To: mawork1 who wrote (8021 ) 10/23/1997 8:44:00 PM From: Riley G Respond to of 55532
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 12:09:25 -0500 Riley, I've been looking at bottled water companies so that I could get a better idea of what this merger means to shareholders of RMIL. Take a look at VPUR in yahoo, then go to their profile. This is a "regional water bottler" with shares outstanding of about 10 million, and a float of like 8 million, that lost in the neighborhood of 4 hundred thousand dollars last year. Stock price today? Around 3 1/2, up from 2 a short few weeks ago. Apparently small bottlers like RMIL can command a pretty big market capitalization. The nays have really distorted reality on this issue. Some thoughts by the way: They said no one would do business with OVIS, and now we have RMIL They said we'd never get a TA, but we have one now. They said nobody was shorting the stock, but the company that bad mouthed OVIS is a known (admitted) professional shorter. They said we'd get sued, but the suit never got delivered. They said we didn't hold the float, but a simple check of the float and some e-mails between friendly investors confirms we do. They said we were crazy to think the MM's would get caught with their pants down (after all, they're professionals) - but now it is so very hard to get a simple request for certs to leave your brokers desk. gee why? They said the stock would tank any day, but we're higher now than a month ago. They said they were just trying to "help us" (nays) but got so hostile that some were actually kicked off SI. They said they were simple investors with a bearish opinion - simple investors who don't own any stock, with time to post 24 hours around the clock, and multiple subscriptions to SI. They said RM didn't have permission to take water out of the ground, but they lied, and you can go buy some of this water if you like. They said RM sold tap water (an admission that the company sells water), but failed to mention that the "tap" was the pipe from the artesian well, which the town of ten sleep is fortunate enough to drink from as well. They said we were cowards for not posting real names, so we did, and now we see they have hidden themselves behind layers of misinformation. They said OVIS didn't exist, but my schwab account says I own it. They said OVIS didn't make clothes, but stores are currently stocked with those clothes. They said the company wasn't registered, but it is. They tried to steal its name, but they couldn't. They said the float was massive (Carl Sagan: billions and billions), but a simple call and the TA assured me this was false. They said the plant was closed, but an investor here went and looked at the plant (THE INSIDE OF THE PLANT) and saw that it was running. They said Morgan was a scam artist, but a review of public information shows that he's a respected and accomplished businessman with a great resume (while his apparent accusers have the strangest bios I've ever seen). They want you to sell your shares and buy them back later, to protect your profits (???) - of course giving the shorters another month to play with them while you start the cert calling game all over again. Mork, a guy who admits he has lost money on OVIS as an investor in his *lawsuit?*(short?), has the audacity to have a company that he owns print false news to the world? They tell you the company is shady, but Mork uses the same TA that OVIS had trouble with? They call us "slimey yays" and have the cowardice to post unverifiable opinion with the full knowledge that it will affect public opinion, and even go so far as to create a horribly slanderous web page to that effect. (a pretty nice web page at that. must have cost someone some money and time. I wonder why) Sorry if I'm rambling. I could go on and on. I would love to take a week off and document every lie, but unfortunately, I don't have as much time as the naysayers. Wish I did.