I don¹t want to sound complacent because I¹m really not. However it may be worth remarking that our previous Kickstarter campaign was in a similar position at this stage. There may be a long way to go. But we can do this.
Kind regards, Kevin Kevin Miller ~ ke...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Everyone can code On 16/07/2014 05:21, "Peter Haworth" <p...@lcsql.com> wrote: >Maybe the Kickstarter 15% commission? The Kickstarter plus is the larger >audience though. Looking at the current HTML5 campaign, it's a long way >off making its' goal right now so the larger audience may have been >needed. > > >The campaign is about half way though as of today. At the current run >rate, they'll fall around $238k short of the goal, need about $21k per day >in donations to make it (they had around $1000 today), and another 751 >donors at the current average donation of $418. Things can and do change >very quickly, especially in the final few days of a campaign, but those >numbers don't look good. > >As for the refund, it's not really any different than Kickstarter. They >don't charge your credit card unless the campaign makes it's goal I think >RunRev are taking the donations immediately and saying they can choose to >return them if they don't meet their goal. Or not, which may be, as you >say, what is frightening some people off. > >Pete >lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com> >Home of lcStackBrowser <http://www.lcsql.com/lcstackbrowser.html> and >SQLiteAdmin <http://www.lcsql.com/sqliteadmin.html> > > >On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 4:25 PM, Kay C Lan <lan.kc.macm...@gmail.com> >wrote: > >> On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 10:23 PM, Heather Laine <heat...@runrev.com> >> wrote: >> > We need YOUR SUPPORT to keep this campaign on track for its target. If >> you have ideas for promoting it or suggestions as to what more we could >>be >> doing, please let us know! >> >> The previous campaign was part of KickStarter, this one is not. I'm >> just wondering why it was decided not to go via KickStarter again; >> they are a known entity and have a huge audience with most people very >> comfortable with the rules of play. Runrev's rules are noticeably >> different and I'm wondering if some people are shying away when they >> read 'we reserve the right to refund pledges' (I'm paraphrasing). >> >> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >> subscription preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode >> >_______________________________________________ >use-livecode mailing list >use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >subscription preferences: >http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode