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Habe vergeblich nach einer Stellungnahme gesucht - hat jemand Infos?

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ALERT! Amazon.com responds to critics...

Amazon.com Says Not Running Out of Cash - and makes a stunning announcement.

PALO ALTO, Calif. (Roiters) - Internet retailer Amazon.com Inc. (NasdaqNM:AMZN), responding
to negative research on the company, said on Friday that it was ``nowhere near running out of cash
or clever ways of fooling investors.``

The comment came largely in response to a report from a Lehman Brothers credit analyst who
described Amazon`s credit as ``worse than that of my unemployed brother in law.``

Lehman urged in the report that investors avoid the convertible bonds like the plague. "From a
bond perspective, we find the credit extremely weak and deteriorating,`` Lehman said, warning that
Amazon.com risks running out of cash by the middle of 2001.

Amazon.com spokesman Bill Curry called the comments ``absolute, pure unadulterated hogwash.``

``We are nowhere near running out of cash,`` Curry said while smirking. ``Anyone who understands
the cash flow dynamics of this business knows this. And anyway, how can you trust Lehman?
They`re just a bunch of wierdos. ``

Curry noted that the company ended the first quarter with more than $1 billion in cash, and expects
to become cash flow positive later this year, the year after that, or perhaps ten years from now.

He declined to speculate whether the company would need to raise additional cash before it
became profitable. However, he did say it was time to announce Amazon.com`s latest move in
"Improving the customer experience." Curry pointed out that one thing that people like to have
while traveling by air is a good book to read. "Why not combine book retailing with air transport?"

Though a tightly kept secret until today, Curry reported that Jeff Bezos decided that in the face of
adverse analyst opinions, it was time to unveil the next step in Amazon`s growth plans. The
company has decided to compete with Boeing and Airbus Industrie by manufacturing the biggest
passenger jet of them all. With a seating capacity of 1,300 (double or triple that of competitors), an
inside-the-plane Internet server farm, and a flying wherehouse stocked with ten thousand
bestselling books, the aircraft promises to be all things to all people. Not only will passengers be
able to order a book and have it delivered to their assigned seat, but since the aircraft design
includes a bomb bay, it will allow book orders to be parachuted to customers living below the flight
path. "This will eliminate fulfillment costs in a single stroke," enthused Curry.

The spokesman added that due to Amazon.com`s proximity to Boeing, recruiting aerospace
engineers should not be a problem.

Reached later for comment, Internet analyst Henry Blodget did a quick back-of-the-envelope
calculation and pronounced the stock "even more of a buy than when I issued that ridiculous price
target 18 months ago."

Sorry, ist natürlich ein Joke! (gefunden auf http://www.bearforum.com/cgi-bin/bbs.pl?read=36456)

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Der Originaltext findet sich hier:
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000623/wr/amazon_stock_dc_…

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