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To: Capt who wrote (74)	4/6/1999 12:03:00 PM
From: Pluvia	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 126

***STRONG SELL/SHORTSELL Rec - BIGE*** BIGE's pr blitz including Biz week HYPE and H&Q showing is over... And so is the stock run. This company has ridiculous products and incompetent management. They survive by producing BS press releases and selling stock to sucker investors to finance their ongoing losses. The company's husband wife management team IMO is in the business of selling stock by producing HYPE press releases via a Boca Raton PR firm... This company will be out of business within 18 months... Just one example of the joke that is BIGE... Look at BIGE's ridiculous accounting that uses "barter revenue" to make sales revenue look better than it is. For 1998, of their $11ish million in revenue, 2.1 was "barter revenue" that means they got no dollars... Absurd. Sell this turd company or regret it later. <<<The Company records the estimated fair value of the air time received from the ABC affiliates as the value of the revenues earned by playing the ABC video clips in its retail units and promoting ABC on its web site. This imputed income amounted to $2,130,112 for 1998, of which $182,633 is attributable to the Internet advertising and promotion and $1,947,479 is attributable to airing the ABC video clips run on the in-store television monitors. The barter income for 1998 was higher than the $1,150,000 recorded in 1997 by $980,112, or 85%, as the barter arrangement with ABC did not commence until mid-1997.>>>