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Hi.Streets.You are right the two most important issues on boo at this point in time.Number One PLT and number two how the new CEO reacts to this.I still hark back to the original sale of PLT.When I was lad as big as my dad,and now being nearly 70.It starts to get a bit confused now did the son of the original owner have the means to buy PLT without financial support from his father..If he didn't how are we now in the position that his father doesn't become the alpha male again and explain to his son the realities of the situation.Also is the new CEO not party to these negotiations,if as we expect he has signed up for a life changing forward contract would you not expect him to have discussions with regard to the realtionship between his son who owns 34% of PLT and the PI's and institutional investors who actually own this company.If the new CEO has no influence on the most importance of the eagerly awaited year end results we might as well whistle Dixei and leave our company to the MR Kamani and his son.What do they care they are squillionares,might swear now.Just wish that Jambon and Thorpy were still active to give us an option on this.
HI Pianista.I have managed it this time.I already have received a reply.Certain info is required that I am collating and forwarding.Regards Gomiester.
Hi.Ithought that this was a Lloyds Bank share chat b.b.If you can give me a rationale on what the Lloyds share price has to do with the number of anyone depressants prescribed by the NHS the please feel free to do so.If not please confine your comments to another more appropriate site.Someof us have a vested interest in Lloyds share price,I mean a substantial holding in Lloyds held for many years,through the good and bad times.If your rationale is the high amount of prescription for anti depressants please confine yourself to a more appropriate b.b. and leave us long term Lloyds p I to the death of a thousands cuts..ANTI DEPRESAANTS FFS. No swearing on this site.
Sorry,duh,duh.
Hi again Tav..I have tried flybe2019@outlook.com again am still only getting dross about Flybe.Sorry to seem like a drongo.Gotmiester.
I don't know enough about the original purchase of PLT in as much as who actually put up the money to buy it.I have lived in West Yorkshire for a million years,I know many Asian families and in the past it was always the patriarch who was/is the dominant figure.Maybe times have changed and things are much more fluid.I only hope that the new Chairman. may use his retail nous to influence the father son business relationship.I wouldn't like to think that my 5 year deal (mega money) could be influenced by the co founders inability to show his son the "needs of the business".What do I know only that I worked for a MAJOR retailer for many years and the "needs of the business" always came first.
Hello Streets..I have held Boo for about 2 years now.Seen it up to the max and down with the dustbins.I will be
the first to admit that I don't know the in and outs of this crazy AIM.I note that you say that we must push past 1.95 and hope that another short will not be opened. Dropping Boo down to the 1.70's..Does this short really have the ability to drop Boo by nearly 20% or am I missing something here.I signed an online petition this week asking for short selling to be outlawed.Millions of investors buy shares in the belief that they might get growth and or dividends.Where is the morality in investors,I believe hedge funds or even banks (RBC) betting on a share price dropping.Long may they rot in hell.Jambon. Are you still out there watching this cluster F__K.
HI Tav.I put flybe2019@outlook.com into Google and the only results that came up were dross about Flybe.
Gomiester.
Good Evening my former FlyBe shareholders.I had a substantial holding in FlyBe bought in November 2018.I would inform you that I have owned shares for many years but only in company's where I had an interest e.g Lloyds Banking Group.I saw a report in one of the gutter press regarding FlyBe and it's future intentions including putting the company up for sale.
I regarded that at that point as an opportunity to make a return on my investment.I had followed such scenarios in the past and had noted that they had resulted in a shilling or two to be made.So along with several thousand(s) of other investors I made a punt at FlyBe.As it turned out the worst investment we have very made,with hindsight I did not read the current Financial Report which indicated that there may have been difficult times ahead for FlyBe.I did however let myself be influenced by the numerous posts on our BB that good times were ahead.
I am not asking for sympathy and indeed that are several posts on our board who seem to take great delight in our demise..When this debacle unraveled it soon became obvious that the BOD of FlyBe had taken a course that did not include us PI's.This seemed to fly in the face of governance on who should or should not benefit from a sale in a public listed company.
It still feels unreal to wake up on January 11th.this year and find out that your £30k investment was worth 1.25K.I held out for a few days and managed to salvage 5k.Anyroad as they say in Yorkshire I don't want to bore you but in conclusion buying and selling shares is a risky investment,it was mine and mine alone decision to risk my funds.However it looks more and more as if there was a hidden from PI's agenda and that we were never going to be informed of the fait accompli being brokered by the BOD,our employees.
To my former shareholders keep smiling and most of all HEALTHY,this however does not apply to the BOD's.
The problem with the Motley Fool organisation is that there seems to be no one who checks.the articles written by the M/F so called financial expert.I have heard that an "expert" is a has been who is a drip under pressure.There is hardly a day goes by whereby a M/Fooler puts out a financial doomscape on a share only to be contradicted by another M/Fooler who issues a big up on the same share..God spare us from financial pundits,they may be better off trying to pick the winner of a horse race after it has been run.
