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Too late to post anything now Biff it's past the watershed -and you know I aint got no droppings form the dead duck. you are right on marketing though - they see through sh*t
Now if Barker when he moved into the area of Dutton around the millenium had decided its Gonna be me ! He could have just mortgaged his house or sold it and taken a gamble like Stephen (OVO) did and started his own energy company. Now Stephen had been a city trader - so magian we know all about those don't we - bottom feeding - as much insider as can be allowed - they are a rum bunch, or some of them, and reputation is poor - but Stephen well probably as clean as a whistle but wanted out - must have got to his threshold and yes sold his house and with that money �350k started OVO. Barker could have done that but maybe you need to be a bit of a gambler. Lets us look at his form...with 9 million debt the year previous and 300k profit in year five he decides to take 20 big ones out to buy a house by selling about 5% of the company and 20% of his shareholding. A risky thing to do and Ecotricity complained to Ofgem. So a bit of a gamble but a 2 million house in Gloucestershire near the business. He was on 120k a year - incidentally Octupus's chief takes 150k and I expect Stephen has had a raise since then as this was back in 2014. He invested 30mill in a formula 1 team - that must have come out of OVO as it was personal funds - it went into administration. He studied the energy business for 5 years and studied finance. He wanted a business that scaled up. Now Brad is a risk taker but not as big a gambler I would say. Brad would rather do it from a leveraged position - so there is an immediate affinity between the two men. I might not pursue this its complicado and taking too long. I might go back to feeding the worms. Who cares we a re stuck on the bottom and all sold out at 9.25 mill and not a cracker between us. That sucks and that's mother*****n life kiddo.
And of course get it cheaper than chips. Now I know how to do that - but better not print that out or they will all be doing it !
There customer numbers are up about 2,000 on last year to 610,000 so flat in a difficult year. Maybe Lumley helped stretching her classiness out in the Clubhouse and getting all the posh money in - She is Ghurka good too just full o' style So if I was a weasel type american a money-grubbing type who wanted to seal the Flow deal what would I do - what would I need ?. A lot of research/ a mole inside the organisation possibly/ find out what Stiff's real wants are and why he is selling/ find out his weaknesses / check out and get to know the opposition/ find out what the deals are on the table/ make sure I am buying at the lowest price/ time it right/ due due diligence before offer stage / see how well or badly the company is run and see if and how it can be moved up a gear/ check out the board and maybe management
Look Leggo my bricks are bigger than yours but doesn't matter down here on the sea bed, but education does because we got to think our ways outta here - but no messin' we are both the ultimate losers. You talk about the dead duck and I will talk about the high flying swan that got shot down by the American and later that May bird whose heading to a stupidly hard Brexit - Go on Vince head her off at the pass ! This is all ac academic - just looked at telecom plus's (U Wharehouse) net profit before tax to April '18 �54 million and it was 53.3 last year so they have weathered well. Maybe they were in the shake up last year but somehow doubt it.
I don't think those deer needed knee pads more like a three foot ladder - a few of them had nose pegs on though. We are deviating....are we not ?
You made mistakes Leggo - you put some bricks wrong - difference between you and me yours were models and a cat could knock 'em over - mine the size of a house - get real brickhead !
I'm popping out for a beer - you talk among yourselves and yes, you rag bag army, are not going to help me recover my big loss. Flow took all my readies and I was in fear and caved in - probably a bit like the energy sale last year - With this situation - I could not punch my way out of a paper bag - and I guess Tony felt the same way but all his losses were limited - the veil see - I was much more exposed and had my neck on the line !
Biff I thought Tracy had retired you back to the herd but good to see YA. I haven't forgotten the boiler back to him later its just energy was the safe bet or safer bet - Graham and Glen seemed to know that so the energy business was very important to fall back on Biff. Well DAVB I have underestimated you and yes you're around forty I guess - but you got your life ahead of you and I did not destroy the life you had - its just changes and sh*t happens to all of us. You trying walking into an office, quite near to Brad's actually, as I did not long ago, and throw your hands up and walk out having put seven or eight hundred big ones on a collection plate to alleviate the stress. It really kicked my Flow losses into touch and they seemed incidental after that. Yes that was a horriblis to match the Queen's and its difficult to think your way out of that. However life goes on and losers are left lying in the gutter - and me well - I am sitting up !
