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Mar-Key,
Apparently you think I took you out of context.
Why don't you clear it up for us?
Stock - if I wuz a bettin' man, I'd bet it has something to do with "Les and Shawn." ... Les'nShawn ... LnS
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Oh the serenity...
Didn't Willie Nelson do a song with that title...?
In the Red Again...
Sorry - couldn't resist, it is a rather catchy tune, doncha think?
In the red again
I just can't wait to get in the red again
Half my life is losing money with my friends
I just can't wait to get in the red again
LOL
Agent - I was being sarcastic. Sorry I lost it in the text.
I agree - I doubt JF has changed his mind in any direction that would mean GNF doesn't grow into something big... including doing whatever's necessary to get listed on the AMEX as soon as possible.
No problem--but don't give it too much weight... apparently it's is all ancient history... since then jf's been through menopause and has changed his mind on everything.
Of course they can change.
What was the pps when jf said that?
What was the os/as when jf said that?
Who were the GNF affiliates when he said that?
A lot of things have changed.
I guess you're telling us jf no longer wants to see "his company" listed on the AMEX. How can you support that thesis?
Cool. So now we have opposing opinions.
Isn't it intriguing that two grown men can see the same data and arrive at different conclusions?
I just love America!
LnS - it was CEOCFEInterviews.com
http://tinyurl.com/p56nf
The link provided is the Google cached version... it should work okay.
"This year (2004) when I woke up and asked myself what I wanted this year from the stock market and the investor side of this company I said I have the strongest desire to be on the American Stock Exchange by the end of the year."
JF said it, take it up with him.
FWIW, he said this in an interview published in June 2004, not 2003 like you keep insisting.
It's JF's company and his "strongest desire" is to get it on the AMEX. I bet he does whatever it takes to get it there.
Granted, JF's added several billion shares since then and the PPS has dropped significantly, but he hasn't said he's changed his mind and no longer desires to get listed on the AMEX.
It's only a matter of time.
You're capable of doing the math.
This is an interesting industry.
All this talk about business models, competition, acquisitions, affiliations etc. made me curious about a few things.
The much anticipated rollout with CC... what does it really mean?
More subs.
Okay.
I thought about Gamefly and their affiliation with Best Buy - how are they doing with that?
No data on the Gamefly website... so I sent 'em and e-mail asking for a ballpark figure on how many subs they have. Their reply:
Hello,
GameFly is an independent and privately owned company.
We have no plans to go public at this time. Any relevant
available information regarding our company can be found
on our website.
Thank you,
GameFly Customer Service
That was real helpful. These companies sure hold their (sub) cards close to their chest.
If you compare GNF to Gamefly on Alexa, GNF has a long row to hoe before they catch them.
This could be a slow, lingering lift-off.
I thought they diluted for the last acquisition...?
What happened to that cash?
But I wouldn't ask.
I happen to believe that without a r/s this stock is doomed to the OTC forever.
It's JF's company and his dream is to get it on the AMEX. I bet he does whatever it takes to get it there. Stockholders notwithstanding.
"This year when I woke up and asked myself what I wanted this year from the stock market and the investor side of this company I said I have the strongest desire to be on the American Stock Exchange by the end of the year."
FWIW, he said this in an interview published in June 2004... about 4.5 billion shares ago.
Just my opinion. I could be wrong.
I don't claim to be able to read his mind... I can only read what he was quoted as saying.
Why he would change his mind and not want to be listed with the big boys?
JF said this, "While last year in January of 2003, I stated to myself that my company is going to be worth five cents by the end of the year. I said I did not know how I was going to do this, other than to continue to follow the business model, but I am going to work on this. We are going to do business and the business is going to bring value to the stock. I can honestly say that on January 2nd when the market opened my price was worth five cents, do not ask me why but it was there. This year when I woke up and asked myself what I wanted this year from the stock market and the investor side of this company I said I have the strongest desire to be on the American Stock Exchange by the end of the year. The company will become a revenue producing company and I hope we will accomplish a move by the end of the year. It is a lofty goal, but you have to set your goals high. As an investor looking at my company, I have some qualified management people working with me and we all have on the average more than thirty years in the business."
CEOCFOinterviews.com
June 2004
How's that for a crystal ball?
OT: Sorry Tina - it was a momentary flashback to 3rd grade. I think I'm okay now.
But that's because too many here just can't stand the thought of someone else getting the last word.
OT: That's not quite what they're saying.
I think they're saying, "Let's look at the pig behind the lipstick." ... Or something to that effect, while those on the other side apparently don't dare to take a peak.
OT: Wow! That's a revelation!
I never looked at it that way before.
Now we have the key to just getting along.
Everyone's entitled to an independant opinion.
Problem solved.
Cool.
Retired- the view from the shoulders of a giant is often awesome.
