconnection.com site, etc...and you may see a 50% profit this quarter over last quarter....that enthusiasm is what will propel the stock to the $100 range...as to those other sites you mentioned...yes people can go there too, but once those TV and print ads catch on, Cyberian Outpost's name might just be as common as the other guys :)

To: Elroy who wrote (358)	12/2/1998 2:24:00 AM
From: DavidCG	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1932

Elroy, Have you compared prices? I have. And COOL has the best pricing. That is why an internet shopper will go to COOL. Find me something cheaper at Circuit City vs Cyberian Outpost. Also, foreign markets. Do any of those competing sites allow you to read/order products in a foreign language? -click on a nation's flag -see what I mean. No. So COOL is also tapping into an UNTAPPED (and large)internet market. 50% of computer products sold in the world are outside the USA market. So you just eliminated almost all internet computer product overseas sales. COOL also has no competition on AOL. If you aren't an AOL member, I guess it is hard to tell you how AOL is setup. But all AOL links to buy hardware bring you to COOL. These COOL commercials you poke fun at are the same people who made the Little Ceasars "Pan Pan" and Wendys 'wheres the beef'... your argument might as well have been "who is going to switch from McDonalds or Burger King to Wendy's and its old lady?" Only Millions. "Who is going to switch from Dominos or Pizza Hut to Little Ceasars?" Millions. Your assumption is that the market is small. Is the burger market small? Is the Pizza market small? No. Do both markets seem oversaturated? Yes. Did both these companies capture significant market share? Yes. Are they both household recognized names? Yes. $600 BILLION in computer product sales are projected this year.. Cyberian Outpost is positioning itself for a large piece of the pie. Their growth rate confirms this, the amount of increasing revenues each quarter confirms this, and eventually, their net profit will confirm this. As long as I see COOL growing revs and market share, I will hold their stock. No company starts off with a profit right from the get go. If you don't know that, you know nothing about business. COOL is a new company rapidly gaining market share. And we investors are buying the potential NOW, before the masses do. I bought AOL when it was, believe it or not, very unprofitable back in 1995...how do you think the stock has done since then until now? Do you realize the number of splits that have been done with AOL in just 3 years? That's when people in 1995, like yourself, said, "well, there are many internet providers entering the ring, and Compuserve and Prodigy -they'll destroy AOL -too much competition to survive. AOL will die." Yeah, that really happened. Didn't it. -DavidCG