Has anyone done this sort of thing before? Has it been successful?

I dont work for them but currently have a project needing funding via this website.

Please help support the documentary on Maurice Frawley by visiting

http://www.pozible.com/index.php/archive/index/959/description/0/0

Or pass the word onto anyone who maybe interested. Thank you.

there's a few of them around. kickstarter.com is another one, but pozible looks more appropriate because it's Australian

Yeah... these have been around for a while but most haven't been applicable to Australians.

Can they fund Zombie movies or vigilantes? I'm going to start fighting crime this weekend by bashing people who look like criminals and I'd like some $$$ to make a cool suit. Perhaps If someone films it we can say its a documentary and we can use creative accounting to get my costume made and buy me a baseball bat.

Perhaps If someone films it we can say its a documentary

I'll call it Kick-Arse, cos it's Australian.

No. Its going to be called knock-ya-block-orf

i've got a baseball bat that was used in the LA riots. true. i could lend it to you to add some authenticity to your efforts. how do you swing?

I don't. That shit went out when Reagan got into power. You catch skin infections from orgies. HAve you ever had ringworm on your scalp?

Forget about it!

Sorry I fucked your thread up yoghurt. You can ruin one of mine sometime.

Hey, you can have this thread after you follow my link and donate, and the target is reached. Or just check the link out and pass it on to anyone you know might be interested. Cheers,

Toadphoney this is serious!

I was about to give you compo of a $15 donation but you have to piss around with signing up. I may try again later.

Thanks! You can sign in using your facebook account if you have one......

Help a struggling film director out here please kids

I reckon he will reach his goal easy. It looks like a pretty good film. At first I thought it was this film in the making. I am gravely mistaken.

thanks Yoghurt! let's hope so.

2/3 with 82 days to go! You will reach it easy and probably go a grand past I think. Should mention something on your page about how you will still need more money for post production etc..
Also the fees from pozible throw things out a fair bit especially if you are relying on a dollar figure. To be expected I guess.

yeah pozible take an 8% cut I think. Post won't cost us too much, but extra dollars will certainly help with a couple of extra lenses and maybe a camera upgrade :)

I think it is an 8% cut and they charge you for the transaction fees also and can be up to a few bucks each. You end up losing a few hundred by the end. Just be mindful is all.

The band i'm in are currently using it to press our record, in the first week we made about 700, since then it's died down a lot, you have to be kind of strategic in publicising it, but we reckon we'll make the dosh without too much trouble, only thing is we need to master it too so we should really have asked for a bit more, in any case it definitely works as a platform, though interestingly everyone that has donated has had some form of connection with the band, no randoms have donated. I've read the fine print, i think i remember them taking a 7% cut or so, and transaction fees being around 30 cents a pop. We are expecting them to take about 10% all up which we are happy with. If you want to check it out...

Whip It Out!

I guess one of the tricks is to not aim to high because if you dont reach the target you dont get any cash. Its a catch 22. Dont aim to high but allow enough room for the fees.

So apparently $1.2 million isn't enough and Amanda Palmer can't afford to pay musicians to play with her at her shows, whether they are fans or not.

It's okay though, because if you're a fan of hers, you can come play with her (if you've got some skills) and she will pay you in beer and / or hugs! Except in NY where they'll hire proper people to play.

Also, $250k of the $1.2m has been allocated for previous debts and loans.

I'm not entirely sure what this whole issue with the pre-existing debts and loans is... what else is she supposed to do with the money?

On the musicians thing - if she's giving people an opportunity to get involved in a gig at a level they otherwise wouldn't, that's fine. If they're being treated as session musos, that's a problem. I've only read a little about it but it seems like people are over-reacting, surely?

she's just being a business woman...to a slightly insane degree

well they would have to spend time learning the songs, rehearsing etc. she's being an opportunist no doubt.... i guess it's just a matter of whether you see that as a bad thing or not.
personally i think she should just do the legit thing and pay for a full band, she could afford it if she wanted to...even after the kickstarter money she's still gonna be selling merch and tickets etc.

my one and only pozible experience was pretty awful - through no fault of pozible's, though.

basically the cause that I donated to (my boyfriend also donated) never delivered - they met their target, but that was the last we heard. rewards were supposed to go out last november - we received nothing. i've sent three emails to the organiser, a facebook wall post, a comment on their pozible page and also contacted pozible themselves (although I totally understand that it isn't their issue). It wasn't even that I donated a lot (we only donated $20 each) but it was more just the fact that it's totally SHITHOUSE form.

Not going to name & shame as weirdly a friend of mine was involved in the project, but yeah. It's totally tainted my experience of crowdfunding.

You should see what happens with crowdfunding video games.

Woolfat: I pledge $10 that it was Black Cab. http://www.pozible.com/project/5642#.UYeJ28saySM

Well, probably not, but that's pretty overdue.

I see that's been discussed above!

so what's the deal with this? you can just keep the money without delivering and that's the end of that?

It wasn't Black Cab, I'm afraid!

Yeah, I guess it's based on an honour system. You just trust that the people will deliver. I have been in touch with my friend (which I really didn't want to do, as it's an awkward scenario and I don't even know how well she knows the organiser) so we'll see what happens. But yeah, probably won't be supporting any crowdfunding projects anytime soon.

and you're completely unaccountable if you don't deliver? i'm sorry you lost money, but this sounds like a great way to take advantage of suckers. assuming one didn't care about their reputation.

Yes, there's no legal accountability. It's ''investment'' not ''preorder''.

yep, pretty much spaceman1. i got fooled.

and it was only $20! it's just the principle. and the fact that the guy is too spineless to contact me.

not even. investors normally require equity in return for their cash. it's more a gift or goodwill gesture.

sorry, not trying to be an arse. just wanting to understand the point of it.

reply above was to checkers.

you're right to care about it on principle no matter how small the sum. but you would assume their reputation is worth more than the $20 they took from you, so good luck to them trying it again.

nah you're not being an arse at all, I agree with you 100%.