The Awful Deals

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• 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 »

• lying full of doodybombs physicist

  Posted in Awful Partners on 02 Jan 09 by roadscholar.

  Well,
  It all started when this guy Al told us to go out and sell and product, and then, he would build it.
  Insanity 1.
  
  It turns out his head was so far up his pitootie, t… Read This Deal »

• noise pollution

  Posted in Miscellaneous on 29 Sep 08 by roadscholar.

  At Copper resort, one of the Condo units keeps flooding. To remedy this, loud, outside pumps are being used to pump out the water.
  
  While the basement isn’t flooding in that build… Read This Deal »

• Moronic Software Company

  Posted in Awful Negotiations on 26 Sep 08 by roadscholar.

  Moronic Software Company
  
  I called a software company today, and told them we had a buyer for their technology in Asia. We weren’t asking them for any money at all.
  
  … Read This Deal »

• Bad Car Company

  Posted in Awful Negotiations on 26 Sep 08 by roadscholar.

  There was this firm making electric cars and trying to sell them all over the world. When they asked us for help, they didn’t want to pay us (they wanted to do a commission deal, which would tak… Read This Deal »

• The neighborhood advertising barons

  Posted in Awful Advertising on 02 Apr 08 by bpw89.

  A few years ago, as I was building my computer tech support business, I had been placing simple ads in the 'services offered' classifieds of some local homeowners association newsletters. Th… Read This Deal »

• The Fool suppliers (I mean school supplies)

  Posted in Awful Investments on 20 Feb 08 by roadscholar.

  So this firm approaches us to raise millions of dollars for a new school supply business. When we read the financials, the CEO (Dr. Putz) expects to withdraw hundreds of thousands of dollars from the … Read This Deal »

• Duped by India

  Posted in Awful Employees on 27 Nov 07 by roadscholar.

  Jennifer was a project manager for a large telecommunications firm. She was assigned and Indian software factory to manage.
  
  Naturally, she had no expertise whatsoever in dealing with In… Read This Deal »

• Janelle and her Moron friend

  Posted in Awful Negotiations on 26 Nov 07 by roadscholar.

  So Janelle goes and hands my phone number to some moron. She does this without asking me, of course.
  
  My phone rings. The moron tells me he got my number from Janelle, and he is launchin… Read This Deal »

• My brother is in russia, don't worry

  Posted in Awful International Deals on 20 Nov 07 by bpw89.

  About the time the Soviet Union broke up (1992) every American of Russian heritage decided that they would trade with Russia. Of course, no one seemed to have any money to purchase products, so they o… Read This Deal »

• Sourcing in China, with no clue

  Posted in Awful International Deals on 20 Nov 07 by bpw89.

  There was this company in New York trying to build construction projects in China. The firm had no experience in China. The firm had no employees in China. The firm had no clue whatsoever how to deal … Read This Deal »

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