Comment by sharemywin | Hacker News Reader

Comment by sharemywin | Hacker News Reader

Apparently they've never worked in pizza. I could just see them sending it to my dad.

First off, What's a bitcoin?

Negative Online review...what's an Online review.

Harrassing telephone calls...you mean a friday night?

Farudulant delivery orders...10 all the way pizzas with anchovies...sure we'll make those right up and deliver them...ya right...

Illegal drug sales...don't be primising illegal drugs to the delivery drivers unless your going to follow through.

Health department -- they visit every six months anyway.

BBB...I once watched a customer complain and get an attitute about his pizza ...he took his pizza and threw it in the trash handed him his money back and said dominos is down around the corner.

I used to try to talk him into advertising too get more customers and he'd always tell me he didn't want anymore customers.

He used to keep a saw'd shotgun behind the counter because the gangs that live in the apartment complex behind us were talking about robbing us. There's still a hole on the floor from where one the employees got shot 'cause they just wanted to shoot someone.

An alternate theory would be the whole thing is a submarine: a way of advertising Bitcoin to pizza owners, under the pretense of a threat.

What could make them take Bitcoin more seriously than the threat of them being harmed by it? It wouldn't be surprising if the whole thing was orchestrated by a Bitcoin startup. And its an easy trick to pull too. You stuff printed letters in a mailbox and they find their way out there. How could anyone prove who did it?

Frankly it's impressive :) After a whole day on HN nobody brought up this possibility. There's also a lesson of strategy here. When you are not making progress being direct about something, try doing its opposite.

What I'm more curious about is how they'll follow up without making it too obvious that they are advertising. How will the make the now worried pizza owner casually bump into a promising Bitcoin company that protects them from extortion and all bad Bitcoin things? Run an ad in the paper or local TV?

Would you mind doing us all a favour and building a database of every pizza place like this on the planet? It sounds like my (our?) kind of place.

It's simple find the most run down looking place you can find that's over 5 years old. You know if they're still in business it's not because if the atmosphere and the service, it's because of the food. Also, as for hacking it's hard to hack an order pad and a pen.

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