Mark's personal email address

[Ryne Schraw]

I had emailed a question about R/R charts to PTT very early on during my subscription and when I received a reply I saw that Ian and CCed it to Mark at his personal address (back in early 2014 at least). Maybe we can reach him here: bosto...@yahoo.com

[Mark Gomes]

I would prefer that this message get edited to delete my personal email address and provide my professional one instead: ma...@pipelinedatallc.com

I hope you can understand that I'm doing all I can and only ask that my personal life information be spared from being broadcast.

Thanks.

[PJ]

I'm not going to pick a fight with you, you and I are grown men.

Your email is not "private" life information. Get over it. Until we find out what has and will happen to the thousands we forked over in lifetime subscriptions you are not getting any sympathy from me.

[Mark Gomes]

You're mad. I get it. You have a right to be. However, telling me to "get over it" will make me want to say, "Fine. I'll just resign from PTT, walk away, and stop trying to remedy the situation." Given our corporate structure, that would all but guarantee that everyone gets nothing.

Instead, I'm trying to help. Cutting me a little slack will let me know that I should continue to try (if not try harder). Many people already understand that.

If I endeavored to rip you off (or didn't care about fixing what's broken), I wouldn't be here right now. Think about it...

[PJ]

Whatever you do is your choice.  You know the difference between right and wrong.  You want to walk away and leave the customers that followed you in the state they are today, go for it.  I suggest you do not.

As long as you are acutely aware these "games" with the PTT business are infantile, unprofessional and not without recourse.  This is not the way to run a business.  Period.  Whether you want to be a part of the solution or not I leave up to you.  I think your reputation would be at stake so you have skin in the game just like the rest of us.

We do not know what happened or why it happened.  I am glad you are posting on here.  However, I speak for everyone when I say this has to be solved.  You, at the very least are our proxy to the PTT business.

[PJ]

I would like to add that I have "faith" that you will be instrumental in fixing this situation.

At the slightest inkling of progress towards that end we can revisit the need for this board in its entirety.  

[Mark Gomes]

PJ,

I agree with ALL of that. From your writing, you'll clearly smart enough to know that it's all the more reason to keep things civil. For the sake of feeling safety for my loved ones, I hope you can cut me a little private-life privacy while I do what I can. As you eloquently stated, this is a matter of professionalism, not personal.

Professionally, I can accept any criticism or venting you feel I deserve without any unprofessional lash back. It comes with the territory. Revealing a location where some nut might harm my mom is not. Though I understand the argument that "some nut" can find us if they try, there's no business-related reason for anyone to make it easier for them. If you understand business and law, you know that posting my home address is not necessary for any reason. If I decide to "flee", I won't be there anyways, you know?

Other than that, I can assure you that I'm not playing games with PTT. When the story comes out, you'll probably be surprised that I didn't resign or walk away a year ago. Yet, I STILL haven't resigned and I'm still doing all I can and saying all that I can within the bounds of what I've been advised.

People seem to be under the impression that "Cessation of Services" means that I've checked out. The wording of that communication was VERY carefully thought out.

I'm not asking you to change your mind about all of this. I'm just asking that you only look at the absolute 100% facts before casting judgment. My guess is that you MIGHT feel a LITTLE less venomous toward me... at least for this situation (my 2015 Official Pick performance is another matter).

I hope I've helped a little. It ain't much (for now), but it's all I can say / do.

Now, if you guys will excuse me, I'm gonna get back to working on a solution for us all.

Kindest Regards,

Mark G.

[Mark Gomes]

p.s. I guess I can also say this...

"If I say any more than I have, it may SIGNIFICANTLY impact ANYONE's ability to come out of this with any recourse."

Hope that helps too. I'm doing all I can. Cheers.

[Samuel Shiah]

PJ, while I understand your frustration (I'm also a lifetime sub, we are all frustrated), I think it's quite clear that Mark is doing his best to help us salvage whatever can be salvaged. We should be doing what we can to support him in this endeavor, as opposed to making it harder, don't you think? Just my 2 cents.

