TC
Dick - get a life buddy. Wake up and smell the coffee.
If you can't play in the big boys playground - go elsewhere.
Dick Smith has smelled a lot of coffee in his long and very interesting life.
When he was 24, he raised AU$610 to start a business by selling his boat & trailer for $600 and borrowing the other $10 from his wife. He gave up his job as a factory worker, rented a tiny workshop and started a business repairing and installing car radios.
He sold 'Dick Smith Electronics' 14 years later for AU$25 million which he invested in property and other ventures - some business and some philanthropic.
So I own a merc: cost me £80,000 and I need to replace one of my display panels and it's quoted at: £1600.
Like you, I pay Mercedes' exorbitant prices for spares, but I resent having to do so.
I'm not mean, nor is Dick Smith.
He started giving money to deserving causes when he was 27 - the first recipient was Nicole Kidman's father, when she was a young child.
When he sold his first company he vowed to donate AU$1 million a year to charitable causes and, as far as I know, still does.
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