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Hi Fin
Yes, excited now!
Michael
Thanks Fin
TBH I'm close to tears!
M
HH
You bet it will.
M
Hi all
What a relief. That's fantastic news! So many small caps end in disaster, but this time looks different.
Hope you all enjoy your weekend even more now.
Best wishes
Michael
Well said Fintech!
PG has created a plethora of new companies since the share suspension. Jack of all trades, master of non perhaps?
Only time will tell. I think there is a hell of a long way to go for him to earn the trust and respect of shareholders!
Michael
Thanks Fintech
That RNS was the bait that got me on the hook!
Michael
Glad you survive Gordon.
The thing that sort of does my head in is that DKE are main market listed not AIM. I always thought there were more protections / safeguards than are apparent.
Michael
DR
I appreciate your supportive words.
There is something in many of us which wants to get rich quick, but that can become our downfall.
If or when this gets resolved I will never invest in a single stock again and stay with larger well known funds
Michael
Dawn Riser
That's fine.
On reflection it was a moment of madness to invest the way I did, but I can't turn the clocks back. If it wasn't for the fact that DKE were on the ADVFN leader board that day I would never have heard of Dukemount let alone invested in them.
This whole DKE debacle has been awful and I regret everyday getting involved with them.
On the property front, I won't be homeless (thankfully) but I will potentially have to live in somewhere more modest shall we say.
Onwards
Michael
Dawn Riser
I was told by a professional adviser NOT to file a TR1 way back when. I was potentially going after Interactive Investors on the grounds that they were offering investments in a company without flagging the risks appropriately enough. There was a similar "shell" company at the time that i tried to invest in and they referred my to a telephone number to call. When I called, I was taken through a series of questions to asses my suitability to invest in such a company and I got nervous and backed out of it.
The legal angle I was exploring was that the same safeguards were not applied to DKE when to all intents and purposes the 2 companies had the same profile.
I got the TR1 forms and as a novice found them complex and hard to figure. If I had (with some outs assistance) filed the TR1, this would have weekend my case as Interactive Investor would claim that I had enough investment competence to have invested in DKE with full knowledge.
I hope you can follow that and cut me some slack!
Thanks
Michael
Cheers Gordon
When PG responded to my LinkedIn message (he literally responded in 5 minutes) I wanted to post his response verbatim on this message board, but at his request I didn't as he was concerned it would be misconstrued,
I gave him the space to respond to all the shareholders with the same info at the same time.
Michael
Thanks Swerve
It looks like there is light at the end of this tunnel.
As for you Teaboy, wind your neck in!!
Michael
That's fine GB
Gordon
Just to clarify something I am not Paul Gazzard using an alternative moniker! I am a separate person and genuine investor like yourself. The response to my message to PG through LinkedIn said the website would be updated in "a few hours". Please don't shoot the messenger!
Hi Gordon
I couldn't say exactly when without checking my transaction history on Interactive Investors but from memory it was around late October last year. The map was around £1M at the time.
I do think the chunk of the company has given me some gravitas in the eyes of Mr Gazzard and obviously at that level of potential loss i wasn't going to go down without a fight!
I got the impression from my messages to mr Gazzard that he is taking me seriously. I hope that works well for us all.
Michael
You're welcome Struv.
BTW I will file a TR1 if this re-lists as I now understand this will under pin the SP and be beneficial to everyone!
Michael
Hi everyone.
I have had a direct response from Paul Gazzard to say that he will respond to my message by updating their website in the next few hours with an update.
I am sure we are all looking forward to that!
Michael
I managed to track down Paul Gazzard via LinkedIn and joined the website so that I could use the internal messaging system to send a direct message to him. Below is a copy of that message.
Michael
Dear Mr Gazzard
I have around £100,000 invested in Dukemount Capital. The shares were suspended in November last year and I along with the other shareholders have been kept almost totally in the dark from the board of directors.
If you ever take the time to read the message boards for Dukemount Capital you will see that there is a trail of angry investors who believe that they have been duped by you and your co-directors!
I have explored the possibility of taking legal action against you and Geoffrey Dart.
For the sake of common decency, can you please tell us if you have any intention of re-lisitng DKE shares or have you planned all along to dissolve this company?
It is public knowledge that you have created scores of new companies in the later part of last year into early 2023.
The whole DKE debacle is causing a lot of people a lot of pain!! On a personal level, it has caused me to appoint an estate agent to sell my apartment so that I can downsize my property to re balance my financial affairs!
All of this does not reflect well on you or Geoffrey Dart and calls into question your fitness to be a director of a listed company!
You seem adept at dogging your responsibilities to treat shareholders with any respect and I hope that in this instance you will reflect on this and face up to matters and do the right thing!
Michael Parker
FTH
For the sake of clarity and to prevent people like you from twisting my words let me make the following point with the utmost clarity and force:-
My "LOL" was in no way made at the plight of the poor souls who suffered on the day referred to as 9:11. It was a sarcastic sneer at DKE and a sideswipe at the depravity I am seeing in some parts of the world of capitalism. I am politically left of centre and see money as simply a means to an end. My investment strategy is to provide for myself later in life so that I don't have to be a burden to my family or the state.
Let me make the following clear: I am not going to provide a running commentary on my efforts to explore what options (legally) are open to me with regards to my investment in DKE. I am not very bright (as you have guessed) but even I am not stupid enough to conduct what should be a discreet endeavour with posting sensitive information in the public domain.
This will be my last post on DKE. I am sure you are all more experienced and cleverer than me and you are free to pursue your own agenda if it suits you.
Good luck to everyone.
Michael
Twib
I have apologised sincerely.
M