If someone has the will to invent and
sell a worthless product, what else are they willing to do?
And there are plenty of opportunists out there willing to
sell you worthless remedies.
To illustrate this power, Carlson uses the wonderful example of The Significant Objects Project, in which researchers were able to
sell worthless baubles on eBay for surprising amounts because they linked each one with a compelling story.
For two years, a group of authors has been trying to make a legal case against author services provider Author Solutions, claiming that they engaged in a fraudulent scheme to
sell worthless marketing services.
The banks didn't mind making so - called NINJA loans (No Income / No Job) since they would quickly
sell the worthless instrument to unsuspecting investors just about as soon as the deals were completed.
better
sell your worthless citizenship before it tanks like the rest of the economy.
They ingest more drugs than seems humanly possible,
sell worthless stocks to anyone they can get on the phone, paw at every woman that comes near with a kind of slobbering, animalistic desperation, and (spoiler alert) more or less get away with it.
I am sorry you have missed the gold mine and been
sold worthless lies.
Another con man, who
sold worthless car insurance to Manchester students, was jailed for three years, while an illegal adviser who sold fake motor insurance to over 100 drivers in west Yorkshire was jailed for a year.
Exploiting the sick and the dying for profit by
selling them worthless products seems reprehensible to me.
(In Cantonese with subtitles) Ladron Que Roba a Ladron (PG - 13 for profanity and sexuality) Crime caper about a couple of career crooks (Fernando Colunga and Miguel Varoni) who come out of retirement to rob a TV infomercial guru (Saul Lisazo) who has made millions by
selling worthless health products to poor Latino day laborers.
If you get a quote that's too good to be true, or you've never heard of the company trying to flog you cover, double - check it's not a «ghost broker»
selling you worthless insurance.
In my posts about Enron, I discussed their «trick» — in order to avoid reporting business losses, losses which would have punctured the mirage and prevented them from raising fresh money to keep the scheme alive —
they sold worthless assets to off balance sheet limited partnerships with complicated guarantees.
They defrauded about 24,000 victims in the US of about $ 7 million by
selling worthless pre-approved credit cards and loans.
Some are even outright scams or ICO pyramid schemes, where people simply hype up and start
selling worthless tokens.
Typically such coins will use misleading technical - sounding jargon to try dupe investors into thinking they are investing in the next Bitcoin when really they are being
sold worthless tokens.
Not exact matches
Madigan charged two companies with deceptive marketing for
selling bogus or
worthless services.
Bamford supports his position by saying Russia would not have published the hacks — let alone try to
sell them — because exposing them makes them
worthless, as the affected companies (which also include HP and Dell) would quickly patch their vulnerabilities.
When
selling calls, the hope is that they will expire
worthless, so the max profit is equal to your execution price.
Jeff I figure at best Canada has 50 years to
sell oil and then renewables, safer nuclear, electric cars and greater energy efficiency will make the oil sands
worthless.
By
selling just slightly out of the money puts, you not only increase the premium you receive, but you also increase the profit potential if the options ultimately expire
worthless.
We explained to our subscribers that ``... The idea of this trade is that
selling the nearer dated call can cheapen the cost of buying the longer dated call, especially if the nearer dated call expired
worthless.
Specifically, banks were accused of aggressive lending practices, sloppy internal compliance, highly leveraged balance sheets as well as the formation of an array of
worthless financial products which were
sold to unsophisticated investors.
There are many companies
selling linking services that are absolutely 100 %
worthless.
Warrants not
sold or exercised will lapse
worthless.
A farmer in Venezuela can
sell his goods for Bitcoin instead of
worthless bolivars.
For instance, if at the expiration of the put contract the stock reaches your $ 70 price target, you might then choose to
sell the stock for a pretax profit of $ 1,700 ($ 2,000 profit on the underlying stock less the $ 300 cost of the option) and the option would expire
worthless.
But when it's all about
selling records and T - shirts, it's
worthless.
Furthermore, «predictions» in any ancient book are
worthless unless they can name SPECIFIC future events, names, scores at sporting events, when to
sell or buy stocks, etc., which your
worthless tome of a bible certainly DOES NOT!!!
