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by Bigshowfan The game in question is The Lost Dutchman - a game that has received lots of press, sponsored The Dice Tower, run a designer diary here at BGG - BGG ENTRY HERE - KICKSTARTER LINK...
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by timstellmach I don't know why I should care if this occurred.
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by Redward My first thought is that it is not wrong. It is kind of like putting a little money in a tip jar to garner more tips. Seems like a reasonable strategy to me.
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by timlillig If they are actually putting the money into the project, that does not seem like a problem to me. If they are just doing it as a loan to the project, that would be unethical and breaking...
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by DarrellKH Redward wrote:My first thought is that it is not wrong. It is kind of like putting a little money in a tip jar to garner more tips. Seems like a reasonable strategy to me. Hmmm. Except...
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by pharmakon Whenever you find yourself lying in order to get people's money, you've set sail from the coast of moral ambiguity into the seas of fraud.
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by Myok They did post an excited update #11 explaining the jump.
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by 80sgamer Not sure you can pledge to your own account as a project creator you would need a separate kickstarter and amazon payments accountWhy would you even think this in the first place just...
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by ralpher I wouldn't call it struggling, just the funding requirements may have been too high. $30K is just $5K less than Tammany Hall's funding goal, and twice as high as Ground Floor's funding...
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by Bigshowfan 80sgamer wrote:If you are one of the backers then don’t you want to see them reach their goal?It's more of a philosophical question... Is this acceptable practice?
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by Magic Pink If it's real money it's fine. If it's friends adding fake pledges to make people think it's further along then it is, then absolutely not.
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by Redward DarrellKH wrote:Redward wrote:My first thought is that it is not wrong. It is kind of like putting a little money in a tip jar to garner more tips. Seems like a reasonable strategy to me....
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by 80sgamer Magic Pink wrote:If it's real money it's fine. If it's friends adding fake pledges to make people think it's further along then it is, then absolutely not.How could you have fake pledges?...
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by haccpmonkey It's hard to get into the where's and whys of what might make that kind of shift. Investors do come out from time to time. Interested parties are known to give bigger gifts if they see...
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by angelkurisu It wouldn't be a very good strategy. You'd lose about 8% of the money to fees, and then income taxes on the rest -- Amazon sends you a tax form at the end of the year detailing the...
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by puggeroni I don't care as long as the money is from legitimate sources, and legitimately spent on the project (not some kid begging mom and dad to pony up 50% of the funds just so the kid can be...
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by vanrydergames Couple things...1 - As others have mentioned Patrick was completely transparent about what transpired here. In no way was he trying to pass it off as if the pledge frequency had...
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by unlpat I'll post the same response here that I did in our Kickstarter Page. "@Stuart - Please read our most recent update ( #11) and you'll read the very transparent reason behind the boost. We...
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by pyrowolf You guys are going to get me in trouble with Crash again.But seriously: I can tell you, as a guy who looks at this stuff all day every day, that these sort of spikes in projects aren't as...
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