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Just got $32,000 NO STRINGS from KICKSTARTER
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Date: July 31st, 2012 11:53 AM Author: Hateful cocky hell So there has been a project I've been thinking of doing over the past few years, but never had the money to do it. I was bored and signed up for a Kickstarter account, put my idea up there with a "goal" of raising $20k to sit around and do art for a year.
A month later I just got my deposit from funders of $32k after fees from Kickstarter and Amazon payments. (I raised MORE than my goal)
$32,000 just sitting in my account and I NEVER have to pay it back. In fact, you DO NOT pay it back. Even if I never start my project, I never have to pay the money back or do shit.
I never really thought anyone would actually help fund this, but the $1 - $50 donations just started flowing in.
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Date: July 31st, 2012 11:54 AM Author: Mildly Autistic Hospital Filthpig this is 100% flame but enjoy paying taxes on dat cash bro (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2010286&forum_id=2#21223144) |
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Date: July 31st, 2012 11:55 AM Author: Hateful cocky hell This is NOT flame.
I am happy to pay the taxes on this. |
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Date: July 31st, 2012 12:46 PM Author: Electric becky Greetings, Brother, the donor not donee pays gift tax. |
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Date: March 14th, 2013 4:04 PM Author: fishy ticket booth knife ...on amounts that exceed 14k per person per year... that is, after the individual's lifetime unified credit against estate/gift taxes has been eliminated. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2010286&forum_id=2#22816338) |
Date: July 31st, 2012 11:59 AM Author: Passionate ungodly locale I read about a lot of these kickstarter projects on diehipster.com and it does make me want to ride the gravy train. I guess I could talk about writing a short story collection or maybe a travelogue as those are the only remotely "creative" things I could do. Nevertheless, well done.
SO many ditzy fucktards with more $ than sense out there. It is one thing if they sling a few bucks your way but some of these are like 200-1k+ at a time. |
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Date: July 31st, 2012 12:11 PM Author: submissive stage tattoo Nigga if I could raise $500 to write a chapbook of hipster, Tao Lin-esque poems, I think I just found my new way to make rent for the month (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2010286&forum_id=2#21223268) |
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Date: July 31st, 2012 12:14 PM Author: Passionate ungodly locale I just hope this kind of thing has not already caught on (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2010286&forum_id=2#21223289) |
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Date: July 31st, 2012 12:17 PM Author: submissive stage tattoo I'm gonna figure out how to do this. I have a plethora of poems about goldfish and shit that young d00ds and hipster chicks just EAT UP (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2010286&forum_id=2#21223306) |
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Date: July 31st, 2012 12:22 PM Author: Passionate ungodly locale Go for it
if you can incorporate a "performance" into it even better, even if it is just a reading in some horrible coffeeshop where all the skinnyjeans are there for the free wifi.
One woman HAD A BABY in an art gallery. Another dude is getting money just for riding the G train. |
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Date: July 31st, 2012 12:24 PM Author: submissive stage tattoo Are you serious? Money to ride the G Train? Dude, wtf. So hypothetically, I can be like, "YEAH GONNA PRINT UP THIS CHAPBOOK AND PASS IT AROUND AND TRY TO GET IT INTO TAO LIN'S HANDS LOLOLOL" and just keep whatever money I get and literally never write a poem again or even collect them? Why isn't everyone doing this?
Holy.
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Date: July 31st, 2012 12:39 PM Author: Passionate ungodly locale Honestly it was linked to by someone on a recent post on diehipster. It is ridic.
Hence me worrying about this getting played out. But it seems this requires a polished and convincing presentation. Kind of like writing a good essay for a scholarship application, heh heh
Also keep in mind they may have some kind of rating system so if you have a bad track record that would hurt you. Try a manageable project first. |
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Date: October 5th, 2012 9:30 PM Author: Startling lay haunted graveyard hahaha I know about the woman who had a baby in the gallery. We almost went. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2010286&forum_id=2#21726207) |
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Date: July 31st, 2012 12:31 PM Author: Offensive Razzmatazz Laser Beams Lodge someone explain this kickstarter shit in more detail (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2010286&forum_id=2#21223384) |
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Date: July 31st, 2012 12:38 PM Author: Mildly Autistic Hospital Filthpig crcrcr
maybe i should look for funds to kickstart my 'DESTROY CHICK FIL A' project. |
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Date: July 31st, 2012 12:42 PM Author: Offensive Razzmatazz Laser Beams Lodge You'd get a million bucks in a couple of days with that one, bro.