What do we know - we know the giant tube worms have all come out from the same bottom more or less together with that same vacuous expression - all gurgling the same accusing notes. If the you can prove your assertions and there was a fraud of that scale you SOBS are all guilty by association - many lawyers give you a free half an hour to drum it up - now why didn't YA KNUCKLEHEAD YELLOWBELLIES. DAVB stand up for yourself - you don't have to be in their gang just think for yourself - but think clever ! I am looking at this from the investors standpoint. A year ago - well the products were on the wane - making four country feelers into the EU or sell game changer - for well they said a million - so that was out. Let's deviate and go back to last year and the sale - now we believed in the energy didn't we ? Wasn't this our insurance and our banking last chance. There is so much we don't know but lets throw up a few of them unknowns and fit possibly the right ones - and have a bit of fun at the same time. Let's look at the conditions of sale.. "Should the Fundraising not proceed and, without access to alternative finance of an amount similar in size to that of the Fundraising in the near term, the working capital available to the Company will not be sufficient for its requirements and it may well have insufficient working capital to trade as a going concern." Now that looks pretty tight - my God they are outta dough - back against the wall sort of stuff - kinda suits Brad though. Got some bids but had a preferred bidder hhhmm now that was just a year ago. Quite likely I would have thought that the preferred bidder was either Co-op or OVO cause smells stay around. Both got two O's and they want flow's smaller one. Now Co-op are a bit stretched they have just bought GB energy we reckon about 10 ish so they may not be ready - but don't rule them out just yet -so I would say Stephen is the favourite - that is a reasonable assumption. Now let us get into Brad's mindset - well not Brad say an american - this is all hypothetical - or what about me The weasel - could I think like someone over the pond. Time for tea....wouldn't you say DAVB ?
Weasel is derived from "weasel and stoat" meaning coat. It was traditional for even poor people to own a suit, which they wore as their 'Sunday Best'. When times were hard they would pawn their suit, or coat, on a Monday and claim it back before Sunday. Hence the term " Pop goes the Weasel"................................................................................... I'll take my coat
Don't concern yourself the plague of locusts that represents my words will swarm away one day. As an aside, Daniel Lewis (Money Saving Expert) summed up the referendum on Question Time extremely well I thought. He said the vote was black and white, but the issues involved were all the colours of the rainbow. He went on to add that despite the decision in his view being wrong it would be undemocratic to call another referendum - democracy was hugely important and more important than getting the decision right. I do not agree with Daniel on this and my suggestion has never been put forward. You actually get people to vote on whether there should be another referendum. It would only cost 12 million and that Daniel is democratic, and the way around the thorny issue. As a non engineer I would have thought one would tackle the issue of the power unit first before embarking on the casing and boiler. Maybe they must go together like a horse and carriage and the inevitable marriage, and three testing years later - the divorce after one long French holiday. It is rumoured the power unit was found upstairs upstairs in the lady's chamber - holding her hostage with a bargepole.
Apologies DAVB - You would not have found that Beachy Head information as it was written by me word for word on the internet - you might have found it if you lived in London and obtained a physical copy - which is unlikely and I think you are living in middle England. There was another report from the Metro on the internet that suggested that there may not have been an occupant in the car - which would be highly unusual I would have thought - unless someone was doing a Stonehouse. There was a sad case a few years back of a Japanese couple that travelled some distance, a few hundred miles from their home to Beachy Head and jumped off the cliff together with their newly born baby. The baby had a lifetime illness or condition and this disappointment had led them to end their lives. They left their car parked and jumped the 530 feet with the poor baby held together in their outstretched arms each holding one arm, as I remember. I have been there myself but just to enjoy the scenic beauty and the undulating downs - jumps do happen but are quite rare luckily. There are quite a few sheep dotted about on the surrounding undulating downs, which I find relaxing, and add to the beauty, but you would be very unlucky to come across or even see a deer - those that do might certainly consider jumping ! I read this week of an Australian man of 103 who was still walking to work at a nearby University everyday, and then they told him they felt it was unsafe for him due to his age, and he had to give up his work which was his real interest in life. He then fell at home and a care home was suggested. He was very independent and declared he had lost that sparkle for life, and took a plane out to Switzerland to end his life. Euthenasia is legally practiced in Australia, but obviously only on those ill enough (cough)
WHAT DO WE WANT... THE BOILER.... WHEN DO WE WANT IT.. NOW !
