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Quintessential Yuppies Write Fan Mail
By The Boss on May 15, 2008 | In Expat, Business | 2 feedbacks »
URGENT MATTER! PRIVATE AND CONFIDENTIAL! NOT FOR PUBLICATION! - When we get emails with headers like that here at the Bananama Republic newsroom we immediately think: "Nigerian scammers".
Well, we weren't too far off: It were the fine people of Quintessentially, you know, this club for wannabe jet-setters which recently set up shop in Panama too, blowing lots of hot air bubbles about how great and fantastic and advanced and first world this country really is. Like the Nigerian scammers, they ask for an advance fee for which they promise to provide all kind of exclusive services. We wrote about them, and quoted from a forum in the UK full of people who said that the exclusive yuppie club, well, ehmmm, sucks. Nada de "exclusive services".
This has now provoked a series of stupidities from these clowns that further establishes they're stupid amateurs highly qualified individuals fully equipped to serve their victims exclusive clientele.
First, they were asked to comment before we published, but never replied to our inquiries; Second, even after publication they could have exercised their right to reply but didn't; Third, writing a letter threatening with unspecified legal action to journalists is generally not a good idea; Fourth, saying that such a letter is "not for publication" is even dumber; and Fifth but not least: Trying to have our website shut down by contacting the hosting company absolutely and quintessentially guarantees you ongoing coverage of your capers, forever. So there. Anything else, dumbshits?
