(A response to another Lowkey post on the forum)
This is sad. I am one of those who were called to reach out to lowkey after I went through a couple of his posts. Although he introduced himself as Jan on the forum, I know him by different name : Juzo. Me and my partner did a campaign before on indiegogo to a fair success and when we decided to go with Kickstarter, we were very very confident with what we have to offer.
During this period, LIV Watches were on the peak, and we decided to reach Funded Today to help us with marketing. It was full of crap. We negotiated the upfront down to $3000 for basically 200 traffic to our campaign. Utterly useless if you ask me. Funded Today claim that they wont make any good ROI from our campaign thus decided that we do not "pass" the test period (Basically in a few days, they will run some ads for us to see if we fit their requirement and if we pass, we will see a good conversion from the traffic sent by them)... The problem is how do you measure a campaign success by only 200 traffic? for $3000 no less. Does every single one of them worth $15?
So we decided to do more research into it..and thats when we discovered Lowkey. He introduced himself as Juzo, asked us to send more details about our campaign. Its like he wanted to understand our product. The experience were totally different from what we had with Funded Today who keep pushing for payments and very secretive with what they do with our hard earned money. Lowkey provide a better insight on how ads and marketing works. We learned more than we expect. Not long after, on February 2017, we take the risk to use his marketing service after being convinced with his reputation on the forum, experience, and very convincing information from time to time. We manage to get 281 backers totaling up to €108,429... It was overwhelming.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gr ... omatic-wat?
This year again, we once again reached out to Juzo (his real name)... at first, we waited for a couple of days before receiving any replies. This time, we choose to promote a different brand since our last issue with the Griffin Emblem team members. We read about the issue here on KSforum.. but knowing Juzo and his past record, we decided to take the leap and risk it since we either dont get funded since its a new brand, or lose $2,500 to Juzo if he scammed us. He already helped us with our previous campaign before, and we made good profit out of it too. The risk seems to be worth taken rather than not getting funded at all. The result :
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/15 ... -by-valimo?
And then, after a few jokes he disappeared again. I thought he stopped with the marketing work due to the absence on the forum. Not until I found out he worked with a more recent campaign through his KS profile as collaborators to Awake Watches :
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/11 ... -ever-madeSo I began to wonder, what seems to be the problem? Lesielle, if you may please email me personally to raymondcaliburnus (at) gmail (dot) com... I dont know how you end up getting scammed by him, but I've worked with him for 2 projects, one last year and one more just ended last month. I can help to reach out to him again. I am sorry because the story is one sided from my opinion.. How did you lose $1000 when I obviously paid $2500 both times? And how did he scammed you while he did my campaign brilliantly. If your allegations are true, I think I can help you to reach him because he is like a brother to me. We joke a lot and the joy of getting funded, he just know how to spice things up. Lets see if we can bring Juzo back here!!