Is HighDrates still part of KGKG (Kona Gold Beverages, Inc.)? What's the plan with this line if it is? I assumed it went with the energy drink company, Kona LLC.

Updating my post. I just saw that Justthefax caught the HighDrate on the website as well. I actually liked this product the best. Not a fan though of them adding THC and making it a sparkling water. If it is an add-on product, then fine. But keep the water and flavors. Even develop a line without the hemp and THC as an additional product. Damn the previous management. Ridiculous how they goofed up such a promising company.

What they have done with this company is criminal. If I was a lawyer and did not have to pay outside counsel, I would sue them. Nothing done in the last year or two has made sense.

With all the absolute shit that has occurred with this company, I still believe in the potential of the energy drinks and the old HighDrate drinks. It has been why after all the money that I lost that I still had hope it could come back in the future. But now with the sale of the beverage company, what hope is there owning KGKG? My luck, BMXC takes the beverage company to massive value.

The majority will go to RC and his cronies. Considering there is less than 50 shareholders, everyone on this board should get some fraction of billions of shares outstanding amounting to fractional cents.

What does it mean for us shareholders?

How the hell did management fuck this company up?!

ALKM used to produce the HighDrates for KGKG.
I saw something in an outside article about the other companies. I cannot recall where. As I recall, because I was one of the morons who invested in USMJ, I noted a relationship with KGKG which mortified me because USMJ have been known to be scammers. I actually made about $15K on USMJ on some wicked rebound they had before again disappearing. Sadly, I am praying and hoping for some wicked rebound will occur with KGKG to save my ass. I have little faith to be dropping money on them now.

Here is a post on this board from 2019. I did not know how to post a link, so I copied the content.

gregcod

Re: youwish1 post# 82663
Tuesday, January 01, 2019 12:03:29 PM

Post# 82696 of 120546

Take this into considerATION..2 YEARS I called Pura (Puration) CEO Brian Shibley, and he gave me 35 minutes of his precious time to tell me not about my $ 3,800 investment in PURA..But about his CBD Sports /Hydaration Drink- EVERX.. which was just about to have a first order shipped to Drug Emporium in Colorado I believe..He told me many things ..but one Biggie He finally told me...The 2 CBD/THC/Hemp/ Extractions Patents that NCN Biotech Pura had exclusively had the extraction license to use in its Beverages was worth many ,many million..NCN Biotech!! I quote him in saying. " NCN Biotech Has as good...or even a Better Extraction Patents..and he said we,Pura is a "Start-Up... penny stock..but that he said if other than GW Growths EXtraction Patent..A $120 dollar stock worth is as of now any indication..Pura will growth Thruout the years to be a promising dollar company....So now you allGo Figure KGKG is now partnered with Kaly and Pura..Kaly owns those NCN Biotechs CBC/THC extraction patents..Now do ya think Brian Shibleys, Pura CEO, is a Scam? Think Not !!!!!!! I bought pura at .01 late? and sold for .22 cents.. for a whopping $ 86,000 dollars a few months ago. !!! Profit but I listen to Puras Brian Shibley..he took 35 minutes with me and told me the concept was well founded with CBD/ possibly THC edibles /clinical market use..which are many..No sugar coating NADA! So You all can sell your BS as your opinion which is just an opinion..but Kaly owns those patents NCN Biotechs..A Fact.. so being a partner with Brian Shibley.Kona Gold .and Alkame..We are going to see dollar signs,,IMHO

Have you looked at ALKM, USMJ, PURA and other associated with RC?

Hope you are right, but I have my doubts.

Lifebone??!!!! There are around 20, definitely less than 50, people buying this crap at this point. You're simply giving the money to insiders who control the price and are waiting for new saps to cheat.

Look at ALKM who used to produce the hydrates for KGKG. They will exist indefinitely and management there will make their money and whenever they want/need more cash, they will just continue to dilute their share base. Are they a legit company? Yes, but beyond management shares, they don't give a damn about their shareholders.

At least they still produce and produce damn good products. KGKG had good products, arguably the best in their industry. But they make poor decisions and really do not care about their shareholders. Shareholders who BUY their shares are fools with this company.

Such a damn shame. I got duped like a lot of people. I rationalized so many things they did the first few years of operations. I do think RC started out with the right intentions and then took the easy way out with scamming everyone because of shady opportunities as a penny stock company. Seems that was when he may have met the USMJ and PURA people. Who knows, he might have known them from the beginning.

I know of a few others from this board who invested heavily as have I. It has been very painful to lose a ton of money. Did well investing for a while and did cardinal sin of putting all my eggs in one basket, the KGKG basket. This company had the best products in their industry. Now they no longer offer the original HighDrates, limited the new THC HighDrates to dispensaries (can they even ship their products over state lines to online customers?), and now aren't even producing the energy drinks. They are rudderless as a true operation, and apparently making it difficult to find anything of substance on their operations in order to pull more scams. I hope this Companies management gets theirs someday.

Seems they are purposely making it cumbersome to research the ticker and name.

You're right and wrong. The Company has been a failure because of management. The drinks are expensive compared to the competition where you can buy their drinks on the shelves just about anywhere. But the drinks are not bad. They actually have/had some of the best products in the industry. You need to try them and do your own comparisons with friends and family.

