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The Batlord · 11-05-2017, 07:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Trollheart

For god's sake, just get a room, you two, will you?

If it's non-smoking then I'm bailing.

Chula Vista · 11-05-2017, 09:56 PM

Have a breakfast meeting downtown with the owner of a China factory that we've worked with for years. He's interested in us (under a new company name) being his US sales and new business representative. He has no contacts whatsoever here and would like us to find him new revenue.

This is a great opportunity for us (me, my boss, and his wife) to stay alive moving forward.

In other news: As part of our settlement in the recent lawsuit the two parties agreed to pays us a 2.5% commission on sales of the products they stole from us for 5 years on a quarterly basis. Would work out to about $50K net profit (pure cash) every 3 months.

At the last minute their lawyers changed the terms from "commission based on products ordered from July 1st, 2017" to "commission based on products ordered AND PAID FOR from July 1st, 2017".

Based on pure exhaustion and frustration my boss and our lawyers agreed.

HUGE MISTAKE.

Order placed on July 1st. Production lead time is 10 weeks. Megacorp gets invoiced but they have 90 day terms. So the product isn't PAID FOR until approx. December 10th.

We just got screwed out of about $88K worth of commissions by shooting ourselves in the foot.

$50K per quarter = about $3.8K per week. $3,800 for a 3 person company with virtually no overhead, outside of salaries and insurance, is a boatload of money!!!

TL;DR

Megacorp and China Factory, running out of holes, just boned us in our left ear.

The Batlord · 11-06-2017, 03:16 AM

Knowing my temper and mouth I'd probably have called the judge a stupid **** to his face in front of everyone, been charged with contempt of court, and then told him that was the first intelligent ruling he'd made since he accused his wife of ****ing the family dog.

WWWP · 11-06-2017, 03:47 AM

Saw John Carpenter live -> snuck in to a dope hiphop show -> so much tequila -> grandpa's tight home grown. Thumbs up 10/10 great weekend.

**Janszoon** · 11-06-2017, 04:53 AM

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Originally Posted by Paedantic Basterd

I'm afraid to say this out loud because I might jinx it, but I think things are on an upswing for me.

I love both of my jobs and I'm finally putting some money away. I swear I've seen more money this month than the entire rest of the year trying to scrape it together from odd jobs. Saw Arcade Fire a couple of weeks ago and that was an amazing experience despite them touring a ****ty album. My mother had a biopsy recently for a lump in her armpit that is apparently NOT cancerous, which is great 'cuz I can finally unclench after a month of twiddling my thumbs. It seems to be some kind of spurious bone fragments though. It's quite painful for her and the first specialist she saw said they were not qualified to remove something like that surgically. So that kinda sucks. Fingers crossed she can get it removed and I can stop worrying about her. Other than that, yeah. Things are good.

Glad to hear things are going so well for you Ped. You deserve it.

Trollheart · 11-06-2017, 10:58 AM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

If it's non-smoking then I'm balling.

Fixed

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Originally Posted by Chula Vista

TL;DR

Megacorp and China Factory, running out of holes, just boned us in our left ear.

Jeez Chula: the hits just keep comin' don't they?

Quote:

Originally Posted by The Batlord

Knowing my temper and mouth I'd probably have called the judge a stupid **** to his face in front of everyone, been charged with contempt of court, and then told him that was the first intelligent ruling he'd made since he accused his wife of ****ing the family dog.

And I wouldn't visit you.

The Batlord · 11-06-2017, 03:41 PM

Booyah. Had a dentist appointment today (paid for as a late birthday present from my grandparents and yes I asked for that for my birthday cause I was WAY past due) and the damage was way less than I thought it would be. Apparently I have very strong enamel so that helped. Still gonna be $800 to fill some cavities but I figured it would be considerably more, so I'll be doing some scrimping and cutting back on my drinking. Yay.

Paedantic Basterd · 11-06-2017, 04:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Janszoon

Glad to hear things are going so well for you Ped. You deserve it.

Thanks Jansz! Hoping I can ride this wave long enough to get my **** together hahaha.

Trollheart · 11-06-2017, 06:57 PM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

Booyah. Had a dentist appointment today (paid for as a late birthday present from my grandparents and yes I asked for that for my birthday cause I was WAY past due) and the damage was way less than I thought it would be. Apparently I have very strong enamel so that helped. Still gonna be $800 to fill some cavities but I figured it would be considerably more, so I'll be doing some scrimping and cutting back on my drinking. Yay.

****ing Hell. You could have bought half a motor sickle with that money. Money grabbing bastard American dentists! Pretty sure fillings are free here, so minus 800 dollars if you lived here. Please don't move here.

The Batlord · 11-06-2017, 07:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Trollheart

****ing Hell. You could have bought half a motor sickle with that money. Money grabbing bastard American dentists! Pretty sure fillings are free here, so minus 800 dollars if you lived here. Please don't move here.

Yeah those are all fillings. If you can pay for my ticket to Ireland and pay for my citizenship then I can get my five cavities filled for free and be awesome.

And what the **** is a motor sickle? Some kind of automatic harvesting device?

11-05-2017, 09:56 PM	#46472 (permalink)
Chula Vista Toasted Poster Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: SoCal by way of Boston Posts: 11,332	Have a breakfast meeting downtown with the owner of a China factory that we've worked with for years. He's interested in us (under a new company name) being his US sales and new business representative. He has no contacts whatsoever here and would like us to find him new revenue. This is a great opportunity for us (me, my boss, and his wife) to stay alive moving forward. In other news: As part of our settlement in the recent lawsuit the two parties agreed to pays us a 2.5% commission on sales of the products they stole from us for 5 years on a quarterly basis. Would work out to about $50K net profit (pure cash) every 3 months. At the last minute their lawyers changed the terms from "commission based on products ordered from July 1st, 2017" to "commission based on products ordered AND PAID FOR from July 1st, 2017". Based on pure exhaustion and frustration my boss and our lawyers agreed. HUGE MISTAKE. Order placed on July 1st. Production lead time is 10 weeks. Megacorp gets invoiced but they have 90 day terms. So the product isn't PAID FOR until approx. December 10th. We just got screwed out of about $88K worth of commissions by shooting ourselves in the foot. $50K per quarter = about $3.8K per week. $3,800 for a 3 person company with virtually no overhead, outside of salaries and insurance, is a boatload of money!!! TL;DR Megacorp and China Factory, running out of holes, just boned us in our left ear. __________________ “The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”