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Rory given the green light to dilute the snot out of existing shareholders.
What great news 😮
If you believe this web site: https://www.securexfilings.com/sec-deadlines/
then the 10-K for the year ending December 31, 2023 isn't due until April 1. With a 15 day extension that carries them until April 16. Last year they filed the 10-K at the deadline, April 17, 2023. (It's one day earlier this year because 2024 is a leap year).
And yes, Mark is full of sh*t. He issues those projections for YUGE revenues periodically so he can sucker people into buying shares...which ends up in the pockets of the 3 amigos.
The company should shut down and Mark should spend his remaining years choking on the money that he stole from the investment community. If anything is left over after he croaks, Mark's heirs should set up a restitution fund to partially remove the taint of Mark's legacy.
Take a look at the Market livestream schedule which, as of now, runs through May 8.
It's the same sellers over and over. Nothing new despite the numerous announcements of new sellers.
It seems clear that VERB is allowing anyone to list their products on the platform without any up front fee. A seller can decide to list their stuff on Market as an additional potential source of revenue. Little do these sellers know that Market has virtually no visibility so they will have few, if any, sales that come through Market. Of course that means no revenue for Market.
But as with all of Rory's prior efforts, it's about the illusion of success. The multi-million dollar financial losses are sure to continue until the company runs out of money.
It's his never ending need for acceptance by his audience that causes him to do that. Which is EXACTLY why he can't be trusted to keep his yap shut about our most closely guarded secrets when meeting with the likes of Putin, Orban, Xi, the Saudis and anyone else with whom he wants to curry favor or to show how "powerful" he is.
How his fans don't see him as an existential threat to the security of America is beyond me and the very thought that there is discussion about including him in security briefings once he officially becomes the R nominee is truly frightening. It has been suggested that his briefings should includes lots of false information so the 3 letter agencies can track the flow of that intel to our enemies....tying it right back to him.
Please enjoy:
Katie Britt with The Exorcist Theme (Tubular Bells) as backing music. https://t.co/KKL3i8HGdc
— Brian Andrews (@BrianAndrews78) March 9, 2024
It's so easy to debunk nearly all the pearl clutching claims the Fox pundits make, yet when they are called out for it they double down. I wonder where Chaffetz learned to do that.
On the positive front, TFG continues to disparage E Jean Carroll. He repeated his "I never met the woman" lies during a campaign rally. Stay tuned for a new civil complaint!
Yes, but the (largely) geriatrics who sit in front of the TV watching Fox "News" every waking moment would never put their own critical thinking skills (if they still exist) into gear to question Chaffetz's statement. They would literally just repeat his words to their friends group about how turkeys now cost $ 90.
Rory's move to Vegas certainly suggests that he has checked out and moved on.
I predicted he would walk away during the Spring of 2023. I was 12 month early.
Eat at JFK. No, never.
Back in the 1990s I arrived in Manhattan early for a meeting and decided to have breakfast at a corner coffee shop. There was a big sign on the window saying BAGEL AND COFFEE $ 1.99. I sat down and ordered the bagel with cream cheese and coffee. The check was almost $ 10. I asked the waitress why the check was so high. Indeed the bagel and coffee were $ 1.99 but the cream cheese was $ 7.
Also...when the new Yankee Stadium first opened a then-acquaintance bought tickets that included access to some sort of luxury box. H ordered a bourbon on the rocks. The cost was something like $ 16...$12 for the pour and $4 extra for the ice.
Welcome to New York!
The platform really does seem slapped together. It took them more than a year to display the time of day as we use in the U.S. Now it says 4pm...where it used to say 1600. WTF?
I picked a product at random from the site...a pair of scissors. Forgetting about what little Market could possibly earn by selling an item that retails for $ 5.69 the site asks a buy to select a color (the only choice in the drop down is "As Shown,") a gender (the only choice is "unisex") and a size (the only choice is "one size'). What lazy garbage Rory paid to create.
Mendacity is one of the GOP's core principals. LIke the NY Times reporter showing part of the receipt for his outrageously expensive meal at Newark Airport. Turned out the burger and fries he ate were priced pretty reasonable and it was his multiple alcoholic drinks that caused the check to be so high. And let's not forget Fox News pundit and former GOP congressman Jason Chaffetz, who previously served as the U.S. Representative for Utah's 3rd Congressional District, blamed "Bidenomics" for what he claimed were sky-high turkey prices during a Fox News broadcast.
