Tom Courtney
Tom Courtney
Thomas "Tom" William Courtneyis a retired American athlete, winner of two gold medals at the 1956 Summer Olympics...
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Is it $15 billion because of the collapse of the business-to-consumer market or it is $15 billion because sales growth slowed down by 50 percent in the last two quarters? Probably, it's a little bit of both, but I think it's more of the latter.
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In the fourth quarter of calendar 1999, sales grew 170 percent year-over-year. In the second quarter they just reported, sales grew 84 percent. So, if you went back six months, Amazon's market capitalization when they generated that 170 percent growth was probably around $25 to $30 billion. Today it's $15 billion.
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It appears that to help save the bottom line, the company held back on some marketing expenses,
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I'm initiating a bill next year that would make it so it's a parental decision, ... If it is, then it should satisfy everyone's fears. We don't have a bill yet, but we're working on it.
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What happened is that the bar ran out of liquor -- they took away the punch bowl.
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This is actually a really big deal because in Amazon's earnings, about $24 million in gross profit comes from the commerce network,
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The one thing it said was under no circumstance would any government agency be allowed to keep the fingerprints on file,
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My head was exploding, my stomach ripping, and even the tips of my fingers ached. The only thing I could think was, "If I live, I will never run again!
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She's not the first very strong executive to leave a dot.com that's had its stock go down.
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What we think the numbers are saying is that the frequency and retention of existing customers is not anywhere near where it needs to be for the model to work in our opinion.
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At a point when many other e-commerce companies are struggling to reach breakeven, eBay has demonstrated that it has a materially different and better model, which is driving exceptional growth both in sales and earnings.
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It's fairly niche-y, it's not going to be a broad based business model that can succeed in a lot of different categories.
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Although it may have one last run going into the holiday period, we believe that Amazon has several red flags that demand investor attention.
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Worldwide Internet retail sales were almost $23 billion in 1999 and we expect that to double in 2000. Street estimates for worldwide sales in 2002 are approximately $105 billion, with $65 billion of that in the U.S. This implies an annual growth rate of 80 percent worldwide.