I've read everything I can find that John Fleming has said. I can't say that I've ever heard (seen) him say much (anything) bad about Netflix either.
For all Netflix's apparent warts, they've done a pretty good job at what they do and have so far hit all their targets. I don't see them falling down any time soon.
Those that believe Gameznflix will be exempt from the issues that confront/confound Netflix are living a pipe dream.
I keep saying this... I don't doubt Gameznflix's potential - I'm more concerned about those folks with their hands on the yoke. Most crashes are the result of pilot error.
OT: Actually Mike - it's moot not mute, but that in itself is moot, but I digress... Oh yeah, I forget, when did Netflix go public? I don't have any financials for them prior to their IPO. Maybe you have them. Care to expound on 'em.
Uh huh, attempting to make Netflix look bad makes Gameznflix look better, right?
BTW, I'm not the one that brought up NFLX's SAC, I responded.
Are you tryin' to pull a BMI-detractor?
I know that.
I think GZFX is right where they probably should be right now.
Funny thing is I agree with Wick, Simple and BMI. I think they're all pretty much on target with what they say, even though they're at different ends of the spectrum. BMI is more in the here and now, Wick is more in the future (which is less predictable).
I get a bit miffed with the constant haranguing of NFLX, the reigning power that's doing most things right. It's almost like if the GZFX pumpers can make Netflix look bad it makes GZFX somehow look better. I don't get it.
Netflix paved the way, the road GZFX will travel is not the same route. There's some simliarity but the obstacles GZFX faces are not the same ones NFLX faced.
There's potentially a very bright future for GZFX. There's the potential for failure as well. I believe it depends entirely on management... and I'm uncertain of their competence. I'm marking time until they convince me they really do know what they're doing AND they have extreme interest in seeing the stockholders succeed as well as the company and the insiders.
I really don't understand all the frettin' either.
Service is easier said than done. I have no personal experience with Gameznflix's service, but they better get it right if they plan on sticking around.
Why would they want to buy GZFX?
Right now they haven't really said what they're gonna do with the $100,000,000.
What if they have decided to jump in the game rental biz... buy out Gamefly?
Or pump $$$ into some other delivery system?
Or partner up with Amazon or someone else, maybe in Canada?
Or start up a price war and squash the competition?
BBI and MOVI are more likely in their crosshairs, not GZFX.
Who knows what they're up to?
Do tell.
Netflix's published Subsciber Acquisition Costs are calculated by dividing the total cost of marketing by the total# of new subscribers--do that with GZFX and see what you come up with.
You're comparing apples with fishing poles.
Yeah, well what about this?
If the company does not have that exact title in stock we can order it from Ingram. This provides the member a greater opportunity to receive titles and the company to build its inventory based on members desires, not based on management’s beliefs or guesses. This system does cause a bit of a delay to the member, however, in the end they get to have the titles they desire.
Seems no one should be waiting for DVDs or games they have queued up.
AND... if he really believes this:
"We will offer from three up to a maximum of six titles, which will involve various pricing structures. You can have a maximum at any given time. We know from our three year experience that the average gamer keeps a video game three weeks and two days. From industry studies we believe that a DVD is in a home somewhere between eleven and fourteen days {HA!} and that allows for the timing. So what the subscriber really wants to do is kind of get into a flow where, if they are using three, they will have one in the home, one in the mail going back to us and one coming to them from us. This will enable them to constantly have movies."
Throttling will be a requirement... Manuel only keeps a DVD in his house for as long as it takes for him to view (or rip) it.
OT: Hmmm... I wonder who/what they could buy with $108,000,000?
What's Reed got up his sleeve now?
Prolly not a racecar... Maybe a Golf course? LOL!
OT: Man--lookin' out my back door...
Use Firefox with Adblock. They'll all go away.
OT: Actually...
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I hope you're not implying there's something wrong with being of "latin origin."
I bet a million dollars you are of latin origin....Because for yrs Ive been making fun of my old neighbor child
Shame on you... making fun of a child.
I stand corrected. Thanks for the PM squaring me away.
I got hung up on this:
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and assumed after the "trial" I would have to pay to read the words of the prophet. That thought pizzed me off, so I closed the window.
That's not the case - there is a free version that does allow you to peek at the words of wisdom.
I guess you really do get what you pay for.
"JF commented on it himself on stockinfosys"
This is one of the things that continues to frost my butt.
What's the deal with the CEO limiting his comments to investors to this cheezy stockinfosys site?
Why don't they have an ir.gameznfix.com site to post this stuff? Why do they want us to pay to get info they should be providing free? If the CEO has something to say to his investors, he should say it.
Are there kickbacks for hits on this cheezy info site?
OT: -- Hmmmm... grass...
Yeah man, like what if that light in the tunnel is a muzzle flash?
