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Great info!
I wonder when they will release SKUs pricing and unit total available.
PC gamers might go for them, if around $100 (as specialty item).
UPDATE: went to another Game Stop and they actually had Kids Zumba. they also had used Zumbas. And, had Titan Fall VG DVD cases on display for orders (not info for Cool ilnvestors, the manager thought it would be huge seller. They had about 6 Xbox One system out and PS4 also. Small store, but still Game Stop.
Any hope we have for Cool good quarter is coming from online sales and products?
Not much to say, except the artl. tended to prove MCZ will need a partner and money and marketing muscle to get MOJO going in 2014. MCZ has indeed provided a superior device concept for android users . . . yet is it not apparent that all the other competing device manufacturers, have more funds and established production capacity, to out-do MCZ? I am basically saying . . . the force of competition to survive . . . is an energy wind that greatly now threatens MOTO.
MCZ may now be in the same survival position as AKLM (which beat Fast-and-Furious VG to market (but large box stores like Wall-Mart said is was too violent as a VG and refused to stock it). And, AKLM was worth over 100 million dollars at the time. Soon enough, Wall World was sell Fast-and-Furious.
MOJO is a great idea!
Problem for it is most USA VG manufacturers are frightened of trying to compete against like of Goggle and Apple and MSFT (their bread-and-butter game user device) and higher priced game boxes. Artl. seemed to reference possible 2014 goggle competition for MOJO segment of low-income players who want a high performance and innovative game device. Maybe Asian cellphone company will partner or buy-out MCZ, as method to enter USA market and also to acquire help of their Asian government for monetary and political support. What better way to edge goggle and apple out of China, then to foster a game device that does alot of what they can do, for a whole lot less?
I do not know how 2014 can go for MCZ and MOJO, but MCZ by itself is not cutting it. $$$$ where from? In a previous post, I mentioned that MCZ should crowd-fund MOJO (but first it must prove MOJO is an effective game machine. How to do that? the beauty of MOJO is its an enhanced cellphone . . . and who is best at cellphone production economics?
Do not be shocked if MCZ did not do as well as some have predicted for holiday season sales . . . weather and uncertainty affected all sales.
There are now so many cellphones competing in the marketplace for buyer/user share, that some are going to fade away: their just is not sufficient volume of new sales for all these different cellphones model to exist. A lot of folks are into 'burn phone' usage plans, as that's all they need or can afford. There is even some degree of talk about PS4 and Xbox One being the last step devices to be created by SONY and MSFT. Amazon Kindle and B&N tablets are costly to keep making, and may have the wrong user focus. Online Paid gaming and gambling cloud is going to be huge. Maybe MCZ should call up B&Noble and sell MOJO to them, as MOJO is a way into movie and large screen home use market.
I now just think our best hope as retail investors in MCZ is someone buys them up, as cheap way into VG and mobile/home device market. Head phones, SW and MOJO family of mobile devices . . . sounds like a quick and smart buy to consider, by other medium sized SW and play gear add-on market competitors.
Great info!
COOL (as far as volume/price movement) is Cool as an ice cube.
At profit point of say $10-30/ game sold ($10-20 profit for cool/retail sale and $20-30/online sale), its 'bleak-land'?
Winter in Eastern and; Middle west is stopping sales for all venues.
Has COOL and ZUMBA thought about online 'clouding' Zumba franchise w/grocery coupons, etc.?
Stopped at Barnes & Noble and asked if they had any Zumba. Person looked it up and said they do not carry it (you have to buy it direct from Zumba franchise). B&N had plenty of customers on a Friday afternoon and large DVD section.
Zumba is not thinking too well . . . need to attach Zumba DVD coupons to all exercise books with premission of authors and retail stores. This would be base low-cost retail method to get it in stores, to supplement online promo.
Does COOL really want to connect with senior, kids, and M-C and low-class shoppers? Other exercise videos are selling retail. B&N has whole sections devoted to exercise/diet/health. Make a science project of it (80% of USA is over-weight to some degree). Save the Kids from FAT and Garbage foodstuffs.
Owners of Zumba and COOL are missing the boat.
Single Parent w/ kids overweight, can exercise and diet together.
This is hard concept to grasp? Togetherness time that can really benefit both. How many parents feel guilt as they work and kids are home alones?
ZUMBA and COOL . . . pick up the phone and call diet food pre-packaged manufacturers . . . and Lets-make-a-deal . . . coupons inside the diet meal packages. But . . . 'I don't know how to call home'.
Call government (O-bomb) and talk the hood dome vib and get Zumba offered w/ ever smart phone freebie for low-income and challenged folk. What a perfect PR for both . . . political activism and national health care. Da!
Do a mass mailing to schools, clubs, etc., and newspapers.
Oh . . . the pain . . . the pain . . . of trying to win by marketing 102
I am thinking ATIG has missed its time and potential . . . we were lead to believe they could pull it off. We were carefully fed PRs about this and t hat firm was helping to get it all going. There was never an;y evidence but agreements for free use of ATIG beta SW by several native casinos. ATIG was never able to get going with commercial NV casinos, not even a quik-stop border or roadway tavern mini-casino. That fact should have told us loads.
Right now . . . with what we know of ATIG (nothing much) . . . I give ATIG prob of >10% potential success. Come back in 6-9 months and see what has transpired. By then, we will have first beta run info on NJ,NV, and other state online lotteries.
ATIG MIGHT have one or two native casinos still trying their free stuff?
Burned retail investors make real good customers?