Anglaterre.Is Boo listed in America.I have read other BB's that the SEC who are the Guardians of share conduct in America are much stronger than our FCA and have far-reaching powers to investigate world wide when misconduct is alleged regarding any stock traded in America.
Keep the faith guys..
Good evening guys and gals.I'm feeling a bit tender at the minute.Two days of really great rises and no comments,I mean none.Am I missing something here is there a different agenda in play.Have felt the best about boo s/p than I have for weeks and everybody is keeping stuum.
Would still like to see some input from Jambon and Thorpy,they kept me going when all the mm's, shorters,rampers and the like we're trying to talk down the SP.Keep the faith you two.
Just an aside,I was looking at another boo chat site AVDT? and saw that Guruofnothing of nothing has reinvented himself as Guruofeurope and is still trying to talk down boo to 80p,fuckwit,sorry can you say that,meant it anyway.
962962 Thank you for the information. I have sent an email to Gosling's asking to be included in his class action.
Good evening fellow Boo pi's.Been busy all day and just logged in for a quick look.Nice rise today are the shorters on their way out.Thought that there may have been an opinion from the more savvy posters.Long may iit continue.
Geordie Shores,a good point well made.When I was Managing a few people,seems a million years ago now,I had nine managers and it was like having nine children.The youngest was 27 and the oldest 39,I kept trying to get them to understand that managing people in a large retail organisation was just like a game and when they understood that there job would be much simpler.My boss who was the F/D knew this and so did his fellow directors.Once I bought into it my job was much easier and less stressful.I had a 50/50 split with my managers,very frustrating.I have a reasonable investment with Boo and am comfortable with a long term view.To think any differently is a one way road to the making your life more problematic.If one of the most successful companies in on line retailing since that genres inception is seen as a problem then God help us all.Death and destruction to ALl SHORTERS,rampers and such.Keep the faith.
962962.correct.
962962 I think that s/h who have had big losses and sold after the offer will by human nature hope to recoup some of the loss if there is proven misconduct, dishonesty,or a conspiracy committed by the BOD and the offerers of the current deal.If I may digress,in late November I was drawn to the Flybe situation.ie the company was looking for investment in itself due to its financial situation and one of the options was putting the company up for sale.
There was much speculation in the media,including the financial press.The share price was heading north and on face value looked as if there was a shilling to be made here.I together with many others decided to take punt based on the share price rises..I am a current long term investor in two other shares so I am not a novice.I think the mistake I made here is confusing Flybe as being purchased or merging with another company.I believe that the true picture only came to light when the 1p offer was made on January 11th?.
When the reallity of the situation dawned I suppose along with thousands of other p/i's realised that the decision to invest had been the wrong one.I waited for three days and saw that the writing was on the wall and sold at 4p.Even then I was upside down for about 25k.Investing is a gamble and should be seen as such.However I have been following the posts on this board and it seems increasingly likely that the BOD of Flybe and the offerer may have questions to answer.Therefore I think that it is only right that all investors,current or former after the offer should be considered if there is misconduct proven in this debacle.
962962 I think that s/h who have had big losses and sold after the offer will by human nature hope to recoup some of the loss if there is proven misconduct, dishonesty,or a conspiracy committed by the BOD and the offerers of the current deal.If I may digress,in late November I was drawn to the Flybe situation.ie the company was looking for investment in itself due to its financial situation and one of the options was putting the company up for sale.
There was much speculation in the media,including the financial press.The share price was heading north and on face value looked as if there was a shilling to be made here.I together with many others decided to take punt based on the share price rises..I am a current long term investor in two other shares so I am not a novice.I think the mistake I made here is confusing Flybe as being purchased or merging with another company.I believe that the true picture only came to light when the 1p offer was made on January 11th?.
When the reallity of the situation dawned I suppose along with thousands of other p/i's realised that the decision to invest had been the wrong one.I waited for three days and saw that the writing was on the wall and sold at 4p.Even then I was upside down for about 25k.Investing is a gamble and should be seen as such.However I have been following the posts on this board and it seems increasingly likely that the BOD of Flybe and the offerer may have questions to answer.Therefore I think that it is only right that all investors,current or former after the offer should be considered if there is misconduct proven in this debacle.
Paragon 150.It's really heartening to know that there are posters in this s/c who are prepared to put their heads above the parapet and highlight the problems that F/B may have had with the c/card service providers.Paragon 150 you state that it was all there on the interim results for all to see.As a sucker who did not see the interim results and who did not see any,looking for the right response,any soothsayers or clever M/F's who posted this in December.If you knew this and ignored it more fool you..More fool me 30k upside down.Could certainly do without posters with opinion after the fact.Have a nice day/night or perhaps neither.Always a pleasure to be reminded when an investment goes tits up.