Unless you pay a £10million in 24 hours…

[Thankyou4calling]

you’ll never see your wife and kids again!

Celebrities are often quoted as having massive net worth but how many actually have a huge amount (by my standards) in liquid funds they could access immediately?

Many in the UK have a million but that’ll include there house which of course isn’t easy to immediately access.

So if a ransom demand or some such were made can many hit that figure?

What are others thoughts?

I’m on holiday at present so my heads empty hence daft thread.

[Cie]

Exhibit A

[Jimmy No Hands]

I'm struggling to pay my energy bill.


I'll find another wife and have more children.

[glennjamin]

How about find a better place for a holiday for a start. As for question call special forces mate on burner phone and wait for him and mates to turn up.

[PositronicRay]

Stage payments, or am IOU usually suffices.

[Jasandjules]

Alan Sugar could....

[Al Gorithum]

HNW's don't normally hold much cash as it's inefficient.

[Alickadoo]

Cheap at half the price.

I would also refuse to pay on the grounds that I don't respond to ungrammatical demands.

[Countdown]

Thankyou4calling said:

you’ll never see your wife and kids again!

Celebrities are often quoted as having massive net worth but how many actually have a huge amount (by my standards) in liquid funds they could access immediately?

Many in the UK have a million but that’ll include there house which of course isn’t easy to immediately access.

So if a ransom demand or some such were made can many hit that figure?

What are others thoughts?

I’m on holiday at present so my heads empty hence daft thread.

They're probably only going to ask you if they think you HAVE £10m in the first place. Otherwise potentially it's a poor investment.

I mean think of the time/cost involved in planning a kidnapping. Then there's keeping them warm and fed for a few days/ weeks, transport, wages, heating and lighting, possibly council tax. And after all that the victim says "Sorry mate, £5 grand is the best I can do. I work for Amazon as a courier"

[Alickadoo]

Thankyou4calling said:

you’ll never see your wife and kids again!

Celebrities are often quoted as having massive net worth but how many actually have a huge amount (by my standards) in liquid funds they could access immediately?

Many in the UK have a million but that’ll include there house which of course isn’t easy to immediately access.

So if a ransom demand or some such were made can many hit that figure?

What are others thoughts?

I’m on holiday at present so my heads empty hence daft thread.

IIRC Bernie Ecclestone was in a court case a few years back and his counsel was asked WTTE 'could BE produce £50,000,000.00 in a week', his counsel said 'er, yes'.

As I say IIRC.

[Krikkit]

Time's the key - 24 hours would be basically impossible, a week you could have virtually any amount of assets available.

[languagetimothy]

If you’ve a high net worth you’d have a variety of investments not much just sitting in the bank where it does nothing, it actually loses value because of inflation. Some of it would be in stock markets which can be liquidated within a day or two, or even on the same day.

[Alorotom]

This is where the negotiation and hostage training kicks in that many HNW / senior public figures / high profile senior business people go through combined with private organisations that specialise in this area (and are often on retainer) stepping up too.

[Douglas Quaid]

Alickadoo said:

Cheap at half the price.

I would also refuse to pay on the grounds that I don't respond to ungrammatical demands.

The correct phrase is cheap at twice the price. Half the price doesn’t really make sense as yes, of course if the price of something is halved it is cheaper.

I guess it’s like the phrase ‘that went down like a lead balloon’.

You mean it went down very well?

[cobra kid]

Douglas Quaid said:

The correct phrase is cheap at twice the price. Half the price doesn’t really make sense as yes, of course if the price of something is halved it is cheaper.

I guess it’s like the phrase ‘that went down like a lead balloon’.

You mean it went down very well?

Cheaper but maybe not cheap!

[Alickadoo]

Douglas Quaid said:

The correct phrase is cheap at twice the price. Half the price doesn’t really make sense as yes, of course if the price of something is halved it is cheaper.

I guess it’s like the phrase ‘that went down like a lead balloon’.

You mean it went down very well?

Do you have trouble with understanding jokes?

[jeff m]

People who don't actually work usually have a higher proportion of cash available as that is what they draw from.

[The spinner of plates]

Pay £10million in 24 hours?
You’ll never see your wife and kids again!??






It's a tempting offer, but sorry I just can't afford it.

[CloudStuff]

Any entry-level ph'er would of course be able to do this, if essential but the kidnapper should expect a lengthy lecture about how to invest the money, specifically - but not exhaustively - the 'opportunity cost', the need to hedge against forex volatility, the need to spread accross different asset classes, regions and industries.

[bloomen]

I would forget the wife and kids and marry the kidnapper.

Initiative and get up and go is v attractive.

And they get more money long term too.