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Microcap & Penny Stocks : FRANKLIN TELECOM (FTEL) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: LowtherAcademy who wrote (31067)	3/25/1998 5:28:00 PM
From: Joe King	Respond to of 41046

Lew, I know how you feel. My son inlaw and daughter are saving for a house and I suggested Franklin. Unfortunately they bought in at 6 and its quite uncomfortable now. Live and learn Joe

To: LowtherAcademy who wrote (31067)	3/25/1998 6:19:00 PM
From: Mark Jenkins	Respond to of 41046

Lew, My sympathy to your friend! I personally feel that he sold at or near the worst possible time! Those shares were gobbled up by the Market Bandits. RB warned us about this a long time ago. MJ

To: LowtherAcademy who wrote (31067)	3/25/1998 6:21:00 PM
From: stt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 41046

Few words of wisdom from Mr. Buffet "you should be fearful when everybody is greedy and greedy when everybody else is fearful" Are we all fearful now?

To: LowtherAcademy who wrote (31067)	3/25/1998 7:59:00 PM
From: STK1	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 41046

To Lew:Faith and Hope are the speculatives most eluding beliefs. Had I not said posts ago that the deluge of 1998 Internet message Board connunication overload would shut Down the info flow from FTEL. How can anyone who acknowledges the difference between the electronic communications available today and that of the same industry 20 years ago expect a company that is trying to hold down cost and make the most of its personel have a person sitting around answering the phones all day just to give out some sort of negligable news.And of what type of news would you expect Helen to have that she would readly give out publicly.I'm sure that she has been read the riot act many times from the officers of FTEL.They have a PR firm and my opinion is that if anybody needs or wants info particularly news they can count on is to call the pr firm.To each his own Lew but lets not get blown away by anxious over expectations.

To: LowtherAcademy who wrote (31067)	3/25/1998 8:46:00 PM
From: Snowman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 41046

Lew, . A friend finally bought 100k worth after listening to my spill for 2 weeks. Where did he buy? Between 10 and 10.5. Maybe I should say ex-friend. I've told myself so many times to never tell friends or family about good stocks..it's hard not to because you want to share the wealth. The problem is that I can handle my own loss, just can't stomach others' loss and constantly asking me "what's wrong with FTEL?" So I hereby solemnly promise to never tell any friends or family about another stock again, at least for the next 10 days (Jan Fine). Oh yeah, my boss is in for a bunch at $7. Hope he doesn't become my ex-boss. lol

To: LowtherAcademy who wrote (31067)	3/25/1998 10:54:00 PM
From: Pat Garaffa	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 41046

Lew: I can understand your frustration in FTEL not moving the hardware. I agree this is a new product and they must become very creative in order to get these things installed and working quickly. If that means giving a few away to some high profile customers, then so be it. I was always impressed with the Gilette philosophy: Give away the razor and sell them the blades = customer for life. Maybe they can do the same thing - give away the DVG and sell the usage. Oh, duh, I forgot that's what they ARE doing. Hey - they're pretty smart after all! Being even more creative is what will help move these products - not cold calls, telemarketing, mass mailing, etc. Those are sales gimmicks of times gone by. Creativity in sales can be found everywhere. Even in the most unlikely places: I was impressed when my kids set up their Kool-Aid stand in front of the house. They charge a nickel or so for a cup full and give away the salty pretzels. Not that different than the guy who packages hot dogs and rolls. The tube steak is in a package of 10 and the rolls in a package of 8. Anytime you check the fridge to make your shopping list you see one or the other. So you end up buying the complimenting piece just so you have a complete set! If its picnic time, you must buy 40 of the damn things before it equals out! (We're suppose to be smart, health concious shoppers; yet week after week we commit suicide by buying and eating the worst meat that was ever manufactured! Yes, thats right - manufactured.) I just read about another creative sales move: A store somewhere in LA had purchased a huge inventory of soup and they weren't moving it as fast as they would have liked. The signs said special, sale, closeout, etc - you know, all the usual stuff. They lowered the price but it still wasn't moving. Then they got smart: They raised the price back to it's normal price and re-worded the sign to say "Special, Campbells soup xxx per can - LIMIT 12 per customer" The "LIMIT" got them moving and the "per customer" purchase of soup doubled. The average customer was walking out of this store with 6 cans of soup. They were able to move it all without lowering the price. Not too shabby! - Pat