Once every seven years I get a little "randy."
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Good Friday, Tivonauts. I doubt we hear anything today only because I notice that of the last 5 or 6 pieces of news Tivus has released for the public since the beginning of the year, the tend to occur at the opening of the market. Just seems to be SP's way.
Oh, but how I would love to be wrong. I had read a post either on this forum or another one that the cost of hiring a firm to manage your news releases was expensive. What undoea me is that SP will speak with a shareholder on the phone for sometimes a very nice little chunk of time, yet the about of time to make a simple tweet or post would be but a tiny fraction of this and would have such a positive impact I don't quite understand how he rationalizes playing everything so close to the vest.
Now, at this point, hard financial and strategic information to the shareholders is severely overdue. Once that is up to speed, even weekly microblasts of information delivered in a candid, informal way to the shareholders would completely change the relationship he has.
He is too smart of a guy not to know this so I have to conclude there is some compelling reason for him to be stealthy right now.
Even I chat sometimes, but I am not very good at it. Usually my audience terminates our dialog looking as though they wish to strike me with a blunt object. It's OK, though. I can "Spock" them and make them fall to the ground.
Bridge.
It is my esteemed opinion that When Tivus unleashes its barrage, its purpose will be to divide and to completely put the competitors on the defensive. They won't know which way to turn and they may injure each other scrambling to react to the new kid on the block with the big gun.
Spock out.
Without getting too wordy for the moment, my thought has to do with a MM having the responsibility to literally make the market, to be the buyer when no other buyer is presentin the marketplace. That is combined with the other job of an MM to service their own accounts for their own clients. It must be dicey water to navigate from time to time.
See what I'm getting at? I could 1000% wrong, though.
Spock out.
You're doing something right when you can make a Vulcan laugh, jwez.
Now I have wet myself. This was unexpected.
Spock to the head.
OK, I am going to play a Vulcan First grader and somene wll maybe explain to me why, if the market wants to drive this price higher, does NITE want it to stay about where it is? (I have an idea in my head as to a possible answer, but many here are faar more experienced than am I.
My baby pictures from Vulcan are atrocious. I was not a "cutie-pie".
Spock out.
@colemano: The scientist to whom I referred is Dr. "Pete" Peterson.
To inquiring minds: I actually was attracted to MDGC becuase of an alleged association between the company and a known blackops scientist who had some proprietary hardware related to wifi. It appeared as though the scientist either had no association at all, or learned quickly that MG3 was not what he was led to believe it was and he departed.
As he departed so did I. The stock had barely shown signs of life at that point so I lost (and gained) nothing.
I have no problem with well-adjusted people gambling. Fine, but when something looks very wrong and those driving the ship make no effort to correct anything, then someing IS (not 'looks') wrong.
Just as I would block traffic ahead of a known dangerous defect in a road so that I could warn oncoming traffic of peril, I come here to warn potential investors of the peril of driving down the MG3 highway. It is a bad road and only a few lucky ones can ever expect to make it through unscathed.
There are certain Klingon ships I might not notice passing by, but only a few.
Spock out.
New Tivus facebook page as of 5/11/11 (At least I have never seen it before today. I am friending it soon. If it is old news, I am sorry. If it is not old news, then I would say someone has some positive expectations.
Tivusshareholders shareholder.
Spock to wall St.
It would appear as thought the ONLY way this 'investment' makes any sense is if youre in a position to sell short or you are fully prepared to let your money sit idly for extended periods of time waiting for a repeat of what happened recently here where the stock inexplicably bounced .
As far as i can tell, no reason for this bounce has ever materialized.
And for those of you waiting for financials, certainly you MUST understand by now that the CEO might be waiting for something of financial significance to occur so that he can report it. If a day goes by with no development, then the release of the financials will likely be postponed repeatedly until something does occur.
I expect Dyson to come out with a version of the wireless vacuum
before MediaG3 does so I think that may be a better place to invest.Staying here will only take you to the cleaners.
