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Sim, You brought the subject to attention, by stating the following.. not me. I tried to keep the topic out of it by just using an example of part of a PM I'd been sent, without naming anyone nor the topic, you outed yourself as the person. How is this not a personal attack?? You...

Hi GG, Looking at the stock, there would have been reason/reasons why you bought it where you did. If you did not own the stock at all, would it meet your buy criteria now. If it is not a buy according to your criteria at the current price/fundamentals, then you have your answer of what you...

Thorpey, Umm, My take is that he has lost only $15,000 at this point in time. If he keeps it, it may go back up in price or it may go down in price. If it goes to 0 he will have lost $30,000. GG As the current price is around $36, to be 50% down means you bought it ~$72. It has not been...

Oracle, Also, when you go back 10 years, the high interest rates from the 89-90 period were still fairly 'fresh' in peoples minds. A return to those 15-18% interest rates were considered very possible and kept people away from property. Even in '95 rates had gone back up quickly to ~12%...

Sim, Yet from a promoter of a product, 'crusading' about the positives was seen as OK, even though the product had not been time tested in the market through all market conditions, it was the word of the promoter taken that it was a good product, and past performance had been 'excellent'...

Sim, This is what I received once upon a time, despite making far fewer 'negative' comments than there were 'positive' comments on the subject. This is not quite the same as this comment of yours.... bye

I for one enjoy Thommo's postings. Sometimes we agree, sometimes we disagree. However to get a dissenting voice on a topic should always be welcome as it is the way to learn best. I would argue that this forum is successful because of the dissenting views that are allowed, most of the time...

Mark, That is what I said thank you for. That is what I wanted you to say. bye

Hi perp, My post elicited exactly the type of response I was expecting. Thank you SIM, Mark ;) You never get legal threats thrown at you for agreeing with 'guru's', only when you say something against them. If I recall correctly Henry Kaye's organization was pretty good at it as...

Perp, You have to be kidding. If you look back through the history of this forum, I have often posted opposing views on things like cashbonds, the Navra fund, buy-write funds etc, that were promoted by high profile 'gurus' that had many supporters here. I have on several occasions been...

You are very good at making assumptions. bye

I think some of the people, with the comments they have made in this thread need to wake up. We have lost 2 very important members who invested hundreds if not thousands of hours of their time in posting over the years. To 'spit the dummy' and resign is their way of acknowledging that they...

Goodbye Bruce, in all your forms here. I have been thinking of the same, but not yet made up my mind. To me, the decisions recently made have not been good moderation. If everything controversial is taken out then the vanilla flavour of what is left is not really going to help anyone...

Hi all, Simon, The first thing I did after reading Dazz's comments was to do a google search, to find out what he was on about. I am also conflicted between someone doing the time for the crime, end of story, and ongoing disrespect and condemnation. We as a society punish people for...

Hi all, I think we need to get away from the idea that just because the discussion was off topic was in of itself a good enough reason to delete. There are many threads where the discussion goes way off topic, yet are allowed to remain because they are benign subjects discussed. It is one...

Hi all, Simon, Trust and respect is what it had to do with. Do you not think trust and respect have any part in finance or investment, especially someone who finds "good" properties for a price?? bye

Hi all, The whole controversy started with this line.... ... all the deleted bits were in response to that line when some thought others did not know everything, or for that matter anything about Michael's history. In my opinion there should be a difference in the standards applied to...

Hi Truong, I am really interested in the performance of those 1 bd apartments. How much growth have they had? Over what period of time? Were they new or older when you bought? Thanks bye

evand, BHP is currently on a yield of 2%, so I assume people are only buying it for growth, yet is is marketed by the finance industry as a must have in a portfolio. I don't think you're original statement really stacks up at all... bye

Hi all, OO, In those statistics from the valuer-general, Apollo Bay sticks out like a sore thumb at 17.8% pa. Yet to me it proves the line Lies, damm lies and statistics. In 1998 you could buy an old holiday house fibro/weatherboard on a large block of land in the Pascoe st, Moore st...