Indiegogo.com - Be accountable or shut down

Indiegogo.com - Be accountable or shut down

The Issue

Indiegogo.com is supposed to be a crowdfunding website. They facilitate people in setting up campaigns and raising funds from individuals who like the concept or product. For these services, they take a cut of all money collected from the contributions as their fees. There are numerous campaigns that are fraud and Indiegogo now claims to have no part in the refund process and claim no liability. They actively promoted the campaigns across social media and advertisements and made money off all these fraud campaigns. Funding their growth by throwing their users (contributors whose money they are growing with) under the bus. 

We have been duped far too many times by far too many campaigns to listen to them spout nonsense about how they protect the users. We demand that they refund every single campaign that people have lost money in and are accountable for all the scams collectively and be sent to prison for continuously defrauding their users and getting away by putting up waiver notices on their website. 

http://observer.com/2014/08/indiegogos-scampaign-problem-latest-crowdfunded-smartwatch-is-total-garbage/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/comments/40v9ls/guy_from_this_sub_running_scam_indiegogo_campaign/

http://gizmodo.com/the-9-most-disgraceful-crowdfunding-failures-of-2015-1747957776

https://pando.com/2014/04/16/as-healbes-1-1m-indiegogo-scampaign-closes-what-now-for-fraudulent-crowdfunding/

 

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The Issue

Indiegogo.com is supposed to be a crowdfunding website. They facilitate people in setting up campaigns and raising funds from individuals who like the concept or product. For these services, they take a cut of all money collected from the contributions as their fees. There are numerous campaigns that are fraud and Indiegogo now claims to have no part in the refund process and claim no liability. They actively promoted the campaigns across social media and advertisements and made money off all these fraud campaigns. Funding their growth by throwing their users (contributors whose money they are growing with) under the bus. 

We have been duped far too many times by far too many campaigns to listen to them spout nonsense about how they protect the users. We demand that they refund every single campaign that people have lost money in and are accountable for all the scams collectively and be sent to prison for continuously defrauding their users and getting away by putting up waiver notices on their website. 

http://observer.com/2014/08/indiegogos-scampaign-problem-latest-crowdfunded-smartwatch-is-total-garbage/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/comments/40v9ls/guy_from_this_sub_running_scam_indiegogo_campaign/

http://gizmodo.com/the-9-most-disgraceful-crowdfunding-failures-of-2015-1747957776

https://pando.com/2014/04/16/as-healbes-1-1m-indiegogo-scampaign-closes-what-now-for-fraudulent-crowdfunding/

 

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Petition created on 24 November 2016