Never promise something you can’t deliver, as a Chinese businessman has proven with a prime example.

Coming across like a really good dude, Chinese multimillionaire Chen Guangbiao proclaimed to the underprivileged of New York that he would buy lunch for 1,000 people, while also handing them each $300.

The problem was, only 250 people got the lunch at a swanky New York restaurant, while the others missed out. Oh ya, and no one got any money.

Make of it what you will.

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