All right, all right....this can't go unanswered.
>Before, SW didnt offer much competition for Disney's
>marketing $$$. NOW, watch what unfolds as SW's Franklin
>and their friends THE SCHOOLS, SCHOLASTIC & their new
>buddies PEPSI, FRITO LAY, & HERSHEYS come back and kick
>all Disneys garbage off the top of the childrens
>software bestseller charts!
>They are already kicking their a** in software reviews:
Ok, Paul. In order to kick Disney's butt, SW will have to come out with something so amazingly incredible unlike anything anyone has ever seen. If you take a look at PC Data from the past month, you'll see that the Toy Story Animated Storybook not only topped the children's charts but ALL CHARTS! They sold more copies of the Toy Story Animated Storybook than any other CD in any category, including gaming and productivity titles. Is SW going to be able to accomplish a feat like this, even with the roundabout help of (so you say) Hershey, Pepsi, Frito-Lay? Take a look at the screen shots for How Do You Spell Adventure...I don't think so.
And, if SW is kicking Disney's ass in software reviews, how come microweb.com
reveals the Lion King Activity Center on the same list? I'd call that an even match, wouldn't you?
And, if you've been in the biz for a while, you'll know that no one buys software based solely on reviews. Master Lu received rave reviews and didn't sell worth beans. Products sell on name brand recognition (ie. Humongous, Broderbund, LucasArts, etc.) and product series recognition (ie. Fatty Bear, Putt-Putt, Living Books, etc.) SW has none of these factors in their favor.
>And the good news just keeps coming(you should ask your
>sources to see if they know anything about these details):
> My sources say:
> * Monster sales for JULY
> * $200,000 plus BACKLOG of orders
> * NEW license for NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE!
I don't need a source to tell me that there WEREN'T monster sales in July. I just had to go and do a quick survey of the local software stores, stores in which SW had a nil to low showing. And a $200,000 backlog of orders? What's the problem, can't SW fulfil their orders? How are they going to collect on that $200,000 if they don't have the $$$ to actually produce the boxes and disks? And the NHL? That ought to do all right in Canada, but kids and the U.S. don't know about the NHL unless they have a team in their city. I'd be more impressed if SW was able to snag the NBA license.
>The BIG MONEY DEAL II is still a big mystery- CW is
>calling all the shots. Only she knows how many
>investors have bought in.
Yep, the BIG MONEY DEAL II is still a big mystery. Except the mystery is to find out who's stupid enough to give Charlotte Walker more money to toss down the SW drain.
>Todays only clue was Bear Stearns, who I think is
>part of the deal, raised their ask price to .75 for
>their retail customers this AM.
Well, then their retail customers should buy on the VSE - ask was only $0.60 cdn today (about 35-40 cents us.)
Paul, you've been unable to debate any of the points that I bring up in any of my posts, except for the occasional off-the-cuff shot (ie. "your favorite, NFL Math") Why don't you answer some of these questions I've raised instead of just spewing more and more inaccurate hype (inaccurate, as evidenced by the long string of unfulfilled predictions you've made.) You might actually gain some credibility and you may even be sucessful at hyping up the stock.
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