I heard this interesting story about a couple of entrepreneurs from Europe. After having lost their jobs, they planned to launch a new startup which would sell pornographic cd’s featuring top stars at a very low price!. This drew the attention of a lot of excited folks and hence they decided to get themselves a copy.
The entrepreneurs were amazed! They never expected such an overwhelming response! 
. However, they had very little stock,enough to serve only about 5% of the requests. But the mastermind act comes here! Instead of trying to serve the remaining 95% requests, they put out a banner on their homepage which read
“Sorry, we ran out of stock. We will refund your amount if you request us to do”.
But, almost none wanted to request for a refund! Why ? – for the simple reason they did not want to have a transaction in their account statement which read
Debit X pound from Pornographic community enterprise
and the amount they spent was also pretty low!
Lol! And they enjoyed all their free money! I guess they were caught later! I understand entrepreneurs should be innovative, but this was, well…..
#1 by Prashanth on June 15th, 2009
If the customers didn’t mind a “credit X pound from Pornographic community enterprise” I doubt they’d have cared too much about the debit message.
#2 by bytingme on June 15th, 2009
They would have made sure the customers credited to their bank acc or something
..come on they can def innovate this much!
#3 by blogjamun on June 15th, 2009
Do you have feeds for anything that says start up? So If I got it right,
Entrepreneur n. : one who ‘feeds’ on start-ups