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Sharper Image's problem was selling physical products. Taking the money and running is the superior business model
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should have been drm for proprietary tortillas
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Manuel Calavera posted:I've never commented but I can confirm I never got mine. Oh well, I've wasted C$11 on dumber things. At least I didn't get fleeced for more. Mods
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Or just go straight to alibaba and find some poo poo to rebrand through fancy product photography in a bespoke kitchen and pay some Portlandian to be your spokesman Or just remove the middle middle man and take the money and run
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Sep 28, 2019 23:47
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Regy Rusty posted:drat that's a ugly dog turn on you are kickstarter
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Hub Cat posted:Its so clear they've never prepared food for like an entire family or shopped for more than a couple of days ahead of time. Now now You might also get half a jar of mango chutney slurry
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Oct 11, 2019 07:04
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Biltong: Jerky of Fate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biltong quote:The word biltong is from the Dutch bil ("buttock”") and tong ("strip" or "tongue").[1] yeah eat that rear end
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Oct 11, 2019 20:01
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uh did i miss a Goop kickstarter or something
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Oct 14, 2019 19:53
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Let’s be honest. Some are more equal than others and it’s more of a “cops aren’t racist see they killed an unarmed White guy today”
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Oct 17, 2019 19:23
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I’m surprised nobody has done the fight club thing selling soap made from the fat of rich people’s asses
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Oct 20, 2019 07:58
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Waffleman_ posted:
Only trump gets to sell poo poo on a stick
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welp https://twitter.com/jackallisonLOL/status/1203186890922319872?s=20
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The MSJ posted:A documentary about one of the most infamous crowdfunding fails, the Boston Purr Cat Cafe. I've literally not heard a thing about this
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My "Not a cat lady" T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt
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Rapulum_Dei posted:Yeah, no. That dogshit was well ablaze long before Trump. The con was up when they started taking orders online and delivering in order to make enough money to honour their backers’ rewards. 3.7 million dollars for this Every time someone says Kickstarter is dead crowdfunding is dead poo poo like this pops up At least it will be easy for me to carry this to my loose female acquaintance’s house
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Dec 29, 2019 22:49
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klafbang posted:I did a bit of digging on the campaign, and aside from using a mail drop NY address, all seems to add up. It’s a Shenzhen based company, so they would totally be able to create the thing and send out review samples to influencers. or it's already on alibaba
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Kennel posted:Can't wait for Guns as a Service. Gun streaming
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Gunners: “loving SJWs ruining guns”
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I always laughed at the idea that tall white guys with otherwise no skills besides talking smiling, shaking hands and wearing suits were paid to do just that in China except now they are selling Chinese junk right back to westerners
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Max REBO and his jizz bottle music
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Someday all our jizz will be in the cloud with our porn
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If you ran a blacklight on the cream colored couch it would look like Chernobyl
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Jan 10, 2020 09:39
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We all know solleimani was doing hookah in the Escalade and that’s why he got droned
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Jan 10, 2020 21:22
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It’s not gay if it’s a three way so just don’t a bring a 4th brother
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Jan 16, 2020 01:00
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lmao if you think they are gonna have overhead for this exit scam
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Nighthand posted:In case any of you have ever wanted a device where, once compromised because the company folds and stops updating it, it can burn down your house, here's an IoT candle with real flame. someone help me budget my family is dying!
