rent the movie boiler room to understand what the bulletin board and pink sheets are all about. these are worthless companies that get pumped and dumped into. basically the boiler rooms sell their worthless shares to people which are hype. back in the old days there used to be boiler rooms all over the internet that would put out stocks and people would buy them, and in the end usually get holding the bag. the officers will own a lot of shares, and they will dilute the hell out of the stock and use that money to continue operations in a company that makes nothing so that they can continue paying themselves a salary and keep their jobs.