Kickstarter crowd funding for Guy Fawlks Round

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Jislizard

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http://www.kickstarter.com/projects...awkes-1-oz-silver-round?ref=recently_launched

Not sure if I want to pay $60 for a 1oz round but if a couple of people want in we can order a few and split the postage...
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Lets face it, we know from recent experience that it doesn't cost $45 to get a round made and it is even cheaper in the US apparently. He also already has the dies made and surely that is the expensive bit?
 
I always thought they abolished Guy Fawkes bonfires and fireworks so the people wouldn't get ideas. Agree on the coin. Not for me sorry.
 
They never abolished bonfires and fireworks, but in the interests of public safety they mandated that a simple insurance policy is taken out by the event organisers.

How were the government to know that the greedy insurance companies would charge such high premiums (due to the massive danger that sparklers can cause). So high in fact that no events companies could afford insurance AND fireworks.

Councils were the only people who can afford to run them, and is this a good use of ratepayers' money???

About time we had a modern equivalent!
 
I'm in for one. Only $45 if you're in the US, so high, but I'm a fan and a big supporter of Kickstarter.
 
At $45 I would be in as well.

I have helped fund a couple of projects but most are just looking for start-up funding, this guy looks like he already has started up and is looking to make some money by buying and selling silver rounds, which is ok but you could do that without the kick starter project.

I wish him well though.
 
Some really weird stuff gets funded, some niche item that you wouldn't have thought anyone would want.

I put $10 towards a computer sword fighting platform and $25 towards a community currency, lots of other stuff I liked the look of but there seems to be unrealistic postage on anything outside the uSA. I guess the Australians will have to start some projects.
 
Oh, CLANG! I funded that as well :)

Needless to say, I've ended up with a lot of kickstarter stuff. Check out California headphones.

EDIT: Yeah, postage is quite a pain.
 
I only supported CLANG because I like Neal Stephenson's books!

It is great fun playing venture capitalist!
 
$10,000,000!!!

In all fairness they only asked for $100,000 and I would think it takes more than 5 time the amount of money to design, build manufacture and create the software for this timepiece than it would to press a few rounds. One is innovative, one of a kind, not available anywhere else and the other is common.

I though $5,000,000 for the Openware games consol http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ouya/ouya-a-new-kind-of-video-game-console?ref=home_popular was a mad amount, especially as it was in the millions after only a few days of going up.

$20,000 is not a lot to develop a bit of software and make some unique hardware but to stamp a pretty picture into a bit of metal using existing technologies and other people's equipment sounds more like a money grab than anything. If he wanted to make the rounds available to everyone and spread the message he could do it a bit more competitively priced and shave off a bit of his profit.

I support kickstarters if they are new or innovative or something I can't get anywhere else, this is a pretty generic thing and while nice, I generally shy away from silver with political messages or drug references because at the end of the day I have to sell it and I don't want to limit my market.

I spend way too long refreshing kickstarter just to see if I can spend more money on stuff that I have never heard before! I am interested in the board games, someof them seem to be quite interesting.
 
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