Peter's Mesmerised By Danny's Rubik's Cube Alternative | Dragons’ Den

The Bedlam Cube outsold the classic Rubik's Cube during its product launch at Hamleys. Now, Daniel Bamping is seeking an investment of £100,000 in return for a 10% share of his plastic toy firm but which Dragon will prove themselves in this sector?
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[@jhock9171]

I feel like doing a deal with Doug Richards would require no less than your soul in equity.

[@bilalha123]

Or you could give him your children

[@Nthstar]

@@bilalha123 🤣😂

[@followtheboat]

Maybe he's a nice bloke in real life but he always came across as a bit of a... you know...

[@toproudtooadmitmitsake1842]

Peters was an even worse deal.

[@Tom_Het]

Pffff I don't get out of bed for one soul.

[@nickcolleton5684]

Peter jones is like "damn. Can't take advantage of this guy. I'm out!"

[@5950ziel]

that's why he wanted the holding company + his wife

[@thejuiceweasel]

Man, the atmosphere in the old episodes was always so damn awkward, the chemistry got way better in the later seasons.

[@johnlastname3751]

helps that the sound quality is majorly improved as well IMO

[@radiance65]

Yes, the Dragon's came across as ruthless and greedy. Not likeable at all

[@jont2576]

this is old?i thought the original cast was like duncann bannatyne,peter jones,deborah and theo..........

[@kabband]

@@jont2576 this was before then

[@r1ckySV]

It was because of theo and doug

[@MosherMike]

Rachel sounded like she was bullshitting when Theo questioned her...

[@lewiskelly6709]

She looked like she was on drugs

[@palmereldritch500]

She was rumbled and kept it up

[@Aquanes]

It worked tho ! lol

[@manufc-bd2fb]

@StoneBoiii420 She just fancied the guy ,

[@4mySweetheart369]

I thought the same thing. She stumbled over her words.

[@rishidoshi7280]

Theo is truly savage! He increases his equity, and then savagely asks Rachael what value she's going to bring. Hahaha!

[@malcolmclements9254]

I think he had a little thing for Rachael there? Didn't want to leave her out in the cold.

[@Bongtaker]

He's definetly one of the funniest dragons throughout the whole series

[@leonhardtvanrus1728]

Thanks for the recap wattson but i watched it too

[@TravelWithBradley]

He asked Rachael to explain value to make the guy think 30% was now a fair deal. He wasn't really speaking to Rachael, he was speaking to the guy with the product, through Rachael. Of course Theo knows what Rachael could bring lol

[@ololadeolaleye2454]

@@TravelWithBradley Hmm! You got a point there!

[@skogis06]

Update: the deal never went through, and Danny took out a bank loan instead. The company later dissolved and he had to file for bankruptcy after he failed to pay government taxes.

[@wge621]

Yikes

[@vega7873]

@@wge621 XDDD

[@mansoor6678]

Lol

[@user-wickedflower]

He conned himself it would be the next rubix cube so had no plan B ,except Bankruptcy ,which annoys me how a young person just decides not to pay fees & invoices previously agreed. He said he had other companies & was really busy giving others advice etc. He was always going to fail. Pathetic personality.

[@docdisco42]

@@user-wickedflower Apparently he stopped paying the council tax as a sign of protest against Plymouth council for the fact that landlords of student occupied houses don't have to pay that same tax... and now he's suing the Council for £5m

[@PublicDetective]

