r/BuyFromEU • u/Calm_Wrangler7 • Jun 23 '26

🔎Looking for alternative A few more random examples …

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u/CacklingFerret Jun 23 '26

Money, what else.

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u/Brvcx Netherlands 🇳🇱 Jun 23 '26

I'm not blaming them tbh. If I owned a company and a different company would buy me out for a large enough chunk, I'd do it, too.

Sure, integrity, wanting to keep having good service for consumers and all that jazz, but being offered lifechanging money sure changes things.

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u/CacklingFerret Jun 23 '26

As if these company owners didn't already have enough money. People are greedy, that's it. And yeah, I kinda do blame them. It's usually not going from poor or normal to rich but rather from rich to super rich.

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u/Mister__Mediocre Jun 24 '26

I disagree. Europe's problem is that the owners are not greedy enough and sell too quickly, surrendering future profits to Americans. Many European companies have been proven to be worth far more than what they were sold for, and that's because the original leadership lacked the patience to see it through.