Millionaire By Christmas: 0% Success

Earlier today we sent the following email to TrueCasey:

From: FalseCasey
To: TrueCasey
Subject: Merry Christmas!

Are you a millionaire yet?

We were just wondering.

False Casey

No response has been received. We will update if that situation changes.

And that's the situation at FalseCasey HQ, where this latest CaseyFail™ is now official.

Going to wrap up here for now

We may post from time to time, and certainly will be back within seconds if Flippy chooses to return, but for now there doesn't seem to be much to say about the subject and we should return to normal business. The contents of this blog will remain indefinitely.

We believe that TrueCasey will return, probably within six months. Feel free to put down your predictions below if you wish.

It is likely he will find something that will allow him to get out of his parents' place and as soon as that happens, he'll be online again. It's his pattern and short of being thrown in jail, nothing will change that fact.

For now, all his blogs are closed, his videos gone, his talkcasts removed and even his photos no longer available. If anybody is in the Sacramento area and tracks him down, let us know.

And that's the view from FalseCasey HQ, where we thank you all for giving us this brief opportunity to inform and entertain.

Official TalkCast Thread

Going to open up this thread for comments on and during the TalkCast.

Feel free to have your say here.

Final TalkCast! Tomorrow! (Thursday)

Our friend BTC informs us that due to popular demand he has decided to host a final 'cast of the Casey saga before the dim-witted flipper flips the switch and disappears into the ether again.

Thursday, October 30, 6pm Pacific time (9pm Eastern)

http://www.talkshoe.com/tc/30589

It is neither a Haterz or a Supporterz 'cast. It is open to anybody who wants to say hello, goodbye or make a few comments. BTC is going to keep things short, reasonably friendly and not let anybody drone on. Comments will be open and he says he'll go as long as people want to.

As always, we will be listening anonymously, but will reserve our comments to this space. An open comments thread will be made available shortly before the talkcast starts.

TrueCasey Pulls the Plug

Well, It seems that TrueCasey is pulling the plug. We believe it's the bottom of his latest manic/depressive cycle and he'll eventually reconsider, but financially it'll be tough for him, as we know this will mean moving home, and it's been pretty reliably stated that he won't have any internet or blogging access if that happens. He will probably need to get some sort of a real job, whatever he can qualify for.

He also will probably have to deal with whatever food mommy can put on the table. There is likely to be a major belt-tightening in the Serin household and visits to Whole Paycheck just aren't going to be part of the deal.

In fact, there could be a perfect storm of disaster for the Serin household. His mom works for the local school district at a time when major education cutbacks are a virtual certainty. Nigel has reported that TrueCasey's dad also works for the state, in some kind of engineering capacity. While school districts and the state tend not to lay people off completely during crisis, they often cut back hours and pay less at least temporarily.

Add to the possibility of diminished household earnings the additional burden of TrueCasey and his $65,000 in debt. We note that in this regard, TrueCasey is lucky that his debt is on business cards. Personal cards must charge a minimum of 4% of the balance, which would be about $2,600 per month! Only his brother's car-rehabbing business is not dependent on the state budget, but could be impacted by recession as well. (Possibly to the better though, smart used-car guys can do well when times are bad!) And of course, it's unlikely that his parents would be able to refinance their house at this point to pay off the high-interest debt. Even if there is equity in the house, there's unlikely to be enough, and financing is rough. Maybe next year.

Things for TrueCasey certainly look bad right now. He has been warned many times over the years, and has continued to believe that the OPM is endless. Now he has hit the logical conclusion that one arrives at when starting from that premise. Inevitably, he has retreated into religion, conspiracy theories and all sorts of other odd beliefs to convince himself that:

1. It doesn't matter
2. It wasn't his fault
3. It'll still be allgood

It's a sad but predictable end. We cannot be joyful, but we can be satisfied that it's likely over and from this maybe a better Casey will emerge. Maybe his family will toss aside their religious convictions and Soviet-era distrust of mental health professionals and get him the help he needs. Maybe somebody else will. We wish him well, but doubt the next few years will be fun for him.

As an aside: We note that TrueCasey states he's given up on finishing the book.

