Arguing over non-existant money.

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Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2011 12:07 pm

One of my favourite parts of a bait is when you and a lad get to argue about the split of the lad's imaginary money; kind of like this...

Me (or rather my 3000 year old dragon, Ethelius)

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Dear Mr

I'm beginning to understand this matter better now. To be honest it stinks like a week old fish and is about as legal as mass murder but I have to admire your cunning and ingenuity in concocting such a clever scheme to get hold of this money.

Very well I will go along with it. You seem a clever individual and with your legal expertise you can probably pull this off and get the money.

However as appearing as this fraudulent next of kin I appear to be taking the lion's share of the risk, you can play the innocent if this all goes mammary glands skywards and it will be myself in the frame as the fraudulent next of kin who the law will be after. So as I am taking most of the risk I should take most of the reward.

Accordingly I want 70% of the fund for my participation.

Ethelius

Lad

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Dear Ethelius,

In receipt of your email I will say big thanks and no thanks for the 70% share you are demanding. Have you forgotten that both of us are investing money and not just you alone? We both are sharing the risk 50/50 percentage and not just you alone.

{snip huge sob story from lad that must have taken him an hour to write}

Me

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You can argue until you're blue in the face Timothy but the matter stand that this scheme of yours is a bent as Elton John.

Make it 65% and you have a partner.

Lad

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Dear Ethelius,

I am not the greedy type. Please, to save time and all hudles, I give you 52% then I go with 48%. Consider this okay because I was to have the lion's share because I am the one introducing you to the deal and I am getting you the Legal backup as the attorney in question. I could settle for this since I could trust you from our conversation.

Me

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60% and that's my final offer.

Lad

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Ethelius, why are you sounding this way. Okay, I setle for 55% goes to you. Please, kindly understand.

Me

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Which part of "60% and that's my final offer" was so hard for you to understand?

I am taking the most risk, I get the most reward. This is not a difficult concept.

Lad

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You will truly be hard to bend. okay, 60% you have it. can we move on now?

Me

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60% it is.

You have yourself a partner.

"You will be truly hard to bend"... you don't know the half of it lad!

Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2011 12:29 pm

I play this game with a lot of my lads, it always amazes me how much of a fight they put up to keep their "share" Shocked

Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2011 1:03 pm

If that was one email per day, that wasted a whole heap of time and you're not even past the first part of his script!

Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2011 1:11 pm

I recall the Lad that I beat down from 70% to 10%; http://forum.419eater.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=848864&highlight=beneficiary#848864

Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2011 3:17 pm

It is always fun haggling over the percentages.

Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2011 3:57 pm

@Otterfan - yes that was more or less one mail a day, I cut a lot of what the lad was writing too, he'd go on for pages with his pleas and excuses as to why he should have 50%. Must have spent hours on it.

Now we're haggling over ID documents Smile

Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2011 6:28 pm

My record is 30+ emails back and forth with a lad, arguing about our percentages. Very Happy

Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2011 7:16 pm

^^^Wow! Talk about persistence!

Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2011 9:39 pm

Some of you might recall my debating back and forth with a lad who insisted on my passport or driver's license ID. I kept telling him I had none of those due to a disability whereupon he insisted I have a national ID card, whereupon I told him we did not have those in my country and basically that he could go fuffle up a gum tree for all I cared.

He wrote back that we could continue without any of my IDs. OK fine with me.

Later he wrote back insisting on photo ID. I volunteered my library card.

I know I could have sent him some file or rather like some of you do that could not be opened, etc. but it got to be a point of contention and I wanted to see who would win. Ultimately I did!

On a percentage that I would get, I was only ever able to get the lad to give me another 5% up to 35%

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