Mark: I am having second thoughts about you.
Something was bothering me about your post while I was at lunch today. Consequently I reread this one as well as others that you have sent to other threads.
Your inference that large shareholders (such as myself holding six figure share positions) receive preferential treatment upon calling the IR officer struck me as whining. I seldom call the company but do have several friends with holdings of 1,000 shares and even less, and they tell me that Pat Jones spares no effort to return EVERY call and answer all appropriate questions. I have NEVER been told that Pat Jones, nor anyone else at FRX, acted rudely nor inappropriately when fielding civil questions from stockholders. I would bet that the great majority of calls from stockholders are from those owning less than 5,000 shares. In support of that, a recent search by a known proxy solicitation firm reveals that FRX has over 1,400 shareholders (requirement for NASDAQ is 400). The further inference is that because of your alleged personal experience, that there must be something to hide. Tell me now just what that might be. Perhaps you have made a nuisance of yourself, represented yourself as having credentials which you do not have, or tried to interject your opinions about the management of FRX.
Initially, I thought that you were just another FRX shareholder with a healthy self-interest in your investment or speculation, as the case may be. But now the question in my mind, in light of your whining, is whether or not you ever held any FRX, or whether you would like to attempt to establish yourself as a self-styled Y2K expert.
As far as your credentials to make financial, marketing, or management analyses, I take note that in an earlier post that you were seeking help in trading on-line. Anyone lacking such an elementary skill as this, certainly can have no credentials to make the aforementioned analyses.
I dislike having to do this, but you must now convince me that I am wrong. This is not intended to be the same type of post that I entertain myself with by tweaking one particular goof on this thread.
On a closing note for the information of all on this thread, I offer the following: I can tell you that many of us are watching while the company is in the final testing of it's automated solution for double byte character sets. What this means is that I believe that FRX will be the only company to offer a completely automated Y2K solution for character sets that must be expressed in double bytes, i.e., Korean, Japanese, and Chinese. How's that for *unique*? More to follow in a later post.
Regards,
Crandell Addington |