After reading the comments; I felt it would be logical to perhaps set the record straight on a few things as people seem to believe what they read on the BBC and via other unreliable sources. 1 - I could not complete the deal on camera due to the fact Rachel Elnaugh’s company (red letter days) went into administration in-between the filming and when it was broadcast. To be fair to her - she called me the Friday it happened and told me that it would be in that weekends papers and that she could not complete the deal with me. She apologised and that was that. 2 - Weeks later when I finally met with Theo (with my group company legal director) he offered me the £50K agreed on camera as an investment; but wanted the other £50K to be a loan. Yet he still wanted the full 30% equity. I mulled this over and even suggested that we offer Peter to come in and replace Rachel - that didn’t happen; although Peter did consider it. Soon after Peter and Theo jointly bought red letter days out of administration. 3 - The BBC called me virtually every day - wanting to know if I had completed the deal with Theo - and they stated that if I didn’t complete the deal - then they would not broadcast my pitch. During this time I was still working (part-time) as a wildlife film maker (mainly as an underwater cameraman) - and I was at a Wildlife Film Festival in Jackson Hole - Montana and the BBC called me to say that they were going to drop my pitch from the editing because I had not completed the deal. I called Theo and told him that I was still considering his offer and would make a decision when I returned from the UK. 4 - When I returned from the UK I had a meeting with my bank manager and applied for a £32K loan - a small firms business loan. This was approved within days and then I placed an order for 2 containers full of cubes (the best thing in the world to ship is a cube with no packaging) and you could get 19,200 of the large cubes in a 20ft container. At the time the $ to the £ was almost 2 to 1. They arrived the day after broadcast - literally outside my house! 5 - A few weeks later - after continuing to dodge calls from both the BBC and Theo - I went down to my local shop and saw that in the radio times that they were advertising the 2nd series of Dragons den and had programme 2 listed as ‘The Dragons fight over investing in an impossible puzzle’. When I got home from the shop - I called the BBC and Theo and told them that I could not go through with the deal and that it was not what we had agreed on camera. Theo respected my decision and wished me well and told me to keep in touch. The BBC guy was angry and pissed off with me; I cancelled my licence a few weeks later and have never paid the peado protectors and propaganda machine since. 6 - The next few years from the point of broadcast became a blur - and the company grew rapidly and won many awards. In 2007 one of my large UK retailer customers decided to place an order with one of my manufacturers - without my knowledge. I had already planned a second trip to China to visually inspect both of the factories I was using to manufacture my cube. The same manufacturer I discovered was using ‘child labour’ - to sonic weld and put the cubes together. When I witnessed this with my own eyes - I placed my final order with the factory and requested that my tools to make the cube were put into the container and shipped back to the UK. 7 - In 2008 I began to manufacture the cube in the UK working with a plastic injection moulding factory initially in Wiltshire and later in Plymouth. The Bedlam Cube became one of the very few Toys ‘made in the UK’ - and many corporate companies ordered cubes because of that. The Carbon Cube was made from 100% recycled plastic (and was black in colour) and was only available on the web and manufactured less than a mile away from where it was shipped directly to the customer. 8 - During this time the terraced student house next door to me was converted over the summer by a rouge landlord who had recently purchased it. He converted it from 5 Bedrooms on 2 floors; to 12 Bedrooms on 4 floors - he did so with no planning permission; no building control; no fire regs or HMO licence…and more. I investigated and passed on what I had found to Plymouth city council. They then did their own investigation (based on my evidence and info) and then inspected the property and fined the landlord over £4,000. It was at this stage I had discovered that none of the 50 properties he owned - paid any council tax - as they were all registered as Student Properties. They are also exempt from Business rates - even thou they are property assets of a business - bringing in £? The legislation doesn’t make any sense. Even less does the enforcement of Council tax - which are a complete fraud in their processes and the fact they hold their own pretend court hearings - with liability orders that do not exist as ‘physical pieces of paper’. 9 - Yes - I was made (unlawfully) bankrupt in 2012 for a £2,300 unpaid bill; - which at the time I could not pay. The Local Gov Ombudsman found 3 counts of mal-administration in my unlawful bankruptcy and after 3 years as an exempt student doing a law degree; I am about to apply to have it annulled. Once that is done; then I will be able to make an insurance claim against the council’s professional indemnity policy - which has a limit of £5M. There has been no court case (as yet) and I’m not suing anyone…despite the BBC headline and their story. 10 - Over the last decade I have been focused on making a difference and not making money. I have assisted many people with their mortgage, council tax and many other issues. I have prevented many people being jailed and from losing their homes; I even managed to get a grandmother out of prison 2 days before Christmas; via a HC emergency Judicial review. I have not paid my water bill for over a decade and in Feb 2018 - I took South West Water to court - and won; discharging an £8K bill and ensuring my costs were paid. In 2013 I proved in the HC; that there is no contract for a mortgage - meaning that my £1 a month payment was not a breach of the ‘agreement’. The bank doesn’t sign anything for your mortgage and they create the money from quantitive easing (fresh air). 11 - Yes I have now been handed the reigns of the family business - which for the last 5 years was run into the ground by an ex-employee - who decided to take our customer database with him. So if anyone needs any labels - www.turtonretail.co.uk 12 - In 2017 - I crowd funded over £1000 so that I could stand as an Independent Candidate in Plymouth. This was the snap election - brought by Teresa May and I made a snap decision to stand. With others in 2015 - we had set up a movement called ‘the No Party’- supporting all independent candidates in the UK - www.noparty.co 13 - I now also work as a non-practicing lawyer and private prosecutor and investigator - and on youtube and facebook - I am known as ‘The Public Detective’. 14 - At its peak - between the 2 toy companies I owned through my group; I employed 15 staff - ad a product range of over 30 products; supplied most major retailers (Argos is sale or return and they sold every cube they bought) was sold in over 40 countries and we won many awards. We were the first Toy Company in the UK to have a working app for the product and we were the only Plastic Puzzle made in the UK. Yes you can still buy the Bedlam Cube - mainly on ebay now. When the companies were wound up / dissolved etc - the only 2 bills not paid were a £35K overdraft and a £3K tax bill. 15 - I never lost any of my assets (including my house) in my unlawful bankruptcy as I had placed them in a private family trust - (over 3 years prior) - the beneficiary of the trust is my 11 year old daughter Scarlett Gaia.

[@YanNed-ou3lx]

Now that’s a reply

[@MrBooBeeDoo]

Yeah, right, how do we know you're Danny? Just kidding! Thanks for the update, man.

