[Washington]

I'm not one for Chansiri bashing. He has good intent and invested a lot of money while trying to work within the rules. As SCO said his problem was promising too much too soon and then almost doing it 2 years running.

Where the problem lies and I will put it in context for Imre.

The guy has experience at a general level 'building houses' but his son says  dad when I grow up it would be cool to own and know about all this cool electrical and electronic stuff that goes into them (aka a football club).  
Ok son I 'll see what i can do and does a search for someone who can teach him about electrics and electronics but the company (Doyen) who tells the best story is in reality dodgy but they recommend a fella  (CC) who thinks he's the bees knees and all these contacts for really good tried and tested systems and parts.
Unfortunately these things while good originally are expensive and use valves rather than transistors , start off fanatstically but then are getting no maintenance and start to miss-function until some of them fail altogether or the parts to fix them are hard to find and take a long time.
By this time said Dad is limited on what else he can buy this year so has to scrap some items, fix others and/or get some salvage value for ones someone else might be able to use.  Then with that plus his next year allowance he starts looking for young energetic electronics start-ups like a good venture capitalist and finding some good IPhone 7s from people who are loaded with IPhone X's.

With patience he replaces all the out of date rubbish and gives his son the knowledge and skill to start building the new and very successful Att Phone.