Toysmart Closes Down
from the another-dot-com-bites-the-dust dept
Disney's Toysmart has decided to shut down. Making it the latest dot com retailer to run into money problems and give up. I'm still a little surprised to see so many dot coms closing down so quickly. I would have thought that the people who originally funded them actually did see some sort of real value in them (or at least thought they did). But, apparently investors really were stupidly throwing money at anything.
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