Now a couple of Questions:
1. What is the unique barrier to entry that the patent confers?
2. Isn't Actrade simply taking the middleman risk in a transaction where one or both parties lack financial credibility?
3. If the partners in a finanical transaction gain financial trust, why would they need the middleman after a certain point?
4. If you look at the advantages posted by Actrade (eg. cfonline.com they seem very attractive, and should be an easy sell. If you turn the problem upside down, the the risks borne by Actrade in such a transaction are formidible. Is not Actrade really in the business of managing risk?
5. Is this risk not that of international trade, covering all areas of the globe, and all products and services?
6. At this point aren't they basically managing risk by sticking to the refrigeration business?
7. When they announce the intent to open many more sales offices, aren't they implying a back office that understands and manages the risk by setting the fees appropriate for each transaction?
8. Where is that back office?
9. A perusal of the SEC filings no where indicates the number of Actrade employees. How many Actrade employees are there who work in this financial sector of the company?
10. The TAD is a catchy sales slogan for a product sold by many, many trading organizations. Does Actrade have a better way to reduce the risk of this sort of transaction?
11. It would seem that micro-knowledge of both sides of a transaction would be necessary to be successful in the business of TAD's. Does Actrade have a way to reduce the labor intensive character of collecting and assessing that credit information.
12. Once again, how many employees, and what's the revenue per employee?
13. At a time when the world seems to be moving from paper transactions to electronic, why does Actrade feature the "check"?
14. Mr. Aharoni appears to have ownership of 31% of the Actrade shares. He also has options for 2 million more shares. Since he has the effective majority ownership of shares, isn't the company essentially an embodiment of Mr. Aharoni including his past, present, and future practices?
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