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[ElBoxyBrown]

These aren't just your regular towels.............they are Kickstarted towels.

 

[ZackieChan]

Yes. Every Kickstarter is a scam. They place risk on consumers while the manufacturer profits fully.

You definition of "scam" has gone so far beyond the actual definition that it's absurd. Placing risk on consumers to get a product that they obviously want and want to make happen is in no way a scam. People get so worked up over Kickstarter, it truly boggles my mind.

The money laundering accusations, with literally nothing to back them up, are equally hilarious.

 

[Koomaster]

Wat? The picture of the people using the towels on that page - they look thin like paper. Looks like you'd be drying yourself off with a bedsheet. Why are people backing a towel like this? Go to a homegoods store and there are so many expensive towels to choose from that you'd not need to kickstart a 'super fluffy cloud-like' towel. xD

 

[GobFather]

You definition of "scam" has gone so far beyond the actual definition that it's absurd. Placing risk on consumers to get a product that they obviously want and want to make happen is in no way a scam. People get so worked up over Kickstarter, it truly boggles my mind.

The money laundering accusations, with literally nothing to back them up, are equally hilarious.

There are a lot of legit products and companies born from kickstarter. But there are always those that ruins it for everyone .... and It is kinda amazing how easily people fall for a product even if they are told it could be a scam. The backers are still increasing lol

 

[Weckum]

Should've bought a dicktowel, bro.

 

[Gentleman Jack]

Free chopsticks with every pledge!

Looks like a campaign built on a lot of targeted social media advertising. It's Japanese! It's organic cotton! Did we mention how soft and absorbent this five star product is! Did we mention it's Japanese?

 

[indask8]

I'm sure you'll receive something, but when, and what the quality will be... no idea.

So far I've been lucky with kickstarter, huge delays on my first kickstarter but the final product was pretty solid.

 

[rrs]

I wonder if the towels are legit made in small batches or just some cheap Japanese towels with their label printed on it

Free chopsticks with every pledge!

Looks like a campaign built on a lot of targeted social media advertising. It's Japanese! It's organic cotton! Did we mention how soft and absorbent this five star product is! Did we mention it's Japanese?

what the towels really need is some kanji on it like 馬鹿

 

[kulapik]

If you have to ask yourself if a Kickstarter is a scam, it means that it is.

 

[MikeHattsu]

I wonder if the towels are legit made in small batches or just some cheap Japanese towels with their label printed on it

The description says it uses 100% Japanese cotton, but they never say the towels are actually made in Japan (unless they've said something in the updates).

 

[UnemployedVillain]

Do these scammers actually get the money? Why can't Kickstarter do anything? They should only fund projects by meeting the creators in person.

That's a terrible idea

 

[pretty done]

They're gonna go to Walmart and buy a bunch of $5 mainstays towels and send them to all you suckers backers and pocket the (huge) difference.

Free chopsticks with every pledge!

Looks like a campaign built on a lot of targeted social media advertising. It's Japanese! It's organic cotton! Did we mention how soft and absorbent this five star product is! Did we mention it's Japanese?

These towels are made with authentic anime titty.

 

[Trojita]

If you want a wonderfully soft Japanese towel, get the Imabari brand. Expensive, but still way cheaper than the Kickstarter.

Where do I buy this? I can only find the main website but I have to fill in a form or something.

I never knew I needed expensive Japanese towels.

I second this question. Where can you buy them if you live in the west?

 

[_Nemo]

 

[Phu]

This whole thing seems hilarious to me.

 

[MikeHattsu]

I second this question. Where can you buy them if you live in the west?

Try here?
http://www.i-ori.com/

 

[Stevey]

If you're willing to spend that much on a fucking towel, you deserve to get scammed.

 

[Morrigan Stark]

Why the fuck would anyone Kickstart an easily available, existing product like... towels??

 

[El Topo]

Free chopsticks with every pledge!

Looks like a campaign built on a lot of targeted social media advertising. It's Japanese! It's organic cotton! Did we mention how soft and absorbent this five star product is! Did we mention it's Japanese?

Did you know that the Japanese perfected everything? Buy this now! Now! Pledge as much as you can for this PERFECT JAPANESE <What are we selling again, Jim? Oh, right> TOWEL!

 

[Lagamorph]

Why are people kickstarting towels?

They're fucking towels.

 

[Trojita]

Try here?
http://www.i-ori.com/

If these are the regular prices, I'm not rich enough for them.

 

[Septimius]

Why is this on Kickstart? Why does it need that? Why did you pledge? A Kickstarter to me is kind of like "I want to do this one unique thing, but I can't, because it would cost 100k just to get production STARTED", not "hey guys, look at these sleek towels. Don't you want them? You can buy them, kind of"

 

[tcrunch]

Here you go OP, I googled and saved you $637,335.

http://www.remodelista.com/posts/fabrics-linens-3-japanese-towels-japanese-terry/

 

[UberTag]

I wonder if the towels are legit made in small batches or just some cheap Japanese towels with their label printed on it
what the towels really need is some kanji on it like &#39340;&#40575;

This response is too clever not to muster at least one reply.
A &#39340;&#40575; and his money are soon parted.

 

[KSweeley]

O.O WTF?!?! A towel on Kickstarter with 7,243 backers....

