Amazon... e-tail gobbles up... EVERYONE! My first web purchase, other than a ISP/hosting account was with CDNOW.com... that's when you could get CDs for $10-$11 a piece!!! CDNOW will now migrate over to Amazon's shop/affiliate engine. Add them to a growing list of online stores. Target, ToysRUs, Office Depot, and a laundry list of others... appears they've given up web software delopment and are focusing on marketing their products uniquely using the Amazon engine. So... is Amazon the ultimate E-tailing software company? Quite possibly. Not bad for a "book store" huh? DOT COM DAYS MEMORY... free shipping kills. Yea, if you weren't there, during the dot-com boom there were amazing anti-profit deals running rampid on every shiny new dot com E-tailer. In web deveopment companies around the world, we sent email-based coupons around on a daily basis... Seems you could get $50 free stuff from any given site. Best example of stupidity: the now defunct Pets.com (owner of the illustrious sock puppet dog), offered free shipping on all orders over $50. Well... 50lb bags of DogFood were over $50! So, for a week, I remember bags and bags of DogFood stacked up against the cube walls throughout the office. SWITCH Holiday Will Ferrell switches to mac. peace- seanrox