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

To: RFH who wrote (2279)	2/22/2000 3:16:00 AM
From: Graeme Smith	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 5582

At first I didn't really believe in Zicam or GUMM. I had this unexplainable feeling that it was a stock promotion fraude. A pump and dump as they like to call it. Today I just realised how wrong I was. Sometimes we just have to forget reason and learn to play the stock market by trusting others. I've realised that sometimes we should just let go of that nervous instinct and just believe in those who claim to know what's in our best interest. At first it may feel like they're taking us for suckers, but if you ignore this irrational feeling and learn to listen, you will be a rich man. For instance, today I had to go to the pharmacy to pick up some medication. So I did my usual stunt of asking them how this great new product Zicam was selling. One of the pharmacists had never heard of it, but the other knew all about it and loved to sell the stuff. "Zicam is selling pretty well' she told me, "We sell a couple every week, although most people prefer Ocean Breeze!". I know there's people out there. Especially desparate shorts, who would love to see GUMM's stock price go down, and who would pick holes in everything I say. They would probably get very excited about the fact that Zicam was only selling at a rate of 2 for every 20 Cold-eze sales. And they would probably try to make something of the fact that Quigley (the maker of cold-eze) has a market value of only $20M compared to GUMM's market cap of $200M. But I say, and as far as I am concerned these people should be shot. They should be strung up and shot. GUMM has to compete with something that Cold-eze never had... cheap saline solution. And the fact that they are selling so well (a couple of boxes every week, hundreds, almost, every year) despite this competition just goes to show the incredible potential of this product. Actually after hearing that Zicam was selling so well, and would have been selling even better if people didn't prefer saline solution, I went out and bought 5000 shares of GUMM. I know GUMM will be worth a lot more than the poor $200M it is today, and I reaaly do trust all those nice guys telling me to buy GUMM shares. Desparate shorts may try to implicate that they are stock promotors paid to dump wothless shares on me but I know it's not true. It would be a real bummer for me to wake up and find out that my shares are not worth a tenth of what they are now, and even less than Quigleys, and I know this will never happen. Just remember, everyone, there are times you should think, and there are times you should close your eyes and buy blindly, and the time to buy blindy is definitely now. You friend (and one who has learnt to trust the "promoters") Graeme