There are always inherent risks involved with any type of crowdfunding but it appears the crowd came to believe in possible inaccuracies which may have ultimately led to the downfall of this Kickstarter campaign. Only the day prior campaign organizers were thanking backers for their support. You should expect to see LUCI for sale early spring for the suggested retail price of $299. We will be sticking with more conventional funding sources like we have in the past. Giving them $20,000 in commissions for allowing such a circus on their website does not seem appropriate. We still think Kickstarter is a great medium, but it clearly has some serious moderation issues. After a face to face meeting earlier this evening with our prototype in hand, he offered to back the totality of our project with terms that we could simply not refuse.Īnd with the direction that this campaign is going, dealing with a single person instead of 2500 doubtfuls made our choice very easy. The offer came to us this week from a generous Kickstarter user who is extremely passionate about our project. We would like to inform you that we have signed a funding agreement with another private lender.
Kickstarter scam update#
Kickstarter may have banned the campaign as issues with the campaign became apparent.Ĭampaign organizers shared a different perspective though and posted a backer update with the date of November 12th stating they had found alternative funding:
The concept was compelling enough to significantly beat the fundraising goal. An attempt at creating a virtual reality type experience while sleeping. The Lucid Dreaming project was supposed to be creating a device to consciously control your dreams without waking up.
BTW congrats on GPX’s outstanding damage control by re-photoshopping their prototype pic last minute, you really had us all fooled! LMAOF I hope KS learns from this, especially since it was advertised this in the most popular section luring me into this scam. Soooo people can basically scam half a million dollars on kickstarter with a photoshop pic?! GPX scraps 400,000 dollars and its reputation for securing a contract with one of the kickstarter backers due to the forum being a circus (circus being, asking for a pic as proof prior to deadline). Forum becomes aware of foul play and have filed complaintsĨ. GPX suddenly skips town claiming they need vacation as an excuse to why they can’t provide proof of LUCI (only returning after the deadline thus securing the cash)ħ. GPX refuses claiming they don’t have access to the prototype or to a pic of itĦ. Forum asks GPX to settle the matter by simply taking a pic or vid of the prototype to prove itĥ. GPX claims the pic is real and tries to be sneaky replacing it with an even worse photoshop fakeĤ. The picture of the prototype turns out to be a photoshop fakeģ.
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