Likely to complicate refunds.That's all well and good, and I'm not sure of the motivation behind this communication.
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Likely to complicate refunds.That's all well and good, and I'm not sure of the motivation behind this communication.
I don’t agree.I'm going to keep this civil and concise.
The CanonRumors brand is fatally wounded. The trust is gone.
Delete at will, but you know it, everybody knows it. You were a shill for a scammer. There is really no coming back from that.
Fatally wounded is extreme. Damaged yes. Fatally no.I'm going to keep this civil and concise.
The CanonRumors brand is fatally wounded. The trust is gone.
Delete at will, but you know it, everybody knows it. You were a shill for a scammer. There is really no coming back from that.
That seems like a much higher bar than everybody else has to get over.Fatally wounded is extreme. Damaged yes. Fatally no.
But, I would hope that going forward @Canon Rumors Guy would be more transparent about financial relationships with companies that he is promoting. I would suggest the following:
1) A disclosure that Canon Rumors has a financial relationship with the company and will profit from the sales;
2) That Canon Rumors has not vetted the advertiser, the product or its claims;
3) Full disclosure of any payments or goods or services provided to Canon Rumors, including cash payments, sample products, promotional materials, travel, etc. etc.
3) A disclaimer that third party products may void the Canon warranty.
I'm going to keep this civil and concise.
The CanonRumors brand is fatally wounded. The trust is gone.
Delete at will, but you know it, everybody knows it. You were a shill for a scammer. There is really no coming back from that.
Fatally wounded is extreme. Damaged yes. Fatally no.
But, I would hope that going forward @Canon Rumors Guy would be more transparent about financial relationships with companies that he is promoting. I would suggest the following:
1) A disclosure that Canon Rumors has a financial relationship with the company and will profit from the sales;
2) That Canon Rumors has not vetted the advertiser, the product or its claims;
3) Full disclosure of any payments or goods or services provided to Canon Rumors, including cash payments, sample products, promotional materials, travel, etc. etc.
3) A disclaimer that third party products may void the Canon warranty.
That seems like a much higher bar than everybody else has to get over.
Kickstarter is a gamble and knowing somebody might or might not benefit from it doesn’t change the feasibility equation all backers must personally answer. Craig didn’t benefit from it one iota, quite the opposite in fact , which is a lot more than can be said for many of the paid and biased real shills out there for any number of companies who send out ‘loaners’ that never need to be returned, ‘sponsor’ content and generally blur the lines of their word and advertising.
As far as I could see Craig just put the link up and copied and pasted the verbiage from the link, he didn’t say back it or anything close to it.
I don't agree either. People make mistakes. That's just human. I love this website and the information I get here. many kudos to Craig for coming clean.I don’t agree.
I don't agree either. People make mistakes. That's just human. I love this website and the information I get here. many kudos to Craig for coming clean.
Ditto.I don't agree either. People make mistakes. That's just human. I love this website and the information I get here. many kudos to Craig for coming clean.
Maybe next time you should avoid unnecessary "trust".I'm going to keep this civil and concise.
The CanonRumors brand is fatally wounded. The trust is gone.
I appreciate your candor and your willingness to make changes. That all that we should ask.
- There is now an affiliate disclosure site wide.
- I completely screwed up my vetting, I'm 100% wrong here. I spent years at Lens Rentals Canada vetting renters, I have to do better and I will, I will never promote another Kickstarter campaign that isn't from a reputable company. Most Kickstarter campaigns pay 10-20%. That includes Peak Design, Gura Gear, Kurvd and others. That percentage that people keep hanging on to isn't unusual for Kickstarter. B&H, Amazon and others pay various levels of commissions. If a site is pointing you to a product page, it's affiliated most of the time.
- If I have ever promoted an eBay sale, I have always had a disclaimer about the warranty. Those grey market retailers are gone now for the most part.
There were plenty of people in the original thread sceptical about this (and of Kickstarter in general) buyer beware, your money, your responsibility.I'm going to keep this civil and concise.
The CanonRumors brand is fatally wounded. The trust is gone.
Delete at will, but you know it, everybody knows it. You were a shill for a scammer. There is really no coming back from that.
Stupid? I'm not the one who got greedy and got myself and others scammed. Just because you were third on the list.. that isn't any kind of mitigation.I understand that there will always be a number of humans that are stupid and we have to deal with it. Hopefully, you also produce this rant to the other dozen sites that promoted this campaign as affiliates without disclosure. I won't name them here, but they're easy to find with Google. I was #3 on the list of sites when it came to affiliate referrals and both PetaPixel and DPReview outsold me, even without an affiliated link. I have better friends than they do and am privy to this information.
Stupid? I'm not the one who got greedy and got myself and others scammed. Just because you were third on the list.. that isn't any kind of mitigation.
Can you clarify on your comments around DPreview?
DPreview say:
"We had nothing to gain from readers backing the project, as we were not at all (and never have been) a part of any Kickstarter affiliate program."
Is this not the case?
You're a greedy shill for fraudsters. You were complicit in all this. You called it when you realised you were getting bumped, shame you didn't call it when you were hoping to take the undeclared kickbacks. It doesn't really matter what anybody else got wrong as well. All the best.Yes, you're stupid.