New Web Catalogs

| Margery Weinstein

Active Mail Order It’s been a smooth ride so far for skateboard supplies and apparel company Active Mail Order, says chief operating officer Todd Melinn.

at deadline

| MCM staff

CALIFORNIA ENACTS ANTI-SPAM LAW Beleaguered California governor Gray Davis on Sept. 23 signed into law a bill that will penalize those who send commercial

Micro Warehouse: What Went Wrong?

| Paul Miller

It’s tough to say what was more surprising: that Micro Warehouse, one of the industry’s largest and oldest computer catalogers, was selling the North

Who’s There?

| MCM staff

Consumers who try to pass themselves off as business customers at the Website of Hero Arts, a wholesaler of arts and crafts products, will find the going

Letter From an Admirer

| MCM staff

Dear Mr. Del Franco:Although we’ve never met in person, I feel as though I know you after talking with you on the phone from Palm Beach some months ago