You are reading what you want to read. The dotcom bust was in 00-01. Late 2002 was because of overspending and sales falling off. Again, hindsight is always 20/20.
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Really? I'm looking at a chart of AMZN in late 2002 and it's clear they were still recovering from the DOT-COM bust. There's also no indication in the chart that they were near bankruptcy.