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This particular one is a story because underestimating the work ahead of you and delivering low quality product, late product, or both is one thing. Delivering
by sliverstorm 12y ago
This particular one is a story because underestimating the work ahead of you and delivering low quality product, late product, or both is one thing. Delivering a late low quality product and blowing the rest of the money on fast cars and nice clothes, is something else entirely. Something that sounds rather like "outright fraud" to me.
- jacquesm 12y agoOutright fraud is when you take the money and run off. Overestimating your capabilities and making a crappy product does not equate fraud by any definition. Really, people backing stuff on indiegogo, kickstarter and so on should do due-diligence on the parties they throw their money at. See the other article about the Novena currently on the homepage. That's a group of people that I would trust to deliver.
- sliverstorm 12y agoHave you ever seen "The Producers (1967)"...?
- jacquesm 12y agoSure. You're pretty hot on the fraud bandwagon here, I challenge you to produce this device for $1.5M in quantity. I don't think it can be done, even if you try very hard. Let's just wait for the facts to be on the table before reaching for the tar, the feathers and the rope. I do hope they kept some kind of bookkeeping on how they spent the money. But one thing is for sure, the budget did not include buying any Italian sports cars.