Terry Blanton <[email protected]> wrote:
> I seriously doubt any procurement officer would be involved in > this transaction. I would think all this would occur at a much higher > pay grade. > Given the way he treated the people from NASA and others, you would have to be crazy to deal with him at any level. It would be career suicide. Krivit's description of the NASA fiasco is accurate as far as I know. I have heard it was even worse. That is why I cannot understand why people say Rossi a smooth operator. People say he may be swindling people by making them think he has something he does not have. He may be a confidence man, in short. Believe me he does *nothing* to convince people he is legitimate. He does nothing to inspire confidence or assuage people's anxiety. Time after time he does the extreme opposite! He would make any sensible person run for the exit. As I said here, it is as if he meets people at the door naked, waving a shotgun. By the way, I do not mean he actually does that!! That's metaphorical. I have known some inventors were nearly that bad, such as the late Stanley Meyer. He became enraged and threw bottles at people who looked too closely at his devices. Perhaps Rossi's extreme behavior is an act. Perhaps when you deal with Rossi one-on-one privately, and he wants to make a deal, he acts sensibly. After all, he is a successful businessman. He made a lot of money in the past. He is no fool. Many people in business cultivate a flamboyant public persona. Steve Jobs, for example. They want people to think they are unreasonable, or downright fanatical bad boys. That puts others at a disadvantage when negotiations start, especially when you have a good a product they want, and you hold all the cards. When you act reasonably, they breathe a sigh of relief and sign off on any conditions you propose, hoping to settle the deal while you remain in a rational state. - Jed
