Fergus Wilson Youtube Interview - funny viewing

Cleaver

LydiaJ wrote: »

Exactly
And since they haven't actually made a product, or improved anybody's quality of life, where has that £100m come from? The tenants who have been screwed for as much as the Wilsons could get out of them, and the FTBs in the area who've had to pay over the odds (thus increasing HPI even further) because the Wilsons had distorted the market. So the size of the Wilsons' success doesn't endear them to most people.

To be fair Lydia, there are quite a few businesses out there that don't make a product or improve anyone's quality of life and still make millions, but no one really seems to mind them as much.

Any the 'improve anyone's quality of life' statement is slightly subjective anyway. Presumably if this rather unpleasant man had a property on the market to let, someone looked round, decided that the price and the property appealed to them and decided to rent it. You could conclude from that they paid for a service they wanted from that business.

Look, he seems a wholly unpleasant, thick and repellent man. I think he's got rich through luck rather than judgement and seems to treat tenants (and people in general) with contempt. So there are two quite valid reasons to dislike him and consider him a vile individual.

I guess what amuses me slightly on here is the vitriol people on here have for him when they probably have money invested, or use businesses, products and services, that are guilty of far bigger crimes. In some ways if you drink a can of Coca Cola you're giving over your money to a far more evil business that the one this guy has. At least he's not gunning down union workers in Mexico or killing villagers through polluted water supplies. But I guess if you want a cheap house then he is a more appropriate and easier hate figure than a faceless company.

brit1234 wrote: »

He is in enough finiancial dodo with out shooting himself in the foot.

I'd be quite happy with people calling me a financial dodo if I'd made tens of millions in ten or so years. Hopefully I would have done it in a nicer, more valid way, but still...

Cleaver

brit1234 wrote: »

Your correct and he is hardly going to say he believes prices will fall when he is trying to sell 900 flats.

He doesn't buy flats Brit. Poor people live in flats, remember? I live in a flat. Hang on a minute...

Graham_Devon

Theres quite a few distasteful pictures out there of these pair, purely because of their sense of fashion. However, I have to say, for me, this has got to be the most distasteful of all!!



Though could be a well used photo somewhere down the line if the wilsons don't offload soon!

LydiaJ

Cleaver wrote: »

To be fair Lydia, there are quite a few businesses out there that don't make a product or improve anyone's quality of life and still make millions, but no one really seems to mind them as much.

Any the 'improve anyone's quality of life' statement is slightly subjective anyway. Presumably if this rather unpleasant man had a property on the market to let, someone looked round, decided that the price and the property appealed to them and decided to rent it. You could conclude from that they paid for a service they wanted from that business.

Look, he seems a wholly unpleasant, thick and repellent man. I think he's got rich through luck rather than judgement and seems to treat tenants (and people in general) with contempt. So there are two quite valid reasons to dislike him and consider him a vile individual.

I guess what amuses me slightly on here is the vitriol people on here have for him when they probably have money invested, or use businesses, products and services, that are guilty of far bigger crimes. In some ways if you drink a can of Coca Cola you're giving over your money to a far more evil business that the one this guy has. At least he's not gunning down union workers in Mexico or killing villagers through polluted water supplies. But I guess if you want a cheap house then he is a more appropriate and easier hate figure than a faceless company.

You're right, of course, Cleaver. Thank you for putting it so clearly.

Graham_Devon

Cleaver wrote: »

To be fair Lydia, there are quite a few businesses out there that don't make a product or improve anyone's quality of life and still make millions, but no one really seems to mind them as much.

Probably because they don't gloat about it at every available opportunity. The picture I posted above says it all.

They have become so famous because of their gloating, and their "look at me, point the camera at me, me, me, I'm worth x millions don;t you know".

There are property investors out there worth 100 times what they are worth. The difference is, they don't tell you at every opportunity they are given just how much they are worth.

The hate the wilsons recieve is merely due to how they percieve themselves....

Dragons Den....Alan Sugar. You know they are succesful, you know they are rich. But they are liked. I have never once seen them gloating at every opporunity about their wealth. Sure, they say they are succesful, and how they did it. But you won't see smarmy pictures as per the above with them grinning for the camera reading their own rich list entry.

brixham

spirit wrote: »

"Poor people live in flats"

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

A while ago there was a thread on how we discribe where we live.

I was lead to belive I live in a penthouse appartment.

This has now made me think I live in a top floor flat and so therefore must be poor.

Cleaver

Graham_Devon wrote: »

Probably because they don't gloat about it at every available opportunity. The picture I posted above says it all.

They have become so famous because of their gloating, and their "look at me, point the camera at me, me, me, I'm worth x millions don;t you know".

There are property investors out there worth 100 times what they are worth. The difference is, they don't tell you at every opportunity they are given just how much they are worth.

The hate the wilsons recieve is merely due to how they percieve themselves....

Dragons Den....Alan Sugar. You know they are succesful, you know they are rich. But they are liked. I have never once seen them gloating at every opporunity about their wealth. Sure, they say they are succesful, and how they did it. But you won't see smarmy pictures as per the above with them grinning for the camera reading their own rich list entry.

Graham, we've had this conversation. I know, they are unpleasant people. We're in agreement. They gloat, boast and are generally vulgar.

But as I've also said before, there are hundreds of businesses who have far more evil practices than them. If you have a general problem with businesses that are unpleasant, immoral and have general bad practice towards their customers and society in general (and if you have, good for you) then there's a list of companies as long as your arm that are more appropriate targets that a couple of smug b*stards who rent out a few hundred houses.

For the record, I could happily punch Peter Jones in the face repeatedly. He's never off my radio or TV advertising one product or another, normally with the 'I'm in' catchphrase. Alan Sugar is a smug t*sser too.

Alan Sugar... I have never once seen them gloating at every opporunity about their wealth.

I can help with this one. Tune your TV to BBC1 at about 9pm on a certain evening most weeks. You'll see a man with a beard doing a TV show mainly as a self-promotion vehicle as to how rich and wonderful he is. You'll see him gazing out of the window of his Rolls Royce, complete with close ups of his personailised number-plate. Or you'll possibly see him padding around his god-awful mock tudor mansion in Essex, talking about his wealth. Or maybe boasting about his 'business connections'. Or how he's made millions from a variety of business ventures. After this initial shot you'll get a whole 60 minutes of gratuitious self-promotion under the premise of him looking for an employee. Can't he just use Office Angels like everyone else?

Honestly Graham, I wonder if you're on a different planet half the time.

bo_drinker

[]So that's it in a nutshell houses are going to start going up Feb 2010, he must know he's [STRIKE]got 900 of them, [/STRIKE] owes money on 900 I mean.

fc123

For the Coke reference www.killercoke.org Bit slow to load but worth a look.

Perhaps Fergus truly believes his own hype?

The interview was great.....who/what is Renegade Economist?

brit1234

Graham_Devon wrote: »

Dragons Den....Alan Sugar. You know they are succesful, you know they are rich. But they are liked. I have never once seen them gloating at every opporunity about their wealth. Sure, they say they are succesful, and how they did it. But you won't see smarmy pictures as per the above with them grinning for the camera reading their own rich list entry.

Sorry there are a lot of people who hate Alan Sugar. The two main groups are Tottenham fans and historic Amstrad users. Being part of both groups he ranks high in my dislike list.

Back to fegus and Juddith, you think with all that socalled money they could hire these two.



Thats if they are not to highly geared :rotfl: