OK. I misunderstood what you were trying to get us to understand.
You posted that:
"The preferred shares issued by NMKT have lock-up periods after which they can convert to common shares and be immediately sold.
Restricted common shares are common shares which have their own holding period, usually a year, after which they can be sold."
I read that to mean that you thought we were dealing with two totally different issuing of shares:
1)Preferred from the deals that had lock-up periods and then can convert to be sold immediately
2)Restricted common shares with their one year restriction.
You say one can be sold immediately upon conversion (the ones from the deals of the past) and the other has to wait a year. So, it would follow that the ones that have the restriction are not the ones from the deals we have been talking about causing such an overhead for the stock to work against. But you said that the shares that increased the OS were likely from #2.
Now, since you state that they are not the preferred from the deals of the past that get converted for immediate selling, why am I erroneous in thinking you are saying that these are new shares being issued now? Either they came from the deals of old or they are new shares, right?
Somewhere we are missing each other here.
But go ahead and write it off as "my agenda". That always works for those who want to always think people are manipulating you, rather than just honestly trying to figure out if this will be a productive investment or not. I can understand that, because most of the time people are manipulating others in some way or other. I am manipulating you to try to find out as best as I can what the hell NMKT is doing to my investment, and whether they will stop enough for me to feel it is worth placing more trust in them now, or wait another month or six or a year, depending on when they allow for all those shares they deal with to get sold out from under my investment. You provide quite a bit of good information and thought patterns, when you forget to be paranoid, that I appreciate any insight you can give.
I understand none of us really know what they are doing or are planning to do with our shares, but a few good heads like yours will give us better odds of figuring it nearly correctly so that we will know how to play this game and not get taken for a downhill ride for too long.
So far though, the past two years we have missed the boat a bit about anticipating the negatives that the company brings to the table. I did OK by selling and avoiding NMKT for a while, but I have still jumped in at least three times now since then, and realized it was way too early and that it would be a waste of my investment monies and jumped back out until I hopefully see a more productive investment here in this company. I want to be a long that is helping them build a company all of us can make profits from, but man-o-man, do they make it difficult. Every time I buy in, within a few weeks, I start feeling like their patsy again.
NMKT please do some productive things to make me proud to stay.
