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      schrieb am 14.05.02 20:29:59
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      die neueste empfehlung im newsletter von stockpixx:
      baltia air lines.

      sieht nach einer üblen pump-and-dump kampagne aus.
      bevor man sich von der empfehlung zum kauf dieses wertes hinreissen lässt, sollte man sich folgenden artikel durchlesen:

      BALTIA AIR LINES, INC. (PINK SHEETS: BLTA) – NO WINGS AND A PRAYER
      May 1, 2002

      How much does it cost to fly from New York City to St. Petersburg, Russia? That may not seem like a burning question, but we became curious last week after receiving a series of e-mails promoting Baltia Air Lines, Inc. (Pink Sheets: BLTA), a tiny company that says it plans to fly that route, and to other destinations in former Soviet states.

      So we searched for the lowest available fare and discovered a non-stop round trip flight on Aeroflot for $547, provided there are seats available at the lowest available price, and you book at least seven days in advance.

      How long is the flight from JFK to St. Petersburg? Around 10 1/2 hours on that Aeroflot plane, with a connection through Moscow (but not including the time spent waiting for the connecting flight). It’s been a longer trip for Baltia Air, which has been trying to get airborne for over a decade.

      Baltia Air says its “goal is to provide … trans-Atlantic service that could only be compared with, in terms of style and luxury, to the great ocean liners.” Soon, but not just yet. The reservation section on Baltia’s web site is still under construction. It does, however, offer a sample round-trip coach fare - $986 for an 8 1/2 hour non-stop flight between JFK and St. Petersburg.

      So far, however, that non-stop flight is a non-starter. As 2001 came to a close, Baltia had $3204 in cash. That’s certainly not enough to buy, or even lease, a jet aircraft. It’s barely enough for all four of Baltia Air’s directors to purchase coach tickets on that Aeroflot flight, and still have enough left over for taxi fare to and from the airport..

      The Company’s inability to take-off has not deterred promoters from describing Baltia as “a contemporary U.S. airline preparing to operate non-stop flights from JFK International Airport to St. Petersburg, Russia, which will accommodate passengers as well as cargo commencing in 2002.” “Preparing” may be the operative word.

      With $3204 in the bank?

      And no planes?


      Flying Blind

      Several promoters recently began spreading the word about Baltia Air – but only the good word. They were, however, hardly objective. “Hot OTC Stock Picks,” a newsletter owned by Microcap Marketing Corporation, received 5000 shares of free-trading Baltia stock from an entity identified as Lorsin Inc. for participating in Baltia’s “investor awareness” campaign.

      Other promoters made similar revelations. An e-mail from Microcap Journal acknowledged receipt of 3000 free trading Baltia Air shares from Lorsin “for newsletter coverage for a period of 1 month.” A third tout, “OTC Weekly,” said that it received $250 in cash from Lorsin for “the distribution of this report and related materials to its e-mail members and for coverage on this website.” That may not seem like much, but in this case, $250 in hand may be a lot better than 3000, or even 5000, shares on an empty runway.

      What is Lorsin, and why is it willing to pay to promote Baltia Air? We found a company called Lorsin, Inc. that seems to be affiliated with a number of other businesses that promote penny stocks and emerging growth companies on the Internet - like Greedorfear.com; thestockplayers.com; worthalookstocks.com, and OTC Eagle.com. So far, however, none of those Lorsin related companies have been touting Baltia Air.

      Instead, other online promoters have been getting stock or cash to extol the Company. On March 9, 2002, the International Herald Tribune reported that a newsletter had been distributed by “SmallCap Central” in mid-February suggesting that Baltia Air was poised to capture substantial revenues from the JFK – St. Petersburg niche market. “Smallcap Central” is owned by Stockscape.com, which provides online reports on various companies. Stockscape reportedly received 50,000 free trading Baltia Air shares from an unnamed “third party” to distribute the e-mail.

      Who has been handing out all of those free-trading shares – at least 58,000 shares - to Lorsin and the other cyberspace promoters? Probably someone who stands to benefit from increased trading of Baltia Air shares.