[@rleandro315]

Great, thorough follow up

[@conmayn]

You are nothing short of a living legend. Thank you for the update

[@thetessellater9163]

Danny, I hope your daughter is getting well and will walk OK now. You made a mistake in not paying your Council Tax, from which most of your difficulties flowed of course. You had a lot to lose, and did so, by choosing the wrong route to publicise your view of the unfairness of the student exemption. There were many different means by which you could have sought to bring this to light and have an adult conversation about the fairness of government policy. I'm sure you see this now. It is oft said that you can't please all the people, all of the time, and this shows in making policy to cover 65 million people, which inevitably throws up much in the way of unforeseen consequences. I hope that the business can work for you again and I wish you well in rebuilding something better in future. Regards.

[@airsam1]

Rachel now desperately trying to find out the numbers of buyers at all these department stores she was talking about...

[@radiance65]

Lol!

[@Hi-dd8gr]

Hahaha

[@kingsleyksly2023]

Doug Richard is so annoying. Talking really High numbers on equity but low numbers in age.

[@Locutus]

Feel free to invest your own money.

[@OakApplegardens]

Sweet 16 or was it 13 or 17? I'm confused, except he was a perv.

[@kingsleyksly2023]

Aaron K Lmao probably

[@radiance65]

I see what you did there 👏

[@johncoffey724]

Agree...he was only motivated to be horrible to people.

[@DustinRodriguez1_0]

Oof, they SAVAGED this guy. At least, that's how the editing and all that makes it look. He comes in asking for 100k for 10%, then right away Duncan talks and the guy runs himself up to saying he'd be willing to part with as much as 20%, immediately moving the bar on the amount of equity the others are going to push for AND making it very obvious that he's extremely naive at negotiating with upper class people. When he talked about being willing to go up to 20, he very much seemed to me that he was just being honest and putting it out there, figuring he's just laying out the truth of the matter for everyone. But to them, he was showing his belly. That doesn't buy you commensurate honesty and fair-dealing from them. They just start sharpening their claws.

[@4mySweetheart369]

This! He stepped back and drew a new line every time someone gave him a new offer with higher equity. Once someone sees they can push you back a step so easily, they'll try to take 20.

[@ketchup5344]

I am always pleased when Theo makes a good inverstment; I think of his childrens' inheritance growing and it warms the cockles of my heart.

[@MsMaryPatricia]

He has grandchildren now so he needs even more investments to take care of them.

[@RobJNathanSings]

🤣🤣🤣. Brilliant

[@SamTheEnglishTeacher]

I'm also pleased when they offer more than 5% because I know Theo will get out of bed, rather than wallowing in depression all day.

[@radiance65]

Lol! 🤣🤣🤣

[@allosaurusfragilis7782]

Theo fhe fetus will inherit a fortune

[@azure8909]

"So on Sundays I like to put my feet up and read the newspaper" Narrator: "Daniel may be distracted by newspapers"

[@peterd788]

Mr Bamping turned down the investment and went for a bank loan. In 2009 he stopped paying his council tax because he objected to students not having to pay. He was made bankrupt b the council in 2012. In 2014 he tried to sue Plymouth for £5 million in "lost earnings" because his bankruptcy meant he had to give up his directorships. In 2017 he stood for Parliament and got 237 votes.

[@Bridiebxx]

Aaron K omg yes he does!!!! 😂😂😂😂

[@Jimmy-B-]

Did he get £5 million

[@SirPeterlll]

Dunno what these UK votes mean, did he win with those votes or was it 237 vs 10000?

[@Locutus]

@@SirPeterlll A parliamentary constituency is around the 100k population mark (it's never exactly 100k), and you will need at least 33,334 votes to win the seat. He didn't even win 1% of the votes.

[@OakApplegardens]

What a t**t. Glad he got made bankcrupt. Objecting to students not having to pay council tax!!

[@killler240]

Seeing these older episodes shows how much the editing and music usage has improved overtime!

[@agr7879]

It was so much better and more dramatic WITHOUT the music!

[@Toby761]

@@agr7879 Yeah true

[@saffaboy2007]

Describing 2004 as old makes me sad. Where have the years gone?

[@JickFincter]

Also the dragons seem a lot nicer and a lot less cutthroat.

[@Argumemnon]

@@agr7879 Yeah the editing and music was better and less annoying back then. It's just the narrator.

[@sanjuansteve]

Dragons that want ownership of an inventor's future ideas have lost their minds to greed and control over others.

[@Dave062YT]

Who would accept an offer from Doug Richard ?He's just a horrible little man ,

[@Stop_Pre-Ordering_Video_Games]

Well, a 13yo girl accepted his offer. _"I'll see myself out"_

[@adamsmith6594]

@@Stop_Pre-Ordering_Video_Games 🤣

[@jimmybaldwin737]

@@Stop_Pre-Ordering_Video_Games yeah I like how it’s kept quiet. There’s only one video on you tube of him going to court about it

[@moimeself1088]

He really is pretty vile. I've never seen him acknowledge any positive aspect of anything brought it. Just tears people down. The other sharks are generally pretty gracious unless the person is just dodgy or difficult.

[@rareSNaRF]

@@moimeself1088 he's been nice?

