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There are no savings. The problem statement is false, a red herring.
You don't believe that either.
From the "Money 101" board right here on Investorshub:
What is a "Gagged" Transfer Agent?
-A 'Transfer Agent' is a company's means of managing shareholder records, issuing and canceling stock certificates, and processing investor mailings. Some companies can act as their own transfer agent, but most often, especially with penny stocks, the job is outsourced to companies specializing in the business. Transfer agents are normally the most accurate, and often the only way of finding the current O/S, A/S, and float for a penny stock. Some will require a fax with shareholder details to retrieve the information, others simply a phone call or email. This type of transparency is desirable among investors.
A "Gagged" transfer agent is one which has been instructed by the company they are working for to not release information, such as the share structure. This is NOT a good situation. There is no legitimate reason for a company to gag their TA. It is almost always done to hide dilution. Without knowing the current number of outstanding shares, an investor has no idea if shares are being sold by the company. Concurrently, without knowing the number of authorized shares, the number of shares that can possibly be sold is not known either. Companies that practice this scam will often issue press releases, or other investor communication containing excuses for having the TA gagged. Unknowing investors will buy these up, and continue holding shares, or even buying more. We absolutely do not recommend touching a stock with a gagged TA, unless you are experienced with penny stocks, and it is purely a short term momentum play.
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Currently sitting at 0.2125, but that doesn't matter . . .
His math is still hosed.
Your math is hosed:
1% of a $24B market is $240M, not $480M
That would be $80M per year. You've forgotten to divide by 3.
If your P/S ratio is accepted as realistic(!), and if you ignore all the other factors that investors and investment firms use to determine value(those tied to earnings, profit, and current financial status), that would be a market cap of $800M.
Additional dilution has occurred, no question about it. Shares are likely north of 4B now.
So, in your hypothetical math, you'd land at $0.20 per share, not $0.80 per share.
Well, it is fiction, pure hoax. There is no gas being spilled on the ground. You need 20W, you get 20W, you pay for 20W, period. This company is counting on potential investors not knowing how power delivery works. All this rhetoric about power "returning to the company and being wasted" is pure BS.
No, it isn't marketable. They are mis-characterizing the fundamentals of power delivery in order to give the illusion of a huge problem with a side order of an implication that utilities don't know what to do. That video is intended to sell stock.
It isn't that the "idea isn't new," it's been done the few times it was worthwhile. You don't need a chip or an algorithm to turn it on, just wire it up and switch it on if you're told you have to have one. It's a capacitor bank.
You guys need to do a little studying up on Watts and Vars, seriously, you are being misled. Watts you pay for, Vars you don't. Watts do the work in motors, heaters, etc. Vars do magnetization, period, to allow the motor to rotate. Vars do require current, but don't require fuel, other than to cover small heat losses.
That video hooked up a grossly exaggerated inductive load to a line with a power factor of about 0.35, typical is a much higher 0.85 or better, so of course the amps shows high. Then they hook up a simple capacitor bank (aka - vars in a power system) to increase that power factor and reduce amps. There's not one thing magical or innovative about it, studied it my sophomore year in 1979 on my way to a BSEE.
Yes, the amps required to make vars do cause heat and line losses mentioned previously, but those losses are about 4% in typical transmission systems, with another 4 - 6% for your local utilities hook up to your house. If a customer had such an inductive load that the power factor is less than 0.85, their utility might tell them to hook up a capacitor bank, might not, might put one nearby themselves, really depends on whether saving 15% of that 10% max losses (1.5% of the load to that customer) is worth chasing. But it isn't new, isn't innovative, and has been done. Utilities are very well aware of techniques to reduce losses when it pays to do so.
No wonder comments are prohibited on that video.
Sorry, meant to post about Watts and Vars in that other forum. You may delete this and view over there.
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=139854843
Some of the disgruntled gave their email addresses in their comments.
Here’s an easy thing to do. As a shareholder, tell them to ungag the TA. Whatever the truth is will be revealed.
It's most interesting that the two small companies you mentioned specifically started years and years ago and remain private companies, the same way a new startup with the next great bread slicer and ample venture capital to get going could do.
BLU could use some help in marketing, though, since their phones had the infamous "back door to China" allowing user data to be communicated and resulting in them being banned.
Sorry, but the hypish way this company has approached business wreaks of a stock sell.
1. Starkweather promises no dilution in the Q & A, yet dilution occurs, no question about it.
2. "Hey we're going to CES! CES! Contracts and rich folks gonna flock to our table!." Hollow hype leading up, nothing coming out.
3. "Hey we're going to the MWC in Barcelona! Barcelona! Sexy place! Contracts and rich folks gonna flock to our table!" The chorus of hype is deafening. Then a couple days before "we'll be attending the MWC to learn." Then there's the amateurish "hey, I wanna meet with you" tweet from the stranger on the day of arrival. Serious companies don't tweet vague meeting requests, obviously meant to drive/hold PPS. Then nothing from this tourism, either.
4. "We're changing TA's because they have an internal policy gagging themselves and we want to be transparent." Hogwash. Later "the (new) TA remains gagged since we want single point control over the information (translation - share structure) communication."
5. "We're revitalizing two software companies and have exclusive rights to 140 apps!" Two companies and apps that have been dead for years, exclusive rights to software cadavers.
6. "We're now a holding company!" So what?
7. "We've signed a LOI to acquire a CLEC Holding company!" Wait, what? That company was just created out of thin air, what value is that and why didn't you just make your own?
8. "Here's our financials." nodummy meticulously and factually exposes the dilution and the conversion rules for the preferred B shares, as well as past business relationships between the CEO and some holders of those shares in other "typical" OTC "businesses." "The board of directors has decided not to do that anymore." Two months must have been plenty of time for additional conversions by friends and family.
Call it what you will, but your nice writeup shows that a company that is trying to sell phones can do so without diving into an ugly shell and hyping it up to sell stock, in fact it would probably take less effort if the venture capital is what it is purported to be. Too many hollow and false promises from this company, but such is the OTC.
I'm counting on Aquaman, myself.
8 employees . . . surely adequate to go from 0 to cell phone sales for $100M in revenue in a year or so.
I hear they have "departments," too. They must be pretty thin in some of them. Also have a CMO, implying there are other managers/executives. Heard, too, they have a board of directors. Wonder who they are?
So, then, if they've produced a phone with invisible contracts and financing from friends/family/venture capitalists, et al, tell me again what the purpose of stepping into an ugly shell like this? I'd think they'd stay private . . . unless they wanted to sell stock or something.
By the way, would the phones be listed as assets/inventory on a financial statement?
Now, what manufacturer will agree to production of a phone for a "brand new" company that has no cash on the books to pay for it? You think they're going to take catchy slogans, PR's, tweets, and a YouTube video as collateral? Nope, if they were even considering tooling up for a run, they'd take a deep look under ANDI's hood.
One thing for sure: A phone manufacturer will do their own (and quite thorough) DD on a new player and expect a down payment before they agree to make phones . . .
This is a pretty good comment from that site:
Well you have to admit it's a great way to make money, make a slick video and a few nice pictures of something shiny that turnips with too much money and no sense are willing to shell out before it is actually made then disappear with all the cash lol I am seriously considering it
I'd figured that they'd slide some dollars off to Justin Su to "acquire" cascadenw.net, since he also had created that "business" website in 2016, and equally meaningless acquisition:
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=139268360
So these guys have played this game before, and are more interested in selling stock than phones. The most amazing thing is, when presented evidence of failures, of previous scams by the CEO and business associates, the altering of websites to conceal information, of stock dilution after promises of none, of a gagged TA after a promise of transparency, that this board goes into Hype-er-drive to try and spin all that as some sort of good thing.