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FirstAidKite posted:I regret to inform you that the art may have in fact been done by an actual literal child and so now I feel somewhat bad for laughing at it. Original character do not steal
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https://twitter.com/longform/status/1235239672823115781?s=20quote:This backpack has it all: Kevlar, batteries, and a federal investigation quote:The man behind an alleged crowdfunding scam wants you to know he isn’t a scammer  [/img] quote:The agency claims Monahan took his backpack funds and spent them on “personal expenses,” including bitcoin purchases, ATM withdrawals, and credit card debt. The agency says he threatened backers who pursued him for their bags. The state of Texas is suing him, too. A lot of people want a piece of Monahan, but he’s not going down without a fight. He’s serving as his own lawyer to dispute the claims in court, and he invited me down to Texas to clear his name and reputation.  quote:I ask why he thinks the FTC is going after him. “I am the poster child for fraud and crowdfunding,” he says sarcastically. “You’re looking at the Jesse James, the John Dillinger.” quote:Thousands of people bought into Monahan’s project, netting him nearly $800,000 to bring the bag to life. He shipped a few beta units, but the vast majority of people never received anything. They haven’t seen the backpack in person. They don’t believe it’s real, and they started a Facebook group to organize ways to recoup their money and get the FTC’s attention. As far as they’re concerned, Monahan’s a grifter, and the FTC lawsuit was long-awaited and necessary. They track the case in the group, too. “Clearly Doug is a snake in the grass and hopefully the Federal Trade Commission hammers him,” one member of the group wrote. quote:At 63, Doug Monahan walks with a limp, and he’s on the shorter side, about five-foot-eight. He says he lost some height because doctors amputated an inch of his left leg after he broke it falling out of bed, the result of a diagnosis of deep vein thrombosis, or blood clots, and a subsequent hospital stay. He sent me a photo titled “NECROTIC LEG.pdf” that purported to show the wound that caused the amputation, but it’s not clear if it’s really his leg. I can tell he’s been sick, however, which Monahan reminds me of in our meetings. He brings it up in his court case, too. This is why the backpacks never shipped, he says. quote:“I didn’t count on batteries exploding,” he says. “When [the backers] started saying they were going to shoot through my house, and ‘gently caress you, Doug, you motherfucker,’ and ‘Give us our backpack,’ no, I’m not going to give you the backpack because they might explode.” (Monahan claims a backer threatened him first, which pushed him to threaten in retaliation, which the FTC mentions in its complaint. Monahan has not provided evidence that he was threatened.) quote:Monahan unpacks the bag and shows me the Kevlar plate, which he says comes from the “Chinese military.” After my visit, he told me to send a video crew to Texas to prove it worked — by shooting him in the back. (We declined.) quote:onahan’sMonahan’s story, at least the way he tells it, makes him out to be an entrepreneur who hit the big time, was told he had two years to live 12 years ago, ended up living longer than expected, and ran out of cash. He started a company called Sunset Direct in the ‘90s, a marketing database company, that he says sold for $6 million. (On a subsequent call with a fact-checker, he upgraded that figure to $20 million.) A Securities and Exchange Commission filing shows that it sold for $3.5 million and around 3 million shares to a company called Rainmaker. He loves his own mythology: how he started the business with his credit cards, $25,000 in cash, no loans, and absolutely zero crowdfunding. He says he attended and graduated from West Point on LinkedIn, even though the school says he dropped out after his freshman year. quote:“He bought laser eye surgery for girls,” Ochs says. “He bought boob jobs for girls. He put girls through college.” He says Monahan would charter jets and fly women to New Orleans to take them shopping while he drank wine. quote:Nothing about his current living situation seems enviable, except for maybe his 2005 red Mercedes 500SL. His one-level Houston house smells like cigarettes. He says he quit opioids, but he clearly has other vices. He keeps margarita mix and wine in bulk. He pours one glass of wine while I’m there but then leaves it somewhere and pours another. I can’t tell if he has a bad memory or just can’t be bothered to fetch his glass. An ashtray sits next to his dozen or so computers, which he owns so he can “communicate with the world.” (Monahan mentions he used the dark web to purchase drugs in the past.) quote:The second explanation for iBackpack’s existence, Monahan says, was realizing that crowdfunding could offer him lots of money to fund an idea. In fact, he took hints from one of Kickstarter’s most notorious feature-stuffed gadgets: a cooler with a Bluetooth speaker, USB chargers, and a built-in blender. It raised over $13 million on Kickstarter. quote:The team relied on video conferencing software GoToMeeting to stay in touch, which both Cruz and Justes mentioned. Justes says Monahan often looked unkempt in the meetings and would wear dirty shirts and boxer shorts in an old apartment during video calls. quote:What frustrates Monahan is that other businesses fail, and the executives don’t have to respond to the FTC or State of Texas about why they did. He operated in that same realm until recently. He doesn’t fully understand why the FTC and the backers are so angry about iBackpack. He notes that $800,000 isn’t much money — not even enough to warrant a scam. Instead, he sees himself as someone who did what was necessary to make his business run. And because of circumstances outside his control, his business failed, just like any other tech company. For the first time, however, Monahan has to answer to angry customers, government lawyers, and a reporter for why he lost all this cash. I didn't even post the half of it
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Lot of people freaking out itt over a KS that was never getting more than 120 buxx, copyright violation or not
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I can’t even imagine how many doomed Kickstarters from the getgo are now using corona as a smokescreen to exit scamming
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Electric Daisy Carnival. You put bracelet drugs on your belt and well
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Apr 6, 2020 09:10
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slapping my dick and ball tool all over grandfather knobs across the country
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Captain Hygiene posted:Perhaps some sort of disposable hand covering made of an impermeable material such as latex im all for encourage less usage of those privileges should be revoked for all glove ground disposers
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Apr 6, 2020 23:58
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yay for more kickstarter dowsing rods that won't even get shipped
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my EDC is a shopping cart full of samurai swords
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yeah tryhards like kush are actually sourcing ventilators (slowly). This isn't even going to leave the chinese factory, 100% ROI!
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they'll have to remarket it as a "thumbs up bicep" keyring
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