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  1. Pretty much all of the comments from the failed Indiegogo campaign, "WEDG: the personal cloud you've been waiting for." These comments end at about June 29th, 2017 4PM GMT. There may be news ones after this, but I did not capture them in this text.
  2.  
  3. See https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/wedg-the-personal-cloud-you-ve-been-waiting-for#/
  4.  
  5. http://wedg.co/ (redirects to twitter)
  6. https://twitter.com/wearewedg (a rant page using the official Wedg twitter address)
  7.  
  8. Background: Wedg ran an unsuccessful Kickstarter but soon after re-opened the project on Indiegogo. The Indiegogo campaign was fully funded and ran without issue until RIGHT AFTER CLOSE when Wedg revealed that they had been under legal duress - seems that one of their employees was still considered under contract by a former employer - "garden leave," as it was called - and all code written by said employee belonged to former employer.
  9.  
  10. This third party was never named, and only the most minimal of details were given. Nothing appeared amiss for a while, but updates slowly dwindled, Wedg had to leave their digs at Innospace (a hot-desk startup space at Manchester U) and things became quiet. The address changed to a tax accountant's office in Manchester. There was some noise that Wedg's business insurer said "enough" and quit, that the lawsuits had been somewhat resolved, and things may proceed again. No one is really sure that happened.
  11.  
  12. The campaign primary owner changed to an unknown person and company who's address is a hotdesk at Uber Office. The campaign page changed to remove the original PR firm's logo that was involved with the funding. The twitter feed for Wedg was closed and deleted, and the website Wedg.co was turned off and released back into the pool (a backer has those now and uses them for a rant and keep-together page.) Indiegogo started closing help requests relating to Wedg without any response.
  13.  
  14. The comments below reveal that the backers are questioning the campaign's legitimacy and status, but no answers seem to be forthcoming. The only thing certain is the money appears to be gone.
  15.  
  16.  
  17.  
  18. Comments begin here:
  19.  
  20.  
  21. Marc Solondz
  22.  
  23. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8716841> 7 days ago
  24.  
  25. IGG doesn’t care about this. They received their cut of the money. If
  26. they had any integrity they would at least refund us their share of the
  27. profit. It’s only a small percentage for each of us but it would go a
  28. long way as a gesture of good faith.
  29.  
  30.  
  31.  
  32.  
  33. Marc Solondz
  34.  
  35. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8716841> 7 days ago
  36.  
  37. 5 months since the last bogus update. No news is not good news.
  38.  
  39.  
  40.  
  41.  
  42. Bryan Walker
  43.  
  44. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 15 days ago
  45.  
  46. @Scott McQueen – nothing new except the domain wedg.co and twitter
  47. account wearewedg were dropped. I have both now. This project is dead,
  48. dead, dead.
  49.  
  50.  
  51.  
  52.  
  53. Scott McQueen
  54.  
  55. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8443500> 15 days ago
  56.  
  57. Still here… I pop by now and again to see how the project is getting
  58. along LOL
  59.  
  60. What a total joke!
  61.  
  62.  
  63.  
  64.  
  65. Bryan Walker
  66.  
  67. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 1 month ago
  68.  
  69. @Ian Cockburn, I received the same canned response about a year ago.
  70. Indienono is totally useless when it comes to making the campaign
  71. creator talk – it would surprise me if they had a valid email address at
  72. this point.
  73.  
  74.  
  75.  
  76.  
  77. Gaston Cardey
  78.  
  79. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8821945> 1 month ago
  80.  
  81. Obviously, they wash theirs hands. “Start a campaign and get away with
  82. the money!”
  83. IGG: YOU HAVE RESPONSIBILITY IN THIS.
  84.  
  85.  
  86.  
  87.  
  88. Ian Cockburn
  89.  
  90. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/1720386> 1 month ago
  91.  
  92. @Bryan Walker
  93.  
  94. "
  95. However, our minimum expectation is that a campaign owner is transparent
  96. to contributors about the status of their project by posting updates to
  97. their campaign. We will be reaching out to them directly to urge them to
  98. post an update. While we can’t force them to post an update, if they
  99. continue to remain unresponsive, you can use our Terms of Use to take
  100. legal action against the campaigner. "
  101.  
  102.  
  103.  
  104.  
  105. Ian Cockburn
  106.  
  107. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/1720386> 1 month ago
  108.  
  109. @Bryan Walker they did the same with mine. I have reopened it and it was
  110. escalated to Trust and Safety.
  111.  
  112. “As with any early-stage project, crowdfunding campaigns may take
  113. unexpected turns, which can include changes, delays or unforeseen
  114. challenges. While your contribution helps to bring something new closer
  115. to reality, there is always the risk that a project may end up falling
  116. through, and that the campaign owner may not be able to deliver the
  117. perks they’d originally offered.”
  118.  
  119.  
  120.  
  121.  
  122. Bryan Walker
  123.  
  124. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 1 month ago
  125.  
  126. I see Indiegogo has marked my message detailing Wedg’s lack of web
  127. presence as “solved” without even a . I guess this scam project
  128. truly is dead.
  129.  
  130.  
  131.  
  132.  
  133. Bryan Walker
  134.  
  135. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 1 month ago
  136.  
  137. @Gaston Cardey, I don’t know of anyone close to that area. From what I
  138. could tell, there are some UK backers here, but I don’t know anyone
  139. specifically.
  140.  
  141.  
  142.  
  143.  
  144. Gaston Cardey
  145.  
  146. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8821945> 1 month ago
  147.  
  148. @Bryan Walker, I was about to build a page plenty of “scam” in the
  149. background and was to tell the history of this notorious scam.
  150. I’m sure that there are some really good and respectful entrepreneurs in
  151. IGG, but how can we trust?
  152. I’d like to go to UK to confront this guys (like I have a chance to do
  153. that). Do you know if there are some backers living in UK or near
  154. Manchester?
  155.  
  156.  
  157.  
  158.  
  159. Bryan Walker
  160.  
  161. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 1 month ago
  162.  
  163. @Gaston Cardey But, having said that, if you have a better use for the
  164. website please let me know – I’m more than happy to point it towards a
  165. new page.
  166.  
  167.  
  168.  
  169.  
  170. Bryan Walker
  171.  
  172. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 1 month ago
  173.  
  174. @Gaston Cardey, It became painfully apparent to me some time ago that
  175. Indiegogo has no (by their own rules) desire to do anything more than
  176. provide a platform to collect money. They don’t have to care because
  177. there is no accountability. They have their money. The fact that the
  178. campaign fleeced us of funds – by bad intentions or bad luck, we’ll
  179. never truly know – is nothing that they are ever going to care about. At
  180. least, not until the money stops because of said bad press!
  181.  
  182.  
  183.  
  184.  
  185. Bryan Walker
  186.  
  187. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 1 month ago
  188.  
  189. @Gaston Cardey, It is kind of disturbing to see both the domain and
  190. twitter cancelled, that seems to indicate that Wedg considers itself to
  191. be a dead project. The domain, maybe – that costs money, but the twitter
  192. account is free. I guess they don’t want any evidence laying around?
  193.  
  194. It is amusing to see all of the links and whatnot now pointing to the
  195. twitter rant.
  196.  
  197.  
  198.  
  199.  
  200. Gaston Cardey
  201.  
  202. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8821945> 1 month ago
  203.  
  204. @bryan walker, You’re my hero! I was about to buy that domain, but you
  205. won the race!
  206. These guys really are amazing. And IGG can’t support this kind of theft
  207. in their platform. But they do.
  208.  
  209.  
  210.  
  211.  
  212. Bryan Walker
  213.  
  214. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 1 month ago
  215.  
  216. 3 of the 4 projects that Blazon PR helped on kickstarter didn’t deliver
  217. – the fourth seems to have delivered for the most part, but still has a
  218. lot of no-shows and complaints about short product life.
  219.  
  220. https://www.indiegogo.com/partners/BlazonPR
  221.  
  222.  
  223.  
  224.  
  225. Bryan Walker
  226.  
  227. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 1 month ago
  228.  
  229. I love how all wedg.co and @wearewedg now direct to the rant page.
  230.  
  231.  
  232.  
  233.  
  234. Bryan Walker
  235.  
  236. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 1 month ago
  237.  
  238. Actually, I sent it to the twitter page. Better for today’s audience.
  239.  
  240.  
  241.  
  242.  
  243. Bryan Walker
  244.  
  245. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 1 month ago
  246.  
  247. wedg.co is registered and now points here.
  248.  
  249.  
  250.  
  251.  
  252. Bryan Walker
  253.  
  254. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 1 month ago
  255.  
  256. Check out our new twitter page! https://twitter.com/wearewedg
  257.  
  258.  
  259.  
  260.  
  261. Bryan Walker
  262.  
  263. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 1 month ago
  264.  
  265. The twitter account, @wearewedg, appears to be dead too. That’s now mine
  266. as well.
  267.  
  268.  
  269.  
  270.  
  271. Bryan Walker
  272.  
  273. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 1 month ago
  274.  
  275. All,
  276.  
  277. I now own WEDG.CO – which tells me this project has no intention of
  278. completing.
  279.  
  280. I believe I can force a simple redirect on the name through the host, so
  281. if someone wanted to create a webpage that I could point it to – let’s talk.
  282.  
  283.  
  284.  
  285.  
  286. Bryan Walker
  287.  
  288. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 1 month ago
  289.  
  290. @Rémi
  291.  
  292. It does now. I just bought it.
  293.  
  294.  
  295.  
  296.  
  297. Rémi
  298.  
  299. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/9463606> 2 months ago
  300.  
  301. The domain name wedge.co does not exists anymore.
  302.  
  303.  
  304.  
