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What would really be nice is if Mark would provide some solid guidance on the super duper million dollar deals that he has been promising since last summer. Hell, he hasn't even named the "partner" even though he said he would do so in the October, 2023 time frame.
I just took another look at their most recent Q for the period ending September 20, 2023.
$ 91,000 in assets
$ 16,000,000 in liabilities (I removed the derivative liability since that's skews things a bit).
9 month revenue of $ 66 thousand
9 month SG&A of $ 2.2 million
9 month operating loss of $ 2.5 million
For a company that keeps talking about it being more than 20 years old. 20 years of almost non-existent sales, exorbitant salaries, multi-million dollar losses and Mark's flapping gums.
Looking at the Q from last September, the silver lining is that as the company's revenues have gone down their gross profit has gone up.
You don't see that very often.
Here is a link to the Howard County Indiana Tax Assessor's web site that lists every parcel in the County. Howard County includes Kokomo.
http://treasurer.howardcounty34.us/cgi.exe?CALL_PROGRAM=C009LIST
Search on StarPlus Energy, the company building the battery plant, and you'll see lots of properties owned under that name.
Search on SPOOZ, JP3E or any other name associated with John Park and share with the board the properties that are owned by one of those entities.
You are delusional.
Potential sales. LOL.
My bet is there were fewer than 10 products purchased through the Market portal.
If anyone wants to buy Frankie's magic potions, they can go direct to his web site: https://frankieavalon.com/product/fruit-veggie-essentials-2/ and set up automatic shipments.
The thing about doing business with government is that, generally speaking, things are done out in the open. An $ 18 million contract would have been discussed at several City of Kokomo meetings prior to an award. Since the announcement was made by SPOOZ today, one would think the contract award would appear on the agenda of the immediate prior meeting of the City Council.
Here's a link to the "Council Packet," which includes the agenda for the meeting of February 26, 2024:
https://cms4files1.revize.com/kokomoin/document_center/council_packet/Council%20Packet%202-26-2024.pdf
There is mention of JP, Harmony anything or an award of an $18 million contract to anyone.
I smell burning pants.
Well, sort of. Those numbers are taken from the 10-Q for the quarter ended September 20, 2023. At that time the company reported $ 34,000 in total revenue for the first 9 months of the calendar year.
But, but, but, Rory has been regularly sending out PRs about new stores opening on Market.live. A significant number of those announcements were made during the 4th quarter of 2023.
Are you suggesting that all those stores aren't boosting the revenue run rate of the company?
Why would Rory mislead the investing public in such a fashion?
Seems totally out of character for him.
Take a look at the livestreams scheduled on market.live now through April 17...6 weeks worth are displayed.
There are a total of 9 streamers. Nine. One of those (Tina the baker) has just one stream scheduled during the 6 week period. Sandwich making guy is gone again (he probably realized that he can make more money working an hour at the Piggly Wiggly than he can doing a show on Market.) No return of Mike Crackhead Lindell. No return of the crazy jewelry making lady. Frankie Avalon has two shows on the schedule...it would be surprising if he returns after that.
Why aren't all the stores that the company announced doing livestreams? Why would anyone come to Market to buy something when they can go direct to the seller's web site and get special deals, free shipping and, in many cases, a lower price than what Market is charging.
What a sad place Rory has created. The financials coming out next month will be interesting indeed.
In the morning most were catching some more Zs or maybe reading the newspaper. This was before cell phones and portable music players so there was quiet. Can we all remember quiet?
The trains out of 30th Street Station were probably Amtrak, which was a more comfortable ride than NJ Transit trains out of Trenton. I could sometimes catch an Amtrak out of Trenton but they didn't run as frequently as NJ Transit so it was hit or miss.
I had a friend who commuted almost every day from northern Bucks County by car to the Riverdale section of the Bronx (a rather nice part, I may add). He had one of the first Toyota Prius models to save on fuel expenses. He had a nice house at an affordable price for his family to live and he made NYC wages. Sort of a win/win if you didn't consider the toll it took to make that drive.
one of the Eddie's domains was hempster.club. I think the other was also was a hempster dot something. And this wasn't too long ago. Maybe 6 or 7 years.
