The Awful Deals

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• 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 »

• 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 »

• 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 »

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