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Thanks for posting. Granted. There is a lot of negative sentiment for MARA. Meanwhile, they are only down 21% over the last 12 months and we are down 69%. Not exactly worth gloating about!! I'm surprised we don't have a similar thread of disgruntled shareholders. I can't imagine many are in the blue - only those who sold out in February 2021. How long before we get back to our £2 per share fund raise price? We have been in the doldrums for months, despite mining profitably throughout. It doesn't make sense!!

Hi Limping along. All is progressing well!!! I'm sorry but the share price performance does not reflect this at all. £3.40 to 55p is not good progress. My paper loss is horrendous. No point in bailing out now.

Well done to whoever it was who predicted 56p. I recall you getting slated by quite a few of you on the board!! Those of you involved (you know who you are) owe him a huge apology.

According to Proactive Investors the PR agency being used is called Good Culture. Plus a range of agencies appointed for the pure marketing. Let's hope they are not all on monthly retainers!!

https://www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk/companies/news/965955/cellular-goods-hires-impressive-line-up-of-agencies-for-launch-of-cbd-products-965955.html

Haha Starwars. Hopefully my wife won't read my post!! ;)

Thanks Ad-meliora. Indeed. It will be interesting to see if it has picked up any traction (sales / reviews) by the end of March. I've yet to dip back in, after taking a rather nasty but not catastrophic hit. I am tempted at sub 5p but I have concerns about what has happened so far, and would rather pay a little bit more further down the line, knowing the company has got its house in order.

Thanks also dodge1029. Thumbs up for writing the review. :) I want to try the face serum but I'm struggling to justify the £99!! And it's not because I can't afford to. It's more to do with the likely verbal abuse I'll get from the wife. "Mid life crisis", "haven't you got better things to be spending your money on" etc etc. I don't think many of the FUD posters have been critical of the quality products. I bet the majority haven't tried them. The negativity has, in the main, been directed at the company itself, probably with some justification. Love the 'Kevin Keegan' reference BTW. Really made me laugh! :))

There is another issue IMHO. Due to a lack of meaningful (targeted) marketing, the only people interested in CG products currently appears to be its shareholders. If you search face serum on Amazon, CG's is a long way down the page. And when doing so there are plenty of competitors to choose from, many with very high ratings (some with over 3,000 reviews). We then see CG's product which has only 1 five star review. Call me cynicle but I bet it's from a shareholder who has helpfully also mentioned the aftershave balm and CBG face oil. Of course, we all know what the USP is, so if you search 'cannabinoid face serum' instead then the product appears at the top of the page. The question is, apart from shareholders, why would anyone do this? The product may well be fantastic but if very few people know about it the next sales update will not make pretty reading.

Hahaha. Wooo hooo IK!! :))

Morning Pops. This has been the trend for the last 12 months. BTC down 7% ARB down over 70% over the same period. This is despite ARB having a much larger BTC holding now (I think it's c. 2000 more but I'm sure one of the experts will know precisely), raising shedloads of cash (which should have increased our market cap), being on NASDAQ (the alleged holy grail with increased visibilty and kudos), Texas being as near dammit built, Pluto profit clarity.
I think we just have to accept that the company itself, together with other miners, are unloved currently and quite possibly for the foreseeable future. The only thing that may shift it upwards is when Texas is fully operational and BTC goes properly parabolic!! 3% to 5% uplifts in BTC do nothing for our SP unfortunately. Although it does when BTC goes down! :(

Evening Pops. Thanks for posting the photo. The cottage is 'picture postcard' beautiful. So excited for you. :)
Agreed IK. No idea why it gets so personal. It's why I made my initial post. I've been pleasantly surprised I didn't get a barrage of insults. Maybe everyone on here is nice afterall. :))

Hey Pops. I hope you are keeping well. Your restoration project sounds fantastic. Property has and always will be my favourite investment. And also my most lucrative - aside from the business I built over the last 25 years.
I totally completely agree. Sentiment is against ARB. When thinking of reasons why, I don't think the US fund raisings were handled particularly well. Nor PW selling a bucket full of shares after the SP spiked and the business had raised the money. Although no one can blame him for doing so. He has bought some back since then but not enough to reinstate confidence.
I reckon your renovation will be finished long before ARB is back to the good old days. Would love to see photos. Excited for you. ;) All the best. BR.

Thanks IK. I really appreciate the kind words. I only posted because I felt some of the messages against those with a negative view were completely unwarranted, and in some cases were spiteful and vindictive.
The true measure of a company's success from an investors' perspective is the SP performance. And there isn't a single person here who can say they are happy with it over the last year. My only saving grace is I am very heavily invested in property which has more than compensated for the paper loss over the same period. I remember arguing on here with some troll (at least I thought they were) that I still felt ARB would be the better investment by Dec 2021 because of what was coming (NASDAQ, Pluto, Texas etc etc). Whoops!!

