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Non-Tech : Auric Goldfinger's Short List -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Sergio H who wrote (2062)	6/3/1999 10:38:00 PM
From: Mad2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 19428

There's a bit out there on AG, but not what you post Copyright 1999 Forbes, Inc. Forbes February 22, 1999 SECTION: FORBES ASAP; STARTUP; Pg. 16 LENGTH: 184 words HEADLINE: RANDOM ACCESS BYLINE: Rodes Fishburne BODY: Dell's Sell The business press can't seem to print the statistic fast enough: Dell Computer is selling $ 10 million worth of computers through its Web site every day. But the stat is as misleading as the Beardstown Ladies' stock profits: The figure includes transactions in which customers have simply browsed Dell's Web site to find what they wanted before calling the company's 800 number. In fact, more than two-thirds of Dell's Web sales involve human sales representatives. So much for the accuracy of the financial press. A New Way to Short Last December, an anonymous New York fund manager, using the alias "Auric Goldfinger," posted an online contest in the newsgroup Silicon Investor. He offered a $ 5,000 reward to anyone who predicts when and why the Internet superstars, such as Yahoo, will fall. No doubt, short sellers everywhere were busy at their keyboards. Mail-less Even if brokers at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter wanted to participate in the contest (above), they couldn't. Per company policy, brokers don't have email accounts. That could change this year. Let's hope so. GRAPHIC: Pictures 1 and 2, no caption