Sailing With Suze Is Sunk

Jul 23rd, 2007 | Filed under: Industry

We at Cake love having a little fun at the expense of so-called "investment gurus", whose singular talent seems to be in creating mini-industries around themselves, rather than in building real shareholder wealth for their followers.

So you can imagine our excitement when we first heard about the "Sail With Suze" 7-day Carribean extravaganza put on by Harmon Travel featuring the popular finance guru Suze Orman! Oh, it sounded too good to be true! A once in a lifetime opportunity to lay out on the sun deck, sipping pina coladas with like-minded insecure investors, discussing topics like “How to Make More Out of Less” and “Estate Planning", all with the added allure of getting a glimpse of Suze in a two-piece. Really, what could be better?

Well apparently a lot of stuff, since none of you purchased one of the thousands of available tickets priced at $2,000 and above. Due to sales that "did not meet their reservations goal" the cruise has been grounded before its maiden voyage. Seems like many of you could think of better ways to invest that money, rather than further lining the culotte pockets of Ms. Orman.