notice how its always "from tier 1 merchants", "from investment groups" etc. never names... always open ended.

Ok heres mine.

Spoke to a multimillion dollar company today. They were very interested in doing business with us and consider our partnership critical. They reached out and gave me a direct line to a tier 1 manager exclusive to us.

translation - i work in IT for the government. i ordered a single $8000 server for a site. we have our own account manager with dell.

yes they are multimillion dollar company. See how easy it is to make a statement and not name stuff. Behind it may or may not exist. What i said was true i do work for gov and did order a server.