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You would never have sold the lot at 9p. That is another illusion. You may have sold some at 6p, 7p, 8p and even a few that you had left at 9p but that is the best you would have done. And then the danger is buying back in too early, which is a problem I always seem to have, and I was buying some of these back as high as 7.5p expecting the tech partnership and the Brighton/Reading launch.

My advice for what it's worth is that if you see a profit that is so big you'd be stupid not to take it then sell. Share prices notoriously go up and down. But try and remember to buy back in if you sell a rising share.

I've bought back in all I want now and to be honest my average overall is about 5p. Am I happy with that - yes I am. Do I want to read posts from greedy scroungers who want to buy back in at 2p - no I don't. There is great potential here, as long as the managers get on with the job, and the share price could quite easily reach 10p, 15p, 20p, 25p or more in the coming months if they keep building the platform.

Do I wish I was in any lower - to be honest I don't give a damn.

I would like an update on the plan of action now the territory managers are on board and, hopefully, that will put a stop to all of the scrounger traders who want to get in lower and lower and lower as the share price will start rising sensible.

You have made massive profits on this share already, arriving late long after the IPO when the SP was at an all-time low and then selling the lot at the first opportunity, and yet you post that you still want to buy in here at some ridiculously low share price.

Assessing the opportunity here sensibly what does it matter if you or me or anybody else is buying in at 5p, or 4p or even 3p. This has the potential to do many multiples of the current share price as the nationwide roll-out takes place so any purchase price is good. And yet you state that you would be happier buying in at 2p.

You are greedy and rude - and 100% a trader (which I don't disagree with by the way but at least I don't pretend to be a LTH).

Yes, angela6611 you are just a saddo scrounger. You just want to buy in at the cheapest possible share price and then sell the whole lot at the first opportunity for whatever profit you can get and then disappear off elsewhere.

You have no manners, no business sense and are just a very greedy person. Good luck to you.

8 territory managers on board as of today and it would be nice to know when they are going to start signing up new restaurants. After all, that is their job!!

An update would be nice.

Very odd to be selling now with the recruiting as good as done and the addition of new towns, cities and restaurants imminent. The share price is at a 65% discount to the recent highs which were attributable to talking about the nationwide roll-out which is now about to happen in the real world and I think most here will expect at least a return to the recent highs if not a share price that will exceed those highs.

Bit bonkers if you ask me.

Personally I hope they start signing up the independent restaurants as quickly as possible and get as many towns and cities as possible featuring on the APP. Then the small and larger chains will come on board as they will soon be afraid of missing out on business to the independents restaurants offering discounts. It will also look much better to the chains to see a vibrant and busy platform ( rather than a few isolated towns with just a few restaurants showing on each).

The targets could be reached very quickly like this.

People were talking the other day about changes, which is little more than updating and adapting the platform to accommodate the bigger numbers due here very soon.

3 things that could be changed as far as I can see are:

1) the range of discounts should be from 10% to 50% at the restaurant's discretion. A minimum 10% should be allowed to try and get the restaurants to keep the offers open even on their busier evenings and weekends rather than just to say "No discounts available". 10% isn't going to break the restaurants and it will secure Big Dish a booking fee.

2) the 50p cheap rate wants to be kicked into touch as the bigger cities come onboard. That is just stupid and far too low. A £1 to £1.50 sliding scale according to the discount level seems to be much better.

3) I personally cannot see the point of making this just a last-minute booking concept. Other successful yield management companies allow booking for up to 30 days which is fine. The discounts are always the same week by week anyway if you study the platform so to allow bookings for 1, 2, 3 and up to 4 weeks in advance makes common sense. I can imagine that if some of the restaurants that have delisted during the last 2 months had bookings to look forward to they would still be on board. Also this will benefit families that want to book tables for all manner of special occasions but don't want to leave booking until the last minute in case they miss out on the tables. Without the 30 days they will probably just book in advance and pay the full price which is fine for the restaurant but not much good for Big Dish. This is a wasted opportunity restricting booking to only 2 days. Imagine if airline and hotels did this - it would be a disaster.

All just my opinion. An update on progress would be nice particularly with details of when and where the sign-ups are going to recommence.

Not only is Wildwood Bournemouth on the platform but it is one of the few restaurants offering 50% off all day. This is probably something they are trialling too.

Also repeating my post of a few weeks ago Wildwood is part of the Tasty restaurant group with more than 50 restaurants. It also fits in as a regional chain as the restaurants are all in the south, London and the Midlands.

