Good Points, Aston:
You are right and wrong. The fact is that Spicy Pickle was a real product and real company. It's also a fact that Helix is a real product and company.
It is a fact that Spicy Pickle's founders were disillusioned with the aggressive expansion plans and left the company. I criticized their shotgun approach to franchising, which I've seen fail so many times. It's a good story, but I've never seen it work. I compared it to the Diedrich story which was a crash and burn.
You had pumpers on this board like KngSpaz pumping that stock here, and I called him an idiot. I was banned from this very board for calling him that. So now that the tables are turned, let me reiterate that he was an IDIOT. A fool with no argument. He was an empty shell.
I said many times over that Larry Isen, the promoter, did not have his interests aligned with shareholders. Who cares if he put up his "own money" and had millions of shares on the table. Skin in the game, so to speak. It didn't matter since he had a handsome profit already. It was just part of the story, part of the window dressing. Just didn't matter. It would be icing on the cake at best. Aggressive plans that were a hail mary could leave him with millions, or millions more if in he unlikely chance they worked.
This company is also real. I would venture a guess you are right about a stock promoter in its future, but I won't say it will absolutely happen. I don't know. I hope so for my own selfish interests.
This is certain: You can't buy this stock in any meaningful quantities right now without drastically moving the price. The spread is huge, and everybody's interests are in perfect alignment here. I will be honest and say that I'm here as a "venture capitalist" so to speak, only to sell it to some future visionaries. I am so happy with my price. I'm certain no future investors with warrants will have a better price than me.
I know for certain that 2.9 million shares are locked up for another 4 months, and most of them for a full year. So it's going to be a good show this year, maybe slow in coming . But there will be lots of news, and there will be efforts to raise capital. Which is legit. No matter what their motives are, that is the whole point of going public. To raise capital.
Now, they have all the time in the world to convince me to keep 10%, but I'll cash in 90% at some point, and I have no doubt my profits are going to be HUGE. I hope you recover some of your money. I have no doubt you will be able to sell now that we are going to be liquid. Yes, today was nothing, but that buyer(s) is frustrated. I'm confident about that. He is as frustrated as I was for the last few years, getting only 30 shares or 50 if I was lucky because I would not budge from the dirt bottom of the barrel.
There is no doubt that Zachary Venegas has a long, reputable history. I have tried hard to find dirt on him. I can't. Now, that lawyer, Michael with River LLC is a whole different story. But then again, I never met a lawyer who wasn't a character of disrepute. He has his name all over the place in the pump and dump universe. He always comes out on top, and all the investors of stocks he is associated with lose their shirt . Or so it appears. But he is only the lawyer, and lawyers are hired. I can't blame him for not turning down lots of money. Apparently, he is not in any trouble with the SEC that I am aware of. Although, he sure shares close proximity, by ink, with a lot of slime balls in trouble with the SEC.
But, penny stocks are on a stock exchange of ill repute. I mean, this just went from dark reporting to pink. They are not even on the OTC's X list, as I call it, which is the best of the worst as far as reporting standards go. But they are moving up the respectable chain. And this stock will not get institutional investments because its in the cannibus industry. It's just too hot politically to touch, can't do it due to regulations, etc. Yet, the industry does do well with investors.
I do know this: He can't make money unless I do. And I like that. And right now, he can't even sell all those shares he has. But I can. And I like that.
I have a gut feeling we will see financials from Helix by the end of January. And then we will jump on those facts and interpret them. And that will be fun and interesting. And let's not forget that this company is only worth $2 million right now, and there are only 320,000 freely tradeable shares. Which is NOTHING. And I would venture to say with my shares off the table, and the buyer(s) last week, there are in reality only 280,000 shares in the true float, with many of those being scorched Spicklers.
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