Please help these women on the pro tour make their movie eric moreman.

BRussell, this was my quote. Apparently there was a glitch with az


I am always a little confused when I read these kind of requests. My wife and I give away quite a bit of money annually to various things we feel are worthwhile. But this is a business venture. Why would I just give you money for your business venture?

Plus, it is such a small amount of money you are trying to raise. If this is worth doing just fund it yourself. Spike Lee borrowed money on his credit cards to make his first movie.

I am sorry to ask but I just don't get it, it seems so demeaning begging for money for a personal business venture.


Agreed.
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The smartwatch was a product ....a tangible invention.........a meaningful product.....not someone's idea for a film, book or painting .......if you can't see the difference with a real product and this then you have real shortcomings.......why not just ask for a financial backer and give up the action but why bother when it's easier to try and get something for free..... but if someone wants to meet the Fisher's, get some autographed stuff, be on Facebook.... go the the big premier.....all the more power to you and them.....it just costs a little more.


Thanks for the laugh! By the time I got to "a meaningful product", I'm...:rotflmao1:
 
Anyone here a fan of grass --- the stuff on your lawn? Cause mine needs to be mowed and it costs $25 a week. If you send me money to help get my grass mowed, I'll send you a small clipping of it as my gratitude. PM me for my paypal on where to send your money.
 
why wouldnt they just include the investors in the profits after clearing costs or just a promise of double...if they dont make 80k after paying everyone that some seriously shitty project...the other stuff is nice but give back the dough when it starts making something..
i understand purchasing the movie in advance thats fine for the ten dollar thing but someone gave 5,000 (i assume stu automatically hes very good to womens pool)
is this wrong?40k is a joke for people with real money i dont see why they couldnt just give a percentage back..
 
why wouldnt they just include the investors in the profits after clearing costs or just a promise of double...if they dont make 80k after paying everyone that some seriously shitty project...the other stuff is nice but give back the dough when it starts making something..
i understand purchasing the movie in advance thats fine for the ten dollar thing but someone gave 5,000 (i assume stu automatically hes very good to womens pool)
is this wrong?40k is a joke for people with real money i dont see why they couldnt just give a percentage back..

I think there is just a major misunderstanding of how kickstarter campaigns work, especially among the readers who have been inclined to post their opinions on "begging for money" and this is a bad "investment".

There are campaigns to fund everything from theater projects to software, to games, to museum renovations. I don't recall EVER seeing a campaign that offered any sort of "return on investment" as these are not investments in the traditional sense. Projects are funded by offering the products (or some variations thereof). Kickstarter is NOT the place to look for investment opportunities, but it can be a really cool place to find new gadgets or cool projects. If you think they are worthy of one of the backer levels, then you commit. If the project doesn't not reach it's funding goals, then you get that money back.
 
Watching the video it seems an interesting idea. $40K for all the travel they are talking about doesn't leave much for anything else if they are using any kind of crew. If its one person with a video camera it doesn't bode well for production quality unless that person is more skilled than what the trailer showed.

Other funny thing I noticed was a proposed delivery date of December this year. Thats pretty fast but maybe they have a lot of stuff in the can already. The biggest thing that sticks out to me and re-enforces how damn poor the pool industry is overall is that you have a project with the most dominant women in the game with maybe hundreds of hours of TV exposure between them and they can't get an industry sponsor to post up $40K to fund a doc.

I hope they make it. If they produce a finished project I'll buy it.
 
why wouldnt they just include the investors in the profits after clearing costs or just a promise of double...if they dont make 80k after paying everyone that some seriously shitty project...the other stuff is nice but give back the dough when it starts making something..
i understand purchasing the movie in advance thats fine for the ten dollar thing but someone gave 5,000 (i assume stu automatically hes very good to womens pool)
is this wrong?40k is a joke for people with real money i dont see why they couldnt just give a percentage back..

It is a very rare doc that ever makes any money. The chances of a doc about women's pool doubling or tripling its production budget are about as good as me winning the U.S. Open. Of Gymnastics.

Besides the cost to pay for accounting of chopping up any returns to thirty or forty people would probably cost more than any potential return. Add in the legal aspects of someone maybe deciding they are not happy and getting their lawyer on its not hard to see why crowd investing is not done.

If they can find enough people passionate about it to generate the budget it will get made. Very common in film making today. I can think of several ideas for docs I would pay up front to see. But they would have to be made by people with a demonstrable track record of finishing similar projects. I think that may be an area this campaign could shore up by putting in the trailer what the film makers have done in the past.
 
Honey Flow

WTF is wrong with you people? This is a kickstarter. If you'd like to see the movie made, you pay $25 to help them make it, and that's your payment for a copy of the movie when it's done. You pay more, you get other things like a pool lesson with Alison in addition to a copy of the movie. If they don't raise their minimum to make the movie, you get your money back.

The Pebble smartwatch was made with kickstarter - these guys had an idea 3 years ago, people loved it, bought hundreds of thousands of them in advance, and now they've sold a million of them and Apple is releasing one. It's a great, free-market, consumer-driven method of starting a business or funding a project that might not happen otherwise.

Why does this offend you? If you don't care about the movie, don't give them any money. It's not charity, and it's not a business investment. You're just buying a movie you think you might like. :angry:



In a similar campaign the Honey Flow hive just raised over 10 million in just over a month
 
The chances of a doc about women's pool doubling or tripling its production budget are about as good as me winning the U.S. Open. Of Gymnastics.

Damn it, I can't this picture out of my head ...
 
I should have done a GoFundMe to pay for my last Harley.

What was I thinking.

Oh well, I have always wanted a Balabushka. Who's in to buy me one.

Any extra goes to the local Humane Society.
 
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