Christopher,
I must confess, I've got far too much emotional baggage with this stock to EVER go long. I don't like this company or the way it is managed. I don't like their style. I don't like how they treat their clients and I don't like their product. I strongly believe the market should reward excellence, not this junk. Furthermore, I don't like seeing such a poor example as AOL proffered as the "leader" in such a promising, nascent industry as the Internet. It could ruin the whole thing. Obviously, this is only my own, myopic opinion, though I am not alone.
FYI, I was once an AOL member for a grand total of about six weeks. Never saw such crappy access and rude, inaccessible customer service in my life. And that was well before they went to flat pricing and plastered their online "service" full of advertising. I consider myself fairly technically savvy, and I'm usually a couple of years or so ahead of the general public when it comes to sentiment regarding technical trends. I would have guessed that, by now, the average AOL user would have started cutting her teeth on the Internet without AOL's "help", thank you very much. But I guessed wrong...
Best of luck with your long position. Are you hedged in any way? |
