A return to semi-normalcy On October 22, 2020 we’re going to return to 100% stock back and retire cash back. While the pandemic is still very much all around us, our sense is that a new normal has set in. The election will be over soon, and the stock market is going gang busters. Time … Continue reading Pivot Back
This is a hodge podge of a blog post. All of the ideas are related, though, and it keeps the amount of reading you might want to do down to a minimum. Amazon Results Keeping you up to date on Amazon and our results there. Last month I urged everybody to shop Amazon to double … Continue reading Amazon Results / MNPI / Insider Trading
Reece took the time to comment a couple of times on our Escheatment post (thanks!). Rather than let it get lost in the comments thread, I’m choosing to highlight it here, because I think the comments and responses are educational for all. Reece mentions that the shares you earn from shopping (or you might buy … Continue reading Response to Reece Mak’s comment on our Escheatment post
The “use it or lose it” law Escheatment is a big word that roughly translates to: if we have your property, and you abandon or don’t receive it, we have to give it away to your state. Sort of “use it or lose it”. But different. Almost every state has laws governing lost or abandoned … Continue reading Escheatment
What a year. And it’s only been six months. Our Form 1-SA recounts our financial journey for the first half of 2020. The year the Covid-19 pandemic started. The world changed. Our world changed. We reacted starting in April by changing our business model to a cash back-centric offering. Our interest was survival. It was … Continue reading CEO Letter – Form 1-SA 9/23/20
First, Breaking September news As of September 15, September, 2020’s Amazon results are tracking to be double September, 2019, and Amazon sales are tracking up 400% or so. The numbers are finally big enough that doubling makes a difference in paying our bills. So we’re asking everybody to help push us over that hurdle by … Continue reading August Amazon Update
We’re fans of Bitcoin (“BTC”) and distributed ledger technologies in general. There’s a lot to like about the whole concept. For awhile, we were such fans that we rewarded people for shopping with Bitcoin. In the end, we decided we didn’t like that approach … too confusing to be rewarding you with two speculative investments … Continue reading Bitcoin is warming up
Here is our monthly reporting on Amazon. You hopefully noticed that we missed a couple of months. The pandemic has made life interesting, to say the least. We did our pandemic pivot, we’ve suffered through late or weird reporting from lots of stores (but not Amazon), and we’re trying to figure it all out as … Continue reading July Amazon Update
One of the challenges in running any business is balancing the wants and desires of customers (that’s you) with the expectations of ownership (that’s also you) to make a profit. Done right, making customers happy helps to make owners a profit; maybe not immediately, but in the long run. It actually gets easier when every … Continue reading Protecting Owners
I’m glad to report that we’re making progress on several fronts. This week was probably the highest volume of our stock being traded in the market, ever! And the week isn’t over. Three things, at least, contributed to our progress. Stock Transfer / Reverse Split As I’ve written before, we’re working on this. Transferring stock … Continue reading Stock activity and general update