Forum Archive Index - December 1999

["john paine" <painej@hotmail.com>]

What you say is true but the big business is B2B (Business to Business use 
of e-commerce) Check out http://www.fortune.com and search for B2B in the 
achives under Search Fortune and read first 2 article that come up.


Cheers

John Paine

>From: "hugh webber" <hugh.webber@clear.net.nz>
>Reply-To: sharechat@sharechat.co.nz
>To: <sharechat@sharechat.co.nz>
>Subject: Re: [sharechat] Tech sharemarket bubble
>Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 13:58:03 +1300
>
>I also agree the Internet is about many different things but its
>penetration in some areas eventually is limited. Are people really going to
>buy a grand piano, a car, a house, a haircut, dental surgery off their
>Internet screen? Not really, they need to test drive things. Is Amazon.com
>making a profit yet? Nope.
>
>Ok, if its a can of Watties baked beans and 2 litres of milk and its going
>to be delivered within 10 minutes or some sort of pervert who's into having
>plain brown paper parcels delivered to his post box.
>
>I just don't see the scenario that the Internet is going to replace
>shopping ( don't forget wimmin like shopping better than anything else and
>that's physical shopping, hands on stuff), or most aspects of living. Would
>you really prefer to take a virtual holiday to Hawaii or the south of
>France to a real one?
>Aren't some of these tech stock prices factoring in 100% penetration of
>everything? Is there anyone else left whose sane besides myself? well, I
>acknowledge I have had some valuable support but I'm starting to feel like
>the last days of the Bruce Judge empire where a new takeover was announced
>every week at even higher prices after last weeks one fell over...
>
>
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