Bad business is good business

[snopes]

Comment: a person has a sandwich shop that is going out of business.rather
than waste the food,he tells everyone that sandwiches will be free till
they are gone. the shop is crowded with patrons geting the free
food.during this a group of japanses businessmen see the crowd.thinking
business is good they immediately make an offer and buy the failing
business.

[STF]

That's a pretty good UL about overzealous investors. They don't have to be Japanese (japanses) to make it funny though. Obviously since I refer to it as a UL I don't buy it. It does make for a good story.

[diddy]

I doubt that anybody would buy a company outright based on seeing a bunch of people flock to the resturaunt for one day. Not when they could easilly get much more accurate information with just a phone call.

[STF]

I figure the basis is that Japanese companies are bad and it's good that they got suckered on this deal. That'll show them! type UL.