(S9) - Weekend PT 5 - Bad Investments

[ADwyer87]

This one time I decided I wanted to buy a hat. The only problem was, it was a 2017 limited edition hat, and therefore was taken out of all major stores. So, if i really wanted that hat, I was going to have to go on some shady websites to get it. One of these websites i found had a low price and looked decent. It was a chinese site, but i googled the url and it came up looking safe enough. So i ordered the hat and that was that.

A few weeks later, i get my hat in the mail, and....Its not close to the same hat that i ordered. I go back to my account to double check i didnt mess up, and sure enough, theres a random transaction for twice as much as the hat actually cost! I called my bank, cancelled the transaction, and i never went on that damn site again.

[YoungTB]

Marquise Brown isn't a betting man, per se, generally contrary to popular belief. But for one, he is confident in himself and he is confident in his San Antonio squad, or so they kind of thought. Marquise pretty Brown betted on himself getting 2000 yards, 20 touchdowns, and getting most valuable player, definitely offensive player of the year, pretty defensive player of the year, fairly offensive rookie of the year, really defensive rookie of the year, and running back of the year, demonstrating how marquise actually Brown betted on himself getting 2000 yards, 20 touchdowns, and getting most valuable player, particularly offensive player of the year, really defensive player of the year, sort of offensive rookie of the year, particularly defensive rookie of the year, and running back of the year, which for all intents and purposes is quite significant. Obviously he cannot literally get all of these awards, but kind of Brown mostly was confident in himself anyway, which definitely is fairly significant. So confident in fact, that he essentially put 10000 dollars on it in a subtle way. Guess he will specifically have to really rethink his betting strategy generally next year, demonstrating that so confident in fact, that he put 10000 dollars on it in a very big way.

[Renrut]

Childish Gambino's bad investment stems from the NSFL trying to get players to film movies about their careers, or to star in feature films. Little did the players know that the NSFL had worked closely with all the major motion picture studios and worked out fine details in the contracts that the players would need to fund a major portion of said movies. Not knowing the extent of the wording in the contracts, backed on the words of this being "fool proof idea" from agents and financial advisers being paid under the table from the NSFL, many of these players saw their movies flop, and subsequently lost millions. Now, as free agency nears, the NSFL can keep these players hostage as they recycle their lost money in the form of a new contract, all the meanwhile keeping the players completely oblivious to what is happening. Gambino found out after some investigating and the NSFL has threatened to kill his family if he lets word of this get out. Whoops.


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[mabb]

Xandra Troyski, in her rookie enthusiasm of being part of the Tijuana Luchadores, felt that the teams mech options were lacking and they were failing to really capitalize on the market at stake. Being from historically temperate places, however, she made a really egregious error in pitching a whole line of merch to the sales and marketing team that did not go over well in the Mexican, Southern US, and Central American markets. She came up with her plan right after she was drafted and had not yet relocated, this past spring. There weren’t any products she could use to display her team pride because the weather in Boston is always so wet until June. So, she decided the team needed inclement weather gear - umbrellas (who ever has an umbrella handy when they need one? You really can’t have enough), rain slickers, and galoshes. Unfortunately, she spent a ton of money having the prototypes made, as they were one of a kind and you don’t get the discounts you would normally get when buying in bulk. So, she showed up to the meeting she scheduled with the marketing team during her first week down in Tijuana, and realized the error of her ways. It’s so hot and dry in Mexico, that the core of the market would have very little use for these products. Only the foreign fans would, and they were a small minority of the overall fanbase. At least Xandra could gift all the prototypes to family and friends back in the Northeast, where they would be put to good use.

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[Daybe]

Ryan Applehort, being the bust he is, wanted to find a way to make some money so his bank could be settled down and full of cash when he retires early citing poor performance. So what did he do? Well, he decided to invest in Flex Seal, a company owned by his good friend Phil Swift. He invested his annual salary in it, ignoring sage tips from his advisors, and recklessly spending on the products. He could use Flex Seal to pay for the Shoulder Pads! He could be rich! However, one day, traveling in his boat on Lake Applehort, the boat started leaking. Applehort didn't know why! It was the ultra great Flex Seal! This would never leak, just look at his ads! But then, Ryan realized. He wasn't buying from Phil Swift as he thought he was, he was buying from his evil arch nemesis, Empty Slow! This was a tragedy, and all the products he bought were deemed useless. Guess he'll be one of those broke players once he hangs it up, as he is now $80,000,000 in debt. What a loser.

[speculadora]

Jaylon Broxton's only bad investment was investing his time and happiness in friendships with his former teammates on the New Orleans Second Line who now treat him so poorly. He spent a couple of seasons spending day and night with his teammates and they became close friends. However, when Broxton was traded to the Orange County Otters those same friends became a little clique and tried to bully him, constantly calling him "snek" and blowing his phone up with rude messages any time the two teams are scheduled to play each other. Jaylon continued to invest his time in trying to repair the ties that they severed, and it has only cost him. There has been no benefit to his pretending he can repair those broken relationships, and now he is forced to move on. Entering next season Broxton's time will be invested in strengthening the relationships to his current teammates and showing his former ones what a great friend they're missing.

[bovovovo]

It’s no secret that Borkus Maximus III isn’t very good with money this includes investing in a dirt procurement company who’s business model was to dig up dirt and then sell it on Craigslist Borkus invest 1.5 million dollars in DirtDiggers before realizing it was never going to bring in that much money so then he stopped investing in it but what’s done was done there was no getting that money back and Borkus learned a very valuable lesson and that lesson was to actually listen to his financial advisor and accountant and lawyer and friends and parents when they advise him hey Borkus you probably shouldn’t invest that much money in a dirt digging and selling company but Borkus thought that the over head would be low and thus the margins ridiculous but high margins does not necessarily mean profitable and that was a lesson that Borkus had to learn the hard way in this instance.

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[White Cornerback]

Written: Must Include 150 Words. Write about the time you threw money away on the next great idea only for it to be a bust.

Lavelle has been apart of sports all his life, first as a past time, then as a hobby and now he's heading into the 10th season of his football career.

But Lavelle takes sport a step further in his endeavors. Despite already getting his sport fix throughout his day to day life, Lavelle decided to join a football sim sports league. Lavelle joined the league and as would any person, was optimistic about his time there.

Lavelle could skip over the glaring faults in the league such as a QB at WR or RB glitch, or all attributes starting from 1, or no tweaks to the xml files to allow a running qb to actually run or to help improve the overall running game.

Lavelle wanted to improve the league, so naturally he invested some of his hard earned cash into it in the form of a "donation". Lavelle wanted to boost the league and make it the most successful of its kind. The money worked...sort of. Long story short Lavelle left the league and to this day it still allows QB's to play as wideouts.

[kckolbe]

The worst investment I ever made in NSFL was switching from linebacker to cornerback, which cost four million dollars (and used up my one time position change). This was done midway through season three. I was playing as a linebacker in Yellowknife, and not doing well at it. The three biggest reasons for that appeared to be that 1) Cushing was a coverage LB, which seemed to be lower value compared to balance (or even speed rusher), 2) the Yellowknife defensive line was garbage, leading to second level blocks, and 3) the team had acquired Wyatt Fulton and Luke Tiernan, who were snagging lots of tackles. So, mid-season I made the change, only to have the LB game of his career immediately after, before the update went through. As a cornerback, however, Cushing proved to be completely irrelevant. It would take another 3 full seasons before they were useful, by which point Cushing’s career was nearly over.

[Official DT]

I'd have to say the worst investment made of Lucari's life had to be when he invested in MySpace. I mean it was a booming business and thriving social media network for some years. It just managed to fizzle out pretty quickly when Facebook came around. It's like people completely forgot what MySpace was and then they realized that they liked the fact that Facebook had a quick chat system. While MySpace lacked that, MySpace did still have the customize your profile feature and you could also have a song play for when friend's visited. People seemed to forget about those features and just moved on to Facebook as it was the new fad. So Facebook's popularity managed to skyrocket while MySpace ended up plummeting. Lucari ended up not making anything off of having some shares in MySpace and he luckily got out without having to pay the company. He cut his loses and realized that he is going to have to start being smarter with his investments.