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I asked about a RS and he said the following.
There is no RS. We just got our certs in. so we will have some out Today, and the rest by Monday. All I can say, is what already have been posted.
Best regards,
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Edward Vakser
Artfest International, Inc.
Chairman & CEO
Artfest Expo Center
13342 Midway Road, Suite 250
Dallas, TX 75244 USA
(877) 278-6672 Office
(214) 274-2420 Direct
(866) 534-2847 FAX
EVakser@ArtfestInternational.com
http://artinterviews.blogspot.com/
WWW.ARTFESTINTERNATIONAL.COM
Stock Symbol : ARTS
Email from the man himself!
Investors, please……… We are on the right track, the firms that file for BANKTRUPTSY, are pump and dump people, who HAVE NO REAL business. We ARE paying our bills and earning REAL money. We are on the right path of business development and plan implementation. I’m sorry that it’s frustrating for you and all of us, but all I can say, is that we are growing and going strong!
Best regards,
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Edward Vakser
Artfest International, Inc.
Chairman & CEO
"One thing is for certain, they gonna ruin their company if they keep selling ideas/shares and not ART!"
Smicher...I believe that you have a different name on another board but I copied the above statement from your post and pasted it here because the words are very true. To bad someone hasn't shared your words with the CEO because what you've said will either make or break this company.
Why not wait for .001 because it seems to be headed there?
Can you say dilution? Excessive spending? Mum on the share structure? Being screwed by the MM? Ask the people who post here for a more complete list.
.0040? That is chump change! Especially after coming from where this stock is presently.
Scam or fraud….No! Greedy, selfish, shady and insensitive to their investors…absolutely! They are trying to grow too fast and in so doing, pissing off investors left and right. They are spending way too much money and dumping stock onto the market like there is no tomorrow. I say slow down on the buyouts and other purchases and focus or cultivate the stuff you’ve already got. Had they gone slower, they would not have had to screw the pre-RS investor…and trust me they did screw them! Now they’ve gone and screw the post RS investor. Do you realize anyone who purchased above .0040 has to see a huge run from this dud to break even? And what is ARTS doing through every single bump and decline? Dumping more stock that’s what!!!
Aside from the BS that ARTS is pulling are the people who come to the board to warn us of ARTS and in so doing, cost us a bundle ever time that type the crap they type onto the board. If you don’t own any of the stock and don’t care to own any of the stock then STFU! As stock holders you all have a right to vent your frustrations but to those who come here to so call warn us, STFU….
So when those who are stock holders talk up their investment, the people who came to warn us send cowardly private messages. Can you believe the stupidity? You have no interest yet you call the people who do have a vested interest a name for trying to support the money they’ve invested?
And to the people who are always crying about the so called dividends in one breath and saying that it is a fraud or scam in the next breath …STFU! I’m sick of hearing you cry that same old tune, “where are my dividends?” Once again, they are free and you get them when you get them. Besides, according to some of you, they are going to be worthless anyway so way F$#@ing worry about it?
It is okay to vent about your investment because we’re all frustrated about the continued decline in the PPS and the daily dump fest but to those of you who have nothing better to do but come here and make the investor miserable…STFU!
I wouldn’t be willing to take that bet because first, we are due for some news to come out. Second the dividends news should be announced any day now. Third there should be some kind of progress report on the MLM, Artfest direct initial trading date, the partnering/spots with Time Warner and the Picasso update. I wouldn’t go so far as to say which week because I would have bet this same thing this past week. To the best of my knowledge, no one has heard from the CEO so that would lead one to expect something soon. If he is planning to announce something he had better do it soon because his company’s stock is in the tank.
Interesting... He sent me a private message calling me a no good pumper once and as most can see, I neither pump or bash the stock (just say what is on my mine)but at least I own millions of shares and have a right to be here and make comment. I know that he'd never say those thing to me in person so I just blocked it. I have had both positive and negative comments to make and will continue to have those and exercise my right as a stock holder to express myself.
When was the last time anyone has heard from the CEO of ARTS? Stock at an all time low and he is no where to be found.One would think that if he was ever going to be in touch with his investor's it would be now. Being quiet for so long could spell something good or bad so lets hope for the former. A 100% run wouldn't do jack sh#@t for this stocks PPS right and that is sad.
You moved away and your hometown changed Elijah...good to know that you're still around.
