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trying to help a family out...
JDFan:
--- Quote from: oldschoolgamer21 on July 20, 2014, 04:54:27 am ---Hello guys... I'm trying to get some info for a small project I wanna do.. So I wanna build a small 2 player cab for a family I know but I don't have the cash for it and I know they can't afford one either but I would like to make one as a gift. They have gone thru a lot in past years and I thought this might bring a bit of joy to their lives... But like I said I don't have the money for it.. So I was looking at maybe trying a crowd funding website.. but I noticed that all donors get something in return and I don't even know what I could possibly give in return.. I'm not gonna profit from it I just wanna give this family something they can all enjoy for years to come. What do you guys think I could do or is there any other way I could raise a bit of funds to help with the build.. any help is appreciated ... ??? ??? :dunno
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Crowd funding isn't really designed to be done for charitable donations, it is more for producing a product that others are interested in purchasing but may require more funds than is available through regular channels like banks or financial institutions by providing those people that are interested in purchasing the final product an opportunity to purchase it before it is actually made if there is enough interest overall in the project to raise all of the funds needed yet get their funds back if the actual project does not gain enough interest to become reality. So there is less risk on both sides of the project (the project designer has less risk of spending his money and never seeing anything purchased and the backers have less risk of spending money on a product that is never delivered since their funds are not actually given until the project reaches it's funding goal.)
As others have said if you can't afford to help it may be better to do something else -- A project can be done fairly cheaply so if you can come up with some funds to cover the essentials that's one thing but trying to get strangers to completely fund a gift for someone they do not have any connection to is something else and will be hard to do.
Perhaps talk to other friends/family/relatives of yours and or the Family, you are wanting to build this for and see if you can get a small group together to raise enough funds that way (much easier to get others to donate if they actually know the family or a least know you) Figure as others mentioned it can be done inexpensively and by getting friends and family to help you should be able to raise enough funds that way (esp. if some of them might actually have spare parts like the monitor or PC needed laying around)
pbj:
Oh boy, it's this scam again. Buzz off.
:cheers:
bulbousbeard:
Is this a joke?
Sorry--arcade cabinets aren't for poor people. You can dance around it all want, but it's the truth. It's a ---smurfing--- arcade cabinet. It's not for people who don't have disposable income. You realize that even if you cobbled some CRAP together for $100, that it'd be a ---smurfy--- cabinet, right? What about maintenance? You think that someone with no money is going to be able to afford the maintenance of a cabinet? Whatever.
Even if you weren't trying to scam people, this is the equivalent of giving dessert to people who can't afford a meal.
shponglefan:
I'm trying to figure out how an arcade cabinet is supposed to help a down-on-their-luck family. I mean, arcade cabinets are specialized items and not something people typically want in their homes. Unless this family is specifically pining for an arcade, there are probably dozens of better ways to help them out.
Heck, if you want to give the gift of video games, a console gaming system is a far more practical gift.
yotsuya:
--- Quote from: bulbousbeard on July 20, 2014, 07:25:59 pm ---Is this a joke?
Sorry--arcade cabinets aren't for poor people. You can dance around it all want, but it's the truth. It's a ---smurfing--- arcade cabinet. It's not for people who don't have disposable income. You realize that even if you cobbled some CRAP together for $100, that it'd be a ---smurfy--- cabinet, right? What about maintenance? You think that someone with no money is going to be able to afford the maintenance of a cabinet? Whatever.
Even if you weren't trying to scam people, this is the equivalent of giving dessert to people who can't afford a meal.
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Damn, it got all elitist up in here.
You realize this isn't "Silver Spoons" anymore, right? You don't have to be a millionaire to own a cab. ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---, I've got 11, so I must have hit the big time.
The beauty of this hobby is that you can spend what you want or you can use what you have on hand to play games. You don't HAVE to pimp the cab out in order to have a great one.
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