Thanks IK, Chaebol and everyone else for the posts. Thanks also to the bulls who didn't put the boot in! I was expecting a barrage of abuse.
POPS. For the record I am suffering a paper loss of around £62k. I did manage to offload a chunk at £1.02 at a loss because I needed the funds. My average purchase price was originally £2.26 so Inow need the SP to go way above that to break even. I haven't worked it out exactly. The remaining shares I'm keeping in my ISA, in the hope it goes up by around 485% at some point (to achieve an all time high). Frankly I can't see that for a very long time. On that basis my target is probably delusional but hey ho. It's only money! Good luck to all fellow sufferers. Maybe once Texas is fully operational we'll see the SP go up. I've forgotten what that feels like.

With all due respect, everyone has a right to moan about our SP performance over the last 12 months.
In one year from 10th Feb 2021 (when we hit our ATH) £100,000 invested in ARB is now worth just over £20,000. Had we invested it in BTC we'd still have over £90,000. Go back 15 to 18 months and I'm sure the figures look far more positive for ARB. However for anyone who has invested in this disaster of a share over the last 4 quarters (unless they have traded in and out) is going to be regretting the day they invested. Myself included It's our right to have an occasional whinge!! IMHO.

Any reason ARB US is down 6.72% please? Aside from the fact we are clearly unloved!!

Hey FlowerPot and PoorInvestor. Hope you are keeping well. :)

Yes, it did hit £3.40 that day. I can't believe I'm admitting this but I had a 15 second sell order with Barclays Stockbroker for 25,000 shares at £3.25 that I didn't complete on. Whoops!! I also sat on my hands (big mistake) and I've followed it down ever since. My last purchase at around £1.60. Yet here I am, still holding firm.

Totally agree Poor Investor. It's very early days. I'm now of the view that it's going to take a couple of years before we get back to ATH's. The SP definitely ran away with itself last year with all the hype (not just ARB but BTC also), but the company is much stronger now that it was then. The only question is, can we earn more investing in something else whilst we wait for positive sentiment to return?! I'm reluctant to sell as it will probably bounce the moment I do. Although I've been saying that for nearly a year!

A slightly belated happy new year all.
Only posting here intermittently nowadays. Still holding on to my shares but decided not to top up any more after the NASDAQ listing.
It will be interesting to do a year on year comparison on the day ARB hit an ATH on 17 February 2021. It definitely went over £3 but the chart here is only showing £2.84. My daughter paid £2.98 (and still hasn't forgiven me).
Clearly our BTC holding will be significantly higher (BTC was trading at $52k on our ATH day). Texas will be close to completion (maybe even built?!), plenty more cash in the bank with the numerous fund raises, a stronger BOD (apparently), increased publicity (green btc and Michael Saylor know who we are now) plus Pluto is closer to listing. This will give us a true reflection of ARB's progress in building the Market Cap after 4 quarters / 1 year!! Roll on the next 6 weeks.

I completely agree with the sentiment here. I saw someone say they had bought a year ago and it has been their best investment. Had they bought 8 to 10 weeks later it would be one of their worst (like mine). I was hugely confident when ARB did the fund raise at £2 (I sunk £40k into 2 ISA's) knowing that NASDAQ would follow in the months ahead plus other positive RNSs. It seems impossible for the SP to be where it is now. The point is that many of us thought the shares were good value even at £2.50 (because we thought it was going to the moon £10!!!!) and so that makes £1.07 an absolute steal today. If you don't need the money then it's best to look at it as a 3 to 5 year investment plan. If BTC does what it's supposed to do then we should all be fine. And if it helps anyone else's mental state who is under water, I am currently down the best part of £80,000 so hopefully that will make you feel a little better about your own position. GLA.

Hi HarChris. Thanks for taking the time to reply. That all makes perfect sense. I think I just must have been lucky with my other investments in all honesty. Those that have dipped have deserved to do so for various reasons. The same with those that have risen. ARB is my first holding that has completely bucked the trend with such excellent progress.
I totally agree with you that cream eventually rises to the top. ARB's fundamentals have not changed and we are clearly in a much stronger position now than we were in February 2020. I have gone from thinking where will we be in a few months time to where will we be in the years ahead. My mental target is now Q4 2022. Let's see where we are then!! GL with this and Bushveld Minerals. :)

Sorry. That should have read:
Besides, Pluto is only ONE element of what has been an extremely positive year of RNSs. What I am trying to say is that it all looks good!!! Yet here we are at 1.10 bid today!!

Apologies Bullmarket. I'm not sure I understand your question. ARB invested in Pluto which PW has openly gloated about the buy in price. And we have no reason to doubt his enthusiasm. I'm sure it's an excellent investment. One would assume therefore that when Pluto IPOs we will make a significant profit - and may be cash in some of our holding or simply hold the shares and reflect the uplift on our balance sheet giving us great leverage to invest in other opportunities.

Beside Pluto is only one element of what has been an extremely positive year of RNSs. What I am trying to say is that it all looks good!!! Yet here we are at 1.10 bid today!!