The Durak Deck - Kickstarter

[Russell]

Another question is, why haven't they updated their pics? They are still showing the red borders, which is a fantastic selling point... If it were real.

Another abandoned KS project, pull your pledges just in case this is funded by the mistake pointed out above. The last post by the creator was 3 weeks ago!

[MJF]

Ok, so this project JUST hit its funding...

http://www.kicktraq.com/projects/410872 ... hart-daily



I'm pretty sure the amounts on 11-20 and 11-26 are "wrong pledge amounts"... and now we've officially got another Black Tie incident

I'll see if there's any response from the creators, if not within 48 hrs, I'm pulling my pledge.

[Strag]

Personally I'd suggest you pull it now. Lack of communication combined with strange funding = bad project. I'd be shocked if this project was funded "legitimately"

[TheDISRUPTIVE]

Hi All,

We have some amazing friends and family that pulled together over the holiday to help us reach our goal. We can confirm that the pledges are not in error.

We're getting ready to print now!

We've been working on the cards and will post an updated design and new photos today.

Thanks,
The Disruptive Team

[MJF]

Funding was just suspended for this project.

[vjose32]

Funding was just suspended for this project.

Care to comment Disruptive?

[Russell]

According to the FAQ Suspension means the project is over and nobody will be charged money. It is also irreversible, I guess they can try again later unless they violated some major TOS.

[CBJ]

well... it's cancelled.

http://www.kicktraq.com/projects/410872 ... hart-daily" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I wonder what they did wrong??? It's add to see a deck get taken down after the funding goal.

the last one I remember was that Lego Bicycle deck

[Strag]

well... it's cancelled.

http://www.kicktraq.com/projects/410872 ... hart-daily" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I wonder what they did wrong??? It's add to see a deck get taken down after the funding goal.

the last one I remember was that Lego Bicycle deck

I've seen a few other projects take that kind of hit. It has to be for violating the KS ToS. In this case, I would believe it would be because they were self-funding or something close to it, since they took in a couple VERY large pledges right before the end. Those pledges weren't possible based on any existing level they had, so either someone was buying huge volume (which is against KS ToS) or someone (them) was dumping money into it to help it fund (most likely). Better suspended than funding and having to refund people. Tends to screw International contributors when that happens.

[MJF]

Here's what one of the apparent project managers had to say

Andrey Kondratyuk 4 days ago

Hi Everyone,

This is Andrey from Disruptive. We haven't heard back from Kickstarter yet with any additional information – we're just as startled by this as you are. As soon as we find out why the project was suspended we hope to get it back up or start a new project.

We're sorry to let you down. In the future we will work harder to post more updates and make sure we don't run into these kinds of issues.

Thanks for your continued support.

My guess, is those two huge ass pledges were obtained in a way that violates the TOS... private pledging maybe? No idea, I've never read their TOS...