  305.  
  306. moelliott
  307.  
  308. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8707340> 2 months ago
  309.  
  310. I do, however, see that I can create a fictional product, and skip away
  311. with £100,000 of cash fleeced from trusting backers. I’ll remember that
  312. if I’m ever in dire need of a cash injection, knowing full well that any
  313. fraud perpetuated won’t be acted upon. (6)
  314.  
  315.  
  316.  
  317.  
  318. moelliott
  319.  
  320. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8707340> 2 months ago
  321.  
  322. The fact that Indiegogo has shrugged off legitimate complaints, pacified
  323. by clear subterfuge on behalf of Wedg and it’s vague, anonymous, and
  324. ghostly staff via empty and infrequent updates. From what I gather from
  325. the rest of my fellow disappointed backers, you have been pathetic.
  326.  
  327. So guess what? There’s no reason for me to visit Indiegogo, as there is
  328. no protection, support, or accountability enforced in your platform. (5)
  329.  
  330.  
  331.  
  332.  
  333. moelliott
  334.  
  335. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8707340> 2 months ago
  336.  
  337. I backed the WEDG
  338. (https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/wedg-the-personal-butt-you-ve-been-waiting-for/x/8707340#/)
  339. project along with many other people. Like many other people we have
  340. been ripped off. Now, I understand that this is part and parcel of the
  341. platform, and that backing projects is not risk free.
  342.  
  343. However, read through the comments section of that project, I implore
  344. you. The fact that we’ve all been ripped off is annoying, yes, and those
  345. feelings are made clear. (4)
  346.  
  347.  
  348.  
  349.  
  350. moelliott
  351.  
  352. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8707340> 2 months ago
  353.  
  354. real use, warning anyone that stumbles upon this page as a ‘Here be
  355. dragons’ missive, but to add my tuppence to the mix, here’s my message
  356. to IG in full:
  357.  
  358. Hi,
  359.  
  360. I received an email from you this morning, cheerfully informing me that
  361. “It’s been a while since you’ve visited Indiegogo” and asking the –
  362. “Would You Like to Start Raising Money?” The inference of course, that
  363. Indiegogo is a wonderful platform for doing so. (3)
  364.  
  365.  
  366.  
  367.  
  368. moelliott
  369.  
  370. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8707340> 2 months ago
  371.  
  372. Must admit though, it did push my buttons somewhat. So I fired back a
  373. missive through their customer support service – as pointless a task as
  374. I can imagine – and vented my frustrations over this project. It made me
  375. feel better at least; I’ve long since been resigned to having lost £250
  376. on this piece of vapourware, but that casual email enquiring as to why
  377. I’ve not a happy regular user of IG’s platform caused me the need to
  378. have my say. As a cautionary tale, it’s way too late to be of any (2)
  379.  
  380.  
  381.  
  382.  
  383. moelliott
  384.  
  385. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8707340> 2 months ago
  386.  
  387. Hello all, long term backer (all the way back to the failed Kickstarter)
  388. and long term lurker here, and I’ve stayed quiet, knowing that I might
  389. as well be screaming into a cave to register my dissatisfaction.
  390. However, I received an email from Indiegogo this morning, entitled
  391. ‘Start raising money with Indiegogo’ Some of you may have received the
  392. same. The email itself was a cheerful reminder that I hadn’t visited in
  393. a while, the usual vacuous platitudes served up in any advertising copy. (1)
  394.  
  395.  
  396.  
  397.  
  398. Bryan Walker
  399.  
  400. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 2 months ago
  401.  
  402. Indiegogo and Wedg Suck.
  403.  
  404.  
  405.  
  406.  
  407. Bryan Walker
  408.  
  409. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 2 months ago
  410.  
  411. Yep. Marked “Solved” with no input at all, about 2 hours ago (about
  412. 2100UTC).
  413.  
  414. Indiegogo simply doesn’t care once the money changes hands, and it’s
  415. pretty obvious that they’re not going to do anything to help.
  416.  
  417. So, Ladies and Gentlemen, I consider my money to be stolen.
  418. Unfortunately, authorities aren’t going to open an international case
  419. for US$300. Guess it sucks to be me (and you.)
  420.  
  421.  
  422.  
  423.  
  424. Bryan Walker
  425.  
  426. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 2 months ago
  427.  
  428. Dropped another note to Indiegogo about Wedg. Got this in my email:
  429.  
  430. “Please note, we’ve recently received an increased number of requests,
  431. and as a result, it may take us a little longer than normal to respond.
  432. We apologize in advance for the inconvenience.”
  433.  
  434. Really. People getting pissed at not even getting so much as a “Fuck
  435. You” from campaigns, perhaps?
  436.  
  437.  
  438.  
  439.  
  440. Bryan Walker
  441.  
  442. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 2 months ago
  443.  
  444. Over 3 months since the last update. Indiegogo has written this project
  445. off, as they close tickets without even ing. Where should we hold
  446. the funeral for this project?
  447.  
  448.  
  449.  
  450.  
  451. Bryan Walker
  452.  
  453. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 2 months ago
  454.  
  455. @dbrissenden, I reached out to a number of UK entities some time ago.
  456. The only thing they could tell me is that since I wasn’t a UK resident,
  457. all they could do was note my query.
  458.  
  459.  
  460.  
  461.  
  462. dbrissenden
  463.  
  464. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8114757> 2 months ago
  465.  
  466. I’ve had enough of this deceit so I have reported to ActionFraud for
  467. them to decide whether there is a case to answer to.
  468. I would urge anyone who believes this is a fraud to do the same at
  469. http://www.actionfraud.police.uk/report-a-fraud-including-online-crime
  470. I provided them with as much information as I was able to regarding when
  471. the money was taken, lack of communication, refusal to engage with
  472. backers along with the new companies which have cropped up, mysterious
  473. name changing etc….
  474.  
  475.  
  476.  
  477.  
  478. jrogers31
  479.  
  480. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> 3 months ago
  481.  
  482. @Ian Cockburn -as mentioned 4 months ago -Carol Bohm-Scott is a
  483. ghost/fictional character (allegedly) in a game being played to
  484. obfuscate matters relating to WEDG and the whereabouts of OUR MONEY. A
  485. company has been created with an address at a hot desk office – I bet if
  486. you turned up at the address you would not find any evidence of the
  487. company ever having been there other than having paid one months rent.
  488. Unfortunately, we need a backer with friends in low places to sort this
  489. out. (allegedly)
  490.  
  491.  
  492.  
  493.  
  494. Ian Cockburn
  495.  
  496. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/1720386> 3 months ago
  497.  
  498. And looking up the details of his new company, it seems to be in exactly
  499. the same place as Wedg was.. at the Innospace MMU Business Incubator.
  500. Has anyone managed to find out anything about Montrose Innovations and
  501. Carol Bohm-Scott ?
  502.  
  503.  
  504.  
  505.  
  506. Ian Cockburn
  507.  
  508. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/1720386> 3 months ago
  509.  
  510. Based on this, I do wonder how much work/legal meetings were actually
  511. carried out on Wedg, or were we just fed lies and have been scammed?
  512. Given that it’s been now 2 months since the last communication…
  513.  
  514.  
  515.  
  516.  
  517. Ian Cockburn
  518.  
  519. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/1720386> 3 months ago
  520.  
  521. It seems that Mr. Afzal is not longer with Wedg (having left Nov 2016).
  522. Currently running Indiefalcon Limited a mobile app developer (since July
  523. 2016). This is according to his
  524. https://www.linkedin.com/in/shehbazafzal/. On further searching, it
  525. seems that Indiefalcon was something that he has had on the backburner
  526. for a while – marketing reported posted Feb 4, 2016 –
  527. https://www.slideshare.net/JakeStainton/indiefalcon-project-report.
  528.  
  529.  
  530.  
  531.  
  532. Mark Brown
  533.  
  534. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3433405> 3 months ago
  535.  
  536. :(
  537.  
  538.  
  539.  
  540.  
  541. Bryan Walker
  542.  
  543. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 3 months ago
  544.  
  545. Well, since the goons@gogo have abandoned us, and Wedg has fed us
  546. nothing but fluff for four months – is this project dead? Can we call it
  547. a scam for reals now?
  548.  
  549.  
  550.  
  551.  
  552. Bryan Walker
  553.  
  554. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 3 months ago
  555.  
  556. My request is marked “solved” as well. No explanation or .
  557.  
  558. Seems that our friends and Indienono have washed their hands of us and
  559. this bad project. I guess this means that everyone who backed the
  560. project lost their hard-earned cash.
  561.  
  562. Bryan Walker
  563.  
  564. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 3 months ago
  565. *at Indienono, that is. It's quite late and words aren't working at the
  566. moment.
  567.  
  568.  
  569.  
  570. Nikolai Tesla
  571.  
  572. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> 3 months ago
  573.  
  574. Interesting enough. I opened up my request four days ago and recently
  575. Indiegogo decided to set it to a “SOLVED” status without any
  576. explanation. I have opened a new request for them to explain this “new”
  577. way of handling requests from backers. My suggestion to others whom have
  578. submitted recent requests to Indiegogo is to check the status.
  579.  
  580.  
  581.  
  582.  
  583. Nikolai Tesla
  584.  
  585. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> 4 months ago
  586.  
  587. Interesting article from BBC but Bryan is right on his conclusion. The
  588. best bet is to continue to pressure them as we are doing. I have
  589. submitted my complaint Email to the ignorant Indie-no-no staff.
  590.  
  591.  
  592.  
  593.  
  594. Bryan Walker
  595.  
  596. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 4 months ago
  597.  
  598. @rickyfew The spectrum campaign was still being funded, which is why IGG
  599. could shut it down.