Spock to janitorial services.
@blahdude: I (we) truly appreciate your information. Thank you so much for taking the time and effort. I seriously thought that once the middleware was running smoothly that would be the beacon to the rest of us that we are marching forward in a publicly observable way, that is, everyone wold now understand the power of what Tivus is and the flood gates would crack open.
Sounds like we're in for a few more Friday afternoons of quietness, patience,longing and despair.
Thank God I don't have to deal with emotions very much.
Spock to sickbay for more antidepressants.
Now, if they came out with a great wireless vaccuum... I might be interested.
Spcok out.
MediaG3 Today's Technology Tomorrow...or the day after.
No customers. No employees. No investor relationships. No return calls or emails. No customer support. No good faith. No PRs that mean anything. No fulfilled promises.
Does it matter? If your stock goes up in value, then NO.
This investment has all the integrity of table full of Poker-cheats.
Yup, I missed the boat, but I didn't get left holding the bag.
Join the game if you want, but there are hundreds of better plays out there each and every day.
Spock out.
Well..we gotta do SOMETHING to break up the non-stop excitement around here... according to Federation Reg 1315.98B sub (a) sub (d), parts 1-17, paragragh 6. Q is on vacation until stardate something or other , Romulans are in the middle of some religious holiday. Even Khan is out of service following an accident in a tanning booth somewhere.
I have been challenged by Sulu to play something called Super Mario Brothers.
Spock out.
Sensors indicate.... hey, WTF? Trial version has expired!!!! What is this?
SPock to Scott.
I think that for me, the hardest thing will be to STAY long after this breaks open. Like most investors , I have learned that profits can be very hard to come by, so you take 'em when they show up. My expectation is that this is definitely one of those stocks that could really be worth holding a position in for years...so liquidating will be a difficult urge to fight...like that 7 year mating itch we Vulcans get.
The more I learn about Tivus and how relevant people are reacting to it makes it clear to me Tivus could be to Lnet what Google was to alta vista (my fave search engine before yoohoo.)
Of course, I don't expect the same kinds of numbers, but you get the general idea.
Before the Federation we had Nasa or what was left of it. We could boldly go where olde satellites got lost.(Man, hit one of those things doing warp factor 3 . It cuts a smooth, clean hole right through your entire ship sucking out 20 percent of your crew right along with it.)
We still have problems since Galactic GPS is still working out some time dilation bugs. Imagine flying into a black hole. When you come out the other side, your aunt is your half-brother twice removed, your family is 8 billion years old , you haven't been born yet, but you weigh 6.8 kilotonnes per tesseractic millimeter, and all your DNA can do is make goo.
@havana: we have heard that the books, including the most recent Q1 are basically done and we're just waiting for them to get posted
Spock out.
Nic, that is a fascinating addition to to Kaiser's post. No you most certainly are neither stupid, nor out on a limb. Usually, it is the big guns that make the wisest moves quickest... and the presence of an ever growing Tivus in LNET land is precisely the sort of scenario that makes big guns change what they're doing.
Of course we can only speculate, but no doubt, he was acquainted with Truck and it would take no huge leap of imagination to combine that association with Tivus' desire for more traditional financing.
On a lighter note, I got a Mohawk. When Uhura saw it,she gasped, that little earpiece has got sucked right into her head and then shot out the other side. Later, she joked, calling it "in-hailing".
Spock out.
Based on the order sizes, maybe I should buy 17 shares at.0045 to see what would happen. It is changing prices on tiny orders.
Only the Ferengi get better deals.
Spock out.
King MoonRacer flies once again over the Island of Misfit Toys.Another quiet week passes into another quiet weekend for the Tivus longs.
I read something I found interesting on the TivusInc facebook page and it will not surprise anyone here. SP is, of course, a "friend". When He describes himself he states that he has trust issues. Doesn't that speak volumes in this context?
I am off hunting other game lately, but checking in every so often to this board. As long as the stock remains this affordable I plan to continue my quiet accumulation with the proceeds of other victories elsewhere.
