Re: UKNM: RE: A Sad day

[Paul Bentley]

On 13/10/00 John Braithwaite wrote:

>Read in Metro about UrbanFetch closing.... get some bargains before they

>close, quick: http://www.urbanfetch.co.uk

>and then, just cos they were mentioned too, thought I would take a look at

>Bags of Time: http://www.bagsoftime.co.uk and read this message (start

>only):

>

>"London, 13 October 2000: Bags Of Time.com today announces that it has been

>unable to secure the investment or merger needed to develop its business

>further, and will stop taking orders at 5pm on Friday 13th October. The

>company has sufficient funds to pay all outstanding debts and will wind

down

>the business next week in a responsible manner."

>

>What now KooBuyCity?

>'site under construction'

>

>Can no-one make the home delivery service work? Seems a shame.


As a follow up to the above there is an interesting comment on all

this by Nigel Cope in the eCommerce section of todays Independent

(Business, page 16) entitled 'Generosity is the undoing of online

delivery pioneers'.


pb

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