I have a friend who I have done a bit of business with, in the multiple tens of thousands range. He has since shown himself to be a tad shady in business dealings. The weird thing is though, my relations with him were often way more informal than they should have been, and the biggest issues that came up were trying to get him to things and them not getting done on time. Otherwise he was never really terribly shady with me. He was always on the up and up, and always got back to me, eventually. He however recently totally shafted his business partners, it may affect me adversely it may not, I don’t know yet. It depends on whether I can do business with his partners without him. They like me just fine, and I am meeting with them on Monday. It regards some servers in a colo, which as per our informal arrangement, I am going to have to try and prove that they belong to my company.
So my question here is how do people feel about dealing with people they know to be shady, but who has not ever been shady to them? I mean, I’ve known for years that he’s shady, not to the level I found out recently, but I’ve always known him to be such. I won’t do business with him in the future, but I don’t really feel any animosity toward him or anything.
It is just a matter of time. He is shady, he will be shady with you at some point. He hasn’t had the need so far, but you don’t know what’s coming in the future.
That’s pretty much my first reaction, too. Someday, he will feel justified in shafting you and he will do it. I don’t despise the shady people I know, I just don’t do business with them and I try to gently warn others of the shadiness.
Yeah, I always knew this guy was trouble, but for some reason he has always been ok to me. I have something of a rapport with him for some reason. I’ve lived with him, he’s bailed me out of trouble helped me with things, hosted websites for free for me, and just in general been a good friend to me, and shared his darker side with me in commisseration, and yet others end up with a big shock when it doesn’t work out for them with him. It’s sort of strange. I like him though. I think he is off the radar now, I don’t know where he’s ended up.