Save for a catastrophic disaster, I see every reason to keep a position here. I can be the caboose with square wheels or the cowboy who rides an ostrich.
It impresses me that despite every positive dribble of information we get, nothing happens. Fascinating. We ran a time-reverse drill on the warpdrive to February 2013 AD. While there I checked on TIVU. It was at $18.26/share. I am not sure which universe we were in at the time, though, so don't get too excited. I've been there before and I nicknamed that universe the "SpockMarket". A little Vulcan humor there.
Spock to the recreation lab.
Another Glorious launch destroyed at the launchpad thanks to NITE. Who let them in without making them go through the scanners? They have more C4 in their fruit of the looms than al-kaeda.
No Klingon ever had a finer cloaking device than NITE. All we can do is wait them out now.
Spock out.
MVP AWARD for the week: YAkblb
Nice job and on behalf of all of us, thank you for filling us in. Very nicely done.
Spock to the bridge.
A question for the savvy business owners amongst us.
Is there a scenario for which maintaining an extremely low share value would be strategically beneficial for a company?
I can think of a couple, but I cannot include myself on that list of savvy people.
I am stepping out for a cigarette. SPock out.
I thank dandelion for the info. I just want to point out - in devil's advocate fashion- that it might be hasty to assume SP could not settle the bill with the TA until now. I can think of other reasons, reasons that have nothing to do with cash in the till, why a bill might not be settled in a timely manner.
E.G. Mr. Scott owed Chekov a fine bottle of 6,000 year old Sorian brandy, but though he had no problem acknowledging the debt, he would not hand over the bottle until Chekov apologized for throwing Mr. Scott the finger over another matter. Mr. Scott thought Chekov's gesture was doubly and unfairly insulting as Mr. Scott has no middle finger with which to return the insult and felt he was being mocked by Chekov for the digital deficit.
See?
One must be careful.
Spock out.
TA UNGAGGED! Fantastic. (I hope that is what this disclosure really does mean.)
Ooops, A little too much emotion there. Feeling queazy.
YAkblb, thank you. Well done.
@Aces: I appreciate your post. I would tell you to keep the faith. There's more good here and not, for sure. You make very good points and you do it well.
It is SO not easy to sit looking at a pile of firewood that is just begging for a spark.
If I am not mistaken, SP has some Vulcan roots in his family tree.Not a bad thing, entirely. Just sayin'.
Spock out.
@markz You are very welcome. My pleasure.
@deadboy, taking a step back will give us no more clarity that we have where we stand now. There are several reasons we all know of why a couple of hundred million shares sold the way they did. Not one o us, you included KNOWS why this occurred. End of story there.
@otcDOC: I am seriously beginning to wonder if you are a living entity at all. I have run across your posts on other forums and they are all carrying the same message with almost identical wording. You may be nothing more that a piece of malware. In fact, until I have evidence to the contrary I will consider you to be exactly that.
For the rest of us: I think we are astute enough to have some sense of when we are being scammed. Anyone who has been truly long, as in, more than a handful of months long would certainly know by now if TIVUS was nothing more than a POS. I am certain of this.
All of us knows that when a scandal breaks, it is extremely difficult for the scammer to move beyond the social tarnish that comes along with being a scammer, even if it show to be an untrue allegation. Despite our collective unhappiness with being in the dark, there is never even a whiff of a scam, ever.
As for Truck's compensation, we can safely assume he has a compensation deal that works for him and for TIVUS. It does not necessarily mean he is drawing a salary. It's actually a bit distasteful to even discuss it here..and we wouldn't but for the situation we're in.
