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With Simba the shares were suspended because it looked to be getting set up as a reverse take-over I seem to recall. Hopefully that wouldn't apply with someone else.

Going to 365 days is definitely a good move in the short term. Are they doing it because they are confident and want to be the best offer, or they have to (to compete with the likes of Emma who are just winning otherwise) - or they have to boost the bank balance as they’d promised profit this year (with many fewer returns in 2022).

As CI pointed out they must have done their sums. I can see that people might buy in bad faith but then keep the mattress after a year, or just lose track of time. There are people now who miss the 100 night deadline and write revenge reviews. The people who might now take advantage would be tenants who only need a bed for 12 months before their tenancy ends, or students who could get through Uni over three different company offers.

I guess the main downside is that used mattresses can no longer be resold as easily on eBay after a year when they can easily be cleaned up after a month.

Whatever the motivations the new policy should make the 2022 numbers look better than they would otherwise have done which is good for us shareholders.

You're right CI, 1 yr trial on mattresses. And only recently did I say I was glad we only give 100 days so we don't get the buyers who 'try it on' by getting a mattress for 200 nights or whatever.

Will the increased sales this will generate compensate for the people who buy in bad faith? I hope so. Also, it will really help the figures for the next year as no one (or almost no one) will return a mattress before December 2022. Wow. CC is defo going to show a profit this year don't people agree?

But mattresses that come back after a year will go into a skip (something for us to discuss in 2023).

(My mother-in-law liked her eve pillow Xmas present and I just gave a positive TP review as she started out not liking it; now she wants a second one :)

'placed 26/12/2021 and due to arrive on or before 05/01/2021. ' – written by someone not aware that people probably wouldn't have been in the office between Jan 1st and January 4th due to weekend and a number of Bank Holidays, even if there were a phone number. Staff on double / treble time over the bank holiday W/E to deal with worried customers regarding a delivery expected on Jan 5th? Would they have placed an order on 26th and then immediately started to phone customer services? I bet they only became concerned (and why would they before Jan 1-4th?) once the long weekend got underway.

I hope they get their order tomorrow but really, they sound like they'd prefer some other supplier anyway.

(I have bought hundreds of things off eBay over the years and have never phoned them and yes, have had problems – some serious. I've emailed them instead and it's frustrating, even waiting 10 days for things to pass deadlines, but that's what you get with eBay.)

The important thing now is that CC delivers a profit and she normally does what she promises.

Thanks wyn, for the snow view. It could represent a chance for me to move them into my ISA if those levels are reached. I might buy (in the isa) before I sell, selling the F&S holding on the next rise, if that makes sense. All cash permitting of course.

And it would be nice if eve comes good sooner rather than later so I hope CC will have some good news and / or good predictions to share with us shortly.

You are being missed on avct :)

Hi wyn, yes, have some snow in my isa (up 31%) and some in my F&S (down 2.8%) so overall ok with that. It's a long term one for me. It didn't fall as much as I'd feared it could after the results.

Have you noticed something with $Snow?

(I'm also in Marlowe – their safety side has a big future I think – and up 30%. Hardly spend any time with them compared to eve and avct! But I *hope* for lots with eve)

TP rating has slipped (from 4.3) 'Rating: 4.2' stars now.

I only vaguely follow DX as they are one courier (maybe main courier) eve use.

This happened to them today:
'04/01/2022 7:30am

TEMPORARY SUSPENSION OF TRADING ON AIM

DX (GROUP) PLC

Trading on AIM for the under-mentioned securities has been temporarily suspended from 04/01/2022 7:30am, pending publication of the company's annual audited accounts.
ORDINARY SHARES OF 1P EACH, FULLY PAID (BJTCG67) (GB00BJTCG679)'

There's a LSE chat BB though not very lively at https://www.lse.co.uk/ShareChat.asp?ShareTicker=DX.&share=Dx-Plc

Yes, but with Wyn you get a sense that one is more likely than the others, which is rather different if you're an investor.

Anyway, I sense that this won't go well so going to brush kid's teeth and then watch The Great Escape from Xmas.

Hopefully someone will get a question to the panel on Question Time or Any Questions, and we can all call up Radio 4 on a Saturday. After all, we all want Avacta to do well and influential people watch and listen to those programmes.

And anyone can phone in with an opinion to Any Answers after the Saturday broadcast of the recording.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qmmy

It's a lot easier to ask a question on Radio 4 Any Questions. They let people in with free tickets and invite everyone who attends to ask a question just before the show. They don't interrogate you first on your political beliefs to get audience (over-all) neutrality.

There are several locations coming up. Some people here must live near these places:

'Future Locations

We hope to broadcast Any Questions? from the following venues with a live audience, depending on government coronavirus restrictions. Please find details of the venues below with links to their ticketing websites. If no details are listed, please get in touch with the venue directly.

7th January 2022 - Reading Minster

14th January 2022 - St Mary's Parish Church, Handsworth

21st January 2022 - Gedney Hill and District Memorial Hall, Lincolnshire

28th January 2022 - St Philip's and St James's, Leckhampton

4th February 2022 - Portico Arts and Heritage Centre, Portaferry'.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qgvj

Roly, there's a poster called Island Girl, I think I read her posting on ABDX. She and several friends all caught Covid on a recent Saturday night out but – from memory – it was the following Thursday (or even Friday) before they came up positive with NHS free tests.

So it seems they are sticking with their pre-existing ad and only spending money on TV airtime, some of which (Channel 4) is half price.

Scotty, there was an interesting post on ADVFN / eve the other day, by 'Pillow'. Here it is, copied entirely:

'29/12/2021
11:58 Been watching the trials and tribulations of the company over last 3-4 years and for obvious reasons just not got bothered to get involved until now. The last set of news and significant director purchase sends a clear signal that the balance of probability is very heavily weighted to a profitable and strong growth from now onwards. The sleep wellness market is growing rapidly and will be huge. In the past this was just seen as a mattress business, adding all the additional sleep related products was a very smart move that de risks business and will produce strong growth. Sleepaway range was inspired decision and a unique product early figures bear this out. Out of interest was watching Sky news yesterday morning and just before main news at 10 and 11 am the advert for Eve's dancing sloth came on. Can't imagine these ads are cheap but did some research and discovered they reach 25m homes per month in uk, 92 m in Europe with a total of 138 countries reached in total. Impressive the Sloth could become a global marketing icon. Anyway let's see the next set of figures for confirmation turnaround complete,all to play for with current tiny mkt cap.'

Sounds like a perfect storm of Covid sickness in the eve office, holidays, and dodgy service from DX.

I have just had extraordinary good customer service experience from JD Sport (left them a great TP review), they have a phone number but then they are not entirely online, and yet their TP star average is way lower than eve. Everyone will impress some people and cheese-off others it seems.

Just emailed the link to eve..

Don’t give, your last word ‘bolster’ made me think of a childhood hotel. Could be an eve product?
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=bolster+pillow&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-gb&client=safari

We are trying to book day 2 returning PCR tests. I see on this banner that Randox have sold just under 22m tests at minimum £35, plus the LFTs they do.
https://randoxhealth.blob.core.windows.net/cdnrandoxhealth/images/Stats_banner.jpg
Not a bad market to be in.

Blackcat, your Which? review suggestion is a good one. There is Which? Travel too and it’d certainly make sense for them to cover the subject but I suspect that things are too fast-moving for a monthly to cope with atm. Better they do their review after we pass the desktop review too don’t you think?!

Just for info, my French brother in law reports having seen the eve ad on TV here just the week before Christmas. He hadn’t noticed it in the past though I’d asked him in the summer.