

6 Years After Death, Leader of the Dot Flops Set to Rise From Grave! Boo!
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01-29-2006, 09:27 AM,
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6 Years After Death, Leader of the Dot Flops Set to Rise From Grave! Boo!
Quote:New website coming soon! ![]() ![]() http://www.boo.com Part 1 of the story: the company's May 2000 obituary after having blown through $178 million in funding and closed its doors just 6 months after opening: Quote:The glamour of Boo.com epitomized the excitement of start-ups in Internet retailing. Its collapse illustrates the risks. full article: http://news.com.com/Commentary+Dot-coms+...40772.html |
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01-29-2006, 08:08 PM,
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Re: 6 Years After Death, Leader of the Dot Flops Set to Rise From Grave! Boo!
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"Well, Jay was so giddy that someone named Jay was involved with this site we posted our first non-eBay listing in 3 years here at Lunarbid (we tried two items at Yahoo once upon a time, they bombed)" -Marie posting in a LunarBid thread at OTWA in 2005 wins the award for 'most moronic reason ever given for choosing a venue"
"thanks twat u must have nothing better 2 do. do u talk to all your members like that. will not be recomending your site. best way to put it is TULIPTOOLS.COM IS REALLY SHIT. DONT JOIN." -pubescent owner of rinky dink off2auction.com in 2011 |
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01-29-2006, 11:52 PM,
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Re: 6 Years After Death, Leader of the Dot Flops Set to Rise From Grave! Boo!
Say it ain't so, Boo.
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04-09-2007, 07:37 AM,
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7 Years After Death, Leader of the Dot Flops Set to Rise From Grave! Maybe! Boo!
Quote:Boo.com is back and a new site will be launched in June 2006. They missed the relaunch date. ![]() Recent media on the relaunch http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/11/24/boo...007-maybe/ http://uk.techcrunch.com/2006/11/24/boocom-to-relaunch/ http://www.tnl.net/blog/2006/11/28/why-t...kes-sense/ |
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04-09-2007, 05:35 PM,
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Re: 6 Years After Death, Leader of the Dot Flops Set to Rise From Grave! Boo!
I'm dressing the underwear man. ;D
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05-03-2007, 10:25 AM,
(This post was last modified: 05-03-2007, 10:42 AM by mandy.)
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7 Years After Death, Leader of the Dot Flops BOO IS BACK!!!...as a travel site!
It died a fashion site and was reborn as a travel site.
Quote:Â Boo.com is back! The Irish owners of the prominent HostelWorld.com accommodation-booking site, Web Reservations International, have acquired the notorious Boo.com domain, infamous as one of the landmark European dotbomb failures of 2000. full article: http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/news...single8257 THE NOO BOO!!!!! GO DOT FLOP GO!!!! http://www.boo.com |
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05-03-2007, 02:11 PM,
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Re: 6 Years After Death, Leader of the Dot Flops Set to Rise From Grave! Boo!
I wasn't finished playing with underwear man yet.
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05-03-2007, 09:43 PM,
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Re: 6 Years After Death, Leader of the Dot Flops Set to Rise From Grave! Boo!
Quote:The company will harness the marketable aspects of the domain Boo.com "the marketable aspects"....hmmm..."notorious", "infamous", "dotbomb failure". The perfect ingredients for creating threads like this one. ![]()
"Well, Jay was so giddy that someone named Jay was involved with this site we posted our first non-eBay listing in 3 years here at Lunarbid (we tried two items at Yahoo once upon a time, they bombed)" -Marie posting in a LunarBid thread at OTWA in 2005 wins the award for 'most moronic reason ever given for choosing a venue"
"thanks twat u must have nothing better 2 do. do u talk to all your members like that. will not be recomending your site. best way to put it is TULIPTOOLS.COM IS REALLY SHIT. DONT JOIN." -pubescent owner of rinky dink off2auction.com in 2011 |
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05-18-2007, 07:22 PM,
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Re: 6 Years After Death, Leader of the Dot Flops Set to Rise From Grave! Boo!
What's next, Webvan II?
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