[@Brickcellent]

9:21 I just think his response here was brilliant haha. He really knows what he's at and wasn't humbled by Theo's statement. Immediately asked Theo what he could do for him. He was excellent!

[@thedunyadoneya2628]

Doug richard: how much for £20? 13 year old: just the palm of your hand on my backside. Doug richard: I need you to commit to more.

[@MsMaryPatricia]

@Dean M It's still eewwww when 60 yr old men are playing hide the sausage with 17 yr olds.

[@keeganwebb7777]

@@MsMaryPatricia Yes, exactly. And any grown man can tell that a 13 year old is not a 17 year old... 🤢🤮

[@LeopardprintBet]

Oh god! That’s grim. Just read about it

[@Electroporcupine]

I imagine a man with his money could get away with anything. Gross that they're still uploading clips of him.

[@Stop_Pre-Ordering_Video_Games]

@@keeganwebb7777 - Whoa whoa whoa slow down there. Don't blanket everyone with your opinion statement. Have you seen what some 13-14yo girls look like when they fully dress up, makeup and women's clothes can add 5+ years onto a teenager, not to mention some people just look older and even act older. When I was 14-15yo I was able to freely walk into pubs and night clubs because I looked much older than I was and I didn't act like a typical dumbass horny, spotty, sweaty teenager.

[@kp2011kp]

Theo: "In that case....... I'll let you come in" Jenny: "I'm out."

[@kansah4026]

Come on! GIAR.

[@hilary729]

Doug Richards such a horrible man

[@01imh]

Yeah that’s business, grab as much of the pie as you can

[@VieneLea]

Well, the judge believed him that he genuinely thought she's 17

[@johntgw]

He's the only Dragon to go an entire series without making an investment so that's not good. Oh, and he has relationships with girls who he honestly believed were 17......

[@123TauruZ321]

@@VieneLea There shouldn't be any question, grown up people should stay away from youths still in puberty. Insanity.

[@Asif24960]

@@VieneLea money talks

[@TallulahLaGhash]

Why is Duncan's wife always unfulfilled? He only ever puts half in and withdraws too quickly

[@user-sv5mb7nj9f]

Wait what??

[@aminka9755]

Hi 👋

[@Ass_Burgers_Syndrome]

Or, why is a bank account like having sex? Because once you withdraw you lose interest.

[@yusifluay]

9:53 "ok", cue dramatic music

[@sanic15]

LMFAO

[@mh8316]

Jenny: I actually live off a £800 pension so im out!

[@Aquanes]

This is one of my favorites so far. Not only was the dragons’ interested. The amount of deals and bargains that were thrown on the table were so insane! This was great. And the dragons’ respect for each other’s offers and investment choice was super refreshing

[@Jacomo101TV]

You watching a different clip? Or is it a r/whoosh moment for me?

[@breakit46]

Doug literally exhales dark clouds.

[@tahirahmed33]

He's a the devil 😈 in disguise

[@sbaxter4207]

peter: i want 30% of everything i don't care wants on the table, I wont promise to do anything either, just sell it me.. no?, then i'm out

[@knawaz7249]

Sounds about right, pompous lanky t#at

[@vikkitee4686]

This has been around for years. I remember doing a wooden version of this when I was a kid 30 years ago 🤔

[@andrewlawlor7678]

Yes they came in different shapes too.

[@af98]

Yeah the bedlam cube was made by a man who's surname was bedlam. I hate how the video first makes it out like Danny Bamping made it

[@soteriousecurity5555]

It really annoys me to see the dragons taking the p*ss with their percentages. They just rob everyone

[@stiandalby3271]

Really think the show gives the dragons a huge advantage in stressing people to make bad business decisions

[@DarknessValor]

@@stiandalby3271 that is the whole point yes...

[@oooBASTIooo]

@@stiandalby3271 Sometimes people are smart and just use the show for exposutre of their product.

[@0Diazzz0]

Then let me introduce this reasonable product, without sales and without marketing research I ask 150.000 for 5% of my company that I plan to sell in 5 years for a minimal of 600.000.000 pound. 😁👍

[@ing9545]

Its their money and they need to also gain and negotiate. They are not on the program for charity . They only believe what they are told. So they have to seek for more equity . Incase it doesn’t work out they can sell it and get back their investment

[@Jamie_Winsh]

I love how it kept panning to Peter, bringing out his inner child lol. I'm sure it would have been the same brand cos the product looked the same so I'm gonna say I have done one of these cubes and I loved it

[@Mr.M1STER]

That was one of the most interesting back and forth with offers and the counter offers. Danny was spot on to decline the first offer of 40% and then Peter's totally greedy offer for 35% in all of the guys ideas which weren't even on the plate to begin with. I was very happy to see him decline those. I think Theo's first offer was the best one but danny decided to counter offer which was a risky but good call to make the dragons think. That slightly backfired when Theo decided to reconsider his original offer but in the end the offer he accepted was a good one.

[@tobymacdonald5893]

definitely..unfortunate it didn’t work out in the end though

[@brocktoon8]

That was one of the most satisfying I've seen. Everyone went away happy and excited about thier new partnership.