As far as I saw in one-ply PR material . . . nothing much was offered forth at the 1st shareholders meeting. It was a shot-in-the-foot event . . . didn't make much sense to do it. Why not just buy all us retail investors some fast-food coupons and mail them to us, along with a shareholders statement? SEC would probably 'go' with that, as evidence ATIG had its heart in the right place? Pinkies are legalized . . . . what?
May I include reply to silkman and you 80857 together folks, if both do not mind.
It bugs me what has ATIG been doing for all this time since the freeze?
I still have not heard from anyone that went to the '1st Shareholders Meeting'. Does a freeze cover everything from lips, to brain, to correspondence to retail investors . . . like 'Hi! We are still doing business and your stock shares are still valuable and not reduced in number, or price'.
Previously, a few weeks ago, I went to ATIG company website and was presented with an active website (you can play one of their games, which I did). So, I thus remarked on that post, something to the effect of who is paying for the website and where is that money coming from? Our 'frozen shares'?
Is the plan to get 3-5 tribes together and force some 'I follow too' actions from the others tribes? The tribes are very territorial and distance from a national Tribal agreement to go online together, to benefit all tribes. I can understand some of that viewpoint, its somewhat like red and blue states eyeing each other.
As i write this . . . a loud noise like a gun of some sort outside not all that far away . . . someone just a little late on New Years, promoting 2014 love of neighbors, like guns, drove the little animals off their roof, or launched their Bar-B-Q into orbit. :(
The tribes generally are not overly friendly with the state they are in, and this will eventually lead to a situation wherein state online lotteries and online sanctioned in-state paying games/gambling bets will reduce the tribal casinos 'days-of-glory'. I propose that an alliance of the Tribes would be in their interests, and that they fund the creation of some online games of their own. Perhaps that what ATIG wants to help happen? Heavenly-Arrows-against-the-7TH-Calvary Zombies or some such game content venue . . . sounds about right?
Best of 2014 to all
Ah . . . my stock Shares are worth what . . . .0001 or .00001?
It will cost $1-5 million to get this 'new' tribal casino online user system up? If you remember . . . ATIG had an online gambling/gaming system that had a maxmium range just outside the casino.
HINT TO BOD: get a Grants Writer and hit the USA Government up for grant assistance plan, and put in it all the new jobs and payroll taxes and tax revenues USA will get from sharing, in the dawn of a new America Future!
Finally . . . we learn we were on the Grey market (never heard of that before).
Retail shareholders of ATIG can expect a R/Split of their shares in 2014?
How do we overcome the freeze PR effect?
Apparently, ATIG has no Revenues from southern state Tribal Casino . . . but some user data. Our new BOD directors will come from Tribes to be seated, and some Poker Stars winner types? Inquiring; minds want to know.
You need a Sat up/down link, dedicated phone line, or something like a cellphone provider to get national and international coverage
transmission online. Oh I know . . . O-bomb will give free cellphones to all casino online players? Remember 2014 ia N ELECTION YEAR!
Call up Asian Cellphone company and ask if they also want to buy into the Native online gaming. When they ask 'what's your stock tier status' . . . tell them we are special . . . kind of like grey dust on a frozen tundra [something will be lost in the translations, so say its like golden vapour T-Bill].
I will watch with awed amazement . . . as the planet earth moves again inward towards the sun in its orbit . . . and ATIG un-freezes in the shining light of 2014's Strange Change.
We might even get to national gaming show convention in Vegas?
2014: small steady increase in USA domestic economy strength, seems in the cards. At the same time, one must surmise that much of HL copper and lead production is going overseas? Only hope for USA economy is if foreign corporations (including some USA multinationals), bring overseas profits into america to get individual state tax write-down credits and to be nearer to their USA market customers (while also obtaining advantages of increasing USA oil and NG production). In a hostile situation, where should (for example) INTC, GE, and BA have their major production plant located? Da!
Silver is greatly an industrial metal.
Thinking along the lines of the above statement of hopes for higher 2014 PM and commodity prices, the opposite may happen. IF it becomes true that China forces its people into electric cars for local use trips. Imagine what would happen if China starts using its silver for vehicle and stationary power batteries. They already experimented with silver submarine batteries, and were very impressed. This is called dual use profit potential.
It would go something like this: Chinese government demands its EV purchasers use silver batteries (that have greater range capability AND mandates the EV buyer sign for the silver used in the batteries. This policy would be kind of the opposite of taking the silver from its citizens: it makes them storage certificate holders of title and uses the commodity for the national and local good (increasing EV battery range and reducing urban pollution). Under such circumstances, the Citizen would get to have control of one's national silver storage, and the government enforces its energy policy (best not lose that silver battery, bud).
Such a thing would not happen in USA, as our government has no silver in its national emergency stockpile anymore. We won't even mint new silver coins for our people to hold forth and use in our (their) national wealth, as in their commerical monetary exchanges. They have even taken Cu out of the penny USA coin. Why? Because it allowed the average USA citizen to have control of a profit in their coin purse (when CU rises in value).
Also, electronic money (credit and especially debit cards) are to be the future money medium, which will even further take (alienate) the average citizen away from possessing control; on their person, of physical monetary value. We are then told, electronic money is cheaper to manufacture and does not wear out. Geepers . . . the Gov . . . the has SAVED us money!
Do not be super upset if silver drops in price.
Its the easiest way to take value from individual silver holders, quickly.
Electronic money, and the other novel silver storage ideas I voiced above, are all issues in the future of HL stock price? For example, which would you rather receive in trade . . . a pre-1960 silver containing dime or a modern metal stamp dime. . . in a .10 transaction change return?
