This is how it happened that three Kobe Red scammers all got in at the highest level, causing the film project to suddenly go over its target the day before the deadline. But scammers are scammers and they backed out of their pledges , leaving the film almost $30,000 short with just over 24 hours to go (it is not possible to back out or reduce your pledge in the last 24 hours).
A real thriller
The final funding round for the film was extremely exciting, it is almost inevitable that the project will get a spot in the documentary. Only in the very last minutes did they pass the $85,000 mark, thanks to the 839 'backers' who gave the maximum of their own financial support. Or as someone says in a comment:
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CrowdfundingCrowdfunding is fun: helping each other, giving each other something and creating beautiful things together. Crowdfunding is scary: What happens to my money? Will the promises be kept? Supporting a project via Kickstarter is easy and, in all honesty, quite addictive. In the short time that I have been familiar with this crowdfunding website, my enthusiasm has increased by leaps and bounds. The discovery of the aforementioned fraud is proof to me that the crowd is quite capable of regulating itself.
I have already supported quite a few projects and have also contributed to the funding success of Kickstarted: Documenting the Crowdfunding Revolution. I hope that the documentary is a great success and that it makes an important contribution to the worldwide acceptance of crowdfunding as a model for investing in creativity and collaboration. But I can’t help but have a little voice in my head saying: “what if this is also a scam?”