If you really buy any of that shit, you're truly deluded. eToys stock
dropped because it was ridiculously overpriced, at around the same time most
other bloated tech stocks started dropping. Toywar/rtMark utilized this
coincidence to make themselves look good, which in my eyes is just as bad as
what eToys - actually, no, not eToys - one misguided dickhead at eToys -
did. I used to work there, and the majority of people I interacted with,
including most of upper management, were highly pissed off about the whole
affair, but only got wind of it once it had already escalated to an
uncontrollable point.
Ehh, fuck it, this is a pointless conversation. People who blindly accept
whatever info is shoved down their throats piss me off - it doesn't matter
whether what they're blindly accepting is the usual mainstream media crap or
some "underground activist" bullshit.
david
----- Original Message -----
From: "jonathan morse" <blip@pop3.frontiernet.net>
To: <idm@hyperreal.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 7:31 AM
Subject: Re: [idm] the one tool you need to be the next afx..
quoted 74 lines I qualify why e-toys sucks:
> >I qualify why e-toys sucks:
>
>
> to further qualify:
>
> [from http://www.toywar.com]
>
> THE TOYWAR-STORY: the TOYWAR.com resistance game was launched to
> protect etoy from aggressive take-over attempts and to win the
> historic domain name battle between the etoy.CORPORATION (legendary
> internet art giant, incorporated 1994) and eToys Inc. (one of the
> biggest e-commerce companies, incorporated 1996). after the
> etoy.SHAREHOLDERS (art collectors and fans) rejected a ridiculous
> offer of $516,000 for the eBRAND etoy.com (registered for
> experimental entertainment and cultural business operations), eToys
> Inc. filed a naive lawsuit against etoy. the toy retailer accused
> etoy of unfair competition, trademark delusion, security fraud,
> illegal stock market operation, pornographic content, offensive
> behaviour and terrorist activity.
> this strategy failed terribly: etoy, specializing in and awarded for
> surreal incubations, cultural viruses and impact management decided
> to strike back and turned the case into a toy harbor of e-commerce:
> 1798 activists, artists, lawyers, celebrities and journalists were
> selected and recruited between november 1999 and february 2000 to
> establish a playful toy army. TOYWAR worked like a swarm of bees.
> hundreds of well-informed people and media experts contested the
> aggressor on every level (filing counter court cases, infiltrating
> customer service, pr departments, the press, investor news groups and
> also on the level of federal trade commission etc.). more than 300
> articles (New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Le Monde, CNN)
> reported the story and 250 resistance sites and net-shelters were
> established. result: within 2 months the eToys Inc. stock (NASDAQ:
> ETYS) dropped from $67 (the day the battle started) to $15 (the day
> eToys Inc. finally dropped the case). TOYWAR was the most expensive
> performance in art history: $4.5 billion in damage! a glorious
> victory for the etoy.CORPORATION which compensated activists with
> etoy.SHARES: in march 2000 hundreds of brave TOY.soldiers transformed
> into etoy.CO-OWNERS with voting rights.
>
>
> karma's a bitch...
>
> >
> >I just got an e-mail from them saying that my electronic mega
> >cheetor has been delayed.
> >
> >Nuff said
> >
> >Rob
> >component
> >_________________________
> > www.componentrecords.com
> >_________________________
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: adam florin <aeflo@brown.edu>
> >To: <idm@hyperreal.org>
> >Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 2:32 AM
> >Subject: Re: [idm] the one tool you need to be the next afx..
> >
> >
> >>
> >> i don't even sell toys and i suck.
> >>
> >>
> >> .af.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> At 22:45 -0600 01.16.2001, Andrew Hime wrote:
> >> > >What the fuck ?
> >> >>
> >> >>Why do people on this list have to make things personal, and make
totally
quoted 6 lines unfounded insults?
> >> >>unfounded insults?
> >> >>
> >> >>Here is conversation:
> >> >>
> >> >>A: check this out! it's cool!
> >> >>B: the shop that's having the going out of business sale is really
lame
quoted 5 lines C: I bet you eat monkeys and you smell
> >> >>C: I bet you eat monkeys and you smell
> >> >>
> >> >>Wouldn't it work just to say "Etoys is just an evil as the
> >>Amazon.com/Toy's
> >> >>R Us alliance, or many other retailers"? (hopefully with some
reasons for
quoted 1 line feeling this way). ...rather than stating something in a personal
> >> >>feeling this way). ...rather than stating something in a personal
way?
quoted 3 lines I work in retail right now, so I can safely say that almost everyone
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >I work in retail right now, so I can safely say that almost everyone
sucks.
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> >> ps; this post is dumb but nobody replies when i say interesting
> >>things. blah !
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