The latest Groupon thing I had was a guy who came to with an idea of filling orders. People vote on what they want to do and then companies could see the custom

The latest Groupon thing I had was a guy who came to with an idea of filling orders. People vote on what they want to do and then companies could see the customer interest and fill the order. He had a mechanism in place that would have a group buying percentage rating, and naturally lower profit per sale for the person filling the order. The first thing I said to him was, customers don't know what they are buying... they are gambling that companies supply something good. From a companies point of this is a great mechanism to drop stock that isn't selling... which for most people would be stock people don't want... I doubt there would be many $99 Touch Pads, and mostly as seen on TV products... He refused to acknowledge his system could be abused in this manner I suggested and the customer experience could end up quite bad (received products below the quality they expected). I asked for some sort of spec, or numbers, or anything around what he wanted and I was presented with "I've told you everything, and you have the designs". The designs where ball point pen sketches he left on a piece of paper we found in a cafe where we had our first meeting. I got a tad concerned at this point and pushed him for some other questions around his funding and sales men. No sales staff, and he was taking out a loan to develop the work. At this point I said I wasn't interested as I got concerned that when money didn't start rolling in I might not get paid. He got really angry with me after I declined and I felt a wave of relief as I assume he would have been the sort of client who would never have been wrong, and would have probably tried some stupid law suit blaming me for bad business decisions.