Investor Opportunity: A Message From Paul Elio

[JEBar]

Since EM is using the 506(c) exemption, it only makes sense to solicit the reservation holders. Its an existing database of people with an interest in making this project succeed. Personally, I was surprised that the minimum investment was only $15,000. For an offering this size, that's pretty low and means a lot of paperwork if too many only put in the minimum.

agree and also believe that EM (meaning Paul) is well aware of the reaction/alarm at the news of funding issues .... I believe that this is one effort on their part to make reservation holders and other interested parties aware of one of the ways they are working on resolving the problem .... there are no doubt others and as time goes on, info on them may be released .... its been a week since the reports that they were going to release funding news, this may be that announcement

 

[Karg]

It's time for Gates and his Fortune 500 buddies to stop hiding in their closets.
The video needs to be posted to youtube, along with some of my old movies.

 

[Jim H]

snipped........This means that officially the investors in this round of funding would be bond holders who can opt to either receive their bond payments or accept equity in the company. Bond holders are also ahead in line if the company were to fail so theoretically they would stand a chance at recovering some portion of the investment if that were to happen. This would make the investment safer than simple equity investing thus should make it easier for EM to find investors.

I don't think I would count on that because the government voided bondholder protection when they bailed out General Motors. There is a new precedent as a result of the government bailout and the century old precedent of protection of bondholders is not longer sacrosanct.

 

[RUCRAYZE]

Why is it,in our small bubble, we see this as a great opportunity, yet you'd think the big $ would be beating a path to EM"s door?

To me, although others disagree, appealing to reservationists specifically, and having retained a company dedicated to finding $ , this is counter-intuitive. I get it- tapping as many sources as possible, but appealing to a small group 40K and if we use the old 1% of individuals, lets just say there are 5% reservationists that could afford this, we're only talking 2k individuals. The powerful use of the 40k reservationists is a great position for EM, I expect that if big $ sees this outreach, it will work against EM

 

[RUCRAYZE]

It's time for Gates and his Fortune 500 buddies to stop hiding in their closets.
The video needs to be posted to youtube, along with some of my old movies.

Do you really think Gates are hiding from investing? He personally doesn't have to. He has so much cash to give away, he has a beautiful building (and staff) working on issues we take for granted- clean easily manufactured water, getting undeveloped countries easy, cheap access to the web.
Hum, so we post the video, of course investment specialists must scan youtube for opportunities?

This project is not worth a fortune 500 company wasting their time looking at this peanut of a corporation. Now with Warren Buffett putting Hathaway in play, they would be hard pressed to consider this. They make more money spending millions buying an idea for a piece of the internet pie, then will ever come close to the potential for the E

 

[Rickb]

I went to check the reservation counter today and found this: http://www.eliomotors.com/investor-inquiries/

So the question of when/how it goes public is somewhat answered. Also, I don't think Paul Elio was reaching out to "you" as an individual, expecting you to contribute. Many reservation holders have inquired about how they can invest, and so he sent this email for the benefit of those people. The e-mail also served as a heads-up so that you weren't surprised when you saw the tab on the website.

I think this is a step that many have been asking for. I think they just got into a position where this is possible without as many negative side effects. And that could be related to what other have been saying about the change in federal law.

Paul Elio was reaching out to me personally. My name was on his email offering me the investment opportunity of a lifetime.

 

[Rickb]

If only I had $15K to risk -- but I don't. I thought this was a masterful pitch, and explained some things more clearly than they had been. I'm sure part of the logic of this play for small investors is that we would never have the control that block investors require -- nor would we want it. That's got to be important to Paul (heck, I know it is). Only downside -- it suggests that the company really is having trouble landing the whales they want and is giving us minnows a chance to nibble.

...........or use the not so savvy minnow as bait.

 

[RUCRAYZE]

I like this a lot as well. Though I was very disappointed Paul wasn't holding his Starbucks!

Maybe Howard didn't want to pay for "positioning" ! To state the obvious, there are many companies offering a great cup of coffee, for a more economical price, now if you take a cup of coffee, and drink one every 84 miles, you could save.....
lol

 

[CompTrex]

Maybe Howard didn't want to pay for "positioning" ! To state the obvious, there are many companies offering a great cup of coffee, for a more economical price, now if you take a cup of coffee, and drink one every 84 miles, you could save.....
lol

Oh look! McCoffee-drinking-dude going down a rabbit trail! Alert the authorities!...OK. I'm better...

 

[Past Fanatic]

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Yes they are my words as I wrote them. I have to wonder about your reading comprehension skills as I can't find where I accused you of writing that.
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Correct, I was just pointing out that 'One of the Faithful" came up with the 'suggestion' that this might be an attempt for Elio Motors to be "cashing out and running away" ...... and NOT a 'nay-sayer'! Seems like some 'doubts', may slowly be creeping in, ..... even if 'sub-consciously'.