Ah, the good old days when I used to either drive or take SEPTA from Bucks County to Trenton, then hop on a NJ Transit train to Penn Station. Every Monday through Friday. For me it was a total drag, but there were people on the train that did it every working day for years. On Friday evenings several groups would flip the NJ Transit bench seats so they faced each other, the playing cards would come out, beer cans would be opened and they seemed to have a grand old time.
Curiously absent from the criteria for "Best Places" is weather. Wisconsin and Michigan winters are not for everyone. And parts of Rochester New York get an average of 10 feet of snow each winter. Of course with global warming those places are becoming more temperate, just as many areas of Florida will be lost to rising sea levels and increased hurricane activity.
Maybe Trenton is so bad after all.
The FBI is on Scott Perry's azz over January 6. With a little luck he will be in prison before too long.
That's Eddie Vasker level sh*t. Years back he did something similar with one of his shell companies that was supposedly going into the cannabis business.
He purchased a couple of worthless domain names for about $ 10 each, then, with great fanfare, he turned around and sold the domains to "the company" for many millions of shares of stock. Last time I looked the domains expired (because the annual fee wasn't paid).
Poor Eddie can't catch a break these days. His wife filed for divorce and speculation is that she's using her knowledge of his many scams to extract a settlement from him. Of course, he may very well be broke.
Let's see how much money Rory's BFF and fellow A-list wannabe David Meltzer dumps into this sh*tshow.
My guess.
Zero.
Be sure to get a cut glove to go along with your mandoline slicer. Many of the mandolines come with a guard of some kind, but for many items I just whack the food back and forth with my fingers...so...protection is important.
A chef also gave me a tip: get some plastic gloves to put over the cut glove. That way the glove won't absorb any of those "juices" from things like onions.
They are actively looking for ways to destroy democracy. If they are successful, they won't need to care what the majority wants nor will they care about people hating them.
Once they are solidly in control their plan is to issue their dictums on how America will be governed, backed by the military.
This is what has been going on in Iran for decades. I have an acquaintance whose family fled Iran in the early 1980s. He is particularly concerned about how many of the things that went on in Iran in the late 1970s and the early 1980s are starting to happen in America. Sadly, his father who is 87 years old and his mother (a few years younger), went back to Iran last fall because dad wanted to fix up the family home (which has been vacant for more than 40 years) and sell it. They are still there.
Yikes.
Be sure to catch a "few and far between" livestream on Market.Live.
A whopping 4 streams today (including octogenarian Frankie Avalon pushing his magic pills).
Followed by a well deserved 3 day weekend for the Verb/Market team
1 livestream next Monday
3 livestreams on Tuesday
2 livestreams on Wednesday
2 livestreams on Thursday (Frankie again)
Followed by another 3 day weekend
The company has released PRs listing dozens of new sellers. Why are those sellers not livestreaming?
For years Lake has been emulating her demigod, Cheetolini, so what do you expect from her?
Verb is not an investment. It's a speculation as best.
For years the company has been a vehicle that provides Rory the capital he needs to pursue his vision. He failed with bBooth. He failed in the CRM business. Now he's failing in the video shopping business. Each time Rory has spent vast sums of investors' money that overshadows the revenues the ventures have generated.
And let's not forget how Rory took what seemingly a viable (although likely stagnant) Sound Concepts business and burned it all down to recast the company in a way that conforms to the "Rory Vision." He sold off the Sound Concepts and other acquisition for a small fraction of what the company paid to acquire those businesses.
And all the while Rory smiles with his fake choppers and tells everyone either a) how the killers and rainmakers that are working for him are going to make everyone rich or b) how the failures are not his fault because....capital markets, greedy bankers, naked short sellers, yada yada yada.
One can choose to speculate on Rory's ability to finally create something that generates revenue and positive cash flow, but RC's record of financial failure, failure to take responsibility for his poor decisions, and constant stream of misleading statements should cause any potentially speculator to think twice. Or maybe even three times.
Doesn't matter. It's the humiliation that would be just priceless.
And don't underestimate the cultist's abilities to bid on TFG's shit. Some of them will probably buy stuff just so they can give it back to him.
The problem is that Trump's properties are probably leveraged to the hilt. What happens if NY State attempts to seize a property that is encumbered by a mortgage?
Instead, they should go after little stuff that will irk the shit out of TFG. Send the Marshalls to Mara Crappo and start carrying away furnishings and pick up dinner plates while the trashy "members" of the club are eating off them. And take his golf clubs. I don't mean the real estate. I mean his driver, his putter, every wood and every iron.
