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Doable I suppose, but it makes keeping track of what's actually %25 of the company - or what % of the company any one person has, voting shares or not - trickier. My US stocks would effectively be worth more if the dollar gains on the pound, and less if it falls in relation to it. If the BP...

I guess the alternative would be that a US share wouldn't be worth a BP share...but that could get ugly quickly with shares of the company fluctuating as currency prices fluctuate. Easier to say 1 share is definitively worth % of the company, and share price is X in 1 currency. You can...

Kinda, but not really. If somebody in the U.K. bought 1000 shares at 1k BP today, and I bought 1000 shares at 1k USD, I've only paid .637 or some close fraction of that for those shares. So I'm automatically making "more" off of my investment than the guy who put in 1k BP. He invested more...

Well, the currency conversion, both at time of stock purchase, and if somebody sells or transfers their sales, would need to be done. For dividends, too, for that matter. $1 US isn't worth 1 UK Pound, so it wouldn't be fair to anybody, except maybe the guys in the U.S., to say $1USD = 1 share...

Might be a day late, but happy belated birthday ED!

Mr. Beam, I full endorse that slogan!

Sorry to hear about the crack. Well, RMA unit if you really want to...or loosen screw and some form of glue/adhesive so it doesn't get worse / dust get in there. I don't know the right type of glue if you go this route. It won't HIDE the crack, but may prevent it from getting worse. I don't...

I'd watch what happens with this latest batch of components. Two months is probably a little unrealistic for somebody at the tail end of the batch2 queue when most of batch1 isn't yet out the door, but if OpenPandora has the component problems resolved 3-4 months is probably doable. (And if...

Edit: didn't need to quote the original question. 1. This is the goal for somewhere in batch 3+, I believe. OpenPandora put up the development money for batch 1, but to actually produce the product I believe they needed some of the pre-order money. 2. I don't believe they have enough money...

I probably should've said Craig & Co. I don't really know who has what obligations. I believe most people who were involved in developing the Pandora will continue to have an influence in the company. It sounds like Craig's main obligation to ED is to deliver the rest of the Pandoras for ED's...

Influence? Maybe. Prevent, not likely. They'd simply be giving the Open Pandora more money to work with, and Craig's keeping %75 of the company, so any vote, even a "super majority" vote, he wins. I don't believe that the numbers the Pandora is working with represent a large enough market...

DaMummy - it shouldn't flood you with paperwork, but it's worth reading up on. It's probably simplest to declare it as income and eat the $20 extra in taxes rather than trying to file it properly as an oversees investment being taxed in the U.K. 'Course, don't take my word for it. IANAL or...

Okay, I lied about giving up the floor. :-b I just figured if you're a minimum investor and in a year you get - lets throw out a generous number - 1/4 of your investment back in dividends the time and possible expense to go through filing the proper forms to not pay the taxes probably isn't...

ED, thank you for the update. I'm *hoping* a large reason costs were high was because of the number of revisions, delays, and quality control issues. We haven't yet seen the fruits of the latest nub revision - was there a board revision too? - or the final case tweak or two. If most of these...

Edit: Not sure if you're referring to my posts or Craig's. Mainly I was playing with numbers, seeing how things broke down a little bit. And I had math on the head after doing my homework. :-b If I invest it'll be with the same outlook as when I purchased my Pandora - because I have the...

One thing about the minimum number, a lot of people may be willing to put some money out in a "bad" investment just to be part of the team - as long as there's no debt liability. Generally, in the U.S., if the company can't keep up it simply goes bankrupt leaving the investors out of it...

Edit: this line - The prospectus or offer letter will need to make sense. So, let's go with a rough figure of 300k from us investors - an average investment of 3k. More may make more sense from Craig's point of view, with some minimum to make sense for him to do this. We'll call this 25% of...

10 years of cruising in tech support. At least not end user tech support *shudders at my couple years at AOL*, but still. Still doing that and back in school for a CS degree so I can program games and sell them on the eclectic web based shop I'm working on getting off the ground. :-b Edit...

I like Mr. Loons suggestions. I'm interested, don't know for how much. I'll be watching for the official website and the details of the investment. And I hope the next couple rounds of part orders go well.

BosBeetle, There are few people who are really hurting for money, but they exist out there. Most of us really aren't willing to sacrifice to save money. How much does a restaurant sized bag of rice, bag of beans, some veggies, and a few chicken breasts really cost for a couple months of...