Devi console news!

[Dr. Sherman Sticks M.D.]

^she spent it all on Corn Flakes...its a part of this complete breakfast after all....

don't wanna turn this into a kickstarter debate...but this is a big reason i'm not quite a fan of these crowd funding dealies...

[D.o.S.]

Now.

Time.

For.

Disc.

Echo?

[retinal orbita]

Poor Devi....

At least she's trying to pay everyone back unlike all those crust punk distros that just shut down and took everyones money, or that junkie from Nachtmystium who stole from everyone...

[Chankgeez]

Poor Devi....

Not "Poor Devi", poor everyone else who believed in her and gave her their money. I don't feel sorry for her. She brings in on herself.

[behndy]

sad. don't want to jump on someone that's down, even if it kinda always looked like it would got this way. hope she does pay everybody back.

Kickstarter is odd.

[Fuzzy_Nuts]

Half the budget of the Console kickstarter has been spent on actual Console design work, and the other half was mismanaged and end up getting eaten up by business and personal expenses over the course of the past two years.

This. Hi, long time lurker and console contributor here. If I felt like the 40G's had actually gone to the project I wouldn't as irritated. The red flags were abundant when the video game development talk started just a few weeks after the kickstarter ended. I feel like half the budget went to the console and the other half went to starting a new business, hobby, whatever. Anyway, my fault for not looking into her track record. I was really blown away by the presentation and all of the great builders who had "signed on" to develop carts. Now I have to decide if I want devi peds or my money back. Probably will take the pedals since I know they exist.

[Holy Schnikes]

^ This is the part that stuck out to me. Personal expenses? Really?!?

If you're after a refund, I'd reply immediately and keep after it but it seems very unlikely. That's quite a bit of ca$h to pay back with no legal obligation esp considering she used it for personal expenses on the first go around...

[skullservant]

I just sent out the email with proof of funding and asked for my money back.

[behndy]

in b4 link to other Personal Expenses kicktstarter type fund drive link.

[behndy]

............... new vagina FOREVER.

[RR Bigman]

Kickstarter REALLY needs to have some sort of mandatory course on how to run a campaign. I'ver seen a shitton of projects get funded only to have them delayed or fall through completely because the people running the project didn't do their research on getting things produced, or managing money, or generally just running a business or even just losing interest in the whole thing and dropping out. I figured someone who's been in the pedal industry for so long would have the experience and know-how to get shit done and wouldn't have squandered that much money. So it goes. I didn't put any money into it....good luck to whoever did.

PS Nothing personal Devi

[backwardsvoyager]

Geez, I'm glad i couldn't afford to contribute when this was first announced.

It was a pretty cool idea, i wouldn't be surprised if someone who actually knows what they're getting themselves into decides to give it another shot some day.

[Achtane]

Welp

[bigchiefbc]

Geez, I'm glad i couldn't afford to contribute when this was first announced.

Ditto.

Honestly, if I had any skin in this game, I'd take the pedals, even if I didn't want them, and then just resell them. Yes, you're going to take a loss by reselling them, but at least you're getting SOME money.

Look at it this way: her personal finances are fucked up badly enough that she ended up having to take 20 grand of capital out of her business just to get by. Do you really think she's going to have the surplus kicking around to start refunding people? I doubt it.

[Gone Fission]

Any side bets on who the buyer of DEFX is? JHS? Billy Corgan?