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Wow...not much volume, but quite a large spike. Would be nice to eventually get an update from the CEO on if all negotiations are off the table, if there's still something in the works...i.e., is there still a possibility of a R/M?
It's highly unusual, and wonderful. How many other companies have you had that no one could ever get in touch with the CEO? And then there's the companies that people contact the CEO but you're left having to trust another faceless iHubber to provide true information 3rd party, or you have to contact the CEO yourself.
Eddie is a busy man, but he's answered my emails always within a day, and the phone every time I called. That being said, I, and others here, know that he keeps us updated with everything he can and I try to respect the fact that he's busy building a company.
We're also in a rather unique situation here where posters on this board control somewhere between 75-90% of the actual trading float, and it really makes a lot of sense to update shareholders through this forum.
SheepDog is right, most of the info is in the stickies. BLUF though, in regards to WW ... Eddie and team have the means to maximize capacity right now through other distribution methods, but they're not as profitable. It is highly likely that WW alone will max out existing oven capacity and provide revenues to order a full size oven.
Check out all the stickies...this is no "narrow net" that's being cast. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised by the broadness of Eddie's plan.
Where'd we close? I need to renew my L2 / real-time quote service...stopped using it due to my job for a while, but I can't see anything real time. Looks like around .022??
Yep...
mine actually show up as EYSMXZ ... with a .00 for current price, which naturally shows my account with a -100% gain/loss. SEEK shares nowhere to be seen in my account, but I've been holding this for many months now and long ago decided I'm happy with the shares I have, have no need to buy more and no need to sell anytime soon, so I think it will get fixed soon enough for me.
Hope it's not messing up your trading strategy. GL
Depends on what you call good I suppose. I didn't get as many as I wanted, but I did get a position. I wouldn't be surprised to see this retrace below my buy price ... maybe even all the way down to fill the gap up this morning, but maybe not.
Ya know, I learned some big lessons in another stock we're in, mostly watching other folks think they "missed the run" - when buying something that you think has a lot of potential, buying in at 20-30%, heck even 100% higher than you wanted (I was begging for my funds to clear earlier in the week to buy between .05 - .06) doesn't mean you're chasing only to get left holding the bag - it can still be a really good decision.
I think my account will bounce from green to red and back a few times today, but in the coming weeks I think I'll be glad I got in this morning.
Is the bid/ask showing on iHub correct? I don't have real-time quotes anymore nor L2 access anymore.
Closed at .009, but iHub is showing ask at .011??
Good morning everyone. :)
Funds cleared this morning - looking to pick up a small starting position here of 100k shares or so.
Board marked.
Yep, and minus iHub longs is about ... 500-750k
Thanks. I've read it. Wouldn't have bought if I hadn't. Looking forward to next week(s) here.
In this morning with a small starter position
I'm here, waiting for funds to clear, was hoping transfer would complete this morning...looks like I have to wait another day...checked this out earlier this week and have been ready to take a position.
Still here and waiting, also hoping someone else has any kind of updates from Scott...
Who would lie about buying while really selling? That's the question you should probably be asking - yourself.
That's what it looked like to me too...tell everybody you're going to place a huge order to try to create a small buying frenzy to sell your own shares into. Glad he's gone. I know as SMKY grows we'll get more of his kind around...not sure how people sleep well at night being so deceptive when there's plenty of honest ways to make green. Oh well, I'm sure his shares were sucked up by someone not willing to let go for some time.
Also here and holding...for quite some time now. Hoping this one surprises us all sometime this fall!
Thanks! The couple hundred thousand I bought between .03 back in December down to .01 and back up to .06 are going to change our lives in the coming years. Money's been tight, but back in April I made a firm decision not to sell the golden goose before it started laying eggs, and she supported that decision. So far it's been very exciting to watch patience pay off and WE'RE JUST GETTING STARTED!!
Good morning all - got married yesterday, just checking in while my new bride gets a post-wedding haircut before we launch on our honeymoon. :) What a nice way to end last week and another great start to this week!!
Anyway to read this without creating an account and logging into Charles' blog?
Great! Maybe this is what we've been waiting for to trigger a run!
Guess we'll see today.
50,000% I like the sound of that. :). I think you should clarify, for those of us that were buying at .01, thats only $5, which the CEO fully believes is within reach in the next three years. So, you're not talking about holding this for decades. Somehow I get the feeling this beats the heck out of the last "financial education" classthe army forced me to sit through where I was told "mutual funds, mutual funds, mutual funds." hahaha
to the penny or to ten pennies? $0.1 is ten cents...which is over 1000% from here. we'll see. i'm not being impatient, i've been holding EOSI for quite some time now. what I was asking was if this talk of EOSI having another run is based on pure fantasy speculation, or if there is wind of something legitimate in the air that would cause it to run ... that's what I was asking.
Yeah, but when is news coming? Ever? Is there even a hint of anything in the works that might be newsworthy? Or is this just a wish on a star?