  600.  
  601. Our money has floated away into the void of bad venture capital.
  602.  
  603. It sounds like its time for everyone to write another complaint email to
  604. the goons at gogo. If we do this every month, maybe they will get the hint…
  605.  
  606.  
  607.  
  608.  
  609. rickyfews
  610.  
  611. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/9005627> 4 months ago
  612.  
  613. Could there be hope?
  614. http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-39191064
  615.  
  616.  
  617.  
  618.  
  619. Bryan Walker
  620.  
  621. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 4 months ago
  622.  
  623. @Nikolai, I know my wallet certainly came out of the wash clean. What’s
  624. really sad is I’m already considering what to purchase to replace the
  625. device that took the place of Wedg…
  626.  
  627.  
  628.  
  629.  
  630. Nikolai Tesla
  631.  
  632. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> 4 months ago
  633.  
  634. The same wash cycle. Cleanse, fold and manipulate Indiegogo to shut us
  635. up! This needs to stop.
  636.  
  637.  
  638.  
  639.  
  640. Bryan Walker
  641.  
  642. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 4 months ago
  643.  
  644. As we come upon another month, one wonders if Wedg will supply us with
  645. another basket of dryer fluff…
  646.  
  647.  
  648.  
  649.  
  650. Bryan Walker
  651.  
  652. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 5 months ago
  653.  
  654. @Philipp Stäheli, whatever they had at the start of the campaign has
  655. already reached that point. I do feel really bad for the one backer that
  656. dropped £3000 on this dead turkey.
  657.  
  658.  
  659.  
  660.  
  661. Philipp Stäheli
  662.  
  663. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8723017> 5 months ago
  664.  
  665. By the time they pull through with the project the hardware will be so
  666. outdated it can go right in a museeum. (also filed under scam / bullshit
  667. / please fuck me over)
  668.  
  669.  
  670.  
  671.  
  672. jrogers31
  673.  
  674. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> 5 months ago
  675.  
  676. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anwy2MPT5RE a possible Wedg sing along
  677. video just change the p to c in the word spam. Funny how the shape of
  678. the Wedg unit resembles the Viking helmet without the horns. Any backers
  679. with video skills who can create a parody video to the sound track using
  680. multiple images of the Wedg unit with horns attached and upload it to
  681. Youtube? It may get some much needed publicity to highlight the disgrace
  682. that is Team Wedg.
  683.  
  684.  
  685.  
  686.  
  687. Scott McQueen
  688.  
  689. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8443500> 5 months ago
  690.  
  691. Seriously, could these updates be any more vague?
  692.  
  693.  
  694.  
  695.  
  696. Bryan Walker
  697.  
  698. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 5 months ago
  699.  
  700. @rickyfews, your best bet would be contact paypal directly. Point them
  701. towards the comments, explain the mess that’s happened here. If you go
  702. back far enough someone (sorry forget the name) posted a PDF copy of
  703. their “We’re in legal trouble letter.”
  704.  
  705.  
  706.  
  707.  
  708. jrogers31
  709.  
  710. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> 5 months ago
  711.  
  712. Latest update – more unverifiable tripe. “While many of you feel the
  713. project is a scam…” nothing can be closer to the truth would be more
  714. apt. If this is not a scam the writer of the update should properly
  715. Identify themselves and provide verifiable evidence to support what is
  716. being said. If the writer, aka Team Wedg does not then logic would
  717. dictate that it is a scam.
  718.  
  719.  
  720.  
  721.  
  722. guillaume
  723.  
  724. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6772792> 5 months ago
  725.  
  726. I’ve joined the troops to find out the truth about all this. I’ve just
  727. sent an email to IGG. I think if more and more backers do the same we
  728. might be able to speed things up.
  729.  
  730. Next step for me will probably be reporting the fraud to UK gov
  731. (suggested by @Nikolai Tesla
  732. https://www.sfo.gov.uk/contact-us/reporting-serious-fraud-bribery-corruption/
  733. and @Cosmarchy in his open email to WEDG http://pastebin.com/JQR0FD1N)
  734.  
  735. Keep you posted about any IGG answer…
  736.  
  737. guillaume
  738.  
  739. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6772792> 5 months ago
  740. Here is the IGG (automated) answer: “Thanks for reaching out. While perk
  741. offers are made and managed by campaign owners, we at Indiegogo expect
  742. campaign owners to communicate regularly with their contributors. I am
  743. sorry to see that this has not been the case with this campaign. We will
  744. send a message to the campaign owner to remind them of their
  745. responsibilities to keep you and backers updated on the status of their
  746. project. In addition, I encourage you to get in touch with them directly. …”
  747.  
  748.  
  749.  
  750. sattler
  751.  
  752. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8272012> 5 months ago
  753.  
  754. Although I don’t really believe this is a scam, I do think someone
  755. screwed up big time. Really frustrating to bury that much money.
  756. Actually I really needed such a device two years ago. Now I don’t
  757. anymore as I had to find other solutions. Most expesive paperweight of
  758. my life.
  759.  
  760.  
  761.  
  762.  
  763. Gordon Keys
  764.  
  765. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8335278> 5 months ago
  766.  
  767. Another update that tells us nothing!
  768.  
  769.  
  770.  
  771.  
  772. rickyfews
  773.  
  774. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/9005627> 5 months ago
  775.  
  776. Hi, does anyone know what the chances are of getting a refund if the
  777. payment was made through PayPal?
  778.  
  779. Thanks,
  780.  
  781.  
  782.  
  783.  
  784. Nikolai Tesla
  785.  
  786. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> 5 months ago
  787.  
  788. I added my drop into the bucket against this scam. I have also found
  789. this valuable option to report this scam to the UK Serious Fraud Office:
  790.  
  791. https://www.sfo.gov.uk/contact-us/reporting-serious-fraud-bribery-corruption/
  792.  
  793.  
  794.  
  795.  
  796. Bryan Walker
  797.  
  798. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 5 months ago
  799.  
  800. Yet another email to Indiegogo went a few minutes ago. I suggest
  801. everyone do the same.
  802.  
  803. If you’re in the UK, you may be eligible for a refund under Section 75
  804. of the Consumer Credit Act, if you paid for any portion of the funding
  805. with a credit (not debit) card.
  806.  
  807.  
  808.  
  809.  
  810. Bryan Walker
  811.  
  812. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 5 months ago
  813.  
  814. @dbrissenden The biggest problem with this whole mess is: no
  815. accountability once the money has been paid.
  816.  
  817. Indiegogo just says “LOL” and Wedg doesn’t exist…
  818.  
  819.  
  820.  
  821.  
  822. dbrissenden
  823.  
  824. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8114757> 5 months ago
  825.  
  826. Looks like we aren’t the only ones who are trying to find out info….
  827. http://pastebin.com/JQR0FD1N
  828.  
  829.  
  830.  
  831.  
  832. Nikolai Tesla
  833.  
  834. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> 5 months ago
  835.  
  836. As long as we still put pressure against Indiegogo and WEDG/SHEHBAZ
  837. AFZAL something will have to give. Definitely without a doubt this is a
  838. scam and I will not rest until the authorities bring to justice the
  839. responsible party.
  840.  
  841.  
  842.  
  843.  
  844. Bryan Walker
  845.  
  846. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 5 months ago
  847.  
  848. And another month begins to slip by…silence on the radio…a desperate cry
  849. on the airwaves, faint, and without power: “Wedg! Where are you?”
  850.  
  851.  
  852.  
  853.  
  854. Bryan Walker
  855.  
  856. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 6 months ago
  857.  
  858. @Gaston Cardey, at this point I can’t believe the update from Wedg was
  859. more than hush money paid to keep Indiegogo from cancelling the campaign.
  860.  
  861. There is absolutely no reason why more frequent updates can’t be given –
  862. it’s not like said director has to report to an office in some far off
  863. city to submit it.
  864.  
  865.  
  866.  
  867.  
  868. Gaston Cardey
  869.  
  870. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8821945> 6 months ago
  871.  
  872. @Bryan Walker. I was thinking exactly the same. And will go an go an go
  873. untill every one of us give up and never come back here.
  874. At least, send me the HDD and will try to use them in any way (2 HDD of
  875. 1 Tb each).
  876. There should be a way for these platforms offer some warranty or
  877. settlement to the poor basterds that fall into a scam like this.
  878.  
  879. Gaston Cardey
  880.  
  881. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8821945> 6 months ago
  882. Oh! The HDD should be NEW, ok? NEW means not refurbished or used. OK?
  883.  
  884.  
  885.  
  886. Bryan Walker
  887.  
  888. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 6 months ago
  889.  
  890. We taking bets on how long before another update? I’m guessing it’s
  891. going to be exactly the amount of time it takes for us to start yelling
  892. at Indiegogo again.
  893.  
  894.  
  895.  
  896.  
  897. Scott McQueen
  898.  
  899. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8443500> 6 months ago
  900.  
  901. @Team Wedg: Thank you for the update but can you go into the a few more
  902. details. We would like to know about the new MD, their interest,
  903. background etc and also about the new team members. Surely a new website
  904. update would be in order and/or a forum where we, the investors could
  905. input our ideas.
  906.  
  907.  
  908.  
  909.  
  910. jrogers31
  911.  
  912. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> 6 months ago
  913.  
  914. @john34754 – as indicated in the comments thread below research suggests
  915. that the new director of the company is a fictional character / ghost /
  916. figment of someones imagination / not real. Smoke and mirrors to
  917. obfuscate the gullible.
  918.  
  919.  
  920.  
  921.  
  922. john34754
  923.  
  924. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8707691> 6 months ago
  925.  
