AirTracks: Inflatable All-Terrain Camera Slider

Creator: Tom Baker, Portland, Oregon
Date Funded: 11/19/2012
# Backers: 163
Amount: $32,618

$32,618 funded on Nov 19, 2012 by 163 backers
Promised delivery in March of 2013
No updates immediately after project closed, except to ask for more orders in January 2013
Claimed product was almost ready in March 2013, then went silent with no delivery
Claimed in July and August 2013 that delivery was forthcoming in October 2013, then went completely silent and has not communicated with backers at all as of June 2014.

Backers are organizing themselves via the project comments:

We did research and found that Tom has a history of starting business that don’t fulfill their obligations
We have filed reports with the FBI and Oregon Attorney General. I, as a backer, was able to get a chargeback from my credit card company in April 2014, but will continue to try to find resolution for the rest of the backers, either by a lawsuit against Tom Baker, or full refunds to everybody.

Consolidated details on the project and additional information on Tom Baker and his other scams: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=1AGvVP1M

Project Updates (As of April 22, 2014): 9
Most recent update: August 2, 2013 Title: “Still on schedule for an October release”

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Mr. Tom Baker obviously did not have the skills needed to actually manufacture and deliver the item he promised. After seeing this project on kickscammed, I realized that, with my skill set, I could easily produce not only the same product, but something much better. I’ve just started a new AirTracks Carbon project on kickstarter.

@Veloflyte , January 17, 2015

Kickstarter is really onto something with how they set themselves up to get some great profit off of scammers that defraud people via “crowdfunding” projects.

Have y’all seen that Kickstarter has claimed they are a “B Corp”? (https://www.kickstarter.com/blog/not-just-another-company).

In other words, they say they believe “through their products, practices, and profits, businesses should aspire to do no harm and benefit all.” (https://www.bcorporation.net/what-are-b-corps/the-b-corp-declaration) I’m sure there are thousands of gypped project backers who would argue otherwise.

@jonathanf , January 11, 2015

Crazy, right?! Tom Baker has blatantly lied now to the NY Attorney General (see: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/baker/airtracks-inflatable-all-terrain-camera-slider/comments?cursor=8601580#comment-8601579), and his latest pursuit is to start back up his scam camera strap company, “HighKey Camera”, which unsurprisingly, has dozens of documented complaints from customers who ordered and didn’t receive anything.

@jonathanf , January 11, 2015

This is really interesting…Seems like he just calmly said “oops” and they said “sounds good!”

by Support Staff , December 18, 2014

Response from Tom Baker (via the NY state AG):

https://www.dropbox.com/s/34tbr137e6sbwyn/tom_baker_Redacted.pdf?dl=0

@patrickrousseau , December 15, 2014

So I successfully reported Tom to the New York State Attorney General and got the below letter back. Looks like they will be reaching out to him directly to investigate. With any luck he’ll face jailtime.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/3lft62l4cn1kz8c/NY%20Attorney%20General%20redacted.pdf…

@patrickrousseau , November 7, 2014

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