All this "new" MRIB info is much of the same nonsense seen previously and follows the MRIB 1.0 game plan to a tee. Lousy second rate regional events, new retail locations added, job postings, web site construction activity... all followed by new voices and players promoting MRIB and espousing optimism. As I stated over a year ago, MRIB would get to this point. A languishing PPS. Less and less information from the company. The end of financial reporting and promotion based on a diminishing amount of positive spin opportunities.
It's become sad. Job postings especially. Nine MRIB job postings, which are free for anyone to post, go up two weeks ago, all obviously the same posting copied and pasted. News about them goes up ten days later. Funny they didn't go up earlier but they did coincide with advertising by the recruiter. Where? MRIB boards. Coincidence? I think not. And then more information leaked that because the job postings were reduced and the assumption that the jobs were filled is made. Again, timed perfectly with recruiter advertising. I smell fish.
It very well could be MRIB doing what they can afford to keep the stock alive or it very well could be an MRIB shareholder taking it upon themselves to do it. Why not, it's all free and probably didn't take more than 5 minutes to do.
As for the added retail locations it's simple MRIB BS. I called the Fullerton store and they don't carry it. I asked about others as there and the closest location was Dana Point. There are seven "new" listed locations from MRIB between Fullerton and Dana Point. So that's just MRIB throwing in store names. You will also notice that MRIB doesn't list phone numbers or addresses for those locations... that's the MRIB MO. Make information as hard to confirm as possible. I'm surprised they didn't list foreign Costco locations. It should also be noted that back in 2010 long after MRIB 1.0 had been shut down MRIB was listing hundreds and hundreds of locations. Most all of which were bogus. It looks as though someone did a search for liquor retailers in California and simply copied and pasted it. It's well documented in iHub posts if you go back and check. Bottom line is that publishing bogus retailer information is nothing new for MRIB.
The web site is another good example of nonsense. Just an inexpensive way of generating speculation that something is going on. It costs nothing and look at the effect. People start saying "things are looking up!" and "No company that was shuttered would go to the effort of working on their web site." Again another MRIB ruse trying to show the company has a pulse. And I ask this. Why, even if it were true, would MRIB be spending energy or a dime on a web site change instead of getting their financials out? A new web site, even a very basic one (I just commisioned one for a company I have) runs $5000 at least to do it right and that doesn't even cover the monthly SEO and content charges.
While it's obvious the latest out of MRIB is a lot of nonsense it is somewhat strange and begs the question, who is running MRIB? I'll leave you with this hypothetical. The latest MRIB video. The silly hip hop events. The ruse of free job postings with an obvious lack of knowledge of the going rate for a sales force. It all sticks to high heaven of Doran "Santiago" Ramos of the now defunct Zodiac brands. A lone wolf? Or perhaps Margrit handed over the keys and said "Here's the number for the investor relations hombo in San Diego, Ken Owen's number and all you need for web site access. See what you can do and I'm going to go back to selling residential real estate..." We also know that all of these people most likely got paid 100% in stock. FREE TRADING STOCK. Doran Ramos as of late has also been out on his gay dating sites telling all of his recent financial woes, sorrow and trying to crowd fund $15K supposedly for a relative's funeral. Whatever the case. In the end of the day everything MRIB lately is simple smoke and mirrors expected to raise positive speculation on nothing but ambiguous and wishful thinking associations.
Oh. One last sidenote... MRIB 1.0 traded actively and was extremely busy with this same type of "news" for over four years after they shut down. Go look at the forum back then. There is one point in November of 2011, two years after total shut down and without a single dime in sales, where there are literally a thousand posts in one day. It's like they never shut down. It was "big things coming" for a full four years with no sales and no activity following the last financials for 2009 right up until into the trips and then the start of MRIB 2.0 PR starting with Brazil in 2013 (two years ago now). We all know what happened after that! LOL.