"We went to go buy a turkey today, it was $90 for a turkey!" Chaffetz said. "The price of stamps is up 32 percent in the last four years. But it's all a choice by Joe Biden, that's what Bidenomics is!"
Recent figures from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) indicate an average cost of $1.25 per pound, 43 cents less than last year. While the total price varies by weight, the $90 turkey cited by Chaffetz would need to weigh a massive 72 pounds based on the average.
Something tells me that you are correct if we're talking white eggs. If they are brown eggs then I don't think Alabama cares very much.
Adding..."But when our favorite President Donald J Trump is back in the White House, he will demand that the hens lay more eggs. Bigly, beautiful eggs with yolks that are as orange as the President Trump's face!"
I think a child should have walked into the kitchen and asked mommy to "make me some eggs"
Then she could brush the tears away from her child's face and proclaim "Mommy can't make you eggs because they are so expensive in Joe Biden's America that we can't afford eggs now."
RE: Santos. With his reputation as being a serial liar, thief and conman, what prospects does he have for employment or another source of income?
His only choice is to attempt a new run for elected office that will get him a paycheck, healthcare and the granddaddy of them all - a pension for life. The Rs on Long Island are (hopefully) too savvy to give him another shot, so he needs to relocate to a MAGA haven like Wyoming or Montana. But without a nearby Sephora he's not likely to be happy there.
Then again, Senator Tuberville of Alabama lives in Florida so maybe George can continue to live in the NY Metro area while representing the people of the midwest. If anyone can the grift work we know our Georgie can do it!
Considering that the pillows from the now shuttered Newport Beach office are probably not on the balance sheet any longer it is curious indeed.
From the most recent 10-Q
Be sure to get your shopping done on Market.live today with a whopping 5 livestreams scheduled including one by octogenarian Frankie Avalon hawking his magic pills. Then the usual 3 day weekend off for all the hardworking employees at Verb following by...checks notes...1 livestream next Monday and 3 next Tuesday.
Never forget: Rory spent tens of millions of dollars of shareholder money to create this.
Being called a LOSER goes right to the core of TFG's fragile ego.
Which is why he should be called a LOSER at every opportunity.
He has Secret Service protection for life you know. How that will work with him in prison will be interesting.
The same reason people open accounts with DraftKings or any of the other wagering platforms.
Because they crave "action." True enough most come out on the losing side, but...if I could make just one more bet I just know I'll make it all up!
I speak as someone who has no tattoos or piercings...ain't no way TFG would sit still to have a tattoo on any of his body parts. Those we see or (forgive me) those we don't see.
True about the complexity of trying to be a woman with a career while also being in the public eye.
But now her credibility is on the line. If it can be PROVEN that she is lying about the relationship then she's in hot water. If it was just a matter of questionable choices and she was telling the truth about the timing and the financial arrangements, then the judge overseeing the case should let it slide with a tsk tsk. Or a tut tut if you're European
Janice, you know the grift has no limits.
There are indeed Trump Guns:
https://cabotguns.com/trump-45/
Remember when days after TFG surrendered following his (first) federal indicted that he was shown holding a Trump Gun even though the terms of his release mandated that he was not to possess a firearm? Yeah, well it's just another violation that would have put a poor POC in jail.
I'm a big advocate of Fani and I hope she and her team nail TFG to the wall, but the issue she faces now is one of credibility not her personal life. For all kinds of reasons it's not a good idea to have a relationship with a co-worker. In this instance I think Wade would be considered a subordinate which is worse.
When the relationship came to light, Fani was forced to make statements about when it began and what the financial arrangements between them was. If it can be proven that she lied about those details to make things appear less "seemly" then she puts the State's case in jeopardy with an overturn on appear more likely.
That was a rhetorical question, right?
You see, teaching about anything bad that America has done over the last 200+ years is equivalent to teaching kids that America is bad.
Best to go back to the 1950s when non-whites (and women) knew their place.
/s
Trump is a big supporter of manufacturing workers. After all his MAGA crap and his tacky gold sneakers are made in factories.
Chinese factories, sure, but factories!
I should have added a /s to my post since I was being sarcastic.
As I and others have pointed out here before, historically, the more contracts DPLS gets, the more money they lose. There are several reasons why that can happen:
* They are incompetent and don't know how to bid on projects properly, thus agreeing to do a job for less money than it costs them to complete.
