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To: CoffeePot who wrote (41045)	5/19/1999 4:40:00 PM
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Gemmers, Careful with ETVC. Read the news releases carefully, especially the one from last night. Compu-DAWN, through its wholly owned subsidiary e.TV Commerce, Inc., provides Internet services, e-commerce, and telecommunications services to customers throughout North America. e.TV Commerce's products and services are sold primarily through a referral network marketing organization of approximately 18,000 representatives in the United States and Canada. Compu-DAWN is based in Jacksonville, Florida, and can be accessed via the Web at www.etvcom.com. Sounds like Amway to me. ROFL !! The following is from last night's news. You could also make a buck or two reselling the company's boxes to your friends and neighbors. Compu-Dawn is recruiting ''independent representatives'' to make an initial investment of $495 to $795 to begin selling the service, Turner said. The basic product, which includes computing functions like word processing, sells for $379, a lot less than a typical personal computer. For $249 customers can have just Web access. After the initial charges, Internet access costs $19.95 a month. The Jacksonville, Fla.-based company has already recruited about 18,000 sales representatives in the United States and Canada, but only 4,000 set-top box customers, partially due to initial problems getting enough boxes to meet orders, Turner said. Compu-Dawn generated about $1.5 million in revenues in the first quarter, and showed a loss of $2.3 million from operations. The company expects to make it into the black this year, Turner said, but declined to provide more details.