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Zandant: You're correct about the time schedules. We watch TV on the weekend and in the early evening hours...we noticed HERE is never on when we are looking for something to watch. Luckily, we have TIVO. So far, HERE has only broadcast one or two 'decent' lesbian-themed films....the men's movies are poor also...but who am I to judge......
Hopefully, Q's programming will have more substance and I look forward to live Q news. Right now, the best source for Q-type news is PlanetOut.
zandant: I agree with Here!'s content. I subscribed this weekend via DirecTV. We have watched atleast five movies and at the end of the movie say to each other "another dumb one!" HERE is not continuously broadcast, but it's the only game in town now and when Q comes to Chicago, HERE! will be quickly replaced. I don't think HERE! will be much competition for Q......
I participated in the Toronto Gay Games back in 1990....it FEELS like the real Olympics, too! The Opening Ceremonies will make the hairs rise on the back of your neck....
Here's the post you were looking for...very sad..unfortunately there are many more like him. Most of the folks on Sterling's board have turned on this poor guy:
By: coinsguy
14 Sep 2004, 10:43 PM EDT
Msg. 81494 of 118261
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My apology to the "Classroom".
Thanks Sterling, for letting me back in and helping me resolve the technical glitch.
This is a very long post that I had originally posted in the CMKX forum until I could get back in here to post it so all could read it. If, after you read it, you have negative comments or remarks to make, please don't. Whether I shouda, woulda or coulda, the deed is done and I must take it day to day from here. Please read on.
Several weeks ago I posted a message on Sterling’s board and got a reply from a member that I did not like at all. I was even accused of being a basher. I immediately reacted to that reply and it was down hill from there as my responses got more and more vicious. Sterling finally intervened and banned me from the forum. After exchanging emails with Sterling a couple of times and some serious soul searching on my part, Sterling agreed to restore my access. For allowing me to re-join I am grateful and as such I would like to make a public apology to all members of his forum for disrupting it. I would also like to explain what had been going on in my life to cause me to react the way I did when my access was initially removed.
In February of this year I was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes. I always thought that was something that fat people got. I also couldn’t believe someone my age could become diabetic. I am not grossly overweight. In fact, I am no more than 10 pounds over my ideal weight for my height. So over eating couldn’t be the problem. I’m 46, which isn’t young but it’s not old either.
I soon discovered that not only was I diabetic but my mother (which I already knew), one of my sisters, my brother, my father (who is no longer with us), my grandmother and my great grandmother (they are also deceased) were also diabetic. It was obviously a genetic problem in my family and no amount of effort on my part was ever going to do anything to cure it. At best, I could hope to keep it under control with a proper diet and oral insulin.
During this time and for the previous 10 years, I had been paying for mother’s prescription drugs because she was on social security and her drugs cost more than she got from social security each month. I was paying out about $1200 a month for her medicine plus I paid all her other bills, mortgage etc. I will discuss this more later in this message.
In April I received more bad news. My neurologist diagnosed me as having Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyradiculoneuropathy (CIDP). Basically this is an immune-mediated neuropathy that affects the peripheral motor and sensory nerves (i.e. arms and legs). The net result for me is extreme pain in my legs and feet due to the lining around my nerves being destroyed. By the time the neurologist had made this determination I was already on 6 doses of 10mg percocet every day for the pain. By July I was not only taking the percocet, but also on a 100mg duragesic pain patch. I am now at about the upper limits of what Modern medicine can provide to kill the pain and unfortunately, the drugs frequently leave me in a stupor, not knowing what is going on around me or also making me frequently agitated, depressed etc.
In May I moved my mother from our home town in Greenville SC to my home in Atlanta GA to take care of her as she was grossly overweight, 68 years old and seriously in bad health. She had also recently suffered a mild stroke that made life even more difficult for her. Four weeks after she moved in with me, she blacked out while standing at the fridge one day and fell, breaking her left leg in 4 places. They had to do surgery on her ankle, which caught the brunt of the breakage, and they placed a steel plate on either side of her ankle, bolting both plates together with screws. She has been in a leg cast since. So, now not only did I have to take care of my own health problems but hers as well and on top of that, having to give her 24/7 care, including emptying her potty because she could not get out of bed! No child should ever have to see their mother’s fat, naked butt. It is not a pretty sight.
So, we now have me paying out $1200 per month for my mother’s medicine in treatment for her diabetes as well as a couple more hundreds of dollars a month for her pain killers and other accouterments for her broken leg and surgery (thank god for Medicare but she doesn’t qualify for Medicaid) as well as me having to take about 8 different medications due to my diabetes and the CIDP, which by the way prevents me from driving and/or maintaining a day job anymore (thank goodness I run my own business from my home now). So, what could there possibly be to make matters worse? The worse part is yet to come. As of the end of September I will no longer have any health insurance as my COBRA runs out and no one will ensure me now due to my pre-existing health issues. So after this month, I will have to fork out another $1500 a month for my own drugs. Between my mother and me, I will now be paying out $3000 a month just for medicines. This does not include the cost of our monthly visits to the family doctor and the neurologist and the various tests they run. All told, I will be paying about $60,000 a year for mine and my mother’s healthcare.
