Anybody else soooo wish you had $8000 to blow?

[StayPuft]

(11-06-2013 09:13 PM)Old Dwarf Wrote:  Alas the $8000 pledge pulled out, but I never thought it was a serious pledge anyway.
I'm glad it's out now rather than a possible screw things up doing the last day.

OD

Yeah, I certainly wouldn't want to see that person pull out on the last day. Still, that sort of thing really kind of ticks me off. I mean, why pledge at such a high level if you aren't going to take it seriously. I mean, maybe they seriously were intending to pledge that high and then just later realized they couldn't, but I seriously doubt it. It was probably just somebody being a jerk.

Not only is that wrong to the people running the project, but then it also screws with the other backers. That can make a big difference as to the levels for the stretch goals. I know there probably just isn't much they can do about a-holes who want to screw around, but I wish there was some way they could control the higher pledge levels more so that you couldn't make them unless you are serious. Granted, of course there should still be a way to cancel if, God forbid, you did seriously intend to pledge that high and then something came up and you realized you couldn't. Hey, sometimes life happens. But, it would be nice if you couldn't do that just to be a jerk.