  926. A change of director for me is welcomed and overdue. Rather than bashing
  927. the new director and company I’m going to be positive and hope that
  928. Montrose Innovations can rescue the situation. Carol, please introduce
  929. yourself and the team and what roles you all will play. How do you
  930. intend to move forward? Regular updates are essential to backers
  931. preferably once a week. An update which has very little information or
  932. maybe includes setbacks must still be posted. We need to be kept in the
  933. loop.
  934.  
  935.  
  936.  
  937.  
  938. Gaston Cardey
  939.  
  940. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8821945> 6 months ago
  941.  
  942. They don’t tell you in an open way, but if you read between lines, it’s
  943. perfectly clear: “We can’t do anything, sorry. The campaign owner is
  944. another failure of this crownfunding way. We have another guy who scam
  945. the backers (another and the total goes up to…).
  946. We let that this things happen so others can deliver.”
  947.  
  948.  
  949.  
  950.  
  951. Gaston Cardey
  952.  
  953. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8821945> 6 months ago
  954.  
  955. I’ve got a super-ultra-fantastic answer from IGG!
  956. “In looking at your contribution to the campaign “WEDG: the personal
  957. butt you’ve been waiting for,” I see that your contribution has already
  958. been sent to the campaigner. This means that a refund can no longer be
  959. issued by Indiegogo."
  960. Really? Are you sure about this? Really-really sure?
  961. jjajjaejjajjejajejjejeja
  962.  
  963. See 1 more ...
  964. <https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/wedg-the-personal-cloud-you-ve-been-waiting-for>
  965.  
  966. Gaston Cardey
  967.  
  968. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8821945> 6 months ago
  969. And... "Indiegogo is not able to guarantee that perks will be delivered
  970. or deemed satisfactory. The nature of crowdfunding is such that
  971. campaigns on Indiegogo are raising funds for work-in-progress projects,
  972. ideas, or causes. Contributing to a campaign and claiming a perk on
  973. Indiegogo is not the same as buying something online. Because projects
  974. may still be in their early stages, many things can happen between the
  975. time the project is raising funds and the expected project release date."
  976. Gaston Cardey
  977.  
  978. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8821945> 6 months ago
  979. ... "While your contribution brings the campaign idea closer to becoming
  980. reality, there's always the chance that a project may end up falling
  981. through, and the campaign owner may not be able to offer their
  982. contributors the perks they'd originally promised. If you’re still
  983. interested in receiving a refund, we recommend you get in touch with the
  984. campaign owner directly. Campaign Owner's: Carol Bohm-Scott,
  985. carol.bs@wedg.co" = You're all dumbs and you're scammed. But we (IGG)
  986. have our money.
  987.  
  988.  
  989.  
  990. Bryan Walker
  991.  
  992. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 6 months ago
  993.  
  994. @jrogers31
  995.  
  996. >> I believe that this update has been sent to satisfy Indiegogo only
  997.  
  998. You think? Awfully suspicious that as soon as Indiegogo starts making a
  999. little bit of effort to be more than a fat, lazy slug that does nothing
  1000. more than collect money, our beloved WEDG & CO shits out an update with
  1001. more fluff than a laundromat dryer…
  1002.  
  1003.  
  1004.  
  1005.  
  1006. Nikolai Tesla
  1007.  
  1008. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> 6 months ago
  1009.  
  1010. @ SHEHBAZ AFZAL/WEDG/“CAROL BOHM-SCOTT”: Provide details, in the next 24
  1011. hrs, of such “progress” with names of who is on board to the “new team”,
  1012. address of your “new” London office, pictures & videos of your
  1013. prototypes and work environment, time schedules of deliverables, current
  1014. budget to make this project work, etc. Without these you and this
  1015. “project” are still considered a scam, as such I and many others will
  1016. continue to push Indiegogo, UK authorities and credit card companies
  1017. against you.
  1018.  
  1019.  
  1020.  
  1021.  
  1022. jrogers31
  1023.  
  1024. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> 6 months ago
  1025.  
  1026. Yet another unverifiable update from WEDG. This has always been the
  1027. problem – nothing said in their updates can be confirmed independently.
  1028. I believe that this update has been sent to satisfy Indiegogo only
  1029. (allegedly). No names given of who is in the team. Relocation to London
  1030. – yeah right. Nothing said to address concerns of backers as detailed in
  1031. the comments below. No proof of anything. WEDG are in a hole and they
  1032. still keep digging – still it adds to the evidence when Plod starts
  1033. knocking.
  1034.  
  1035.  
  1036.  
  1037.  
  1038. Johan Wijngaard
  1039.  
  1040. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/2469755> 6 months ago
  1041.  
  1042. Team of “The Wedg”
  1043.  
  1044. At the first have did you have a few happy day’s, if so the good wishes
  1045. for the end off the year.
  1046. But after four month’s it ios time for a new update.
  1047. Please take a moment off your free time to compose a status update.
  1048. A lot off people thing that we lose the money.
  1049. This is one off my bad perk’s/back’s I made, but I still believe in you
  1050. as team that you can make it :)
  1051. I still believe in the product you want to made (host your own storrage
  1052. at home).
  1053. Johan
  1054.  
  1055.  
  1056.  
  1057.  
  1058. Bryan Walker
  1059.  
  1060. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 6 months ago
  1061.  
  1062. @Gaston,
  1063.  
  1064. It took them 4 days to to me. I’m assuming that with the Christmas
  1065. and year-end holidays, you may not get a until early next year.
  1066.  
  1067.  
  1068.  
  1069.  
  1070. Bryan Walker
  1071.  
  1072. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 6 months ago
  1073.  
  1074. If you are in the UK and have paid for any of this item with a credit
  1075. card (not debit) you may be eligible for a refund under Section 75 of
  1076. the Consumer Credit Act of 1974.
  1077.  
  1078.  
  1079.  
  1080.  
  1081. Gaston Cardey
  1082.  
  1083. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8821945> 6 months ago
  1084.  
  1085. Hi, everyone,
  1086. I’ve payed my money on time. It has passed more that two years
  1087. (oct-2014) and still nothing. If (by any miracle) I receive this device,
  1088. I’m probably dissasemble because I won’t trust in any software that this
  1089. scammers produce. Hey guys, have you thought about this?
  1090. The only way for me is my money back.
  1091. I’m so tired of this… I think that we’ll find ourselves in 1 year at the
  1092. same position. Oh! And IndieGogo will respond the same bullshit.
  1093. Two years had gone. £315.
  1094.  
  1095. Gaston Cardey
  1096.  
  1097. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8821945> 6 months ago
  1098. And, of course, to my email sended on december 23rd, no one answered.
  1099. Maybe they're all drunk and naked somewhere. Thank you IndieGoGo for
  1100. erasing the little faith in your service and responsibility. (sorry if I
  1101. mispell some word, I speak in spanish).
  1102.  
  1103.  
  1104.  
  1105. Bryan Walker
  1106.  
  1107. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 6 months ago
  1108.  
  1109. Other than a few responses indicating “Yeah, I wish I’d never seen this
  1110. thing,” I had one angry idiot whom got somewhat pissy with me, asking me
  1111. exactly who did I think I was?
  1112.  
  1113. I told him I was a guy that lost a lot of money on a project that didn’t
  1114. bother to tell me why, and he shut up.
  1115.  
  1116. Bryan Walker
  1117.  
  1118. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 6 months ago
  1119. I see a few others have replied, one of which seems to be another
  1120. backer... Jaypaul, where are you? Why won't you duck us and update?
  1121.  
  1122.  
  1123.  
  1124. Bryan Walker
  1125.  
  1126. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 6 months ago
  1127.  
  1128. @Nikolai
  1129.  
  1130. Indiegogo is responsible in that they do not have ANY requirements once
  1131. the project has closed. They say that the creator is responsible for
  1132. communicating with backers, but to me it sounds like that extends to a
  1133. “please talk to your backers” email to what’s probably a dead address.
  1134.  
  1135. I’ve also been going down through their twitter and looking for messages
  1136. that had other @handles attached to the message, and tweeting things
  1137. indicating that WEDG & Co has fallen off the earth.
  1138.  
  1139.  
  1140.  
  1141.  
  1142. Nikolai Tesla
  1143.  
  1144. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> 6 months ago
  1145.  
  1146. I made sure that Indiegogo is aware that they are the “middleman” to
  1147. this scam. They providing a safe haven and breeding ground for scammers
  1148. to run their “business” without any guarantees to provide anything
  1149. except taking money from good will contributors. I am holding Indiegogo
  1150. partially responsible for allowing this practice.
  1151.  
  1152.  
  1153.  
  1154.  
  1155. Nikolai Tesla
  1156.  
  1157. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> 6 months ago
  1158.  
  1159. @Bryan Walker: In my case, I have only received a generic response from
  1160. Indiegogo that they “will send a message to the campaign owner of WEDG
  1161. to remind them of their responsibilities to keep you and backers updated
  1162. on the status of their project” but they encourage me to contact the
  1163. make believe campaign owner “Carol Bohm-Scott” at the following:
  1164.  
  1165. carol.bs@wedg.co / info@wedg.co
  1166. http://www.wedg.co
  1167. http://www.twitter.com/wearewedg
  1168.  
  1169.  
  1170.  
  1171.  
  1172. Bryan Walker
  1173.  
  1174. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 6 months ago
  1175.  
  1176. @Gaston Cardey
  1177.  
  1178. I find it interesting that Carol is listed as “Male” on that profile.
  1179. Probably an oversight, but it simply adds more WTF to the pot.
  1180.  
  1181. I’d also like everyone to note that the ad agency that Wedg had
  1182. partnered with seems to have vanished from these pages as well.
  1183.  
  1184.  
  1185.  
  1186.  
