Plastic2Oil Inc (PTOI)

[loanranger]

"I have never received compensation to promote PTOI or any stock"

I never thought so and I've never suggested that you did. My "And that loyalty I expect has been expensive" comment was aimed at a willingness to remain invested in a company that didn't deserve it for reasons other than the actual performance and promise of the company and while its share price evaporated. I believe that the two parties in question had exactly the influence that they were looking to have.
This speaks to that issue as well:
"I think they were probably misled by JB as to the prospects of profitability."
I'll never believe that the gentlemen in question believed what they themselves said.

Whether people were compensated to support JBI or whether they merely defended it in order to pump some life into the share price based on their own holdings is a pretty subtle distinction when it's done with the knowledge that the business model, in reality, sucks.