Thank you for doing so. Your observations are very much appreciated.

They are in the scam business (ala USMJ and related parties). They are trying to distance themselves from the KGKG moniker. NuVibe is even more generic then Kona.

This stock is going the way of USMJ and PURA. Seeing they had past interactions is no surprise how this company has stumbled. A bunch of us were duped. However, I still see amazing potential. I believe I could put together a team to take this company to amazing heights. I think this company had more potential under RC but he got lazy and quit on everyone while taking easy money.

I've said it before, it is the same 20 to 30 (10 to 15?) people trading this stock. The long-time supporters keep suffering the losses and I think they are done. There will need to be significant news to bring in "new blood". I believe the potential under old management was higher than the current with its limited scope geared towards dispensaries. I think we are in the dark with the energy drinks.

No surprise if some of the "new" names on the board are aliases of former chat board members.

10 days.

We had a company here supposedly shooting for the moon (Walmart, gas stations, liquor stores, convenience stores) and end up with trying to get into dispensaries with its THC drinks. What are the other plans? Beavis and Butthead could run this company better.

If RC and his lackeys would put in honest work, they could make something of this Company. The potential is ridiculous.

You must be one of the pump and dumpers in here. I have been on this chatboard for over 6 years. Sorry to ruin your scam. The company filed a FORM 15 a few months back. There are very few investors in this company. The truth sucks.

...and all 20 of the these traders will go about business as usual.

Got to find new blood to scam.

New management has strong ties to the old management. Not sure it isn't collusion.

That's just $84,000 changing hands between the same traders.

It is the same 20 traders exchanging shares back and forth. There is no new blood in here to make this stock run. They have great products, but until they change the way they do things, the same results will occur. Hoping that there will be a big run up which will then quickly go down. The same traders will make money at the expense of the duped. Wishing they saw the true potential of this company to take it to monster levels.

Seems like this company, old management and new, is no different than the scammers that made up the USMJ, PURA group. It will have its day when you least expect it where it will run up for a few days and then collapse again for years. Lather, rinse, repeat.

I'll keep pounding my head because their products were fabulous and they f*#ked up majestically, unless of course they didn't. It probably turned out exactly as they planned.

Their HighDrates were fantastic. They should have simply taken out the CBD as another offering.
The Kona Gold energy drinks were suberb.
I ran "blind" taste tests with numerous people and the strong majority picked Kona. This was between Monster, Red Bull and Kona products.
Tried it with the different flavors too. The only line that did not make sense was the black can energy drink. I think that was the classic flavor. It had fructose, I believe. It is a darn shame.

The new management are simply disciples of RC. This stock is dead. There are only a handful of traders exchanging money until new batch of suckers come along with the new name change.

I have never seen a company with arguably one of the best products in the market be so woefully ran and destroyed like this company. The lack of vision is astounding. A group of high school students running this company as a school project could do better.

$50/share? You're obviously a big customer of Cresco. I'll glady settle for $5.

Right.... all 10 to 20 of you, load up and just give your money to the few players in here.

Because the same people trade this stock back and forth. You will be one of the sells tomorrow. Less than $60,000 exchanged hands between the same players.

They had excellent flavors with their old HighDrate lineup. This management is clueless as evident by getting rid of great products. The new lineup should be in addition to what they carried before.

You're right not to put in a bid. Only the manipulators are making money at this point. There are very few shareholders in this company and the very few have the majority of shares. When (if ever?) this company becomes legitimate, this stock could fly to ridiculous heights.

And half the volume is price manipulation. Until the shenanigans stop, this stock isn't going anywhere but down.

There are less than 100 shareholders trading this stock. Think about it. All those outstanding shares and there are less than 100. People are simply giving their money back and forth, or more likely the more giving to the few. The very few make money and they follow this board. I bet I number of usernames in the KGKG chat room are their second or third names playing the others.

This is the most bizarre company with its lack of success. They have one of the best products in their industry and yet fail over and over. The potential is insane and we can only hope that someone in the "new" management or potential future management sees the opportunity for running the company legitimately.

The company was making the best energy drinks and energy flavored waters (HighDrates) in the market. The potential is outstanding under the proper management and guidance. How they beat this into the ground is a tragedy.

ALKM is a terrible stock to own, but a legitimate company. They make great products. Their model with dilution is a nightmare to shareholders. It's too bad their management doesn't run things differently. I am hopeful KGKG's new management is more productive and not a pump and dump. They have great products and with vision, they could one day be like Red Bull and Monster. I did not like their move away from HighDrates original formula. Adding THC is going to limit their market.

Then who has been producing for them?

What is scary to me is that there seemed to be some sort of correlation with USMJ, PURA and ALKM in the past. None of them seem to be trading any more. I always thought USMJ and PURA were scams.

I thought ALKM produced for KGKG? Anyone have some insight? Is Kona having problems with production? It couldn't be too hard to duplicate ALKM, could it?

It was always HighDrate. I never seen HyDrate. Whatcha talking about Lewis.

There are less than 200 shareholders trading this back and forth. It ain't going nowhere until more people get an interest in it.

They need exposure. They need marketing (THC market will only take it so far as a publicly traded company). They had the best energy drinks and the best energy water in the market and they failed because they lacked the right people running things. Going the Spicoli route isn't going to take this mainstream. Such a shame!