I bought it at 16, held it through 70, and now it s worth like 30 cents a share. In my defense, it was just one more company worth billions with a crappy business model and no profits on the horizon, and I was probably drunk when I placed the purchase order, damn Ameritrade to hell. Besides, I figured if anyone was going to make money on the internet it was going to be the advertisers, who always seem to make money. Turns out the only people making money on the internet are in porn. I m going to log on now and buy some porn stock.
Car commercials are a perfect example.
They cost millions to make, millions more to air, and I have never in my life looked at a car because of a TV commercial. I see them on the road, I read about them in Consumer Reports, then I get interested. Maybe, and it s a pretty long maybe, commercials for upcoming movies can generate a little hype. To be fair, I did have a friend in grad school who broke down at 3AM after hours and hours of 1-900 commercials and called one. Horny single women looking for you.