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Microcap & Penny Stocks : Airstar Technologies, Inc. (ASTG) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: uu who wrote (2455)	5/30/1998 11:01:00 AM
From: Go Team	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3967

Addi, During the real estate era there was also bottled water. As for the sucking of money during a golf game. Yes I felt I got ripped of by Joe Lanza on Maesa and Exten. I do need to make it known that I made good money on Vpro/Xecom but only because I had a broker who played it for me during a time when it was really being manipulated. I remember when you first appeared on this thread and did not believe that Canadian brokers short and manipulate small penny stock companies. They and others do. That is NOT an apology for Joe Lanza or an endorsement of Xecom/Airstar/?. When I met Lanza he knew this and NEVER mentioned anything about these, not possibilities but, probabilities. I lost a lot of money on Maesa and Exten. Sure, I did not have to invest and in hindsight should have investigated more. But I was a little greedy and the guy I met seemed very nice and sincere. He paid his $100 bet on the golf course and took me and my family out to breakfast. He gave me the names of a couple of brokers. When one starts shorting his stock, does he inform me? NO. When the other gets in trouble with the SEC and loses his license, does he tell me? NO. He hires the guy as his partner on some treasure hunting scheme. Then after I start telling people who call me on the phone to buy more Maesa (and they know less about it than I) and I tell them to take a hike and that I inform people if they ever meet a guy named Lanza on a golf course to turn and run the other way, Joe calls me and offers me an inside position in his treasure hunting scheme (scam). All it is going to cost me is $10,000 and to call Tom Coldicutt - the guy broker who was in hot water with the SEC. Does Lanza have balls or what? So then as the Internet heats up and SI comes along I notice a discussion on Xecom. I tell people to stay away. They laugh and say I just have it in for Lanza. Well the stock at the time was $2. I do not need to tell anyone what the price is today. By the way, Mario had the balls to call me on the phone and tell me that I was causing the price to fall. Anyway, Joe calls me and says I better be careful because I am slandering him. Yeah right. (So far in the last 20 months the worst names he has been called have come from his wife.) I tell him how I feel with regard to Maeasa et al and he offers me 100,000 shares of Maesa and sends me the certificates. The price at the time was a dime. When I finally get them transferred into my name the price is 3 cents. I sell them, but 4 months later I get a 1099 for nonemployee comp from him and have to declare the 10 grand on my taxes. I thought they were a gift. So I get a capital loss on my taxes but what I sold it for paid the taxes on his little "gift." I have much more to tell, but we need a few pitchers and many hours. I actually hope he makes out well with all of this because maybe he would then be a stand up guy and make me whole. Yeah Right! Dan Perlow