[PJ]

Great, I'll support whatever he wants when progress is made :)

[Alan Diaz]

Sorry folks, but I haven't even begun to attack MG, my 'vocal responses' are measured and centered upon reason, namely there seems no intent from Mark except to imminently say he could no longer in the face of such 'scathing rebuttal', leave. He's already set the ground work stating that his personal acquisitions, no doubt at our expense are protected by an LLC, which guarantees a clean get away except for the litigation attorneys who no doubt a probably beholden to him as well. Aside from SEC federal charges, he and Ian etc are probably right in that they can just walk away basically with our life-long savings and investments.

Sans of a complete refund of the lifers subscription, and a suspension of quarterly fees for the rest of us with an unlimited period of attempts to salvage our accounts visa-vie research oriented articles, I see no recourse but an all out war..................................................

THE DOC

[Alan Diaz]

The SEC/Feds may say differently Mark............................................

[Alan Diaz]

It's been a whole week since, Mr. Gomes and still NOTHING to say ?

[Eric Spellman]

We should give Mark some slack and see how this plays out in the next few weeks. Hopefully the truth comes out and everything gets resolved. If not there is always time for any other recourse to try and get our money back on the lifetime subscriptions, etc, along with any SEC or Attorney General complaints. But it would be best if everything is resolved amicably. I do believe Mark is trying and the issue is probably with the Kanell brothers.

[Robert Silverstein]

i am not clear how PTT is walking away with our lifelong savings and investments. we did not give any of our investments to PTT. they are not holding these positions. PTT is not Bernie Madoff. they're a web service that provided data to us for a fee. the only thing that may be lost, which was not through the decisions of the individual users, was any outstanding membership fee that was paid in advance for a period that had not run its course. so i don't understand why all the exaggeration.

[Realba Rodriguez]

It seems you've abdicated your responsibilities to us a long time ago already.......................

[Alan Diaz]

Really Rob ?

Many of us trusted Marks advice and placed much of our hard earned investment funds on his picks. I'm sorry if you feel I'm stupid for doing so, but yes, I allocated nearly all my portfolio to his investment advisory letter. Use whatever semantics you wish to 'protect' them but at this point in time it really seems like Margolis, MG and the silent lot of 'news letter' providers were just preying on idiots like myself. I happy you were not hoodwinked to lose anything more that a subscription fee, try selling that balm of calm to the lifers who dropped 15G in membership fees and have not received any updates, phone calls or refunds.

Quite simply put in my opinion, this forum was formed in the advent that we as jilted lovers need to band together for restitution, and if you don't really savvy that, maybe you should butt the hell out of here and not add salt to my/our  wounds, ...................................................

[Dane]

I agree with this entirely. I don't know how people could have lost ridiculous sums of money.

Yes:

-PTT has been a very dynamic startup service which has changed since its creation but seems to have stabilized in the second half of 2015. (I however believe this is a risk I assumed when I subscribed. It is still an acceptable service at it's latest functioning point.)

-PTT has ignored their responsibilities to their customers and let this blackout continue for far too long.

No:

-They have not taken anything more than our subscription fees.

-They did no more or less than provide research information on stocks. 

-They never recommended that we buy or sell a stock. 

If anyone lost money on any positions that PTT covered then that was your decision to invest in. The only thing PTT is beholden to its members for is to provide a weekly newsletter on a functioning platform.

Personally, I do believe everyone has a right to be frustrated and angry but I think everyone needs to keep in mind WHAT exactly we purchased from PTT. Steps can and should be taken if we do not hear from them soon. HOWEVER, it is strictly regarding a SERVICE not provided and for a SPECIFIC period of time. NOTHING MORE and NOTHING LESS.

-My Opinion

On Wednesday, December 30, 2015 at 1:04:21 AM UTC-5, Robert Silverstein wrote:

[Kurt W.]

As Dane pointed out, you purchased a subscription to a news letter, and you must always read the fine print which normally states something to the fact that this is not a recommendation to buy or sell a given security.......and you should do your own due diligence before investing.  Also, I believe a lawyer and/or the SEC will laugh at you if you think you have any recourse.  Why?  Because you need to ask these letter writers whether the are licensed professional with at least a Series 7 and 63.  two most basic requirement to sell securities.  As a full server broker, I guarantee he has at least these two, SEC requirement, and even if the are a CFP or CFA, they may not know anything more about the market that you can read in a book.  you have the Sales guy, Stock Broker, and then you have the analyst.  Then you have many if not most of the SA authors who are not regulated in any way nor are they require to have any form of  license.  If I am wrong on any of this please correct me.

Cheers!

Kurt