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[roog] 22/10/2000 11:54

Their search engine is failing now, insisting that my request is invalid.
See how it should be done at www.getmapping.com

[clem] 22/10/2000 03:24

Server down Sunday morning from here.

[the wah] 21/10/2000 21:35

Finally got through to the website,keyed in the postcode for sample of product,and half the image is in deep shadow! Our village store sells postcards with an aerial view that you can identify our garage roof on,for 40p.
They want £60 or something for a mess that could be anywhere.
I've seen better images from the Soviet spy satellite that were shown on the net.

[panorama] 21/10/2000 11:18

In addition - Lord Fellowes resigned yesterday, he obviously checked out the website too! Story front page DTel today. Server down also!

[panorama] 20/10/2000 19:17

It was the laying on of hands that did it!

Seriously, I tried to log on to their website a number of times from three different locations during the last ten days to maybe do business with them and could not get into their first page fully, let alone a tele. no. In desperation I gave them a ring (ex REFS) and talked to a techie who was most suprised and suggested I try again, or place an order via phone. He went on to add that maybe my version of Windows was suspect!

I tried again today and suprise suprise they have posted a front page stating the site is undergoing redevelopment. I believe their business model is for sales to be mainly online!. Its amazing that the management can allow such a message, and not a few simple pages, to explain what the business is 'trying' to offer potential customers, and explain the product range etc to acertain if it is worth bothering to telephone. I wonder if somebody at Getmapping decided to stopnapping and put this page up on the very day they announce their results.

CE Tristram Cary said today that delays in developing their website and loading data have affected sales, but these problems are now solved!!! Why make such a statement when this is obviously not so - I wonder if he has tried his own website recently, or even today.

Why are some Dot COM companies allowed to treat potential customers trying to do business over the net with such contempt and get away with it. This kind of naive business practice does nothing to instill confidence in getting people to treat the Internet as a serious means of doing business - or indeed, indicate that there is a real business behind the front of a dot.com.

With a 40% drop in share price today, perhaps their investors may ask the same questions - HM The Queen, her cohort Rt Hon Lord Fellowes (Director) and the rest.

Yours,
from an manager in Website production and trying hard to believe the internet will catch on and be something that can be trusted in the not too distant future!

[addo] 20/10/2000 18:03

I think Sarah Ferguson has been shorting it :-)))

[jonc] 20/10/2000 17:49

Interim results I assume:



Regards

Jon C

[decmac] 20/10/2000 17:43

I just logged on and see GMP dropped 41% today. I just wondered if anyone saw any news that would explain such a drop. I know that HM the Queen had a sizeable stake - she had an audience with the Pope the other day and I wonder if it was something he said!

decmac

[vertigo] 12/7/2000 13:55

Can't believe I started this thread and never bought any myself :o(V

[matthewa] 12/7/2000 13:03

Up over 10% today. Chart break out time?

Regards,

Matthew

[aquila] 10/7/2000 16:00

V, iigobi! I'm in v.dangerous territory at the moment, you know, the "need" to trade zone..Aargh, good luck,regards,A.

Ps. can't get connected to getmapping.com, gets an error message...?

[vertigo] 10/7/2000 15:55

Hi A

Hard to know when or if to buy in though :o(

[aquila] 10/7/2000 15:41

V, this is the one the Queen bought into, lots of positive press coverage. As you suggest, broken the (inevitable) downtrend post float, on my monitor!

regards,A.

[vertigo] 10/7/2000 15:26

Anyone looked at these recently - the graph caught my eye (have you noticed how many anti chart threads there are these days since the tech stocks took a big fall!!!!). They floated in April (what timing) and seem to have fallen around 64% since then, bottoming out beginning of June. However since then they have risen steadily with hardly a single days decline, and are now up some 59% from their low.Vertigo