I have thought about Alan the chairman's failure to advise about the Engie appraisal and I have come come to some conclusions. 1. it is most probably a negative and therefore not the easiest to write about. 2. He possibly did not want to give further fuel for shareholders to vote against the management's recommendations to vote in favour of the Co-op bid. 3. The boiler still has a value - sale price agreed around �14k and a further bonus of �789,000 if commercialized. He would want to dampen any criticism as it is an asset of some worth and potential All my opinion...
You have to look more deeply into facts. Fact 1. The fact that Brad's photo is missing from the list of directors on Flow website - how long it has been missing I do not know - tells me a lot more about Brad than the list of his achievements. When all of Tony Stiff's details were listed on the website - I researched all of the companies he was in or formed and checked all of the information and this took me some considerable time. I found one reported inconsistency which I noted and remembered. Little facts like these are not that significant on their own but they help to build a picture and this picture helps one to form an opinion. Fact 2. The circular containing information relating to the meeting . There was no detail about where the circular was stored and it took me some time to find it under a special heading "Reports and presentations " this requires effort. and tells me that management making it difficult for investors to find this information suggests they would prefer they would not find it - and suggests would prefer they would not attend the meeting. Some of the previous meetings ie AGM'S were not attended by any shareholders due to lack of effort on their part and possibly apathy.
Biff I have not missed your last post but you are repeating yourself. If you are meaning missing performance data in relation to electrical output - well we do not have that, and that is a matter of some contention. There was some technical data put up on the site - however that was not enough to satisfy everyone.
I correct my post ... I am not ONLY interested in what happened to the boiler. I am trying to keep an open mind. You have formed you opinions and your mind seems closed to fresh information. Please try to open it and you will see more.
DAVB what we are doing here is slowly examining the issues - there have been a lot of accusations recriminations and quite bitter and angry posts and some posts that have added some quite interesting unsubstantiated information. People are free to contribute in whichever way they like, or they can slope off and deal with the issues arising from this failure in their own way. I am hanging around and wish to contribute my thoughts. Preston Brook, Capenhurst, Livingstone bring up mainly boiler issues relating to failure. There has been one post from Ispwich from a Flow energy employer. Some investors in the fifth group have suffered differently to those who have lost their jobs. magian brought up the inconsistency of the Flow boiler tested in his home. I as an investor am interested not in what went on with the boiler but also why the energy supply business also failed. We all see things from different angles and have different interests. We do not know everything that went on - where there are gaps we just have to try to be clever and use known facts to guess the unknown. It is a question of throwing up a lot of unknowns and trying to find out from what we know which looks the most realistic unknown to fill that gap. I like solving very difficult problems and I have a few things in store, which I have thought out, which you may find of interest. Your post suggests that I am not a genuine investor. That is wrong. If you had researched my last post rather than jumping to conclusions you would be much more informed. Yes if you had taken that trouble you possibly might have found out that my Beachy Head report was taken word for word from today's issue of the Metro which is a free paper distributed in London.
Selective editing warps the truth - it has to be put in context to correct bias. Breaking News reported today : BODY FOUND AFTER CAR IS DRIVEN OFF BEACHY HEAD ...Coastguards have recovered a body after a car plunged 500 feet from Beachy Head. Emergency services were called following reports the vehicle was driven over the cliffs yesterday. Sussex police, the coastguards, RNLI lifeboat crews and the East Sussex fire and rescue services rushed to the landmark near Eastbourne, at about 11am yesterday. 'Officers were called to a report that a car had been seen to drive off cliffs at Beachy Head' said a spokesman for Sussex police. ' A car has been found and a recovery operation is underway ' No further details were released.......... Just hope it wasn't Maajyd he lived down on the south coast in a two up two down maisonette.