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I agreed with Randyoldman that Aim's stocks can be volatile. tht is not an Aim's stock though so the comments are rather misplaced on this bb. He claimed that he had posted sound advice on the hmv bb and I am pointing out that he hasn't posted on that bb using that user name in the twenty-eight months that I have been trading that share (up sharply this morning). I really think if Randy's post about his lost £7,000 on an Aim's stock is to be of much interest to readers on here then he should have said which stock he was talking about. In any case, this is the tht bb and I guess there's been enough talk about other shares on here for most readers' liking. If I was a sensitive soul like Randy then I could take offence at his post on here yesterday at 14:53 which you seem to have no probelm with so you could be his colleague or his big brother for all I know. There's a place for humour on these bbs but not I'm afraid for bad language and turning nasty or juvenile when people engage in debate with you. I'm afraid I agree with Teutonic that Randy's motives for posting on here look a trifle suspicious. Now I'm not a Randy Newman fan but I'll play this Randy Edleman song for Randy uptown uptempo woman (downtown downbeat guy) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXylo5ZWiTs PS I thought it was rather rude of you during one of your last spells on here to disappear without saying goodbye nor answering a question which was posed to you which was along the lines of does your mother use your Thorntons discount vouchers to buy you a Chocolate Advent Calendar. Randy Van Warmer - You left me just when I needed you most http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0i442TVA52E

No no argument at all Eva. Very wise to do your own research.

Good riddance to you. As it happens we have spoken once before on the defunct Clintons Cards bb in January which I'm young enough to remember. You were less touchy and reasonably civil then. I think we both agreed that Clintons were struggling and I didn't rate its chances of surviival and thought it needed to share its floor space with others.. In April, I was in a thorntons within a Birthdays/Clintons in Larne so welcome the recent news that discussions are progressing with Clintons new management to reopen the thorntons concessions within the surviving Clintons/Birthdays stores. Go on spill the beans what rotten Aim's share caused you to lose £7,000. Look through your posting history lol don't flatter yourself Randy. If you're a Tesco shareholder then you're probably not sexy enough for me to do that although I do fancy Bonz 1957 as he is quite good at dealing with Aim's punters who make all kinds of wild claims on these bbs. In actual fact, I thought box office box did a reasonable job of responding to the potential new investor and provided a balanced viewpoint. The only thing I would add is that new investors need to be aware that not all posters on these bbs are honest sorts. So my advice to Evamay is the classic one. Do your own research, sift through the rnses, read the press reports with an open mind and be very wary of opinions expressed on bbs. ATB

If you switched to Marks for vouchers in January then you'd have been far better switching to Debs for the capital appreciation ATB

I don't think NKOTB is as mean as you think. I told him at New Year about the shareholder discount vouchers which Thorntons issue in October but he didn't hang about for them lol ATB.

Thanks I was only joking. Case for us not using Latin terms like cum and ex to confuse folk. More lost ground to be made up here but maybe not today?

Can you email your hot tips to me as well as james maggs lol

of course

Nobody's getting mine.

I don't recall you ever posting any pearls of wisdom on the hmv bb in the 28 months in which I have been trading that share. I would recall a d aft user name like yours unless you use aliases of course. Either that or the dementia has set in for you.

You are right to warn investors about the volatility of Aim's stocks and I see you lost £7,000 on an unnamed Aim's stock. It wasn't solg was it? This was your post on the solg board on 25th July this year "Not invested here but dont give up on this, I know alot of people are seriously down on this. There will be a price where SOLG will be good value, just that noone really seems to know what it is." Sound advice? Solg is currently trading in the 3 p region. I sold it at 11.75 on 30 November and there must be people holding that share from not too far back at more than double its year high point of 24.75. Who knows when the next Aim's placing to seek more funds might come there with the inevitable dilution for current holders. Thorntons is not an Aim's stock as you know. You also know that, like your Tesco shares, the Tht share price has taken a bit of a battering of late. If you are still holding Tesco and your pf is in modest profit then I assume you topped up at Tesco following the big drop there on 12th January which is when I bought some Tesco and I also sold some this week. Thorntons isn't Tesco though is it? Thorntons is a manufacturer as well as a retailer. And, whilst there haven't been any big swings up in the Tesco share price since the January fall, there have been quite a few at Thorntons since its fall in January. To each his or her own I say but please don't put yourself forward as some shining example of an expert who deems to offer advice to others particularly when you admit to having lost 7,000 on the one share. As far as I'm concerned, the best advice you could have given that poster was not too invest too heavily in the one share like you did. ATB