MY TAKE ON JAN 2014 FOR MCZ
In first 1/2 of 2014, MCZ has realized they must tell us retail something.
Brief PR comes out: past inventory units have been cleared (predominantly).
Kunna HD set did better than expected against its competition slot, we are thrilled to have launched MOJO and 'pleased' with results.
OK whats that mean?
We get a stock price pop into .60s (.70s if we are so lucky).
Assuming MOJO 1st production run of 3K costs $3-4 Million (personally, I think it was lower volume until MCZ actually does verify their initial output figure). I woud love to think we were able to make $25-50 profit on first beta run/unit sale.
If so, we made couple of hundred K dollars profit thereby for MCZ, at most. That does not set well for refinancing a 2st production run for MOJO.
Also, why run out a 2st run of MOJOs when one does not know yet what the 1st run buyers found to their likes and dislikes (this type of user data will show software and hook-up issues . . . that's par for a beta production run).
MCZ probably expected the beta run buyers to be mostly tech geeks, that can get it going. Some folks like me, will be calling in with ?s, as they felt MOJO was going to be plug-and-play event. MCZ made an error in how they sold MOJO (my take), as I am assuming MCZ thought it could get by with face book chatter and online promo and some magazine ads. The 1st run MOJO is so-so, due to this notion of assuming tech ability of customer is high.
The MCZ plan for 2014, was always to get another small MOJO run out and get some more sales and feedback (change and up-date the MOJO electro-guts and software) and get set for holiday 2014 up-dial-launch). <---I could be way wrong on this).
FEB 2014 earnings out: MCZ plans for a stock pop to near $1 area and lays the 'good' figures on the table. As I texted in earlier post, it will have some lipstick on it. Any revs north of $27 Million is going to save MCZ through 2014, and get us some more outside funding (sourced at a 'cost' upscale). Otherwise, we get downsizing. I have not figured in Titan Fall, PS$ and Xbox One results, in my rudimentary scenario above.
Also, why has no one told retail investor in their MOJO reviews, where and
who in Asia produced MOJO (that would give us something to research, and talk further upon. Would it not be printed on box or in instructions)?Doubtful its the same folk who make lst run Android output, but it could be a seasoned sub-contractor of cell phones (MOJO is souped up from a cellphone design platform, me surmises).
Low volume and say .19 up price before Tuesday conference (after hours), is disappointing. Company did not (to my view) advertise on any large scale apparently), the coming Tuesday updates due. Thus, I did not buy on Monday.
I did, register for their online playing site usage, to test it out.
This could be a slow launch platform event?
Also, maybe company is going to announce they settled out-of-court?
I still think this company and its partner are OK, and watching events unfold.
I have no idea how much downside is potentially left.
If both partners can pull this off, it should be big for them.
MGT is going the online route of not officially registering to operate in places like NV and NY? One can play their coming online for money award prizes in those states that will allow it, across state lines? Doesn't MGT have to pay each state something upfront, and a percentage of each award to player?
Quiet as a mouse in a church.
Went to shopping mall Game stop and found about 3 new Zumbas for Sale (World Party). Also had 3-4 used older Zumbas. Did not have Kids Zumba in yet.
My guess (not worth much), GMS will show some action after Jan, 2014. Not much help was it? I am holding and waiting.
CALLING MCZ aka MR. D. READ THIS
Now that MCZ is budget bent towards social media for advertising and sales . . . why not go all the way (since you now have MOJO and its subset hardware out) . . . and go for crowd funding for sourcing new funding to bring these devices further into the public eye and mind and use? Lets say MCZ is able to raise $3 millions, and concurrently, 'spread the word'! Does not sound like a bad idea, for a small company with interesting product beta run data now in hand?
MOJO shows Mr. D. is innovative and willing to bet the company on its merits.
Crowd funding may be the salvation for businesses with great products and ideas, but having to stare down the alternate tunnel of PIPES, Reverse Split, and closing or selling off the company divisions?
Lets see if anyone from MCZ reads their boards.
Just ponder what that $3 Mil would do to next earnings call.
Imagine being First In . . . as a regular company to reaqch out to Crowd Sourcing. Buff the hair and put on that Shark Skin suit 'and here's Mr. D.!!' Rock The Valley Boys
Looking over the stock.
Looking like for now . . . present retail investors are footing the bill via stock price drop?
Thus stock price continues to drop . . . what another .20-.75?
Y board has some things to say about that.
Like to hear your comments, if anyone care to answer.
Board activity is way down right now for some reason (perhaps everyone is sitting back and waiting for some positive news).
I also hold MCZ, and have been critical of the real lack of MCZ PR, and posted on MCZ board some rather gloomy scenarios for MCZ going forward.
I am in both stocks for mobile online paid gaming and gambling potential, and like you, foresee mobile gaming and MOJO as suitable means to enhance and expand GLUU game play hits.
Along this line, I stated that MCZ faces a do-or-die away back business opportunity right now. GLUU sh;o;u;ld give some thought to parnering with MCZ to 'push' MOJO with some $$s. This would cement GLUU business relationship
with makers on RoboCop, while at the same time, allowing GLUU to build out its own business model. Looking a lot like MCZ is getting set for back plan (if needed) for accepting a silent partner to promote MOJO and continue itself going forward? In this regard, I have been looking at EA, IGT, and HPQ as partners. Now, I can see some ressons for GLUU to 'drop-on-over' and buy some of MOJO venue for its games.
It looks like initial production beta run of MOJO has sold out.
