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AVVW: Keep your eye on it!!!!
FCCN: Could someone chart this one, please? Thoughts anyone cares to share regarding it?
Thanks
Love this board!
I'm with you on that, Bama. Best of luck to ya'.
Shouldn't be long NOW, should it Jim? (Hint-Hint).
Bama: Well, best of luck to you with this. I think I'll put it strictly on my occasional watch list for now.
Bama: I've having some second thoughts about taking a position in this company. Until Cornhole Capital is removed from the equation ... appears to me like CC might be well content to take this puppy to the brink of extinction.
Wouldn't suppose the company doesn't mind, do you?
Beats me. I totally forgot about this piece of crap months ago, to be honest.
Best of luck!
Oil plays like GCOG have the BEST potential right now, IMO:
Just in from Bigcharts.com:
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Energy stocks bucked a mixed overall market and rose amid reports of a possible weather impact in the Gulf of Mexico.
The Miami Herald reported a system in the Gulf of Mexico could grow into a tropical depression with possible impact on the Texas coast by Thursday. Oil rose as the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries signaled it's unlikely to increase output levels at its September meeting. Oil futures 53 cents to $72.15
Great idea! Stay with it!
Realtor: That's TWO of us!
Great possibilities ...
Philly: Thanks for the post! All should take HEED!!!!!!
Lucky
Hey, that's great! No point in them releasing news they don't have, right? Absolutely brilliant move on their parts. Which then means there's no point in buying shares if they never have any news to report, right, because who wants to buy shares in a company who never has news to report? Time to move on then, right ...?
I'm expecting news any day now. (Been expecting news any day now since time began).
Tappity-tappity-tappity ... (impatient fingers drumming the table)
KSWJ now has it's OWN circus! Holey smoley, Batman!
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/board.asp?board_id=10061
KSWJ is going to revolutioniiiiiiiiiiiiiize the oil industry. Lady Sophia looked into her crystal ball and dats what she sezz awwright.
P.S. Pazz the EM-100 steak sauce, pleazzz.
Dak: Thanks much! Do you know if ALL Pinksheet companies that are executing R/S are posted there, or just some?
Lucky
For what it's worth:
I asked a few days ago if anyone happened to know of WHERE a person could find out if a Pinksheet company planned on executing a future R/S.
JohnIraq mentioned Pinksheet.com. (Thanks John!)
I emailed the SEC to see what they could tell me. Here's my email to them (at the bottom) and their answer back to me. (I've left off my email address and real name for privacy reasons):
Dear Mr. (Lucky),
Thank you for contacting the SEC.
Unfortunately, we are not aware of a particular website that contains the information you seek.
Sincerely,
ROBERT T GREENE
Office of Investor Education and Advocacy U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission 100 F St, NE Washington, DC 20549-0213
(202) 551-6331
________________________________________
Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 1:59 PM
To: Help
Subject: Requesting help
Can you provide for me a Link or Web Domain site where it shows WHAT Pinksheet companies have filed to execute a FUTURE Reverse Split of their shares?
Thanks you very much!
(Lucky)
Hey ALAN - you still ALIVE?
Righty: Someone is going to have a HUMUNGOUS water bill this summer!
Off to the beach now!!!!
LEX: Would you wager in guessing how many of those 480 millions shares are YET to be sold?
GCOG - OH YEAH!!!!!!!!
Pretty impressive, I must say!
GCOG - Wow!!!! Impressive!!!
AVVW about to RUN?!!! Check it OUT!!!!
John: Thanks for clarifying my misunderstanding regarding R/S and Pinks.
As another poster asked, would you happen to know HOW a person can find WHERE the SEC posts upcoming R/S of Pinksheet companies?
Thanks,
Lucky
Zoom-Zoom-Away: Thanks for your post. I'm a rookie at trying to get a reasonably good feel for which way the Market is going to go, and it has come to my SOBERING conclusion since the first of 2007 that Bush and team does NOT want these Markets going down very low, OR down at all prior to next year's election.
OR ... does Bush and team have NO SAY in the matter at ALL?
Your thoughts, or anyone elses' would greatly be appreciated.
P.S. Just read Post #: 53731 That about says it all, doesn't it!?
