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Biotech / Medical : VVUS: VIVUS INC. (NASDAQ) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Linda Kaplan who wrote (4117)	12/31/1997 3:13:00 PM
From: Tunica Albuginea	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23519

Linda, Re: " Edderd, I think TA would have to email his son to you." Just saw your post Linda, and that was a very keen observation, gg, and I guess I hadn't thought of the option. It is true though. My son just spent $5500 to get a new custom ordered PC that will play 3D games using the 3D $200 card made by the company in which he invested all his hard earned money, 3DFX ( symbol TDFX ). Kid was 100% sure this was going to go up.to be honest with you I didn't believe him and after making a couple of grand on tdfx I go tout of it. The stock kept sinking after I sold it, just like Vivus and I kept looking at it down to 13.5 ( from 18.5 ) thinking " I'll probably buy it back one of these days.Kept taunting my son but he kept saying " I am not a trader like you; I am an investor; this is a great product/technology and it will go up ( without getting into the technical details, which are available on it's SI web site ). Sure enough one morning the stock was up 30% on news of 40% increased sales from projected. Of course I am very upset that I didn't trust his knowledge and missed out onTDFX which is another reason I got back into Vivus at 10. You don't know when it will gap up. TA