* They are incompetent about bringing the job to completion in a cost effective manner. That can be because they underestimated the cost of materials, labor and other direct project expenses.
It is no wonder why their UK subsidiary was driven into receivership.
Consistently having a negative gross profit is just ridiculous.
Don't you mean Mercedes?
What would really be nice is if Mark would provide some solid guidance on the super duper million dollar deals that he has been promising since last summer. Hell, he hasn't even named the "partner" even though he said he would do so in the October, 2023 time frame.
I just took another look at their most recent Q for the period ending September 20, 2023.
$ 91,000 in assets
$ 16,000,000 in liabilities (I removed the derivative liability since that's skews things a bit).
9 month revenue of $ 66 thousand
9 month SG&A of $ 2.2 million
9 month operating loss of $ 2.5 million
For a company that keeps talking about it being more than 20 years old. 20 years of almost non-existent sales, exorbitant salaries, multi-million dollar losses and Mark's flapping gums.
Looking at the Q from last September, the silver lining is that as the company's revenues have gone down their gross profit has gone up.
You don't see that very often.
Here is a link to the Howard County Indiana Tax Assessor's web site that lists every parcel in the County. Howard County includes Kokomo.
http://treasurer.howardcounty34.us/cgi.exe?CALL_PROGRAM=C009LIST
Search on StarPlus Energy, the company building the battery plant, and you'll see lots of properties owned under that name.
Search on SPOOZ, JP3E or any other name associated with John Park and share with the board the properties that are owned by one of those entities.
You are delusional.
Potential sales. LOL.
My bet is there were fewer than 10 products purchased through the Market portal.
If anyone wants to buy Frankie's magic potions, they can go direct to his web site: https://frankieavalon.com/product/fruit-veggie-essentials-2/ and set up automatic shipments.
The thing about doing business with government is that, generally speaking, things are done out in the open. An $ 18 million contract would have been discussed at several City of Kokomo meetings prior to an award. Since the announcement was made by SPOOZ today, one would think the contract award would appear on the agenda of the immediate prior meeting of the City Council.
Here's a link to the "Council Packet," which includes the agenda for the meeting of February 26, 2024:
https://cms4files1.revize.com/kokomoin/document_center/council_packet/Council%20Packet%202-26-2024.pdf
There is mention of JP, Harmony anything or an award of an $18 million contract to anyone.
I smell burning pants.
Well, sort of. Those numbers are taken from the 10-Q for the quarter ended September 20, 2023. At that time the company reported $ 34,000 in total revenue for the first 9 months of the calendar year.
But, but, but, Rory has been regularly sending out PRs about new stores opening on Market.live. A significant number of those announcements were made during the 4th quarter of 2023.
Are you suggesting that all those stores aren't boosting the revenue run rate of the company?
Why would Rory mislead the investing public in such a fashion?
Seems totally out of character for him.
Take a look at the livestreams scheduled on market.live now through April 17...6 weeks worth are displayed.
There are a total of 9 streamers. Nine. One of those (Tina the baker) has just one stream scheduled during the 6 week period. Sandwich making guy is gone again (he probably realized that he can make more money working an hour at the Piggly Wiggly than he can doing a show on Market.) No return of Mike Crackhead Lindell. No return of the crazy jewelry making lady. Frankie Avalon has two shows on the schedule...it would be surprising if he returns after that.
Why aren't all the stores that the company announced doing livestreams? Why would anyone come to Market to buy something when they can go direct to the seller's web site and get special deals, free shipping and, in many cases, a lower price than what Market is charging.
What a sad place Rory has created. The financials coming out next month will be interesting indeed.
In the morning most were catching some more Zs or maybe reading the newspaper. This was before cell phones and portable music players so there was quiet. Can we all remember quiet?
The trains out of 30th Street Station were probably Amtrak, which was a more comfortable ride than NJ Transit trains out of Trenton. I could sometimes catch an Amtrak out of Trenton but they didn't run as frequently as NJ Transit so it was hit or miss.
I had a friend who commuted almost every day from northern Bucks County by car to the Riverdale section of the Bronx (a rather nice part, I may add). He had one of the first Toyota Prius models to save on fuel expenses. He had a nice house at an affordable price for his family to live and he made NYC wages. Sort of a win/win if you didn't consider the toll it took to make that drive.
one of the Eddie's domains was hempster.club. I think the other was also was a hempster dot something. And this wasn't too long ago. Maybe 6 or 7 years.