  1187. Bryan Walker
  1188.  
  1189. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 6 months ago
  1190.  
  1191. I posted a copy of the email I received regarding the project being
  1192. under review here.
  1193.  
  1194. http://imgur.com/a/q6vRW
  1195.  
  1196. Thank you all for taking the time to let Indiegogo have a piece of your
  1197. mind.
  1198.  
  1199.  
  1200.  
  1201.  
  1202. Gaston Cardey
  1203.  
  1204. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8821945> 6 months ago
  1205.  
  1206. Well, following the Bryan’s advice I have write again. After that, I
  1207. started a Google search and found:
  1208. https://www.datocapital.com/uk/ejecutivos/Carol-Bohm_Scott-(1985_1).html
  1209. It’s in spanish, but you can translate easily. It says that we’re
  1210. f***ed. She’s 75% partner and has £ 748, so…
  1211. Anybody near this? 17 Grosvenor Gardens, London, England, SW1W 0BD
  1212. (Correspondence address of Montrose Innovations). The company is listed
  1213. at Companies House under company no. 10344848.
  1214. Tired of all this.
  1215.  
  1216. Gaston Cardey
  1217.  
  1218. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8821945> 6 months ago
  1219. I hope you guys have a Merry Christmas (the ones you believe). And a
  1220. Very Very Happy New Year.
  1221.  
  1222.  
  1223.  
  1224. Bryan Walker
  1225.  
  1226. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 6 months ago
  1227.  
  1228. @Nikolai Tesla
  1229.  
  1230. Awesome. Hopefully more people screaming will do something – anything!
  1231.  
  1232. Just as a note, it took about 4 days to get the initial .
  1233.  
  1234. Bryan Walker
  1235.  
  1236. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 6 months ago
  1237. And even then, I had to respond with the fact that I've tried every
  1238. method of communication I could find relating to Wedg, and all of them
  1239. are closed, empty, or stale. I pointed out the recent principal change,
  1240. the lack of information on this change, and the fact that I contacted
  1241. reviewers and related agencies in Manchester. I pointed out that I got
  1242. nothing other than "Hmmm...." back from some of the reviewers. Nothing
  1243. else...
  1244.  
  1245.  
  1246.  
  1247. Nikolai Tesla
  1248.  
  1249. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> 6 months ago
  1250.  
  1251. @Bryan Walker: Provided my .02 to them. Pending a response with action.
  1252.  
  1253.  
  1254.  
  1255.  
  1256. Bryan Walker
  1257.  
  1258. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 6 months ago
  1259.  
  1260. Indiegogo emailed me back and stated that this campaign is under review.
  1261. What you need to do:
  1262.  
  1263. Log in to your Indiegogo account and go to the contact us section. Pick
  1264. whatever you want, but make sure you let Indiegogo know that Wedg isn’t
  1265. talking, if and when you’ve tried to contact them, and how much money
  1266. you lost on this project. Let them have it, don’t be kind or worry about
  1267. hurting feelings. Bitch, moan, complain, scream, and yell.
  1268.  
  1269.  
  1270.  
  1271.  
  1272. Bryan Walker
  1273.  
  1274. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 6 months ago
  1275.  
  1276. Indiegogo emailed me back and stated that this campaign is under review.
  1277. What you need to do:
  1278.  
  1279. Log in to your Indiegogo account and go to the contact us section. Pick
  1280. whatever you want, but make sure you let Indiegogo know that Wedg isn’t
  1281. talking, if and when you’ve tried to contact them, and how much money
  1282. you lost on this project. Let them have it, don’t be kind or worry about
  1283. hurting feelings. Bitch, moan, complain, scream, and yell.
  1284.  
  1285.  
  1286.  
  1287.  
  1288. Bryan Walker
  1289.  
  1290. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 6 months ago
  1291.  
  1292. Surprise. The minute I get pissy here on Indiemoneystealer, I get a
  1293. in my email. “Oh, there’s nothing we can do, contact them
  1294. directly.” Yeah, well I’ve tried. What the fuck do you think we’ve been
  1295. doing all this time, jerking off?
  1296.  
  1297. And AGAIN. As a reminder, if you are in the UK please please please see
  1298. if you can get this refunded under Section 75 of the Consumer Credit
  1299. Act. Let Wedg know we don’t appreciate this bullshit.
  1300.  
  1301.  
  1302.  
  1303.  
  1304. Bryan Walker
  1305.  
  1306. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 6 months ago
  1307.  
  1308. Just as I suspected, neither Indiegogo or the artificially created Carol
  1309. Bohm-Scott (which I sincerely do not believe is a real person) have
  1310. responded to my requests for more information.
  1311.  
  1312. Both of you are fucking bastards. Go to hell and burn.
  1313.  
  1314.  
  1315.  
  1316.  
  1317. Bryan Walker
  1318.  
  1319. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 6 months ago
  1320.  
  1321. I just checked their twitter page. Last comment is a spam comment as if
  1322. the account got hacked.
  1323.  
  1324.  
  1325.  
  1326.  
  1327. Bryan Walker
  1328.  
  1329. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 6 months ago
  1330.  
  1331. (4 of 4, and end)
  1332.  
  1333. While I doubt this will do anything (in fact, I know it won’t do
  1334. anything other than get me a “we can’t do anything” answer,) well, I’m
  1335. not sure what I’m expecting at this point. Nothing would be the easiest
  1336. thing, and I think just writing this off as a bad investment and not
  1337. backing any more tech devices would be my best bet.
  1338.  
  1339. Indiegogo doesn’t want to do anything, and I don’t understand that.
  1340.  
  1341.  
  1342.  
  1343.  
  1344. Bryan Walker
  1345.  
  1346. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 6 months ago
  1347.  
  1348. (3 of many)
  1349.  
  1350. Can you:
  1351.  
  1352. Force Wedg to talk. Anything, even a “Ha ha, you’re suckers and we’re
  1353. never delivering!” would be preferable to wondering what the ****
  1354. happened to our money.
  1355.  
  1356. Force Wedg, to continue the campaign or refund our money or DO SOMETHING!
  1357.  
  1358.  
  1359.  
  1360.  
  1361. Bryan Walker
  1362.  
  1363. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 6 months ago
  1364.  
  1365. (2 of many)
  1366.  
  1367. By the comments, some people lost money they could not afford to lose in
  1368. a project that won’t even respond to queries from it’s investors.
  1369.  
  1370. Wedg hasn’t updated their twitter in ages. Their website is a
  1371. placeholder. email to various agencies involved with the project go
  1372. unanswered.
  1373.  
  1374.  
  1375.  
  1376.  
  1377. Bryan Walker
  1378.  
  1379. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 6 months ago
  1380.  
  1381. Yet another email to Indiegogo support, although I doubt it’s going to
  1382. do anything. (1 of many)
  1383.  
  1384. Hi. I backed the Wedg project here almost two years ago. Since then,
  1385. Wedg has claimed legal troubles, and has changed the responsible
  1386. individual’s name on the project, as well as apparently removing the
  1387. partner agency they dealt with. We the backers have received no
  1388. communication from Wedg for 4 months. The project is so old that things
  1389. it claims to support (iOS8 and BlackBerry) are no longer things.
  1390.  
  1391.  
  1392.  
  1393.  
  1394. Gaston Cardey
  1395.  
  1396. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8821945> 6 months ago
  1397.  
  1398. Hi everyone,
  1399. As I have mentioned before, we’ve lost our money. But I’d like to say a
  1400. few words to this “Afzal” guy: I live in Colombia, South America and we
  1401. have to multiply x COP 3,761 every British Pound. I’ve lost almost 2
  1402. minimum salary in this.
  1403. It was really hard to earn this money and all I can think is “shame on
  1404. you”. I trust you receive you punishment in this life by some force
  1405. (jail, flat tire in a heavy rain without spare, flood in your home,
  1406. rats, unfaithful couple, etc.).
  1407. Bye, guys.
  1408.  
  1409.  
  1410.  
  1411.  
  1412. Nikolai Tesla
  1413.  
  1414. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> 7 months ago
  1415.  
  1416. @Howard Celnik: Yes, you are correct. Wedg has been eclipsed by many NAS
  1417. providers, dedicated appliances and other startups providing reliable
  1418. services with an actual product. The goal to receive a working “Wedg”
  1419. device expired a long time ago. The issue has been on how to bring
  1420. justice against Mr. Afzal and get a full refund as well.
  1421.  
  1422.  
  1423.  
  1424.  
  1425. Carlos Garcia Conde
  1426.  
  1427. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4819372> 7 months ago
  1428.  
  1429. A NEW SCAM AT INDIEGOGO
  1430. I VE LOST MY MONEY?
  1431.  
  1432.  
  1433.  
  1434.  
  1435. Howard Celnik
  1436.  
  1437. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4274214> 7 months ago
  1438.  
  1439. If they were to deliver today, wouldn’t this already be old technology?
  1440. Would it be selling for less?
  1441.  
  1442.  
  1443.  
  1444.  
  1445. Bryan Walker
  1446.  
  1447. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 7 months ago
  1448.  
  1449. @jrogers31
  1450.  
  1451. The statement I made was more in jest than overlaid with any real hope
  1452. of hearing news. As there has been silence for so long, I doubt there’s
  1453. going to be any news to hear in the coming months.
  1454.  
  1455. Those in the UK can still try to claim a section 75 refund. For the rest
  1456. of us, I think we were playing the fool. I’m not sure if that was the
  1457. intent from the beginning, or if legal troubles erased any possibility
  1458. of this project completing, but it’s dead. Stick a fork in it.
  1459.  
  1460.  
  1461.  
  1462.  
  1463. jrogers31
  1464.  
  1465. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> 7 months ago
  1466.  
