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This BB seems to be close to a religion where anyone who doesn't 'believe 100%' in 'the true faith' is a heretic, to be hounded and discredited for their protestant view (based on incontrovertible missed deadlines, mounting empirical evidence – and falling sp). I have never said anything anti-avacta, just posted that I support posters who have proved to be more insightful than most, and that I like to read all views, and yet got told to F/off by speranza, who's probably a perfectly reasonable person in other 'non-religious' areas of his life.
I notice that NDN and Wyn post on a variety of stocks yet most of the people who hound them only post on Avct. Maybe that explains their fervour...

Spread: 0.40 (12.12%)
People buying 3.7p and selling 3.3. Was hard to tell sells from buys yesterday as the spread was pretty tight.

The totals could be comments V's smiley faces. Comments over the last 12 months are reducing yet smiley faces are increasing. If AV send requests then smileys should be real purchases. We tried clicking smileys but couldn't.

Ok, French wife has looked at the French avis-verifies site and believes that people are ticking the smiley faces but not leaving many comments. The good bit is that you probably need a link from Eve to click a smiley face – or indeed a not-smiley face – so they probably represent genuine sales.

And this figure is going down.. 'Calculé à partir de 425 avis obtenus sur les 12 derniers mois. *' as the old months fall away and it's not updated. It was 710 in June.

Just weird that we can't see these reviews...

Dub, looking in my archive I found this which I think I copied / saved in June:

'Calculé à partir de 710 avis obtenus sur les 12 derniers mois. *
Obviously that's last 12 months.
And 6294 avis depuis le / since 01/02/2016, so total since day one.
So, in the last 12 months, 710 divided by 12 = 59 reviews / month on average. (Odd there are no June reviews yet..)
And in the preceding period 1/02/16 to 1/6/20, 5584 reviews in the 51 months to June 2020'

That's the end of my archive.

So it's gone from 5584 reviews in roughly early June, to 6307 reviews now: in 16 weeks it's gone up 723 which = 192 / month.

I haven't re-checked my previous maths. In a bit of a kids' H/W rush right now but am I right? Have we gone from 59 reviews per month (in the year to June '21) to 192 / month in June / July / Aug / Sept?

It seems that the opposite is happening to the time when people were buying ahead of the split, which sent the price up. Now people are selling to get out before Nasdaq, and have sent the price down. Again there's confusion but this time it's over whether Tils can remain in an ISA – which HL told me it can / will do. Apart from the slight increase in charges to sell, things should be fine. So I topped up a relatively small amount yesterday. Might add more before this deadline.

Hi Dub. I hadn’t noticed those figures. Oils be good if the review figures were higher but they are what they are.
This may or may not be true and possibly grasping at straws; people are said by eve to be putting more in their baskets. It could be that one mattress is accompanied by.. 4 pillows for example. So even with slightly fewer reviews they could selling as much or more. And TP defo up in U.K. If U.K. baskets are fuller then that could still offset a fall in Fra.
TBH, a fall in France after a popular advert aired seems unlikely. Not long to wait for the answer, and good to note the French review numbers now future clues on sales

Well done FTS; first use of the word 'up' today :)

I'm slightly puzzled why this french review doesn't update if eve are actively linked with it https://www.avis-verifies.com/avis-clients/evesleep.fr
Still, no recent reviews indicates a problem with the site rather than no sales.
I've already said (based on my belief in TP) that UK revenue will be up again >10% (let's say.. +13% for fun).
And the TU will have news on the CBD range; new gift range for Xmas in Boots and more partners...
French sales up and perhaps (the optimist in me) slightly more than they expected as the advert went well.
Have I missed anything? Profit? Who knows. CC has been good as her word so far and she said 2022..

Looks like things should improve with delivery. Eve customer services sent this reply to someone on TP this evening:
'by way of explanation and not excuse, our courier partner has been under some significant network stress (which they are now coming out of) which increased the chances of damages and the incorrect delivery notifications you received. In turn this has put more volume in to our Customer Service team and despite our best efforts we clearly didn't get to answer your call as quickly as we should have'

I haven't got time right now to check but she did (I think) buy some last September, straight after the Sept 2020 TU. Maybe she'll buy some at the end of this week, or next week, though she does have plenty of options.
I think she was mildly criticised here for buying a relatively (for someone in her position) small amount but in hindsight she is at a loss on those at the moment (though should come-good before long).

do you like the pillows W? thinking of one for the mother-in-law in France, who's suffering a stiff neck at the moment..

