Vanc Pharmaceuticals Inc

[thebouch]

Boy that is a loaded question!!! Firstly, this is obviously just my own opinion here and I have never spoken directly to T.O. That being said... I believe that T.O. has always viewed the therapuetic applications for T36r as "the promised land" for APH. In the begining (3 years ago for most here!) he (T.O.) was content in building the Company slowly from the grass routes forward. IMO his only true mistake so far was the forcasting of the US patent info which acted as the catalyst to our fall from 1.57 /sh. His intention was to pay for the long road to FDA approval of his Therapuetic aplications (A.P.'s) through rounds of P.P.'s at reasonable levels. With the collapse of the S.P. durring the world wide financial crisis, it became obvious that the testing to be done going forward would amount to incredible dilution. Along came the H1N1 pandemic which gave all the appreance that it could very well be historic in it's severity. In T.O.'s judgement Alda had the oppertunity to 'ride' this pandemic and create instant sales & recognition of our product line through the hand sanitizer. He knew to advance our name/recognition big dollars would have to be spent to market our product and he more or less rolled the dice with our advertising dollars & signed on to become the Olympic supplier for these games & those upcoming in London. With hindsight being 20/20 all the arm chair quarter backs are disputeing wheather we spent wisely or not & much the same as the Monday morning guessing, no one can ever say for sure. Did these descisions by T.O. help the company in the long run or did they set us back some.? I don't know for sure yet. The long and the short of it is this D.S.... He is the leader of the company...He is the largest shareholder as well... I for one have faith in his L.T. plan & only time playing out will show me to be prudent or naive..! People are constantly trashing APH because Shoppers D.M. have T36 in the buck-a-bottle bin. I have been told by insiders that we did not even have a hard and fast contract with Shoppers & that they grabbed as many bottles as they could of virtualy any hand sanitizer they could at the time. They too paniced with the pandemic & with the seasonal demand gone they are just unloading surplus supply. Take my interpitation of the events as you may. I personnaly lessened my exposure at the .42 - .44 level. because to me the risk/reward tilted that way with T.O.'s diversion from R & D into retail. I am at these levels,(.18-.195) now replacing my shares. - Paul