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PACIFICTRADINGPOST.COM SELECTED AS AN AMAZON.COM AUCTIONS CHARTER MERCHANT -- Amazon.com Auctions Offers PacificTradingPost.com's www.skatesurfsnow.com Division and Millions of E-commerce Fans a Fun, Easy-to-use, and Trustworthy Place to Buy Extreme Sports Equipment -- HUNTINGTON BEACH, CA – April 1, 1999: PacificTradingPost.com, Inc. (OTC BB: PTRD) subsidiary www.skatesurfsnow.com is among the first 12 items for bidding at Amazon.com Auctions, the new shopping services from Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), the No. 1 online video, music, and book retailer. With almost 8 million customers, Amazon.com is the premier destination for PacificTradingPost.com (“P-Trade”) to reach qualified and experienced online shoppers and have auctions featured across millions of Amazon.com's pages. “To be included in the Amazon.com Auctions site represents the latest achievements in our goal to expand our Internet presence and increase traffic to our www.skatesurfsnow.com online retail store,” stated Frank Drechsler, president and chief executive officer at PacificTradingPost.com. “Our e-commerce site already attracts thousands of users every day with the latest in extreme sports equipment for youth consumers, 85% of whom are already online.” Amazon.com Auctions is a customer-friendly destination for shoppers. P-Trade will benefit from special advertising opportunities on the Amazon.com Auctions home and category pages and from a variety of management tools, making it easy to register and sell high volumes of items. Because of Amazon.com's familiar design and easy-to-use features, sellers and buyers will enjoy the very best online auction experience. “www.skatesurfsnow.com played a key role in the development of our online auction marketplace,” said Jeff Blackburn, director of merchant services at Amazon.com. “With the help of PacificTradingPost.com and other merchants, we are driving to reach our goal of allowing customers to find, discover, and buy any products they want at Amazon.com.” PacificTradingPost.com pioneered online sales of extreme sports paraphernalia to the youth sports consumer. This has enabled the Company to capture a large audience through its www.skatesurfsnow.com online retail store, as well as e-commerce order fulfillment services for leading sports manufacturing firms. Amazon.com Auctions is the premier destination for people to search for and discover great deals on their favorite collectibles, hard-to-find items, and other goods, such as skateboards, surfboards, snowboards, and mountain climbing equipment. The Auctions site will offer items in a safe and secure environment, with the buyers' experience backed by the Amazon.com Auctions Guarantee. The guarantee program sets a new online auction safety and security standard, by providing buyers up to $250 against misrepresentation or non-receipt of goods. Some restrictions apply; guarantee details are available by visiting the Amazon.com Auctions site. Amazon.com is offering $10 gift certificates for all first-time winning bidders as an incentive to discover and purchase items at Amazon.com Auctions, including P-Trade's line of extreme sports equipment. At the same time, PacificTradingPost.com will benefit from having Amazon.com Auctions automatically promoted on millions of Amazon.com's book, music, and video product pages. (more) About PacificTradingPost.com, Inc. PacificTradingPost.com, Inc. is the leading extreme sports e-commerce company with sales of skateboard, snowboard, surfing, and mountain climbing equipment and ancillary products. About Amazon.com, Inc. Amazon.com, Inc., the Internet's No. 1 video, music, and book retailer, opened its virtual doors on the World Wide Web in July 1995. Today, the Amazon.com store has expanded to offer more than 4.7 million book, music-CD, video, DVD, computer-game, and other titles, plus online auctions, secure credit-card payment, personalized recommendations, and streamlined ordering through 1-ClickSM technology. ### Amazon.com operates two international Web sites: www.amazon.co.uk in the United Kingdom and www.amazon.de in Germany. Amazon.com also operates PlanetAll (www.planetall.com), a Web-based address book, calendar, and reminder service. It also operates the Internet Movie Database (www.imdb.com), the Web's comprehensive and authoritative source of information on more than 150,000 movies and entertainment programs and 500,000 cast and crew members dating from the birth of film in 1892 to the present. This announcement contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties that include, among others, Amazon.com's limited operating history, anticipated losses, unpredictability of future revenues, potential fluctuations in quarterly operating results, seasonality, intense competition, risks associated with system interruption, management of potential growth, high leverage and risks of new business areas, international expansion, business combinations, and strategic alliances. More information about factors that potentially could affect Amazon.com's financial results is included in Amazon.com's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 1998. Amazon.com, Amacon.co.uk, Amazon.de, Internet Movie Database, PlanetAll, Earth's Biggest Bookstore, and 1-Click are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. All other names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective owners. | ||||||||||||
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