Seat lease prices boomed with dot-com stocks in the late 1990's.
Until recently, that was a day's worth of movement in many a dot-com stock.
Some of those who bought dot-com stocks have lost a large part of their investment.
The mania for the few dot-com stocks aimed at the Asian market is just the most visible sign.
But the whimsy went the way of the dot-com stocks.
The idea, which seemed realistic at the time, was to turn Staples.com into a Wall Street darling like so many other dot-com stocks had become.
A. There has been an attempt to make a parallel, because dot-com stocks went up substantially and then came back to earth.
"This is not some dot-com stock from 1998 that is going up 100 times the day it comes public," he said.
The dot-com stocks that have fallen so sharply recently were down again.
The once highflying dot-com stocks that have fallen so sharply recently were down again yesterday more than the broader market.