Philski mention my name on here. LOL MXP and HMV near the top of the risers table eh - cream rises to the top. So Emerald Carrots reckon pmo might take this over. Let's hope we offer you more for this than we offered Philski for his EO shares LOL

Do you need to quote your transaction ref. nos on here lol?

In truth the last update wasn't too bad (apart from the fall in franchise sales) and that's maybe why we've not seen the usual fall back to 19p. Thorntons is negotiating with Clinton Cards’ new management to reopen concessions in the latter’s stores. The talks are ongoing after franchise sales fell at the chocolatier as a result of the greetings card retailer’s collapse in May. The closure of the 46 Thorntons concessions in Clinton Cards stores contributed to the confectioner’s franchise sales plummeting 24% in its fourth quarter. Thorntons chief executive Jonathan Hart said: “We’re engaged in talks with the new management and hope we can rekindle the positive relationship we had with Clintons before the administration. So far the negotiations have been very productive.” Like-for-likes at the embattled chocolatier nudged up 0.7% in the nine weeks to June 30, its first quarterly increase for almost three years. Total revenue jumped 7.8% to £24.7m driven by soaring commercial sales, which were up 45.4% over the period, and helped by the introduction of a Jubilee-inspired Best of British range. Hart said that such product innovation would be critical to the retailer’s turnaround, along with focus on being a “year-round retailer”, rather than reliant on Christmas and Easter. The retailer expects profit before tax, impairment and onerous lease charges to be in line with expectations. Read more http://www.retail-week.com/sectors/food/thorntons-in-talks-to-reopen-concessions-in-clintons/5038582.article

Yanar is the poster who has been doing all the reserach into the falling sugar and cocoa prices. Maybe on holiday at the moment. I just sometimes wish tht was deb or even pfd - maybe you do too. ATB

Just late reported but within normal hours I think.

Mr U perhaps lol.

LOL You picked potatoes then every year till you retired. The students who work for Thorntons in the summer and on Saturdays on the other hand got on to become brain surgeons and the like and use their skills to cure folk like you. These seasonal sales assistants would only pick fruit an veg one year as they like to broaden their CVs and horizons. Right I've worked out who you are sport 94 and have put you on filter. Really don't have the patience these days for time wasters posting recommendations - whether buy, sell or hold - to others and providing no rationale for their recommendations.

One of my last employers was H M Revenue & Customs. I had three temporary contracts with them all of different lengths and all with gaps in between and was entitled to no redundancy paymenst. From direct gov site "You have the right to a statutory redundancy payment if you are an employee who has worked continuously for your employer for at least two years and you are being made redundant. Statutory redundancy pay is also due when a fixed-term contract of two years or more expires and is not renewed because of redundancy." http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Employment/RedundancyAndLeavingYourJob/Redundancy/DG_10029836

I can understand your caution here despite posting a buy recommendation. As far as I'm aware, thorntons' leases at the Kilmarnock, Oban and Irvine branches were due to expire and they chose not to renew the leases so there were no lease exit costs and I suspect that will have been the case in respect of all or most of any other stores being closed. In so far as redundancy costs are concerned, thorntons like so many retailers employ a lot of seasonal staff on temporary contracts and only those with 2 years' continuous service would have been entitled to a payout. Don't forget too that any staff on notice finding other jobs before notice expires are also out of the equation. Good luck to the shop manageress I think she was at the former Kilmarnock branch who had something like 17 years' service as I gather she was offered a few hours work each week in the Ayr branch and she was fortunate enough to live in Ayr but shop staff on low salaries generally aren't too mobile. This lady was an absolute gem and an asset to any retailer.