/biz/ - Business & Finance

My dad is very strange about his investments. So far as I have been able to gather, the less reputable the opportunity the more trust he has in it. Stock market? Won't touch it. Doesn't trust it. Amway? He did that for a while. Some kind of OTC supplement selling pyramid scheme? Went pretty hard on that for a few years. Selling water filters on 100% commission basis? Absolutely. The biggest and final mistake was a 25k investment in some guy who told my dad he had a water purifier thing he was going to sell to Africa or something. It was a scam. Dad lost money on every one of these things. And that's just the stuff I know about. The man has declared bankruptcy at least three times.