  1467. @Bryan Walker – admire your optimism. Your guess is as good as anyone’s
  1468. as to which of the team members (if there were more than one) was the
  1469. last one out of the door. My guess is that Mr Afzal was the last (and
  1470. ?first) out the door. The profile overwrite to Carol Bohm-Scott was
  1471. allegedly intended to mislead. If CB-S exists one would think an update
  1472. would have been forthcoming by now, particularly in light of the
  1473. concerns expressed below. The words Walter Mitty smoke and mirrors come
  1474. to mind.
  1475.  
  1476.  
  1477.  
  1478.  
  1479. Bryan Walker
  1480.  
  1481. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 7 months ago
  1482.  
  1483. There were supposedly some other people on this “team” – would any of
  1484. them like to speak up?
  1485.  
  1486.  
  1487.  
  1488.  
  1489. jrogers31
  1490.  
  1491. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> 7 months ago
  1492.  
  1493. @Heiko Zeller – It occurred to me that we are looking for a
  1494. ghost/fictional character (allegedly) in a game being played to
  1495. obfuscate matters relating to WEDG and the whereabouts of OUR MONEY. It
  1496. would surprise me if £500 per month was being paid to the ‘hot-desk’
  1497. offices at the address below. If it can be shown that C B-S is not a
  1498. real person then I wonder whether a company set up with an allegedly
  1499. fictional director constitutes a crime in English Law or are
  1500. ‘doing-business-as’ names allowed?
  1501.  
  1502.  
  1503.  
  1504.  
  1505. Heiko Zeller
  1506.  
  1507. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8715891> 7 months ago
  1508.  
  1509. 17 Grosvenor Gardens, London, England, SW1W 0BD company exist since
  1510. August 2016. As far as I used Google in the right way this company is a
  1511. one man show. And the Address is connected to a huge number of
  1512. companies. I think shebaz rid of the annoying customers by placing in a
  1513. new postbox company.
  1514.  
  1515.  
  1516.  
  1517.  
  1518. dbrissenden
  1519.  
  1520. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8114757> 7 months ago
  1521.  
  1522. @Scott McQueen,
  1523. The link you provided does not work. I get an access denied error……
  1524.  
  1525.  
  1526.  
  1527.  
  1528. Scott McQueen
  1529.  
  1530. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8443500> 7 months ago
  1531.  
  1532. For information: http://tinyurl.com/zgjtyg4
  1533.  
  1534.  
  1535.  
  1536.  
  1537. Scott McQueen
  1538.  
  1539. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8443500> 7 months ago
  1540.  
  1541. Has anyone managed to find a contact number for Montrose Innovations yet?
  1542.  
  1543.  
  1544.  
  1545.  
  1546. dbrissenden
  1547.  
  1548. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8114757> 7 months ago
  1549.  
  1550. @Scott McQueen,
  1551. “…penning an update for all backers this afternoon and will push it this
  1552. week…”
  1553. They’ve failed again. Sounds like a fob off to me to keep you quiet.
  1554.  
  1555.  
  1556.  
  1557.  
  1558. jrogers31
  1559.  
  1560. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> 7 months ago
  1561.  
  1562. It is very unusual in this day and age for a real person’s name not to
  1563. come up with multiple hits on an internet search. For an individual age
  1564. 31 years in the software business with an uncommon surname one might
  1565. expect a linked-in entry, facebook, twitter, skype etc. The only address
  1566. that comes up is a hot desk address @£500.00 per month. I wonder how
  1567. many months Montrose innovations will be paid-up at this address. No
  1568. update – no response to a request for an update. We need the ghostbusters.
  1569.  
  1570.  
  1571.  
  1572.  
  1573. Bryan Walker
  1574.  
  1575. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 7 months ago
  1576.  
  1577. @dbrissenden
  1578.  
  1579. One other “person” communicated on this project back when I started
  1580. doing daily updates of what I was doing.
  1581.  
  1582. Jaypaul Barrow
  1583. 8 months ago
  1584. Update! Update! Update! Duck me it’s not hard to say. Still working
  1585. guys. Bear with us.
  1586.  
  1587.  
  1588.  
  1589.  
  1590. dbrissenden
  1591.  
  1592. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8114757> 7 months ago
  1593.  
  1594. @Scott McQueen,
  1595. If this is indeed true they had better pull their finger out and
  1596. communicate. I don’t believe there are many here who either believe the
  1597. cock and bull stories or even have much sympathy any longer.
  1598. This is not the way to go about treating the very people who funded what
  1599. ever it is that they ended up funding!!
  1600. As for the profile overwrite, well…. what can I say?
  1601.  
  1602.  
  1603.  
  1604.  
  1605. Scott McQueen
  1606.  
  1607. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8443500> 7 months ago
  1608.  
  1609. Another thing I find strange is that when you click on the ‘individual’
  1610. link for Shehbaz ( https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053/a2e2)
  1611. it takes you to… YES! you guessed it folks – Carol Bohm-Scott. So it’s
  1612. not a new player but a profile overwrite!
  1613.  
  1614.  
  1615.  
  1616.  
  1617. Scott McQueen
  1618.  
  1619. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8443500> 7 months ago
  1620.  
  1621. (3of3) and its typically a little bureaucratic.
  1622.  
  1623. We are penning an update for all backers this afternoon and will push it
  1624. this week.
  1625.  
  1626. I’d like to thank you for your patience and co-operation on behalf of
  1627. the entire WEDG team and hope that you’ll take a compassionate view of
  1628. situation.
  1629.  
  1630. Kind regards
  1631.  
  1632. Lisa
  1633. Team WEDG
  1634.  
  1635.  
  1636.  
  1637.  
  1638. Scott McQueen
  1639.  
  1640. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8443500> 7 months ago
  1641.  
  1642. (2of3)Fortunately, a local and well experienced group of entrepreneurs
  1643. have taken an interest in our situation and have defined an accelerated
  1644. road map for us to move ahead with the project. As well as their
  1645. knowledge and expertise they’re also bringing funding which will help us
  1646. move forward with leaps and bounds. Contracts and various other
  1647. documentation is making its way around the system so that the investors
  1648. can reclaim their tax-its known as SEIS investment
  1649.  
  1650.  
  1651.  
  1652.  
  1653. Scott McQueen
  1654.  
  1655. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8443500> 7 months ago
  1656.  
  1657. (1of3)
  1658. @dbrissenden I have also had a from a ‘Lisa’ at ‘Team Wedg’
  1659.  
  1660. (24th MAY)Hi Scott Apologies for the late , we are working through
  1661. emails from backers as fast as we can. Rest assured Scott the project is
  1662. still alive and well. As you know we are battling with a fierce and
  1663. unruly third party hell-bent on making claims to our source code that
  1664. doesn’t belong to them. Our every move is criticized and we’re doing all
  1665. we can to defend our reputation and our intellectual property.
  1666.  
  1667.  
  1668.  
  1669.  
  1670. dbrissenden
  1671.  
  1672. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8114757> 7 months ago
  1673.  
  1674. (2 of 2)
  1675. Indeed there doesn’t appear to be any website for this company either
  1676. which is also very strange for investment / tech companies.
  1677. All in all this is very fishy if you also consider the utter contempt
  1678. and lack of communication shown by Shehbaz.
  1679. As to whether there is enough evidence for the authorities, I would
  1680. think there is enough but since there appears to be a lack of interest
  1681. from the other 968 backers, it is unlikely to get to their attention.
  1682.  
  1683.  
  1684.  
  1685.  
  1686. dbrissenden
  1687.  
  1688. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8114757> 7 months ago
  1689.  
  1690. (1 of 2)
  1691. @jrogers31 – The only ‘other’ person who has communicated on this
  1692. project is Chris. But, Chris who? There is no mention of any of the team
  1693. who started out developing Wedg or what contribution they made so it
  1694. could look there might have only been one person….
  1695. I can find no mention of anyone called Carol Bohm-Scott prior to the
  1696. creation of Montrose Innovations which I find very strange considering
  1697. these are supposedly international investors.
  1698.  
  1699.  
  1700.  
  1701.  
  1702. jrogers31
  1703.  
  1704. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> 7 months ago
  1705.  
  1706. @dbrissenden – interesting research – so are you saying that there is
  1707. evidence that Mr Afzal et al are trying to create a smoke screen to
  1708. distance themselves from their responsibilities. Is there enough
  1709. evidence for an investigation by appropriate authorities with statutory
  1710. powers? If so it is well overdue. Interestingly, I have not received a
  1711. to my request for an update from the new owner Carol Bohm-Scott,
  1712. which rather fits in with the results of your research – I think.
  1713.  
  1714.  
  1715.  
  1716.  
  1717. dbrissenden
  1718.  
  1719. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8114757> 7 months ago
  1720.  
  1721. (2 of 2)
  1722. Back in April 2016, Shehbaz’s communication detailed “…introduced us to
  1723. a group of tech entrepreneurs and investors from the UK and US who
  1724. operate an international scale business…”. So much so that it took them
  1725. until August 2016 to register the company…. Come on pull the other one.
  1726.  
  1727.  
  1728.  
  1729.  
  1730. dbrissenden
  1731.  
  1732. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8114757> 7 months ago
  1733.  
  1734. (1 of 2)
  1735. Well, looks like 08 Nov 2016 Mohammad Shehbaz Afzal resigned as director
  1736. of Wedg and on the same date Montrose Innovations Limited was appointed
  1737. as a director. The same day the registered address was moved from The
  1738. Shed Innospace Chester Street Manchester to 17 Grosvenor Gardens
  1739. Grosvenor Gardens London and Mrs Carol Bohm-Scott (or Mr Carol
  1740. Bohm-Scott as it appears on the certificate of incorporation or is it
  1741. Chris AKA Mohammad Shehbaz Afzal???).
  1742.  
