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Well Lord S that hinges on how much of the cash raised has already been funnelled into Krunch, and into the hands of the its directors who also sit on the MOS BOD. If it's all gone, the BOD will be quids in, even if their shares are worthless.
er, basically what I said OilSp, minus the Qs it raises, like ‘Is MOS now a sports marketing agency?’ Welcome back!
Well spotted Parob. Have to admit Brinkman talks a very good game - but that's the issue: his experience (and clearly his passion) is sports marketing. That's never been a declared focus of the new MOS, which he describes (towards the end of the podcast) as a 'data visualisation agency'. So their offer is not (as many have believed here) access to the data they may or may not have inherited from the old MOS (which as we all know has no value), but looking at their clients' data and interpreting it visually in illuminating ways. Does that make the new MOS a design agency? Could and should their clients not be doing this themselves? And if they can't do it themselves, how much can MOS charge for this service? Are they any good at it? And do they have the people, systems and premises (because surely you'd need to present in person to clients) to deliver? So yes, hats off to Richard, but what do his colleagues on the BOD bring to the party? Lots of questions, as ever!
Chris – I'm worried about you: you're a full-time investor, with an impressive number of Twitters followers, but you seem to have a blind spot with this share. Or you know more than the rest of us about what these contracts are for, and how they’re serviced and remunerated. And why any of the big media/gaming/social brands on their website would wish to buy anything from a business with no little or no income, no credit rating, no offices (just mailboxes), no salaried staff and no track record in the data analysis industry.
Chris: "the Board's interests are aligned with ours" - unless they've already spent all the cash they raised??
you mean 'resurrection' or something more priapic? I look forward to that big MOS contract coming in for you.
City: Altruism's good for the soul, and much nobler than pumpin & dumpin a stock you know to be worthless. And didn't you say you weren't posting on this site anymore?
yawn
And Madeira (if you’re still here), everything – well almost – has already been clarified. This is a business with no sales, no offices (just post boxes), no salaries, no landline, no tweets since it re-emerged in Nov 2019, and no upcoming contracts. I suspect it’s also a business with no cash, because the funds it’s raised from naïve PIs may have already gone to the CEO’s private cash shell, Krunch, with which MOS is ‘working in partnership’. Burton has himself stated that some funds have already been paid to Krunch – a business formed in 2018, registered at a private address in Banstead, Surrey, with no track record, no phone number and only one ‘client’: MOS. Maybe that’s where you see a demo of the powerful Streams platform, if anybody ever replies to your request.
The only mystery here is that ‘contract’ with NET (we can dismiss the associated ‘contract’ with the 2-man band web agency Alcimi in Salford). How did a UK national charity ever appoint a cash shell, recently phoenixed from the ashes of a failed, delisted distributor of mobile games in Argentina and India, as its data mining consultant for raising and distributing funds for economic casualties of Covid in the UK? And why have we heard no further news about this ‘important’ contract at such a vital time?
Even Twitter is quiet today. Time to call time on this charade, wave goodbye to your money and congratulate Burton and Epstein on another perfectly-executed AIM strategy.
Madeira - noone on this board has the ear of the Chairman. That's just standard rampy BS!
He came out like the first wave of Zulus at Rorke's Drift (NB the Welsh ref), then retreated when he ran into the first volley of common sense. Hoping for a better performance from him tomorrow.
ChrisH, thanks for your polite advice. You're probably right, but following this last chapter in the MOS saga has become too interesting a diversion. And my holding - foolishly acquired during the Buckingham period - is hardly worth selling now. So I'll be checking in now and then until all the cash has disappeared - probably already has. It's good to have some devil's advocates here - there are a few of us - to balance all the hype (although it seems that last month's hypers in chief, Warnz and the Accountant, have jumped ship). At least Buckingham - until it all went wrong - tried to build to a business on turnover, albeit in some very dodgy markets. It's not clear that the current Board are generating any revenues at all, beyond share dilutions. And there appears to be nothing anyone can do about it except whinge, but for the moment, that's kind of fun.
Is this the same 'massive contract update imminent' you told us about on 1st May? More chance of Godot arriving!
CH: Website is fast because there's no detail in it - not even profiles of the management team. Just random library pix and 'partner' logos, meaningless soft-focus graphics masquerading as insight, and cut-and-paste digital marketing platitudes. If this impresses you, you've got to wonder what your websites look like.
Sorry you lost money Amadan, but feels like you made the right (2nd) decision. We're on the wrong side of businesses like these - maybe we should be raising hopes and printing money like MOS: it doesn't appear to be that difficult. The real mystery is the role of NET in all this.
... of cash realised from releasing a further 10m warranted shares at 0.2p today, as per today's RNS. Can we assume that this cash, along with the rest of it, is on its way to Krunchdata (privately owned by directors of MOS), for the work they're doing krunching all that data on individuals in Argentina and India who have accessed mobile games and porn via MOS over the past 15 years - valuable information for the new MOS's sole 'client' NET in its campaign to raise and distribute emergency funds for UK victims of Covid?
Puzzling, isn't it? Or maybe just an everyday story of AIM skullduggery. It's been a slow day for me, so I thought I'd throw that one into this always entertaining board.
Do you want to tell us why?
Warnz may be the last ramper standing - or maybe he's got out too with his 100% profit. Good luck to him and all the saddos like me left with worthless shares!
This is you on MOS today: "For all the actual investors, enjoy the ride for the years ahead and stop waiting for a massive contract every morning!"
This is you on MOS on 29 April: "Looking forward to tomorrow, expecting positive news and hopefully another contract. Great times ahead here for sure."
Seems you changed your approach? I guess Covid has changed us all.
You also say in your latest post that "the company now has good cash flow" - from what exactly? From an unspecified, unquantified contract with a charity and its digital agency? (not normally a great source of cashflow). From the mobile games it used to sell and which aren't even showcased on its new website?
Like a lot of the sceptics here (I prefer that to your 'haters'), I'm not here to 'bottom-feed' or for the dubious pleasure of deramping for the sake of it, but to encourage PIs to look beyond the hype and examine the facts, and do what we can to limit the ability of the new BOD to make off with their cash in the way that Simon B did last time. There are a lot of questions to be answered here, none of which are convincingly answered by MOS's RNSes or its new website (which is extraordinarily uninformative).
I am actually invested here from the SB period - a mistake - and I won't be topping up. That doesn't mean I should, as you suggest, "jog on". It's important that there are sceptics here to balance the believers, just as it's important for government to have an effective opposition to call them to account. The AIM - our Chairman's playground, with 6 unprofitable, diluted companies in his portfolio - seems to be an open market for skulduggery. Diluting shares and siphoning the proceeds to private companies may not be illegal, but it is something that naive PIs should be aware of. Sure, I don't know for certain that that's what's happening here, but surely it's worth raising the question - in the absence of evidence to the contrary. Look forward to your response, and as you say, GLA. This isn't a good time to lose money.
Looks like a Wix website, off the shelf for £100. Not a lot of depth, detail or complexity to it!