I'm just curious - and have a question for everyone.
Ignore for a second that SMKY is already a 20-bagger from Jan-Feb
Ignore for a second that the CEO answers the phone AND posts on iHub!
Ignore for a second everything good in the works that's going to keep on pushing this baby north.
All that aside, has anyone here ever been on an iHub board this devoid of bashers? This positive? This mature? This friendly?
I haven't. I'll be honest, I stopped reading half the other boards, even stocks I own. I browse them, but I can't handle the childish immaturity. I like this place. If iHub was brick and mortar, this is the room I'd be hanging out in with my morning smoothie. It feels like community.
I just want to take a quick second this Sunday evening to thank everyone who's part of the mature, positive posting. Granted, the transparency of Eddie really helps eliminate any chance for people to bicker over who's opinionated interpretation of vague news is correct, but still - thank you all. I like you guys.
Well I hope it's soon. I've been here for a while, always watching - have held my position for many months now - would really like a good run to make some staggered sells on the way up at the ask.
Here's to hoping for a good week.
Fort Benning, GA (FBGA) ... that's the standard abbreviations military uses for their posts, Fort Hood (FHTX), etc.
Yes they will indeed ... be buying from us. You know, if you take just yourself out of the equation, it probably drops the average closer to 40,000 shares per board follower ;). Granted, not everyone that's marked the board has a position, but there aren't many freebies floating around. Wonder if you'd be willing to do another informal tally if folks PM'd you their sharecount, just to share the total with the board. I'd be interested to see what percentage of the effective float is held by iHubbers.
I still get a kick out of looking at that chart, and remembering back in the Jan-Feb timeframe when nothing was going on. PPS was hovering down near a penny, and days would go by with no posts or only 1 or 2. I remember PianoMan suggesting buying a couple hundred dollars worth of stock every week or two. You know, something small, like picking-up another 15-20,000 per week, nice foresight! Of course, "Rhino" was sucking up shares like a massive vacuum cleaner, and I'm sure there were others in the silent shadows adding as well. I know some already had significant positions, and others of us were building as funds allowed, hoping for some good times in the future. Here we are 10-20x the PPS it was back then, and Six Cents, you posted a DD compilation that legitimately and without any kind of unsubstantiated pumping points to now being a perfect time to invest because things haven't even started to get good yet! Great thing is there were several+ million shares that were accumulated during that time by folks that are long with no intentions of selling anytime remotely soon. It's so nice to know how that there will soon be catalytic events that will create buying volume and also to know where many of the shares in the tiny float reside. It's gonna be a fun ride!
Such a great stock we have here! Nothing but good times ahead.
Not to speak for Eddie, but my understanding/guess of what he meant in his post.
Brand "1" - packaged smoked food - it's what most of the discussion on the board has been about in the recent past. Prepared, packaged, and shipped directly to consumers (whether that's through word of mouth, WW, RV networks, etc) to create a nationally recognized brand. Even if/when this starts to go into retail distribution such as WFM and others, it's still packaged smoked food sold to consumers.
Brand "2" - Fast-casual smoked food restaurants - The modular restaurant units / kiosks that are part of the long term plan under an incredible "franship" concept that marries the best of franchises with the best of business ownership. Due to central production of the product, these locations will require far less kitchen equipment, training, resources, etc. to operate, and as mentioned on the website, reduce volume loss that occurs during cooking. Already prepared food will be delivered to these locations for sale to consumers that want to "eat it now." Due to the combination of very short preparation time combined with high quality, I believe that these will appeal to both customers that want to have a sit down gourmet smoked (you-name-it) meal, and also those looking for a fast food option that is tastier and healthier than the standard burger and fry combo found in fast food areas, food courts, kiosks at sporting events, etc.
Although the product will all be centrally produced, these are two very unique "brands" in the sense that you can't go into a supermarket or to the McDonald's, Outback, TGIF, Subway, etc. website and order their products. Their "brand" is their nationally recognized restaurants, and Smoky Market will become one of those, as Eddie's description indicates, combining gourmet sit-down restaurants with the convenience of fast food turn-around time. On the flip side, you can't go to a Omaha Steaks restaurant and sit down and order an Omaha steak for dinner, with side dishes and a drink. Same with Schwanns or any other brand name that everybody knows and recognizes as a retail-distributed or direct order product.
Therefore, Smoky Market is uniquely postured to create BOTH of these brands, and quite honestly, when you think about any of the components in those two "brands" it's a lot of potential. When you think about the upside potential of all of that combined, it's nothing short of staggering.
I personally try not to think about it too much because it gets hard to figure out how/where I'd use all that equity/capital at some point in the future. Tough problem, I know. :)
I'm sure Eddie can answer your question better, but thought I'd give it a stab.
I stayed in Elko once, 3 of us did a post-graduation road trip from NY to FL, TX, OK, CO, and ended at one of the guy's home in Gerlach, NV. We stayed at his brother's in Elko before driving across the Black Rock Desert to Empire/Gerlach. Sad that Empire doesn't exist anymore, pretty interesting story.