  1743.  
  1744.  
  1745.  
  1746. jrogers31
  1747.  
  1748. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> 7 months ago
  1749.  
  1750. @Andrea V. Did they take your money? Was it literally the $2.00 you
  1751. mentioned (as a token gesture) or substantially more than that? – and
  1752. did you get a thank you note and update in response? I would be happy to
  1753. sell you my WEDG devices order for its original value if you are
  1754. interested. I need a helping hand – to get my money back.
  1755.  
  1756.  
  1757.  
  1758.  
  1759. Ken Taylor
  1760.  
  1761. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6123904> 7 months ago
  1762.  
  1763. @Andrea V. I hope the WEDG comes to fruition. I have avoided posting for
  1764. years as i don’t have a pitch fork. After 2 years hardware, software and
  1765. people have moved on. many will have found other solutions, for me a
  1766. WEDG would NOW just be an expensive raided Kodi box as i would not trust
  1767. it with my Email.
  1768.  
  1769.  
  1770.  
  1771.  
  1772. Bryan Walker
  1773.  
  1774. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 7 months ago
  1775.  
  1776. @Andrea V.
  1777.  
  1778. It would be easier to be supportive if Wedg would at least talk to us.
  1779.  
  1780. Silence does nothing to quell the pitchsporks.
  1781.  
  1782.  
  1783.  
  1784.  
  1785. Andrea V.
  1786.  
  1787. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/9040474> 7 months ago
  1788.  
  1789. I have to say I still support this project.
  1790.  
  1791. I know by now many of you have already banned together & picked up your
  1792. pitch forks. But i really want to see WEDG come to fruition. It’s very
  1793. easy to knock a outfit down when they are already down. But its very
  1794. hard to help them get back up. So i’m going to do something rather crazy
  1795. & send them a couple extra bucks. It is not much but i think what every1
  1796. needs right now is a helping hand. sometimes ppl are so far down they
  1797. need help gettin back up
  1798.  
  1799.  
  1800.  
  1801.  
  1802. Bryan Walker
  1803.  
  1804. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 7 months ago
  1805.  
  1806. @Scott McQueen
  1807.  
  1808. I guess some startup-centric office is better than the TaxAct
  1809. Accountants location that they claimed was their “office” after they
  1810. were kicked out of the university digs.
  1811.  
  1812.  
  1813.  
  1814.  
  1815. Bryan Walker
  1816.  
  1817. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 7 months ago
  1818.  
  1819. @Ken Taylor
  1820.  
  1821. I asked for one of the pre-release units (black and blue) because I
  1822. wanted to wash my hands of it. I actually tried to use it, and I think I
  1823. was the first to report they hadn’t actually changed their codebase
  1824. language.
  1825.  
  1826. I got fed up with it when I noticed it was duplicating everything, and I
  1827. had to delete my setup when a new version came out. Tried to reflash it
  1828. with new firmware, messed it up, Lima said F-U! and I threw it in the
  1829. recycle box here at work. No more Lima for me.
  1830.  
  1831.  
  1832.  
  1833.  
  1834. Scott McQueen
  1835.  
  1836. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8443500> 7 months ago
  1837.  
  1838. @Ken Taylor Looks like the UBER office is just another startup base like
  1839. Wedg had in Manchester and not a proper company hq which is a real shame.
  1840.  
  1841.  
  1842.  
  1843.  
  1844. Scott McQueen
  1845.  
  1846. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8443500> 7 months ago
  1847.  
  1848. Message sent to Carol Bohm-Scott: We have noticed your name has replaced
  1849. Shehbaz Afzal’s as the CEO of WEDG. Does this mean the project will
  1850. finally come into fruition and the many Indiegogo backers will finally
  1851. get either a product or a refund. Or will you also choose to bury your
  1852. head in the sand and choose to ignore the fact that a lot of people have
  1853. spent their own hard earned money and have been left out of pocket?
  1854.  
  1855.  
  1856.  
  1857.  
  1858. Scott McQueen
  1859.  
  1860. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8443500> 7 months ago
  1861.  
  1862. Im moving house in January, who do I inform so they no where to send my
  1863. new WEDG device when it’s built ? :)
  1864.  
  1865.  
  1866.  
  1867.  
  1868. Ken Taylor
  1869.  
  1870. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6123904> 7 months ago
  1871.  
  1872. @Bryan Walker. So you will not be buying the Lima Ultra then… ;-) My
  1873. lima still in its box unused. I didnt like the idea of linking to their
  1874. server for what would be for me a local system and as you say does not
  1875. do what it promised. the WEDG I wanted for mail server and network file
  1876. backups and server based Libreoffice. but now can do 2 of 3 on my NAS.
  1877. getting a refund from CC would be hard now the original company no
  1878. longer exists. :-(
  1879.  
  1880.  
  1881.  
  1882.  
  1883. Bryan Walker
  1884.  
  1885. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 7 months ago
  1886.  
  1887. (3 of 2)
  1888.  
  1889. In addition, so many of these “butt” devices still need some remote
  1890. backend to work. In Lima’s case, they have a negotiation server that
  1891. does unknown things. Makes me wonder that Wedg was going to need, and
  1892. what the “Daplie: My Butt” device is going to require since they talk
  1893. about name access and stuff.
  1894.  
  1895.  
  1896.  
  1897.  
  1898. Bryan Walker
  1899.  
  1900. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 7 months ago
  1901.  
  1902. (2 of 2)
  1903.  
  1904. These “personal butt” devices all seem to want to be a complete
  1905. management system instead of simply giving you a secure portal to stash
  1906. data remotely. Every single one of them attempts to re-invent features
  1907. already present in most devices. I have no idea why.
  1908.  
  1909.  
  1910.  
  1911.  
  1912. Bryan Walker
  1913.  
  1914. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 7 months ago
  1915.  
  1916. >> Sound familar?
  1917. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/daplie-the-butt-system-to-take-back-the-internet/x/8764397#/
  1918.  
  1919. There was another project, called Lima (nee Plug) that promised to do
  1920. the same thing. I invested in it as well. While the group eventually
  1921. shipped it, it was nothing like what they promised and is just now
  1922. (years after the “we just need last mile funding”) gaining a subset of
  1923. the features promised during the campaign. (1 of 2)
  1924.  
  1925.  
  1926.  
  1927.  
  1928. Bryan Walker
  1929.  
  1930. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 7 months ago
  1931.  
  1932. Just a reminder, UK residents may be eligible for a Section 75 refund,
  1933. if you paid for any part of the item with a credit card (not debit) and
  1934. the item cost more than £100.
  1935.  
  1936. http://www.which.co.uk/consumer-rights/regulation/section-75-of-the-consumer-credit-act
  1937.  
  1938.  
  1939.  
  1940.  
  1941. Bryan Walker
  1942.  
  1943. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 7 months ago
  1944.  
  1945. @jrogers31
  1946.  
  1947. “…you gain the ability to take the form of a wolf?”
  1948.  
  1949. Hmm, I’m guessing that isn’t the ending you had in mind.
  1950.  
  1951.  
  1952.  
  1953.  
  1954. jrogers31
  1955.  
  1956. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> 7 months ago
  1957.  
  1958. Test – complete the following “once bitten …”
  1959.  
  1960.  
  1961.  
  1962.  
  1963. jrogers31
  1964.  
  1965. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> 7 months ago
  1966.  
  1967. Sound familar?
  1968. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/daplie-the-butt-system-to-take-back-the-internet/x/8764397#/
  1969.  
  1970.  
  1971.  
  1972.  
  1973. Scott McQueen
  1974.  
  1975. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8443500> 7 months ago
  1976.  
  1977. jrogers31 Yes I would like to know what happened to him as well!
  1978.  
  1979.  
  1980.  
  1981.  
  1982. jrogers31
  1983.  
  1984. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> 7 months ago
  1985.  
  1986. Interesting – so when are we going to receive the “Hello I am Carol
  1987. Bohm-Scott” update? Good to know that the office is in London it will be
  1988. easy to pop in and pick up the full refund or the devices I ordered,
  1989. which ever becomes available first. I hope the update includes “a
  1990. summary of events which lead to the departure of Mr Afzal”
  1991.  
  1992.  
  1993.  
  1994.  
  1995. Ken Taylor
  1996.  
  1997. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6123904> 8 months ago
  1998.  
  1999. Carol, is director of Montrose, setup in August 2016, based in UBER
  2000. offices in London, looks like they now own WEDG. Shehbaz resigned as a
  2001. director on 08 Nov. (on companies house website). will be interesting if
  2002. we get an update by the 22Nov which will be 2 years from the end of the
  2003. campaign.
  2004.  
  2005.  
  2006.  
  2007.  
  2008. Bryan Walker
  2009.  
  2010. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 8 months ago
  2011.  
  2012. @Scott,
  2013.  
  2014. That is quite interesting. Shebaz did make some noise about
  2015. reorganization as the legal trouble wrapped up, this could be related in
  2016. some way. Evidence suggests otherwise…
  2017.  
  2018.  
  2019.  
  2020.  
  2021. Scott McQueen
  2022.  
  2023. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8443500> 8 months ago
  2024.  
  2025. Hmmm, Shebaz has disappeared from the up there on the right, it now says
  2026. Carol Bohm-Scott. Has he gone into hiding so we forget about him or is
  2027. something happening… Intrigued!
  2028.  
  2029.  
  2030.  
  2031.  
  2032. Bryan Walker
  2033.  
  2034. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 8 months ago
  2035.  
  2036. I have to say, I don’t expect to see anything at this point. :(
  2037.  
