I'm just being snarky and pointing out that services like kickstarter only
exist because they allow money to be made by the people that provide the
service, whether the service works out or not. Like inventing SCORM.
Middlemen live on, with or without the people they propose to connect.
Dickhead Dave
> It's not really *that* incomprehensible...
>
> You pledge money:
>
> - If the base target is reached by the deadline, they take the money that
> you pledged when the deadline is reached, and you (eventually, hopefully)
> receive the product you paid for.
> - If the base target is not reached by the deadline, no money is taken
> from anybody and the project is not funded.
>
> That's it really. IIRC Kickstarter and Amazon take a cut of the total
> funding but that's it.
>
> --- In , dcndcn13@... wrote:
>>
>> Well, thank God the people that run kickstarter are getting paid for
>> putting more crack cocaine in front of us to spend our money on. God
>> knows
>> the economy needs more schemes that no one understands to keep the
>> wheels
>> of commerce turning.
>
>
>
exist because they allow money to be made by the people that provide the
service, whether the service works out or not. Like inventing SCORM.
Middlemen live on, with or without the people they propose to connect.
Dickhead Dave
> It's not really *that* incomprehensible...
>
> You pledge money:
>
> - If the base target is reached by the deadline, they take the money that
> you pledged when the deadline is reached, and you (eventually, hopefully)
> receive the product you paid for.
> - If the base target is not reached by the deadline, no money is taken
> from anybody and the project is not funded.
>
> That's it really. IIRC Kickstarter and Amazon take a cut of the total
> funding but that's it.
>
> --- In , dcndcn13@... wrote:
>>
>> Well, thank God the people that run kickstarter are getting paid for
>> putting more crack cocaine in front of us to spend our money on. God
>> knows
>> the economy needs more schemes that no one understands to keep the
>> wheels
>> of commerce turning.
>
>
>