read it - no one made it up - this is from spng sec filing -we are talking rme here.... rme is being used at arms length when they r in fact spng in all reality impo
From time to time, the selling stockholders may engage in short sales, short sales against the box, puts and calls and other transactions in our common shares, and will be able to sell and deliver the shares in connection with those transactions or in settlement of securities loans. In effecting sales, brokers and dealers engaged by the selling stockholders may arrange for other brokers or dealers to participate in those sales. Brokers or dealers may receive commissions or discounts from the selling stockholders (or, if any such broker dealer acts as agent for the purchaser of those shares, from the purchaser) in amounts to be negotiated (which are not expected to exceed those customary in the types of transactions involved). Brokers and dealers may agree with the selling stockholder to sell a specified number of shares at a stipulated price per share and, to the extent those brokers and dealers are unable to do so acting as agent for a selling stockholder, to purchase as principal any unsold shares at the price required to fulfill the broker dealer commitment to a selling stockholder.