Actual comment on KS

[Rob Wright]

Thought this was funny- Had to post
 
"It seems like most card projects without any extra add-ons get funded if they're around $8,000. You reached that point but if you haven't mentioned it, how many decks are you trying to produce? Is 2,500 the least amount? I wish they had it to where however much money people backed, they should just make stuff for that amount."
 

[MrMollusk]

"It seems like most card projects without any extra add-ons get funded if they're around $8,000. You reached that point but if you haven't mentioned it, how many decks are you trying to produce? Is 2,500 the least amount? I wish they had it to where however much money people backed, they should just make stuff for that amount.

Not pictured:
Any knowledge of the USPCC.
Also, this should probably be in the talk park ._.

[Don Boyer]

Thought this was funny- Had to post
 
"It seems like most card projects without any extra add-ons get funded if they're around $8,000. You reached that point but if you haven't mentioned it, how many decks are you trying to produce? Is 2,500 the least amount? I wish they had it to where however much money people backed, they should just make stuff for that amount."

Where's the quote from?  It would help to have the context.

BTW: it's not unheard of for projects to make as many USPC-made decks have been pledged for, as long as they can make the minimum print-run size (which is - at least for now - 2,500 decks).

But having said that, this guy does sound a little less than informed...

[Rob Wright]

This was a comment by a backer on the Voyager Bicycle deck.

[Don Boyer]

This was a comment by a backer on the Voyager Bicycle deck.

A general comment on the project, or a comment on one of the updates (and if so, which update)?  There's a LOT of comments there to sift through...

[Rob Wright]

It was just a general comment- To me it was just funny. The overall ignorance that a company should produce a product for what ever money you can raise. It's not like they are trying to make a profit. It reminded me of a comment my stepson once said(was 22 at the time)- He said "I don't understand why people charge for bottled water. Its water. It should be free"

[Don Boyer]

It was just a general comment- To me it was just funny. The overall ignorance that a company should produce a product for what ever money you can raise. It's not like they are trying to make a profit. It reminded me of a comment my stepson once said(was 22 at the time)- He said "I don't understand why people charge for bottled water. Its water. It should be free"

And the funny thing is that, a half-century ago, that comment would have made perfect logical sense.  Maybe there was some distinct difference a handful of years ago, when bottled waters came from exclusive sources, but two of the most popular brands on the market today - Aquafina (Coca-Cola Co.) and Dasani (PepsiCo) - are made from straight-up tap water, provided to homes by taxpayer dollars, simply run through a filtration process not much different than the ones being employed by many municipalities today.

But yes, there's a lot of naivete when it comes to business and the act of making money.  Though to be fair, there's also a lot of businesses that seek insanely high profits for barely lifting a finger if that much simply because they can.  For example - charging for text messages when those 140 characters are sent out all the time by the cellular phone system, usually carrying either junk data or no data at all; it costs them absolutely nothing extra to provide the service, but people have in the recent past been charged princely sums for them.  If I send my wife a text (she doesn't have a texting plan), it costs her a quarter per message - and she doesn't even initiate the message that results in the charge.  In Europe, it's unheard of for a cellular call recipient to be charged for that call; the charges are all on the account initiating the call - but in the US, charging for calls coming and going is commonplace.  Rather than actually eliminating the charges, the carriers fold them into "unlimited" plans so people forget that they exist...

But I'm seriously digressing here.  Oh, wait - this is Talk Park!  As long as it's not spam, it's fair game! 

[Rob Wright]

Don't get me started on cell phones. 3 phones, $190 a month for data, talk, and text. Pisses me off every time I pay the bill. Then I jump into the wayback machine. Around 1989ish. My first cell was in a bag, and it had to plug into a cigarette lighter.  Had to pay per minute. Bill was regularly $200 +. Only used 100 or so minutes a month. Guess I should't bitch too much now.