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...deal looks like a vintage Li maneuver?he is legendary for scooping up unfashionable assets at bargain prices and selling them later for a fat profit. Among other recent coups, the billionaire bought into American e-tailer Priceline.com following the crash of Internet stocks, and saw his stake triple in value. The Global Crossing bailout would hand the partnership majority ownership in a state-of-the-art, globe-spanning telecommunications infrastructure for an outlay equal to less than one-tenth the cost of building it. "I think at that price it's very attractive as an investment," says To Chee...
...missed it, here's what happened: Webvan's stock was trading at a mere eight cents, or 99% off its November 1999 peak. Since the NASDAQ habitually delists stocks that slip below a dollar, there seemed little chance this e-tailer would stay in the big boys' league. Then some bright (or desperate) spark at company HQ in Foster City came up with the idea of a 25 to 1 reverse stock split. In other words, for every 25 shares you owned before the split, you'd now only own one. The resulting drought should leave Webvan standing $2 tall...
...style. And for those brands that capture that essence of kawaii, the potential markets stretch from Tokyo to Tashkent. Call it the Greater East Asia Ko-Kawaii Sphere. "Japan is the only country in Asia right now that is a genuine fashion force," explains Joanne Ooi, CEO of e-tailer StyleTrek.com. "Telling a teen customer that an item is popular in Japan is a huge selling point?it's on par with telling a tai tai (Hong Kong socialite) that John Galliano designed...
...eBay. But if eBay crashes, there's nowhere else to go. And because eBay's job is connecting people--not selling them things--it isn't lumbered with a traditional retailing cost structure. No buying, warehousing or shipping. No taking returns or unloading overstock. "eBay is the only e-tailer that really fulfills the promise of the Web," says Faye Landes, an e-commerce analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. "And the key is its virtuality...
...shopping online is actually better than shopping in a store. At Boo.com, it wasn't." In other words, Amazon.com may not make any money yet, but at least the books arrive on time. Taylor adds that it may be a little early for Europe to support a true e-tailer. "The online market in Europe, in terms of the number of computers and ISPs and people's general comfort level with the Web, may not be mature enough yet," he says. But e-liquidator KPMG says it's already gotten 30 offers for disposing of boo.com's lifeless husk...