In our opinion, such massive increases in active customers, coupled with massive increases in lifetime value, will be enormous challenges for a company with such high rates of customer defection.

Amazon has to do two things well,

The higher out-of-stock position suggests that either Toys 'R' Us is not allocating additional product to its online store, or that sales at both the online and physical stores are significantly higher than plan and Toys 'R' Us does not have available inventory, ... We believe it calls into question one of the key benefits of the Amazon/Toys 'R' Us alliance, and suggests a possible lack of alignment between the partners.

After the bubble, the whole sector really started to crash and burn. But just like there was excess on the upside, there was excess on the downside, and what we're seeing now is that there are some real companies addressing very large markets that are now, for the first time, reaching scale and beginning to get to profitability.

With 2001 revenue growth rates now expected to be in a range of 9 to 18 percent and earnings per share growth expected to be negative 12 to 33 percent, we believe Yahoo!'s price-earnings multiple will contract until the company is able to demonstrate significantly higher growth rates.

None of them are making money. Investors believe it is going to be difficult to make [the economic model] profitable.