Of Course SP reads forums, surely this one from time to time. I'd stake my Vulcan life on it. Entrepreneurs are usually folks with pretty good egos. (I have a pretty good ego of my own.) For him to know how we are feeling, to know he wants to disclose information but for the benefit of the company he should not blab -at this time- must be difficult. Think about it. He has made some great progress. This much we know. Many of us would probably like to at least shake his hand for coming up with this concept and for getting it off the ground; credit where credit is due. His ego...anyone's ego..would love to be on the receiving end of such sentiment. To watch day by day as out frustration festers, to know you have more good news but to know intellectually it might be better to NOT publicize it must be a form of torture.
I have no logical choice at this point but to trust his judgment. It has gotten him this far. He has smart people around him and certainly the braintrust at the top of Tivus is formidable now. They are a force to be reckoned with. I am still in the right place and I am investing at the right time. And I prefer not to bash because I think in the long run positive forces win over negative ones.
Apparently I am caffeinated. I apologize.
SPock out.
BTW, had a great time playing Pacman last night.
Fear not, Ghost_Dog. I am never far away. I was having a disagreement with the ship's computer.I won, but the computer holds a grudge and sees fit to change the environmental parameters in my quarters at random. There will be software modifications made later today. When I finish, it will be fortunate to be able to run Pacman. ON this slow day, here is some light reading.
I was thinking about this situation from something of an intelligence perspective since we are all in this position where actionable intel is not at hand yet.
Human nature being what it is, I believe if anything untoward was happening with Tivus, then SP would not be easily reachable in any way at any time, yet he actually is. He seems to do what anyone in his shoes would do, prioritize. I think this is why some calls or inquiries do not get returned. He must sort out which messages demand the most attention and he triages them to the top of his 'to-do' list.
Next, the appearance of Mr. Truckenmiller can only be viewed as a positive no matter how you slice it. He knows the industry since he is one of the people who gave it birth. His is a major industry heavyweight and , no doubt, brings alot of cred to the whole endeavor. He can walk into the boardroom af any major hotel chain, command respect and be taken seriously.It will NOT be lost on managers that he has joined the company.
We also must give SP some points for working the strategy the way he has. Getting a patent is a great start. This is in the works. In all likelihood, his concept is patentable and at this point he is refining his application so that is meets the standards of the Patent Examiner.
1) Gets a 300 room hotel on a 5-year contract early on. This, alone, is a major win. A new boy with a new thing walks in, sells it and walks out with that contract. NICE JOB!
2) No doubt, while getting this client up and running, he scores the flagship Marriott in Philly with 1400 rooms. Again, NICE JOB!
3) Not content with thatm he busts a gut to get things in Philly running well enough so that by the time the HOST Hotels conference comes through in March, managers and execs from all over the country get to see first hand what Tivus is. I believe I recall hearing on this forum that an LNET technician actually commented to SP saying he found the system, "Beautiful".
4) While maintaining DT in Nebraska and now the Marriott, he brings Disney/ABC and Comcast VP Roger Sverdlik on board to ramp things up in NYC.. Next thing we hear SP is in NYC probably discussing branding issues with a major ad agency.
5)The next thing our allegedly failing CEO does is reveal that as all of this other stuff has been going on, there has been a year long feasibility study in Puerto Rico resulting in a site survey and the "commencement of operations.
When a company is flailing and sinking, industry heavyweights know it before they get anywhere near staking their reputation on any association. Association implies liability as much as recognition of potential. These 'employees' of Tivus are serious industry pros. By their participation, they see what they like to see.
Even though we don't yet know the things we ought to know as owners, it appears to me as though there is a strategy in play here to get as many rooms on board as humanly possible before
anyone takes too much notice. The very last thing you want to experience is your potential clients signing up with some other company who has tweaked YOUR concept and is now running full-tilt with it. SP wants as much recognition for Tivus as the new trend in revenue production for hotels as AOL wanted for email. Smart. This is branding.
Last, the good people here on this forum have been blessed in that some of the folks who have been allowed to peak behind the Tivus curtain have come forward to say that based on what they have learned, they are long.
I see so much positive circumstantial evidence for being long myself. Whatever negatives we catch a glimpse of, don't amount to a hill of beans against what we can see that looks right. Yes, it is all my opinion, but it is not an uneducated one. I bet there is much that is good that we will learn, things jwez calls bombs.
