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To: Valueman who wrote (19267)	11/15/2000 11:43:07 AM
From: Souze	Respond to of 29987

Valueman, I both agree and disagree with you on this. More than day traders watch CNBC, IMHO; even Warren Buffett (sp?) admits to watching it with the sound turned off. When I saw G* doing the ads after their dismal quarterly report, I too thought, and commented here, 'what a waste'. No-one wants to buy from a company that is perceived as going bankrupt. But, given that they are still running the ads, I'm trying to look on the bright side that most people hadn't heard of G* and some of them are good candidates for the service. Time, and money, will tell.

To: Valueman who wrote (19267)	11/15/2000 12:11:15 PM
From: Jeff Vayda	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29987

Vman: ANY advertisements are better than no advertisements. One can rightly offer that the money might be better spent in another arena, but in the end it is a pretty small world. You have no idea who might be watching. I dont have any idea who is watching (other than you because you said so.) Ads are a funny thing. The best ones get you remembered. Even if you are remembered for the wrong reasons by some people, many more will simply remember. That is good. That is a start - 12 months late, but a start none the less. I would hope that BLS is working his rolodex and calling around to all his old DoD buddies who have moved into private industry due to the defense draw down of the past years. He should be making calls and sending out free phones. (to maintain the advertising references... remember this one?) "Try it, You'll like it!" (anyone remember the next line? - prophetic?) Jeff Vayda

To: Valueman who wrote (19267)	11/15/2000 12:31:21 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 29987

Jeez Vman, you 7 minute investors waste all day watching the chicky-babes on CNBC! Day traders are, I suppose, 7 hour investors. So are you trying to go longer for longer or something? I'm nearly a 7 year investor [in Globalstar] and already are one in Q! so you have got a lonngggg way to go. Bernie is a 7 decade investor. Now THAT's lonnnggggggg. So you young whipper-snappers will just have to keep day-trading. It was funny when I read Jeff Vayda point out that you were watching CNBC. I got a grin out of that, you day-trader, you. I really have no idea whether a dollar of advertising on CNBC is the best way to spend that dollar, but I do know that advertising is essential and television, as Calvin of Calvin and Hobbes says, defines reality [for a lot of people anyway]. 'As seen on tv' makes it real. That is an interesting and frightening proposition, but the fawning adulation of 'celebrities' and success of Coca Cola lends credence to the idea. If tv can define reality, wait until cyberspace gets a grip on us. Well, some of us have been enmeshed for 7 years, from the days when Compuserve charged a fortune to give a rotten little bit of information. The cornucopia we enjoy now is simply incredible by comparison. Yet we have barely touched the surface still. And Globalstar is in the vanguard. Okay, that's over the top enough, so I'll give it a rest. Go Globalstar Go Mqurice [PS: Note to service providers - cut prices = sell more stuff; that's how they do it at the tomato auctions to avoid ending up with tons of unsold rotten fruit.] Q! on $84 right now. Phew! Lucky something's going right. Edit....< Why must cereal keep popping up in regards to G? First Wheaties, now Life(I think*> Because Wheaties and Globalstar are staples of life. Globalstar is not an optional extra. We need food, warmth and communication - oh yes, water too. These are the basics of life. Cereal is basic food. Globalstar is basic communication where it otherwise isn't available.