Reaper is doing another miniature kickstarter. Their first two had a goal of $30k and got ~$3.4 mil. It's an amazing deal with great customer service. Get 200+ D&D minis for $100. Check it out: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1513061270/reaper-miniatures-bones-3-the-se...

That's fucking brilliant! Get a cheap injection molding setup (or a 3D printer), make all this shit for pennies a pop, "give" them away in a kickstarter campaign.

Pretty basic business case, except for the fact that they didn't sell anything (no sales tax), didn't receive any income - only investments (no income tax). Oh, and they don't have to make a single product until they're paid, and if they fail to ship, oh well, it was just a pledge prize.

Fucking genius. I figure out of that $3.4m, $3.0m was solid profit.

Strakeln wrote on Jul 19^th, 2015 at 7:33pm:



probably $3.35m profit.  kickstarter is a license to scam.

I've been trying to tell my wife that she needs to get into this online tchotsky business. Shit like that is huge when you can reach 6 billion people. Personalized cookie cutters, custom crayons, t-shirts, pictures printed on <mugs/wood/t-shirts/whatever>. The trick has always been how to get exposure. This group solved that puzzle, for a little while at least.

$5m in sales in total.
These same mini customers are potential DDO customers looking to turn their DnD experience into a visual medium.....

Turdbine - those potential customers just dropped $1.5m in a few days....
(And no I'm not recommending you sell minis!)

I just swung by the Reaper Kickstarter to see how it went, and it is still going.

I also just noticed that you pay now for delivery in October 2016.....   WTF?

How long does it take to print plastic fracking minis?

They have $3M in the bank from last time, and we're expected to believe they need these seed funds to design and make the new minis.  They also have a perfectly viable operating business selling metal minis - why do they need seed funds?  Do they end up selling these plastic minis lines as well?  This is just another marketing channel to suck you into thinking you're getting a great special deal.

They already have the bloody prototype minis designed as they're in the pics - all they need to do is create the molds/templates and start printing.   What a scam - I thought you get them in Oct 2015.

So they have almost $2M in pledges that they can now invest and earn interest on whilst they holiday in the Maldives, pay some Chinese kid 12c/day to make the casting molds and then send an SMS to China in Aug/Sept 2016 to start prodn and have delivery by Oct 2016.

Very nice.  I need to get myself a kickstarter project - there are at least 11,700 potential suckers out there......

Bobbicus wrote on Jul 24^th, 2015 at 2:17pm:


I have no problem with making a profit, but not sure that kickstarts is the place to do that.
Kick starter is supposed to help you get off the ground, and then you make a profit.

Making plastic minis does not take 12-15 months......

DropBear wrote on Jul 24^th, 2015 at 11:35pm:


Tell that to the order of the stick douche who raked in over a MILLLLLION dollars drawing shitty stick figures on the web.  the 'hurt his hand' and couldn't honor the pledge rewards for... I dunno... a year or so.

you think even 10% of that went to 'production' costs?  shit he even bought a new house!