Easy money for GLUU to walk over and back it (as a way to control and increase their game launch into home TV big screen play and mobile niche nail-down)? Such an arrangement could be to the benefit of all concerned, and serve as means to boost stock and revenues of all concerned. GLUU should be coming up with some extra $millions this coming next earnings quarter, and well be able to speed up its new games and it would be very wise of it to partner with MCZ.
But what do I know? Just my ramblings.
AS an aside, I am watching MGT for entry position as a runner in paid online gambling/gaming. All these little online software producers need to meet together and cement some alliances (they would look much more attractive to bigger players right now associated). That is always a problem with penny wonder stocks, they often have the ideas but not the $$s backing and a way to share costs amongst themselves.
Currently have sold my GLUU, to see if it will go somewhat lower and I can get back in lower. Probably a dumb move, we shall see.
I am considering also MGT for its online paid gaming/gambling build up.
Mr. D. was right, MOJO 'roll-out' is to be slow.
Unless MCZ has silent partner, or MOJO manufacturer is taking a stake in production costs, first run of MOJO appears sold out. This sounds good, but
one has to wonder if any more MOJOs wil be out in last weeks of December (manufacturer time + shipping time lag) does not bode well for holidays sales season. Best be hoping those whose wanted MOJOs for presents, etc. wil not cancel. Advertising has been restricted to face book, amazon random search hits for similar products pop-ups and magazines. Probably (just guessing) over 60% of gamers do not even know MOJO exists. An automatic ad drop into ever free play would have been nice, but where is the money to come from?
The lack of advertising budget evidence for MOJO (in particular focus so far) fairly well tells the story for next MCZ earnings call. It may also tell us that if you were the MOJO Asian manufacturer for MOJO, you did not expect to see a huge second order (except if MCZ payed right up with the proceeds from the first run sales). The other possibility herein is the potential new partner is just waiting in the shadows, to see exactly how the first run sales come out . . . and will be stepping in after Feb 2014?
Super pumpers for MCZ have no evidence (nor Mr. D. shouting forth from the roof-tops), that MCZ has accomplished a miracle. Quite times at MCZ skull cave is confusing, to us retail investors.
MCZ stock and volume, concurrently, gives us yet no indication of its direction (just presently bouncing up and down *l cent). Traditionally, in stock analysis methodology . . . we are at breakout point (but up or down) . . . remains still to be determined. There is no indication of MBA management performance. The plan is just survival?
Will D. start paid promos ala internet stock story interviews?
One might imagine Mr. D. starting to clip fast food coupons and saving them in an envelope.
Now that the defense budget is passing . . . maybe the government will help MCZ out and order some MOJOs, etc. A drone pilot flying via MOJO . . . now that's rad. Or, . . . Mr. D. sends a free MOJO and play sticks to
some talk show hosts. Wonder what Rushing Normal would say?
I would love to be able to say . . . rockets launch!! . . . the parade starts! But Mr. Sue-lu says sensors report nothing . . . Girk.
I sure hope we retail investors will not have to pay Seeking A for a PR follow-up artl.
Darren was quiet as a rock, on MCZ SKUs, etc.
We may have sold out the limited first run of the MOJO which entails no real significant revenue boost (right now unless its goodwill listed?), as I would assume first run of MOJOs was experimental beta and a wash for $$s earned to MCZ.
We now head down to *.29 (doubt price goes lower . . . why would one shoot themselves in the other foot, unless their is no light in the janitor's closet)? Guess no one at MCZ took marketing when they did their 'schooling'.
Big D. was observed praying . . . who would have thought? Asian Nights and power suits at conferences, and
salary cuts getting ever so closer. I have a great idea . . . everyone takes a 20% pay cut and we close 1 or 2 offices and sell the inventory in the back of the garage to the %1 store.
We either have 'outstanding' sales, oh-hum, or def-com 3+ :(
No report was cute . . . a great way to treat retail shareholders.
Maybe . . . D. can get a job as a PR lobbyist in you know where.
He sure snowed us. Happy times!
Friend stopped by . . . got to Hastings (sold out of PS4 stuff and had Zumba for Xbox 360). Wall Mart person told me the Zumba World Party is available there now, had about 3 in lock up case display. Hastings guy said you have to have a kinect box for your 360, to play Zumba World Party. Xbox One has kinect build-in. No Zumbas at Rite-Aid, just other brand exercise videos.
Did a nice job for MCZ.
Looks great. Moved around the site, works smooth.
Mr. D. will be pleased, PR out!
Went to my local Hastings and Wall Mart . . . neither had any of new Mad Catz stuff. I did not check their online stores.
I usually walk or bus over to some in my normal 'travels', but my weather is doggy right now and everyone has what they need already for holidays (we just plan on basically dinner and get-together stuff). Brats are either too young, or full up.
Looks like COOL is going to be 'cards-to-the-chest' on holiday season PRs.
I do not think a 'we are very excited . . .' vague-isms is going to do much for COOL stock price right now. Need some substance. Where is QBC-type and talk show infomericals . . . how-to dance off fat and get healthy in your front room . . . OP and Dr. OZ dance you to health?
O-Bomb needs to be dancing on Tele . . . to promote healthcare cost savings.
Sure as H arn't getting it any cheaper way, that is for sure. Where is the school dance to health program? COOL you in there?
I will report back, when I get out for food and shoes, on Zumba stocking.
Looks like I will not be the prime for the economy upswing. :)
Just me, but I do think some small formal announcement will come this week.
