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"Until earlier this week, the company was still accepting pre-orders for their imaginary wallets. Yet the last time anyone logged into the Kickstarter account that raised $59,000 was almost two months ago, on July 10. The preorder page has since been shut down, though it’s not clear whether Linkwallet or the sales platform they used, Celery, ended the presale.

Celery officially declined to comment to Consumerist about this mess, but they don’t appear to have any connection to Linkwallet except as an online order-taking platform. Backers on the Kickstarter comment page say that they did contact Celery, concerned that Linkwallet was still accepting pre-orders without shipping the Kickstarter orders that had been paid for back in 2013. They reported back to the comments page, saying that company representatives told them Linkwallet’s account was shut down after the supposed wallet-makers wouldn’t respond to any messages from Celery.

Linkwallet also didn’t respond to Better Business Bureau complaints filed against the company by upset, wallet-less backers. Consumerist e-mailed the company and called the phone number on file, which had been disconnected.
What’s a consumer to do? Some backers are teaming up to file a lawsuit against the Miami-based company. Perhaps they could contact the Florida state attorney general to begin a lawsuit similar to the one that the Washington state attorney general filed against the creator of a game that raised $25,000 on the site."