8000 Incorporated (EIGH)

[Ninja7]

Wow, Neil,

Thanks for sharing. I’m sure that wasn’t easy. At least you’re learning something from the whole experience. I too had a wake-up moment a while back (http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=56176616).

The worst part about this was that the whole idea played not only on our greed but also on our dreams and sense of family. I told Jason (who now works for Monk) at the end of the PHX Monkinar that probably the best thing about the experience in PHX was not so much learning something about trading but getting to know the people behind the message board aliases in the FLD’s and developing trust between all of us. The Den had my back, and I had theirs in these plays. In looking back, I’m struck by two things: my gullibility and greed (both of which are hard to admit) and the insidious brilliance of the FLD scam (take people’s sense of family and build it into something called the Den so that people will hold a stock to let others sell regardless of how ridiculous the story is/becomes). This last one I resent most of all, and to see people here still holding on to that idea and still believing that EIGH will come back, that they haven’t been lied to and taken advantage of, truly breaks my heart.

I genuinely wish you the best.