ASOS have dropped quite significantly in the past week for no particular reason and I view this as the perfect opportunity to invest as I can see them bouncing right back up to the 5.50p mark in the next 2-3 weeks. STRONG BUY!!

Sandra: Do you have Norton or any other application that allows you to see what is in your cache history?

John

Sandra: another idea try a google search from scratch on ASOS. Then see what happens when you click onto the ASOS reference as it should take you through to the site.

John

Sandra: If that fails try other search engines? John

John - I've asked Jeeves, tried Google and Yahoo searches and each time I get cannot find server. My friend next door might be able to help though..I'll try later or I could just save the money and buy more shares instead!!

Sandra - This is not good. I want you to do both...buy items from ASOS (good for all of us) and more shares to make you even happier! Re PC problems...most unusual. Hope your neighbour is able to help you out. John

sandrew , try deleting all cookies. If you do this any passwords for any site such as moneyam will have to be reentered.

dil

moneyplus has given a pretty good answer. It is a perfectly reasonable question: no doubt others will attempt to emulate, bound to happen with a successful idea. So, if someone with loads of lolly decided to start today, how ling would it take and how much would it cost? ASOS started out 4 years ago with several initiatives but are focussing on this, given its success. Perhaps a year to build a team and develop the technology. In parallel, research could be done in designs, launch the site with heavy marketing support. I suspect the next phase is difficult: you have to have the offerings at a decent price to get the clients, but how do you build the client base, perhaps attracting them from ASOS. Even if it was NEXT, and especially if it was M&S, that process would be difficult - I suspect that it has taken two years to build up client loyalty and ASOS were, I believe, first with this concept in this niche market. Perhaps, in the end of the day it comes down to brand loyalty.

I suspect it would cost far more than 50M (present ASC cap.) to build a competitive brand and by then ASOS will have moved further ahead. I also suspect that, if a major wanted to go for this market, the best route would be to bid for ASC. If they were not sent off with a flea in their ear, how much would they be prepared to, or have to, pay. For NEXT, with a cap. of 4000M, 250K could well be a decent investment. I may even take their money?

johngtudor: starting smallcap index was that of 6th October: 2596.5 (from IC magazine, if that can be mentioned here! - or does it cause the bb to be expunged?). moneyAM Xmas do sounds a good idea - where are details or do you have to be level 2? Or perhaps we should meet at Portleven and sort out Sandra's cookies!

Eric

johngtudor

Just found the post re lunch - not difficult really as in obvious place. Bit expensive but probably not so if ASC keeps going. Anyone else interested?

Eric

Well I've deleted my cookies (and also baked some brownies by the way)but still can't access asos.com. I'm convinced someone is trying to tell me something.......oooooo.....buy shares not jumpers......oooooo.

Probably see increased activity leading up to the results.

ASOS PLC
01 November 2004



FOR RELEASE 7.00 AM 1st November, 2004


ASOS plc
('ASOS' or 'the Company')
(Leading online fashion retailer)

Notice of Interim Results

ASOS plc, a leading online fashion retailer, will announce Interim Results for
the six months to 30th September 2004 on Monday, 29th November 2004. On the
day, the Company will be holding a presentation for analysts at 11.45am for
12.00pm at No.1 Cornhill, London, EC3V 3ND.

For further information call:

Brian Coleman-Smith / John Moriarty / Grace Marriner 020 7398 3300
Beattie Financial

Note to Editors:-

ASOS plc is an Internet Retail and Marketing Services Group, established in June
2000 and admitted to AIM in October 2001.

Its principal business is ASOS.com, a leading online Fashion and Beauty
Retailer. A top five company in the UK clothing and apparel category (source
Hitwise) ASOS.com has over 369,000 registered users and ships 1000 - 1500 orders
per day with 30,000 customers hitting the web site each day. Its primary
customers are Internet savvy 18-30 year olds.

It also owns Entertainment Marketing, a business providing product placement and
sponsorship services to a large number of blue chip advertisers.


