Getting screwed over in business-it happens but it still sucks

I have gotten screwed over a few times in my life. In business it is more acute because it involves losing money-not just pride or ego. Usually it has happened when I try to do things on the cheap-I am careful with my money-but being good with money and trying to get something done for much less usually produces toxic results.

I learned that crooks are everywhere-sometimes there difficult to and often they are shameless. Most have no discernible conscience-they are twisted greedy POS who tend to screw over all customers-not just you. A lot are found on sites that heavily promote outsourcing to cheap labor countries-although the U.S providers they list are not much better.  

Getting screwed over in business is not pleasant. It happens to the best and brightest. Many of these bastards have gotten the fraud down to an art form that their lies fool even the smartest individuals. 

Do not get down on yourself-even if payback is impossible (which in some cases it literally is) be sure to learn from the experience and spot the signs  I may list some of the nasty providers I have encountered in a later blog post but for now stay safe and don't let the many crooked bastards loitering online get you down.

-Peace from the Chief Myabuyer

The danger of taking short cuts

I notice that a lot of businesses now more then ever are taking short cuts to make profits and meet "wall street" projections.  The buyer usually suffers. It can be as simple as the leading auction site being even more lax (if thats possible) on pirates and crooked con artists/businesses in order to collect final value fees and boost their bottom line, to tactically allowing people with bad intentions to exploit buyers that are facing difficult times, knowing that desperate people rarely spend the time to practice due diligence before dealing with a business selling and/or services.) 

It is scary to buy or trust many sources online-some questions I often ask is who are these people? are they trustworthy? Are they being paid to give "their opinion" on their experience with the business? Paying people to write "positive" things about a product, person, service, even government is common practice worldwide (including here in the U.S.) 

I am willing to bet that when myabuy.com about to be revamped and launched people used to crooked businesses and an utter lack of transparency will experience an utter breath of fresh air and start to ask the question-why the f**k am I settling for less from other sites. Why would I settle for low standards practiced by major auction sites, social networking sites that will readily let crooks, con men, and people with bad intentions run wild.

Now is not the time to settle-when you see the new and revamped myabuy.com (coming very soon) you will not have to anymore.

Till then stay safe and don't settle for less.

Peace!

Chief Myabuyer 

Being Polite to get ahead in business and life!

I consider myself a very polite guy. Sometimes too polite for my own good. I get that from my Thai side of the family, where those who are not polite are seen in a bad light-and sometimes out casted. I know this is true for other Asian societies too. The non-polite men and women are the ones that are excluded from the social group.

Politeness is good for business-to a point. While a lot of times my politeness is out of habit-rather then due to the merit of the other party, it made me realize that politeness is bad when dealing with unscrupulous crooks-i.e. most of the early people I met while working on myabuy.com. The shittier ones I will not name here-but if you really want to know send me a comment and I will name names. 

Will my natural politeness help develop myabuy.com. I think it will-although it is tough to be polite to some of the rank jerk offs I have dealt with in the past. One such jerk off is an Indian outsourcing co. that I will not name here (I read in a recent article about the law firm suing a customer that gave them a bad review) whose owner is a grade A crook. He is the type of guy who gives outsourcing a bad name. I hate to generalize but people like him and his company deserve all the shit I plan to give them-all without having to worry about being sued for libel due to maintaining some form of politeness. It takes discipline but my experience dealing with crooks is that pursuing those that cheated you-while maintaining a polite disposition-pisses crooks off even more then just ripping into their guts and calling them all the bad names in the book (even though all are applicable.)

Politeness is hard to maintain and I keep you updated on whether my polite disposition will get me my money back from the crooked Indian outsourcing co. and the POS owner. If not I will burn them all to get the money his co. still owes me. My politeness has its limits after all:)

Best of luck and take care,

Chief-Myabuyer

www.myabuy.com