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  • 21-04-2009 9:43pm
    #1
    Atwork
    Closed Accounts Posts: 98 ✭✭


    In the appointments page of my local rag I spotted the following ad,

    INVESTOR WILLING TO invest up to €50 in a business. Please send your detailed business ideas to box number####.

    It made me laugh anyway.
    Have you ever seen anything as dodgy as this before?


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  • #2
    galwayrush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,815 ✭✭✭✭galwayrush


    You can buy a Bank in Iceland for less.:D


  • #3
    Insect Overlord
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 30,972 Mod ✭✭✭✭Insect Overlord


    It could be a private prank, an in-joke.


  • #4
    bobcar61
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,797 ✭✭✭bobcar61


    Did you see that in the Sligo Post? I saw it too.I'm hoping it was someone taking the p!ss but I can't believe it was published.


  • #5
    javaboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,094 ✭✭✭✭javaboy


    Could be that it's meant to say €50k or that the investor is expecting people to know it means €50,000 and couldn't be bothered paying for an extra letter.


  • #6
    Atwork
    Closed Accounts Posts: 98 ✭✭Atwork


    bobcar61 wrote: »
    Did you see that in the Sligo Post? I saw it too.I'm hoping it was someone taking the p!ss but I can't believe it was published.

    close, The Sligo Champion. Have the people working in these newspapers no cop on, even if it was a joke. I still think it was a chancer


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  • #7
    Atwork
    Closed Accounts Posts: 98 ✭✭Atwork


    javaboy wrote: »
    Could be that it's meant to say €50k or that the investor is expecting people to know it means €50,000 and couldn't be bothered paying for an extra letter.


    I was thinking that may have been the case, but I dont think anybody who had a genuine detailed business plan would sent it to God knows who even if it was 50K. Can you imagine how much work would have gone into it.


  • #8
    bobcar61
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,797 ✭✭✭bobcar61


    I knew it was one or the other seeing as they are both out on Wednesdays I couldn't remember which one it was I saw it in.
    I'm nearly sure it wasn't meant to be €50k or €50,000. If you were willing to invest that much,surely then you would pay for the extra characters in the ad:confused:


  • #9
    Quazzie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,309 ✭✭✭✭Quazzie


    There is recession on. The papers will be happy from any revenue created from ads no matter they say.


  • #10
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    I'm pretty sure it's just a really really clever double entendre.


    Oh wait.... published in Sligo you say? Nah - forget it, it's a scam!


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