Re:How I Used Eve Online to Predict the Great Recession (2013)
by slimsag on Monday February 26, 2018 @11:24PM
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He brought a briefcase full of cash? 400 thousand dollars of cash?
Re:How I Used Eve Online to Predict the Great Recession (2013)
by bencollier49 on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @02:01AM
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Your question made me google the question of how much money will go into a briefcase, with this result: http://geekbeat.tv/how-much-money-will-fit-in-a-briefcase/
Re:How I Used Eve Online to Predict the Great Recession (2013)
by Spooky23 on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @08:21AM
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I didn't count it... I was probably 9-10 years old. It was a pretty surreal experience, honestly. I do remember that it was real, my parents talked to him, i guess he was a reasonably well known real estate guy in our area.
In retrospect, it's even stranger. I couldn't fathom cold-knocking at a random house and offering the owners a suitcase of money. Double++ bizarre making the pitch to a little boy. That said, we had alot of interesting stories from that house and neighborhood, this one isn't even the strangest!
Re:How I Used Eve Online to Predict the Great Recession (2013)
by downrightmike on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @01:59PM
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This is exactly what the Purple Man did in the Jessica Jones Netflix series.
Re:How I Used Eve Online to Predict the Great Recession (2013)
by Spooky23 on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @01:35PM
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That’s awesome. I can’t watch that yet as my kid is too young for it.
Like I said, we had an interesting neighborhood... everything from a fugitive Nazi war criminal, to a crazy man with a rocket to mafia people.
I took his card and said “sure”. As I closed the door he said “wait”, ran to his car and grabbed a Miami-vice style aluminum briefcase. He opened it up and said “400 thousand dollars for house, see?”
Given that my folks paid like $18k for the house about 8 years earlier, that was pretty amazing. They didn’t take it and sold in the 90s for less. A few years ago it sold for $2.5M and was torn down. The replacement condos sold for about $12M