Hi Dien!

What an incrediblly interesting tale/show/whatever.

As I've stated previously, I'm big on things that can be duplicated. Oh sure, everything has something to teach us, but the ability to duplicate something means it can be done instantly.

After reading this tale a few thoughts popped into my mind...

1: How on earth did they manage to buy a mobile phone that was already fully charged?

2: Did any of them take a Yellow Pages with them while they made all their phone calls. If not, did they call Directory Assistance?

3: If the answer to number two is No and No, then it means to me that the numbers they called were known by heart. And while the people were not friends, family or former clients, they were known.

I mean, lets face it, no one would agree to sponser their products on a proposed TV show at such short notice unless they knew the person producing the show.

No one would agree to spend $500 on a dinner with guest speaker and one day's notice if they were being called by a total stranger.

And to get through to the owner of a nightclub, get on the radio with no notice and hire all the Indy girls during the Indy is not something most people can duplicate.

However, just because what they did cannot be dupicated precisely, the seeds of some very profitable ventures were presented. And what they did shows the tremendous value of establishing contacts.

4: Did they have any advanced notice of what the challenge was to be?

5: Did the real estate guy have his secretary do stuff?

I like the real estate guy's methods best. Gave him the most free time while others did what he wouldn't have been able to do personally.

And he sold stuff without having to buy it first.

Now I know you'll think this is odd, but I've NEVER seen Crazy Ron to the best of my knowledge. The most odd guy I've seen on the box was some darker skinned guy (middle east coloured skin) selling computers and he threw a scooter over his head (not that *I'd* call these modern scooters, scooters. Nothing like what I grew up with). Is that Crazy Ron? If it is, I'd never buy anything from him. Makes me think "cheap and bodgy."

Anyway. I enjoyed the tale and agree it's one of the best darn post series anywhere.

Part of it reminded me of "Badges".

Michael Ross.

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