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I officially announce the end of my relationship with the social funding site Kickstarter . Everything was fine at first. Finally, a way to change the world by encouraging practical inspiring projects! Web to the rescue of entrepreneurship, THE way to finance his original ideas! I was so enamored that I enthusiastically supported 15 projects for a total value of around $ […]
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Ariel Shtul is the creator of the iPlifier™ for iPhone 5 Kickstarter Scam. The Project started on March 11th 2013 and was successfully funded on April 20th 2013. Ariel Shtul last communicated with his backers on May 2nd 2013. He occasionally logs into Kickstarter but gives no reaction at all to the comments. He is not answering […]
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Anthony Hoang is the Creator of the Keylet : A Minimal Key and Wallet All In One System Kickstarter Scam. He is part owner of the company Crearri, which appears to have now folded completely. The project was funded on 9/26/12 with 1,556 backers and $113,484 pledged of the $42,500 goal. Since then, the company’s […]
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Creator of the Magma: The Most Beautiful Solar Charger Kickstarter Scam. According to his LinkedIn, he is currently a Project Engineer for Hydrualic Control Systems at Detroit Engineered Products. Maruthi Chaluvadi claimed to be making a new kind of solar powered battery pack but shipped rebranded, cheap third-party items which can be purchased for less […]
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In 2012 Jay Pavlina raised $53,509 on Kickstarter for a game called Super Action Squad. Flash forward to 2014 and we learn that the game is now “on hold” as Pavlina admits that he bit off more than he could chew with this project, calling it “a bad idea in the first place.” The news […]
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Creator of the Magma: The Most Beautiful Solar Charger Kickstarter Scam. According to a site linked on the Kickstarter page, Shahnoor Amin is the co-founder of June Energy. Shahnoor Amin claimed to be making a new kind of solar powered battery pack but shipped rebranded, cheap third-party items which can be purchased for less than […]
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“In what may be one of Kickstarter’s biggest daylight Internet heists, Cryptrade Inc. has walked away with nearly $200,000 from backers of a Kickstarter campaign that ended back in December 2011. Cryptrade Inc. ran a Kickstarter campaign in December 2011 to bring into production the Crypteks CRXi Vault, a USB stick with a mechanical lock and […]
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The above comment sums up the general tenor surrounding a currently-running Kickstarter campaign for the Soap home automation router. The device’s campaign promises to deliver an Android-based home automation unit that allows the user to control all of his or her at-home digital devices. The proposal was enticing enough to secure […]
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Creator of the Magma: The Most Beautiful Solar Charger Kickstarter Scam. According to his LinkedIn, he is currently a Program Manager at Philips Lumileds. Muaz Rabah claimed to be making a new kind of solar powered battery pack but shipped rebranded, cheap third-party items which can be purchased for less than the initial backer pledge […]
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How would you like a 7″ tablet with a Quad-core ARM Cortex A9 processor, USB 3.0, 32 GB of storage, 802.11ac, four ports of Gigabit LAN, Bluetooth 4.0, NFC, SATA, HDMI, built-in Zigbee and RFID modules, a camera, speaker and microphone, all for $170? Sound too good to be true? That’s because it probably is. […]
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