It's part of the territory with Internet stocks, that kind of volatility. It can be up 30 percent one month, it can be down 30 percent in a month, and a minute spent thinking about the short-term stock price is a minute wasted. |
One of the things that is most important for a company is to be very clear about their strategy, so investors get to self-select as to whether or not that's the right strategy for them. I think we've done a very good job about being clear that we're a long-term focused company, |
Our alliance with Toysrus.com has proven to be a great win for customers, and we've looked forward to taking the next step by introducing the new Babiesrus.com teamed with Amazon.com store since we forged the alliance last August, |
Our role is to help people discover music, |
Our vision first and foremost is to be the Earth's most customer-centric company and then, within that, to build a place where people can come to find and discover anything and everything that they might want to buy online, |
perhaps the most expensive thing we've done since free Super Saver shipping. |
Thanks to free shipping and low prices, we expect more customers to turn to us for their holiday gifting needs this year -- producing our biggest holiday shopping season ever, |
The earth's most customer-centric company is figuring out what the customer wants and how to give it to them, ... By offering a universal selection of products, we can do something online that you could never do in the physical world. |
The most aggressive of them all was to make shipping free for orders over $25, ... So $25 is a very low hurdle for customers to cross -- almost every order can qualify. |
There are many types of investors, ... There are as many different types of investors as there are investments. Many of these investors are very long-term oriented, many are very short-term oriented and they vary along other dimensions, too. |
There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second. |
There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second. |
These price cuts ... do pressure our margins, but at the same time what they do is drive a lot of volume which helps us because we have a high fixed-cost structure, |
This has the potential to be bigger than anything we've ever done. |
This is a long-term contractual alliance, ... This is quite different from a merger. We don't know anything about running physical stores, our strategies are different and we are focused on a broad array of products, not just one. |