We just bought 3 items from La Redoute. Desks, table top, for kids to do H/W in their rooms (back to school etc.). Three separate orders and three deliveries. Each separate order been badly damaged by careless packing (not transit), and then transit. I wonder if the eve furniture is well wrapped. Mattresses not very vulnerable of course. Might ask about how they find their couriers perform if we get another webinar with Q&A at some point.

the auto-reply from eve a week or so ago mentioned this:
'If your order is being delivered by the carrier named DX, please note, there may be a delay with your order due to unforeseen carrier issues. Please allow 72 hours from your initial delivery date for your order to be delivered. We’ll try to do our best to deliver your order as soon as we can.'
Anyway, I notice on TP a lot of people having problems receiving their deliveries from eve. People sleeping on sofas as they were told the mattress would be there tomorrow, whenever, and then it not turning up.
Hopefully a temporary problem (driver shortages?) and also hopefully not as common an issue as TP numbers imply; TP does tend to be the place to vent frustration when things go badly (as I know myself, with other companies).

Just received from HL, regarding my queries. (I have TILS in my ISA was F&S accs.)

Dear Mr D-Geeman,

Thank you for your messages.

At the time of my colleague's message we did not have any details about the movement of Tiziana Life Sciences plc (TILS) to the NASDAQ; only the proposed movement. As we offer many holdings that trade on the NASDAQ without issue, it was believed that this transition would be much the same.

However, in the terms of the movement to NASDAQ, Tiziana Life Sciences has changed which settlement system they will be using going forward--making it unable to be settled on our own platform.

If a particular stock doesn't settle within the CREST system used by us to settle international securities, we are unable to facilitate trading on our own platform.

CREST is a UK-based Central Securities Depository that holds UK equities and UK gilts as well as Irish equities and other international securities. CREST allows shareholders and bondholders to hold assets in a dematerialised stock, i.e. electronic form, rather than holding physical share certificates.

In an effort to disrupt our clients’' portfolios the least, we have brought in HSBC as a third party to allow our clients to continue to deal in this share from within their HL account. However, as you have been informed, this will come with additional dealing charges.

I am sorry for your disappointment and hope that my explanation can shed some light on the situation and the reasoning behind decisions made.

At this time, you do not need to remove TILS from your HL Stocks & Shares ISA and they are able to remain separate. This will mean if you sell from each account there will be two dealing charges, but any assets held in the ISA will be sheltered from any income or capital gains tax.

If you would prefer that they be combined into a single holding, you have two choices:

1. Remove assets from the ISA and into the HL Fund & Share Account, thereby losing the tax-efficient wrapper on those shares and not being replace that value without using your current year allowance. This would mean any future sale from the Fund & Share account would be liable to income/capital gains taxes.

2. Manually Bed & ISA the TILS shares into your ISA account, of which you have used £13,262.39 of your annual allowance. This process would mean that you would have to sell the holding currently at a loss in your Fund & Share account, move the cash, and repurchase into the ISA. This process would mean realising the loss currently, but any future sales would be sheltered from income/capital gains tax.

I hope this has been of assistance. If you have any other questions, please get back to me.

Kind regards,

K***** *****n
Hargreaves Lansdown

'ISA accounts are limited to UK stocks only'
I've had $Boeing and still have $Snowflake in my ISA which is with HL. Unless I missed something I don't believe that's the position Jab. You just need to complete the correct forms:
Form W-8 is the collective term for the 3 types of W-8BEN forms:
W-8BEN (Trading Accounts, Trading ISAs and Junior ISAs)

Slightly surprised that I only just found this Siestio site. Here's their test on the original eve:
https://siestio.com/eve-mattress-review/
And here's their page on medications (I expect it's the sort of place we'll see the CBD offering review before long):
https://siestio.com/category/wellness/medication/
The fact that this site exists rather implies that there's a growing interest in sleep and sleep products. All the clues seem to point towards eve doing 'okay' at the very least. I haven't heard anyone talking of eve 'failing' for a long time. For me it's just a matter of whether the good news arrives this coming Thursday, January or next June / July. I'd much rather it arrive sooner rather than later but arrive it will – IMO.

I asked HL last June about the move to the Nasdaq and my shares being in an ISA. This was their reply. I wonder why things have changed.

'Dear Mr D-Geeman

Thank you for your message.

As NASDAQ is a recognised exchange there should be no issue in these being moved over, if the company goes ahead with their plan.

Should you have any further queries please do not hesitate to respond to this message.

Kind regards
L**** C****r
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