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What really happened at LivingSocial?

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Re: What really happened at LivingSocial?

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FOUR HOURS. That's how much time they claim to have given LivingSocial before running the report. Horsewhip these clowns off the stage now. It's actually even worse if underlying trend they're "reporting" on is true, because they've poisoned the well.

PrivCo looks even worse now with this additional update to CNN's story: "I don't think the real story here is the details of the financing," Hamadeh [PrivCo CEO] said. "It's what's going to happen to the little guys, all of the merchants who are really the company's unsecured creditors, if LivingSocial goes bankrupt... You'll see that we were right in six or nine months."

Uh you don't think the most important story from public interest point is what it means for 1,000s of barely getting by local merchants that their place in line in a bankruptcy - which looks more and more likely - since LivingSocial per Fortune says was down to just $28 M before this emergency financing - so end of Feb had $28M + $110M new money so = $138M cash now (but still owed those 1,000s of local merchants within next 30-60 days over $350M) is not the most important part of what's going on at LivingSocial, and that privco was trying to sound the alarm to local merchants and employees that LS doesn't have the cash to pay them in full?? How will merchants survive? (If you've ever had a family member run a restaurant or hair salon, they barely survive week to week. They served the food, they did the haircuts. They're owed their money. They have a right to know whether the company that owes them the money has the money to actually pay them on time or at all, don't they? If not, shouldn't they refuse to honor any more LS vouchers and save themselves? To me who has several family members who are small local business people like this (and yes some have recently run LS deals, thinking that with $850M and amazon name they can count on it coming on time on the 15th or the 20th next month and are timing their paying their bills the moment they receive that LS check. You don't care about that? What exactly is important to you?

Privco exposed the balance sheet on 12/31 in black and white...massive shortfall in money to pay those merchants, massive losses, even worse terms to get final lifeline. And it was all based on math that can't be denied, unless you are a troll for livingsocial PR or have your head up your ass.

Re: What really happened at LivingSocial?

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privco's sales people e-mailed the address on my company's domain and offered research services. when we declined, four days later an article ran on privco (an 'exclusive') reporting that we refused comment on something we had never seen which was an article full of made-up dire horseshit. so I was left explaining to my employees why this company was out to get us and no, I wasn't misleading them about our finances.…

That's an outright lie. Look at their website, they only do featured research on major companies usu about to IPO (some positive and Buy Rating some Avoid IPO/sell). So far has mostly been right every time (Avoid ZYNGA, Avoid Groupon, FB fair value = $24 not $38). positive on Workday and Palo Alto Networks (both up over 50% since IPO) positive on Twitter, negative on Foursuare. But they're major companies. What article is YOUR admittedly tiny company? That's clearly an outright lie. You're a shill for LivingSocial's PR firms scrambling obviously for anything. So link to this "article/analyst research note" that they would bother doing on what you say is a tiny crappy business. Go ahead, link now. Otherwise, proof you're a liar and being libelous and deserve what you get for anonymously investing this story.

Re: What really happened at LivingSocial?

#153

privco's sales people e-mailed the address on my company's domain and offered research services. when we declined, four days later an article ran on privco (an 'exclusive') reporting that we refused comment on something we had never seen which was an article full of made-up dire horseshit. so I was left explaining to my employees why this company was out to get us and no, I wasn't misleading them about our finances.…

I thought they only cover IPOs or huge private companies. Go to their home page and see their "articles" (Featured Research). Scroll through - no way any of those huge companies are yours. You created that "onetimecomment" anonymously and made it up and then disappeared. That's not intelligent discussion, that's a provable defamatory lie. Where would your little company "without resources to sue" be exactly? Facebook? Palo Alto Networks IPO? Twitter? Where? Liar.

Re: What really happened at LivingSocial?

#154

privco's sales people e-mailed the address on my company's domain and offered research services. when we declined, four days later an article ran on privco (an 'exclusive') reporting that we refused comment on something we had never seen which was an article full of made-up dire horseshit. so I was left explaining to my employees why this company was out to get us and no, I wasn't misleading them about our finances.…

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