[@MrLondonGo]

This was a particularly delightful episode in the Den.

[@dopemusic6414]

He ended up declining the deal. Today he is 41 and all his businesses have been dissolved. He should have taken their deal who knows what would have happened.

[@livinindubai]

thanks for the update m8

[@kp2011kp]

Shoulda woulda coulda...

[@ChattyYas]

Hmmm yeah but I googled this and he went bankrupt not due to the cube failing... as he made a 1million pound turnover. He actually stopped paying his council tax...and the council had to send bailiffs around. Then he was declared bankruptcy...

[@rs-qt1qg]

@@ChattyYas 1 million pounds turnover and didn't pay his council tax?? i'm speechless..

[@clublulu399]

Chatty Yaz what a rat

[@nero_palmire]

I remember seeing very similar product in the mid 90's

[@lemonjellies4985]

What a great pitch. Looking at him and his dress sense I wouldn't have thought it but he really held his own well there and came out winning. Good job.

[@kansah4026]

I have to say this has got to be one of the best episodes.

[@mytten]

2:58 "They're were smart there" Lmao!

[@brizzo7]

The Den seemed to be a lot tougher in those days. The negotiations were tough and the dragons could be ruthless. Now the current dragons are also tough and no-nonsense, but they seem to have a bit more acumen and see the bigger picture. These early deals were very different.

[@Mwrp86]

Thanks to Peter and Debrah mostly

[@itsandyme9192]

I love this guy's confidence.

[@clivehinton2859]

Bought the Belam puzzle way back in 1994, really enjoyed trying to solve it.

[@elliotjones3601]

I swear these videos are the only thing getting me through quarantine

[@JohnBrown-sn3kh]

U are still quarantined? Bastards have had me back at work for 3 weeks now

[@Bridiebxx]

Same 😂😂😂

[@SinkyYT]

I bet Theo would like Rachel to ask him to come in!

[@thevexoffender8197]

This turned out well. Never head of the puzzle until till this video

[@erepsekahs]

Very well done, he was a lot quicker than he looked.....much to their surprise.

[@cameronwallis7024]

Duncan looks like he’s non stop hangin for a pint these days.

[@muckaboi2351]

these days? this episode is easily 7 years old dude

[@domainadmin9905]

@@muckaboi2351 Check the upload date, this was uploaded today

[@skillissue445]

Domain Admin The video is still old you crackhead

[@domainadmin9905]

@@skillissue445 You took the bait like a mug 😂😂🤝

[@gamewithadam7235]

@@domainadmin9905 LMAO

[@embers1224]

Doug Richards is a very angry man. I am glad he is gone. He just seems to exist to be nasty

[@SaveWesternCivilisation]

Even his wig has fled him ..

[@Ann-jg9kp]

he does have terrible allegations against him

[@danriaz9678]

He went to court for having sex with a minor

[@danriaz9678]

@Mr Mavvy he didn't deny having sex with a minor, charges were dropped because he pled ignorance

[@mac_tire_aonair]

Totally right , embers1224. Never liked him on the show. He f**ked a 13-year-old girl ffs. How would you feel if she was your own daughter?

[@buddha8910]

Ha Ha! Peters face when he turned down the offer for his entire holding! that was gold. As for Doug, he is such a miserable so and so lol. Well done Bedlam Cube! smart fella!!!

[@harjitbhullar1363]

prob the best episode ive seen

[@swf4841]

Whenever I watch these old DD clips I can’t focus on the pitches as all I’m trying to figure out is why John Malkovich is on the panel.

[@tarawalsh-arpaia3928]

I never knew till recently but the Rubix cube and puzzles like this one are vary helpfu for ADD sufferers. I wish he knew that and used it as part of his pitch.

[@johncoffey724]

I'm just enjoying watching Peter having a go! lol

[@shepzy]

This is one of the best negotiations I've seen on DD.

[@TheJohnCooperShow]

Lol

[@elliotthyde5623]

Yeah cos stationary shop are always rammed. Last time I was in one I could barely move 😂😂😂

[@Locutus]

This episode came out about 15-20 years ago, so yeah, they would have been.

[@elliotthyde5623]

Locutus I doubt it.

[@Locutus]

@@elliotthyde5623 I've been to many busy stationary shops over the last couple of years.

[@elliotthyde5623]

Locutus 😂 I’m sure you have. I however have not. You sound like you may spend quite some time in them.

[@littleboots9800]

@@Locutus really? I thought everyone just stole it from work.

[@93deadpool]

Me: “Hey Doug, how many sides to a Rubiks Cube is there?” Doug: “.........13?” Me: “........tf😳”

[@MsMaryPatricia]

Lmao

[@callesierra]

Very smart young guy,he was not in the least intimidated by the dragons and earned their money 💰

[@hqcf]

Watching this videdo sounds like starting up my old PS2 every other minute

[@barrysmithhy1583]

the investment never went through, danny didn't like how much he was giving away. he got a bank loan instead

[@WellWisdom.]

So sad. He could had been in every store.

