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Don't forget he also doubled his salary, cos he deserves it and his mate Frederico's, who then left with a nice package. I said ages ago he was just an enormous A Whole and when did an A whole employ good people, they only employ sycophants and incompetents who won't show them up! I remember thinking what a cretin Hau was, remember her comment during Covid, "staff can't wait to return to the mother ship..." And she was in charge of PR!! Now COO??!!
Unfortunately I stayed in, hoping...afraid to crystallise the loss, woe is me. I'm the guy at the end of the bar, nursing his drink until closing time, might as well......

As SP hits 52 week low more hot air balloons are spotted. CIA claim it's China trying to hack into Bids sales figures. Chinese say there are no sales figures and denounce this as a plot, imperialist propaganda designed to upset all peace loving people.

Not even Numpty Drumpty (ceo) and lawyer Charlie Stewpot (chairman) could misunderstand the phrase external reseller exclusive, surely? Could it be more to do with territory, exclusive to Europe only or worldwide?

"both top law firms"

Chairman Donald Stewart is ex partner at Pinsent Masons and Lewis Silkin, both top firms, so he must have looked at Azerion deal, given its importance (a plus). But then he was involved with Fitbug which became Bidstack and he's been a Draper team player for the last 4/5 years (big minus). Bidstack in January, gawd I feel miserable...

Hi,
MOS invested £250k in Gfin at 30p, March time, so down about £200k. They talk of having enough cash etc but £200k sounds a lot for a company this size? What do you think a loss of hard cash like will do, to the balance sheet and SP? Any thoughts appreciated.

If the revenue figures are no good again but he smothers them with BS, how to actually give him the boot? Bad leaders never hire anyone who is better than they are and I'm guessing the IIs are in it for the periodic profit churn? I'd love to know how to get rid of him?

I'm confused; announcing deals with extreme fighting and an individual golfer during the world's largest, month long football competition is asking to be smirked at and shows a low awareness of how "presentation/PR/consumer engagement" works. Why not announce them AFTER the WC anyway, given their lack of relevance? If we have a plan I'm not sure objectives have been prioritised. SP has fallen 30% in last month, whereas we all thought WC meant a rise. Ehrr, mmm...

The environmental division of Deepverge has 6 job ads on its website, for UK/Europe, USA and China. I'm assuming the ads are current and the new emplyees are gonna be paid, so looking good?

A nice Xmas flavoured post Sloane1983 and I agree, expect a few more celebratory, aromatic "drops" from Draper before the temporary decorations come back down in January. I am a LTH of Cynicism towards Draper having smelt his over hype/under delivery too often, but I do wonderwhether we've "bottomed" Whether things can only get better? We shall see, an element of despair has been replaced by hope. Which could of course just be Xmas spirits.... :-)

"Bids signs a new strategic partnership with ADscholars"... is meaningless. ADscholars is an ad agency which may or may not recommend Bids to a client, which may or may not book an ad campaign. Didn't Bids "announce" something similar with Dentsu a few years ago, what ££ did that produce/is producing now?? Show me evidence of money.

I agree. Jabber blah blah, Lovedart aka Tradevol and Helx two chew, are like 3 monkeys sitting on a giant vib rah tohr, going bananas and gibbering "excited" nonsense. To quote Christopher Hitchens again, "what can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence." So why bother with ramps/de-ramps?

At last, a sensible post in an otherwise storm of blathering nonsense.

I agree, sales = revenue; production costs must be minimal so "stock" isn't an issue.
I think what's important is how interest is generated, where do people hear about them? Where can I go to buy one?

Getting a contract is first step, promotional activity to then translate the deal into sales is second step. Has anybody seen any, like social media/PR etc etc to raise awareness/sales? And why announce a deal with a golfer just before a football WC; surely ME didn't go to Mexico to sort that out?
Thinking is all over the place, like a gamer who's lost control of the wheel?

Sorry, does SPL have overseas ambitions, which Gfin can leverage?

Hi Moneysponge,
Is the revenue to Gfin from the SPL deal going to come solely from the domestic SA market, or could it be used to leverage into other overseas markets? What do you think?

in all the world, why are we in Mexico? Does anyone know the original business reasons why we decided it was the place to be? Every country has pros and cons, I wonder what they were here?

wwal17,
Maybe they get a £% of any deal/JV/TO, on the basis they helped COPL to reach a better deal? Like in football when you sell a player on? I haven't heard of this arrangement before but who knows.
Maybe it is under radar/low MC/no IIs etc, but why aren't more PIs piling in? Just curious, been in since 2021 so no ramps/deramps please.

I can keep thinking it's because someone is planning a sizeable stake/TO on the cheap, or the market doesn't believe facts published to date. What else can it be?