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To: Paul Fitzgerald who wrote (2166)	2/13/1999 1:41:00 PM
From: melinda abplanalp	Respond to of 2489

Yahoo....yuk. Welcome to SI. It is a different world but we have plenty of snakes too. I think they are far from an IPO now. I think it would help the price of our shares though. I agree that if ecommerce is successful they will be able to close low vol. stores. I think the stores will help ecommerce though. People know who they are due to the stores. Cheers Melinda

To: Paul Fitzgerald who wrote (2166)	2/13/1999 2:00:00 PM
From: Jon K.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2489

Paul, welcome aboard! It's good to see many people are still rooting for PRFM. I am a proud(?) shareholder of both PRFM and ALU. Unfortunately, my average cost of both stocks are around $10, So I am still in negative territory. But with ALU publicity, I think both will do great next week. Since PRFM and ALU are the two front runners, it would be nice to study and compare two companies. In the long run, I think they will do great. They have the right product at the right time and the right place(e-commerce) Perfume is such a perfect item for e-commerce; high margin, shoppers already knows their product (brand names),high value & small size of the product for easy shipping,.... Both ALU and PRFM, I am holding now are for short term purpose, but I'd like choose one company and keep it in my long term portfoilo. I'd like to compare the two in following categories: 1. Management team (one of the most important factor when I invest for long term) 2. Growth potential 3. Finacial Statement, P/E, and cash flow. 4. Who has the better deals(partnership) with big names like AOL, MSFT, YHOO.... 5. Anything else that is important. TIA, jon

To: Paul Fitzgerald who wrote (2166)	2/13/1999 7:40:00 PM
From: unclewest	Respond to of 2489

ipo would do wonders for prfm and raise a bunch of capital for both prfm, which would recoup the internet start up costs plus a handsome profit, and provide funds for the e-commerce side to finance rapid growth. heck even ross perot knows the value of an ipo. he surely didn't need the money for his new ipo. it just gave his shares more value. he gave up a little to get a ton back.

To: Paul Fitzgerald who wrote (2166)	2/13/1999 10:56:00 PM
From: Tom Hua	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 2489

One thing I haven't seen mention of here, is that ALU is only doing around 1-2 million dollars a year in sales, compared to 180 million for PRFM. Paul, ALU had more than $310 million in sales last year. Perhaps you were thinking about its internet unit fragrancecounter.com. Fragrancecounter.com had revenue of $1.5 million last quarter and is growing leaps and bounds. OK, let me shut my mouth before you guys ask me to take my ALU crap elsewhere <g>. But if anyone is interested in a recap of the CNBC segment on Fragrancecounter.com last night. Here is a summary. Message 7817595 Regards, Tom