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Technology Stocks : Egghead Computer (EGGS) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Norm Tock who wrote (6960)	3/7/1999 11:43:00 PM
From: bc_mack	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 8307

Customer bases of e-commerce leaders I did the following research in responding to a YHOO post. Thought I would share it with y'all: I agree that relative customer bases of e-commerce companies is an important issue. For reference, I pulled the following info off of recent SEC filings by Egghead, Onsale, and Amazon: Egghead -- "In addition, our online net sales benefited from an increase in our customer accounts to over 750,000 as of December 26, 1998 from approximately 460,000 as of March 28, 1998." Onsale -- "At year end, Onsale had 971,000 people registered to bid, an 18 percent increase from the previous quarter. During the quarter, 355,000 orders were placed compared to 350,000 in the previous quarter." Amazon -- "The Company had approximately 6.2 million and 1.5 million cumulative customer accounts as of December 31, 1998 and 1997, respectively." Amazon, obviously, is in a class by itself, but Onsale doesn't look so far ahead of Egghead to me. I think a more in-depth study should show relative growth rates between ONSL and EGGS (and others). Any comments on relative customer bases are appreciated. Perhaps anyone who has done this on some similar companies could share their research. Examples: COOL AMZN UBID EGGS ONSL CDNW . . .