Global Materials & Services, Inc. (GBMS)

[XV19]

so, when does he remove the hockey stick and bamboo from up our butts?


:)

fwiw..not only have I written the SEC, but I've written to the Gov of California, the Sec of State of California, and every major newspaper and TV station in the Santee/San Diego area.

[DrPepper]

You know something's fishy when

1. You can't remember if you had more stock splits or banana splits in the last couple months.

2. IHUB starts a board to flame your company.

3. The company uses its cash to test out its product. Hey, can't you guys find anything else to burn???

4. Your product has a picture of Santa on it. Do I need to say more???

5. The company website says this:

Mr. Stephen F. Owens, President of AFRC, said, "I understand the disappointment by the shareholders in the recent stock split and am concerned by the rapidly falling price, and the lack of confidence this has created. I only wish that shareholders could see how hard we are working to assure the success of AFRC and the strength that has developed in the company over the past year."

Mr. James R. Wheeler, Vice President of Sales and Marketing, said, "With the acquisitions in both business and team members AFRC has made over the last few months, we are positioned for what industry calls hockey stick growth."

He continued the analogy by telling an old Asian story about bamboo ...

There is a type of bamboo that grows incredibly fast, sometimes averaging two feet of growth a day. The people who grow this bamboo associate it with values such as persistence, diligence, and stability.

Suppose that the bamboo's abundant growth impressed you so much that you decided to raise a hedge. After consulting the experts, you know to plant the seeds in a barren plot and sprinkle the soil with four cups of water each day. But this is all you know.

YES! you say, as you follow instructions and eagerly await results. Day after day, you sprinkle the soil and scan the backyard for new shoots. After the first couple of weeks, the novelty wears thin. You become bored with the process. Sometimes you wonder why you planted bamboo in the first place.

After the thirtieth day, you notice how everything else is lush except your plot of ground. The neighbors start to make snide remarks. You begin to wonder, what if I skipped today? Would it make any difference?

Soon the weeks turn into months. You feel foolish and find it harder to defend your original decision. You start to doubt your environment, your skills, and everything that made so much sense before. Surely, there would be a sign of life by now. You ask yourself, if bamboo grows so fast, why haven't I seen anything yet?

After 72 days, you decide the bamboo must be dead and give up.

Would this be your scenario, or would your doubts have stopped you sooner?

The story of bamboo is not only about persistence. It is also about believing in what will happen next. The bamboo is not dead, it just doesn't send up a shoot until after the 110th day. Then it grows fast. But you didn't know that. Could you have overcome your doubts to trust the result to come?

For the first 100 days, bamboo focuses on creating an infrastructure of strong roots to support itself. Though it didn't appear to be, the bamboo was saying YES to life the whole time!

Like the bamboo, AFRC needs a strong foundation to grow, and we have to trust it to take time. How many of our well-intentioned goals and ideas get killed before we establish a strong foundation upon which to build them? Sometimes it is easier to follow through once we know what the result will be. But how often do we have the privilege of that knowledge?

In closing, Mr. Wheeler stated, "AFRC has come a long way over the past 17 years, even if many of our valued shareholders cannot see that progress at this point. I just ask that each and everyone of our management team, employees and partners work at 110% to show them that we appreciate their support."

Question to shareholders ...

"CAN OR WILL YOU WAIT UNTIL THE 110th DAY AND WITNESS THE SUCCESS OF AFRC?"

[gotmilk]

Thanks, I located on the Pinksheets a few links.

I have always wondered how charts figure in reverse splits
when there was no trading symbol change, and it looks as if
they work backwards in time to adjust what the share price
would need to be to reflect the future reverse split(s).

If you bought ten shares at $1 each, for investment of $10.

Later a reverse split of 10:1 would result in you having one share
with that same inital investment of $10, so that a chart would
show that at the time you bought it was $10/share to reflect
an adjustment for the 10:1 consolidation.

Below the chart at 2 years ago was 1.7 trillion dollars per share.

http://pinksheets.com/quote/quote.jsp?symbol=AFRD

3 month chart ($300.00)
http://pinksheets.com/quote/chart.jsp?symbol=AFRD

26 month chart ($1,704,225,352.00)
http://pinksheets.com/quote/chart.jsp?symbol=AFRD&duration=2-6-9-0-0-560

Please correct anything I guessed above.

doug

[cellarwine]

lol fire retardant spray. lol glovebox. paleeeeease. all these people do is sell shares. I once bought this monumental POS in one of it's past incarnations at .0009 and got lucky enough to sell out at the ask at .0008 . I still thank my lucky stars, cause it could have been much worse. 1 week 4 days before sub-penny land.

We should all e-mail/write the SEC to jail these punks and similar scams!!

[XV19]

http://www.americanfireretardant.com/

[gotmilk]

Is there a company web site for American Fire Retardant Corp?

Its always good to read the style of scam artists so that one
can hopefully recognize it on other scam company web sites.

[XV19]

...or lose, in our case...

:)

[Doe 3]

Oops....I see there is already a wager! May the best man win!

[Doe 3]

Any wagers when AFRD goes subpenny again? I say before xmas....

[XV19]

what shall we wager?

I've got .0004 shares of AFRD left :)

[cellarwine]

2 weeks

[cellarwine]

DO NOT BUY SHARES IN THIS SCAM !!!!!!

[cellarwine]

i would pay lots of money to see the owners suffer in a turkish jail cell

[mrktman]

do not put ur money here!u will lose it!!!

[XV19]

Any guess as to when AFRD will be sub-penny?

I'm voting for Dec 16th, 2004.