justageek - 9:31 pm on Aug 25, 2003 (gmt 0)

killroy - You are right but the whole process of selling something, because of the logistics involved, can never match the speed at which the Internet can move. If for example a company sold 10 items last year and now because that company can advertise on millions of web sites it gets orders for 10 million items, what will it do? It'll have to remove the advertising until it can handle the volume or risk having irate customers.

Now let's assume this happens with every advertiser. I know it's a stretch but let's pretend. Now every advertising campaign comes to a screetching halt and your peice of that campaign goes away as well. Now if you were the only site displaying the ads you probably wouldn't care that much as you sit on your private island :-)

Unfortunately by the time they can handle the volume they have already lost customers. Remember that's one reason why this whole Internet stuff never panned out. The hype was get on the Internet you'll sell more instantly and retire. Not true, You have the potential but the reality is you cannot feed the Internet as fast as it would like. That's why I say there is a limited number of advertisers and advertiser dollars.