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Strategies & Market Trends : e-Commerce the Next 100 Months...... -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: chirodoc who wrote (2026)	12/28/1998 3:24:00 AM
From: AugustWest	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 2882

Cramer is an interesting character, I have mixed feelings about him at times. I respect his opinions, and all, but One thing's for sure, when/if the net/e-comm. sector comes tumbling down, there will still be a few that shall prove '99 to be their year. We gotta focus on them. We got our ckfr, right?

To: chirodoc who wrote (2026)	12/28/1998 7:23:00 AM
From: jjs_ynot	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2882

VERY interesting article.

To: chirodoc who wrote (2026)	12/30/1998 8:57:00 AM
From: AugustWest	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2882

doc, I just had to come back to the Jimmy Cramer article for a moment. The more I think of the article, the more I think he may be Wrong!. IMO, he is comparing apples to oranges. Or maybe night to day. He is comparing the e-commerce/ Internet craze to that of the restaurant and gambling craze? C'mon Jimmy, smell the coffee. I think more comparible would likely be the industrial or automobile revolution. Or even the advent of electricity. How about the move to indoor plumbing? Or in more modern times, I see similarities to the computer revolution, or even, get a load of this, 'cause no one has even mentioned it- the plastics revolution! Now-a-days, we live in a plastic world. Think of it. 75 years ago, nada, zip nill. Now look around your room. What do you see? Yep at least 50-75% of everything surrounding you is plastic based. Gone are the days of a ceramic coffee mug. Why? because why spend $5 on something ceramic when you can go to K-Mart and pick up a plastic one for 99¢. And it won't break! Gone are the wood chairs, picture frames etc... Your PC shell? plastics. Your telephone? Plastics. Some automobiles now are even 50% plastic. soup bowls, plastic. frozen foods, wrapped in plastic. Even the fruit you buy at most grocery stores, gotta' stick those in plastic too before you can take them home the plastic home(vinyl sided-of course). Only problem with plastics, and the difference here is that plastics are using up natural resources at an astounding rate, while e-comm in essence will save some natural resources. But the point I'm getting at; plastics has facilitated such advancements in raising the quality of life as we know it. And the revenues that are still being generated by the plastics industries are staggering, to say the least. You see, Jimmy, IMO, plastics are now a part of life(like cigarette butts are a part of the environment-like it or not) are will be here long after we are gone. Much the same the advancements taking place in e-commerce with the coming of age of the Internet are uncomprehensible at this time. IMO, even the most outlandish predictions for the future success of e-commerce will be dwarfed by the reality it eventually becomes. Of course, in the case of Armageddon, all bets are off. Cheers!