Set something up on Govbids.com and let the cultists spend their Social Security to buy the trash. Takes money away from TFG's idiot supporters and puts money into the coffers of NYS.
I would pay to see all of that happen.
Fortunately the market seems to realize that Mark has no credibility.
We still await the name of the company that was going to take Zerify to the promised land. That name was supposed to be revealed in October of 2023.
Like everything else that comes out of Mark's maw, that was a lie.
The VERB team is releasing a steady stream of new store announcements and saying how things are going gangbusters.
Let's see what the 2023 financial report looks like.
My guess is that report will be less sanguine than the PRs.
And the goalposts will be moved once again...wait until the X quarter of 2024. Or the financials for 2024. Or 2025.
This is what Rory is hoping for. People dazzled enough by his bullshit to give him more time to show positive results.
Wait 'til Comer finds out about that!
/s
Yup. Anyone with a PACER account can locate the docket in the Southern District of New York. 1:2021cv11222
On January 17, 2023, FirstFire Global's motion to dismiss the case was granted. Link to the opinion: https://anonymfile.com/qqEY/darkpulse-opinion.pdf
DarkPulse filed a motion to appeal the same day. FirstFire made a motion for Attorney's Fees.
There has not been any activity on the docket regarding the appeal or the motion for fees.
Earlier today there were two posts (by two different people) on the other board where share owners were lamenting their losses and expressing some hope for a share price rise based on the new store sign-ups.
Posts were deleted because they weren't all sunshine and puppy dogs.
Rory missed his calling as a televangelist. Different rubes, but same path to wealth.
Here is Rory's speech when he rang the opening bell at NASDAQ:
https://m.facebook.com/Nasdaq/videos/314613975878756/
Post from the "other board"
Stock offering at 0.73 per share, is that good?
Oh my!
Only a numbskull expects that the offering will sell for anything above the current market price of the stock. Quite the contrary. A quick Google search says the OS is currently around 19 million shares. If this offering sells out 100% that will more than double the OS.
Take a look at the expected use of proceeds in the offering document. 50% will be used for Marketing and 50% is slated for corporate overhead (salaries for Rory and the other people who work 4 days a week at best). That is a projected allocation of the funds and is not guaranteed.
Rory has already pissed away $ 180 million of investor capital. Why would anyone outside of a hospital for the insane believe that giving Rory more money will result in success.
73 cents? HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Maybe 7 cents.
No Verb ice cream on Sundae. 3 day weekends!
One livestream on Market.live today. Two on Thursday, including octogenarian Frankie Avalon hawking his magic potions. Then another 3 day weekend for the staff. Back on Monday with a whopping two livestreams.
Let's hope these people REMEMBER the sabotaged border deal come November.
And the raping.
And the stolen documents.
And the fraud.
And the (fingers crossed) criminal convictions.
The message that you see when you try to open such a link is misleading. The Outlook client for Windows will not let you open a link in a message that is in your junk folder. It's likely the same on the Mac. This is by design.
As blackcat said, the solution is to move the message back to your inbox.
If there are messages from senders that you don't want cluttering your inbox, rather than flag the messages as junk, set up a rule in Outlook that puts the messages in a designated folder (name it Stuff I'll look at later, for example). When you have the inclination you can sort through those messages and click on links if you like. They should open.
Creating the rules can be tricky since the subject lines probably change all the time. You can try setting up the rule based on the sender's email address.
I belong to a "family gym" that has patrons from infants (there is on-site childcare and classes for tots on up) to the elderly. You often hear a parent calling their child's name or kids calling out the name of their friends.
For boys I hear a good number named Sam and Max. Names I always associated with old Jewish men.
No Seymours, though. Fortunately for them I'd say.
My company spends almost $10,000 every month on Microsoft subscriptions. In very rare instances we need to get tech support from them.
Their phone/email support is rarely helpful. We've had tickets open with them for weeks that get no response.
We have much better luck googling the problem and trying to weed our way through the hits to find ones that look like they may work.
Will Rory be using VERB money to entertain "clients" at the Super Bowl?
One livestream today - at noon. Then Friday, Saturday, Sunday off for the Verb team. Back on Monday with 2 livestreams.
This is not a business.
What about hamberders? Will the prison supply him with McDonalds hamberders?