Also ... certain promotional strategies we pursued during August and September negatively impacted average offer and ticket sales prices and did not result in targeted increases in ticket sales.

In the fourth quarter, we will introduce new features to our telephone service, as well as introducing our first insurance product, with our term life offering. Also in the fourth quarter, we will introduce a number of business-to-business services and anticipate the launch of international operations in Australia, Canada and Europe.

It's going to cost the average household $600 more a year just to put gas in their car. Ticket prices for things at Wal-Mart and Target. Ticket prices for airplanes. Ticket prices for just about everything are going to go up.

Along with most other participants in the financial-services sector, certain key businesses were negatively impacted by the turmoil in the global financial markets, including, in particular, our credit and relative trading activities.

The above strategies have helped to improve the gross profit of the group and helped to maintain average selling prices of products, further consolidating the group's leading position in the market.

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