Just got off the phone with ABI at his store; as I figured, he's been busy with the store and some of his immediate family getting sick.

He's agreed to get on the forums today or tomorrow to show that he hasn't disappeared and is still planning on making payments. He said that he's got a Coinbase transfer initiated for XXX that should be completed first half of next week.

He's a busy guy and has been since we first started talking when this thing started, but I'll admit that I'm just as frustrated as other investors are here. It's not fair to leave the us in the lurch and not let us know what's going on and, obviously, be so late on payments.

I did my best to impress upon him the seriousness of needing to pay dividends on time and show up to the forums to let people know what's going on, but it was an uphill battle. Less that he's not going to pay, and more of me nagging him to get a monthly report done or pay an overdue bill that he's been putting off.

That being said, I feel the need to try and protect my reputation here - I did vouch for him when he set this up and I invested in XXX myself. I also confirmed that he does own the appliance store, as I'd seen proof of that long before AS was an idea.

I don't think that he's going to run off with the funds, but I do think that the investment opportunities have taken a backseat to his local business and family.

That being said, I wouldn't recommend that anyone put any more money into the companies here on the forum - the businesses themselves are real, but lack of information here on the forum and the late payments aren't fair to the investors. Also, as I've said before, I believe that he's simply spread too thin among the two offerings, the deal with Klye (which I'm not a fan of), and his local/IRL business.

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