[G4] OT-NOISE-Buy.com and Amazon

[Mark E Hood]

 From one of their press releases:

buy.com™ STARTS PRICE WAR WITH AMAZON.COM



Offers All Books at 10 Percent Below Amazon’s Price
  --Over One Million Catalog Titles--




ALISO VIEJO, Calif., — June 25, 2002 — Buy.com, Inc., The Internet 
Superstore™, today announced that it will offer all of its book titles 
at 10% below Amazon.com’s prices, effective immediately.  The 
announcement is a part of Buy.com’s aggressive strategy to win Amazon’s 
customers and capture greater market share in online book sales.



doesn't sound like they are related.

mark


On Thursday, January 16, 2003, at 11:40  am, David Crandon wrote:

> This is totally off topic, but I don't have anywhere else to ask.
>
> Went to Buy.com today, http://www.buy.com/ , and noticed that the user
> interface and page layouts (especially at the bottom of the page), are
> extremely similar to Amazon.
>
> There must be some relationship between the two. Anybody know?