Dragons Den type investor wanted with £6k - Manchester!

[Cornish Delight]

Doh, I'm sure some of you 'experts' on here think I woke up this morning & thought "I know what, I think I will open a pasty shop"

Now 1st things 1st before I spend 8 weeks researching the product, doing costings for staff, equipment, suppliers & competitors etc... I will put an advert on PH looking for another dope to share the risk & debt + the inevitable doom & gloom of failure! only debts & eventual forclosure & suicide to look forward too... Doh, if ony I had a brain!

[Cornish Delight]

Tyre smoke:

You are obviously successful at the taxi business in Devon, but have you actually ever been to Bury in Lanacashire?

I stopped 30 people within20 minutes in the street where my shop is who were eating Greggs pasties & they all said they would happily pay a bit extra for a 'proper' hot cornish pasty, I also asked local shop keepers / workers & local suppliers, a total of about 80 people + whenever I'm out in the pubs & restaurants in Bury & being the friendly chap I am I get talking to people & they all respond with positive comments & are looking forward to the shop opening!

So I am totally baffled by your statement saying the people of Bury won't be interested?

I don't want to talk about my pesonal life too much much but alas because of family deaths / tragedy I was out of the running for quite a while & now I feel the time is right & I'm still young enough to make a success of my life as life is so short & you never know when you are going to pop off!

I am not going to post a link to my profit & loss excel spreadsheet on here or list my outgoings / projections that is for me to show to a potential serious investor.

Also you said the people of Bury are not going to think 'Pasty' unless they are in Cornwall, well if that was the case then none of the other 18 hot food takeaways in Bury would survive!

I'm sure like most people I have food in my freezer, but I don't want to take it to work with me! In Bury people just want to grab something quick & tasty to eat while walking round the shops.

Thank you very much for taking the time to make your comments & to draw the attention of my potential investors as to anything I may not have thought of.

Regards: Michael

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to: Wolf 1

Yes you are right at 1st I was a bit over sensitive & am just starting to learn that even though 'some' people don't know anything about Cornish pasties or the town of Bury they are just offering their advice / opinions in order to help a stranger.

I don't want to start selling bacon buttys (good idea though) as I want to concentrate on providing everything CORNISH ie: Pasties, Clotted cream / Cornish jam scones, Cornish fudge, Clotted cream shortcake, jam, Fairings, cakes, brownies, I even have a contact in Cornwall that has just started making cornish pasty flavoured crisps.

Regards: Michael

[Cornish Delight]

Thanks Tony very helpful.

[Cornish Delight]

Wacky Racer:

Do you ever wonder how the other businesses in Cromwell Street survive??? Because I do.

[Cornish Delight]

WoW: 'a bloke' you "think" you are so clever cutting & pasting my website address, even though most people on here have already seen it!

Oh & you cannot even spell, it should be Pasty Shop not Pastie, or is that how they spell in Ireland?

Pasties is the plural of Pasty.

[Cornish Delight]

As I'm such a Dope can anyone tell me what the acronym: ETA stands for?

I've seen it on here a few times, but I don't think it stands for Estimated Time of Arrival.

Thanks in advance (hopefully).

Regards: Michael

[Cornish Delight]

Nola 'Dog'

You remind me of my parents, when I was a young lad & was naughty they would say "we had a nice treat lined up for you Michael but as you have been a naughty boy you are not getting it now!"

Oh & 'Nosher' what has my sexuality got to do with all of this? Thats a bit personal!

[Cornish Delight]

Hey AussiePoms!

What the fook are saying ignore me? I have kept this lot entertained since last Friday!

Some of them on here are poor like me & some have pots of money with lots of flash cars & good luck to them, am I jealous? yes of course I am!

But despite their wealth, they have nothing better to do than come on here all day & night (how sad!) at least I've got an excuse, Iv'e got no money to do anything else.

Regards: Michael

[Cornish Delight]

Thanks Aussie M8, I will give it a go!

Not only would it give me a business but also some wheels to get about in, at least I could promise a potential partner a hot date!

Regards: michael

[Cornish Delight]

Well Steve to stop me being "agressive" I will think about cute furry little bunny rabbits.

But the thing is the banks will only put in 50% & we all know what 50% of nothing is.

Good advice though, thanks!

[Cornish Delight]

The email addresses were removed for a reason.

You genuinely tragic individual.

Edited by Plotloss on Wednesday 15th July 16:37

[Cornish Delight]

to: StuR

I removed all my posts as I felt this was all getting out of hand + very silly

I had not intended to make any more comments but after reading your post (shame you have no life yourself!), so I joined PH last Friday after seeing something on TV about a pasty shop did I? Well are you a betting man? I will bet my widescreen TV/DVD + Leather suite, well basically all my furniture & possessions that I have been workng on this idea for 2 months which I can easily prove!

Oh & to Martial arts man:-

I think you need help mate! under the line below is the text of the e-mail I replied to you within 5 minutes of receiving it! now I'd love to know from the text below, what on earth makes you think I was not interested???

---

Hi,

So you want me to sell your magazine?

Or is it a delivery service?

Please tell me more.

Regards: Michael


--- On Tue, 14/7/09, Martial Arts Man wrote:

> From: Martial Arts Man
> Subject: Idea
> To: Cornish Delight
> Date: Tuesday, 14 July, 2009, 11:18 PM
> This email has been forwarded by
> PistonHeads.com
> Your email address has not been revealed to the sender
> of the message, but will be if you choose to reply.
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> Michael,
>
> Further to your posts, I have a business idea you may be
> interested in that has zero start up cost.
>
> You are clearly a tenacious guy, so how about we start a
> local, freely delivered magazine in your area. There is not
> one local to you that I can find on Google.
>
> I have run a publishing company for many years which I sold
> in January, and have started these projects in many towns in
> the past.
>
> Granted, you may not earn much more than 18K or so from it
> but it could provide you with daytime earnings to go
> alongside your pastry van. As well as free advertising for
> your food business.
>
> Within a few months you may have the funds to put the
> deposit down on your van.
>
> If you think you are up to networking locally (you never
> know what opportunities may arise as a result) and selling
> some cheap advertising alongside delivering some mags, let
> me know.
>
> All the best
>
> Martial Arts Man
>

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I realise a lot of people in here are successful business people but I think it is so sad that you have nothing better to do then to slag me off, pick holes in my business plan (now aborted) & my website etc....

All I can say is "GET A LIFE"

No doub't you will all back up your little PH buddies, close ranks in your clicky sad eviroment, continue to slag me off with your sarhy / rudecomments & good luck to you, well you have nothing better to do after all - So SAD!!!

I WILL NOT BE POSTING ANYMORE ON HERE & PROBABLY WON'T EVEN READ THEM ANYMORE - BYE BYE!!!




Edited to remove email addresses.

Edited by Plotloss on Wednesday 15th July 17:38