Awww, shucks, grudgy, bassy, thanks for the welcome mat. I didn't realise you cared, I'm all welling up here.
No, it wasn't me chasing the dragon yesterday bass-man, I was banged up in solitary. But now that I'm out on parole I'm getting a whiff of the Chinese stir-fry that's clearly got some punters frothing at the wallet, ... although too many unidentified ingredients for my wary palate.
Monday's ann referred to a second China beachhead, ... I'm out of touch with news from the front lines, which was the first? Any connection with the ann of 18/09/06: "Payment solution for Chinese gaming industry: - Global payment solution provider Ezybonds partners with GoConnect Australia to provide payment-processing solution exclusively to China's gaming industry" ... or was that another campaign? How far did the GCN & Ezybond alliance advance into that estimated US$100+ billion gaming expenditure territory?
And re the GCN ann of 15/11/2006, "Partnering with Universal Gaming in Online Poker", which advised that a new company was to be formed by GoConnect and Universal to operate the Internet site of NutsPoker and "Initial marketing efforts will be directed at SE Asia with China a target for 2007." Did those big guns hit the Chinese bullseye, or does "Nuts" say it all? (www.nutspoker.com, http://online.worldcasinodirectory.com/nuts-poker)
Is this ancient history relevant to the current storming of China's shores? That ann ann of 18/09/2006 refers to Ezybonds partnering with GoConnect, saying that it would "offer a compelling, highly competitive online payment platform to consumers" and "the new partnership aims to become the leading payment solution provider to the gaming industry in China." That arrangement obviously wasn't compelling enough to turn GCN profitable. Five years later almost to the day, the 08/09/2011 ann refers to the link up between GCN, P1 and Ezybonds again, saying not only that the arrangement "strengthens the commercial proposition of the joint venture ..." but that it "... provides further confirmation of its holistic approach to the merchant/consumer dynamic." Whatever that new age sounding stuff means, might a sceptic be excused for thinking "here we go again"?
GCN Price at posting:
1.9¢ Sentiment: None Disclosure: Not Held
