The Awful Deals

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• 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 »

• media putz

  Posted in Awful Business Plans on 20 Nov 07 by roadscholar.

  Did you hear the one about the media CEO in Colorado who wanted to raise money in two rounds?
  
  The first round was for $1 million.
  
  The second round was for $1 billion
  Read This Deal »

• family feud

  Posted in Awful Partners on 06 Nov 07 by roadscholar.

  Once there was this family on a tropical Island. The family had hundreds of acres of waterfront property that they could build on, yet they had no cash to do this.
  
  The easy fix to that … Read This Deal »

• See if you can guess this company's industry.

  Posted in Awful Partners on 27 Oct 07 by roadscholar.

  
  
  I was offered a business opportunity with a new firm. The firm had the following problems:
  
  1) They were under-capitalized. They were only at 10% of goal for year's end, … Read This Deal »

• No Money Down

  Posted in Awful Investments on 25 Oct 07 by daphnedianne.

  I had a client come to me looking for a loan to buy a half finished condo project in a declining market. He had experiance with a project like this, no money down and needed about $10,000,000 to buy a… Read This Deal »

• Blindsided by sunglasses

  Posted in Awful Business Ideas on 21 Oct 07 by bpw89.

  When I was in junior high, I hatched my first online business idea: selling fake Oakleys. The startup money ($100) came from my dad, as a bribe for good grades. I quickly bought a dozen pairs from a q… Read This Deal »

• garbage men

  Posted in Awful Business Plans on 21 Oct 07 by roadscholar.

  there was this firm that made incinerators, and they wanted to sell them all over the world. But they wanted to: "sell them, and get out." They had no desire to deal with any follow up or c… Read This Deal »

• skiing in Holland???

  Posted in Awful Business Plans on 18 Oct 07 by roadscholar.

  there was this group that wanted to to start a ski rental business, and ski school in The Netherlands. Did they know that The Netherlands is flat, and that the nearest mountains were 5 hours away?… Read This Deal »

• Gassed

  Posted in Awful Customer Service on 18 Oct 07 by jvenerable.

  The first and only time I sat in my car while I pumped gas, the safety lock decided not to work and all of a sudden, gas was spewing everywhere. I climbed through the passenger door, ran into the stor… Read This Deal »

• learn to sell for god's sake!

  Posted in Awful Sales People on 13 Oct 07 by schmoil.

  years ago, i witnessed a start up trading company filled with Morons.
  
  On one pitch, the prospect didn't want to pay any up front fees for this firm's services. they only wanted to pay a… Read This Deal »

• why patent it when no one can say it?

  Posted in Awful International Deals on 13 Oct 07 by schmoil.

  Let's call the company LsL. they wanted to sell their product in China. They were worried that they should patent and trademark the company name.
  
  This made no sense, as Chinese cannot … Read This Deal »

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