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GSIC » Topics » Our operating results have and may continue to fluctuate significantly, which may cause the market price of our common stock to be volatile.

This excerpt taken from the GSIC 10-Q filed Dec 7, 2005.

Our operating results have and may continue to fluctuate significantly, which may cause the market price of our common stock to be volatile.

 

Our annual and quarterly operating results have and may continue to fluctuate significantly due to a variety of factors, many of which are outside of our control. Because our operating results may be volatile and difficult to predict, period-to-period comparisons of our operating results may not be a good indication of our future performance. Our operating results may also fall below our published expectations and the expectations of securities analysts and investors, which likely will cause the market price of our common stock to decline significantly.

 

Factors that may cause our operating results to fluctuate or harm our business include but are not limited to the following:

 

  •   our ability to obtain new partners or to retain existing partners;

 

  •   the performance of one or more of our partner’s e-commerce businesses;

 

  •   our and our partners’ ability to obtain new consumers at a reasonable cost or encourage repeat purchases;

 

  •   the number of visitors to the e-commerce businesses operated by us or our ability to convert these visitors into customers;

 

  •   our and our partners’ ability to offer an appealing mix of products or to sell products that we purchase;

 

  •   our ability to adequately maintain, upgrade our partners’ e-commerce businesses or the technology and systems we use to process customers’ orders and payments;

 

  •   the timing and costs of upgrades and developments of our system and infrastructure;

 

  •   the ability of our competitors to offer new or superior e-commerce businesses, services or products;

 

  •   price competition that results in lower profit margins or losses;

 

  •   the seasonality of our business, especially the importance of our fiscal fourth quarter to our business;

 

  •   our inability to obtain or develop specific products or brands or unwillingness of vendors to sell their products to us;

 

  •   unanticipated fluctuations in the amount of consumer spending on various products that we sell, which tend to be discretionary spending items;

 

  •   the cost of advertising and the amount of free shipping promotions we offer;

 

  •   increases in the amount and timing of operating costs and capital expenditures relating to expansion of our operations;

 

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  •   our inability to manage our shipping costs on a profitable basis or unexpected increases in shipping costs or delivery times, particularly during the holiday season;

 

  •   inflation or prices of fuel and gasoline and other raw materials that impact our costs;

 

  •   technical difficulties, system security breaches, system downtime or Internet slowdowns;

 

  •   our inability to manage inventory levels or control inventory shrinkage;

 

  •   our inability to manage fulfillment operations or provide adequate levels of customer service or our inability to forecast the proper staffing levels in fulfillment and customer service;

 

  •   an increase in the level of our product returns or our inability to effectively process returns;

 

  •   government regulations related to the Internet or e-commerce which could increase the costs associated with operating our businesses, including requiring the collection of sales tax on all purchases through the e-commerce businesses we operate; and

 

  •   unfavorable economic conditions in general or specific to the Internet or e-commerce, which could reduce demand for the products sold through our partners’ e-commerce businesses.

 

This excerpt taken from the GSIC 10-Q filed May 12, 2005.

Our operating results have and may continue to fluctuate significantly, which may cause the market price of our common stock to be volatile.

 

Our annual and quarterly operating results have and may continue to fluctuate significantly due to a variety of factors, many of which are outside of our control. Because our operating results may be volatile and difficult to predict, period-to-period comparisons of our operating results may not be a good indication of our future performance. Our operating results may also fall below our published expectations and the expectations of securities analysts and investors, which likely will cause the market price of our common stock to decline significantly.

 

Factors that may cause our operating results to fluctuate or harm our business include but are not limited to the following:

 

  •   our ability to obtain new partners or to retain existing partners;

 

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  •   the performance of one or more of our partner’s e-commerce businesses;

 

  •   our and our partners’ ability to obtain new consumers at a reasonable cost or encourage repeat purchases;

 

  •   the number of visitors to the e-commerce businesses operated by us or our ability to convert these visitors into customers;

 

  •   our and our partners’ ability to offer an appealing mix of products or to sell products that we purchase;

 

  •   our ability to adequately maintain, upgrade our partners’ e-commerce businesses or the technology and systems we use to process customers’ orders and payments;

 

  •   the timing and costs of upgrades and developments of our system and infrastructure;

 

  •   the ability of our competitors to offer new or superior e-commerce businesses, services or products;

 

  •   price competition that results in lower profit margins or losses;

 

  •   the seasonality of our business, especially the importance of our fiscal fourth quarter to our business;

 

  •   our inability to obtain or develop specific products or brands or unwillingness of vendors to sell their products to us;

 

  •   unanticipated fluctuations in the amount of consumer spending on various products that we sell, which tend to be discretionary spending items;

 

  •   the cost of advertising and the amount of free shipping promotions we offer;

 

  •   increases in the amount and timing of operating costs and capital expenditures relating to expansion of our operations;

 

  •   our inability to manage our shipping costs on a profitable basis or unexpected increases in shipping costs or delivery times, particularly during the holiday season;

 

  •   inflation or prices of fuel and gasoline and other raw materials that impact our costs;

 

  •   technical difficulties, system security breaches, system downtime or Internet slowdowns;

 

  •   our inability to manage inventory levels or control inventory shrinkage;

 

  •   our inability to manage fulfillment operations or provide adequate levels of customer service or our inability to forecast the proper staffing levels in fulfillment and customer service;

 

  •   an increase in the level of our product returns or our inability to effectively process returns;

 

  •   government regulations related to the Internet or e-commerce which could increase the costs associated with operating our businesses, including requiring the collection of sales tax on all purchases through the e-commerce businesses we operate; and

 

  •   unfavorable economic conditions in general or specific to the Internet or e-commerce, which could reduce demand for the products sold through our partners’ e-commerce businesses.

 

EXCERPTS ON THIS PAGE:

10-Q
Dec 7, 2005
10-Q
May 12, 2005

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