Yeah, the trouble is that poor old Sanj is left to run everything in the UK while Bishop, Boer and the rest are too busy running their "food technology company already highly successful in the Far East " to use a phrase from their repeat Social Media job advert.

I think that if this roll-out is successful, which it should be if they get on with it, it will probably surprise the management more than the shareholders.

This is extremely poor management for the share price to be still falling with all of these territory managers now on board. There needs to be a full update and strategy update on what is going to happen next.

There are 5 managers employed as of today and there will be 8 by the end of the week and we need to know exactly what the plan is. Their job is to sign up new restaurants and we need to know that this is happening.

Repeating my request from yesterday and last week if anyone here is in communication with the management could they please request that we get an update.

"What we need now is a full strategy update by RNS.

Sanj has given some info on the podcast but most of the information has not been on an RNS as yet. What the shareholders need is a full update to include which territory managers have already joined in which territories, which ones are joining this week and when the rest will be on board.

Also we need to know exactly what the plan is for August and September as these guys are going to be adding a large cost to the payroll and need to be doing some work. It would also be nice to know that the existing two managers are back signing up new restaurants.

Can anyone who is in contact with the management here by email or twitter or whatever please contact them and request this to be put in an RNS as soon as possible. This might finally get the share price moving back upwards."

Repeating my request from yesterday and last week if anyone here is in communication with the management could they please request that we get an update giving full details of which territory managers started last week and which ones are starting this week. We also need a full plan of action for August and September as these managers are going to be adding a huge burden on the wage bill and it would be nice for the shareholders to know that they are actually doing some work.

There's no point in changing anything until the nationwide roll-out is completed. Then they can see exactly what is going on.

With 8 managers on the payroll by the end of this week I shall be very disappointed if they are going to sit around doing nothing for four weeks on full pay. That is not good business. But then it wasn't very good business to have the T1 and T2 managers not going flat out signing new restaurants during June and July and now August. That was a very poor business decision. Now, maybe, it's time to make amends for that very poor attitude.

Sanj clearly said in the recent Proactive podcast that he wasn't expecting to have the territory managers up and running until September and probably even not in September. Obviously the recruitment agencies have made a very good job of helping Big Dish to get the bulk of these managers on board early and now it is time for the Big Dish management to adapt their plans to take this into account. Things have changed and moved forwards so Sanj, etc need to change their plans and move things forward so these managers can get on with the job they have been employed to do.

Anything less than these managers hitting the road and getting new restaurants signed to the platform forthwith will be quite unacceptable and a very poor business decision.

8 managers on the payroll by the end of the week. It's time for them to start earning their salaries. Their job is to sign up new restaurants. TIme to get on with it, NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Program on the telly last night about one of the world's busiest restaurants, situated in Watford of all places. Just an ordinary looking restaurant from the outside, double-fronted with the door in the middle, but it was a real tardis inside where the upper floor was enormous. It is an eat as much as you want buffet, with adult prices at £20.99 per head with as much soft drink as could be consumed, and featured one of their 3 busiest days of the year - father's day. They seated about 2500 diners in one long session.

But what about all their quieter days. They would love this as it would bring lots of extra people in for a pig out at quieter times on quieter days. 50% off, 25% off - either will do.

Time for these new and old managers to get signing the restaurants up now. I don't even think the management will expect what will happen here if they get busy signing new outlets to the platform every day. The difference when they hit the big cities and the bigger restaurants will be enormous. Big Dish Asia never even took off. It was very much second to eatigo and barely got noticed. They have the chance now to hit the big time and make a success of this idea. GET ON WITH IT NOW. TIME FOR NEW TOWNS AND CITIES AND RESTAURANTS TO START APPEARING ON THE PLATFORM EVERY DAY.

Come on Big Dish. It's time to start signing up some restaurants. Experience has shown us there is nothing going on behind the scenes so with total transparency let's see the territory managers do some work and earn their salary.

They are joint brokers for Big Dish - or rather they were as they aren't any more.

https://www.investegate.co.uk/bigdish-plc--dish-/rns/appointment-of-svs-securities-as-joint-broker/201812040700203048J/

10 territory managers are in place - 2 existing, 3 joined last week, 3 to join this week, 2 more to join during August and 2 more territories to fill which are Scotland & NI and the Eastern region.

All I can say is can they please start/continue signing up new restaurants. At this stage that is their job. They are being paid so let's hope they will get on with it. No excuses any more.

Personally I don't give a sh*t about Brand Ambassadors or sponsoring industry awards or what's going on in the Philippines - just get them signing up new outlets, please.