I'm thinking some hippie-dippy "fund my travels to X third world beach country" and make a cheap documentary, photo essay, or just source a bunch of cheap handicrafts made by the natives. lot of these projects, search by country name and you'll see plenty of useless shit that got funded |
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Date: July 31st, 2012 12:49 PM Author: Electric becky Greetings, Holy fuck tyvm brother, basically all my vacations are to 2d and 3d world shitholes where I rough it with my wife for fun and take cool pics. If I could get on dat kickstarter free money tip, my vacations could become free. I'd use the extra to create an actual photolog, or hire a web dev to make a cool little blog or something and start my own Lonely Planet guide series. call it "Travel On Dat Cheap Tip" or something |
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Date: July 31st, 2012 12:52 PM Author: Mildly Autistic Hospital Filthpig Just make it look like you're helping some poors or some gays or some poor gays and you're set (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2010286&forum_id=2#21223508) |
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Date: July 31st, 2012 12:54 PM Author: Electric becky Greetings, Out of the 1000 photos I take of me chilling with King Jimmychuck or whatever that one asian king is called, I'll make 30 high-contrast B&W profile pics of poors in one thirty minute session where I pay each model $10 to fake like they're doing female genital mutilation or something and pocket the rest. Edit: King Jigme Wangchuck of Bhutan |
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Date: July 31st, 2012 12:48 PM Author: Bateful Apoplectic Immigrant (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2010286&forum_id=2#21223475) |
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Date: July 31st, 2012 1:03 PM Author: Hateful cocky hell It is confirmed in my checking account. I just checked the balance and pulled $300 out of an ATM. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2010286&forum_id=2#21223574) |
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Date: July 31st, 2012 1:03 PM Author: Electric becky Greetings, Confirmed, but is it PP CONFIRMED? |
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Date: July 31st, 2012 2:35 PM Author: 180 Bat-shit-crazy Home Juggernaut (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2010286&forum_id=2#21224194) |
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Date: July 31st, 2012 2:43 PM Author: Stubborn Coldplay Fan Rigpig Explain why ppl donate? I had heard of Kickstarter but I thought the point was people donate so they have an equity stack in your venture so if it makes money then they make money. Why the fuck would people just donate money without getting any return or even a gaurantee u are doing shit. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2010286&forum_id=2#21224232) |
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Date: July 31st, 2012 3:24 PM Author: Hateful cocky hell To be "part of the project", breh.
Plus, I am giving each of them a shout-out...
They get nothing more than anything I promised them before they donated (a copy of my work, for example) and the satisfaction of knowing I couldn't sit around on my ass painting for a year without their help! |
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Date: July 31st, 2012 2:48 PM Author: motley center So if I wanted to start a website whereby people could invest in projects with the hope or expectation of a return, that would be illegal securities trading, but people can donate money to complete hipster fraud crap and it's perfectly acceptable to do so... Lol at are securities laws |
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Date: July 31st, 2012 3:25 PM Author: Hateful cocky hell Prosper.com (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2010286&forum_id=2#21224542) |
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Date: July 31st, 2012 5:09 PM Author: Passionate ungodly locale Plenty of indy film, art gallery, etc. projects that hipsters do are basically funded by money laundering (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2010286&forum_id=2#21225371) |
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Date: October 5th, 2012 9:12 PM Author: Startling lay haunted graveyard explain (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2010286&forum_id=2#21726091) |
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Date: October 5th, 2012 9:29 PM Author: cheese-eating jewess (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2010286&forum_id=2#21726200) |
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Date: July 31st, 2012 3:49 PM Author: Hateful cocky hell These guys raised $66,000 to spend a year traveling the world and taking photos of post-Olympic venues in some of the world's greatest cities.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/586262941/the-olympic-city?ref=card
You mad? |
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Date: October 5th, 2012 8:34 PM Author: Hateful cocky hell Hey bros, I'm a few months in and sent out a few sketches to those who funded my year vacation and they are happy. As am I! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2010286&forum_id=2#21725841) |
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Date: October 5th, 2012 9:14 PM Author: Startling lay haunted graveyard Meanwhile this far worthier kickstarter FAILED:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1660661420/the-bravest-lawyer-in-africa-beatrice-mtetwa?ref=live |
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Date: October 5th, 2012 9:16 PM Author: violet cuck kickstarter is the dumbest shit ever. the inefficiency of patronage with the stupidity of mass consumerism. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2010286&forum_id=2#21726128) |
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Date: March 14th, 2013 3:49 PM Author: Bateful Apoplectic Immigrant update? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2010286&forum_id=2#22816277) |