Subject: one more post about f-10
From LawyerLong
PostID 314547 On Friday, February 13, 2004 (EST) at 10:48:27 AM
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Re credibility.
It would appear to me that the company is between a rock and a hard place. You are edig - you have a potentially large deal with f-10 - it's not going the way you want it to but you have no control over it.
f-10 basically keeps changing the game, screwing you around, not doing what they say they are going to do after leading you to believe otherwise. You have, in good faith, tried to keep your shareholder in the loop.
The f-10 almost pulls the rug from under you but leave the door open to the possibility that they will continue the deal. They are also experiencing financial difficulties.
You are edig. You want to inform your shareholders that things are not as you had led them to believe based on info that f-10 provided you previously. Yet, you don't want to offend f-10 and close the door completely.
So, do you say ''f-10 has screwed us over?'' - ''f-10 said one thing but did another?'' - no, you are a business, not a sorority member gossiping about a sister. So you put the best face on it and paint a neutral picture that allows people to draw whatever conclusion they want - that edig was misleading or, that f-10 was misleading. The door is still open, the possibility still exists, and the swhareholders can believe what they wish.
The latter road is the one I would have taken. I don't think rp or ff can say all this, but I believe this to be the case. I also have very little faith, as I have said before, that f-10 will come to fruition. Last, I think it matters not in the overall scheme of things. BL's analogy about a lot of eggs in the air was a good one.
LL
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