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It is your judgment on whether you will sell BEHL or not. I am very uncomfortable with the "I just got bad news, but I can't talk about it" message you posted earlier. If you can't or won't fill in the details, please don't tantalize us with an "I can't talk" message.
From the perspective of me not knowing what you say you know, I have to try to look at your motives. My take on your post is either 1) all is as it seems--you were a happy investor then BJ sent you (and apparently only you) an email which upset your feelings about BEHL or 2) this is a lame attempt to push the stock price lower so you (or someone else) can fill the truck. I don't have enough information to be able to even guess which is true.
So what to do? I am long term in BEHL, bought long enough ago that I am still very green. All of my DD says I can remain comfortable with my stock purchase for the long haul. Since I don't have any information to the contrary, I will ignore your post until I can have more solid information on which to make an informed judgment.
I hope no one else will sell on this post alone.
Is the letter private or can you post it here?
Agree. If I was depending on this board to tell the day of the week, I could not. Messages are the same over and over day after day. Week ends are a bit lighter. If they want to bash, at least provide some entertainment value (or originality).
BEHL is a development company. Price volatility is the name of the game. The price can shoot up, drift down, move sideways, or any other combination with good reason--or for no obvious reason. If that bothers some of our fellow board members, I wish they would get out.
I know algae is a good field for the near future. Profits will happen in algae. I know DF has a good track record. I know DS also has a good track record. The BEHL team looks to be a strong science and marketing team--better than most (or all) of the start-ups in the field. It looks to me like BEHL and RWE together make a stronger combination than alone. RWE has good engineering credentials. I hope that there is another player (or more) that will join them providing additional strength. There is a need to hit the ground running to get ahead of the big boys (XOM, etc.) I am willing to hold a few grand worth of stock for at least a year to see what happens. I am gambling with these funds.
I won't be persuaded by the ad nauseum bashes.
The disclaimer is boilerplate legalese for ALL PRs for ALL companies. Means nothing specific for BEHL.
Actually when WB bought when everyone else is selling he was buying they likely thought was "junk".
Slightly OT. I had wanted to go to the shareholder meeting in Feb. Have a 1 BR condo at a private resort reserved, but plans have to change. If there is anyone who would like to buy my reservation, please contact me privately at seedseller@gmail.com.
I'm afraid I may not be able to call in to the CC today. I and my million++ shares are a bit unhappy right now. Is it live online somewhere--or will there be a transcript available soon (as in before the week end). Anyone know? Thanks.
Seedseller
Better yet--send the audio to a website where we could listen without tying up the office phone for the call. Perhaps also being able to type in questions there as well.
Checking the WHOIS database, both are listed with private registrations. So one does not know who the domains really belong to. The .com domain was registered on May 5, 2008, the .org domain on August 20, 2009. Nameservers are different. I am guessing that the two belong to different organizations. Also, the .net domain is available for a mere $1088.
Will the call also be broadcast on a website somewhere. I will be at work and can't use the phone for the CC, but can put a website on in the background and listen.
Thanks.
The plan is interesting. No discussion on the website. Is it a new corporate headquarters for BEHL? Looks like it to me. If so, then the video is of work beginning on the site? Again, no info on the website. Subject of a PR soon?
Sorry, I missed your point--it is still unclear. I have a PhD, but perhaps I am not as good of a thinker as you!
Been here since April--millions at an average price of .006. I've kept adding more as the faint-of-heart are dumping.
Once it appeared as though this group had 75% or so of the shareholders in the company. We did fantastic DD together and grew with BEHL. There were several great detectives picking up useful information.
Then the naysayers entered. I generally am a quiet member of the group. I still read the group, but only occasionally post. I have used up my few allowed ignores. Bashers do no good. I do not mind someone, in the interest of the discussion, questioning the company. Bashers, with their threats and constant yelling are a part of the background noise that must be endured to keep in touch with my investments.
A penny stock is not an investment for anyone with a weak stomach. If you can't stand the volatility of the price, then move on. I don't want or need anyone to try to bully me away from how I spend my money.
Is any of our current price action a "payback" for DF threatening legal action over the short attack last Auguat?
I don't know--this is my private musings made public.
In addition to confidentiality of ongoing negotiations, there are too many shareholders who would call the other party in the contract to verify. I have seen this over and over in penny stocks. Often there are so many of these calls that someone has to spend hours on the phone. That is non-productive use of thier time--if it becomes bad enough they are likely to back out of the contract. They don't have the time, personnel, or interest to verify the contracts for shareholders of other companies.
Sorry, I think that having the manufacturer competing will cause potential customers to think twice about where they spend their money. A demonstration site is important--especially as Biocentric is a relatively unknown company in the marketplace. But using that site as a significant source of revenue, or by having too many company-owned sites, may not work well as a selling point for a customer.
Those company owned sites are test bed/demo sites. Considering their focus to develop/build/manage PBRs, it would not be a good thing to compete with their customers. That would send potential customers running the other way. I certainly hope that DF isn't headed that direction.
One thing ecomike that you and many other posters seem to be missing. Biocentric is NOT about producing products from algae--they are about designing, building and operating the PBR for their customers. Biocentric makes money in that way, not by growing and selling the algae and products themselves. BEHL is making the tools and has the expertise to grow the algae product their customers want. They profit from selling the tool (PBR), providing the algae species if required and managing the system. The customer profits form the actual algae product grown.
FDA approval is not required for supplements. There are NO pharmaceuticals that would be produced directly by the algae. The algae might be producing an organic molecule that could be used for an intermediate in a drug synthesis, but FDA approval is much less stringent for those than for the production of the actual drug itself.
