Crowd Funding Fraud Leaderboard

[SeventhSandwich]

no honorable mention for ouya?

[Ad Bot]

[Badspot]

no honorable mention for ouya?

I don't even understand what the complaint about the ouya is.  It was advertised as a cheap box to let you play crappy android games on your tv, then when it came out it was a cheap box that lets you play crappy android games on your tv.  I guess I'm missing where the 'lord and saviour of console gaming' vibe came from.

[Køtt]

badspot's kickstarter crap

nice

[PhantOS]

In the 90s, 'e' was also acceptable

[Trogtor]

In the 90s, 'e' was also acceptable. Like the popular San Francisco auction site, Electronic Bay.

E!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[IkeTheGeneric]

Remember that potato salad crowd funding thing? People will literally give you money over the internet if other people are already doing it as a joke. This is a powerful thing to know.

[beachbum111111]

In the 90s, 'e' was also acceptable. Like the popular San Francisco auction site, Electronic Bay.

There are alot of research sites that use 'e' now as well.

[Shift Kitty]

There are alot of research sites that use 'e' now as well.

oh

[Shift Kitty]

This is a great point, which is why I'm excited to announce SolPoint Social™ as a stretch goal.  This tiny verison of our device provides the same great experience of SolPoint™, but in a fun on-the-go package.  Share your stored solar energy directly from one phone to another using our proprietary beam technology and companion social networking app.  Instead of sending your friends a "like", why not send them renewable energy? 

You know what. You could probably get away with crowdfunding a device that lets you 'transfer energy to a friend'.

[Daswiruch]

You know what. You could probably get away with crowdfunding a device that lets you 'transfer energy to a friend'.

get extra revenue by making the device require two to transfer. one each for the giving and receiving parties

[Kringleberg]

There are alot of research sites that use 'e' now as well.

i assume you have first hand experience 😏😏😏

[beachbum111111]

i assume you have first hand experience 😏😏😏

I run half of them

[AutoBahn]

does the Juicero fit in here at all?
$40 weekly subscription to get a few bags of (limited-use, and by that I mean you had until next week to use them or the machine refuses to squeeze the bag) pulp in plastic bags for your $400/$700 squeeze machine that serves a purpose you can fulfill by hand.

[Maxwell.]

does the Juicero fit in here at all?
$40 weekly subscription to get a few bags of (limited-use, and by that I mean you had until next week to use them or the machine refuses to squeeze the bag) pulp in plastic bags for your $400/$700 squeeze machine that serves a purpose you can fulfill by hand.

I'm glad you reminded me of juicero because this also exists
http://www.mysmalt.com/

[Køtt]

Ok, so it's a solar powered battery bank that attaches to - or even replaces - a traditional window.  You might think a solar panel would block your view, but this one is transparent (these already 'exist' in the lab).  Then it transmits that stored energy to your phone and other mobile devices using a pan/tilt laser emitter.  It tracks a small collector that attaches to the back of your phone - or maybe the pro model just fires it directly into the usb charging port. 

The pitch would be something like "solar panels are changing the world, but how do you get that power into your phone, where you need it? Introducing <this bullstuff>"

Maybe we wouldn't call it a "laser", we'd just say it "wirelessly transmits energy in a concentrated beam directly to your mobile device".  This would add an extra barrier to all the debunking videos because they'd have to speculate on what this "beam" is.  If they assumed it was a laser, the true believers would just be like "it's not a laser it's a concentrated beam!!".

it also has a bottle opener