[@Warriorspm]

that's a feelsbadman

[@ololadeolaleye2454]

Wowwww!

[@PublicDetective]

After reading the comments; I felt it would be logical to perhaps set the record straight on a few things as people seem to believe what they read on the BBC and via other unreliable sources. 1 - I could not complete the deal on camera due to the fact Rachel Elnaugh’s company (red letter days) went into administration in-between the filming and when it was broadcast. To be fair to her - she called me the Friday it happened and told me that it would be in that weekends papers and that she could not complete the deal with me. She apologised and that was that. 2 - Weeks later when I finally met with Theo (with my group company legal director) he offered me the £50K agreed on camera as an investment; but wanted the other £50K to be a loan. Yet he still wanted the full 30% equity. I mulled this over and even suggested that we offer Peter to come in and replace Rachel - that didn’t happen; although Peter did consider it. Soon after Peter and Theo jointly bought red letter days out of administration. 3 - The BBC called me virtually every day - wanting to know if I had completed the deal with Theo - and they stated that if I didn’t complete the deal - then they would not broadcast my pitch. During this time I was still working (part-time) as a wildlife film maker (mainly as an underwater cameraman) - and I was at a Wildlife Film Festival in Jackson Hole - Montana and the BBC called me to say that they were going to drop my pitch from the editing because I had not completed the deal. I called Theo and told him that I was still considering his offer and would make a decision when I returned from the UK. 4 - When I returned from the UK I had a meeting with my bank manager and applied for a £32K loan - a small firms business loan. This was approved within days and then I placed an order for 2 containers full of cubes (the best thing in the world to ship is a cube with no packaging) and you could get 19,200 of the large cubes in a 20ft container. At the time the $ to the £ was almost 2 to 1. They arrived the day after broadcast - literally outside my house! 5 - A few weeks later - after continuing to dodge calls from both the BBC and Theo - I went down to my local shop and saw that in the radio times that they were advertising the 2nd series of Dragons den and had programme 2 listed as ‘The Dragons fight over investing in an impossible puzzle’. When I got home from the shop - I called the BBC and Theo and told them that I could not go through with the deal and that it was not what we had agreed on camera. Theo respected my decision and wished me well and told me to keep in touch. The BBC guy was angry and pissed off with me; I cancelled my licence a few weeks later and have never paid the peado protectors and propaganda machine since. 6 - The next few years from the point of broadcast became a blur - and the company grew rapidly and won many awards. In 2007 one of my large UK retailer customers decided to place an order with one of my manufacturers - without my knowledge. I had already planned a second trip to China to visually inspect both of the factories I was using to manufacture my cube. The same manufacturer I discovered was using ‘child labour’ - to sonic weld and put the cubes together. When I witnessed this with my own eyes - I placed my final order with the factory and requested that my tools to make the cube were put into the container and shipped back to the UK. 7 - In 2008 I began to manufacture the cube in the UK working with a plastic injection moulding factory initially in Wiltshire and later in Plymouth. The Bedlam Cube became one of the very few Toys ‘made in the UK’ - and many corporate companies ordered cubes because of that. The Carbon Cube was made from 100% recycled plastic (and was black in colour) and was only available on the web and manufactured less than a mile away from where it was shipped directly to the customer. 8 - During this time the terraced student house next door to me was converted over the summer by a rouge landlord who had recently purchased it. He converted it from 5 Bedrooms on 2 floors; to 12 Bedrooms on 4 floors - he did so with no planning permission; no building control; no fire regs or HMO licence…and more. I investigated and passed on what I had found to Plymouth city council. They then did their own investigation (based on my evidence and info) and then inspected the property and fined the landlord over £4,000. It was at this stage I had discovered that none of the 50 properties he owned - paid any council tax - as they were all registered as Student Properties. They are also exempt from Business rates - even thou they are property assets of a business - bringing in £? The legislation doesn’t make any sense. Even less does the enforcement of Council tax - which are a complete fraud in their processes and the fact they hold their own pretend court hearings - with liability orders that do not exist as ‘physical pieces of paper’. 9 - Yes - I was made (unlawfully) bankrupt in 2012 for a £2,300 unpaid bill; - which at the time I could not pay. The Local Gov Ombudsman found 3 counts of mal-administration in my unlawful bankruptcy and after 3 years as an exempt student doing a law degree; I am about to apply to have it annulled. Once that is done; then I will be able to make an insurance claim against the council’s professional indemnity policy - which has a limit of £5M. There has been no court case (as yet) and I’m not suing anyone…despite the BBC headline and their story. 10 - Over the last decade I have been focused on making a difference and not making money. I have assisted many people with their mortgage, council tax and many other issues. I have prevented many people being jailed and from losing their homes; I even managed to get a grandmother out of prison 2 days before Christmas; via a HC emergency Judicial review. I have not paid my water bill for over a decade and in Feb 2018 - I took South West Water to court - and won; discharging an £8K bill and ensuring my costs were paid. In 2013 I proved in the HC; that there is no contract for a mortgage - meaning that my £1 a month payment was not a breach of the ‘agreement’. The bank doesn’t sign anything for your mortgage and they create the money from quantitive easing (fresh air). 11 - Yes I have now been handed the reigns of the family business - which for the last 5 years was run into the ground by an ex-employee - who decided to take our customer database with him. So if anyone needs any labels - www.turtonretail.co.uk 12 - In 2017 - I crowd funded over £1000 so that I could stand as an Independent Candidate in Plymouth. This was the snap election - brought by Teresa May and I made a snap decision to stand. With others in 2015 - we had set up a movement called ‘the No Party’- supporting all independent candidates in the UK - www.noparty.co 13 - I now also work as a non-practicing lawyer and private prosecutor and investigator - and on youtube and facebook - I am known as ‘The Public Detective’. 14 - At its peak - between the 2 toy companies I owned through my group; I employed 15 staff - ad a product range of over 30 products; supplied most major retailers (Argos is sale or return and they sold every cube they bought) was sold in over 40 countries and we won many awards. We were the first Toy Company in the UK to have a working app for the product and we were the only Plastic Puzzle made in the UK. Yes you can still buy the Bedlam Cube - mainly on ebay now. When the companies were wound up / dissolved etc - the only 2 bills not paid were a £35K overdraft and a £3K tax bill. 15 - I never lost any of my assets (including my house) in my unlawful bankruptcy as I had placed them in a private family trust - (over 3 years prior) - the beneficiary of the trust is my 11 year old daughter Scarlett Gaia.

