Re: UKNM: QXL

[Stefan Magdalinski]

Ray Taylor wrote:

> 

>

Tim Dunton <timglobalgold [dot] co [dot] uk> said:

> 

> >Surely, if this company is about to float they would get their web

> >site sorted out first? Has anyone else had any similar problems with

> >QXL?

> 

> When QXL floats they will find that web site failings will be the least of

> their worries.


actually I reckon that maintaining quality of service to your customers

is paramount. 


> The next round of flotations will be notable for their poor peformance.

> Freeserve suffered, and QXL will suffer, through lack of sufficient

> intrinsic value as against high costs and losses.

> 

> The UK equities markets are not the same as those in the US where you have

> such a vast number of uneducated retail investors that shortage of stock

> alone provides sufficient momentum to any internet-related investment (as it

> did for the first few weeks of Freeserve's public life).


just you watch.


> Don't get me wrong, I think what QXL has done is wonderful. But hopefully

> their experience and that of Freeserve will help to bring investment

> expectations back down to Earth.

> 

> A case of too much sizzle, not enough sausage.


I'm not sure which Ray I prefer - the one who was relentlessly

boosterish about online advertising, or the terminally doomsaying about

ecommerce version. 


stefan


> Ray Taylor

> www.eyeconomy.com

> eyeconomy - the first and foremost uk interactive advertising agency


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