 

[MikeHattsu]

O.O WTF?!?! A towel on Kickstarter with 7,243 backers....

There's a competing one as well
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shanemonson/onsen-bath-towels-redefined

 

[Kieli]

Feature creep on towels is absurd(ly hilarious).

Can't even imagine what kind of stretch goals they'd add.

 

[Kaelan]

I imagine Kickstarter is a good way of doing illicit business. Say you're selling towels, you're really selling coke wrapped in towels to specific people who back your project for large sums of money under the guise of a stretch goal claiming to be an angel investment.

This is what I'd consider to be one of these.

Holy shit. That'd be wild.

 

[openrob]

It's on the front page of Kickstarter lol

 

[ClayKavalier]

How is this better than a towel you can walk into a store and buy? I can see the appeal of being one of the first to own a product like Pebl or helping make development of a game possible, but if even if there's only a small chance it's a scam why would you hand money to strangers on the internet for a towel of all things?

 

[Phobophile]

It's on the front page of Kickstarter lol

I've seen this advertised on Facebook as well

 

[jellies_two]

I've seen this advertised on Facebook as well

And there it is.
There is a sucker born every minute, and compared to the popup infested fake news sites they normally wade through to try to "win a free iPad" etc, kickstarter seems like a high production values nirvana.

I'm going to run ads for a kickstarter for an app that lets you call a taxi in 300 cities around the world just with one touch. Stretch goal will be a second app that lets you hire people to do small tasks around the house.

Kickstarter should be ashamed of themselves, they are taking a chunk of money off this and looking the other way.

 

[carlsojo]

...I should kickstart some towels.

 

[AtomskEater]

So I was an early backer of this project ...

The video is canned content... there's no identifiable face or name behind this campaign.
Mere sketches...
Unrealistic timeline...
Towels are overpriced...

....butwhy.gif? Why pledge if you can see that many red flags, and why keep your pledge active? Just cancel it if you're that concerned, and I hope other people do too. Looking at the page, I can't honestly see anything that sets this apart from your average towel page on Macy's or Bed Bath & Beyond.

Kickstarter works fine if you do some research into the project to see who exactly is getting the money, what they're using it for, if they have some kind of experience or name to uphold, etc. Not fool proof but at the very least if I click on a project and think "hmm, video is shite, there's only sketches and concept art, and the tiers suck ass too" no way would I pledge in the first place.

 

[ZackieChan]

The power of Weebs

 

[Kenstar]

I wonder if the towels are legit made in small batches or just some cheap Japanese towels with their label printed on it
what the towels really need is some kanji on it like &#39340;&#40575;

And a cool mascot character like so:

 

[Mendrox]

There's a competing one as well
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shanemonson/onsen-bath-towels-redefined

wtf

Gotta start my own kickstarter soon

 

[RoadHazard]

It's beyond me why anyone would back shit like this in the first place. It's a towel! Just go out and buy one.

 

[TheBryanJZX90]

Towels in Japan are fucking horrible anyway. Too small.

 

[freenudemacusers]

If you want to buy premium towels just go to restoration hardware like a normal person.

 

[Aselith]

Don't give money to projects with nothing to show

 

[Messofanego]

Average pledge of $88... I'm baffled.

Initially I wanted a good Japanese Towel and the video looked decent. Didn't think too much of it since I like to early back a project for a cheaper price and leave if I feel like it's a scam. Usually these companies will do updates with their content to show that they actually have their product but in this instance. It was all sketches lol I'm like how can you not have a photo or video of your latest products. This was a project that I backed in the spur of the moment and will back out. The only reason I still have it backed so I can continue to make comments on the project. I have reported to kickstarter. Not sure what else to do. I was hoping I wasn't just being paranoid about the product being a scam. I NEVER expected the campaign to blow up this big when I first backed it. It's ridiculous amount for towels I know lol

Dude, how much did you back it for if average pledge is that much? Please don't tell me over $20...

 

[Glass Shark]

I used to love Kickstarter, but in the past few years it's become almost total garbage outside of board games and video games. People post crappy stuff up there, run Facebook ads via shady "Kickstarter marketing" companies, and uninformed people pay for it thinking it's like a pre-order. Kickstarter itself has no incentive to shut these down because it makes them more money.

 

[Raxious]

They sent out an update earlier today, and been replying to comments in the comment section.

 

[kmfdmpig]

Looks legit. I mean it's samurai approved. :/

The Japanese have been perfecting the art of towel making for hundreds of years. Used by the high class of society in the 17th Century including the Samurai. They still carry on this tradition focusing on superior craftsmanship and simplicity.

It's not like it's impossible to buy existing Japanese towels, anyway.

https://www.amazon.co.jp/s/ref=nb_s...タカナ&url=search-alias=aps&field-keywords=towel

They'll ship to the US, although it's obviously not cheap to do so.

 

[fierrotlepou]

They sent out an update earlier today, and been replying to comments in the comment section.

Oh, well I guess it's legit. It's still a scam though.

 

[ReAxion]

what on earth was convincing enough to volunteer money for this.

 

[theWB27]

It's probably money laundering

ironic because it's towels

Underrated

 

[Daniel Jackson]

Always be careful.
So far, only 1 kickstarter I backed (out of about 20), was probably a scam.

 

[Jzero]

Every kickstarter is basically a scam until you get something delivered to your door.