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Biotech / Medical : GUMM - Eliminate the Common Cold -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DanZ who wrote (1777)	12/5/1999 10:57:00 AM
From: James Punderson	Respond to of 5582

This board and the one on Yahoo have turned into a real three-ring circus. They are definitely worth the price of admission. I would like to thank all parties for giving up their weekend to provide all this amusement to me and to other lurkers. I understand the motivation of Wexler and friends in that they are short and it appears that GUMM is about to break out to the upside. They would like to talk the stock down to escape without a loss before the news breaks. This accounts for the tremendous increase in the number of posts as well as their increasingly shrill tone. I'm not sure I understand why Dan, Howard, Mike and the other longs bother to engage in these discussions in which unsubstantiated allegations by shorts are simply repeated over and over and over ad nauseam. Dan, they are never going to answer your questions because they can't. Perhaps you are just determined that the stock is not going to be talked down to deny the shorts their escape; I could certainly understand that motivation. But I would personally not waste the time. The success or failure of GUMM is pretty much out of all our hands at this point. The only board I've seen like this is the USAB board on Yahoo where altavisto007 has been posting upwards of 100 messages per day bashing a stock he/she claims to be neither long nor short. I have to admit when I first heard about Zicam I was pretty well convinced it was going to be a scam and in fact I sold my whole position in GUMM after hearing about it. But when the product became available I ordered some of it from the Zicam web site as I could not find it locally. I have now used it at least three times with terrific results, my family, employees and friends have used it with almost uniformly great results reported as well. Locally here in southern NJ it has become available although the stores do have difficulty keeping it in stock. So I'm not particularly concerned about all the unsubstantiated allegations I hear from the shorts and repeated them over and over does not give them any more credibility. I am not an unbiased onlooker as I have gradually built up to a long position of just under 10,000 shares of GUMM at an average cost of 10.5. I did sell 1000 at 17.5 but will buy them back if stock goes lower. Anyway, if you are all determined to keep providing this show, I'm determined to keep on watching it. Good luck to all