{"id":7925,"date":"2015-11-26T15:18:07","date_gmt":"2015-11-26T14:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=7925"},"modified":"2015-11-26T17:09:24","modified_gmt":"2015-11-26T16:09:24","slug":"are-you-scammed-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2015\/11\/are-you-scammed-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you scammed too?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I have been supporting startups even before Kickstarter and Indiego. Unfortunately\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.carbike.de\/carbike_de_fahrzeug.html\">Carbike<\/a>\u00a0never came into life, all my\u00a0money was lost.<br \/>\nBut if you think that science + arts are important, you can&#8217;t stop funding interesting projects. I even\u00a0sold devices later for some unexpected problems (CloudFTP, \u00a0The Nutter) or could not access the expected video projects (Bikes vs Cars).<br \/>\nBut I see crowdfunding more like an altruistic way to support good ideas\u00a0and do not feel scammed as many\u00a0Zano backers.<br \/>\nEven right now where again two of my\u00a0backed projects are in troubled water (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/265641170\/kraftwerk-highly-innovative-portable-power-plant\/posts\/1144187?lang=de\">Kraftwerk<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiegogo.com\/projects\/itraq-the-cellular-tracking-device#\/comments\">Itraq<\/a>) I see this as an\u00a0experiment where I\u00a0am\u00a0not looking for revenues, at least not in the first instance.\u00a0But maybe I would appreciate deadlines from the grant holders and any reason why they could not be\u00a0met. And of course a note when the project is being dead.<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 10.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I have been supporting startups even before Kickstarter and Indiego. Unfortunately\u00a0Carbike\u00a0never came into life, all my\u00a0money was lost. But if you think that science + arts are important, you can&#8217;t stop funding interesting projects. I even\u00a0sold devices later for some unexpected problems (CloudFTP, \u00a0The Nutter) or could not access the expected video projects (Bikes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2015\/11\/are-you-scammed-too\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Are you scammed too?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-joke-fun","category-computer-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7925"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7932,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7925\/revisions\/7932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}