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    This is such a new market for advertisers that only some are willing to test the waters before knowing what they're getting for their money. They see the value of videogame advertising in that this is a highly sought-after demographic and difficult to reach through other media. And they'll base their decisions on some of our data that we're doing in a custom fashion. But, for video game advertising to hit critical mass, we need to have that ongoing metric. That's when we'll see explosive growth, like the 56 compounded annual growth we saw in Internet advertising, which we believe is largely due to the measurability of that medium. We think we're going to see similar types of compounded annual growth for video games once we get measurement.

    I frequently compose out the entire metric structure of a piece in modified cyclic form, where each cyclic revolution undergoes some form of 'variation' much as if measure lengths were concrete musical 'material.'

    Unfortunately, we don't have a metric defined that works out a ratio of how many stores to servers. As we add stores and resources, you add more servers, you need more space. Look at pharmacy -- Target hasn't been involved in it that long. There is a lot of data processing there. Credit cards, just the stores themselves, Internet hosting -- growth is good, but you need to add more buildings.

    Market direction likely hinges upon protracted negotiations in China, where offshore suppliers hope to narrow an estimated 35 to 40 per metric ton price gap between delivered prices in China and other major export destinations.


    In the last quarter, which is typically one of our seasonally slower growth quarters, eBay added a record 2.9 million new registered users to our community ... no metric demonstrates eBay's success better than our current annualized run-rate of 5.4 billion in gross merchandise sales,


    While many companies use multiple logistics cost measures, the primary metric chosen can have a significant impact on how logistics cost performance is viewed. For example, those companies using logistics costs as a percent of sales as their primary measure and who operate in industries such as chemicals and other commodities saw that cost ratio fall in 2005 due to strong upward pricing power that impacted the top line, even though logistics costs also rose. Other industries had rising logistics costs with flat or declining prices for their products, driving up logistics costs as a percent of sales.

    I'm pleased to report that our company once again posted strong results for the quarter. Revenues rose 4 percent and Adjusted Operating Income before Depreciation Amortization (in short, OIBDA, the new metric that we are using to track profitability, which is roughly comparable to EBITDA) increased 11 percent.



    While there are many areas where we think the company canneeds to continue to improve upon, still it is obvious from nearly every client metric, customers are responding to 'Chuck' in a compelling fashion...and we think the client is likely the most important aspect of a retail business.



    Far too few retailers have moved beyond the classic metric of comparable store sales increases to measure the annual or even lifetime value of a customer. Hyper-educated consumers have higher expectations for their retail experience, and hyper-sensitive shareholders have higher expectations for results.

    While it's tempting to view the sports car segment increase in price as contradictory compared to its loss in retained value, it is important to understand that the retained value metric is only considering 3-year-old vehicles, while the used vehicle price metric includes all model years sold as used. As such, 1- and 2-year-old vehicles are going to significantly increase the average price.



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