The day the figure came out on OTCBB I had my doubts, especially after Melvin disputed it so vehemently, and talked about how pissed Urban was. But as more time goes by , the more I am inclined to believe its true, because the company as far as we can see has done nothing to dispute it, nor will they address it in a PR.
If it turns out to be true, then there is no disputing the company has either misled us, or even worse outright lied to us. They have stated to us in previous PRs they had bought back roughly 35 billion shares and retired them to the treasury, this at a time when the O/S was nowhere near 484 billion. So if in fact they were buying back a few billion shares while at the same time dumping hundreds of billions into the market, then it was at the very least an attempt to mislead us.
Now before some of you newbies here that don't know me start calling me a basher, I suggest you go back and read all my old posts.
I own 60 million shares, and have no plan on selling any of them at least until after the dividends. Plus I feel that the news on the new land that we are drilling on is very exciting, and has a lot of potential, so unless I see a pattern of continued lying between now and the end of Oct., when we get our dividends I still probably won't be selling. But if I do decide to keep holding I will be forced to reduce my expectations for the price per share of this stock to increase.
With an O/S of nearly 500 billion we will have to have a valuation of $5 billion just to reach a PPS of a penny.
This will be hard to do even with a large diamond find because we will be splitting the deal 4 ways with our other partners.
So, if it turns out the O/S is that large then I will never trust anything this company says again without being able to verify it independently.
In the mean time I'm going to do just like Melvin said and not believe anything from ANY outside source until I see it in a company PR.