Now this is what you guys should have been discussing all along (status of the Picasso and the first trading date of the IPO. That Picasso piece is a very important part of this equation and so is the first trading date of Artfest Direct. Again, why ask about dividends on a stock that has yet to trade?
The other thing is to allow your logic to dispel rumors placed before you on these boards. A good example is that “ARTS can or is going bankrupt. Having 2 billion shares to sell, even at .0001 is a lot of money and when you factor in sales revenue I cannot see ARTS going bankrupt anytime soon. Call me crazy but I don’t even see a reverse split as many are suggesting. When you think about the purpose of a reverse split you honestly cannot think ARTS. But to be sure, the CEO should put out that rumor with a PR because that is one of the things that are sending to stock PPS to hell. A PR on the bankruptcy rumor would be another item to address.
No folks, ARTS are not going under or out of business, although this diluting drives me crazy. A tangible way to increase share holders value is to address the rumors that are driving down the PPS and to be a little more random with the selling of share. The only way to do that is to chill with the purchases, buyouts and takeovers long enough to prove to the investor that you value their interest and investment.
In summation Mr. CEO, dispel the rumors, announce a trade date for Artfest Direct, announce an update on the purchase of the Picasso and randomize your stock sales.
Did it ever occur to any of you that the Picasso statue deal may have already closed? That news alone should drive this stock out of sub penny land. But my major concern continues to be dilution. You can only write so many PR’s and feed off f that news before there is nothing left to pump. Does anyone know when the IPO is supposed to have its first day of trading? Rather than worry about the dividends, you all should be worrying about the first trading day of Artfest Direct. No Artfest Direct, no dividends geniuses. “Where are my dividends?” LMAO, how about when is Artfest Direct going to trade?
The MM knows that they are not going to keep this stock down and that is one of the reasons it is down. The other reason is that those greedy or needy MF’s at Arts cannot or will not stop diluting the living hell out of this stock. Anyone selling this stock is a damn fool and will be kicking themselves at some point this summer. Wonder how many cheap shares have been sacrificed due to weak stomachs? Sure I need to free up my cash but I would rather die and go to hell before I sell a single share of. I’d rather lose every single dime I have invested (and believe me it is a lot) than to get mugged by the F@$%ing MM.
I say cut the analytical BS that you are posting and dig in. Last week the MM had me saying I was going to sell but then I got to thinking and landed on this attitude after a good long nap. Gonna stay and wait it out.
So mastetrader does this mean that you are conceding to what springroll is saying? This was a good exchange so please continue. I know that the CEO hates it when two people argue valid points. A scam comes in many different forms. If this stock was intending to do a reverse split, does history state that anyone from the company would put that information out there?
You have made a perfectly valid point and that is the OS doesn’t actually affect the price of the stock unless there is a dump-fest constantly going on and ARTS continue to be the dump king. The CEO rants about investor stock value on the same day that his company dumps 38 million shares into the market, further diluting and lowing ridiculously low PPS. Investor confidence has suffered tremendously due to dilution, a lack of transparency and his questionable past of a CEO that is posted throughout the internet. Of course the stock price is low. It is my opinion that this company should slow down long enough to let the PPS catch up with their spending. If you keep going to a shallow well, it will soon dry up. What you’re seeing here is a depleted well reaction.
You are so correct in pointing out the various stocks that have as high or higher OS than ARTS but you stopped short of showing what they dump into the market on a daily basis. ARTS dump shares with no remorse or conscious. They are completely insensitive to the people who lost their life savings from a RS. They cite “long range plans” as an explanation and never once have they considered the impact that this insane dilution fest has in the psyche of the present investor. The average person here gets excited when they hear of ARTS making a major purchase or takeover but ends the day being depressed about the low PPS. How in the hell do you people think that they are able to make these purchases? Dilution, dilution, dilution. Sell, sell, and sell….stock not product.
This is not a bash so chill with the childish name calling. This is just a wakeup call to those who are too blind to see the results of insane selling on a daily bases. Your chose is the bragging rights to owning a Picasso or higher PPS. The Picasso belong to those who own stock in the company so if sold today we all benefit but if sold after you gotten out from under your shares in ARTS, You don’t benefit. If the PPS is respectable and you sell today who benefits then? So stop getting excited about major purchases or buyouts and start sending these clowns emails that lets them knows that you’re not happy with the selling and the PPS. This is my answer to your question of figuring out why the stock price isn’t moving but instead going down.