Lucky
Makes: This is my last post for the day so I have to make it count. (I can post on the RSDS Ragingbull board if you want to dialogue over there however. I'll be away from home early evening, however). I appreciate SO MUCH your indepth and knowledgeable posts regarding OTC/BB stocks. You're the FIRST person I've read on these stock message boards who not only UNDERSTANDS but will POST what you KNOW and SEE regarding the flagrant siphoning of funds out of retails pockets into the hands of insiders who have NO INTENTION/S of ever turning a profit (other than by selling shares!), let alone worrying about just how much "honest" revenue they really might be bringing in. Their REAL business model is nothing more than selling as many shares as they can unload while suckers are willing to hand over their money with false hope generated by lies and obscure PR's being their motivator.
I chuckle MOST of the time when posters start screaming that a Pinksheet company needs to go to OTC/BB status anymore. For WHAT? So they can get even MORE of retails money immoraly? NOT! At least with a Pinksheet company, they are limited to a great degree in how much they can take out of your wallet each year!
AND here's a biggy ... sometimes the less retail investors know about a company, the quicker they believe "The STORY," and will put money to that stock. Furthermore, the harder it IS to catch a CEO lying, odds increase that people will reward a stock like that, if the PR's are written properly and issued in a timely manner. Good PR's are an ART!
The only major negative I have with a Pinksheet company is that they can pop a R/S any time they want without having to notify the SEC or the public. (Correct me if I'm wrong). Whereas with a BB/OTC company that must file quarterly financials, they legally MUST file a form with the SEC that the public can read in time before the R/S might take place, communicating their intent to execute one, and the ratio of the R/S.
In my estimation, both Pinksheet and BB/OTC stocks are ONLY worth putting much money to if they fit into that "Story Stock" category ANYWAY. (A company in a sector that is HOT, or a sector or topic that is getting sensational national news coverage, such as MTTG is in). (Of course, if the BB/OTC stock should somehow start generating some large [believable] amounts of revenue with the strong hint that they might one day in the next several months become profitable, then that is a different matter. Only a few BB/OTC stocks these days MAY fit that category).
There are some unique things regarding RSDS that have also hindered any sustainable rise IMO, and we've already touched on those issues in times past, so won't go over them again.
I've said it before and I'll say it again. Berman is in a very good sector, and if he plays his cards right, I firmly believe this stock could do very, very well for the patient. (Me, I'm having to acquire more patience than I ever cared to want to acquire in these blastid pennies! I SWORE near the end of last summer I would NEVER get caught in another pennystock during the summer months. Well ... so much for that declaration this 2007!)
If the right event/s happen suddenly (like the unexpected bridge collapsing in Minnesota last week - again: MTTG), RSDS could take off like crazy. There is always that hope/possibility in a company like RSDS at these prices in the sector it is in.
Makes ... again - I appreciate so much you taking the time to address the BB/OTC raping going on and posting about it. Maybe the SEC or Congress won't change the laws in our lifetime, but if enough potential retail investors learn what you have come to learn by your postings ... they simply will stop putting money to those scams. As that continues, laws DO get changed when greedsters can't make the easy money they have been addicted to making for so long.
Hang tuff, buddy, and please don't stop being who you ARE!
Lucky
Makes: I answered your communication earlier on that "other" board, but it won't let me post it for some reason. Maybe it was too long. I just didn't want you to think I was ignoring you.
I still only get 3 posts per day with no PM function, so that hinders things.
I'm DONE today trying to answer you today; frustrated with IHUB!
Nothing I wrote really would be something new to YOU anyway. We're in the middle of summer and Pennystocks seldom get any momo during this time of year, and that is what is hindering RSDS from running the most imo. Patience required for ALL pennies until fall, unless we get some incident that hits the major news networks and when that happens, any penny tied to the sector the news is associated with will get momo. How long it LASTS is another story!
For Makesumgravy:
Makes: From reading Berman's resume, he is NOT ignorant IMO whatsoever about the importance of having Market exposure to his company.
Berman has told us that posting PR's on the bigger markee's is a waste of money. You know WHAT ... I appreciate his honesty in that statement ... and THAT has always caused me to be greatly perplexed (and a bit "nervous").
If I as a CEO want my share price to rise higher and higher so I don't have to dilute so many shares to complete my 504 -- not to mention all the other positives that go with an increased share price ... Berman's hesitancy to advertise his company to the max tends to make me think that Berman REALLY never WAS that concerned about getting the share price up in 2007 to begin with.
If I'm correct, that takes me all the way back to square one. Berman is NOT, nor ever HAS BEEN, concerned about you and I, Joe-Blow retail at all. (In all fairness, has a CEO of ANY company ever been? No!) Berman is concerned about Berman. And if that statement is correct, then Berman will pop another R/S so quick time and time again that it will make our heads spin like a gyroscope -- when it's convenient for him.
