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I'm beginning to wonder if we need worry about climate change at all, Seaangler. Since Trump seems hell-bent on driving us to nuclear annihilation on his watch, such worries become rather irrelevant. The Man Who Caused The End Of The World would be just the sort of legacy that would pander to his monumental ego. Except, of course, there'll be no-one to write the history.

Happy New Year from me and Miss Wemyss.

This time next year we'll all be millionaires.

"Who cares about charity?? Honestly who?"
I am proud to be a member of a shareholder body that upholds the merits of greed and selfishness tooth-and-claw and believes that the poor, the sick and the otherwise disadvantaged have no right to be helped .
I trust that every shareholder in SXX will be going out and killing a guide dog.

Ah, but I am Naysayer in Chief. I remember when we had snow in June.

Damn, Eck beat me to it. I was going to post "And the prize goes to... drum roll... Eck!"

Blakeney, I'm far from convinced we are in for five years of uninterrupted stability. Very much the opposite could be the case, sadly. I'd be horrified, but not that surprised, if we were to see the army on the streets, not just in Northern Ireland but in Scotland too.

Yeah, drango, it's the sheer arrogance of Barclays which is breathtaking. They don't give a stuff about their customers, nor for all the bad publicity. Imagine a corner shopkeeper who deliberately and consistently gave short change. He'd probably end up in jail.

BTW, R, you are right about "crimes". I am not just going to the FCA about this, I shall also be going to the police. Because effectively what Barclays have done amounts to theft. They have taken my money, as clearly evidenced on my own BoS bank statement, and are now saying that I still owe it to them.

Hi R, I am going to tell them that, since I live only 90 minutes away from Glasgow, where they are based, I want a face-to-face meeting, and I am not leaving the building until the matter is resolved. Regards, y

Hi CP52, talk about utter incompetence from top to bottom. Do you, by any chance, recall my story from 12 months ago about the credit card fraud on my Barclaycard? It's not my main card and I use it only occasionally, so the total monthly balance has never been more than about £200. And yet, in November last year, within hours of my paying a legitimate bill at our vets in Lockerbie, I was "apparently " running up a bill for £4,500 with a plastic surgeon in Brisbane, Australia. And Barclays "fraud prevention systems" did not pick this up as anything at all unusual !!!!!!

Yeah, CP2, you are right on both scores. I have the ignition turned on, waiting on the starting line, all systems go to belt away from Barclays just as soon as I ever can. But obviously I cannot do so until this utter fiasco is resolved. I have never known anything so surreal. The transaction is surely so totally simple, yet every time I have rung, whoever I speak to has to "go and talk to our technical team". What do these clowns do all day? Once the Options are finally, finally, finally, absorbed into my total holdings I am outa Barclays, never to return!

If I aggregated all the hours I have spent on this over the past two years I reckon I must have wasted at least two or three complete days of my life. I wish to God I had never taken part in SGZ's 2017 Rights Issue.

I now owe Barclays several hundred pounds. As you know, they took monies from me, back on 15th October, for the Options due on both my Investment and ISA accounts. When (at long last!) they went to convert the Options to shares they have allocated the wrong amounts to each account. So that there is now a cash balance sitting uselessly in my ISA and my Investment account is seriously in debt and I have received a message from them asking me to take urgent action to remedy this. I cannot believe things can get any more ridiculous.

Good Old Barclays! All is forgiven. Thank you for not getting round to ever signing off my Options. I'll be able to use the same funds to buy more in the 30s !!

That's me, R... one of the 3 Ys Men. Boom! Boom!

'cos the other unknown in the equation is the bigger, longer and vastly more calamitous Beast From The East. Tyndrum could be under 20 feet of snow from February till August. It's being so cheerful keeps me going.

"like when there's a dip after the company announces it will miss the production target date of late Feb"
Oooo, Eck... you old cynic, you! When has SGZ ever missed a target date?

It's everywhere else you turn?
I came on here, hoping to see 'SGZ SHARES... JUST 15p'

Not mine, I'm afraid. I'm more or less resigned to the 31st December deadline coming and losing the options. After two years' battle, I'm no nearer getting them than I was to begin with. And they've even been paid for!

Hi Samson. yes I've mentioned to Barclays a couple of times that some other brokers have seemingly got this well in hand. I thought that Barclays are just about the biggest in the business, so I would have expected them to have a virtually well-oiled machine for this sort of thing. It's not as though SGZ are the first company to ever issue share options!