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PacificTradingPost.com Selected as an Amazon.com Auctions Charter Merchant
34/1/99
HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif.--April 1, 1999--Amazon.com Auctions Offers
PacificTradingPost.com's
www.skatesurfsnow.com Division and Millions of E-commerce Fans a Fun,
Easy-to-use, and Trustworthy Place to Buy Extreme Sports Equipment --
PacificTradingPost.com, Inc. (OTC BB:PTRD) subsidiary
www.skatesurfsnow.com is among the first 12 items for bidding at
Amazon.com Auctions, the new shopping services from Amazon.com, Inc.
(NASDAQ:AMZN), the No. 1 online video, music, and book retailer. With
almost 8 million customers, Amazon.com is the premier destination for
PacificTradingPost.com ("P-Trade") to reach qualified and experienced
online shoppers and have auctions featured across millions of
Amazon.com's pages.
"To be included in the Amazon.com Auctions site represents the
latest achievements in our goal to expand our Internet presence and
increase traffic to our www.skatesurfsnow.com online retail store,"
stated Frank Drechsler, president and chief executive officer at
PacificTradingPost.com. "Our e-commerce site already attracts
thousands of users every day with the latest in extreme sports
equipment for youth consumers, 85% of whom are already online."
Amazon.com Auctions is a customer-friendly destination for
shoppers. P-Trade will benefit from special advertising opportunities
on the Amazon.com Auctions home and category pages and from a variety
of management tools, making it easy to register and sell high volumes
of items. Because of Amazon.com's familiar design and easy-to-use
features, sellers and buyers will enjoy the very best online auction
experience.
"www.skatesurfsnow.com played a key role in the development of
our online auction marketplace," said Jeff Blackburn, director of
merchant services at Amazon.com. "With the help of
PacificTradingPost.com and other merchants, we are driving to reach
our goal of allowing customers to find, discover, and buy any products
they want at Amazon.com."
PacificTradingPost.com pioneered online sales of extreme sports
paraphernalia to the youth sports consumer. This has enabled the
Company to capture a large audience through its www.skatesurfsnow.com
online retail store, as well as e-commerce order fulfillment services
for leading sports manufacturing firms.
Amazon.com Auctions is the premier destination for people to
search for and discover great deals on their favorite collectibles,
hard-to-find items, and other goods, such as skateboards, surfboards,
snowboards, and mountain climbing equipment. The Auctions site will
offer items in a safe and secure environment, with the buyers'
experience backed by the Amazon.com Auctions Guarantee. The guarantee
program sets a new online auction safety and security standard, by
providing buyers up to $250 against misrepresentation or non-receipt
of goods. Some restrictions apply; guarantee details are available by
visiting the Amazon.com Auctions site.
Amazon.com is offering $10 gift certificates for all first-time
winning bidders as an incentive to discover and purchase items at
Amazon.com Auctions, including P-Trade's line of extreme sports
equipment. At the same time, PacificTradingPost.com will benefit from
having Amazon.com Auctions automatically promoted on millions of
Amazon.com's book, music, and video product pages.
About PacificTradingPost.com, Inc.
PacificTradingPost.com, Inc. is the leading extreme sports
e-commerce company with sales of skateboard, snowboard, surfing, and
mountain climbing equipment and ancillary products.
About Amazon.com, Inc.
Amazon.com, Inc., the Internet's No. 1 video, music, and book
retailer, opened its virtual doors on the World Wide Web in July 1995.
Today, the Amazon.com store has expanded to offer more than 4.7
million book, music-CD, video, DVD, computer-game, and other titles,
plus online auctions, secure credit-card payment, personalized
recommendations, and streamlined ordering through 1-Click(SM)
technology.
Amazon.com operates two international Web sites: www.amazon.co.uk
in the United Kingdom and www.amazon.de in Germany. Amazon.com also
operates PlanetAll (www.planetall.com), a Web-based address book,
calendar, and reminder service. It also operates the Internet Movie
Database (www.imdb.com), the Web's comprehensive and authoritative
source of information on more than 150,000 movies and entertainment
programs and 500,000 cast and crew members dating from the birth of
film in 1892 to the present.
This announcement contains forward-looking statements that
involve risks and uncertainties that include, among others,
Amazon.com's limited operating history, anticipated losses,
unpredictability of future revenues, potential fluctuations in
quarterly operating results, seasonality, intense competition, risks
associated with system interruption, management of potential growth,
high leverage and risks of new business areas, international
expansion, business combinations, and strategic alliances.
More information about factors that potentially could affect
Amazon.com's financial results is included in Amazon.com's filings
with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its Annual
Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 1998. Amazon.com,
Amacon.co.uk, Amazon.de, Internet Movie Database, PlanetAll, Earth's
Biggest Bookstore, and 1-Click are either registered trademarks or
trademarks of Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. All other names
mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.
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