SP is smart. He has obviously made some well-calculated moves. Further, he is a man who has seen his stock go from wherever it was a couple of years ago, 50 plus cents/share, plummet. This has to hurt and I bet it is -among many other things -a huge motivator to do everything he can to get it back to those levels and beyond.
My Vulcan fingers are overheating. I am off to the holodeck for some light refreshements and to check out some Vulcan fanny. My 7 year itch ain't so far away.
SPock out.
SPQS $0.0003 nowhere in sight.
I don't understand what yer talkin' 'bout. I can't give this stock away. No one is seriously going to pay me money for it. I would trade what I have for a face cord of dried firewood for next Winter though. This was a Breakout Board pic and I'll ever understand why.
When you say that a message is being sent, do you mean a message in terms of a huge lot meaning something very important is happening with the company or do you mean that those are not actual trades?
The volume jumped up accordingly so I surmise this is actual business/$$$ in play.
2nd question: If you happen to know, why does L2 just not report 99,000,000 shares instead of posting eleven transactions of 9M at .0002?
Inquiring Vulcans want to know.
Thank you.SPock out.
Let's do the TimeWarp Again.
Red alert. Battle Stations.
I did not seriously expect to see a repeat performance of L2 as we saw from last session. This is unexpected and it clearly indicates something very significant is going on. I have been watching the otc website all day since I have this odd vibe that that stop sign is about to change or, if not that, something at least as important as that.
You may recall a certain Ferengi trader who stopped in before market close Friday and we gave him some serious trim. Looks like he has returned for more.... and he's brought some buds along, too. This has to stop or the entire neutral zone will be infested with Ferengi teenagers on Spring Break and they're all going to want to show off to their girlfriends what great moneymakers they are at our expense. This is NOT the will of Landrew.
I'll clip my pointed ears before I let that happen.
Spock--on High Alert.
There, there, now. Aren't you the clever one? I KNEW you would not let us down. Well done, I say, well done.
Carry On.
S.O.
Good Morning, fellow Tivunauts. I love it when bashers stop by to pee in our Wheaties, don't you? Every time I see one, it steels my resolve to remain long. The worse the stock price appears to be, the sweeter the correction will be. I understand that market price is a poor reflection of true value in many cases, certainly true here.
How many times has it been asked why this stock is not trading many times higher than it is? More than enough. Readin Jwez' post about bombs going off this year thrills me. It makes perfect sense.
I also read a while back one of D. Trump's booms wherein he said, " Excellence attracts excellence." This explains one reason why folks like the Marriotts and Truck are associated with Tivus.
The finer workings of this market are still a challenge for me to comprehend...It feels much like trying to grab a bar of soap in the bathtub. Just when I think I have it, it's on the loose again.
If last Friday's late-day activity was dilution, I can now say I trust it will be money wisely raised and likely well-spent.By week's end I will own more of this stock, no doubt.
In other news, after Mr. Scott 'repaired' my replicator, my Vulcan bran muffins look like a cross between a chia pet and a tribble.....and taste about what you might expect. We'll see how funny he thinks it is when I re-program the remote for his viewing screen into a phasor.
Spock out.
Retest .0005? Based on what? Uh-huh....No.
Bothers me when I see posts like these without offering a shred of good analysis to support it. Lacking data, I can ONLY interpret the post as an attempt to drive away any enthusiasm for the stock, thus lowering the price.
What I like is that the company has both feet planted firmly on the ground with their strategy to limit outstanding shares. I like that alot.
SPock out.
Sensors indicate possible wormhole.
100.000.000 shares at $0,0003? Did I read that right? Wow, how much is that in metric? Like, 162 million shares? OK...anyone who can teach us something about what just happened here should feel free to jump right in. I can NEVER, EVER get orders filled at bid prices and along comes some snappy Ferengi trader and we take him right to the good stuff in the back room. My tricorder is smoking.
