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...that I find potentially significant is the number of brand new and all of a sudden very vocal and supportive bulletin board IDs that pop up out of nowhere on CTAG, assuring one and all that things are about to become good. I note that this board newly has at least two of these, one joining 22 days ago on 30th June and the other even more fresh-faced, joining just 9 days ago on 13th July.
The last time this happened was just at the time of Amit's last "amazing pre-IPO opportunity" back in August last year.
Can't possibly imagine what's liable to happen next...
In Amit we trust!
Soon news...
Wouldn't want to be out over the weekend...!
which weekend sometime in dec 2020 or dec 2030
yes, very vocal & supportive, but without actually
giving any meaningful data / information/ links etc.
to back up their faux matey 'optimism'. ... the most
that they seem to offer is the idea that some of them
have been chatting with amit. (yikes!! ... on the whole,
if amit said A is the case, then i would assume Z is true.)
it seems that a few LTHs were encouraged to
put in more money into 'pre-IPO' via grooming
in private twitter / whatapp groups or similar...
membership of such groups can be carefully
controlled to exclude any meaningful doubts,
to help maintain the illusions being constructed.
but now that money has been squirrelled away or
spent on maintaining the insiders' lifestyles, they
probably want to tap up those same LTHs for yet
more. and so there is a need to try to create a
positive buzz on the board, & dismiss sceptics.
? how about, buyout by a marvellous new company,
let's call it 'amitsfriendsothercompany' for short,
based somewhere with minimal disclosure rules,
with CTAGers being offered paper in this shinynewco
in exchange for their old shares (i.e. a paper 'buyout')
but with the lucky, lucky opportunity to double up
their stake at a low, low price, by putting in some hard
cash into extra shares in 'amitsfriendsothercompany'?
other variants possible, of course.
Spikeyj, Interesting comments. By the way I have known of you for a very long time. In your early days you were known as the paper round boy across lse, as you would post all RNS's for different company's on each relevant boards. Of course you were more eager in those ''special news'' posting's on shares you were positioned in for a trade. I guess you have given up the news express for a more dull life, hanging around on delisted share boards for some type of self imposed gratification LOL.
So going by your 09.49am post... I was a holder of stock here pre-delist / suspension. I have spoken to amit a few times in the past, but never purchased any cheaper shares in any ipo fund raise. In fact I would never do so, but that's my own choice (I have enough already).
I have already made my ctag losses back over the last couple of years, trading on aim. Although I would be right over the moon if it gave a payday in the end.
So where am I classed in your jack a nory story below, as it does not follow your professional conclusion below does it.
Like it or not, something is happening in ctag, for shareholder, we all wish it is a return on investment. For your types, you obviously wish for the end to be painful for shareholders, whilst you laugh out load with satisfaction of a well called end game.
Let's see what happens soon, how I would love for this to come good, not only for the financial side of things :)
strongman, i have no reason to wish, or rejoice in, any pain
for ordinary shareholders, although i think the painful end
has already happened. -- i would quite like that amit and
his associates get their just desserts, but unfortunately i
think that is vanishingly unlikely, given the nature of AIM,
& even more so privately listed cayman island companies.
they got away with it, but still might try to get some more.
your memory is deficient re my posting history on lse.
(putting it another way, far from wishing the existing
shareholders to suffer pain, i would prefer it if innocent
but gullible punters were not persuaded to lose even more.)
''strongman, i have no reason to wish, or rejoice in, any pain
for ordinary shareholders''
Lets leave that open to debate for now....
On the rest of your comments, quite a few if not the majority may agree with you. Shareholders in the main have laid to rest their investment here many years/months ago. Believe it or not, some of us have a few brain cells and can figure it out for ourselves as well. BUT whilst we kind of accept defeat and losses, there is always a small part of us that wants to believe this could come good.
Watching and waiting...
dougal, you've indicated before that you put
in an extra £8,000 in the 2018 'pre-IPO'. so who
was headlining that fundraising, & what credible
commercial substance was there back then?
just going on what you posted previously, dougal.
... are you saying now that you did not take part in
the pre-IPO, or handed over a very different sum?
if you did invest something, who was headlining
that fundraising, and what credible commercial
substance or commercial partners were there then?
fair enough, i had seen you talk about an 800,000 (£8K) pre-IPO
amount before, but happy to accept i may have misunderstood
you. (perhaps you were referring to another poster's top-up?)
you have very specifically stated before that you increased
your holding by ten times in the 'pre-IPO'. so when you did
hand over that hard-earned cash, who was headlining the
fundraising, & what credible commercial substance was there?
