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Threadless Sale

David — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 12:27:24 +0000

Threadless has several T-shirts on sale right now for $12 and $9!

Prosper Says NO to Debt Sale

David — Sat, 31 May 2008 10:14:17 +0000

Propser Vice President of Operations, Doug Fuller, reported today that Prosper will not proceed with their debt sale. This will likely anger many lenders as they hope to get a refund on some of their bad loans. However, Prosper seems to have good reason to not proceed at this time. The highest bid to buy up the defaulted debt was 1.5 cents to the dollar. Consumer credit card debt that is barred by the statue of limitations still gets .5 to .75 cents to the dollar. As it turns out, debt buyers can get a surplus of debt from credit card defaults, leaving Prosper’s “novel” debt assets to be relatively unconsidered. As Prosper waits to find better solutions for Lenders, they are now also creating a new status of “Charged Off.”

Tattoo Adverts

David — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 02:25:35 +0000

Fox Kansas News ran a story about a local bar owner paying his bartender $500 to get a small tattoo advertising his bar. The bar owner was none other than my former math teacher, Kurt Meltzer. The story continued that he has been propositioned by several customers willing to do the same, but he’s yet only agreed to do it once again for a bartender at another bar he owns.