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To: brian z who wrote (44254)	3/6/1999 9:36:00 AM
From: tonyt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

Barrons: Cyber Selling In the past five months, undoubtedly encouraged by the group's big price gains and volatility, selling by insiders has been heavy in the Internet sector. Name IPO Insider Sales* =================== ========= ============== Amazon.com 5/14/97 1,339,000 America Online 1992 2,040,000 @Home 7/10/97 1,364,050 Books-a-Million late 1992 1,509,824 Broadcom 4/16/98 3,636,174 CDNOW 2/10/98 2,506,834 Checkpoint Systems 1997 225,000 CNET mid 1996 153,200 Data Broadcasting mid 1992 2,677,889 DoubleClick 2/20/98 254,694 Earthlink early 1997 785,037 EarthWeb 11/10/98 33,693 Egghead mid 1998 684,308 Etrade mid 1996 1,106,325 Excite mid 1996 1,154,723 GeoCities 8/11/98 77,000 Infoseek mid 1996 40,000 Inktomi 6/10/98 1,824,360 Lycos early 1996 1,057,295 Micromuse 2/13/98 449,900 MindSpring early 1996 411,008 Netscape Commun mid 1995 209,353 Network Soln 9/25/97 154,036 OnSale 4/17/97 165,000 Open Market early 1996 523,358 Preview Travel 11/20/97 98,206 RealNetworks 11/20/97 322,967 Security Dyn late 1994 11,000 Spyglass mid 1995 305,045 US Web 12/5/97 287,539 Verisign 1/29/98 3,188,950 Verity late 1995 82,404 Yahoo early 1996 944,678 Oct. 1, 1998, through Feb. 25 Source: First Call-Investnet

To: brian z who wrote (44254)	3/6/1999 11:24:00 AM
From: Glenn D. Rudolph	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

These online initiatives have tended to provide high conversion rates. We expect Amazon will continue to take advantage of these proven direct marketing techniques. These people only look at the side of th equation that fits their preference. There has not been enough history to make any decisions to state that online initiatives have tended to provide high conversion rates. Then there is this: We expect Amazon will continue to take advantage of these proven direct marketing techniques. We know this is not proven online but maybe in traditional brick and mortar store promotions. I keep hearing how online marketing is far different than the traditional store method. Now they use traditional metrics to boost Amazons marketing concept. This story is becoming more comical all the time. The bulls will not give up even though the fundamentals are failing at an increasing rate. The only fundamentals that Amazon had going for it is top line growth. Now that is coming into question but only perfection ahead. Yeah right<G> Glenn