Tell me if you know, when is the next quarterly due, and will it show how much additional dilution occurred from "friends of Mike" converting their B shares? There were an additional 2 months from the end of the last quarter reported and when you exposed the nature of those shares, which resulted in an alleged end to that nonsense.
That's fine, and I was just answering it. Advertisements everywhere tout things as being ground-breaking that really aren't, most of the time the ruby red slippers are already on the customer's feet.
There's always an app, even the camera runs on an app. Just checked one of the free ones, and it was updated in 2015, so, again, nothing unique here.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dualcam
Dual camera use - there's an app for that. Actually, there's more than 1. Nothing unique here.
https://solutions.softonic.com/what-are-the-best-apps-for-dual-camera
Pity that declaration couldn't be retro-active to December. Wonder how many of those B shares got converted already, since the company didn't make that move until nodummy brought it to the board's attention, as well as the dilution that had already occurred? Of course, we won't know until the company un-gags the TA like they said they would in February.
And with all those companies and obligations that Mr. Owen has on his plate (and I think you left out "Movie Producer," unless it is through one of those companies), he is still broadcast as the person who is really running this company. How can that be?
IR says: "Many shareholders are questioning the activity and involvement of Mr. Green and Mr. Owen. As stated before, they are advisors to the firm and subsequently are involved with strategic efforts made by the business."
Advisors. That's what they said. I don't understand how we can take the lame statement about why the TA is still gagged (after they said they were switching for transparency) at face value that was in the same Q & A and not believe them when they say "they're advisors."
I'm sorry, but it seems odd to let the company off the hook after they've diluted a significant amount already and have been able to continue up until quite recently, all the while keeping shareholders in the dark. Every day I see posts to not worry about the PPS, the phones are happening, etc., don't you want to know if they've flooded the market with a lot more shares from those conversions already?
I can't help but wonder how many of the B shares have already been converted, don't you? They've been available to convert almost the whole quarter. And all the company has to do is un-gag the TA like they said they were going to do in February when they switched.
That is all well and good, but the opportunity of GDPR is here now. Compliance is in May, and those that have to comply have to shop, select a product, plan deployment, deploy, test, fix bugs, and verify they are compliant. Sales should have already happened since this product has been out there for awhile, but at the very least there will need to be some in the very very near term. No more conferences, no more tweets or PR's that are about anything other than sales and revenue. No sales, no revenue generation, no stock/company value.
That is about the shadiest thing I’ve ever seen, at least in real life.
There was before it was changed today. He gave you a link to the cached page prior to the changes.
He is 100% correct, and that is a very shady thing to do.
A bit, yes. Ungagging the TA as a resolution wasn’t sarcasm.
A screenshot of a text message posted in a Twitter/FB thread always carries more weight than the words plainly written in a company’s financial statement. Always.
Easy to resolve. Tell them to ungag the TA and show the share structure.
Post 143895 explains the relationship
His facts are bolded, ie - when he says person A was given a bazillion shares of stock, that is a fact verifiable on the provided link. Read it that way and you’ll be more clear on the absolutes.
Thanks. Mediatek is a big player manufacturer, the downside for the business plan since they’re already all over India: https://pricebaba.com/mobile/pricelist/mediatek-mobile-phones
Not all, but we know enough to know the phones will be made.
You don’t have to know the secret “intellectual property” of a phone to know that it’s actually being made. We know who makes the chips and screens for Apple, but not their specs for any new model coming to market.
Sure, if they tried to sell it to you as their own, but the gist of the post was a YouTube video is hollow without information on the phones manufacture.
Anybody can have a YouTube channel.
Anybody can walk into a Best Buy today and purchase 3 phones for less than $75 each.
Anybody can stick a U on those phones and make a video to post on YouTube.
If you’re interested in DD, ask the company who the manufacturer of the phones (or the parts) is, about the contracts for said phones (or supply chain), the contractual obligations for progress payments, and more specificity on the schedule. A YouTube video just by itself is fluff without it.
Yes. Check back to around 2007 IIRC, or just google the symbol and Starkweather.