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Possible Scam Crowdfunding Site Created to Dupe Unwitting Donors. SilverAlms a donation crowdfunding site claims to be the “Worlds First Charity Crowdfunding Portal”. But is it really? The site appears to be a clone of crowdfunding campaigns from other platforms such as Indiegogo and GoFundMe – created to take advantage of the unwitting. The […]
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With Yogscast canceling their Kickstarter, Danny asks why they’re trying to avoid responsibility, and what happened to over half a million dollars of backing.
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Hey Kickscammed Reporters, we have a guest post today from a postgraduate student working a dissertation about crowdfunding. Please fill out the survey linked here and share with other backers. This could be a great opportunity for exposure. “Hello, my name is Dami and I am a postgraduate student at the University of Southampton, United […]
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http://alloyeverything.com/ Alloy Everything is a machine shop that helps design and manufacture a lot of Kickstarter campaigns. So far both KeyonPod and Triumvir Pen are both not delivering rewards and claim to have gone through the same manufacturer. There is no consistency with reported issues from project creators, just that there are delays due to […]
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It’s been an interesting week for YouTube outfit Yogscast. Over the weekend, their “YogDiscovery” revenue share program kicked off a discussion about the ethics and legality of YouTube promotion and disclosure. Now they’ve announced that Yogventures, a Kickstarter project in development by Winterkewl Games, has been cancelled. “As you may have heard, Winterkewl Games have stopped work on Yogventures […]
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The failure of the Yogventures Kickstarter has taken what may well be the first step toward ugliness with an assertion by the developer, Winterkewl Games, that $150,000 of the money raised went to Yogscast, which was to use it to create physical rewards and hire a lead programmer for the project. But roughly two-thirds of that amount […]
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The developers behind Kickstarter-funded video game Areal are calling out journalists following accusations that the studio’s Kickstarter campaign is a scam. Areal has been at the center of controversy since the project’s start on the crowdfunding website. While developer West Games claims to be made up of staff from STALKER, the validity of this claim is said to be “overestimated,” Eurogamer has reported […]
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There’s been a surge in funding and, three days from ending, controversial Kickstarter campaign Areal has reached its $50,000 goal. Funding had stalled in the mid-thirty-thousands for days, the total standing at around £37,000 on Friday. But this morning the total is more than $64,000. How – what happened at the weekend? Did the brief and basic gameplay […]
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Campaign supporters fork over millions of dollars on rewards-based crowdfunding sites in exchange for goodwill, a trivial reward like a T-shirt or, some say, nothing more than an empty promise. The crowdfunding sector grew to $2.7 billion in 2012—financing more than 1 million campaigns globally, according to an annual report on crowdfunding from Massolution. That […]
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The Areal Kickstarter was pushed over and then well past its goal a few days ago thanks to a very sudden spike in support, but the saga has now taken an unexpected (or perhaps not) twist, as funding for the project has been suspended. The Kicktraq graphs tell the tale: After a strong start, the Areal Kickstarter bogged down amid accusations […]
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