RE: UKNM: Re: ecommerce Xmas wet dream or nightmare

[Simon Sherriff]

I read recently a report that Dell had had problems with it's factory in Ireland. They found a virus on one of the PC's and had not only to check all the PC's in the facility, but also any that had been shipped out for some time using a recall. No other viruses were found, but this cost several millions of pounds and much delivery time. Perhaps this might explain the lack of delivery.


As an aside, I have ordered several goods over the last few weeks, admittedly from the larger players and all have been delivered promptly and without any fuss.


Simon Sherriff


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Sent:	08 December 1999 18:02

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Subject:	Re: UKNM: Re: ecommerce Xmas wet dream or nightmare


At 03:06 PM 12/8/99 +0000, you wrote:

  >As a fulfilment consultancy, we've been discussing internally for some time

  >that this Christmas is going to be one big e-disaster, though the fact that

  >Dell is getting it wrong is even more a cause for worry than we were

  >predicting.


Ye gods - this man, he speaks the truth.


Hopefully, if this Christmas kills anything it'll be the fly-by-nights that

have surfaced recently and the belief that you can trip out of business

school with a photocopied chapter from the the McKinsey book-of-the-month,

receive �20m in VC capital with half a copied idea and actually launch a

serious e-business.



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