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Funded Today penalized by Indiegogo

Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2018 6:34 am
by DoogleDongle2018
I just checked the Indiegogo Experts directory, and Funded Today is showing as having done just 3 crowdfunding campaigns as marketing partner: https://www.indiegogo.com/partners/fundedtoday

In January of 2017 they had 67 campaigns listed as partner, and $37 million raised. The internet archive has the history of their expert profile saved so you can see it: https://web.archive.org/web/20170103234 ... undedtoday

Know what that means? Indiegogo caught them doing something they were not supposed to be doing. Does anyone know what happened here?

Here are screenshots for the lazy who can't click links:

Their current indiegogo expert profile (with only 3 campaigns):
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Their indiegogo expert profile 1 year ago (with 67 campaigns):
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Re: Funded Today penalized by Indiegogo

Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2018 6:59 am
by Fountee
Perhaps they got wind of all the scam reports about them? They are not hard to find:
https://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/fu ... ms-1329125

Re: Funded Today penalized by Indiegogo

Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2018 7:13 am
by ChasingThatGold
This is the most serious infraction I have ever seen. Indiegogo removing campaigns from an expert page is unheard of. It shows that they must have done something really bad, or gotten caught doing something.

My theory is that they were either paying campaigns to add them as a marketing collaborator, or giving them something for free in exchange for being added as a marketing collaborator. This would boost their numbers astronomically, and it would also be a massive fraud -- because they were scamming their way into being added as collaborators on big campaigns.

Re: Funded Today penalized by Indiegogo

Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2018 8:23 pm
by Proud_ESP
Someone should ask their founder what is going on, you can see his linkedin profile here.

Re: Funded Today penalized by Indiegogo

Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2018 10:51 pm
by Maestro
Wow so Indiegogo stripped them of 65 campaigns? That has to be something huge to warrant such a penalty...

Re: Funded Today penalized by Indiegogo

Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2018 5:41 am
by trent.palo.smith
I think this article might mention why a little bit:
https://medium.com/@fredbenenson/kickst ... c5c559f298

Re: Funded Today penalized by Indiegogo

Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2018 3:04 am
by WildFlower
O wow, thanks for the read! Had no idea they were that shady.

Re: Funded Today penalized by Indiegogo

Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2018 11:45 pm
by isaacaddis
Everyday I hear something shady about Funded Today lol :o

Re: Funded Today penalized by Indiegogo

Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2018 3:29 am
by RFIDsecur
trent.palo.smith wrote:I think this article might mention why a little bit:
https://medium.com/@fredbenenson/kickst ... c5c559f298


Thanks for the link and to the original OP

I wrote about this company 2 yrs ago regarding their business model.

I wonder if Dave has anything to say?
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Re: Funded Today penalized by Indiegogo

Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2018 11:30 pm
by jacksinc17
Yikes.