Re: UKNM: Amazon.com... HOW MUCH???

[Steve Bowbrick]

Amazon's quarterly accounts show last quarter's costs as $133.1M.

Since Amazon's only significant activity is selling stuff online,

that's probably a pretty good indication of what it costs to operate

an ecommerce business of that scale. So you just have to tell your

client to set aside around half a billion dollars a year. That should

shut him up.


s


At 10:25 am -0800 27/11/00, Mark Seaman wrote:

>Hi.

>I've currently got a client wondering why their site doesn't have all the

>bells and whistles that Amazon.com has. I've told him that it's because of

>how much money Amazon put back into their site to run it that way. Sod's

Law

>now determines that he wants to know how much.

>

>Does anyone know the ball park figure? No doubt it's millions!

>

>Mark.

>NATIVEMEDIA


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