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https://i.imgur.com/qz4EeQS.jpg - This is (was?) their ads

"15% interest. No surprises."

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15% interest?

No! Surprises!

The most egregious case of false advertising since Homer's lawsuit against the "all you can eat" seafood restaurant.

"Do these sound like the actions of a man who had had ALL HE COULD EAT?!"

Fortunately, his lawyer had experience from the case against the makers of "The Neverending Story".

Technically "15% interest. No surprises." is correct

No surprises in it being complete bullshit?

And the YC board looked at this and funded it. That's unbelievable, isn't it?

Not unbelievable at all. I've pointed this out before, and I'll probably have cause to do so again, but Y Combinator has twice funded companies whose entire business model is smuggling:

https://techcrunch.com/2014/08/13/backpack-connects-you-with...

https://techcrunch.com/2016/01/28/shypmate-pays-travelers-to...

> whose entire business model is smuggling

That's interesting. I never thought of it that way. Solutions to the "Amazon doesn't deliver here" problem are quite popular in Ghana. Asking someone returning to get you something is quite common. I have friends who've created businesses around this.

They also funded a second life knock off that claims it will become the meta verse: https://www.playdreamworld.com

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_w3fZMkE69s

Not surprisingly 15% of 0 is still 0.

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