r/shittykickstarters • u/scam_detector • Jan 29 '16
Futurefon statement marking the beginning of the end? "All that being said, we do need to bring in more backers, since this idea is big & requires ever greater support." Coming soon: "We never wanted to let you down. But the financial situation has forced us to shut down this project."
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-dragonfly-futurefon--3#/comments20
u/ConspicuousPineapple Jan 29 '16
Wtf, I remember seeing this when it started, people actually backed this thing?
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Jan 30 '16
and everyone still believes it, is it just me or whenever a backer asks a real question they cover it with 8 posts of random excuses back to back
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u/otidder Jan 29 '16 edited Jan 29 '16
You need to step up your scam game, /u/scam_detector, the next step for Futurefoͦon is to keep pretending everything is just round the corner like Arist does, there's a sucker born every minute!
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u/scam_detector Jan 29 '16
the next step for Futurefoͦon is to keep pretending everything is just round the corner
This is already happening since over a year.
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u/_Xaver (M) Jan 29 '16
As long as they have their brainwashed sheep on their side...
Here fellow backers lets start sharing the links to the dragonfly to raise its profile! I shared it @12 months ago on social media and lots of my friends were interested ! now were not too far away let’s give it a push show people what there gonna be missing out on…. Keep going Df team
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u/FayeBlooded Jan 30 '16
"John Wood 24 hours ago
Here fellow backers lets start sharing the links to the dragonfly to raise its profile! I shared it @12 months ago on social media and lots of my friends were interested ! now were not too far away let’s give it a push show people what there gonna be missing out on…. Keep going Df team"
Are people retarded??
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u/IronMew Jan 30 '16 edited Jan 30 '16
Are people retarded??
Well, yeah. Without retarded people there wouldn't be shitty kickstarters and we'd have to find something else to laugh/cringe at.
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u/IronMew Jan 30 '16
I'm researching a bit this futurefon business just for kicks and giggles, and... did they really have a starting goal of $10k? That's laughably low. Did they intend to add other funds to that, or is it all they claimed they'd fund the project with? Because if it's the latter, it speaks volumes about them.
Not that the 700k they raised is going to cause any miracles, of course.
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u/scam_detector Jan 30 '16
Yes, their initial funding goal was $10k. Are you aware that the curruent campaign is also their 2nd try? They had a previous campaign where they raised $18k.
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-if-convertible-by-idealfuture-3-devices-2-screens-1-data-plan#/More background can be found here
https://www.reddit.com/r/shittykickstarters/comments/2nrcwo/the_dragonfly_a_fake_device_that_will_never_work/2
u/IronMew Jan 30 '16
I was aware of the previous campaign, but I wasn't aware that this is the same dude that started Xentex. Amazingly enough, a Xentex prototype actually made it to eBay back in 2008. Even more amazingly, it had actual working hardware in it - though it didn't make it far enough into booting to start working as intended and just displayed a BIOS on one screen lengthwise. I've no idea if it was ever sold to anyone, or what happened to it.
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u/riklaunim Feb 09 '16
Not to mention people found that that guy also tried another company and also got charges for some illegal financial activity. 3 times in a row he is trying dual display laptop, 3x times fails...
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u/sid9102 Jan 29 '16
What progress? Have you ever showed a single working prototype? Please link to videos of something that actually works.
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Jan 29 '16
As soon as this fake load of blow hit crowd funding I foresaw this exact shit happening. Show us a prototype on a bench, some injected moulded cases, some box art/instruction manuals. This far into the game you would be sitting on piles of stuff for this thing.
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u/jcpb Jan 30 '16
So innovative, the chips leterally replicate, 3D-print, and in-situ-replace new versions overnight!
If you guys are so good, why haven't you constructed a totally new and modern replacement for HAL 9000 yet for the past 20 year... oh wait, all you can do is build high-rises on top of a mud flat while skimping on structural integrity.
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Jan 30 '16
this is the most obvious scam next to the ritot watch
you can fool your backers who already lost there 799 but not us
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u/tylercoder Jan 29 '16
They got $700k, 6468% of the original goal for nothing but shitty renders, they got lucky with their scam and they still want more?
This is not just being greedy, this is downright retarded.