Are you kidding me? Artfest direct....Did you do any DD on this prior to investing?
We should all keep in mind that everything we read here is just in IMO type stuff that people are stating. The next guy doesn't know anymore than you. Do you realize how many IMO, have been wrong about this stock? The stock has a mind of it's own so forget about what you are reading and follow your own gut because you know about as much on this stock as the next.
Also the news on having actually closed the deal on the statue may give the stock a bump. All the good news that investors were talking about prior to May that was suppose to take place in the month of May is pretty much spent and we're trading at or around .0021. WTF? 2 billion share that they can dilute...that is a lot of share to dump into this thing and we already know that they can and will if they see something else to buy....LMAO. Building investor value is what they would have us believe. Slow down and let the PPS catch first is what I say. I just read where one investor closed the books on his account and had pretty much lost everything. Fear got the best of him.
The CEO talks about this long range plan as these people go broke because of fear. Calls them idiots because they would like to see the PPS go up so that they can pull out of this thing. He said that if the heat is too hot get out. How in the hell can these people get out when you've been spending their money like a drunken sailor and not telling them that you intend to buy back some stock or do something to bring up the PPS?
The truth about this stock is that no one really knows where it is headed. Who would have thought that we'd be looking at this low of price? The spending that the company is doing is out of control and they dilute with every chance they get. Where is this company headed? I still think there is a chance but I'm too frustrated to stick around and find out. Does anyone know that actual trading date for the IPO? Now that should be interesting.
The IPO will give ARTS at least 70mil in assets from the jump. Anyone would be a fool not to stick around for that...that includes myself. If there is a key to pull this thing up from a penny it is the IPO. So key in on the IPO for hope.
This guy could care less about you, share holders or I. Even though he can't write a correct sentence, he refer to us as idiots...and you know, he is right. He keeps diluting and we keep investing.
Do you realize how many times I've actually heard that bounce prediction over the past month? Every new person to the board and many who have been around have all been predictiing a bounce and ARTS is still flat lining. I'll believe a bonce when I see a bounce and seeing how it has been so long, I might not believe it even then.
I'm out the first chance I get. Held this crap or this? Can no longer climb past .0050 let alone a damn penny!!!!!
Of course they are...like that give a f@%#% about share holder! They've only released PR to dilute.
This may well be another round of Nite's BS. Why is this stock being held back this way? Friends that trade in the sub penny and this is a money maker for them? There is no logic to this. The stock has been down for year, except for a few bumps here and there.
Will there be an ARTS aftert the IPO of ARTSDIRECT? The CEO wrote the following to me after I forwarded to him a post....
whoever posted that is a moron. Artfest (ARTS) is still the owner of Artfest direct, and will always own that company.Artfest direct, will simply have a trading symbol and will be publicly traded, which means, from day one will be a 70 million plus markets cap. So, ARTS will own an asset, worth over 70 mill!!! Get it????
I read that same thing and responded to it as well. ARTS is by no means a flipper stock however I am a bit concerned with the suggestion that ARTS intends to do a transfer over of shares using these dividends being issued. This is rumor that the CEO should squash immediately if it is not true. I concur with the numbers you suggested as well. And those numbers are speculative of course. Arts is definitely a growth stock who has survived bashers, dilution, RS etc. Bashers are now on the run because there is a site where you can actually report anyone you suspect as being a basher and they will investigate them accordingly. I was somewhat disappointed in this long awaited press release because I really needed this thing to climb above .0050.
MLM’s are hard to figure in terms of dollars and cents. I personally do not see a huge market for sports memorabilia as it relates to an MLM but you never know. I do like the fact that they offer all who sign up a free site and back office to work from on site. Recruiting a down line is a tough business but can be profitable for all. Arts seem to have that portion under control by hiring one of the best names in the business. By fall, this stock should have made most of its longs millionaires, depending on what they are holding for stock amounts.
I don’t understand the MM logic in holding this stock back the way that it has. A lot of it has to do with the fact that ARTS needs to do some more promoting the way they did back when The Dean pumped it up. But what we don’t need is a pump and dump because stocks always get worse after those. I’m an impatient man so this .003 and .004 mess isn’t cutting it with me.
