Cerberus;317340 wroteI actually own one share of WWE stock that I got as an xmas gift one year. Very cool gift that not only pays me $0.12USD dividend but also allows me to call in to the conference call every quarter. I've yet to do it, but I think it's a must at some point :)
That is quite cool!
Facebook has been quite profitable for me in the past, given it's a free service. I worked out a rough estimate today and figured I would have needed to flip $65,000 worth of opening shares fast to do the same, so I would actually buy one for scrap bookingish purposes only. I just need to figure out how, never actually purchased a stock.
The changes/controls have made it much less effective these days, unless you want to take an ad (which actually produces huge numbers of pageviews no doubt) but I am also getting very bored of it in general. I believe they allowed us to exploit the system for business, just long enough to convince us that it has tremendous marketing value.
I agree with everything in thread, you guys nailed some key points.
I still thought today was exciting in that if you had all your ducks in a row and could move very quickly with a truck of cash, one of the very unique points in history where a for a small window, there was virtually zero risk to turn a decent ROI on hype. But the portal has already closed...damn 1% win again Darb :D
