RE: 20 false statements of ‘commencing’8 Jul 2024 09:53
Doug, you say "‘the lies have been blindingly obvious since ABH took over cloudtag’ does not then correlate with several thousands of investors then having taken a punt. There then had to be some substance to the risk for those punts."
I am going to disagree with you here. Even while CTAG was listed and the rampathon was in full swing, there were numerous very obvious red flags that showed the company and Amit up for what they were and are.
All of these were easily checkable, were one to do even a modicum of basic research at the time. More relevantly, all of these red flags were detailed with full supporting evidence on this BB, again at the time. Needless to say, the ramp crew (DG, AbMan, MrSelfridge etc etc - and at least one of their ilk continues to post perma-positively on CTAG to this day), did their level best to bury such revelations.
Examples? So many... but these few should make the point:-
The announcement of the deal with CITIES that was going to see the Onitor stocked in Target stores in the US.
As was pointed out by those who researched at the time, CITIES was never a distributor - it was merely a sales agency that never purchased stock, but merely attempted to flog various items to retail chains, taking a commission off any orders won and delivered. There was no commitment to any purchase order at all.
The announcement of the USD5.2 million "distribution deal" with Second Chance, the "major European sporting goods distributor".
5 mins searching at Companies House (and at Second Chance's own website) revealed that this outfit was (and still is) a tiny operation selling novelty golf items. It had never been of a size where it needed to file a full set of accounts (and still isn't). its warehouse in Lanchashire was tiny and he value of its overall stockholding of all goods it dealt in was c. £1 million. If that wasn't sign enough, those of us who have dealt with major pan-European routes to market for consumer electronics goods pointed out that real distributors operating in that space typically turned over in excess of £1 billion a year.
The fact that Xiaomi (a real Chinese manufacturing giant) was already publicly offering (on AliBaba) a wrist-wearable device that did everything that Amit claimed the Onitor would do and more for an end-user price of under USD13. URL links were provided proving this.
So sadly, there was never real substance, but instead many very large warning signs back then. However the ramptastic crew managed by sheer volume of posts to drown auditable facts out with their utterly self-serving Pied Piper schtick.