I’m not sure that the MLM is doing all that well because 3000 people really isn’t all that great for an MLM that has been running a promotion campaign for a few months. Also, if you know anything about MLM companies, you’ll know that if you sign up 3000 people, of that 3000 you may get 300 producers. I wouldn’t go getting my hopes up on the numbers for the MLM yet.
What do you think of that PR? A flash in the pan type release IMO. We will be back to where we started by EOD. There is a lot of potential here but it just seems to be taking so Damn long for it to kick in.
Comparing David to Goliath to be truthful. BRAVO is a national network channel and ARTS is purchasing a viewing audience of approx. 55,000 locals. How well known are the artist and what products and advertising are being offered is a factor but besides that….no comparison.
Any thoughts that UWRL will have impact on this stock? Pinoman seems to think that there will be some impact. What say the rest of you?
False alarm...wrong date....lmao
I wouldn't get my hope up. On ETRAD the bid is ! .0030 and the ask is at .0033. Would take some doing to get this thing up tomorrow IMO. I'm thinking maybe Monday? Either way...a run is a run if it comes.
Thank you very much for this update...got pass me or I read it and forgot....sorry aboutthat to all.
See this is exactly what I refer to in my post #15748.There is no trust in anything the company does because so much has been in question. Springroll makes a point that raises one’s eye brow does him not? Has any explanation ever been given as to what happened with the Luxor deal? Investors deserve the right to know and should not have to guess or assume. Now, because of the Luxor deal end results are being discarded or swept under the carpet…more questions crop up on not just this deal but every deal hereafter until answers are given. The PPS is taking a huge beating because of this sort of behavior.
CEO, I’m calling on you to abandon your personal email crusade to repair your reputation and do a PR dispelling and denouncing all of the rumors, doubts, etc. that you can think of and the transparency of that PR should set you free. Not to mention do wonders for our PPS! Can you do that to lift all of the bags you’ve left us holding? The dividends are not only still in question but is not enough.
This company’s biggest liability is its CEO’s reputation as being perceived untrustworthy. Every single panic button that crops up has his name on it. Of course that RS and the way it went down just added to the suspicions. So now investors question every single thing he does (both good and bad) his history and reputation as a reason. Now before you name callers start in…this is not a bash. The facts are the facts. If the guy tries to give something away people become suspicious. If the guy tries to make a positive move for the company, he gets attacked. Until he has taken positive steps to gain investor trust, the stock‘s volume and PPS may continue to suffer. Transparency is the way to go. What is the share structure and so on? Keep in on the table so to speak. There are a lot of rumors cropping up and about this IPO, dividends and new companies that this guy should be paying attention to. Put your investors minds at ease.
While I somewhat disagree with why some feel this stock should move back above a penny, I do feel that it should not have gone here in the first place or left below a penny for so long once it got here. The IPO alone should justify the stock being elevated to above a penny and beyond. Keep in mind that if they are successful, it will add a ten plus million dollars in asset to ARTS.
Don’t be surprised if someone like Tiger Wood etc. take a liking to the concept of providing sports athletes with an outlet to sell their well desired fame and notoriety by providing sports memorabilia. Keep in mind that this whole ARTS concept has a mind of its own that is just waiting to explode. Have you been to the ARTS Direct site? There are some really desirable high-end items there (all traceable with a chip). This company is equipped to turn your family history into memorabilia if it chooses to do so.
How long do you suppose it will be before they are approached by the likes of MGM or Disney with a contract to do reproductions? They are already doing them for the sports world and a segment of the movie world. They are producing precious metals in sports coins, collector’s cards in the music world and children’s collectables. Use your imagination! The MM cannot continue to hold this stock back because there is too much going for it. Think about the outlets that this company has made available to itself to distribute its product (Time Warner) as well as every major sports stadium in the country. Given a small amount time, this stock will never see below a dollar again let alone a penny?
My frustration is the dilution but my confidence is the potential.
pinoman correct about .0020's so give him his props. But lets see what happens from here. Lots of news surrounding this company but it's been said that the MM needs news to bump this thing. I think that the MM need to be spoken to. This is not a sub penny stock!
Anyone have a ballpark as to what the share structure might be? The stock has flatlined and this board has all but dried up with comment...
Good luck with that dream. The MM hates this stock for some reason. I'm not all that crazy about certain things but it should have never been in sub penny land. This beats all I've ever seen. Never mind reporting the CEO...Report the MM.
Guess who is next.....lmao