If you have read this far, thank you. It takes a true sympathetic heart to read thru all my whining, which I am sure some will accuse me of.
So, you now know all the details about me and my situation and now it is time to tell you rest of the story and why I invested in CMKX. It’s quite simple really, I had no other choice. Back in June I saw where things were heading for me and I knew I had to do something drastic or there was no way I would be able to take care of mother, much less myself. Getting more insurance for me was not an option and my savings would run out soon enough. I was just delaying the inevitable if I relied on my small savings. It would be gone in a few short months and I would be back to ground zero. I had no where to turn to and no other solutions. I needed something big, something so big that it would solve mine and my mother’s problems for the rest of our lives, however long that might be. At my age, becoming the next darling of Wall Street was out of the question.
I had been dabbling in penny stocks since about this time last year. Not a lot but enough to add a nice amount to my nest egg. I did very well with QBID and got out before the big crash. I netted a few tens of thousands of dollars out of that stock play so I started looking around for the next big one so I could “go for broke”, literally. This was my last chance. I had to make it count. I looked around for a few weeks and finally ran across CMKX. It looked like the big hit that I needed. I did what DD I could, not being a guru at this stuff. I finally decided to jump in, with everything I had. I put my life savings in to CMKX at .0007 per share for almost 60,000,000 shares.
My timing was the worst. Shortly after buying in, my portfolio was worth half of what it was to start with. I know, I did say it was all or nothing. I had no choice but to ride it out until I was totally broke or hit the big one. There was no “in between” on this deal. But given it was almost the end of July and I now only had about 2 months left for the big one to come thru, I was starting to get nervous.
With everything on the line and no other choices left to me, I wrote an email to Urban via Melvin explaining my situation. I clearly stated I was not looking for a hand out or any insider information. That was not my goal. I just wanted to know if I had made the right decision by investing in CMKX and if it would come thru in time for me. That’s it, nothing more. I just wanted some reassurance, just a caring heart to tell me “all is well”, so to speak.
I never got a response from Melvin or Urban. Two weeks went by and it was now the first part of August. I dropped Melvin another note to see if he had been able to forward my first email to Urban. Once again, there was no response from Melvin. I emailed Melvin a 3rd time and asked him to at least acknowledge receipt of my email, even if he couldn’t say anything else. Again, I got no response, so much for Melvin giving a hoot. I sent Melvin one last email expressing my disappointment in him for not even at least acknowledging my email and told him not worry about it anymore. I wouldn’t be emailing him again. Of course, I never got a response.
I then emailed Pat, the guy who did Sterling’s website, and asked him to pass my original letter along to Sterling if he could as I did not know Sterling’s email address at that time. He said he would and asked if I would like him to pass it along to Urban. I said sure! He then said he would fax it over to the Las Vegas office to Urban’s attention. This was around August 21st.
To my further disappointment, no one saw fit to reply even then or even acknowledge receipt of my query. Maybe I expected too much. Maybe it was juvenile for me to email them about something like this to begin with. I honestly don’t know. What was done was done though and I couldn’t change things. Neither could I change the disappointment I was feeling. I’m not married and I have no kids, so there was no one to lean on around here or to help take care of me, much less my mother. I really felt alone, betrayed, abandoned and hopeless.
Then I heard about the charity deal with the stocks. Everyone was talking about how caring & loving Urban, Melvin and CMKX was and how Urban was always talking about looking out for the down trodden and needy. So, I then tried emailing Sterling, twice, again with no response. I then posted a message in the “classroom” asking if anyone had a valid email address where I could reach Sterling. No one replied. I then posted an open message to Sterling in the forum and he finally did reply stating that he was overwhelmed with stuff at the moment and that he would get back to me later that day. I waited, and waited, and waited.
Finally, it was all too much to bear. I posted a message in the forum stating that I had grave concerns as to the legitimacy of CMKX and that we were rapidly heading down hill riding on a steam roller. Then enigmaze0 replied to my posting with “You are legitimately trying to cause fear aren’t you Coins? Do you have anything to back this with? Or is this made in Coins head?”
For months I had held everything inside. For months I had tried to get a simple answer to a simple question. For months I tried to find where that “caring & loving spirit” everyone keeps saying Urban and company has, to no avail. I couldn’t hold it back any longer. I replied with great sarcasm and it just got worse and worse, till Sterling had to pull the plug on me.
