Dr Fahim to investors: "Impress me!"

For more than two months now, a group of angry

Hydra Properties

buyers - calling themselves

Hydra Investors Group

- have been organising and putting together a campaign to fight a round of unilateral price rises on their apartments, construction delays and other issues they have with the developer. (Read their complaints

).

Sulaiman al Fahim

, the chief executive of the company and star of his own television show modeled on "The Apprentice" called "

Hydra Executives

", first responded by arguing they were trying to get out of their legal obligations. Then he hired a businessman called

Ahmed Khalil

to run his customer service division and changes started being made: more staff to handle customer inquiries, new payment plans, and a slightly less painful penalty clause for late payment in the contract. Read our previous articles on this dispute

,

and

.

Now Mr al Fahim is going a step further and planning to answer questions from buyers in a live chat session on the website of Arabian Business (the employer of Mr al Fahim's favorite reporter,

, who has had an

interesting

career). The session will take place next Monday, May 11. Buyers can register to talk to Mr al Fahim

.

With the kinds of rhetoric we've been hearing from the investors, the questions could get a bit rough. There is this caveat from Arabian Business about the session: