Richest Man In The World

So here it is, story of the year. Some future customers of ours flew in today from Puerto Rico to take a look at our facility, negotiate, and to just let us know everything that they were looking for. One of the things they wanted was a van which we would customize. Since we didn't have any we told some local dealership we were looking to get a HUGE order and might possibly need 100 vans just so they would let us borrow one for the day. Even if we get the order we would really only need 3.

So they show up and since we have no production going on they made up a story about how this is just the R&D facility and that our manufacturing plant was in another location. That worked out well for us since we give a false address for our company on our website which just happened to be where these guys were driving to until we called them this morning and told them they were heading to the wrong address.

As they were having their meeting we find out the guys that are here, their boss, is the world's richest man, Carlos Slim Helu. So as you know in my last post they kind of operation we are running. So I can only imagine what will happen if this deal goes bad since these guys basically run all telecommunications in Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic. So does my boss think he can take these guys money and not follow through? We will find out, but I don't want to be around when that time comes.

Oh we are not done yet. So during the meeting they start talking about cost. Has anyone ever seen the episode of 2 1/2 men where Charlie tried to bribe Jake with money to get him to take bale lessons. Well Jake says he wants $1000 and Charlie says I'll give you $500, and Allen says to Jake "split the difference" so Jake says $250. Yea it's funny but not in real life when your company is broke. So it went like this. These guys offer us a decent amount thinking we would come back with a higher price like a normal negotiation. So our owner says to them, "I can beat that, how about this much" which was quite a bit lower. WOW Thats all I could say. I'm sure there will be more to come tomorrow.