fsa investigation?
ADVFN PLC
24 November 2006

ADVFN PLC (the 'Company')

Exercise of Options

The Company announces that options to subscribe for 150,002 ordinary shares of
one pence each in the Company have been exercised at a price of 1.25p per share.
These shares have been allotted and application for the shares to be admitted to
trading on AIM has been made to the London Stock Exchange. Admission of and
dealings in these shares are expected to commence on 1 December 2006.

Well, ADVFN certainly don't havee a very good policy for terminating accounts. There were a series of posts a few years ago from Crocodile. He tried to close his ADVFN account several times. He tried by phone, recorded delivery letter, Email etc. ADVFN just kept collecting his subs from his credit card. He got them to stop in the end, but I can't remember how.

As DocProc says above, members of ADVFN often have to resort to destroying their credit cards or reporting them stolen to get a new credit card number. It seems that there is no easy way to stop a regular payment on a credit card from the credit card end.

it took me a few threatening emails before they cancelled mine...prefer this site's monitor but miss advfn's bbs

Doc: Sorry, can't comment about MoneyAM's policy on such matters -- because I don't know what it is! My involvement with MAM was/is as a technology provider.

But I have experience with dealing with auditors in another sphere on matters of collectability. If a debt is old (over a year, say) they tend to be sceptical about collectability, even though the debt is left there by common consent of the parties (related companies, for example). They tend to want to provision the debt, so it comes off the P&L for that year. And it may subsequently be collected -- back onto the P&L later, then.

I personally know three cases where Premium subscribers to ADVFN had to cancel their card account because advfn wouldn't cancel the direct debit


Maestro - why can't you get back onto the bb?

When I was banned I had no problems carrying on the battle with new usernames through new email addresses?

richardbees,

As I understand it, Clem will allow a person to re-register under a new username as long as they behave themselves.

richard..i'll try another email address but i thought it made no difference

Andy: you can email, apologise for any offence and promise never to be naughty again and they'll re-instate your username.

maestro - who are you kidding?

But for anyone else; what works for me is: you have to delete all 'files' and 'cookies' on your PC - then create a new email address which you then use to register a new account / username with advfn.

That will continue to work until you access Outlook Express / or another site from your pc which 'recognises' you, because that will then renew a cookie which is recognised by advfn.... and you get banned again.

Don't know about you, maestro, but I've got more than 50 usernames on free advfn.

Ive cancelled my Silver account with them by normal post and they have acknowledged the letter by e-mail saying I have so many days before my account is closed.

Ive also recd an e-mail saying they will refund me monies, so I cant really see how they have any defence against that if I were to take them to court.

As for opening a new user name I beleive they can track you down by your ISP number??????????. Any thoughts on this?.

GF,

That would depend whether you have a fixed or floating IP aqddress.

Most people have a floating one, so they wouldn't be able to recognise you this way.

To find out, go to a dos command screen, and type IPCONFIG

ake a note of the IP address.

When you next restart the PC and connect to the web, repeat the IPCONFIG routine, and compare the two IP addresses, that will tell you if you have a fixd one or not.

It was difficult if you were on AOL and also btinternet now apparently.

Ask Kayak to explain why , I haven't got a bloody clue.

Dil,

Good to see you're still around!

Do you mean difficult for ADVFN to recognise you, or difficult to re-register?

Cheers Andy Ill have a go.

Yup Dil what are you meaning?.

Chambers has lost it???

He has given out his personal email address on the FBB and said that he is thinking of banning all threads to do with AFN !!!!! Communication on AFN will have to be done by email.

rogersg banned again.

I did not believe they were hiding anything - but these sort of actions do seem weird to say the very least.

....for being 'disrespectful', of all things!

I had a bet on DougalDog appearing here within a few hours :-)

Kayak - well done ..... cigar in the post

Rich "Disrespectful" ................ Moi???

Surely not

They are clearly very flustered that I, and a number of others were (politely) asking what expenses the directors/staff spent last year (1.1M by my reckoning). Lop that in with the 535K salaries and bonuses of the five gents on the board and gettin on for 40% of the company entire turnover goes out the window on five gents, more or less (OK so paper clips costs money and are "Admin")

Nice !!

I have been quite open that this is the issue and they have been given ample opportunity to "shoot me down in flames".

They have not

Instead of answering the question - Chambers has a "hissy" and bans shareholders again.

Gotta go - The press on the phone

If this (MoneyAM) website wants to contact me - you have my number

Hi Clem

G

Chambers is in with the hoodies by all account...makes frequent visits..spy in the camp

Just came across this accidentally, whilst I was surfing along on t'Internet, like wot you do:



Explanation

20 August 2014

ADVFN Plc ("ADVFN" or the "Company")

ADVFN announces the result of the Extraordinary General Meeting of Shareholders ("EGM") held today on 20 August 2014. All resolutions contained within the notice of the meeting were duly passed.

Following the result of the EGM, all of the existing issued ordinary shares of £0.01 each in the capital of the Company (the "Existing Ordinary Shares") shall be consolidated ("Share Consolidation") into ordinary shares of £0.25 each in the capital of the Company (the "New Ordinary Shares") on the basis of every 25 Existing Ordinary Shares being consolidated into 1 New Ordinary Share of £0.25.

25,220,210 New Ordinary Shares with a nominal value of £0.25 will be admitted to trading on AIM at 08:00 on 21 August 2014.
Enquiries

Contacts:

Clem Chambers clemc@advfn.com

Salmaan Khawaja / Ed Thomas 0207 383 5100

Grant Thornton UK LLP (Nominated Adviser)

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25m shares at 86.5p each = £21.625m

Hmmm?