I recently attempted to pledge money to someone's Kickstarter project, honestly just so I could get a copy of their book to give away as a present, I wasn't even a little interested in it, considering it was being self-published and really doesn't give me any way of knowing that it's worth reading, but that's beside the point. Well my purchases have been a little less than conservative this month, and it ended up being the camel that broke the straws back, and maxed out my credit card. I got roughly 10 emails from Amazon telling me to do something about it. So I pay my bill, and then I tell my significant other, for whom I am getting this book that something went wrong. We have a discussion about money, and she decides it's not really worth either of us spending money on each other when we have such economic hardship ahead of us what with my spiraling descent into college debt and inevitable unemployment. So I go on Kickstarter the next day to pull my pledge.
I can't find the goddamn rounded rectangle button that says "I CAN'T GIVE YOU THIRTY DOLLARS ANYMORE." I look on the help page, and they do say I can do this, it's discouraged, but my circumstances are special, since I don't actually care if this project succeeds or not. Well the emails are threatening me to do something by the 11th, so I say screw it, if I do nothing, they won't charge me, so I'm good.
WELL WHAT DO YOU KNOW KICKSTARTER, I GET AN EMAIL TODAY SAYING MY PAYMENT WENT THROUGH AS SCHEDULED. FANTASTIC. NOW I GET A BOOK NO ONE WANTS. I'M JUST GOING TO DONATE IT TO THE LIBRARY, HE'LL PROBABLY APPRECIATE THAT I DO THAT.
Don't donate it to the lib! I'll Take it!!! We can share it. =]
ReplyDeleteI love how frickin hard it is for me to comment on your post. I have to log into like 3 different accounts because Blogspot decides that two of my usernames arent good enough to leave a comment.
ReplyDeleteOR let me read it and then use it for CMWD
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