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Technology Stocks : Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Smart Investor who wrote (36628)	1/25/1999 7:27:00 PM
From: Dan Woodbury	Respond to of 164684

<<Why can't AMZN collect advertizing monies like other web companies? <<After all AMZN probably has as much traffic as AOL or YHOO. I doubt that. YHOO gets a bunch of "easy" visits from me every day since I use their stock quote engine - even though I rarely visit the Yahoo home page and I don't have a MyYahoo page either. I'll go to the Amazon website only when I want to research a book or CD which is not very often at all. What I don't understand about Yahoo's advertising scheme is that I never see it. I guess there is a top banner on their stock quotes listings but I never look at it and the impression sure doesn't last. All in all, making sense of internet stock valuations requires one to suspend their common sense and accept the greater fool theory. No other valuation method can explain this phenomenon.