Designing a Car Trash Can and Making $15k/month

Re:Designing a Car Trash Can and Making $15k/month by guildenstern on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @01:28PM (#17655121)

The creator doesn’t mention that one of his marketing strategies is email spam (his mailchimp account was suspended following abuse reports).

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Re:Designing a Car Trash Can and Making $15k/month by antsar on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @01:44PM (#17655273)

Source? I don't doubt your claim; just curious how you know this.

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Re:Designing a Car Trash Can and Making $15k/month by guildenstern on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @01:58PM (#17655427)

I received their spam, reported it to mailchimp (their provider) and was told that they were suspended.

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Re:Designing a Car Trash Can and Making $15k/month by weaksauce on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @02:51PM (#17655920)

was it out of the blue or did you sign up for something at some point?

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Re:Designing a Car Trash Can and Making $15k/month by guildenstern on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @03:54PM (#17656491)

Out of the blue. I am very careful about what I sign up for, I don’t have a car nor can I find any previous emails from the person involved (going back ten years). There’s no chance I signed up to a mailing list for a car accessory — and just in case I had somehow subscribed (maybe through another product they offer) I asked how they got my email address and they didn’t respond which is a tell tale sign of a spammer. My email address was included in a database leak from Kickstarter in 2014, so I am almost certain they have been spamming everybody from the Kickstarter database leak.

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Re:Designing a Car Trash Can and Making $15k/month by weaksauce on Wednesday August 01, 2018 @12:08PM (#17663805)

the kickstarter leak makes sense. that's very unethical behavior that should not be rewarded.

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Re:Designing a Car Trash Can and Making $15k/month by sandofsky on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @02:29PM (#17655722)

I received the same spam.

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Re:Designing a Car Trash Can and Making $15k/month by singularity2001 on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @03:22PM (#17656199)

You know what else looks fishy: €1,060 pledged of €1,708 goal on Kickstarter.

$15k/month?? My bet is he tries to fake it till … he fades.

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Re:Designing a Car Trash Can and Making $15k/month by flatfilefan on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @06:31PM (#17657871)

OK, that thing with the Kickstarter is cleared out in another reply, but I feel like fake it till ... has some truth to it. Some cheap rhetorics to my taste:

"Ordering from China, I’d see my product in 90 days. Now that it’s made in the USA, lead time is only 3 weeks!"

Err, 3 weeks = 24 days. "If you don't treat the flu with our drug you are seek for 14 days, if you do - only 2 weeks." Haha.

"They are producing them at the same price as the Chinese were quoting me! You can imagine the amount that I am saving on shipping car trash cans with producing them here." - Not sure why Chinese quote an experienced procurer same as in US, he should be able to get a discount at least for the shipping costs, shouldn't he? - And anyway, no, I can not imagine shipping costs, must be low, shouldn't they?

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Re:Designing a Car Trash Can and Making $15k/month by patwalls on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @03:25PM (#17656237)

That is the new Kickstarter for the updated version.

Original Kickstarter ($17k raised): https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1437516755/carbage-cant...

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