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To: Rande Is who wrote (1697)	2/1/1999 9:24:00 PM
From: TheLineMan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2489

Rande - you should listen to yourself. If it wasn't going to crash today it would have been tomorrow. That's what happens when you make ill-advised dubious investments. You're gonna get burned!

To: Rande Is who wrote (1697)	2/1/1999 9:33:00 PM
From: moby_dick	Respond to of 2489

Rande - you need help, man - that's all I can say. WOW! Moby.

To: Rande Is who wrote (1697)	2/1/1999 9:41:00 PM
From: QuietWon	Respond to of 2489

Rande, i was not in PRFM in past 2 days. Curious to see if anyone wud short MSH.to? they'll get their butts kicked when buyout announced!! PRFM to me had reached a climax ie no othr news to propel it further since it was known in advance they would launch the site today

To: Rande Is who wrote (1697)	2/1/1999 10:31:00 PM
From: Bo Le	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2489

Perfumania sell a lot of perfums and has a annual sale $160 million. Estee Lauder makes perfums and sell them to dept store at whole sale price. Estee Lauder's revenue last year is $3.8 billion. (Retail for Estee Lauder alone should be more than $7 billion) Now you see why there is little chance for PRFM to be successful. Many brand names, such as Estee Lauder, Lancom, simplely don't give their products to PRFM. On line or off line, does not matter. Think you open a cigrette store and both RJR and Phllip Morris don't let you sell their staff, can you be success? Someone mentioned royalty. Very correct! Most people who buy Estee Lauder and Lancom today won't swich to cheap PRFM perfum. Unless PRFM sign a deal with Estee Lauder or Lancom or other major brand name to become their EXCLUSIVE online seller, PRFM really don't have much chance. Deal with AOL, AMZN does not help any real problem, even if there are such kinds of deals coming.

To: Rande Is who wrote (1697)	2/2/1999 12:25:00 AM
From: RickT	Respond to of 2489

Rande: Wow. You sure found a lot of people to blame Couldn't it have just been a poor investment decision?

To: Rande Is who wrote (1697)	2/2/1999 3:42:00 AM
From: Anthony@Pacific	Respond to of 2489

The only thing I owe these good people is my commitment to be honest and truthfull and trade along side evryone AFTER I make my recomendation...and I will offer this bit of backround..so as not to cause any confusion about what I do and how I do it.. I am sorry to see people get wiped out but it was inevitable and I have learned after 5 years that people absolutely do not want to believe Bad things until its too damn late....I give thema small window of oppurtunity that no analyst has ever done before XXXXXXXXXX From my thread XXXXXXXXXXXX To: Jon K. (8139 ) From: Anthony@Pacific Tuesday, Feb 2 1999 2:15AM ET Reply # of 8169 Well heres the bottom line I look at 10 to 20 stocks every night and I review maybe 50 on the weekends ..we are talking 4-500 stocks that I review every month and i believe I pick the 20 to 30 best ones that I absolutely know will tank...They do not tank because of me they would have tanked anyway...There is simply no other explanation that is even close to the truth..My first month is a perfect example on the first day i posted 5 or 6 short picks and guess what every one tanked... Maybe I have a gift at weeding through all the hype and have the ability to differntiate between market mania, momentum and true trading functions..what I do is simple..it's not easy ..there is a big differnce and since I do not front run any of my picks and I post my trades real time..it immediately sets me apart from every other analyst that I know of or have ever heard of...and certainly noone on Si can claim that..Prior to SI , I owned a Broker Dealer and it was by far the most profitable Firm probably in the whole country if you look at monthly returns on Capital.. ABC befor taping my show for the justice files..reviewed alomst 300 short positions I have taken and confirmed that I indeed have never netted a loss on any of those positions..i gave them catre blanche to look at anything they want and before I was interviewd on 20/20..they did a thorough search everywher on me and interviewd the Us Attorney Al Bersin,, several agents with the IRS, FBI, Postal Inspectors and others to confirm everything i had to say..before the intervioew was aired as a mtter of a fcat 4 months went by from the taping to the actual airing of the show and it was a huge success.. I can only say what I control of my money and it stands at just over 22 mil I absolutely do believe that I have pretty damn good timing however..and have seen followers of this thread actually get beeter executions than I do..and it doesnt bother me in the least.. as far as my portfolio..right here on this thread its been an open book and every month I go through and consolidate what we did in the following month, here rae all the trades for December and jan will be posted soon. Im sorry you got killed but people had an oppty to get out at 14 and at 12 or better all afternoon Friday and those who did..seem to have all made money..the people who got hurt were those that bought more because they bought into other peoples crazy notions and who were misled into believing that I have no idea what Im talking about..I recieved probably 50 or 60 Thank yous from those who bailed out wih profits but I recieved over 120 I got killed Pm's and I never like reading them..it makes me sick to see so many get destroyed by the greedy self serving morons on SI and Yahoo and unscrupulous touters,brokers, and promoters and almost always the company itself. BTW..I may appear to just pick a stock and then it melts immediately but keep in mind that I go through hundreds and pick the most obvious..shorts..not very glamorous but look at the results and you will see that..The consitency is the most staggering part of it all. In addition I have alomst quit this thread many times because it takes a lot of time and at times aguy who owns 300 hundred share starts bashing me endlessly and goes off the deep end in his personal attacks ..I know that if I stopped this thread and wentback to my noraml day to day trading i would probaly make more beacuse..when i post a short rec..I actually have to compete on the buy-backs with everyone else and those that try to pre-guess where Ill buy back and the market makers that keep this monitored so they dont get blid sided with buys or sell coming out of no-where..who also are probaly trading my picks but would never admit it in a million years... i outraded thebest they got out there and was in their face and they hated it.... How could a 4 man-shop...be such a pain... Well its by relying on facts and excluding all fiction from our due-dili