Let's look at some of the dot-com categories and try to understand their predicament. This category is one of the first to emerge from the rollout of the Web. The ability for these operations to make money has always been problematic. Advertising was going to be the way, but the perfect model for advertising on the Web has yet to be discovered. Worse, the massive size of the Web, with an estimated 10 billion Web pages, now makes it impossible to catalog it with any efficiency.
Nobody wins here.
But its performance has not been good since March. It has stabilized like CNET, and it helped that the company bought a real-world auction house, Butterfields. You know something is up when you have to invent puns to depict a category. It sells toys online. The idea was that the toy market was huge, and people didn't have time to shop for toys in the real world and their children were apparently not important enough for them to make time.