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To: llamaphlegm who wrote (28949)	12/4/1998 8:50:00 PM
From: llamaphlegm	Respond to of 164684

amazon.com looking for a palmpilot? Retail -- $369 AMZN -- $329 pcsave.com -- $249 pcsave.com Hey -- I guess if you're trying to prop up the stock price by artificially pumping the zon's revenues, if not profits, lash out and spend the extra $80 on it (a mere 130% of the pcsave price) Does this sound like someone you know on this board??? Are we missing something? Or is Internet investing a mania fated to come to a bad end? That's the $64 million--or $64 billion--question of the day. And to answer that, analysts and portfolio managers are coming up with new ways of valuing Net stocks. Some border on the ridiculous, others are serious attempts to get a handle on the value of companies operating in an industry that is revolutionizing the economy. No method is the panacea, but some will give you insight into the bet you are making when you buy these stocks. It's not easy to develop a valuation model that explains why a Net stock that trades at 300 times next year's earnings is a steal. Certainly, there's evidence to suggest that the people trading these stocks are not the type to dissect financial statements (page 122). ''I bought eBay (at $125) because I thought it would go up fast,'' says Rod Puckett, 27, a contractor in Rockford, Ill. ''These stocks are like McDonald's when it first came out, I hope.''