This information is provided by RNS
The company news service from the London Stock Exchange

Regards

PTH

Sandra: I am sorry to read that you have been unable to log onto ASOS even after all these actions. I have been using GHOSTSURF 2005 recently to clear out internet cache, identify spyware & remove/block, and surf the net without anyone identifying my IP address etc. You clearly need to buy this or something similiar to sort things out. One final approach is to reboot your PC and see if you still have the problem? Good luck as we all want you to buy from ASOS...enjoy the brownies! John

John
Thank you for your help. I tried rebooting with no luck so have ordered ghostsurf 2005, hopefully that will sort it out. This isn't the first time this has happened with asos. I just hope I'm unique with this problem...we certainly don't want those sales to dip. Is this this now the nice steady pre results rise I've been looking forward to?

Hi Sandra,
You should be able to download Ghostsurf directly from an outlet with a key to initialise the s/w. Anyway once you have it you can clear out your internet data history and that should (fingers crossed) solve your particular problem. Norton System Works can also do this but is more fiddly from a user perspective, but is good for fixing registry problems etc. Anyway enjoy.

As I have never had a problem with a visit to the ASOS site I can only hope that your problem is unique to your set up. I understand that sales are doing very well, and yes, we can expect some gentle upward pressure on the SP over the next few days...leading up to the Interims announcment..isn't it lovely!

Anyway do keep me posted on your success or otherwise using Ghostsurf.

John

Didn't think about downloading it directly....ordered it from Amazon,should arrive in the next few days.
Nice day....lots of blue everywhere I look(nearly).....so far.

Afternoon all

Nice little one line advert on NTL World home page TODAY

ON NTL WORLD- MON 1ST NOV

Grab an amazing holiday at Butlins ????????? question marks mine

DRESS LIKE A STAR WITH AS SEEN ON SCREEN. ENDS

It all helps. seadog

SEADOG: Tks for the information....it actually takes up a lot of time getting these advertisements up and running. ASOS seem to be doing a good job of spreading the message.

sandrew64: Further to our recent exchange of email re your problem accessing ASOS which I think is down to a corrupted file...assuming you are using MicrosoftXP, try (Tools > Internet > Options > General > Delete Files) If this works for you...great stuff but don't shout out my name in anger as IMO GhostSurf is still a great buy!

Anyway I have only just spotted this way of clearing out the files. At the same time I think you (and others) might be interested in looking at www.onspeed.com
The web site suggests a speed improvement of 5 times on dial-up and 3 times on broadband. I can tell you it works, and in fact makes moneyam retrieval superfast. It costs 25 a year and you get a free trial.


John

John: thanks for that; I'll give it a trial. Been waiting for weeks for broadband to be implemented; problem with being out in the sticks.

Good day on the markets. Vast majority of buys even at the higher prices. A few fairly substantial sells later in the day. Trading pattern looks fair with price moving about with the preponderance of buys and sells - looks as if the MMs are just trying to keep things moving. Indication is that buyers are around in some force so sp could be testing 80p in next day or two. Looking back at pth's graphs (post 575), the conditions he describes still apply: Bollinger Bands pulled apart as sp rises; RSI still rising. In uncharted waters; all blue Sandra. Mind, the sunset was almost blood-red but I see that as a positive sign!

Eric

Can anyone tell me what the black trades are on Comdirect? I know red is sell and blue is buy--would black be MMs or buys and sells cancelling each other out?
excuse my ignorance only just started using Com D.

moneyplus

I suspect that these are the same as the black marked trades on moneyAM live trading stream. These are trades at the mid-point of the quoted spread. I notice that you can ofter discern whether they are buys or sells by looking at the neighbouring transactions: i.e. if one or other is generally close to the mid-point then it is likely that the black trade is of that type. I notice that large trades are sometimes shown as black and included in the unknown total even when not at the mid-point: I suspect these are trades which have not been reported with, say, a delay of an hour and it is not possible to recover the spread at the time fo the trade.

Eric

Thanks Eric-they must try to confuse us somehow!! Good explanation though as when I look at the trend lines they are often all blue.