The Awful Deals

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• so whatever happened to Alan

  Posted in Miscellaneous on 12 May 10 by roadscholar.

  "you can always get me on my cell." sure....
  I can always get VOICE MAIL on your cell, but nothing else. So I'm calling, and calling, and leaving messages, and end up in voice m… Read This Deal »

• the big wine seller

  Posted in Awful International Deals on 12 May 10 by roadscholar.

  so, some schmeggeggie meets me, tells me how he is the official supplier of wine to the 1008 Olympics, and natters on and on about he met with "the government" and that they are buying wine … Read This Deal »

• oy! are you looking for a job or networking or what?

  Posted in Awful Sales People on 12 May 10 by roadscholar.

  so this dimbulb contacts me, wants to "network" and see if there is a "strategic fit" between our needs and our "abilities." Then he sticks me for the check for the coff… Read This Deal »

• michael, you putzvatik

  Posted in Awful Investments on 12 May 10 by roadscholar.

  so let me see....i have to pay you a commission up front, so that you can give me the name of a firm who needs money.
  
  let me get this straight. here we are in the middle of the biggest … Read This Deal »

• Moscoff you annoying little nebbish

  Posted in Awful Customer Service on 04 Feb 10 by roadscholar.

  Oy Moscoff
  
  So moscoff starts telling us how he knows how to manufacture anything you need in China. Meanwhile, the guy has never been there, knows nothing of the culture, and probably c… Read This Deal »

• Holdener, you putz.

  Posted in Awful Investments on 18 Jan 10 by roadscholar.

  Holdener, you putz.
  
  Holdener comes to us to raise a few million dollars. He tells us none of the money we will raise goes to pay him anything.
  
  Later, his CFO tells us tha… Read This Deal »

• awful market research

  Posted in Awful Business Plans on 10 Jun 09 by bpw89.

  A friend of mine approached me with a business plan to automate billing at parking garages, using a camera to read each car's license plate. So I did a search online, and it turned out that 5-6 c… Read This Deal »

• jeff, you schmendrick

  Posted in Awful Product Offerings on 03 Jun 09 by roadscholar.

  so jeff sends me numerous emails about some health care deal, and of course, doesn't know who he is sending them to!
  I don't know healthcare. I don't do healthcare, and I don… Read This Deal »

• the mad scientist with the great invention

  Posted in Awful Partners on 24 May 09 by roadscholar.

  So this brilliant inventor has this world changing environmental product. He showed my his business plan, and he intends to sell $20 billion worth of this product in the next few years.
  
  … Read This Deal »

• Sell me the goodies, I’ll pay you later.

  Posted in Awful Business Plans on 15 May 09 by roadscholar.

  That’s kind of like Wimpy, the Popeye character “I’ll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today.”
  
  The Russian doctor with the old brother in law in Moscow. B… Read This Deal »

• the moron with lumps in his head

  Posted in Awful Business Plans on 14 May 09 by roadscholar.

  So this absolute moron goes out and spends a million bucks in equipment that depreciated, and became worthless. He did this of course, with someone else’s money.
  
  When it became ti… Read This Deal »

• 9 years, no profit

  Posted in Awful Bosses on 28 Mar 09 by roadscholar.

  after running a company, this guy didn't show a profit for 9 years. 9 years!
  
  rather than admitting he was a moron, he blamed every employee and consultant who worked there.
  … Read This Deal »

• strike 3, you are out

  Posted in Awful Partners on 18 Mar 09 by roadscholar.

  so this guy wants to be my business partner on some deals.
  1) i invite him to a meeting, and he doesn't show up. After everyone has arrived and the meeting started, he sent me an email say… Read This Deal »

• the bad bus company

  Posted in Awful Negotiations on 25 Feb 09 by roadscholar.

  So there is this firm that makes busses. They want to sell them all over the world. However, they don’t want to spend any money doing it.
  
  They told us to go out, find out what the… Read This Deal »

• i want a commision for a lead

  Posted in Awful Partners on 29 Jan 09 by roadscholar.

  so this guy has a company that needs financing. He wants our firm to help him find money.
  
  But the firm that needs money hasn't been revealed to us.
  
  The "deal f… Read This Deal »

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