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Nutrabars/Pawtizer/Chewies will always be fringe products until they are accepted by Pet Retail Chains and Pet Stores, IMO. Not yelling at anyone.
"Dmiodfuerza" your intriging post warrants a response written with the same level of respect you provided. I still have skin in ths game, more than you in fact. Mentally, I have written off my investment to essentially zero, as did Madoff's investors.
Themes in my messages for change may slowly be getting to the husband & wife that are the sole directors and management. The pay cut might be evidence of this. However, we do not know how much salary and bonus was taken before the pay cut was announced. We also do not know if the grid note contribution was immediately paid back as bonus. There is too much distrust of this management.
The distrust was evidenced in the last 10K. After promising to repay the shareholder advances in full, they paid themselves a bonus offsetting the amount due. Additionally, the recent 10Q showed $20K of sales, but everyone that called the company in 2Q was told "everything is great" and "we are shipping bi weekly purchase orders." The current stock price is probably more than 99% a reflection of the recent 10K and 10Q and less than 1% a function of all the comments posted on ihub.
My best idea for the improvement of the stock price is the replacement of Schwartz and Bershan as management. That pair has failed, failed again, mis managed and underperformed in every way possible. I can understand a manager failing to pay some vendors or taxes in order to keep a business alive, by Iwill never understand a management team that does not pay employees, vendors, and taxes and doesn't spend any dollars on marketing just so they can have wear diamonds and Rolex's, drive a Rolls Royce, dine daily at trendy BH restaurants.
I will post postiviely when the management shows that they can run the company for the benefit of shareholders and not themselves
WHERE ARE THE PET STORES. THE PRIMARY PLACES WHERE PET OWNERS GO TO BUY PET PRODUCTS. WHY THE FOCUS ON FOOD STORES WHERE PET PRODUCT MIGHT BE AN AFTER THOUGHT. WHY HASNT THE PET OWNER RETAILERS ACCEPTED AAPT PRODUCT. WHY WHY.
$1,000 trial order? 2 meals at Beverlyhills restaurants cost the same. If true, the woodman order will not make a dent in the 200,000 per month cash flow deficit at AAPT. Still no plan to get customers to know about them.
Wrong. With PPS at $0.003' it's Stupid to withhold news that would raise the PPS. AAPT needs to sell shares to survive and a higher PPS is needed to sell those billions of shares.
Excellent point. $2,500,000 unpaid vendors, 7 employee labor claims, no taxes paid just so the greedy can live in a mansion and drive a rolls Royce. The lack of funds for marketing is also a result of their greed. Let's get pictures of all the shareholders that did not know about management bonuses.
Prior misuse of Disney/Pixar name by AAPT?
I DOUBT EVEN GOOFY WILL BE PHOTOGRAPHED WITH A NUTRABAR. LOL
What exactly was this tie-in? Did Disney/Pixar know about it?
AAPT is an approved vendor in approximately 12,000 stores ranging from mass merchants, supermarkets, and drug store chains. The company’s strategy has been to aggregate these acceptances until they build a national distribution footprint that will benefit from their regional and national marketing campaigns and promotions such as their tie in with Disney/Pixar for their release in March of 2011 of “Winnie the Pooh”.
http://www.wakabayashifund.com/ExecSumm/AAPT/files/aapt_executive_summary.pdf
Compare all the bogus claims here to the bogus claims today. Shocked? I am not!
Strat, you called the September delay/disapointment perfectly. Still think Chewies makes it to Walmart shelves by December or ever?
LOL: $1.00 by 12/31/12, worst prediction ever, except for the $10 per share prediction.
Losses, fraud, incompetence, tax liability, AAPT Doesn't wheels
I DON'T BELIEVE YOU BECAUSE YOU'VE BEEN WRONG WAY TOO MANY TIMES.
WWWWWAAAAAYYYYYY WWWWRRRROOOONNNNGGGG!
AAPT claimed new accounts 6 months ago, but they did not have any. Repeating that bogus claim again now means another 6 months will pass by without any new accounts. The only SMART thing to do is deliver what you promise. AAPT never does the SMART thing and the PPS shows that.
Too bad AAPT is in the dog food business and not the delay and disappointment business. Their delay and disappointment machines are always working at full capacity, unlike the forming machine.
Fact: No new accounts since March 11.
"Best new management contest" needed with Multi-million dollar increased equity prizes awarded to all shareholders immediately after the announcement that the persons who put their extremely selfish personal objectives above the objectives of the shareholders are no longer managing the shareholders hard earned dollars that were invested in Star Queens.
Welcome back Maxx, you correctly called below $0.02 forever and then below $0.01 forever. What is your new call? Will this ever get above $0.005 assuming Bonnie & Clyde remain in charge.
Longs that want the PPS up must realize that it will never happen without a management change
The incompetent marketing staff does advertising using state of the art Facebook messages, targeted zip code nonsense and other waste of time social media techniques. Do not be surprised that one person on this planet saw one of those messages. I know everyone thinks AAPT does not advertise because most people have not noticed, but they do. It's just totally ineffective as measured by sales. Also, they send coupons that make the gross profit margin go negative. It is obvious that these ineffective marketing gaffs are Joel's handiwork. It would require 5 to 6 million minimum to market Barz alone. How much dilution would that cost?
