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To: Glenn D. Rudolph who wrote (47613)	3/27/1999 9:55:00 PM
From: H James Morris	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

>>We expect very few winners to emerge in e-tailing, which has been the case for traditional retailing.<< Glenn don't take this personal but Keith Benjamin is a slut. Please, if you must give us an opinion. Give us Mary's. Not a 1st class idiot!

To: Glenn D. Rudolph who wrote (47613)	3/27/1999 10:27:00 PM
From: Tom D	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

The Mystery of Media Metrix-- Glenn, or anybody else. Can you help me out please? How do you reconcile the declines in the reported number of unique users (according to BARS below, excerpted from Glenn's posting #47628) with the large increases in website traffic (in my postings #46823 and #46835)? Both sets of data come from Media Metrix. We have the MM website traffic data from the MM website, but I think one has to lay down some big bucks to get the data which BARS mentioned. Thanks in advance, Tom D <<Despite a 4% drop in Amazon.com‚s number of unique users in February, after a 1% drop in January, according to Media Metrix, it is important to note that these declines were off of a huge jump up in the month of December. Therefore, we still expect Amazon to report 10-12% growth in the unique user base for Q1 over Q4. This growth is consistent with our Q1 sales assumption of $260 million, a 3% increase from Q4. Keep in mind that unique users do not equate directly to sales given varying trends in purchase rates and average transaction size. Also keep in mind that Media Metrix does not include international users which have historically represented a substantial part of Amazon‚s business. We continue to be surprised by the strength of Amazon‚s brand and its being virtually synonymous with online shopping. As also reflected in the February Media Metrix results, Amazon continues to attract nearly a quarter of all Web shoppers even as the Web shopping population grows dramatically.>>