Sort of odd, considering that CHJTS stated just a few days ago that "I have read Casey's e-book and I will tell you it is a nearly complete guide of foreclosure, exit strategies, and common sense advice on what to do. Yes it is rough around the edges (lots of edges), but with some massaging, proof reading, and editing, it will be a hit and will be an extremely resourceful guide to anyone and everyone needing assistance with foreclosure problems."

Sounds like he was reading something that the author states was never written. Nice going CHJTS!

And that's the way it is from FalseCasey HQ, where we believe that despite today's bummer of a closing hour, a temporary bottom has been put in and there's a month or two of gains to come for those who can position themselves carefully.

TrueCasey is Succeeding! (At becoming irrelevant)

We note that TrueCasey may be achieving his first and possibly only success.

He is successfully getting rid of the haterz™. Of course, the cost is that he is getting rid of pretty much any audience he ever had or ever will have.

100% Success!!!

Sadly for TrueCasey, and happily for the rest of us, there is only a small audience for the type of bizarre content he is passing on. And since he is not creating anything new, just passing along stuff that is available for free elsewhere, he won't generate any money by doing it.

Soon enough, he'll be forced to return home. Forget the dumb ideas about living in vans, being a "perpetual traveler" or any other such crap. Those solutions require a lot of smarts (if only streetsmarts) which TrueCasey lacks. And his stated inability to deal with any lack of normal creature comforts clearly disqualifies him from living this life, no matter how much he might talk of it.

His choice will be to go home and live with his parents' rules. No semi-vegan living at somebody else's expense. No more of mom doing his chores for him, or paying his sister to clean his toilet.

TrueCasey will fade away. Made irrelevant by his own failure to work at being relevant and his more and more desperate efforts to find something "special" for him to do that will allow him to somehow be different, unique, better or more successful than others, with little to no effort required.

Like many such scoundrels, he has no retreated into convincing himself that it doesn't matter. The world will soon end and his God will save him. Like the hero of The Tartar Steppe (which we refered to a few days ago), TrueCasey will probably spend much of his life waiting for the event that could prove his worth, but will probably never happen.

In the meantime, unless he decides to live in society as a productive member of society, his only value will be as a source of entertainment for some and a warning to others.

And that's the view from FalseCasey HQ, where tomorrow's stock market isn't looking much better, but the hope for a turnaround Tuesday is always there.

TrueCasey has Become Boring

Apparently he's recorded about half a dozen podcasts, most of which are actually rebroadcasts of somebody else's podcasts, which he probably appropriated without permission, but it's OK because he's part of their cause, etc...

Most of it is more of the conspiracy "troother" crap that he's been pushing lately. Having failed to monetize his lack of real-estate experience with an online community, he's now planning to monetize his lack of any kind of survival experience into a survivalist community. Unfortunately, as his own actions suggest, there's plenty of this out there already and plenty of guys with knowledge doing survival stuff. Everything from "AR15.com" to "Armchair Survivalist" already exists for the individuals who care to indulge in this. How a guy who can't survive without organic produce from Whole Paycheck is going to provide anything of use to anybody is beyond our comprehension, but that much is true for just about everything TrueCasey has ever done.

We think TrueCasey is getting close to the end. His shiny penny stock has moved up closer to two cents than one cent where it was a week ago, but he's still hopelessly screwed on this one after the taxes come due. He has made no progress on any sort of product that can be sold or offered to anybody who will pay for it. He most certainly doesn't have other income streams because people don't hire people who live in motels and blog about their colons. He'll have no choice but to move home, and has made it clear that "home" now equals "get a job and contribute your fair share, and by the way, eat our food or figure out how to pay for your own..."

Ultimately, we believe that TrueCasey really believes he is interesting and has something interesting to say. He has often commented on his "need to tell his story," but fails to recognize that anything interesting about his story ended over a year ago. The only thing that keeps him in the spotlight is his willingness to be a clown and to be hated. Take away the hate, as he has, and replace an open forum with a moderated and podcasted one, and there's no longer anybody interested. We certainly can't be bothered to listen to his inane ramblings.

And that's the way it is at FalseCasey World Headquarters where we're getting a slow start to the week, but at least we're awake which is more than we can say for TrueCasey.