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I am always amazed how people will fork over thousands of dollars for a pre-order from a company with 0 manufacturing experience. It's one thing to build a prototype, but try manufacturing 100's and this is what you get.
Running a business is difficult - running a manufacturing business is 10x more difficult.
Quoted from TomGWI:Where were you 2-3 years ago? You could of saved 250 people from preordering with your incredible knowledge.
Funny thing is, I was following the discussion back then and even myself considered ordering one, but never did. Pinball machines are huge complex expensive machines with lots of parts, I can't imagine putting a company together from scratch to build and sell these and then try and offer support once they are shipped.
I do hope they are able to get them produced and out to paid customers. It does look like a very cool machine. Good luck to all involved!
Quoted from Nibbles:Even without this, that doesn't change the simple fact that Kevin Kulek was knowingly and repeatedly lying to people to con them out of their money.
I don't think that was his intent. I think it's more a story of someone in over their head.
Just curious, when you guys preorder this game, do you get a receipt or some sort of contract saying what you are paying for?
From the get-go I always wondered how a small start up could acquire and afford a major IP license like Predator - but in the end I never really questioned it publicly or gave it much thought after I saw prototypes. I just figured they would not have gone that far if they did not have one.
To my fault, I am a honest guy and I always assume others are also.
I feel really bad for all involved.
Quoted from CaptainNeo:yes it would have been ok, because people got the game they wanted and paid for. Other than that, I think most wouldn't give a shit.
No morals? this is the self righteous shit I was talking about. So you don't have a Tron arcade mod, or any aftermarket toppers on your machines? None of those little lamp shades with the name of the game lasercut into it? You don't buy into unlicensed stuff ever? I call bullshit.
That's another thing I always wondered about. The companies making toppers that included licensed images - like Iron Man, etc - I see no way they have the IP rights to make those.
Quoted from CaptainNeo:probably not, but if you want to keep seeing cool shit for your game, you really can't give a shit about it. Otherwise you are going to be very limited on bonus goodies, and the ones you do see, with be high priced because you have more hands in the pile trying to get a cut. And some are very unreasonable to deal with.
That's not true, there are lots of mods sold out there that don't infringe on IP
Quoted from epthegeek:Who wants to lay odds on Stern picking up the actual Predator license now that this whole kerfuffle proved interest in the game? heh!
It probably cost a shit load of cash, to not only get the license, but secure actors' rights to use their voices. Probably one of the reasons there is no cast call outs in TWD
But it would be awesome, I would be a buyer
Quoted from dung:Laughing my butt off about this one. If they had kept their mouths shut this wouldn't be a fiasco. Fox had no clue this was a thing.
I still highly doubt he had the capacity to manufacture them
With all the legal threats going on right now, if I was Kevin I would of contacted a lawyer who would of instructed him to cease all communication and hold still.
Quoted from Kcpinballfan:From his text he said that the paypal account has been locked since June of 2013 because paypal does not allow preorders. He also said there is a person that works for paypal that he was strictly doing business with and would only release funds to him for parts and whatnot as long as he provided very detailed paperwork to prove where the funds were going.
BullShit on that!
Quoted from Xerico:I believe in Kevin's eyes, not disputing the charge back is equivalent to refunding people.
As a business owner, I can tell you parting the red sea is easier then successfully winning a chargeback dispute.
Quoted from Pinhead1982:Paypal DO have a part to play in this. They have the power to freeze the account and give people money back.
If he already transferred the money to his bank account, PayPal can't do anything
Quoted from rosh:.....
As far as a comment on license being 50K, as it has been discussed before, it would likely not cost that much.
Source?
I find this statement difficult to believe
Most likely he claimed nonprofit status because fox was allowing the ip to be used in a non-profit situation at a lower cost or no cost - just my guess
But there is no way, or at least it's extremely difficult for a manufacturing company to be non-profit. Bells went off for me as soon as I heard that.
Quoted from vid1900:article-1177646-04D1D625000005DC-112_233x495.jpg
They are not a non-profit - they have a foundation that is.
Newman's Own is a food company founded by actor Paul Newman and author A.E. Hotchner in 1982. The company gives 100% of the after-tax profits from the sale of its products to Newman's Own Foundation (a private non-profit foundation) which, in turn, gives the money to various educational and charitable organizations.
Quoted from vid1900:This is excellent!!!!
His 3 little girls will grow up without a father!!!!!!!!!!!11
In what world would that be excellent
Quoted from Trekkie1978:Can anyone answer his question:
After the credit card company gives you a chargeback, do they then in turn go after Kevin?
They automatically deduct it from his account.
Quoted from TigerLaw:My guess is that thing would fetch 30k in an auction just here on Pinside. Can't be sold though . . .
you are not serious, are you?
Quoted from Wolfmarsh:For those of us who aren't lawyers, what does that typically mean? Did he just run out of money to stop paying him?
99% sure it means, he didn't/couldn't pay his lawyer.
They tend not to like to work for free.
Quoted from johngravenews:Anyone know what the credit card companies are doing to recover their losses? I can't imagine they are happy to simply write off the money they've refunded to buyers?
Credit card companies don't issue refunds from their cash, they get it from back merchants.
So they get it back from Kevin, usually deduct it from daily settlement, not sure what they do in this instant where he does not have charges coming in daily. Law suit?
Quoted from MotorCityMatt:How do you garnish someone's wages that does not have a job?
You can't but the garnish follows them to whenever they acquire a job anytime in the future
If it's true - I don't get people calling her business to harass her
I also don't understand why people of limited financial means have 5 kids...
Quoted from lancestorm:Entirely different subject but it's the truth. A working household of 2 that hold down very nice income jobs typically are the ones that only end up with 1 - 2 children. I guess it's how you end up passing the extra time when not working? Similar to the baby booms that occurs 9 months after a major disaster? Or just a complete lack of skill to think more than 1 day ahead.
I'll go with lack of skill .....
Quoted from Trekkie1978:People call me heartless when I say that poor people suck at managing money. It's just the cold hard truth.
There are lots of people that no matter how much money they make, they always have none.
Give them $1,000 a week salary and they will spend $1,000 a week
I listened to Kathy's audio - I'm no lawyer but it seems like the judge should not have let her ramble on and on over stuff that is not relevant at all. I just don't understand why he didn't stop her.
Quoted from investingdad:Some people seem prone to rambling rather than staying on point and constructing logical and reasoned statements. I don't know if it's a defense mechanism because it doesn't feel like an intentional effort to obfuscate the truth. Rather, it seems like a personality trait (MBTI type) that uses emotional arguments over reasoned ones. That's fine, but it doesn't lend itself well to these situations.
It's certainly not a trait I see often in the technical, management, and engineering folks I call colleagues.
I understand what she is doing, I just don't understand why the judge allowed it.
Quoted from Wolfmarsh:Hopefully nobody would be stupid enough to threaten him or do anything against him while the court case is going on.
... or at anytime
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