It would be hard to see which way it would affect MCZ w/o some substance on Black Friday MCZ inventory clearance sales activity, and vague 'positives' on MOJO and new style pheris. Mr. D. loves his PR time, and I suspect he knows MCZ retail investors are needing prop up. . . or stock price moves . . . further which direction?
MCZ 'pops' a little, and then guess who takes over?
If no PR, we MCZ-ers may pull closer to shore, so to speak.
Its total Pinkie-Ville, new funding source 'loan, or R/S for MCZ in 2014 . . . if no partner comes out of the woodwork. I had been thinking IGT, EA, or HPQ might like to use MOJO and new pheris, as very cheap way to 'branch out' for entering a quick foot into 'device' territory and mobile game wars. Our next 'big friend' might just be a casino owner? That's the scenario I propose, but just my speculations. MCZ has always been able to survive somehow as a stock over the years.
A lot of MCZ campers were hoping for big news between rest of Dec and say June 2014. That still remains an option, but it would not make much sense to happen, w/o some holiday success for MCZ products to underpin it. Thus, we do need a PR soon, to underpin LT MCZ investors to hold and add.
Its when MCZ is set-up to formally release MOJO as a carried product, to public sales channels.
We assume there might be some form of additional advertising, besides the present MCZ website and face book posts, Amazon. We retail investors have no real notion of how MCZ intends to handle MOJO promotion in public media.
Its possible, magazine reviews of MOJO and other related pheris., may follow forth in Dec. Examples: like interviews of Mr. Darren and other MCZ staffers on TV news shows, or even Public TV Nightly Business Report (a small donation to support Public news shows, to include logo on MCZ as business contributor) could lead to a segment as a round-up of new gaming devices (including MOJO) and the new culture of online gaming and its implications as a new sector to boost the USA economy.
The MOJO has 'legs' as a portable mobile battery powered platform for paid online gaming/gambling. This is one of the reasons I hold MCZ stock. If MOJO excutes fairly positively , and is chosen as a stable MCZ product offer---it (MOJO) offers an innovative way to gamble from home via attaching it to your large screen TV.
Right now, MCZ is playing its cards close to its chest.
My personal opinion is we should see next week a small PR from MCZ, about MOJO and perhaps some details about how other MCZ products are selling, such as controllers. This might provide a boost (*.10-15/share) in MCZ stock price . . . if it happens . . . we shall see.
MOJO . . . is brand new system to be on the market . . . its debut and those of PS4 and Xbox One will not be flawless (they never are). Its biggest competition is low income gamers buying instead used PS3s and Xbox 360s, offered for sale by those that chose the new PS4s and Xbox One. [There has been some talk that those that buy used older models game machines, will be buyers of MCZ accessories for them]. That will help MCZ product sales, roundabout.
In some of my previous posts, I have presented low-budget PR back-ups like paying students to hand out print-outs about MOJO at their schools, ads in local newspapers and college newspapers, and pass out handouts at sporting events. I doubt anyone from the company reads this board . . . oh well.
Just imagine taverns, coffee shops, and fast-food joints having a demo MOJO event . . . for visitor customers to see and use.
Most retail investors are wondering how MCZ looks after Jun 2014 time frame. Some on other boards are crying $2,50+! 'To the Moon---Alice!! stuff, or the opposite ---> 'we fall to .10'. I, personally, would just take .90-1.00. MCZ, regardless of outcome, has buyout/partner possibilities. Or, it can sell off some of its roduct divisions and regroup in 2014.
Guerrilla Marketing 101.
Folks this Friday volume/price movement is someone(s) playing this stock for .02-.04 spread several times a day. That is not a ringing positive of action happening as to MCZ sales. Either someone is playing this stock with advanced info with access (somewhat doubtful) or its just a day trader type of thing (making a few hundred . . . at most/day).
Will we see Friday close @ .48-.52 price range?
Even if Friday volume gets to 1 Mil, its yet to show supportive of any positive upward stock price movement, except above say recent *.42.
No basic confirmation of Dec 10 release of MOJO buildup. Perplexing.
No MCZ PR in next 3 weeks, and us retail investors are going to be very puzzled bunch.
Thanks for accepting my error.
Roughly 4X normal daily volume on Thursday.
It will be interesting to see what volume/stock price we get Friday and all next week. Might get price up pass .70.
Something that I wonder about is the contract conditions MCZ was able to secure from its Asian manufacturer. Once many potential MOJO buyers realize the mobile advantage it offers gamers, especially with an upgraded chip speed, orders will start coming in. MOJO could sell millions of units, thoughout Asia, EU and other continents.
Very curious to see what initial production run was (I would guess between 2-10K)? My logic is that MCZ does not want a whole lot of first iteration MOJO plaform model prduced. That's about the way I would do it, if I was MCZ and had little $$s (on its books) to support first production run. To my estimate . . . 2-5K would be size of first production run. I orginally thought of 20K, but at $250/unit retail pricing, we might assume production cost is over $100/unit, due to specialization and learning curve to get them out.
It should not be overly long (maybe less than 1 year after first MOJOs out . . . that competitor 'models' come out as upgrades of other systems. Biggest danger for MCZ is someone the size of HTC ponders the potential of MOJO features in a mobile battery powered system, and BANG! we has company. HTC, as an example, could easily price their MOJO-like device under $200 and perhaps under $175.