Spock to sickbay..Xfusion needed...stat.
JPR...the $6 trades... I have watched this stuff very closely. I am firmly convinced these are not trades, at least not legitimate ones, anyway. In over 90 % of the L2 trades I see, trades with ridiculous lot sizes are in fact signals of some sort . Almost invariably within a vert short time r a sall number of trades this signals an imminently forthcoming change in the price of a stock. If I was willing to spend more time on this I could figure who was signalling whom and what the exact nature or meaning of the signal was.
I am guessing that this system may be a hold-over from a time before communication was as easily managed as it is now. Seems.....
.....logical.
Won $18 bucks on Lotto. Spock out.
Smell of carnage hangs in the air. I see no incoming new financial info of any kind, Does anyone else? Skull & Bones still showing on OTC website. Volume very low. This is the scene of a disaster. I wish to thank those who offered key insights into the madness that was playing out here. This was an object lesson in, if nothing else, the power of the "Pump & Dump".
If anything happens with the company of any true positive significance, nobody will be more surprised than I.
Spock out.
Even if this company posted "financials" at this point, they still have such low cred I'd really still have red flags all over this play. CBM is right.
SKULL & cRoSsBoNeS says it all. Cassandra, Macdyver, love you guys. I have been watching this bloodbath all day and at least now I can figure out some of it thanks to some smart folks on this board.
That it got this far is worthy of some serious questions, I'd say. I am sure a few lucky souls have walked away with scads of brand new cash. Most, however, have only vital signs which are incompatible with life. I am so sorry. This is one for the books.
Sad I was not one of the lucky few, but I learned a good deal watching all from the sidelines.I would not have had the appropriate savvy to ride this successfully and I know it.
Spock out.
I am so confused. What is happening with this stock makes no sense at all. It has been explained to me that something called an investment group can make a stock's value behave in this manner. Is that what is happening here?
Not logical .
Spock out.
Jwez, if what you are saying is that this present situation ( the griping and sniping on this forum) is ultimately due to nothing more than a lack of manpower within Tivus and that, as a simple matter of prioritization, SP cannot justify spending time & energy putting out small fires here, I think I can accept that.
Am I understanding your post correctly?
Like all here, I , too, a frustrated, but let's remind ourselves that while we are all owners we share none of the day-today headaches and responsibilities SP does. If things really got ugly within the company, we click the "SELL" button and we're out. No risks, no lawsuits, no broken friendships, no cranky clients.
We feel as owners of the company we should be on some sort of equal footing with the CEO, yet we don't really want that at all. We like to have one hand on the eject lever at all times.SP has to feed his children regardless of whether or not Host signs a contract.
If anything,if I can't learn what I need to know in terms of keeping my hand in this game, I would like to know what prevents SP from divulging what should be shared information with the stockholders.A reasonable answer to that would be of value to me.
As for secrecy and patents pending, I can tell you that a pending patent is not the same thing as a patent.Though it does offer you some protection, you don't have the full strength of American Law behind you until the patent office accepts the money you pay them for it. Then you get a number. BTW, if you want protection in ANY other country, you must start all over. Try being American and getting a patent in China. Hope you got a big check book.
I am thinking about making a movie series about my life experiences in the Federation. Wonder if there would be a market for that.
Spock to holodeck.
While I doubt SP looks at this particular board too much, I have to think others in the organization must. I could deal better with the lack of usable information a bit better if I could understand why the price does not fluctuate much more. That awful feeling of having these investments manipulated to the degree to which they appear to be gets my Vulcan bloomers in a wad.
The range of money to be made by retail market makers on things like Tivus stock just doesn't seem to be the sort of grist they'd want to run through their mill. It has been a hard lesson to learn that excitement which should translate into large volume trading days and more realistic prices does not, but days where the price runs because the pollen index has been steady for 18 days running in Antarctica DOES.
I need more fiber in my diet. McCoy says so.
Spock out.