Beautiful country up there, high desert, wild horses, thermal hot springs ....
but to not get too far off-topic, you're right, there isn't much out there, and with a product that will always be in-demand...it won't take much in the right areas to get thousands of subscribers.
Very patient here to let Dan work his plan.
As always, Eddie is the best to provide clarity to these questions - but, my understanding is that WW provides a promotional function for SMKY as they commnuicate with their customers via their website and other publications. Customers, in turn, order the product whereby the order may be routed through WW, but I'm pretty sure that the product is not, i.e. WW doesn't order, stock, and deliver SMKY products. I'm also quite sure there's a fee to WW for whatever promotional measures they take.
But, to actually answer your question - based on conversation with Eddie and his postings on here, there will be no set contract with WW where they agree to purchase X amount of A, B, and C product from SMKY. Instead, they launch SMKY as one of their approved products to their clientele, and orders (hopefully) start rolling in. Again, if my memory serves me correctly, if only about 2% of their membership become regular SMKY buyers, it will max out the capacity for the existing half-size oven, which, without looking at old posts, I think translate into about $30MM per year.
So, WW could be massive, and instead of a set contract that would have to be renegotiated, once it's opened up to WW clients, and as word of mouth through social media/networking and reviews starts to spread, volume should start to increase exponentially potentially creating both the "problem" of needing to order a full-size oven for further capacity, as well as the revenue needed to finance it "in-house."
I forget what ticker, but I saw this happen before, where actually instead of doing a R/S they did a F/S at a much, much higher ratio. ST made that big bumble ... hopefully folks don't dump shares they don't legally own, as it is my understanding (feel free to correct me if I'm wrong) that there is still responsibility on the part of the shareholder to not sell shares they don't own, regardless of what a brokerage shows in their account. To sell those shares and not own them is equivalent to a short sale, although with SHAR's recent performance, probably not much danger.
Oh well, SHAR will have her day again someday, maybe...
Eddie,
Thanks for the clarification and setting me straight. :) I didn't intend to imply things happening sooner than they will, nor falsely raise expectations. Sure is great to have a CEO that's active here - so many times there's a never-ending debate on how to interpret the once or twice a quarter that many CEOs communicate with shareholders and it does lead to a lot of misinterpretation and overly-positive expectations that lead to disappointment.
Great to get that clarification, and good to know things are still rolling in from the oven lease fund. Still working to bring the opportunity to some folks not willing to play the ups and downs of the market, but possibly willing to buy a unit of the oven lease fund.
However, as the saying goes, "you can lead a horse to water but can force him to drink" and so it goes with people also. Oh well, their loss.
We really do have something special here.
Good morning all - going to be interesting today...as closed yesterday with the ask at .158, we're halfway through July, and can expect in about 2 weeks to see a launch with WW, and I think in 3-4 weeks financials will be posted, and also around that timeframe we should become current with pink sheets.
And as everybody has said, there is a severe supply and demand issue and there just aren't that many shares. The other beautiful thing is that there will always be those that trade short range and will move into a stock and exit at their target price, but as we move up, that increase moves up proportionally, i.e., someone buying and selling a 25% gain at .06 would sell at .075, whereas someone buying at .15 and selling for the same percentage is waiting til .188 to sell - so even those folks will start to hold "longer" and steps up should start moving faster and with fewer intermediate steps.
I think SIX CENTS may have done an informal census of shareholders who were willing to PM him their shares held. I'm not sure how accurate it is. My guess is probably somewhere around half of the "actual float" is held by investors on this board.
Yeah, I saw your post with AAVG about this problem with Penson - it was brought up here a few weeks ago, but seemed to not be an issue. Many brokers clear through Penson, mine included (ChoiceTrade)...I don't really know anything about legalities of all this, but seems pretty ridiculous to just say, "Sorry folks, these are now your options."
Anybody else having issues with Penson? I haven't made any transactions in a while, and haven't really seen anybody else posting problems.
Good luck to you, I hope for your sake you end up with some shares, and appreciate the added bid support. Even though we closed almost 40% up on fri, these prices are still ridiculously cheap and in the coming months and years folks will be very happy they pulled the trigger here. Looking forward to watching this climb as we approach launching with WW at the beginning of august and see filings of financials and getting current with the SEC sometime in the middle of august. Good things ahead!
Thanks for that close (and to the other person) ... matters very little in the big scheme of things, as we all know where this is going (up, up, up) but sure does make it more fun to look at my positions tab over the weekend. :)
Well, someone got out...perhaps the gentleman Eddie mentioned a couple of weeks ago. Congrats whoever got some cheapies...and if it was that man, I'm glad he got a way higher average than what he was willing to sell for private transaction. 150,000 in hopefully much longer, stronger hands now. Don't know who they went to, but feeling like the float keeps shrinking as more shares are accumulated by those waiting for "strong trie digits" to quote Eddie.