How a PR Agency Stole Our Kickstarter Money
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Re: How a PR Agency Stole Our Kickstarter Money
#2 There are a few things about this I don’t understand. How much money was it? Were they supposed to get a percentage of money raised, or did they get paid a fee and then get a percentage on top? Do I understand correctly that they’re having money problems so they kept your money to solve their money problems? The simple way to solve this is to take them to court. Is there anything more to the story than you trusted them with your money and they kept it?
Re: How a PR Agency Stole Our Kickstarter Money
#3There are a few things about this I don’t understand. How much money was it? Were they supposed to get a percentage of money raised, or did they get paid a fee and then get a percentage on top? Do I understand correctly that they’re having money problems so they kept your money to solve their money problems? The simple way to solve this is to take them to court. Is there anything more to the story than you trusted th…
> The simple way to solve this is to take them to court. Is there anything more to the story than you trusted them with your money and they kept it?
It seems like the point of the post is to publicize what happened, and make sure other people are aware of the dangers of working with this agency:
> If we don’t tell people what happened, it could happen to someone else.
> We are cutting our losses and doing what we can on a legal front, but we need to warn the community.
The legal system moves slowly; this appears to be their way of holding them accountable for their actions, and for helping others avoid their fate.
Re: How a PR Agency Stole Our Kickstarter Money
#4There are a few things about this I don’t understand. How much money was it? Were they supposed to get a percentage of money raised, or did they get paid a fee and then get a percentage on top? Do I understand correctly that they’re having money problems so they kept your money to solve their money problems? The simple way to solve this is to take them to court. Is there anything more to the story than you trusted th…
According to the post, they paid Woodshed a retainer and were supposed to pay Woodshed a small percentage of the total if they hit their goal.
Court is the obvious way to handle it, but I see nothing wrong with going public to warn other people, or shame the company into paying up. The company is still apparently doing business. This goes a bit beyond not being able to pay your vendors, and depending on how exactly it went down, what Woodshed did could be outright illegal.
Re: How a PR Agency Stole Our Kickstarter Money
#5What I feel is lacking from this postmortem is looking inwards : did you make mistakes and how did it affect the outcome.
Answer : we made a huge mistake to trust people with all our money. This mistake has led to all our problems.
I know it sounds obvious, but still.
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#6I don't know why but it kind of rubs me the wrong way PR agencies for Kickstarter/crowd-funding even exist. I'd rather back something that had someone passionate with a shitty cell phone video over the generic sterile PR videos that everything seems to have now.
https://twitter.com/Woodshedagency The hashtags on their twitter description almost seem like satire.
Re: How a PR Agency Stole Our Kickstarter Money
#7What I feel is lacking from this postmortem is looking inwards : did you make mistakes and how did it affect the outcome. Answer : we made a huge mistake to trust people with all our money. This mistake has led to all our problems. I know it sounds obvious, but still.
It's in big bold letters.
"We were wrong."
Re: How a PR Agency Stole Our Kickstarter Money
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#9I don't know why but it kind of rubs me the wrong way PR agencies for Kickstarter/crowd-funding even exist. I'd rather back something that had someone passionate with a shitty cell phone video over the generic sterile PR videos that everything seems to have now. https://twitter.com/Woodshedagency The hashtags on their twitter description almost seem like satire.
This does not work ( passionate developer with a failed KS )
edit : and this was not because the project sucked, the project is profitable now.
Re: How a PR Agency Stole Our Kickstarter Money
#10I don't know why but it kind of rubs me the wrong way PR agencies for Kickstarter/crowd-funding even exist. I'd rather back something that had someone passionate with a shitty cell phone video over the generic sterile PR videos that everything seems to have now. https://twitter.com/Woodshedagency The hashtags on their twitter description almost seem like satire.
This does not work ( passionate developer with a failed KS ) edit : and this was not because the project sucked, the project is profitable now.
2x ditto