[bryanculver]

While I don't completely disagree with you in the large discrepancy between the two, I believe it's a gross over-simplification to state Priceline owns nothing. In the same over-simplification you could state that newspapers are worthless as a middleman to the actual events that happen. However what you are actually accessing is talent, resources, and services to compile that list of recent events every day (or in the case of Priceline: hotels, airlines, rental cars.)

[eecc]

It's a market. Difficult to find in the ocean of more or less poor sites...