But the TOS of the site has always stipulated that fulfillment is the responsibility of the campaign owner, NOT Kickstarter and that they will not be responsible for projects that do not pan out.
On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 2:34 PM, Cary Preston <[email protected]> wrote: > Maybe. This isn’t the first big time scam Kickstarter has funded, and they > get a significant cut of the investment money so I suppose it could be > argued they have a financial incentive to NOT screen their campaigns. > Wonder if that would be enough to establish liability? > > On Jun 24, 2014, at 2:32 PM, Jennifer Walker <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Something of a combo between Caveat Emptor (or, rather, inverstor) and > There's a sucker born every minute, I'd guess. > > > On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 2:26 PM, Cary Preston <[email protected]> wrote: > >> One of the unfortunate aspects of crowdsourcing. Wonder how Kickstarter >> will address things like this when they have to face hordes of angry >> investors? >> >> http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/14/06/23/2357200/500k-energy-harvesting-kickstarter-scam-unfolding-right-now >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "The Unique Geek" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > > > -- > Jennifer "Scraps" Walker > > The Helper Monkey Network > http://www.jenniferwalkeronline.com > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Unique Geek" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Unique Geek" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Jennifer "Scraps" Walker The Helper Monkey Network http://www.jenniferwalkeronline.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Unique Geek" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