[@MrSandhu0007]

@@PublicDetective thank you, god luck, bless 🙏🏽

[@exorc304]

Have a good day and stay safe everyone ❤️😊

[@asraftajarally5875]

Have a good day you too :)

[@pkune5158]

Watching the dragons faces when they get turned down is the best part

[@boozbeatz1107]

What a legend, selling the solution, "pay for this problem, want a solution, pay for that"

[@MowgliMoto]

I'm well over the moon at the fact the yank is not on the show anymore, thank God

[@therock951000]

I'd still take him over Jenny "it's a great business but I'm out" Campbell anyday

[@Gnostikos_]

@@phil8145 Seemed to know his stuff except for the age of the girl he had sex with.

[@greenbluegrass]

I didn't like him either. I've seen him sneer at some of the people wanting an investment.

[@thetessellater9163]

@@phil8145 - The condescension is the sense of entitlement and superiority amongst the American, and some British, wealthy classes. They always talk down to the poorer plebs. Get 'em up against the wall.

[@rogersevers123]

@@Gnostikos_ Absoutley rate him for doing that.

[@iq-nj4xg]

I like Rachel - she's quite down to earth and fair unlike a lot of the other dragons who a lot of the time come across as quite greedy.

[@jonjohnson1978.]

She also went into administration so she may be nice but beed needed saving by theo and peter

[@Goldstone93]

I bought one of these. The problem is storage. Unless you solve it in one go you can’t put the pieces back in the box. You just have a bunch of loose pieces waiting to be mislaid

[@srciano1]

Fantastic, best ever.

[@lewisner]

The problem is that the Rubiks Cube was a totally new idea when it was enormously successful but that was (checks) 40 years ago. Arguably you might be able to repeat that success with a new generation, but possibly not ?

[@jankogo]

Yeah, thought the same thing. The importance of being the first is not to be underestimated.

[@romystumpy1197]

And Mr rubik was Hungarian

[@SambergUkraine]

This is my least favorite dragons den so far, Danny was professional and quite good pitch, all the dragons where rude, trying to rip him off, and just played really hard

[@twilightsparkle75]

especially peter. just insane 30% in every single one of his past present and futures inventions

[@Erickhetfield]

They didn't become millionaires by being nice.

[@sinantuncer]

That Richard Doug guy would break the record of Jenny if he was in Den for longer. I never see him do a deal.

[@dollarsfirst.9164]

One of the best scenes in the series

[@tamimazizadah]

Danny: I’m a serial entrepreneur … Peter (interrupting Danny): I’ll offer you all the money for 50% of your OTHER business

[@star-stuff]

The most smug look in Den history? And the award goes tooooo 🥁🥁🥁 Theo Paphitis @ 9m 37secs. Priceless ! ! !

[@vagabond4113]

The way Peter looks at Theo at 11:19. He wanted to say something abrasive I reckon 😂

[@FilmTruth]

Peter you are Such a legend.. bet he can do a normal Rubix cube in 1 min

[@rishidoshi7280]

He later turned down the deal and took a £100k bank loan instead. The business was thriving, employing lots of people, selling around the world and making millions in turnover. The business later collapsed when the Council brought bankruptcy proceedings against him for non-payment of council tax which he refused to pay in protest at landlords of student-occupied properties being exempt. He is now discharged from his bankruptcy and is free to be a company director again, and is planning to restart the business. He is also planning to sue the council for £5m in damages for loss of earnings.

[@Ollie-lz5hr]

That’s false he’s already lost the court battle

[@Garycarlyle]

That wasnt the reason per se. Just that was the last straw for him. He had a lot of problems with the corrupt nature of Council Tax already. Like many of us do.

