Hemp Inc (HEMP)

[Det_Robert_Thorne]

You don't test drive Ford to buy Chevy

Before buying a car, most people will want to test drive.

Hemp Inc donating a sample product is not a bad thing. It could turn into a long term customer, and others will hear about who supplies the hemp.

Do you disagree?

Of course I disagree.

When you're thinking about buying a 2018 Chevy Camaro, you do a test drive at the Chevy dealer when the car is available. You don't go to the Ford dealer today, drive a 2017 Mustang, then say "I love driving this car, so I'll by the Camaro when it comes out next year."

When Perlowin imports milled hemp hurd and gives it away as samples, he's not sampling a product manufactured by HEMP, but something obtained from Zhonglong Hemp & Kenaf Core Factory.

He can't tell the potential customer when he'll actually be manufacturing it in Spring Hope, nor can say that HEMP's product will be of better quality or manufactured with more consistency, because at this point in time, he doesn't know when the decorticator and MacTavish line will be capable of running.

He doesn't yet have an alternative source of clean hemp hurd to mill, and because of the seed issue in NC, we have no idea if the growers that HEMP has talked about as partners have received permits and will grow hemp this year.

I suppose that giving away samples could help the Zhonglong Hemp & Kenaf Core Factory to get new customers, but I don't think it will be of any benefit to HEMP shareholders.