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It's really that Howie is not what he appears to be...
TH....fyi
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>Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 05:49:06 -0800 (PST)
>From: Howard Jackson <hrjf4@xxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: Re: TS 2000i IS CRAP?
>To: sptradr@xxxxxxxxx
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>Yeah, that would explain why there are only 15 people posting on this
>list, where 14 of them seem to be paid by MetaStock and WOW to bash
>whatever good or bad news comes from OMega.
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>---sptradr@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>
>> With a current "reported" base of 30-35K TS / dongle owners, Omega
>can't
>> keep repeating this cycle indefinitely (unless they are no more than a
>> boiler room operation). A bull market in stocks or commodities
>keeps it
>> going, but should a stock bear market or protracted correction
>occur, TS
>> sales will plummet even if it promises the Holy Grail. Bear markets
>are as
>> unforgiving of vendors as they are of traders who don't understand
>how to
>> trade the damn things.
>>
>> If the widely quoted 90% blow out rate is to believed, then the
>"true" TS
>> base shrinks to only 3,000-3500 owners. Now there's not much of an
>> incentive for Omega to provide a Y2K patch, is there? It would be
>> interesting to know how many active users are out there, wouldn't it?
>> Probably more than 3,500, but I'd bet it's a whole lot less than
>35,000.
>>
>> Tony Haas
>>
>> Larry Wright wrote:
>> >Remember the business model - sell to newbies, make *sure* they can't
>> >transfer the license, and watch them drop out. If one believes the
>90%
>> >attrition rate, virtually all the $$$ comes from new, gullible
>newbies,
>> >impressed mostly by the 'eye candy' and the easy code pitch. So
>guess what
>> >they show? Guess what they hide :-).
>> >
>> >If you keep this model in mind, it explains a lot...
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