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To: KeepItSimple who wrote (29176)12/7/1998 10:40:00 AM
From: blankmind  Respond to of 164684
 
"We can't make any money selling the actual product, but if the stuff we sell is light enough we can make money as a small-fry package handler."

amzn will be profitable because they try not to be the lowest price and s&h can also be used to add to the bottom line. the problem the bears have on this thread, is that they believe low price will be amzn's death knell. It is precisely because amzn is not the low price leader, that they may succeed. see Bamm.

if amzn ever came out and proclaimed they would now guarantee that they would be the lowest price, they would go to almost zero. margins is amzn's friend.



To: KeepItSimple who wrote (29176)12/7/1998 10:07:00 PM
From: Victor Lazlo  Respond to of 164684
 
<< Anyway, that argument doesn't make any sense since everyone else will lower their shipping costs on CDs and Videos because they are lighter to ship, and *poof* there went another chance for Amazon to scrape out a buck..>>

KIS, From a p/l business standpoint, nothing about amzn makes any sense. it does not have to; it was formed to make $ for the vc's and bezos. That's all.

Victor


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