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Burkin says her store's site is head and shoulders above Amazon's because of its hand-picked list of titles and that old standby of personalized customer service...
Burkin says her store's site is head and shoulders above Amazon's because of its hand-picked list of titles and that old standby of personalized customer service...
...really blame them? Each month, some 6 million visitors flock to eBay's sprawling virtual tag sale, according to research firm Media Metrix, right behind Amazon's 8 million. A third of those browsers regularly bid on or sell a selection of nearly 2 million items, including computers, Ginsu knives, baseball cards and model trains, generating about $300 million in total transactions during the fourth quarter of fiscal 1998. "There's a constant trade show going on," says Steve Karas, of New York, who auctions sports cards on the site. By taking a 1.25%-to-5% cut on each...
...quarterly number or see their stock price sacrificed to the earnings gods. What this country really needed, said the pundits and business professors, was a group of CEOs who had the guts to go long. Now, at (long) last, a new generation of managers, like Jeff Bezos of Amazon and Tim Koogle of Yahoo, Steve Case of America Online and Tom Jermoluk from @Home, has emerged to do exactly that, through aggressive acquisition strategies, massive infrastructure spending and expansion at a clip that would make old-line companies get motion sickness. These young chieftains have shown a true disdain...
...Amazon, once criticized as a bookseller that would never show a profit, turns out to have used its online book business as a template for forays into music, drugs, pets and, this week, online auctions, perhaps the hottest area on the Web. Maybe its $28 billion market cap isn't so wacky if Amazon becomes the world's first online department store...