e-Commerce Growth Screeches to a Halt

This whole mess is what happens when many successive president administrations AND congress base economic/tax policy almost exclusively on spending and consider savings and responsibel spending with the utmost contempt and disdain. I am refering to consumer policy here, not government and/or business policy.

Unions=communism get rid of unions and Detroit will be saved, just like Japan did and now they much better

Why does so many people think that double digit growth is sustainable? This sort of growth just can't continue. And we are seeing now that it won't. Exponential growth is unrealistic and we should expect it to continue.

We are all ignorant. We are just ignorant about different things.....

Hey Blodgett - what's AMZN worth now?????????//////

Weight the numbers properly and you get a rounded 5% increase, not 4%. That's 25% over Comscore's numbers. Figures lie and liers figure!

How will Nigerian scammers make a living? LOL!

This is what happens when you open up free trade. 3rd world countries steal the jobs and the US unemployment rate soars. Bring the jobs back to the US. Unemployment will drop. Plenty of new tax money for Uncle Sam. People will then be able to buy things with their newly found paychecks. Get rid of unions as they inflate salaries vs non unions thus forcing companies to look at other options. IE China, Mexico and India.

I'm taking advantage I guess then, Amazon and Ebay falls and Fullstock.net hits the radar. Thats my E-commerce store, I have zero operating costs though so if nobody buys anything I'm not out anything but my time doing site maintenance. Active military so I have a guaranteed paycheck.

Until the policymakers understand that the economy is supported not from some golden sky hook from above but from brick and mortar from below, the way out of this mess will be slow and painful. When will they ever learn...when will they ever learn???

I can't wait to hear that you jerks have been fired. Go get a real job and try to add soome productivity to the system instead of constantly bringing bad news.

Here's a question, who fills a house full of crap you don't need, throw it out and do it again or buy a bigger houose for more crap?

BO crash continues.........

Bush has not only run 3 companies in the ground, he has also wrecked this country. To all you republicans I hope you feel the pain and to all union members who vote the same when will you learn!!! Merry Christmas.

We need a Holiday Stimulus Check in order to keep the economy from an April 1, 2009 Depression, and that is no joke. We were descending into a depression, then we start nosediving into a depression; if something don't pick up, we're be dropping into a depression out of controlled. Now that would be bad.

History will call this time THE GREAT RECESSION.... welcome to it.

no shizzle give money to the consumer to pay their mortgages and bills now and new spending will insue, let the top 3 auto makers fail an reorganize or tell their ceo's to take pay cuts! They flew to Washington to beg 4 money in some crazy jet that costs millions... These people r crooks. We are in the great American heist!

Guys, go to &^%$ , I know how you love the fact that boomers looking to retire are loosing it all,

My store on Amazon has taken a 20% hit, certainly not like last November. The averge item I sell is in the $15-$20 range, and my clients tend to be Males and Females aged 18-35. You can't get what I sell at the malls. Most of my best sellers are made by American companies. Hope it stays that way!

I'm likely using eBay this Xmas more than ever, making my first present purchase today. I'm looking for the very best deals this year and I'm hoping eBay can help!