I love the two comments. ;D http://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/3531-deadline-to-buy-tiscali-approaching.html
;D
I tend to agree with the sentiments. How do you value a business which has never made a profit, I wonder?
Difficult one Rik, but on the other hand, they do have a big user base, and for a lot of the ISPs, it's all about numbers.
Though the advent of the iPlayer and other, similar, services must be changing the rules in that respect, Mad.
Take your point, but all they do is continue to FUP you if you start to use them so you move.....
Which makes the size of the customer base an irrelevance, of course. :(
What they want, of course, is a huge customer base that doesn't actually use the service for more than a bit of surfing and the odd e-mail. What they get, on the other hand, is another matter entirely ;)
Quote from: madasahatter on May 01, 2008, 03:53:19
What they want, of course, is a huge customer base that doesn't actually use the service for more than a bit of surfing and the odd e-mail. What they get, on the other hand, is another matter entirely ;)
Time for the Abacus?
Quote from: Killhippie on May 01, 2008, 08:47:31
Time for the Abacus?
the crystal ball may be more accurate......... >:D
Quote from: madasahatter on May 01, 2008, 09:28:50
the crystal ball may be more accurate......... >:D
Maybe just balls so to speak, mad ;)
Quote from: Rik on Apr 30, 2008, 19:20:21
;D
I tend to agree with the sentiments. How do you value a business which has never made a profit, I wonder?
How about if we club together and put in a bid for say...£2.50 for the company. >:D
Let's go mad, Alf, and make it a fiver. :)
Quote from: Rik on May 01, 2008, 10:15:49
Let's go mad, Alf, and make it a fiver. :)
Hostile take over then Rik ;)
Hostile, me?? ;D I thought I'd be doing them a favour.
Quote from: Rik on May 01, 2008, 10:21:41
Hostile, me?? ;D I thought I'd be doing them a favour.
:laugh: you would do them more of a favour by letting them go into liquidation Rik
Quote from: Rik on May 01, 2008, 10:15:49
Let's go mad, Alf, and make it a fiver. :)
Surely, that's overvaluing the company? :whistle:
Quote from: Killhippie on May 01, 2008, 10:27:15
:laugh: you would do them more of a favour by letting them go into liquidation Rik
Willingly. :)
Quote from: cavillas on May 01, 2008, 10:28:46
Surely, that's overvaluing the company? :whistle:
I know, it's May 1 and I was feeling rash. ;)
It's like 3 the mobile phone company, they are yet to make a profit, but the parent company wrote off $10bn in setup costs. I think that they are close to making an operating profit, but that does not service the debt.
It seemed so easy when I was running my own business, Glenn. At the end of the year, I wanted to have earned more than I spent, and have made enough to cover the cost of existing and new equipment. Something seems to have changed in economics since then.