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Very well-said HedgeH. All I’d add is that the marketing spend and so ‘cost per acquisition rate’ that samkk worries about so much, seems to have reduced. In Retail Gazette May 29, 2020 Cheryl Calverley said: “We have grasped the opportunity offered by the depressed TV market to run our existing, highly effective campaigns in both the UK and France, which have seen a strong response and resulted in further gains in marketing efficiency." (Even if marketing spend's the same then higher sales reduce the CPA rate.)

Just took a look at Tesla on Trustpilot. As I thought, every comp gets some bad reviews..
This was a one star. Puts the small minority of poor reviews on Eve in context:
Tesla.com
A Nightmare of a car company at all…
A Nightmare of a car company at all levels.

AVOID AT ALL COST.

Model S owner Going Back to Nissan LEAF.

Check forums on Battery Gate.
Steal paid for functions with software, Apple all over.

Samkk, whatever your other strengths, spotting 'wishful thinking / humour comments' is not one of them!
When waking up I recommend Eve mattress to be the place to be, as do more and more people by sounds of it.

Just took a look at Trustpilot. 21.55hrs now and someone at Eve is giving a reply to ALL reviews of the last few days. So someone working at this time.
Here's a typical one:

Reply from eve sleep
12 minutes ago
Wow, what an incredible review. We're so glad you're now sleeping so well - it's literally why we get out of bed in the morning. So thank-you for taking the time to write out this review - we'll pass it on to the team and they'll be over the moon.

All the very best,

eve sleep.

Nice to think of Eve as Mercedes or BMW :-)
Seriously, I should think that many people working for conventional motor companies would be less than generous in their thoughts on Tesla, yet look at the Tesla SP. It's natural.
So now Eve is Tesla..
Anyway, good to see you're keeping an eye on Eve and this chat; must still interest you.

PS Wasn't even implying your friend didn't make his comment; just questioning whether he could know Eve well enough to make the comment when it was a serious accusation to publish on this board.. You see my point? (Mud sticks and all that.)

Thanks for the correction. Never meant to make your MD 'just a driver' though drivers know quite a thing or two with long experience; just my poor recollection of your previous posts. But your bod is not an expert on Eve mattresses and their wider offering, unless I am doubly mistaken.
False trustpilot reviews work both ways I guess. People could overly praise their own products or they could run-down the opposition. Maybe it's self cancelling. Certainly, to think that a large minority of Eve reviews is fake is stretching it a bit? And doesn't explain that there are many more reviews. What could explain is that Eve are actively asking people to review as they are confident in their products.
Don't worry, you didn't sound overly narked but you know I never said 'liar' :-)

With all due respect to Wyndrum, and I know he knows I mean that, quoting 'expert' friend's / rival mattress producers' driver's opinion, and one trust pilot review, was not really well informed comment. Eve clearly has a lot of past baggage to shake off. I am in losses but would find it more annoying to sell now and then watch SP go up. Incidentally, Eve's chairman Paul Pindar was running Capita for good portion of his 23 yrs there. I did buy Capita recently – purely as a result of Paul Pindar role at Eve – and they are up for me. I see them as my Eve 'B' shares. Doesn't cover my losses though.
2p this year? I don't know. Perhaps not. But going bust? Not likely. If it doesn't go bust the SP won't stay at this level forever.

I will keep watching XSG and researching. As you perhaps know I'm busy now and will do that later! Certainly the drop in share price from a few years ago is familiar.

Good morning. My pal Wyndrum invited me to come and look around. Don't mind me.

I'm working and haven't time to go back, but is this a joke that has run too far? Didn't someone say 3.50 on Monday (as a price ie 350p) and someone else joked 'AGM on Monday at 3.50?' or something like that. Or I could be wrong and there's an AGM on Monday

Wyndrum, you seem to wish to paint the most negative picture possible for a company you have left for greener pastures; why waste your time? One wonders why? Fancy coming back at a lower price again soon? In fact there were many positives in the RNS (far more than some previous ones I remember) and, personally, I shall expect the price to be higher in the future – albeit it could take a while. You talk about going bust when that is most unlikely for a long at the current rate, and when sales have just been described as "good" in May.

Shpunken, are you by any chance Michael Gove?

Wyndrum: "As I say we don't buy the product we buy the shares". In fact we bought our mattress long before I bought the shares! It was owning the mattress that made me follow the sp. I first bought at 18p thinking it couldn't fall any lower (lol)..
Wyndrum: "no usp and its not (according to my pal) a particularly good mattress for the money" In fact we are delighted with ours and another mattress in the range is a Which? Best Buy.
Unfortunately I have only lost on Eve so far but hope for long term gains. I can see that anyone who first bought around 0.8p could have done extremely well. I wish I'd waited!
Good luck elsewhere and I do imagine you have time – maybe plenty of time – to take your profits elsewhere before you perhaps return. As CEO Cheryl says:"(Eve has) always had ambitions to be much more than just a mattress company' so I do see plenty of long-term potential.

Was about to write 'too much of a coincidence' when your post popped up!
'Stemprinter Limited Changed from Residential Property Finance Realisation Limited 11 days ago'.
Unless it's someone trying to grab the company name just to be a pain..

Hi Wyndrum, very interesting that your MD of an online mattress delivery company has had three months of record deliveries. That may actually fit in with Eve's RNS where they say 'while trading in May has been good following initial disruption from the coronavirus lockdown.' However, could it be that your contact has actually had TWO good months as March was the start of the pandemic and people were really very unsure of what the future held. Even Halfords's shares dipped severely when it actually turned out their bikes were selling like hot cakes once people appreciated the 'new normal'. If May was good for Eve I can't see why June and July won't be good for them too, like your contact's experience.
You've all read this from the RNS which continues, and illustrates that they are moving out of 'just' mattresses: 'Eve said sales of its premium mattress range and bedframes "continue to exhibit strong demand", while there has been an increase in sales of its pillows, bedding, toppers and single mattresses as households adapt to life in lockdown'.
It is a shame that the sp didn't immediately respond better to this news but we can hope for better when / if next update confirms a continued increase in sales.

Yes, progress is slow, but definitely in a positive direction. Eve are branching out from 'just' mattresses. I couldn't easily find the figure for non-mattress sales / revenue but this is in the 2019 Annual Report:
'Good progress was also made with the expansion of wider sleep products including the launch of new bed frames and bedding, all of which has driven a 140 bps and 590 bps year–on–year increase in the contribution from non-mattress
sales in the UK&I and France respectively. Range expansion has also supported an improvement in the customer repeat rate, increasing 230 bps in the UK&I and 360 bps in France.'

Prawns or Pawns? :-)

Didn't someone get ticked-off a couple of weeks ago for saying, in their first post, they'd buy when the price fell to 55p?

My top-up at 16:20hrs yesterday might have been better timed.