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That's Petters (with 2 T's), not Peters

First there was the picture of Bernie Madoff that looked a lot like Tom Peters and now there's a guy named Tom Petters (2 T's!) who is garnering the fraud headlines by trying to hustle non-existent DVD players. We here at tompeters.com just wanted to make sure there was no confusion between Petters and Peters. Our Tom is winging his way to Shanghai, where he'll be speaking over the weekend.

Erik Hansen posted this on 04/23/09.

Comments

is there a big market for DVDs in China then?

Posted by PaulH at April 23, 2009 11:02 AM

sorry couldn't resist that :-)

Posted by PaulH at April 23, 2009 11:03 AM

I live in Tom Petter's stomping grounds and have run into this issue when recommending Tom's book Re-Imagine. The reaction was something along the lines of why would I want to read a book by that guy when he had defrauded so many for billions?! LOL

Posted by Pam at April 23, 2009 11:17 AM

I remember the good "Thomas J." times way back in 82.

Posted by gerson barbosa at April 23, 2009 11:37 AM

paulh, no need to apologize. got a good laugh from your comment. perfect rejoinder to the post.

Posted by erik at April 23, 2009 12:22 PM

LOL, PaulH!

Posted by Judith Ellis at April 23, 2009 1:00 PM

I recently had an event where invitations were sent which emanated from a database (I didn't screen the list until after the fact). I was lucky enough to send the invitation to the Tom with 2Ts in his last name. I wish I had invited the Tom with 1T instead. The 2T Tom was a no show - thank goodness.

Tom with 1T, would you appreciate an invitation the next time around?

Posted by Rodney Johnson at April 23, 2009 3:15 PM