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Yeah, I'm still rooting for my players out of pride more than anything else. There's one league I've been dominating all year and I'll be damned if I don't win it even if I get nothing for it.
yeah i highly doubt he set this up as a long con. Probably made bad business decisions and got in over his head.
It's a long story and I won a judgement against the company for 75K. It was a construction company that folded and screwed a ton of subcontractors on their way out. The owner was a real p.o.s. and drove the company down the toilet following his father's death (of course the guy that built the business and left it to him).
Same here - I can lose money in legit leagues easy enough.
I have run the financial side of a business for close to 20 years, this has nothing to do with being bad at business. It has everything to do with being bad at ethics. You get a business loan to pay for software not player deposits.
Nice to have a decision like that available. No sweat off their backs to use a ton of other people's money in order to avoid spending a significantly less amount on support.
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I doubt it was a long con, but when the site wasn't as profitable as he thought it would be he then got the idea to run off with million dollars.
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I would guess he is into drugs, alcohol and/or gambling pretty bad. If he had a pile of money he would just vanish and not say anything.
I would guess he was/is legit... used MFL for a couple years... got bad advice that someone could do it better, and by flipping the bill he would own the IP... and his business went bust.
If he were into drugs or gambling he'd probably also just disappear when the season ends. The fact he made this statement tells me he intends to do what is in the statement. Why make any statement if you are going to run? Just fly to Ecuador and never say a word.
I doubt the legal process could move that fast unless he just ignored a lawsuit. But there is no way you pay for software you can't use before you pay out the players.
Yea, or maybe he just doesn't want to live in Ecuador. Maybe he likes it here and thinks he can get away with the "I lost the money" angle.
I can't think of a time where one of these companies stole money (their have been a few the last few years) didn't make an initial statement to indicate 'they're doing everything they can'.
Jesus. Glad he's setting lineup and checking in throughout the day
Co-mingling deposits and operating accounts in my industry is illegal.
You have first hand knowledge of this? If so, I would refer to this message as "Exhibit A"
I hope you're right. I really do. I, unlike others, always liked Mike but this is inexcusable. Money is secondary to the time I put into my teams. I Admit it, I'm a full fledged fantasy geek but it is something I enjoy. But the end payoff is an important aspect and it seems like it's gone.BigOlBar said:
Maybe, if it offers something different/better. From what I've seen this was just a middle man using MFL.com and selling it as a service? Maybe I'm way off in that assessment... I'm just going by the links to his leagues posted earlier.Bri said:
I've been an FF Webdesigner for nearly 20 years. I can absolutely make a site to run an FF league if given the time to do so. I could make a board like this, no prob.
No, that's pretty much what he was doing. The value of his site was the customer base and league integrity. All of us playing knew it was just a guy coordinating leagues. His reputation was everything.