Please attempt to understand the company and their products before you spout off. Also, I really don't need to be told how to, or not to, invest. I do my own continuous DD.
Bye Bye!
I don't need to answer those tired old questions that have been discussed to death already. Doing a bit of DD should provide adequate answers BEFORE purchasing shares in a company. Continued DD is important--questions help the debate. Rehashing old stuff says the DD is incomplete. If you become uncomfortable with the investment, then sell and move on.
Ecomike--Good job! Bought high, sold low. Doing your DD AFTER buying and still you don't seem to understand the difference between AS, OS, and float.
I don't need to be "saved" from myself by someone who admits to such sloppy investing. I hope your chemical engineering work is better than your investing skills.
Seems I remember that the bashers attacked him pretty hard. May have decided this group was not worth the effort. I hope not!! I appreciated his first-hand observations. Hopefully just too busy to post.
Picked up on one part of my message and left out the rest!! Let's try again in different words.
The usual reason an investor gets burned is NOT doing continuous DD. Falling love with a stock and patiently waiting for it to go up no matter what news comes out is almost sure disaster. Similarly waiting impatiently for a stock price to soar generally disappoints and leads to another stock market problem where people buy high and sell low--just the opposite of what they want to do.
For BEHL, they are telling us that they are following their business plan. Meanwhile, many here are waiting impatiently for uplisting news--ignoring or complaining about the good news that is released along the way.
I have a bit of advice for DF: don't release info about some future event until 1-2 days before it happens. Gives the bashers and the impatient less time to complain.
I don't often post here, but I DO appreciate the transparency of DF. I DO appreciate his hard work and leadership in building BEHL into the company many of us longs could barely dream about. I DO believe that we ain't seen nothing yet. When I first purchased shares last April, my vision of the company's future was well below what is happening now. What is waiting for us in the near future? My only regret is that I have no more dry powder right now.
Watching the board here, I am beginning to realize the truth of Warren Buffet's statement that "Wealth is transferred from the impatient to the patient." I am mildly amused by the ease with which the bashers can twist some members around. Folks, do your own DD and stick with your findings. Don't let someone talk you into or out of any position. Believe the results of your OWN DD. I believe that if we are patient, DF will deliver.
Consider me patient and slightly amused at watching the impatient being pulled around by the bashers.
Old news. Did you see the date on the blog page was Aug. 5, 2009?
One thing I see is that there are two groups of news releases from BEHL.
First, they offer the "shareholder update". This is keeping us (shareholders) informed of things happening at the company. As a shareholder update, today's release is great news. BEHL is continuing to build its business. Longs should be rejoicing. It is a solid update.
Second, are the news releases intended for the broader audience of readers. These are the PRs in the typical sense.
Hopefully, both would bring on new investors. Some of this group are waiting for particular news. So, while waiting for a particular news item, the share price trades in a very narrow range.
Don't be impatient while waiting for a particular news item.
I don't see PSC promoting any long-term price increases. It looks to me like they are saying within the next week or few weeks the price will be at least .30-.50 current shares--not the new company share price.
I can't argue much with the statement that "college degrees are a joke". I am a university professor--my take is that most students can get a degree without it having much impact on them. However, the possibility on many (not necessarily all) college and university campuses is for the instruction to make a big impact. There are a few people who graduate with a lot of tools to make a difference in the world. I would be quite happy to hire an employee without a degree if they are a go-getter. Given otherwise equal fitness for a job, I would generally chose someone who has had college degree that really made a difference in who they are.
What is the possible value of the original BEHL shares? Unless I misunderstand, the current BEHL will be a shell company.
Sorry, not correct.
Your 100,000 shares will convert to the new company AND you will be given a bonus of 10,000 shares. You will then own 110,000 shares in the new entity.
For those with questions about what is happening Google the term 'reverse merger'. I don't have time right now to go into the details. It is a clean, relatively cheap way to become traded on the OTCBB system.
BTW, the 10% bonus for current shareholders is a very NICE thanks from BEHL!!!
program-4-you: I see you have done a lot of creative thought on the use of vertical spaces for growing algae. Perhaps you should begin your own company to compete in the algae field. It IS still wide open--even though we in this group would like to think that BEHL just about has all the parts wrapped up.
One thing that I think you are missing from your vertical algae growing system. Algae are like plants (I DO know there is a debate whether they are plants or not). They need lots of light to convert carbon dioxide to the molecules they need to grow. If you can find a way to use your proposed system and give them access to cheap light--you may have a winner! By the way, it seems to me hard to compete with sunlight as a cheap light source.
Probably won't happen unless BEHL PRs the financials early today. Remember, most of the rest of the investing world hasn't seen the financial report yet. And may not very soon. We know it is there because we were waiting and watching.
They are a start-up company. Loss showing from the end of August, 2009. However, you may recall they have had a VAR sign up with a 250K payment. I may have missed it, but didn't see that payment there. If it isn't that alone covers most or all of the losses.
My computer locks up when I try to access the second file. The first loaded OK.
yes. Works well for me!!
Gator is back. Something good is about to happen to BEHL. Every time he comes around only good things happen here. C'mon Gator--you are on my iggy list--so post all you like. This group needs some positive action in tomorrow's market.
In several of PRs over the last few months, they have talked about filing a provisional patent on a number of their components. Not the same as a formal patent application, but still allows them to say "patent pending" anyway. The provisional patent is good for 12 months--formal application must be made before that time expires.
Whoa!! Financials next week? Really? When?
Note to self: back up the truck tomorrow.