RE: UKNM: Boo.com's demise?

[Robin Edwards]

On Tuesday, May 09, 2000 10:03 AM, Aidan Cook [SMTP:

aidansensei [dot] co [dot] uk

]

wrote:

> > > Cheers (in a smug "we've-made-a-profit-since-day-one' sort of a way),

> >

> > But that's because you are in a completely different line of business

to

> an

> > e-tailer! You are presumably offering a service that people want, at a

> > price they are prepared to pay, and there's enough of a market out

there

> > that you've managed to target.

>

> Sorry Robin, you're quite right, the comparison doesn't stand up. Its

just

> me being maungy because companies like ours suffer a sort of 'guilt by

> association' with other businesses related to the internet (and I use the

> word 'businesses' in the loosest terms).

>

> Ironically (or not), you almost imply that e-tailers are defined by their

> inability to fulfil your three criteria for success. I'd agree with you.


No irony, but if you change the previous sentence to be "many e-tailers"

then the job's a good 'un.


The 'guilt by association' thang is very true. I wish it wasn't, obviously.

Likewise the Y2K problem was all our fault  because we "do computers". My

favourite phone call to date was about 5 years ago from a woman who called

and said, "Hello, I understand you work for Internet."


Shhh, don't tell everyone - it's a secret organisation...


Robin


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