From: Gregory Alan Bolcer (gbolcer@endtech.com)
Date: Thu May 18 2000 - 10:27:41 PDT
Offices in London, Stockholm, Paris, New York and Munich; [COST]
Initial Window that opens up with the messages" [DESIGN]
"Boo.com has been opened in another window, this window does
nothing although you may want to bookmark it...." [BARRIERS]
"You must enable Java to use this site...." [BARRIERS]
"This site is optimized for a 56k modem...." [PERFORMANCE] -- even sucks w/ DSL
"Pick your country & language..." [BARRIES] --WTF do I have to go through
just to see the first product??
Ian Andrew Bell wrote:
>
> >From: "Darren Gibbons" <dgibbons@openroad.ca>
> >Delivered-To: mailing list foib@egroups.com
> >Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 10:06:31 -0700
> >Subject: @F: Boo Hoo.com, continued
> >
> >Looks like Ian's favourite site has closed its doors:
> >
> > Top web retailer collapses
> > European online clothing retailer Boo.com has collapsed through
> > lack of funds, just six months after it launched to a huge fanfare
> > of publicity.
> > http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_752000/752293.stm
> >
> >300 employees out of work, but I'm guessing that won't be for long.
> >Apparently the sharks are already circling, eager to buy it up.
> >
> >Darren.
> >
> >
> >--
> >Darren Gibbons dgibbons@openroad.ca
> >OpenRoad Communications ph: 604.681.0516
> >Internet Application Development fax: 604.681.0916
> >Vancouver, B.C. http://www.openroad.ca
> >
> >
> >------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >Remember four years of good friends, bad clothes, explosive chemistry
> >experiments.
> >http://click.egroups.com/1/4051/1/_/23391/_/958669333/
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>
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