Beck has some sort of partnership with a company that
sells gold (as in «be VERY scared, paper is
worthless, only GOLD is valuable.
When the RCC
sells indulgences, it is showing the world proof that there is no god and that your Jesus has zero power to change anything one way or the other and is likewise
worthless.
3 — I know this may sound diabolical: The repurposed food product, often rendered
worthless by all the successive tempering steps taken with it, is at this point marketed and
sold as a fantastic food that we worked very hard to make more nutritious and more beneficial than the one we started with.
SEE MORE: Five reasons why Liverpool star Raheem Sterling will never be
sold to Man United Former Manchester United flop felt
worthless during unhappy time at Old Trafford Man United handed chance to sign Real Madrid star, # 200k a week World Cup winner set for summer switch
that's it i leave this site in the past weeks they do nt produce anything but
worthless junk just to
sell ads we fans need a proper and serious site beside DM and striker
total benchwarmer... and FAB, he was played his part, but after dat wat did BARCA win at the end, barely anything... just for an example look at 1 of our legends HENRY who left ARSENAL, not for d money, but just 2 play besides RONALDINHO, 1 of the best mid-fielders in d worlds back then and wat did he get, nothin, infact BARCA
sold RON dat season, making dat transfer, totally
worthless..
His experience at Goldman, however, will be «invaluable» in his new role as Treasury Secretary, the spokesperson said: «Lloyd Blankfein's years of marketing
worthless securities have prepared him for the important task of
selling Treasuries to the Chinese.»
Because of the court battles, the institute has been limited in the amount of grants it can give because it can't
sell bonds to raise funds as they may be
worthless if the court ultimately overturns the proposition or the panel.
During witty repartee with «Max,» Ethan reemphasized that the disk
sold to her by Job was «
worthless... it's bait, part of an internal molehunt,» and told her he wanted to ask Job why he had been «disavowed» - he then promised to «deliver the actual NOC list,» while warning her not to open up the «
worthless» disk that was equipped with a homing device, that would automatically summon CIA agents within no more than 10 minutes.
If those contracts are not accepted at other dealerships, they become
worthless to customers who move away from the dealerships that
sold them the contracts.
Families bought into building dealerships,
selling product and honoring warranties and then when Fiat / Alfa realized they could not survive in the US walked away leaving hard working Americans holding the bag and
worthless product that no one wanted to buy, dealerships that folded and destroyed families.
Alfa for sure is more valuable if they just tried to
sell the brand off to a highest bidder, Chrysler and Dodge are basically
worthless, Alfa could fetch a several billion if they
sold it.
T - Mobile thought it was okay to change my order to one of the
worthless Curves they already have in stock, (which they realize they will have a lot of trouble
selling for even 50 bucks at this point) and decide to send me this, charge me 99.99 with a $ 50 mail in rebate... because they are «temporarily out of stock».
Coffee table books and art books are kind of
worthless on the Kindle, and they're harder to
sell online than in a physical store, where people can pick them up and thumb through them.
The first thing to understand about ebook spam, pirated content, and PLR content (PLR books are titles that were written by one author with the intention of
selling that title to other would - be authors who wish to put their names on it and
sell it as their own original work, resulting in multiple copies of the same
worthless book flooding the catalog) is that the various retailers and distributors who make ebooks available to the general public are all doing their utmost to protect the integrity of their catalogs.
There are a lot of people taking advantage of people who want to write a book and
selling them services that are
worthless.
The publishers will focus on a release date of the book where the hope is a lot of copies will
sell very quickly, then when that date has faded into the past, the book will be basically tossed out, reverted back to the author, considered
worthless to the publisher if it is not
selling some magic number of copies set by a computer buried in some bunker somewhere.
Comcast sued for $ 100 million for
selling «near -
worthless» service plans (The Next Web) Washington state is claiming that company representative out and out lied about the plans.
In fact after browsing through Google for
sell sheet design examples, I'm pretty convinced they're
worthless.
I
sell the contracts when they are expensive (high volatility) and I buy them back when they are cheap (or they expire
worthless).
The objective is, if coffee trades higher over the next month but not above the 130 strike price, we'd collect the premium of the option we
sold by letting it expire
worthless.