I definitely foresee firt MOJO production run sold out by mid of Jan 2014. It should take about one month to get second order delivered for sale. Who will buy most of first production run . . . Asia, EU, or North America? It might not be a bad idea to pay first production run buyers, to get their user experience data forwarded to MCZ and any suggestions and modifications they would like to see in next model. Or, offer them buyer credit coupons on further MCZ products, as an incentive to allow MCZ to find out info on the MOJO itself in real-time use? If MCZ cannot get very rapid buyer/user data feed . . . its wil take 3-6 months to learn all the above, before MCZ can possess needed info, that a new financing upgrade completed to pay for second production run? I would propose that MCZ has already a new funding source waiting in the wings, so to speak, to finance MOJO expansion.
Exciting times waiting for first MCZ PR on holiday sales and MOJO introduction.
They better not think of holding it back until Feb 2014 earnings, to tell us results or stock investors will not be happy campers. Without MCZ PR, nervous retail investors will be deciding whether to hold or fold on user online forum comments and sales rankings on Amazon, etc. magazine reviews.
I will be watching the stock price direction and volume, for clues.
Excuse my mistake for not typing your full board name, Joansfella.
I thought it said JoanFella . . . I have visual problems, as you might detect by my typing and spelling errors.
Joan . . . hope you are right (usually insider buying means positives for that company). However; there is also the notions that he just started establishing a very useful 'perk' for insiders to use in off-stetting other personal income tax positions (whilst gaining potential to play MCZ stock either way---up or down). I like that you are positive (so am I . . . yet I do present the other side to ponder, in the stock trading coin flip).
One thing I have started to realize is that MCZ, has (apparently) begin to
split itself along the lines of two distinct budgeting and sales effortszzz: casual gamers needs (+ mobile) AND passionate gamers.
Not a bad idea, but how to advertise for both with a limited PR budget?
I had speculated (in a previous post) that the Asian company producing MOJOs may have been sold on taking a bet on getting into the gaming business by taking up the tab for R&D and manufacturing a small quantity of MOJOs with its own funds (not MCZ). My thought therein was that MCZ could now take its limited funds and use them for promotion of MCZ products. If I am right on my thoughts of in-house absorbing of the MOJO costs by the Asian manufacturer, it could laso have a deal with MCZ to either buy-out MOJO or take a significant share of sales royalities revenue. the reason I present the above, is I cannot foresee how MCZ can handle both budgeting sector needs, just within itself.
What I am implying, is that MCZ is getting to big for its pants pockets, so to speak. Mr. D. has bet MCZ on getting good holiday season sales of pheris., while holding forth the Game Smart system as the future of MCZ.
Without new financing (of whatever sort, including in-house), we got a big prob-bean-o coming due in first six months of 2014.
Another aspect of new insider buying is, could this mean MCZ is soon to announce new partner or sell-out?
My ramblings above, just go to make the whole MCZ thing all the more mysterious to bet on.
PS: do not forget MCZ (with Game Smart System stuff), is attractive to big player like EA, IGT, Casinos, and even MSFT searching for ready-made cheap way into a growth sector. MSFT, in particular, has fell down the stairs with Win 8 and 8.1 failure on desktop and laptop replacement software . . . no one wants oily fingerprints continuously on their viewing screens. Nor, retraining for business software use and novel new operating system errors. Goggle has won the race with its big bucks and huge takeovers of new tech companies and patent wars emphasis.
Mr. D. says MCZ has the funds to make it through 2014 year . . . does he?
Our fate as retail investors ride on that statement of sufficient funding.
We bet the company on this holiday season and first two quarters of 2014.
If we fail . . . hello down below.
Lets hope it all clicks.
Or, Mr. D. will have no salary, and MCZ loses employees count and more.
Great news!
So how many tried to online gamble from a boat anchored just off shore, on ran a 'line' across the NJ border to a coffee house relay? :( Taxing revenue is what its all about. This may also help the USA deficit, as Trump will not have to go BK again (draining off income tax business losses). With the new online gambling pulling his casinos in NJ back to profitable status?
Maybe . . . eventually . . . out-of-state gamblers, etc. would be allowed to play 'free-games' on NJ system (getting bonus point wins and coupon prizes)?
It will be interesting to see how NJ handles legal foreigners (who can gamble online in USA without restriction, if registered from a bank account) and tribe folks that live outside a native casino boundary.
I expect the Feds to get their share soon enough (on top of the states take) from national online paid gambling/gaming . . . when sufficient state online gambling set-ups are enacted . . . such that Congress can legally bring up to vote to nationalize USA online gambling via law.
Where's ATIG in all this?!!
Why couldn't they at least sell their system (as it is) to someone, and make us some money? Is ATIG just melted away, into the dark of the pinkie wasteland forest? Hello ATIG are you there, or is your website . . . what? Who keeps its going and pays its online fees? ATIG doesn't even have paying ads flash up on their site. Why is not SEC getting on ATIG and asking how can you fund something, with WHOSE Monies? Plainly, how do you fund a website on the internet . . . pay for it to whom and does 'whom'; not report this as income? SEC . . . knock, knock . . . anyone in there? Or, did I miss something and have it all wrong?!!
Someone had advanced info on condition of Zumba sales direction?
Lets be hoping its positive info.
ATTENTION COOL; Read this board!
Call administration and suggest they contact them to have PR with creators of
Zumba. If administration does not response, go to house Republican leadership or Republican congressmen and women: Get them to back COOL and ZUMBA creators with funding and exercise programs throughout individual states for kids and seniors. Take the ball from the administration's hands . . . if they refuse to see the dramatic impact Zumba can have on USA health costs. Get in gentle shape and reduce stress and, weight related issue disease effects on our national deficit.
Where are the business and political leaderships, when our nation can solve its budget and health issues, without major overhauls of current programs via encouraging healthy and wellness exercise and activity by our youth and other citizens?