No orders to fill or PR would be flying
BLATANT LIE: Not repaid related party transactions held to a different standard than you suggested.
This info is from the 9/30/12 10Q. These advances were converted to bonuses and bonuses were not listed in any private placement memo.
On April 30, 2012, the Board of Directors approved salary advances not to exceed $250,000 for each of Mr. Schwartz and Ms. Bershan in 2012. The Board of Directors requires that all salary advances are repaid in full before any transactions pursuant to the grid note are consummated. The Company made salary advances to Mr. Schwartz and Ms. Bershan, which the balance of officer advances as of September 30, 2012 is $371,117.
Many PP investors are very unhappy about this and other things.
We have done our due diligence.
Absolutely agree with you here king
Being swindled by AAPT is different than making an unprofitable investment. That is the message that I feel needs to get out.
The IRS, SEC and LADA all believe that the PAST MATTERS. I will defer to the lawyers on the validity of the AAPT cases, not annonymous internet keyboard warriors.
Please investigate 2009 private offering prices and you will understand why those investors are pursuing crimal charges with LADA.
Correction: Prices paid were $0.02 and $0.01. I freely admit when I am wrong. Thank you for pointing this small error out.
AAPT management's blatant lies have never been corrected.
You paid the same November last year according to post 40652. HELLO!!!!
Order the best but don't pay is the most economical method of acquiring goods and services. The non payment of goods and services puts the maximum money into Star Queens. Its better than buying cheap stuff. AAPT management is too dumb to realize that their cash flow strategy has long term consequences which are being seen today and will continue to be seen in the future.
Truth, PP's, 2012, Thanks, complaint permission not needed but the sentiment is appreciated.
You should hear the untrue crap we were told to get our private investments, yet the money was really for management to live their lavish lifestyle. After AAPT management takes your money, they act like they do not know you until they grovel for money. There is always an excuse for why they did not deliver and the new money will be used to really get the sales moving this time, wah wah wah.
Management residence, vehicles, jewelry, plasticsurgery not cheap, because it goes only to management. What makes you think AAPT Bonnie and Clyde are cheap? Not paying for goods and services is part of their business plan, and its very beneficial to the Company's short term cash flow.
PrivatePlacement investors OUTRAGED at PPS, we bought at $2.00, $1.00, $0.007 and $0.005 and the current price is now in the low 003's and even hit the low 002's today. The most annoying part of this is the magagement salary. Taking bonuses that were never disclosed in any PP Memo. That is outright theivery. We were also told many lies in order to get our investment. Now they wont take our calls. Hidding in their mansion with our cash.
I am glad you happy with the PPS, but me and me investor buddies are not.
If the PPS does go up, we will cash out at as soon as the PPS gets anywhere close to the price that we paid.
AAPT investors think amateurish slogan is waste of marketing dollars. Spend time putting products on 65,000 shelves as promised by 12/31/12. Don't waste time on silly slogans.
Totally amateur slogan. 3rd graders could have done better. Maybe they can do a million dollar prize contest for the child that writes the cutest slogan, but never pay the winner
Private AAPT investors outraged that PPS remains below purchase price. Management ducking investor phone calls is ominous. Products not appearing at retail stores. Cash balances dwindling, except at star queens. Tax man wants what is due.
IMHO, Disney would never do business with AAPT, even if the Pixar incident had not happened.
PP investors calls avoided, no PR for weeks, no reports of fresh product in stores, price price cuts mandated by the sole retailer, the July manufacturers coupon campaign mysteriously disappeared. "Do the math" as they say.
No buyers for this POS with incompetent management today. 0.0022 here we come. $68.00 of trading volume.
Its just the keyword search list associated with nutrabars. Its the same with every product including tacos and sour cream as pointed out by another poster. I agree that Walmart is committed to American products, but Walmart is more committed to products that actually sell and that is certainly not happening with Pawtizer.
Also, the majority of pet food products sold in the US are made in the U.S. although by foreign owed companies, just like Toyota manufactures in Tennesse, Nissan Manufactures in Alabama and BMW in South Carolina, most pet food is made in America.
AAPT took my money, not my phonecalls said investors in private placements. That is the scariest news of all heading into October.
Walmart.com does not know the difference. The internet knows that people who search Nutrabars also search for Pawtizer and there are links from Pawtizer to Nutrabars and vice versa. Do not get your hope up for seeing pawtizer in any more retail stores. It failed miserably. Ask yourself why would Walmart go out on a limb for Pawtizer after it bombed at two stores and it is 2/3's of the way to its expiration. Then ask why Pawtizer hasn't caught on in any Pet Store chains? Then ask yourself if you would want to be the purchasing rep buying a lot of this product that has not sold anywhere.
AAPT stole $90K from bank, Schwartz/Bershan really are the modern day Bonnie and Clyde bank robbers. I wonder when the bank will press criminal charges.
Waiting on Walmart news from "big meeting" which will turn out to be a bunch of hog wash, like all the misleading bunk and broken promises before this. 65,000 shelves by 12/31/12 and 7,900 Walmarts one year ago this month.