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Old 06-24-2002, 11:46 AM  
Paul Markham
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Part of the reason is that people do not meet face to face on the net.

When we wanted to expand out internet sales we thought the best way was via Content Providers. We would give them a bunch of sets and they would give us the money. Like the two brokers we were already with.

The thing is they all failed. Either they did not have the clients they said or they shaved. One had 20 sets three months and sent us $75 then told us the reason was he did not have enough of our content on his site. Another never sold a set after the 15th of the month, why? "That's the way the Internet is"

We now know the truth, they shaved. Stupid are you kidding, they lost our content, we opened our own site and are now a big competitors to them.

But that is the Internet It will change it is young enough to learn.
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