      As a general proposition, investors should be wary of promotional e-mails that tell only one side of the story – the profit potential but not the risks. The Baltia Air e-mails are not research reports since they contain no research. Of course, not all dubious reports come from such obviously biased sources. As New York Attorney General Elliott Spitzer recently found, Merrill Lynch has been publicly recommending companies, even while its analysts circulate private internal e-mails disparaging those companies in the most unflattering terms.

      The promoters’ e-mails sound a common theme; Baltia Air, they say, has big plans for 2002, including service to eight domestic and international destinations – Russia, Latvia, the Ukraine, Belarus, Chicago, Orlando, Florida and Los Angeles. That’s not all. According to the promoters, Baltia Air plans to have 560 employees and operate seven aircraft - four Boeing 747-200’s and three Boeing 737-200’s – all before the end of the year 2002.

      With $3204 in the bank that would be a neat trick. The Company owns no planes, but its assets do include automobiles worth approximately $30,000 (before depreciation). Right now, that would make it more likely for Baltia Air to drive to St. Petersburg, Florida than to fly to St. Petersburg, Russia.


      Departure Delays

      Baltia Air has been trying to get off the ground since at least 1990, when it began seeking the right to schedule flights to the former Soviet Republics. In fact, in 1991 the United States Department of Transportation approved the Company’s application to fly passengers and cargo from JFK to St. Petersburg, Russia and Riga, Latvia, but that authorization was withdrawn in 1993 after Baltia Air was unable to come up with sufficient financing.

      The Company again received preliminary approval to fly the JFK- St. Petersburg route in 1998, subject to final FAA certification. Once again, however, the Department of Transportation terminated that authority when Baltia Air failed to raise the funds required to obtain the necessary aircraft and finance its business.

      Baltia Air seems plagued with an inability to raise meaningful money. The Company first filed for an Initial Public Offering in October 1997, listing Global Equities Group and Suncoast Capital Corp as the underwriters. As the Company filed amendment after amendment to the Registration Statement, the identity of the underwriters changed, first to Hobbs Melville Securities, then to Hornblower & Weeks and Madison Capital Corp., and finally, to Hornblower & Weeks alone.

      But that IPO never was completed. Instead it was aborted in early 1999 when CIBC Oppenheimer, Inc., the clearing firm for Hornblower & Weeks, called the whole thing off.

      A clearing broker (in this case CIBC Oppenheimer) clears customer transactions for a smaller brokerage firm called the introducing broker (here, Hornblower & Weeks). As part of that function, the clearing firm may provide necessary funds, lend money on margin, and enable the introducing broker to have sufficient capital available to underwrite a public offering. In effect, the clearing broker may provide the funds needed for closing the offering.

      In this case, the $5 million Baltia Air offering ended when CIBC Oppenheimer declined to close, reportedly because of unspecified concerns about the risks involved.

      Baltia sued CIBC Oppenheimer in both federal and state courts, trying to force the brokerage firm to close the IPO. Those lawsuits were dismissed, as were the Company’s subsequent attempts to appeal.

      Even if the IPO had gone forward, Baltia Air would have been hard-pressed to operate an international airline on the $4 million or so that would have remained after paying offering expenses. At the time, the Company planned to use a significant portion of the relatively small IPO proceeds to lease a single Boeing 747 airplane from Cathay Pacific Airlines, but its ability to make continued lease payments, or to pay for insurance and operating costs, was entirely dependent on future revenues.

      Compare this with Jet Blue. Better yet, don’t - even though Baltia Air’s President, Igor Dmitrowsky recently commented that “[t]he significant demand for the Jet Blue stock is very encouraging to Baltia Air Lines.” At the time it went public, Jet Blue was already operating 108 flights per day, served 19 cities, maintained a fleet of new aircraft, and had raised $175 million in private equity transactions. Jet Blue’s $165 million IPO dwarfs Baltia Air’s failed effort to raise $5 million in 1999 – or its continued inability to raise any significant funds.

      Baltia finally became a public company in December 2001, but not through an IPO. On December 20, 2001 the Company filed a Form S-8 registering 5,775,000 shares – 1,715,000 shares for its attorney Stefanie Lewis, and another 4,060,000 for an individual named Richard Charbit and his company, Yorktown Consultancy Services, Ltd. Charbit, who is identified as a business consultant, was also listed as a bridge lender, with an address in Paris, France, at the time of the failed IPO.

