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.

Big AL...thought you'd know that with all your city contacts ;-)

Nice work Clem!

"The Sun" City Page 9th December 2006



Critic is a has-bean

A WEB chatroom that triggered the downfall of a COFFEE REPUBLIC boss has banned an investor who criticised the sites management.

ADVFN, a site popular among private investors, took action after boss Clem Chambers was slammed by shareholder Glenn Rogers who said he was setting up an action group.

Coffee Republic investors launched a similar campaign to oust former chief Bobby Hashemi.

Mr Chambers said: If you go into a pub and have a go at the publican you get thrown out.

Maestro,

Are you Glenn Rogers ?

no but i'm all behind Glenn...Chambers needs teaching a lesson and things are being planned behind the scenes....advfn could be history soon

LOL

Oi maestro I often got "suspended" from ADVFN in the past but never failed to get back in on the fbb.

Sign up as Mystro and you still keep your identity but do as Kayak says first.

I remember once a few years back two guys signing up as Bu11share , Limsfie1d Chartist , C1em and a few others after being "suspended" by ADVFN , caused havoc for an hour or so but was hilarious ... their names escape me :-)

Good to see this board distinguishes between l's and 1's Bullie :-)

Dil

I think hes run out of those combinations.

according to advfn i'm a rascist for exposing zionism....and my ban is permanent...typical christmas spirit from Chamber of bull-shit

If you use aol or btinternet its difficult to trace your isp address apparently.

I can confirm that maestro is not Glenn Rogers.

Also ... Big Al

This may be actually a good time to buy.

With the impressive turnover increase and the fact that "fees" going out of this company may just about to be dramatically reduced (AGM 10th Jan 07), this could be a great buy opportunity. Lets see what the SP does this week?

New management (???) could see it rocket ?? Could do no worse than under Clem.

Why are "fees" about to be dramatically reduced please?

Because the actions of the action group ??

advfn-shareholders-action@hotmail.co.uk

I believe, will possibly, by the 10th Jan 07, have made them.

The action was started because the "Admin Expenses" of the company, have risen from 816k to 5.2M in three years (in an internet company with fairly fixed costs). With no explanation.

Watch this space.

bloody hell.. 5.2m!!!...thats why we never get a breakdown of subscribers and what cupid bay is making...bunch of thieves imho..if this management can't make money in a friggin bull market they should pack their bags and replace them with chimps who could do a far better job

That is very unlikely DougalDog. Clem and Co. know it is their company rather than yours.

i notice Chambers never buys shares in advfn with his own money or come to that other directors...tight or what?

At some point they will have to stop diluting their own equity share to avoid losing their majority stake.

Maestro, the real way to catch him, is buy complaining to your local Trading Standards office and the FSA.

Im pretty sure there sites practice of banning users and then offering them an upgrade at a higher price and then allowing them to post again is unethical.

Not only that but the use of individual posters having the right to ban and monitor posts (delete them) on the threads they have created is banning FREE SPEECH, go to your local Trading Standards Office, they will take it up.

Good luck.

Not sure that the Trading, or even Traiding, Standards Office will be the slightest bit interested in "unethical behaviour" of the type you highlight, nor in complaints against the right to free speech, which by the way is not a right at all, particularly on a privately owned medium!

To prove that free speech is not a right even in general terms, do any of the following:

- stand in your town centre and launch into a tirade against any race or religion of your choice
- go up to a policeman and call him a string of rude names
- do the same to your wife or significant other :-)