The scam that was Furniture.com
from the can-it-get-any-more-humiliating dept
This is a fascinating story about how Furniture.com executives put on quite the show in order to stave off bankruptcy a couple months back. Ultimately, the company failed to pull it off, but the lengths these people went to are impressive, if not short-sighted.
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Definitely fascinating
I agree that this is a fascinating story and well worth reading. The interesting part, though, is that this is not all that different than what happens at a number of dot com startups (at least it seems fairly common in the Bay Area). I think a lot of the problem is that we’re not dealing with people who want to build businesses, but rather people who want to get rich damn quickly.
Re: Definitely fascinating
Agreed. Quite fascinating.
Regarding the allegation that employees were forced to fake phone activity to make the potential investors think there was more business, isn’t this plain, out-and-out fraud? How’s that any different than what Newman and Redford did in “The Sting?” I’d like to think that I have enough integrity to refuse to participate in such a scam. Fortunately none of my employers has ever been so desperate or so dishonest.