NO ONE IS TRYING TO GIVE ANYONE 'FALSE' HOPE, or CHEER anyone up. What we, and certainly I, have been doing is filling in time (in which we can do nothing) keeping the thread alive, and looking at POSSIBILITIES.
(I love solving crime riddles, and puzzles)
By sharing POSSIBILITIES it gives one a chance to put thoughts to paper which focuses them for self, and give others an opportunity to share and evaluate them, so that if and when something does happen, they can take whatever appropriate action THEIR OWN MIND dictates.
You say - 'However I think that if there is any possible profit coming I believe that you know who will have his snout and indeed his two front legs in the trough before we even get a sniff.'
This, so far, is the general consensus of opinion but in itself means nothing.
However, looking at how he (LUMB) can be the SOLE BENEFICIARY without providing an opportunity, at least, for those who are losing much, to recover some of it, and for others to PERHAPS make a profit can be productive.
In every scam I have read about, and I have read about many, there are others, especially ones in at the beginning who have made money besides the one at the top who started it.
Now, by default, most of us here are IN and will be IN therefore at the beginning of any further movement in this company which can only really go one way.
(If it went the other way and folded today, we couldn't really lose anymore.)
So, as I said, by default, we are positioned to take advantage whether we like it, or not.
It is not the hand you are dealt in life which makes you a winner, its how you play that hand.
The great stories of history are of those who seize opportunity
and turn seeming defeat (loss) into victory (gain).
This company is still on the life support system (I assume for a reason) it is not dead yet.
As they say, where there is life there is hope. If you really see that as hope without substance, the answer is simple - dump your shares on the market - donate them to your unfavourite charity or mother-in-law, and forget about them while you focus on enjoying the rest of your life having learned a valuable lesson the hard way.
If you (that means anyone) see this as offering false hope, or hyping a scam, I can't stop you. But to those with that mindset, all I say is I give you the Rhett Butler farewell -
'.Frankly, my friends, I don't give a damn'.