... am asking because although you state at 10:46 that punters
would only pump in more dosh depending on who headlines,
and on credible commercial substance, you yourself appear to
be the living proof that they can lure at least some peeps to cough
up more money without any credible commercial substance.
after all, you've clearly stated before that you knew it was amit
himself soliciting the funds in august 2018, and that you put in
more money on 'complete and utter blind faith' . (strangely.)
Spikey,If you're looking for an answer of optimism or pessimism it changes every day.
dougal, why not try answering the question?
eh? hell would have to freeze over before you
answer who was headlining the fundraising,
and what credible commercial substance
there was at the time of the august IPO??
why be so sensitive about that?
you've already stated on this chat board that
you knew it was amit raising the money, and
you've already stated that you invested purely
on 'blind faith' and did not seek additional info.
so either you have been posting porkies, or else
you thought that the published ctag web update
constituted credible commercial "substance"??
dougie ... 14 May 2019 10:59
LOT, must admit I do not much care what exit strategy Amit chooses. As long as this becomes clear to investors soon. Amit solicited funds 24 August 2018 with the pre IPO closing c Dec 2018. He’s had my money since Sept 2018
dougie .. Jan 2019 23:18
FYI
I increased my holdings x 10. As a small investor I am chuffed tbh
dougie .... 26 oct 2018 I never received that sort of information to make me invest pre IPO. In fact. I didn't receive any information at all nor I suspect did anyone else. Blind Faith
dougie .... 10 Sep 2018 18:29
Well, I have just transferred my pre-IPO subscription amount completing the process. Complete and utter Blind Faith. Hope it pays off atb
LOL spikey is the board moderator / guru / financial authority and regulator.
Before you spend your OWN money dougal, please pass it through spikey for his stamp of approval...otherwise you could be naughty step bound in the near future :)
*Opens popcorn*...
dougal is welcome to do what wants, no skin off my nose.
am just intrigued, amused & baffled by his insistence
that he's backing amit on utter blind faith & no info,
- whilst also stating:
".... whether punters pump in more of their hard earned will depend on who headlines the fundraising and credible commercial partners/commercial substance."
(personally, i don't believe dougal is for real.)
No spikey, it is starting to border on bullying the guy imo. He has a complete difference of opinion to yours, but that should not mean you ramming your opinion into him while discarding his. We are all entitled to see it whichever way we want, sure quite a few have been caught with our panties around our ankles with this investment. But as it is our own money, the loss is ours to bear.
By all means keep firing over the warning shots on this board, to warn whoever you are trying to warn. But ease up on the constant bashing of individuals like dougal, it is starting to grind.
Right off to enjoy the weather like most sensible folks. Will post if there is any new developments, if it gets to end of August and nothing new or substantial appears, then I will not be back here with my views.
Good luck to shareholders.........
you are welcome to use the filter if
you wish. i shall post if/as i wish.
doug's hardly been a shy, retiring type
on this board. it's a board for talking
about ctag, & doug posts *plenty*, so
can hardly complain if others respond.
He says, Amit am I?
Relist when pigs fly,
Soon news I cry,
Maybe pie in the sky.
Looks like a few worried trolls around....makes you wonder...doesn't it?
I'm a LTH with a large amount of faith in the end game. Its coming.
'behavioural change techniques' are not a proprietary
property of amit or cloudtag. - anyone at all can try to
use them in personal training programmes, business, etc.
there is no evidence whatsoever that amit & co have any
special edge in how they could try to employ bct than any
newly qualified personal trainer down at your local gym.
theory of bct is pretty basic undergraduate psychology.
https://www.ljmu.ac.uk/microsites/promoting-healthy-weight-in-pre-school-children/modules/behaviour-change-techniques/introduction-to-behaviour-change-techniques
since amit was apparently successful in raising money
from you last autumn in his own name, on the basis of
blind faith, lacking any credible commercial substance,
then entirely possible he will look to do the same again.
it got him £400K last time round, so why not rinse, repeat,
if he can find more gullible punters daft enough to pay up?
and what makes you think that it has
been trialled "the last couple of years"?