      Did the shares given to promoters come from one of those two selling shareholders, or from someone who bought the S-8 shares in the public market? Right now, there is no way for investors to know.

      The Company says it now has applied for listing on the OTC Bulletin Board. For investors, a fundamental question remains: where is Baltia Air going to get planes, and how will it pay for them? On January 10, 2002, an air industry publication called “Aircraft Insider” reported that Baltia planned to start flying a leased Boeing 747-200 airplane between JFK and St. Petersburg in June 2002. Then, on March 9, 2002, the International Herald Tribune said that Baltia planned to lease a plane from Flugledir HF., more commonly known as Icelandair.

      That would leave one big problem. Neither of those articles indicates how Baltia Air would pay for the leased airplane. June is just around the corner, but the Company has yet to announce any new source of funding. One more thing. Before it flies anywhere Baltia Air will again need to receive approval from the Department of Transportation and the FAA.


      Virtual Airline

      For the time being, voyagers looking to fly on Baltia Air will have to be content with a trip through cyberspace. The Company maintains a website where it provides details of planned frequent flier programs, in-flight magazines, exotic destinations, airport limousines and first class lounges. At this point those amenities exist only on the website. Baltia Air’s symbol is the rooster, but so far there is nothing much to crow about.

      The website also includes a Corporate Profile that says the Company plans to start its JFK-St. Petersburg flights in “the first part of 2002,” and to introduce three additional aircraft servicing five destinations later this year. The “first part of 2002” is fading fast, and it seems unlikely that Baltia air will be airborne any time soon. The Company, which promises to market its first flight two months in advance, has not yet scheduled a date for that initial takeoff. Then there is FAA certification, which Baltia Air says will take about 90 days. There is no indication that the Company has applied for that approval, or that it intends to move forward with the process before it raises sufficient funds.

      That places those e-mail newsletters in a better perspective. Baltia Air may have designs on a niche market, but there are significant obstacles to be surmounted before it is cleared for takeoff. For now, despite efforts to hype the stock, the Company remains in a holding pattern.
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      schrieb am 16.05.02 08:46:30
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      :) :) :)
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      schrieb am 18.05.02 03:44:14
      Beitrag Nr. 3 ()
      Hab das Teil auch bekommen, hier nochmal die Empfehlung für alle:

      Stockpixx Empfehlung Baltia Airlines Inc. BLTA.PK
      Heute stellen wir ihnen ein Unternehmen vor das in den nächsten 4 Wochen im Bulletin Board gelistet sein wird. Die US-Fluggesellschaft Baltia Airlines biete nonstop-Flüge zwischen dem JFK-Airport, New York und St. Petersburg, Russland an. Befördert werden Frachten, sowie auch Passagiere. Baltia ist aus unserer Sicht ein sehr aussichtsreiches Unternehmen welches man unbedingt im Auge behalten sollte. Nähere Informationen werden wir nachliefern.

      Werde den Newsletter abbestellen!
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      schrieb am 20.05.02 14:47:43
      Beitrag Nr. 4 ()
      kann bei stockpixx nix zu dem wert finden...
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      schrieb am 21.05.02 02:08:54
      Beitrag Nr. 5 ()
      Ham die wohl runtergenommen... lesen wohl auch ab und an im W:O board...ist schon komisch...hab den newsletter auch bekommen...
      vielleicht gibt`s unter Tel: 0451 400 7177 bzw. 0172 436 3477 mehr infos (nummern sind von der webseite von stockpixx).

      hier nochmal der newsletter, wo die empfehlung drinstand:

