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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (41305)	12/29/1998 10:56:00 AM
From: yard_man	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 132070

AMZN's market cap is more than $13B ...I guess that the market cap of the Companies selling crap over the internet must be about 6 or 7 times that 13 Billion figure, eh? That's not too bad is it?

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (41305)	12/29/1998 11:48:00 AM
From: upanddown	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 132070

In other words, right now, internet shopping is a big nothing. Sound and fury indicating null and void. Mike, They probably will continue to get big growth numbers but how about margins ? The openness of the net is going to be the death of profit. A friend showed me his new digital camera. Sony Mavica MVC-FD71. Very impressive. I searched one of these "shopbots" for prices shopbot.com and got a range from 599 to 699. No one is going to pay an extra dime for a specific product so competition is going to be ruinous. John

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (41305)	12/29/1998 2:32:00 PM
From: bob s	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

MB-2nd or 3rd tier internets to short?? Any of these names appeal to you more than others? I tried AMZN and took a hit. I also shorted MU and an much more comfortable with that position. Thanks for your thoughts! Bob