Tagged: amazon payments

December 24, 2013 @ 11:20 am By John Scaletta, Motion Source  |  

In November of 2013 my company, Motion Source Video Production, ran a Kickstarter campaign for a shoulder rig for video cameras. The campaign was very successful, with final totals leaving us at 376% funded beyond our original funding goal. In preparation for the campaign my… Read More

November 13, 2013 @ 11:03 am By Charles Luzar  |  

The same individual backed over 150 projects. We have been in communication with a number of project owners, all of whom have been duped out of money by this scammer. This scam has been going on for months; one project backer lost over $5000, and… Read More

May 13, 2013 @ 9:17 am By 2amtheatre.com  |  

We decided to launch our first-ever Kickstarter campaign to supplement our meager budget — to build the platforms, to rent and build some costume pieces (indeed, I spent last night sewing, as did the actress who’s playing Emily), to help pay for postage to mail… Read More

May 3, 2013 @ 8:10 am By Polygon  |  

Amazon Payments, the payment processing system Kickstarter uses for its United States-based projects, experienced an outage yesterday for approximately four hours, raising concerns from project runners about the overall success of their campaigns. The outage was site-wide, but especially prompted responses from those campaigns entering… Read More

March 14, 2013 @ 10:50 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Last month it was brought to our attention that Amazon Payments had stopped completing transactions on behalf of crowdfunding platform GetGayFunded.com. According to CEO Adam Kotkin, Amazon has now reinstated service. He has just sent the following letter: GetGayFunded’s relationship with Amazon Payments has been… Read More