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Re: Questionable Kickstart Cancelled |
May 1, 2012, 18:35 |
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Creston wrote on May 1, 2012, 18:01:
Because if you're going to make it hard to detect, you're going to have to actually, like, you know, have an actual PROJECT you're working on, and you're going to have to show updates to that project throughout the projected development window, and basically... work on the actual project.
Which is typically a helluva lot more work than scammers really want to do.
No you don't. Spend 20 minutes making a design document and do some sketches.
You could put this together in less than a day
And you could mock this up in Flash in the same amount of time
Yes, afterwards people expect updates. You either give them haphazardly or not at all. You have the money, what are people really going to do? Plus I'm barely getting acceptable updates from the people I've funded, and more importantly these guys that were caught weren't planning on giving updates. They were just trying to get money. I'm saying there are less obvious ways to get it.
Anyone that thinks the DA will get involved hasn't been scammed on ebay or Craigslist. The former is pretty common - I once sent two records in one package since the same buyer bought them. Only one tracking slip, so the guy told ebay I hadn't sent it. I had to eat that $250.
Obviously this is on a different level, but not all that much. Kickstarter gets people from all 50 states, so who is going to prosecute this? Who has jurisdiction? Who will do it when the damages are going to probably be <$50 per person? How do you prove that the person actually intended to rip people off and wasn't just a well-meaning idiot that poorly planned? |
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