Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Rod Speed" Newsgroups: aus.computers,aus.electronics,aus.politics Subject: Re: Dick Smith is the Greatest Private Equity Heist of All Time Date: Sat, 9 Jan 2016 19:27:31 +1100 Lines: 31 Message-ID: References: <1dri1yweok470$.1agjyq9e07269$.dlg@40tude.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-13"; reply-type=response Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net Lt84b7hx7Al4RVaW/0yE/AAkM3QQ1TPyB6A3LPDEINQEm5hYM= Cancel-Lock: sha1:Yw2CSNWZQFsyAa7xv2VjMxU/GGk= In-Reply-To: X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Importance: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Windows Live Mail 14.0.8117.416 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V14.0.8117.416 Xref: csiph.com aus.computers:50123 aus.electronics:30754 aus.politics:561491 "Pelican" wrote in message news:n6qaog$7mb$1@dont-email.me... > > > "Rod Speed" wrote in message > news:dfblr5F57smU1@mid.individual.net... >> >> >> "Pelican" wrote in message >> news:n6ppct$mdd$1@dont-email.me... >>> >>> >>> "Fran Farmer" wrote in message >>> news:n6pjsr$2m7$3@dont-email.me... >>>> On 9/01/2016 11:13 AM, Fran Farmer wrote: >>>> >>>>>> The exercise was a standard asset-stripping exercise. >>>>> >>>>> Yes. a huge profit in 8 months >>>> Correction: 18 months >>> >>> Profit =/= bad. Nor is a "huge" profit. >> >> A ripoff is. > > Get stung, did you? Nope.