{"id":4443,"date":"2013-09-24T09:35:52","date_gmt":"2013-09-24T13:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/?p=4443"},"modified":"2013-09-24T09:35:52","modified_gmt":"2013-09-24T13:35:52","slug":"kickstarter-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/e-commerce\/kickstarter-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"Kickstarter fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let me start by saying I’ve had some excellent experiences with Kickstarter<\/a> projects. The Traveller 5 project, Schlock Mercenary Challenge Coins<\/a>,
\nThe Chapin Sisters: A DATE WITH THE EVERLY BROTHERS<\/a>, \u00a0and the Tactical Pen<\/a>, just to name a few.<\/p>\n

There has been noticeable failure. The Founders Playing Cards project<\/a>. A beautifully designed set of playing cards that use the images of historical American political figures. \u00a0The project was created by one ‘John Slabyk.’ \u00a0He claimed to have worked on the team that created the iconic Obama icon. \u00a0Say what you want about Obama’s politics, but the branding<\/a> is impressive.<\/p>\n

One small flaw in the plan. After collecting over $37,000 from approximately 1,000 backers, ‘John Slabyk’ dropped out of sight. \u00a0Just two posts, with no followups, no indication of the cards being manufactured, or any sign that ‘John Slabyk’ even plans on having them made. \u00a0The backers are not happy. \u00a0Legal action has been discussed.<\/p>\n

If anybody knows this ‘John Slabyk’, ask him what he has done with the $37,000 of his backers’ money.<\/p>\n

Update<\/strong>: Here is another article detailing\u00a0John M (Markian) Slabyk<\/a>‘s fraud: obama logo designer John Slabyk defrauds Kickstarter backers of over $37,000?<\/a><\/p>\n

Update<\/strong>: Another references for Slabyk’s fraud<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Update: Yet another post of John Slabyk’s fraud<\/a>. \u00a0This one mentions that he claims to be the head of the Obama campaign art department and advises you to contact the NY State AG’s office concerning Internet fraud if you have been scammed by John Slabyk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let me start by saying I’ve had some excellent experiences with Kickstarter projects. The Traveller 5 project, Schlock Mercenary Challenge Coins, The Chapin Sisters: A DATE WITH THE EVERLY BROTHERS, \u00a0and the Tactical Pen, just to name a few. There has been noticeable failure. The Founders Playing Cards project. A beautifully designed set of playing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[338,347,467],"class_list":["post-4443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-e-commerce","tag-fraud","tag-gadget","tag-kickstarter"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab4zg-19F","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}