Sign hanging in Alan's mind?:
GONE FISHING
Righty: Did I somehow miss your analysis of PBLS? PR printing press just getting cranked up, it appears.
Q: In respect to making an honest living ... what is the difference between owning a Casino or being the Owner/CEO of a Pinksheet Company?
A: GREAT QUESTION!
Q: I wouldn't have asked it if I didn't think it wasn't ... so .. what is the difference?
A: Well, let us first look at the similarities of the two businesses:
A Casino owner needs hopeful customers constantly coming into his/her place of business, buying shares in his Casino either through placing orders in the slots or at the tables. Anyone caught trying to steal the owner's money by breaking house rules is often shot by daybreak.
The CEO Pinkcheat owner also needs customers buying shares in his Casino, and the hopeful customer does this by depositing money with thieves whom in turn may or may not pass that money along to the CEO. These thieves will not be shot by daybreak, because the Gubment fully sanctions and protects their priestly status of Market Maker Gods.
A Casino owner realizes that to keep fresh money (customers who haven't already used up all their cash buying casino shares, in other words), he/she must allow there to be a few winners from time to time. Bells and whistles must be heard loudly to alert other disgrunteled customers that there is STILL that ray of hope that maybe the next twist of their slot handle will be their mother payload.
The CEO Pinkcheat owner realizes that to keep fresh money (customers who haven't already used up all their cash to buy shares), he/she must somehow try to convince the theives to quit shorting and go long. The thieves know that they can make double their return twice as fast dropping the share price than they can raising the share price to get double their return, so the CEO eventually realizes that the only way to motivate them to go long is to turn a profit honestly.
Herein lies the major difference between Casino owners and Pinkcheat CEO's:
Casino owners buy free drinks for broke customers served by sexy ladies who smile just as pretty when they are having their period as when they aren't. With enough free drinks ... "Hey ... I might have lost, but that gal who keeps handing me those free drinks sure smiles a lot more at me than the old lady ever does. That makes it ALL worth while!"
CEO Pinkcheat owners on the other hand do not buy free drinks for broke customers, but rather, reward their customers with on-going dilution and ultimately R/S's, and then might possibly send the very irrate customers a tube of Preparation-H if their life is threatened by renegade Shock Market terrorists.
The nice thing about this line of business is that it does not require hiring sexy women to smile pretty at disgruntled customers. All that is required is to issue more exciting PR's while keeping a straight face.
The interesting psychology of these two categories of customers, strangely, is that a Casino customer actually expects to lose their money when they buy shares in that casino. They are full aware that the house rules are made in favor of the Casino owner walking away with the biggest paycheck on Friday.
On the other hand, when a customer buys shares in a Pinkcheat company, the customer NEVER expects to lose money buying shares in that casino. Though they eventually become aware that the house rules are made in favor of the thieves who have the legal power to hand the CEO however much or little [mostly little] they want to hand him/her ... they almost NEVER want to kill the thieves who stole their money, but rather, the CEO who really was most likely just trying to earn enough money to go buy a Casino in Utah some day.
To be continued ...
Want to bet that if any of us live long enough ... some Pinkchit CEO will be trying to get suckers to buy shares of his patent-pending - FDA Green Energy Approved - completely natural and all organic (orgasmic?) ... means of turning cow flops into gasoline drops?!
Hey ... that's a brilliant idea! I think I might just consider being that CEO! I figure being a customer in the casino is not very good odds in my favor of getting rich, but rather, being the OWNER of the casino is the ONLY way to fly when it comes to gambling in the Shock Market Casino.
Can I get an "Amen, brotha!" on that one?
VLF: Still glad to see you hanging around. Even if/when you exit this stock completely, I ask that you do other investors a HUGE favor and post your heartfelt thoughts from time to time. People like you are RARE who post on IHUB, on any of these stocks boards; not just ETMO. Your knowledge of Sales and Marketing is a HUGE asset to Alan and the rest of us shareholders ... if he will just listen to you, IMO.
Because I used up my three posts for the day early yesterday, I wasn't able to comment on what some of you other posters were commenting on regarding a website and the company.
I'm going to say a few things regarding Alan and his website/marketing comprehension NOW because at this juncture, Alan appears to me to be so far down in how to pull this stock out of the Shock Market Sewer that there is probably very little to lose from it ... so here goes. In other words, it's all UP from here for him.
Before doing so, however, I want to go on record as saying I TOO have much more invested in this stock than what I really wish NOW I had committed to it, simply because dead money sitting in a penny stock (THIS long anyway!) is not my idea of "wise investing." However ... I realize we're in the summer months and in pennystocks, one must be very prepared to expect the worst through these summer months, and things don't usually get going again much before November, if a company has anthing going for it at all by that time frame, anyway.
Like I mentioned in one of my posts yesterday here, I wrote Alan a very kind email some months back, making what I thought were so very helpful and polite suggestions regarding websites PERIOD. My reason for doing so was simply because in committing money to this stock, I saw some very "primitive" and "prohibiting" marketing regarding the website.
Essentially, I told Alan this: "Alan - when people "Google" your product, what would be the most likely word or words people will FIRST type in? Would it not be: Sand Cars?"
I asked him to type in: Sand Cars into Google, Yahoo, and MSN, and see how many pages he has to go through to find his website. I then went on to tell him that it is a proven fact by those who are in the KNOW that if your website cannot be found on Page 1 or Page 2 of ESPECIALLY Google (Google gets approximately 80% of the Search traffic on the Internet, and probably MORE ... and don't LISTEN to anyone telling you differently!), one's odds decrease drastically of anyone even finding your website, let alone thinking it is a bad one, good one, or somewhere in between, if they have to search much beyond the first 2 -3 pages. If a person hasn't found what they are looking for by page 5 ... a very small fraction will continue looking further than that -- very, very small fraction.
I then told Alan that it would take all of about one (1) minute to place [as in CHANGE] some pertinent KEY WORDS in the "Description" Meta-Tag line of his website to GET it initially on at least the first five pages of Google (when you type in: Sand Cars or Sand Car)... and with a bit of patience with perhaps a little more tweaking ... it really wouldn't be that difficult at ALL to get Page 1 or Page 2 placement on all three most used Search Engines: (Google 80% - Yahoo 15% - MSN 5% ... roughly, depending).
I even told Alan if he had no one who could do that for him, (change a few words in the Description Meta-Tag line is all it would take) I would be willing to do it for FREE if he would like, being I was a shareholder who MIGHT buy even more shares - depending. I also told Alan I would NOT share his specific comments back to me, if he chose to answer me.
He did answer me back a day later, which surprised me, and it appeared to me that he was VERY rushed when he fired the email off to me, so I'll first give him THAT benefit of the doubt. However ... his answer was either so much in haste that his brain wasn't working at that moment in my opinion ... and/OR ... perhaps he thought I was a "naked short MOLE" trying to sabatoge Extreme even more than what they had already done so at that time.
Long story short, the spirit in which he answered was that basically he could give a rip if you couldn't find their website even if you had to file through 50 pages to find it, because people who look at websites are NOT the kind of client who buy Extreme's Sandcars ANYWAY.
Well ... I'm thinking about the Chinese Olympic folks and the wealthy Saudi Princes who can buy Sand Cars from anyone of dozens and dozens of manufacters who make them here in the states ... and I'm putting myself in their shoes, as I sit there in front of my computer screen studying the websites of U.S. Sandcar manufacturers -- and say to myself -- "in the busines world we live in, I don't think Alan has a clue in how "negative" it is to hand a wealthy client your business card with Sandcar greese all over it verses a spotless business card without so much as even two flecks of dust on it!
Alan (LUV, maybe you can print this off and hand it to him?) - your website IS the most important "business card" you'll ever hand your potential customers, dude, in the line of business you are in, and if you don't learn that soon, your stock price is going to suffer for it no matter how much magic you hopefully will pull off, which means all of us longs will suffer along with you! in making less that what we could have made.
Furthermore, the most attractive, informative, "warm fuzzy" website in the world, built for many thousands of dollars no less, will do squat diddly for your company if you don't somehow manage to get people to EASILY find it! In other words, building a quality website is just HALF of the success equation. Website optimization (getting excellant placement on the Search Engines, in other words, when KEY WORDS are typed in to find the product and/or service your potential customers are looking for) is the second HALF, and possibly the most important HALF in most cases, depending on certain other factors, such as competition, being near the top.
So ... if in fact Alan is moving slowly forward to having an upgraded website constructed, I sure hope to goodness whoever is making the decisions regarding it has the wisdom to know HOW to let the <Description> Meta-Tag work for the company instead of AGAINST it, like it currently is working against people easily being able to find the website now.