[@jonreid7957]

Rishi Doshi he attempted to sue them in 2014....

[@metalhans]

The Dragons were too arrogant in this episode for my liking

[@zenoist2101]

These are also called Soma cubes and were invented in 1933. I used to play with them at school many years ago.

[@Grant83023]

Producers obviously told the dragons to be ruthless and harsh back when this series started haha,

[@kanegardner6346]

Anyone else think he was bringing loafs of bread up the stairs at first glance? 😅

[@ellenkarlsson9490]

I thought it was butter

[@irishemogirl6720]

I thought they were small boxes of cereal.

[@RockyDave]

Not if you read the title.

[@Sam-qh1sh]

Dave Rowarth lol 😃👍🏻

[@ellenkarlsson9490]

@@RockyDave We click so fast we don't have time to read the title

[@dave101t]

no patent, i had one 3 years ago, exact same shape, size, pieces.

[@adamsapple515]

That last sentence that Peter said 'think with your mind not with your wallet' talk for yourself Peter.

[@abulqasimasadi5782]

Rubiks Cube you can just take the stickers off got me hahaha

[@hazza7863]

Jennys mother: GIVES BIRTH Jenny: I'm out

[@paddy3762]

Rachel falls in love again

[@DuxJerome]

This is the first product I actually want!

[@gardensoflondonmwgs7836]

One of thee best episodes

[@birkren9862]

3 minutes since the video was posted, and there’s allready a bunch og overused Jenny-comments...

[@BOZ_11]

Shaddap Burke

[@sugercane7213]

rip

[@ellenkarlsson9490]

Yeah, not one single Duncan joke. And for that reason I'M OAT!

[@birkren9862]

boz I’m Sorry, but atleast watch the whole video to comment jennycomments that are actually related to the video hahah

[@johnlastname3751]

we've moved on to jokes about Doug Richards being an accused (and acquitted) sex offender comments now

[@johnsmith-wx5fb]

Rachel is deeply attracted to him. DEEPLY!!!!

[@Nthstar]

Yeah from 2.53 they shared a moment lol

[@antonlabuschagne3331]

Strange how Peter can have his fingers in many different pies but does not want the entrepeneurs to have their finger in anything else.

[@philswaim392]

Always amazes me that people dont seem to watch dragons den before going on the show to know what kibds of questions they will have

[@edwardferry8247]

These Dragons are absolute thieves, 35 per cent for all his ideas and everything the guy makes.

[@ciaranconlon84]

I don't think I've ever seen them this savage. Duncan asking how much more equity he would give was out of order. Should have told him to make an offer, specifying how much he wanted and what he could do to help and he would consider it. Doug trying the "take it or leave it before you hear any other offers" squeeze was nasty and then Theo revising his desired stake. Rachel was the only one to not treat the lad like a cat playing with a crippled mouse. It's a great product too, I remember getting one myself and it was really tough!

[@TheCatBilbo]

This was a shame, he got going and was doing well until 2012. He stopped paying his Council tax in 2009, a protest at some exemption others were claiming. Eventually, was made bankrupt because of the fall-out. Lesson: pay your taxes and protest, don't protest by not paying!

[@hick3y156]

Im so happy they brought in new rules of negotiation, this "if i make an offer will you give more equity, but this isnt a offer im just offering a offer" back and fourth was so messy and confusing for the viewer, i love the newer series to the old

[@TwistedSoul2002]

Had one of these back in the day- really good puzzle. The problem was the copycats- it’s too easy to replicate or produce something similar. At least with the Rubik’s Cube, the mechanism was patented and had to be re-engineered to be copied.

[@simenstroek7599]

Comparing this to a rubik's cube was silly to begin with. This is a one-off jigsaw puzzle. Once you know the solution, it's dead. The rubik's cube has a different solution after each scramble, so rather than learning a solution, you learn a method.

[@mikevarga2058]

For a nonse, Doug has a lot of misplaced confidence

[@chriswhittaker5075]

Doug was a horrible Dragon, and an even worse human being.

[@DavidMartins1]

Putting pieces inside a box, how exciting. I can't think of a better way to spend my time...

[@CabbageYe]

This is before smartphones and computers existed

[@eymannassole6162]

I've NEVER switched the stickers.... I used to just pop out a corner piece and dismantle the entire thing, then solve or "re-build" it!

[@RickHignett]

🙄 FFS Evan! He pronounced it correctly... why did you go & change it again ya Muppet! 🙈 It’s BED-LM not BED-LAM! 🙈

[@velonamoses8043]

This guy Doug Richard is dam irritating Glad he been removed from new series

[@JRHainsworth]

He was probably removed cause of his fifty shades of grey roleplay with a 13 year old.

[@tobyhart8515]

I like that John Malkovich is part of the investment team.

[@patrickjm3487]

That Danny fella will do very well along the way he is very a intelligent young man and I really wish him all the luck in the world for the future and anyone would be very thankful glad to work with the fella)) Would be very well on his feet in five years time because he has the drive in him and that speaks for itself he is very good with people and is just a very smart fella )) Wish you all the best in your investments