Plan and set-up exercise events and community enrichment events like clean-up drives. Get businesses to give out coupon prizes for trash cleaned up and brought to event register tables, with trash trucks public and private right behind them.
Does COOL want to see ZUMBA succeed (even without federal help)---go to state governors individually and city majors and hold its own Zumba events.
Lets get almost free PRs and folks using Zumba in centers and groups and schools. Is this rocket science approach . . . no.
Get sports teams and leagues there also . . . with stars and bands and cheerleaders. Have live local news covering the events. Pass out Zumba Tees with photo event ad on them? Have food fair that promotes delicious low-cal stuff
Operation Reach Out and Dance! Rock The Talk! Do The Moves!
Propel our stock price . . . which direction?
But . . . I don't know how to use the phone . . . .
Mere destiny awaits?
If all else fails . . . call Arnold the T . . . he once did this himself and loves to exercise. Promo his next move.
Richard Simons . . . well known to older TV viewers.
Stand and deliver
I propose *$20 Mil Revenues for next earnings call.
Lets hope I am way low on that.
The Ides of December doth approach
and its shadow casts no joy
as if a Zombie for us
Maddened Cats . . .
on our Wall
this Dark Friday?
Shall we see a Staircase To The Stars . . .
or the Darren standing on the corner . . .
selling paste-on controller decals?
I am locked in now,
holding to the end
as we descend into the glowing fog
Regardless, we will make it through.
Big D. has us with the cash to last all of 2014.
So . . . relax and enjoy
My feelings also.
Everyone please work to bring the stock price down , as I will then buy some more.
Shorts get to work! FOOL it more!
My estimate is one will make more percentage gain on GLUU, for example, than BJK ( the gaming ETF, which is over 20% this year and at a lot less personal $$s leverage involved).
But, I am not on the inside pushing the buttons. What would I know. My investment probability betting guess is better than 60& for GlUU to reach over $4.25/share in March-August 2014.
Bob22701, I will check out some of these IHUB listed stocks.
Looks like tribal casinos have been the vehicle used to set the stage or who and what interest(s), will control this huge future industry. Goggle and Apple and Amazon have the war chests and tech talent, to decide the game.
Modern Times 'wagering' is completely controlled by Silicon Valley fortunes and tech. I foresee mergers and buyouts of the likes of EA and IGT.
I am not even sure if MSFT can get into this arena, without backing and power alliances from the likes of NJ, NV, NY, and CALIF. My belief is MSFT has suffered too many mistakes and now is takeover material.
The technology is advancing so fast, Asian money and tech centers are on one flank of MSFT (as a example competitor) and the other flank is Silicon Valley.
Right now, I am betting on GLUU, COOL, BETS, NTEK, MCZ to be targets of buy-outs. However' to avoid government regulatory legalities, the new way to absorb a competitor . . . is to directly buy its stock, get your people on its BODs, and provide tech assistance. Thus, a small competitor is taken off the table, so to speak. Forget patent wars . . . too slow of a technique. Just buy in and 'control' the tech company.
DIS scored a huge coup when they bot MVL.
Material content for games is another facet of the 'game/gambling wars'.
Cellphone upgrades lead to the means to control the future of everything. Expect more ETFs like BJK. Even giants like INTC may not be able to continue, without support of someone like Goggle. A famous economist once stated on TV, that he felt eventually the world would be ruled by 20-30 large corporations.
SkyNet is already here and no one sees it.
Goggle has developed a search engine now that even their best engineers cannot figure out the same stuff it does, nor even how it does it. Armies of the future (ten years from now), will be single human directing a robot
squad, tasked to protect that human, and accomplish a common goal.
Entertainment will be a major industry, that will be automated and will become the 'job' for us. We may even be 'payed' to post online (think 'game stamps') to match our food stamps. Your 'posts' will become your lively-hood. You (as electronic activity) become your own business model,
that folds into the super cloud apparatus.
I do not think its very easy to pick 'winners' anymore . . . I will be looking over the gaming ETF as THE investment.
ATIG . . . ?
Now mere static debris?
Bye-the-way . . . where's our money, has it ';melted' away as vapour after the freeze was lifted . . . broke retail investors are 'puzzled'.
I am leaving now . . . but that was funny! You gave me a lugh to start the day.
Not purposing to short or destroy NTEK (I am holding my shares).
Best of luck to all . . . I am just saying close to a Trillion dollars in 'other companies' war chests and mega numbers of researchers and lawyers.
IF NTEK succeeds . . . I make money too . . . all is dependent on which tech huge international associations will mandate as 'standard' . . . realistically its going to be theirs firstly. Or, NTEK gets bot out for over $1.50 . . . its exciting to watch . . . but know when to pull the cord on your profit protection chute? Greed drives the masses over the cliff?
i still hold shres . . . however anyone that thinks the likes of google, samsung, intc, amazon and msft are going to just sit back (with disney) and let someone take over the future, are asking a whole lot. One guess who can 'tie-up' NTEK in endless legal battles why 'they' produce counter techs (even their own 4K) at the same time and push their stuff all around the earth.
If one gets above .25 with NTEK pumping . . . I will be happy investor.
This isn't 1980 at the start of the personal computer revolution . . . hundreds of billions of dollars are actively working to protect their position. These big guys are IT.
If APPL and MSFT can fall on their a---- and make mistakes, all will be re-doubling their efforts to survive. Which does not ask . . . NTEK could not reach $1.50 or more in stock price, but it would not hold.
their are 100,000s of thousands of engineers and scientists worldwide, that can be researching right now . . . the killer of 4K (laser holographic projection in air). They can do it now, but holding it back from public use.