Bummer... Game over man.
Kermit - you may be right.
Actually I was just tossing a little dart at LiveLife due to his previous post predicting how badly he believed NFLX's upcoming report would be.
Consider this... since I first put my money in GZFX in October I have tripled my money in NXG, doubled my money with ERS, SMSI and HOM. AAPL was double for me until it pulled back. I have much more confidence in our ability to predict what "The Big Dogs" will do than I do with these little dogs on the OTC... they really are a crap shoot. I guess it's mostly just entertainment for me right now. Like some folks playing the lottery.
Pennies are not the only stocks you can make good money in, and with all the companies I just mentioned, I'm not the least concerned where management is taking them and how they plan to get there. I'm new with the OTC and stocks like this, I got greedy with GZFX and wandered from my original plan... I was almost at a 5-bag with it and was gonna sell, when JF and crew dropped the ball and the pps tanked.
I've been in and out of NFLX a couple times in the past year, should have stayed in but bailed when they got into that price war last summer and the stock started to dive... got back in when it ws obvious that Reed's plan worked. I bet NFLX does an easy 3 bagger this year.
In October there was incredible potential for GZFX, at least for some short term action. Some folks likely did quite well. Since then the situation/potential has changed considerably. I'm no where as confident in GZFX'smanagement now as I was in November. To wait a year to 3 or 4 bag my money with GZFX... ah, I'm not so sure. I think there may be some other safer likely more productive bets. I don't know what JF and crew are up to. GZFX may be a much better bargain after the inevitable RS.
I'm hanging around right now waiting to see what their quarterly looks like - then you may or may not see much of me any more.
Just my silly opinion, of course. <---Standard iHub disclaimer.
OT: LiveLife - sure looks pretty bleak for Netflix, eh? So much for them struggling along, barely able to breath, holding their defensive posture against the onslaught of competition. I may hold my shares just a while longer, maybe they'll recover. LOL
NEW YORK (AP) -- Netflix Inc. shares were among the most heavily traded and among the biggest gainers in aftermarket trading Monday, after the Los Gatos, Calif., DVD rental company reported a profit for the quarter that beat Wall Street's expectations.
Netflix said costs for getting new subscribers fell in the quarter, while "churn," or subscriber turnover, fell from the prior year, and the number of subscribers grew 61 percent from the first quarter of 2005.
The company also increased its guidance for subscriber and revenue growth for the second quarter and full year, putting expected revenue above analyst estimates for both periods.
Shares of Netflix added $1.42, or 4.6 percent, to $32.66 in heavy trading on the INET electronic exchange, from their Nasdaq close at $31.24.
Tina - I couldn't agree more.
Give the dog a bone.
Good Doggie.
Maybe he can learn a new trick?
Most of the time I'm quite willing to simply let an argument I disagree with just go along without comment.
However, it seems if I allow that to happen there's some cornfusion that I'm avoiding/dodging something... like I can't possibly have a valid argument/concern against the purported facts.
So, since you asked...
Getting 3,600 movie titles and 170 tv programs
from the studios is a major accomplishment...IMO.
What do you think they plan to do with that?
I don't know what their plans are, they haven't really made it clear. The obvious answer is... "Why, they're going to distribute it via the GNFEnt satellite system of course!"
I would prefer to not respond to this because the obvious questions about this have already been asked and the 'bashers' soundly spanked.
What 3,600 movie titles?
What 170 TV programs?
I don't doubt that there is a delivery system in place. What I wonder is what sort of demand there may be for the product and what other competing systems are already lined up just waiting. Is everyone else asleep at the wheel?
BKMP is certainly flying high these days, eh? Having a network channel and a distribution plan doesn't necessarily spell success. People have to want what you have. FTR, I do hold some BKMP stock, if you care/dare to call it that.
No, I don't avoid anything. But I do try to be pragmatic in my approach to just about everything in my life.
Do you focus all your opinions strictly on the rentals by mail aspect of the business?
This is supposedly the core business of GNF - they should get this down before they venture off into the great unknown. Fault me, if you must, that I think they should be good at their core business.
VOD is over the horizon. PPV, streaming video, etc... maybe, but I'm having a hard time seeing how GNF will elbow its way into that arena past the big dogs that are all already lined up at the gate.
What does "anticipated foray" really mean anyway?
Might... maybe... someday?
This little company with a handful of employees, with no money to speak of, with debt issues, and a public offering at a penny and you're suggesting they will be pushing the big dogs around soon?
Not just in one industry, but several.
Like I said, I tend to be more pragmatic.
It's possible - that's why I'm here...but if I was a bettin' man I know where I'd put the odds.
Are you suggesting I have some sort of villianous agenda here?
Am I now suspected of being yet another paid basher?
There have certainly been enough clues available in my short life here as to what I am and what I do for a living.