I'll try to communicate again before ending this: I surely don't want to come across as complaining, whining about my investment in ETMO being down so far, nor being a basher in any way. ALAN has enough on his plate most likely to have to deal with in running Etreme, and one person can only handle so much stress and keep a straight head.
But the more time passes, the more I'm beginning to think that Alan thinks of himself a bit too highly in some areas, and/or he either is so paranoid of who his real friends or enemies are ... he treats about every stranger as a potential short terrorist, rather than someone who is simply trying to see their long investment grow in this company.
If anyone thinks I'm crucifing Alan unfairly, please feel free to blast me. I'm not above taking constructive criticism. Life is a learning process, and for certain these Pennystock CEO's are as well, at least for many of us! Stand them all in one big lineup, and they are ALL suspect of being cons to one degree or another, IMO -- it's just how MUCH of a con they really are.
Any company turning a profit who goes public is wonderful to invest in, if you get in cheap in the beginning, right? Any company who MAY be turning a profit, or close to turning a profit ... and you can grab some shares early and cheap ... well ... maybe ETMO fits this category. The carrot dangled in front of us "smells" like this might be the case ... and my hunch is that if the shorts smell this same odor ... shorting will NOT be Alan's problem either now, and/or in the very short future.
The problem will be that Alan is either not getting good counsel, and/or if he is getting good counsel, he doesn't have what it takes to use the good counsel to win the heart's of investors.
Confidence in Alan weighs in the balance in my estimation right now, and if he doesn't soon regain it ... it might be a bit too late to ever gain much back.
I'll babble about one other thing before using my first of three posts for this Sunday. My first impression of a monthly newsletter to us long shareholders is a SAD "hail mary" in Alan's latest ploys to deal with his share price dilemma. If he thinks for one second that he can funnel info to long shareholders and somehow keep this out of the hands of shorts, he needs to seriously think about getting out of the business of trying to sell Sandcars and rather, go into the business of selling Ostrich Sandlice Protection.
And/or - if the monthly Newsletter is to try to somehow gain (or regain) Investor confidence ... a well constructed website, maintained frequently (fresh, relavent content: video footage as a top possibility) will do the job much more efficiently, and even a well built website is NOT going to do jack-squat if there are not BELIEVABLE PR's given to the whole world to see on a timely basis.
Believable, honest, timely PR's is the name of the game, Alan. Always has been, always will be. Fine, if you have a little black book of wealthy foreign clients who will pay you the big bucks for building them Sandcars to their personal likes ... but if you do NOT have clients like that, (as most of us don't believe you have afterall, unless you can convince us differently) then you're going to have do what every other company has to do to gain the confidence of potential investors - especially down here in the garbage world of Pinks: Be extremely HONEST with them.
"Extreme" Motorsports? How about Extreme "honesty and transparency"?
Finally ... Alan, I hope I am totally out in left field with this post, and you have things together and time will prove me totally wrong. If it serves a purpose, I'll personally show up in Bakersfield and give you my sincere appologies should you want them. Afterall, I didn't put money to ETMO to see it all go down some bottomless sandhole, as it appears might be forming.
Live and learn ...
Lucky
Highline: I'm right with you regarding putting video clips on an UPGRADED website. I suggested to Alan back several months ago when I first started looking at this company that he could only benefit from it, but it seemed to have fallen on deaf ears at the time. I assumed he was probably too busy with other things, BUT ... I felt from the getgo that he could do a whole lot more on the Internet for his company and share price if he used his website to do some more effective marketing.
I'm sure VLT has already brought that up to him as well.
Lucky
Alan might do well to have fresh, new, periodic footage of Extreme Sandcars in ACTION and have someone put them on Youtube just like the link of the boy you shared here. Now THAT would make for an interesting monthly newsletter IMO!
Was the Sandcar in this Youtube link an Extreme Sandcar, or WHO knows?
You are so thorough on DD that I was just hoping that maybe you have been watching PBLS and I was curious as to what your opinion might be concerning the company.
I'm a born sceptic with pennystocks period, so I have little to contribute in way of optimism regarding PBLS. (Doesn't mean some profit can't be obtained in them, however, right?!)
Lucky
Righty: Did you grab some PBLS shares early this morning?
Will the next PR be to the affect that PBLS is buying sub-prime morgage lender assets for fractions of a penny? Hey - why NOT? PBLS is moving on UP ... to the BIG TIMEEEEEEE.