Originally Posted by nwflyboy

How deals end:

1. A great deal works for months and months if you go about it quietly
2. One day, someone cheerfully posts it on FT
3. Next day, Sauron-in-a-Bowtie splashes photos of his lovely wife waving the card in Bora Bora. The herd makes a sharp turn, and stampedes towards the newly publicized deal.
4. When some clueless dolt makes a mistake, he calls corporate to demand his free trip to Bora Bora.
5. Soon after, it's shut down
6. An argument appears on FT, people who got in on the party are royally pissed, the usual denialists demand irrefutable evidence that the deal was actually killed by the stampede, despite the trampled prairie.

I got no skin in this game, but if this is indeed a fruitful channel, expect it to last about a week more, maybe two. Well-meaning but v-e-r-y naive OP.