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To: JF2155 who wrote (114160)	4/4/1999 2:35:00 PM
From: edamo	Respond to of 176387

jim...re :free pc's (from the guy who saw mu going to 200...because earnings don't matter...surprise,surprise...) read my post to chuzz...the pc doesn't appear to be "free"....for a deposit is required.....the ads do not state what the deposit is...but instead of the isp subsidizing the "free" pc...the consumer does so with his "deposit"....no chance of them ordering, paying one month service and then skipping....nothing is "free"...we "americans"...and i guess i would consider myself one...do not call this "dumping"...the term is international trade jargon where a government subsidizes the sale price of a product for export below the market norm....the isp does not manufacture the white box...they are buying "close out" merchandise from one such as cpq....near obsolete processor performance that if not sold will become dead weight on the inventory books...what impact did your "more than a pc free system" do to affect the balance of nature...perhaps not so much.... in closing...dell cannot come under pressure from a market that it does not participate in.......free pcs from an isp are not in the grand scheme of things for a large corporate or high end pc user...why not just "webtv"???????, "palmpilots"?????...all have their place..but dell is not in that place....and has no reason to venture to the "other side of the tracks" dell...ebay...amzn...looks like you are a momentum player...not my style...but good luck...ed a. p.s...the powerful net....combine the business to business e-commerce of just dell and ibm and you have revenues of about usd$2b...with a sizable profit....humor me....add up the revenues of the top ten pure "net" players...how much revenue...and more importantly how much profit....as napolean stated..an army runs on its stomach...business appetite is only sated and maintained by profit....even in the "powerful cyber world" that you view...can't pay the rent man with "cyber" money!!!!