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Non-Tech : E*Trade (NYSE:ET) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ecommerceman who wrote (5123)	2/10/1999 10:14:00 PM
From: Iceberg	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13953

>As many "fortunes" were saved as lost. ecommerceman, Possibly you are right about that. If so, it would be from the perspective of Etrade. In other words from Etrade's point of view they would have "helped" as many customers as they "hurt" by having no functional back-up system. But so what? What difference does any of that make to the Etrade customer who actually lost money, and who actually suffered real monetary damages? It wouldn't make any difference. So it seems to me that how many fortunes were lost versus how many fortunes were saved would be merely a point of academic interest, and a matter of concern to Etrade from the perspective of their lost customer base, but other than that, not a point of any particular concern to E*trade customers. Ice