Calling all Geeks...

[bluechaos]

If you serve Romulan ale im in.

If I can get it, I'll serve it :)

So the difference of a donation of £200 to £500 is some cupcakes..... Mmmmm I can't believe any one has taken you up on it? Seriously though for a donation of £500 what you offer is woeful or I am missing something?

I appreciate the higher rewards aren't worth the money you pay for them, but it's pretty unlikely anyone can afford to donate that much, if they can then they probably don't need anything we can offer. we believed that most people would give 10 or 25! Plus if the rewards were worth a lot there wouldn't be any money to spend on the business which defeats the point of dong it

What's been great so far is people have given more than expected, we thought we would have lots of people who would donate small amounts, so far we have 40 donations but the average is 50 quid

Also kickstarter has really strict rules on what you can offer, we were going to do things like 50% off vouchers for 6 months or a year etc but you cant give vouchers, you cant give alcohol as rewards etc it can only be the things you make, which is burgers and cakes etc

 

[pride in battle]

If you serve Romulan ale im in.

If I can get it, I'll serve it :)

So the difference of a donation of £200 to £500 is some cupcakes..... Mmmmm I can't believe any one has taken you up on it? Seriously though for a donation of £500 what you offer is woeful or I am missing something?

I appreciate the higher rewards aren't worth the money you pay for them, but it's pretty unlikely anyone can afford to donate that much, if they can then they probably don't need anything we can offer. we believed that most people would give 10 or 25! Plus if the rewards were worth a lot there wouldn't be any money to spend on the business which defeats the point of dong it

What's been great so far is people have given more than expected, we thought we would have lots of people who would donate small amounts, so far we have 40 donations but the average is 50 quid

Also kickstarter has really strict rules on what you can offer, we were going to do things like 50% off vouchers for 6 months or a year etc but you cant give vouchers, you cant give alcohol as rewards etc it can only be the things you make, which is burgers and cakes etc

People are investing in a burger joint not a bakery, you can't give vouchers out so give away free burgers then??
Personally I don't get the idea anyway, so you think of a business, dont have the finance to do it so ask people for donations for a burger and some cupcakes!! Genius!! :-)

 

[bluechaos]

I appreciate the comments, but we HAVE given away free burgers on lots of our rewards, we can't do that for all of them, the idea of offering cakes is something we do on the side, and they are expensive so we thought it was something extra

As I explained before we realise the higher rewards don't offer value for money, but the idea of crowd funding is you give to an idea you want to see succeed, you give what you can and you get a reward, the reward doesn't equal what you have donated, it's just a thank you.

There was an article in the Metro newspaper today about the rise of crowd funding and they mentioned us as one of five to have a look at which was great, but they also featured a place in Chester, called sticky walnut, that raised 100k recently. They gave a cardboard cut out of one of their chefs, who is a bit of a celeb thanks to twitter, for £500!! Think it's just the novelty but someone actually bought it, amazing.

Thought people would rather have cakes than a life sized version of me staring at them haha

 

[BimboBob]

Thought people would rather have cakes than a life sized version of me staring at them haha

If you posted a pic of your sister in some sort of cosplay outfit then we could judge if a life size version of her would pass the mustard.

 

[cptaidan88]

I appreciate you seem to already have a name for it, but I feel like its a missed opportunity if you don't call it 'The Admiral AckBAR'

Good luck anyway pal