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How to completely waste my time and make a fool of yourself:
Step 1: Come to Rochester and meet with me and my boss about the product you’re trying to sell to us, but not be capable of displaying any examples of your product, or explaining any details about the questions we have. — Time wasted: 2 hours
Step 2: Schedule a web-based meeting to address all of the details and concerns that you were completely unable to even discuss at our first meeting. — Time wasted trying to find an acceptable meeting time: 1 hour
Step 3: Realize that the excessive planning you put into scheduling a meeting was all for naught, and reschedule the meeting to a completely different time. Twice. — Time wasted: 2 hours
Step 4: Host the web meeting and conference call that connects 6 people from 5 different places, but have nothing prepared to talk about, or any prepared flow for the meeting. Then proceed to “demonstrate” your product to us, without answering any of our questions or concerns from the first meeting. Dodge every question with, “well we’ll need to set up another meeting to discuss those details” as your default answer. — Time wasted: 1.5 hours
Step 5: Proceed to Step 2.

Myself, my boss, his boss, and the VP of Sales for the entire Science division of this nationwide corporation were, needless to say, unimpressed. The entire point of this meeting was to answer our questions and concerns and show us the solutions they were going to provide us. None of the above were addressed.

Running count –
Deal-breaker concerns voiced (by myself): 3
Deal-breaker concerns addressed: 0
Meetings that have not answered any of my questions: 2

Patience for stupidity: 0

I am not amused.