Well, I'm sure your message will soon be deleted due to your apparent inability to read/understand the extremely simple Terms of Use to which we all must comply when posting here.
Anyway, on with replies to certain parts of your message...
Have you said or written something that is not the truth and now can't call them and talk to them?
Sadly, on many occasions. Problem is, the company was the source of that information.
Since you seem to understand the company so much better than any of us mere investors, perhaps you could explain any other situations in which I've said something untrue?
In any event, I would hope that no matter what I type here, people would call the company for themselves to verify that I'm relating things as they were really told to me.
I take it you've been doing so. If I've said something that wasn't true, and you know it, why haven't you posted that information here? It doesn't serve shareholders well as a group when someone observes what they think are either lies or incorrect conclusions, but sits on their hands except to occasionally criticize everyone.
Hi Bob [edited], are you still struggling to complete your review of the filings?
To tell the truth, I've only picked them up a few times since printing them. I'm quite busy. I didn't originally intend to read the entire thing, as I stated long ago that, to me, the most important part of the filings would be share information (Delmar's stake, Reg S, O/S and float size). It wasn't important to me to scrutinize the entire document until I found that Delmar's stake had shrunk a lot and that his 51% ownership of TCC hadn't been consumated until very recently.
How about you? Have you reviewed them thoroughly? Have you found an explanation for the discrepancy in Delmar's share count or have you talked to the company and found out?
Tell us the truth did you ever call or visit ARET?
C'mon, peanut. You know full well that I have. I've stated many things here that I could've only gotten from visits and phone calls.
I've visited twice and met with Delmar (but not Barry) both times. I've probably called about a hundred times altogether. Personally, I'm glad it's Delmar I've visited with rather than Barry. Delmar seems to have a grasp on such concepts as "public company", "shareholders", etc.
If you did why are you baiting people to call and talk to ARET and not calling them yourself?
I've "baited" people to call all along. I firmly believe that, though I know I'm telling the truth and consider myself honest to the bone, nobody should believe me. I'm just a bunch of text on a screen.
There are a number of reasons I no longer call the company. One of the reasons is that I no longer trust what I'm told by the company. The main reason, though, is that I finally got tired of Barry's condescending attitude, and it really came to a head in my last two calls to the company.
Though I'm still a shareholder, and (believe it or not) long-term bullish, I'm frankly quite peeved at the company at the moment. Yeah, it's probably petty, but I'm human. I tend to get that way when I feel I've been lied to or treated in a condescending way.
A word to ANYONE just pick up the phone and call them if you have a question, I do on a regular basis.
Since you've been in contact with them, how about sharing what you've heard, and your opinions about it all. That's what these forums are all about.
Heck, I don't even know if you're a bull or a bear where ARET is concerned. All I really know is that you seem to not like shareholders. Are you a shareholder?
You seem like someone who could be an invaluable contributor to the discussions here. I'm sincerely looking forward to you becoming one. If you've got opinions and/or facts contrary to what I've posted here, I'm sure we'd all love to hear them. We're all ears.
All of that said, let me offer the following positive comments I have regarding the company as it currently stands:
1. Not only do I feel badly about the possibility I may've been lied to, I'm still very much in disbelief of it. I think there is probably a very good explanation for the difference in Delmar's stake, and would love to know what it is. I refuse to call the company currently, but am looking forward to someone else (you, peanut?) finding out this information and posting it. Bottom line, something doesn't seem right here, but I have yet to accept that I could've been wrong about Delmar. I really do like and admire the guy, and refuse to accept 100% that I read him wrong and that my admiration was that badly misguided.
2. The company could've easily never filed. With Delmar's apparent stake so much smaller, and with him now owning 51% of the money-maker, he could've just let it drift to the pink sheets. He didn't. A dis-honorable man would've. The ONLY reason I can think of for him to have gotten the filings out is that he really is as honorable as I've thought and that he really gives a damn about the shareholders. I admire the fact that he filed. Even if it turns out the filing proved a lie, my respect for having followed through on something that would do so actually outweighs my hatred of lies.
I respect that he's gone to considerable effort and expense to do something that was the right thing to do, regardless of the financial consequences.
3. I think we're at rock bottom right now. I can't see how anything else could ever be viewed as "bad news" at this point. In fact, I put in a sizable GTC at .01 yesterday, despite my earlier assertions I wouldn't buy anymore.
4. Despite the auditors' boilerplate statement about the company being valid as an "ongoing concern", it's more than obvious it's Delmar's intention that it be not only ongoing, but profitable for the shareholders.
Anyway, I'm sincerely looking forward to your discussions of the company, Peanut. Discussions of the shareholders are not only inappropriate, when they're in the manner of your last post, they're expressly forbidden by SI. |
