The Forever Cruise That Was Doomed To Fail

It's human nature to choose a comfortable lie over an uncomfortable truth. I did some telemarketing long ago. We bought client lists from bankrupt companies that basically robbed people. Kinda like this one. One of the biggest and best lists came from some guys that were in prison for fraud. Everyone gave us an ear full as soon as they heard what we were selling. Some beat us up pretty good for a while. The money they lost was an ice breaker that created a conversation and kept them on the phone. After they told us all about their bad experience we congratulated them on making a smart decision to buy for all the right reasons. The fraudsters had already sold them on the product. All we needed to do was convince them that they bought from the wrong company and that we were the right company. Finding people that will send thousands of dollars to a stranger who cold called them is not easy. Those lead lists were very valuable to us. If a person has the mindset to do it once they will do it again.

This may be considered heartless, but idgaf. Whoever paid for this obvious scam deserved to lose their money. I can't imagine more a self indulgent delusion than thinking you can sell you 4 bedroom house in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, liquidate your retirement, and blow your children's inheritance to become a world traveling aristocrat with a full housekeeping and cook staff at your beck and call for no ongoing cost or price increase over time while completely abandoning your "poor" land locked family. Not to mention the inevitable floating hospital and memory care center this thing would become. It's peak boomerism.

I don’t feel bad for any of these people AT ALL.

This is basic math

I went on 1 cruise in my life from Vancouver to Seward, Alaska. It was enjoyable, but I don't need to do it again. Being with an intimate gathering of 3,000 other people in close quarters is not my idea of fun. Did it once, that was all I need. Been there, done that.

Add to that, I feel that it's obscene, these floating cities all over the planet, dumping their waste all over the place, and giving people the illusion that they're rich when they're not. Pathetic.

😂 Don't worry. They can cut back on Starbucks and avocado toast to buy a home again.

Perhaps they should have sold ad space along the side of the hull.

It sounds like the crypto bros Satoshi crusie ships during the pandemic.

There were monthly fees in the thousands per month

Hard to believe they wouldn't have thought of building in a fuel surcharge into their contract.

Sailing ship with fishing gear. There, just solved lifetime cruising. Hope everyone likes seafood and yanking on ropes all day.

Boomers sold their children for a bit of comfort. They deserved this fate

Never Ending Cruise could not have been a more obvious scam had it used a horse sinking in quick sand as its logo.

Costs were 400k-900k with monthly fees of about 11k

Don't give your house to an employee of a company that literally just screwed you

The very first paragraph of your script is outright factually false. They had monthly fees 5000 for a single person interior cabin or 3500 per person up to to 11,000 per month for single person suite or 9000 per person. Do better most commenters think thats the only business model, the endless horizon deal was limited to only a couple of units as a loss leader. Also it should be noted there is a successful residential ship called the MS the world and has been in operation for 20 years. The ship was purpose built and brand new and the cheapest cabin cost over 2 million dollars and theres a 10,000 a month maintenance fee. What should of been a redflag was how low the prices are compared to the world

All these "SCAMS" need are "2" things . Smucks and Money . There apears to be a good supply of both .

Sad