I don’t blame Sterling and I harbor no ill feelings towards him. He had to maintain order in his forum. I still have great respect for him. So, once again I deeply and sincerely apologize to everyone for the disruption and I beg your forgiveness.
As to my original disappointment with everything CMKX, it is still there. Nothing has changed. I still wait for a reply that I know will never come and even if it did, it’s to late now anyway. My health insurance runs out this month 15 days from now and there is nothing that can happen between now and then to make any difference. I still have half of my original investment in CMKX that I can sell and this will at least get me by for 3 or 4 more months but when that is gone, game over.
If you have made it to the end of this message, then thank you for the time it took to read a very, very long message. I posted it not for sympathy and not for handouts. I want nothing in return. I posted it only to share my situation with others in the hopes that those who read it will understand why I feel the way I do, so that if someone else posts a message that sounds very bitter and very negative, you might try to understand why they are saying the things they do. Don’t leave them to their own devices as I was. It is very sad and very lonely here.
Right now in Sterling’s forum everyone is talking about how kind and loving Urban is and about all the things he is doing to help the less fortunate. All I can say is have any of you seen someone less fortunate actually being helped or have you only heard about it? I ask, because from my real, actual experience, I don’t see it. My real life experience has indicated nothing of the kind. I didn’t ask for a handout. I didn’t ask for a portion of the charity shares. I didn’t ask for insider information. All I asked for was a word, a simple one syllable word, yes or no. All I was looking for was reassurance and all I have found is a cold, indifferent, uncaring company.
But, despite it all, I still believe in CMKX and will hold on as long as I can. I still have a few weeks hope left.
Also, I would like to once again apologize to the classroom for my behavior.
Ed aka Coinsguy
Re: 3 for 1 split from eTrade - Email received this morning:
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No, RCN is not in my area. I'm 20 miles south of Chicago..there's Comcast, DirecTV, DISH. I haven't I get the Chicago Sun-Times and the suburban papers and have seen no advertising yet.
Yes, I believe it is carried by RCN in Chicago...I'll have to do some checking around, as I live in the suburbs and have satellite. If Frank can get it going on DirecTV or Comcast, we'll be fine
Hmmmmm, I'm surprised that HERE is run by gay guys...maybe the men's stuff is okay...but the lesbian programming stinks. We just watched a lesbian documentary this past Sunday on DirecTV and it was terribly disappointing, just as the other HERE TV movies have been in the past. The best "lesbian-interest" movies are ones produced by lesbians.
Just a couple nights ago we went through and read the descriptions of all the upcoming HERE TV programming and didn't see anything worth paying for, especially since we've watched their stuff over the last few months.
Yes, my sister transferred approx. 300,000 shares to my eTrade account earlier this year when it was .0143. I purchased another 300,000 shares recently at .0031 to average down. I don't think we're going to become millionaires with this stock, but I do believe Q TV will have a better feel for the gay community than HERE and LOGO and we will do very well...but not overnight.
Yes, I've heard of it within the community, but right now it is only through RCN (I think! not sure)
I don't post often, but follow QBID closely. Below is a link to an article on Planetout.com regarding Q Television. For those of you who are NOT gay, Planetout has a huge following...I've been a member for many years myself. Up until now, it has concerned me that there was never any mention of Q Television on PlanetOut...now we have it and I am very excited! As a member of PlanetOut, an email of the daily gay and lesbian news worldwide is received...this came today:
http://www.planetout.com/entertainment/news/?sernum=911
I can tell you firsthand, gay and lesbians are very hungry for GayTV but are also very selective. When HERE TV began their programming, we purchased all the movies. It is not very good and we are now leary of wasting our money for it. I would be interested to know if HERE TV and LOGO have many gay and lesbians on board. Knowing that Frank & Co. are gay, gives me confidence that they will be successful. Gay people know what gay folks are looking for. We don't want a straight man or woman's version of what it is like to be a lesbian or gay man...been there, done that.
Sold 10 million yesterday through eTrade, 5 mill x 2...took about 30 minutes for each sell.
Got mine early this am:
Buy PRRM GTC/Limit 3,000,000 0.0001
Order Status: Executed
Order History
Transaction Date & Time Quantity Price
Order Placed 09/29/04 08:26:47.4 AM ET 3,000,000 0.0001
Order Executed 09/29/04 10:42:46.1 AM ET 3,000,000 0.0001
Try 1 mill at a time at .0003 - mine have all sold at 16:00 the last two days
He wasn't lying....it was 483 billion...no where near 400 billion!
"You might be wondering why I'm allowing for the possiblity of shares being retired. That is because Melvin said that the O/S was nowhere near 400 bil. As the company spokesperson, I would hope he wasn't lying."