      Date: 14 May 2002

      Stockpixx.com Newsletter vom 14. Mai 2002

      1. Marktreport
      2. Stockpixx Empfehlung
      3. Performance-Übersicht



      1. Marktreport

      Hoffnung auf gute Zahlen

      Die Börse erwartet in dieser Woche die Bilanz-zahlen der Technologiekonzerne Applied Materials, Dell, HP sowie Computer Associates. Die Hoffnung auf positive Nachrichten beflügelte sämtliche Märkte. Der Dow Jones schaffte es wieder über die 10.000 Pukte Marke und auch der DAX liegt wieder bei über 5.000 Punkten. Besonders die High-Techs trugen dazu bei.
      Schlechter sieht es zurzeit auf dem Telekom-munikationsmarkt aus. Der japanische Konzern NTT verbuchte im letzten Geschäftsjahr einen Rekordverlust von 812 Mrd. Yen (über 7 Milliarden Euro). Im Vorjahr wurde noch ein Gewinn von 464 Mrd. Yen erwirtschaftet. Mobilcom musste im ersten Quartal 2002 einen Verlust vor Steuern, Zinsen und Abschreibungen von 120,7 Mio. Euro hinnehmen. Im ersten Quartal 2001 lag der Verlust nur bei 27,6 Mio. Euro. Das Unternehmen machte hauptsächlich Streitereien mit dem französischen Partner France Telecom für den gestiegenen Verlust verantwortlich. Die deutsche Telekom wird es schwer haben sich von ihren derzeitigen Tiefstständen zu erholen. Immer mehr Analysten wenden sich von der einstigen "Volksaktie" ab und verschärfen die Situation des angeschlagenen Unternehmens. Angesichts eines Schuldenberges von über 67 Mrd. Euro und eines Nettoverlustes von 3,5 Mrd. Euro im letzten Geschäftsjahr ist dies sehr gut nachzuvollziehen.



      2. Stockpixx Empfehlung Baltia Airlines Inc. BLTA.PK


      Heute stellen wir ihnen ein Unternehmen vor das in den nächsten 4 Wochen im Bulletin Board gelistet sein wird. Die US-Fluggesellschaft Baltia Airlines biete nonstop-Flüge zwischen dem JFK-Airport, New York und St. Petersburg, Russland an. Befördert werden Frachten, sowie auch Passagiere. Baltia ist aus unserer Sicht ein sehr aussichtsreiches Unternehmen welches man unbedingt im Auge behalten sollte. Nähere Informationen werden wir nachliefern.


      2.1 Stockpixx Empfehlung AVDI.OB WKN: 911506

      Jetzt meldet die Berliner Technologieholding Advanced Technology Industries den Durchbruch: billig, effizient und gleich mit mehreren Patenten gesichert ? die Dose mit Drehverschluss. Ex und zu statt ex und hopp. Marktpotential:
      fast nicht zu beziffern: 400 Mrd. Dosen werden pro Jahr hergestellt, ein halber Cent Lizenz-gebühr pro Dose, da kommen gewaltige Summen zusammen. Aber kann das sein: Der große Wurf
      für ein kleineres Unternehmen mit mittelmäßigen Bilanzen? Wir haben recherchiert: die alteingesessene Schweizer Adval-Gruppe,
      Weltmarktführer für Werkzeugmaschinen zur Dosen-produktion, hält das Produkt für ausgereift, will es selbst im Markt einführen und sieht eine Nachfrage von 40 Mrd. Dosen pro Jahr.

      Interbrew, eine der größten europäischen Brauereien, hat für Mai die erste Testserie bestellt, Holsten und Warsteiner ebenfalls. Wir warten ab, und empfehlen daher die Aktie weiterhin.




      3. Performance-Übersicht

      Stand 14. Mai 2002

      DAX: 5.051,55
      Dow Jones: 10.244,93
      Nasdaq: 1.705,13


      Advanced Technology Industries (AVDI.OB | WKN: 911506)
      empfohlen am 18.02.2002 bei 0,30 US$ aktuell 1,76 US$ Performance: +486,66 %

      Sungold Entertainment Corporation (SGGNF.OB | WKN: 608164) empfohlen am 01.10.2001 bei 0,12 US$ aktuell 0,23 US$ Performance: +91,66 %

      Global Industrial Services Inc. (GBSV.OB | WKN: 812616) empfohlen am 19.04.2002 bei 0,19 US$ aktuell 0,20 US$ Performance: +5,26 %

      HyperBaric Systems (HYRB.OB | WKN: 806614)
      empfohlen am 22.02.2002 bei 0,73 US$ aktuell 0,60 US$ Performance: -17,81 %



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