Lets see in 2015 if NTEK is still on .pk.
The above does not mean I dislike NTEK . . . but be realistic.
I just went to ATIG website and played a game, on their site: it was free play. I am now confused . . . how are they (ATIG) paying to keep their website active? Apparently, only one current tribal casino is active with ATIG, the other did not seem active. Whats with this?!!
ATIG says they are working to get up and running via their tribal gaming commision multi-tribal site network. ATIG has nice website design.
This is nuts!
Why no release of our stock for trading?
No news development since Mid-2013 update.
I noted International Game Technology on one of their virtual games.
What?!! Is that not IGT?
Is this fun, or what?
ATIG has to pay Ihub to have their stock board listed?
Why do I feel we are watching the Twilight Zone . . . in real time?
Did anyone go to the shareholder meeting?
So, IF someone buys (or partners w/) ATIG . . . what do we get?
This may sound stupid . . . but couldn't MCZ develop a memory stick, as a device to upgrade MOJO electronics, as needed?
Anyone in tech land out there, that can answer my inquire?
Seems like better security chip could also be built in, to filter viruses.
Shipping and retail sales would be lighter and cheaper to ship?
My reasoning leads towards online paid gambling/gaming use of MOJO, or any type of cellphone, laptop, etc. Is not the security system on a USB insert chip, almost impossible to hack? One does not have to remember a bunch of codes to type in to get MOJO to activate . . . as you pay for reactivation ability when you buy the chip?
The gamer would be registered for say one device use, when they purchased the stick. The chip USB would not recognize, anyone else's user devices?
I guess what i am trying to get at . . . will MOJO be able to hook up to just anyone's pers;onal game device and game? That seems contrary to the new 'cloud' use-for-fees that everyone is starting to push. Where doe it all lead?
And, will major companies like MSFT and GOG place user fees on MOJO users?
Will one be able to go online with their MOJO anywhere (public/friends device,with their purchased MOJO?
Some thoughts merely.
Nice . . . low-budget growing system (the comment is from a non-grower, I can't medically, etc. use MJ as my eye doctor does not want me to, for medical reasons). PHOT, of course, can become a huge new supplier for home-grown veggies and flowers market. Think amateur Vertical Farming Greenhouse-rs.
The grow-cabinet and the MJ verification machine are suitable for some, but the low-techies (probably majority of small users/growers), will not be major PHOT customers? I have not quite been able to foreseen how that market will 'come-on-over'. We are not all robots of $tech-lords . . . yet. All these smiley copanies want to increase profits by prices going up . . . but we have a job/income prob-beano.
Wonderful bureau mistake . . . but yet to their initial advantage: arc-lite the medical MJ users for the lazy and dull to feed on, and oh bye-the-way punish the responsible user. Whats not to like? Can't you just see a major cig company laughing . . . as the gov wrestles their small self-reliant users to the ground, so gracefully?
Perhaps the lawsuit should include a demand for a gov insurance claim provision for all independent and licenced medical MJ individuals, who suffer under such a blunder?
Hmm . . international trade agreements might require that eventually MJ has to come under Fair Trade and Free Trade Agreements . . . meaning USA has some right to not accept Canada as supply of Mj . . . if they restrict USA MJ products entry to Canada?
BC province in particular, has 'unoffically' determined that MJ growing and 'passage' to USA as native Canada product derived, is THE major job creator in eastern BC little towns. Thus, Mountie seem quite reluctant to 'pursue' local grown MJ? Heavy Hands increase desperation for these little towns, that face economy-of-scale competition 'problems', with trying to maintain and start small local self-reliant businesses of all types. Bluntly, drug money locally keep them happy and afloat.
It use to be . . . that say senior tours buses . . . regularly made 'tour trips' into certain Can areas, for the purpose of buying their meds and receiving 'treatment regimes' not allowed in USA. In the old days, parties often came across into BC, etc. Can to fulfill their 'taste' needs. Will this happen again, for MJ? Who knows . . . not even The Shadow . . . yet.
Can is a wholly different mind-set from USA . . . kind of like your grand parents use to be like, before they got 'Matrix-ed'.
I am looking for PHOT (which I still own some long-range, low-price), to take a particular direction right now . . . those +40Mil Shares traded . . . are looking kind of like those 40mil shares give so kindly to our new overlords ltd.? I shall quietly (I hope) wait and see.
If so . . . looks like C is leaping into action, to establish user base with its online play for pay poker sports betting, before NY can. You would have to 'play' at C premises? I do not know if C has launched at-home online play, at this stage.
Where is ATIG . . . big silence, in their janitorial closet.
Where is our report on Native Casinos ATIG tried their online platform in?
JPM has to pay fine . . . where is SEC to demand our monies back?
When the reporter asked the Chinese authority where is corporate leaders of a trickster enterprise (in China) . . . the reply was . . . 'they are in an undisclosed location'. What justice system does 'faulty' management in USA , fear?
I also am watching and not buying down, when someone comes right in and covers your buy @ a lower price. With all the news recently (new games) and various ZUMBA title followers out there, it just makes sense to wait for 'special' PR; that eventually must come become next earnings. It might be months, but I surely can wait. If shorts want to bring it down like they did MCZ . . . then . . . great . . . I have the cash. COOL is not going to fold, and surely can be bot out or partnered with. Online paid gambling/gaming makes COOL worth the while, to see what can transpire. Any thoughts on which of the first states (NJ ,NV, DW, NY, and soon Calif.), COOL $USA online betting sets up in?