I'll admit I'm a horrible person. Reading the news section of the site is so entertaining. In the latest they're seeking help with donating books and name dropped the dude that he was forced to fire. So people are crap, don't matter the color of your skin or if you're just like him. LOL
He’s asking for help on the shipping costs for the donations when the pledge level stated Coyote and Crow would take care of that shipping. That would seem to violate the terms of the pledge, and reflects poor planning on his part. He would seem to now have about 5,000 books that he’s paying storage for, but doesn’t have the funds to ship. The Kickstarter is effectively broke because it lacks the funds to fulfill its obligations, and if he doesn’t get the money to start shipping those books soon he’s going to either be going into debt, or he’ll have to abandon/destroy the books. This is not looking like a success. So yeah, raising a million dollars doesn’t prevent one from going broke. In fact, the appearance of success can be a trap.
Ding, ding, ding, ding...we have a winner. Just because they raised over one million really doesn't mean shite when the kickstarter was poorly run, then exacerbated by rising costs.
—3,212 pledged $100 for 2 copies. 1 to the backer who’d pay the shipping cost for their copy, and the other copy to a reservation with CC taking on that shipping cost. If I’m generous his costs were 60% (he had a lot of people he paid to work on this, and in his Wokeness 1 of his pledge levels he said he’d make sure to pay them well) out of that $100, $60 went to production, $40 are left, but he has to pay shipping out of that $40. That’s not just the cost of the postage, but the labor for someone to pack it, the mailer used to pack it, delivering all those to the post office, etc.
—947 pledged at $50 for donation of 1 book only. He has to cover the shipping for all those.
—6,496 pledged at $50 for 1 book, that leaves it up to the backer to decide if it’s a donation or not. If it’s being donated, again he has to eat the shipping.
He says he has about 5,000 donations (5,000 left? Was he able to send some of the donations, and he’s down to the last 5,000?) Out of the above numbers it seems at least about 900 in that last category of 6,496 backers chose to donate, maybe more. I’m guessing there was a ton of guilt-ridden Woke white people that backed, but chose to donate the book for that sweet feeling of virtue. In doing so, they stuck him with the billing, and the Woke are wrecking his project due to their virtue-signaling. That could explain his bitter post where he begged/shamed white people to buy his book, and (this is important) put it on THEIR shelf. The last thing he needs now is another wave of Woke white people sending him money for books to be donated to a reservation. That’s killing his business. His original guilt trip and shaming of whites has blown up in his face.