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To: Wallace Rivers who wrote (7122)	5/12/1999 9:05:00 AM
From: Grommit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 78462

FEET -- stinky or rosey? I have been a FEET watcher and am considering putting my toe in the water. Would appreciate informed opinions on the matter. quote.yahoo.com see bottom -- fnews.yahoo.com grommit

To: Wallace Rivers who wrote (7122)	5/12/1999 9:18:00 AM
From: Mike 2.0	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 78462

Wallace, Jeffrey and Bob raise valid points...but I disagree that the greeting card industry is going by the wayside ala buggy whips. I think a better analogy instead of online encyclopedias is simply newspapers. They were expected to fall by the wayside too with advent of the net...has not happened. I use bluemountainarts.com every now and then, but that's been in addition to buying cards, not instead of. Plus cards are used to write a letter/message on too...no, the greeting card industry will survive and do OK. However, that said, the question becomes whether Gibson will make it. They are clearly a weak competitor to Hallmark & American Greetings. LeBow may have something up his sleeve re a business combination of some sort, but IMO if you buy Gibson, it is based on speculation that such a deal will happen, not based on company fundamentals. Suggest watching it and buy on a significant upside in volume, again as a speculative move, not a value-based move. My .02, good luck.