  2038.  
  2039.  
  2040.  
  2041. Bryan Walker
  2042.  
  2043. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 8 months ago
  2044.  
  2045. Remember when?
  2046.  
  2047. Jaypaul Barrow
  2048. 8 months ago
  2049. Update! Update! Update! Duck me it’s not hard to say. Still working
  2050. guys. Bear with us.
  2051.  
  2052. Quack.
  2053.  
  2054.  
  2055.  
  2056.  
  2057. Jacob Ovard
  2058.  
  2059. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8671772> 8 months ago
  2060.  
  2061. Hey WEDG, give us an update and give us back our money.
  2062.  
  2063.  
  2064.  
  2065.  
  2066. Bryan Walker
  2067.  
  2068. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 8 months ago
  2069.  
  2070. Just a reminder, UK residents may be eligible for a Section 75 refund,
  2071. if you paid for any part of the item with a credit card (not debit) and
  2072. the item cost more than £100.
  2073.  
  2074. http://www.which.co.uk/consumer-rights/regulation/section-75-of-the-consumer-credit-act
  2075.  
  2076.  
  2077.  
  2078.  
  2079. Bryan Walker
  2080.  
  2081. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 8 months ago
  2082.  
  2083. @Scott McQueen,
  2084.  
  2085. With only £350 in the bank, it certainly doesn’t look good, does it?
  2086.  
  2087.  
  2088.  
  2089.  
  2090. Scott McQueen
  2091.  
  2092. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8443500> 8 months ago
  2093.  
  2094. Every now and again I get really annoyed at myself for falling for this
  2095. and not seeing through the bullshit earlier, lets face it the money has
  2096. gone ( http://www.endole.co.uk/company/08824160/wedg-ltd ) but I still
  2097. can’t help coming back for that glimmer of what I thought was a great idea.
  2098.  
  2099.  
  2100.  
  2101.  
  2102. Scott McQueen
  2103.  
  2104. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8443500> 8 months ago
  2105.  
  2106. You know one of the most frustrating things about this is I have been
  2107. taking in twice by this scam, once on kickstarter and then on here. I’ve
  2108. had a couple of responses from ‘team wedg’ when I’ve tweeted local
  2109. Manchester news about running a follow up story. Spookily enough the
  2110. timing of those responses is about an hour or two after I’ve tweeted so
  2111. I can only assume they are still working/living in the Manchester area
  2112. and are worried by the bad press.
  2113.  
  2114.  
  2115.  
  2116.  
  2117. Bryan Walker
  2118.  
  2119. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 8 months ago
  2120.  
  2121. @1sgmgn
  2122.  
  2123. That’s the way most of us feel, along with WTF, :(, Hello?, and “Say
  2124. Something Dammit!”
  2125.  
  2126.  
  2127.  
  2128.  
  2129. Bryan Walker
  2130.  
  2131. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 8 months ago
  2132.  
  2133. My weekend project was to clean up the power supplies that feed the
  2134. wireless sensors and leak detectors in my home (yeah, it’s wired…) Was
  2135. pretty pleased with how it turned out. Designed a few of my own boards
  2136. and did a nice layout. Hard part was finding power transformers – with
  2137. RatShack being gone, they are hard to find unless you want to spend lots
  2138. of cash. Still cleaning up the wiring, so don’t hate on the layout.
  2139. http://imgur.com/a/lgkjD
  2140.  
  2141.  
  2142.  
  2143.  
  2144. 1sgmgn
  2145.  
  2146. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4356995> 8 months ago
  2147.  
  2148. ????
  2149.  
  2150.  
  2151.  
  2152.  
  2153. Bryan Walker
  2154.  
  2155. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 8 months ago
  2156.  
  2157. Just a reminder, UK residents may be eligible for a Section 75 refund,
  2158. if you paid for any part of the item with a credit card (not debit) and
  2159. the item cost more than £100.
  2160.  
  2161. http://www.which.co.uk/consumer-rights/regulation/section-75-of-the-consumer-credit-act
  2162.  
  2163.  
  2164.  
  2165.  
  2166. Nikolai Tesla
  2167.  
  2168. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> 8 months ago
  2169.  
  2170. @Magri-Olson and 1sgmgn: I very much recommend that you do not waste
  2171. your efforts with Indiegogo and/or Mr. Afzal. Report your concerns to
  2172. the authorities as described multiple times, for over a year now, on
  2173. this backer comments section.
  2174.  
  2175.  
  2176.  
  2177.  
  2178. Brad Magri-Olson
  2179.  
  2180. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8709187> 8 months ago
  2181.  
  2182. So when do we get our refunds we requested?
  2183.  
  2184.  
  2185.  
  2186.  
  2187. 1sgmgn
  2188.  
  2189. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4356995> 9 months ago
  2190.  
  2191. WHEN DO I GET WHAT I PAID FOR?
  2192.  
  2193.  
  2194.  
  2195.  
  2196. Bryan Walker
  2197.  
  2198. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 9 months ago
  2199.  
  2200. The Nextbutt box, a private remote storage unit (Butt) should be
  2201. shipping within the next few weeks. You’ll need to provide your own
  2202. Raspberry Pi, but it’s powerful enough you could also run Prosody for IM
  2203. and other things on it.
  2204.  
  2205. https://nextbutt.com/box/
  2206.  
  2207.  
  2208.  
  2209.  
  2210. Bryan Walker
  2211.  
  2212. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 9 months ago
  2213.  
  2214. Just a reminder, UK residents may be eligible for a Section 75 refund,
  2215. if you paid for any part of the item with a credit card (not debit) and
  2216. the item cost more than £100.
  2217.  
  2218. http://www.which.co.uk/consumer-rights/regulation/section-75-of-the-consumer-credit-act
  2219.  
  2220. For the rest of us, we’re pretty much SOL.
  2221.  
  2222. I’d really like to see this deliver, but I really don’t need it anymore.
  2223. Replaced everything with a couple of Raspberry Pi units.
  2224.  
  2225.  
  2226.  
  2227.  
  2228. Bryan Walker
  2229.  
  2230. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 9 months ago
  2231.  
  2232. @Nikolai,
  2233.  
  2234. Let’s assume they really did have some legal troubles that prohibited
  2235. them from speaking freely about what was going on. I only remember this
  2236. being implied in some communications, but nothing concrete. I DO
  2237. however, remember them saying they were now no longer under that duress
  2238. (“New arrangements for public announcements without being vetted”) so
  2239. there’s no reason that Wedg & Co. can’t be more chatty with us.
  2240.  
  2241. Without more information, that’s the biggest failure I see at this point.
  2242.  
  2243.  
  2244.  
  2245.  
  2246. Scott McQueen
  2247.  
  2248. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8443500> 9 months ago
  2249.  
  2250. Hi, I’m still here… are you Wedg?
  2251.  
  2252.  
  2253.  
  2254.  
  2255. Nikolai Tesla
  2256.  
  2257. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> 9 months ago
  2258.  
  2259. My suggestion, to any bakers that is interested, is to still pursue
  2260. legal means to have Mr. Afzal accountable to this project, investment or
  2261. whatever you wish to call it.
  2262.  
  2263.  
  2264.  
  2265.  
  2266. Nikolai Tesla
  2267.  
  2268. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> 9 months ago
  2269.  
  2270. At this point in time, two years and counting, logically it does not
  2271. make sense that this project is a scam. I came to reason this since
  2272. there is no purpose for a scammer to still provide any feedback, even
  2273. non-sense muck, to anyone after they have received all the funds. This
  2274. leads me to believe that it is a totally anemically managed project by a
  2275. novice (Mr. Afzal) that attempted to create his university term project
  2276. into a real world product. At the end, it appears to have hugely failed.
  2277.  
  2278.  
  2279.  
  2280.  
  2281. martijn.koolhoven
  2282.  
  2283. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8708990> 9 months ago
  2284.  
  2285. the personal butt you’ve been waiting for… I now get the point….
  2286. wtf …
  2287.  
  2288.  
  2289.  
  2290.  
  2291. Bryan Walker
  2292.  
  2293. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 9 months ago
  2294.  
  2295. @Philipp Stäheli, They do not check on projects, that is.
  2296.  
  2297.  
  2298.  
  2299.  
  2300. Bryan Walker
  2301.  
  2302. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 9 months ago
  2303.  
  2304. @Philipp Stäheli – No, they do not. Once a project is funded, Indiegogo
  2305. goes strictly hands-off, almost as if the project never existed. I’ve
  2306. contacted them a few times about this and they state all they can do is
  2307. message the project creator and ask that they be more forthcoming.
  2308.  
  2309. There’s vague language in the TOS that says it’s the creator’s duty to
  2310. report progress and issues, but that’s about as enforceable as telling
  2311. the Sun to be less hot today.
  2312.  
  2313.  
  2314.  
  2315.  
  2316. Philipp Stäheli
  2317.  
  2318. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8723017> 9 months ago
  2319.  
  2320. I was just wondering, how does Indiegogo not check on their so called
  2321. “office” and whether there is an alive project or not? That would be
  2322. fairly easy to do, but nothing like that ever happened.. I know I am an
  2323. investor and not a buyer in a store. Still I feel very let down by
  2324. Indiegogo, it seems to not bother them at all that project founders just
  2325. stall their projects.
  2326.  
  2327.  
  2328.  
  2329.  
  2330. Benson Low
  2331.  
  2332. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/5581723> 9 months ago
  2333.  
  2334. I want a refund now
  2335.  
  2336.  
  2337.  
  2338.  
  2339. Bryan Walker
  2340.  
  2341. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 10 months ago
  2342.  
  2343. Wedg, Francisco is right – you need to start singing like a canary.
  2344.  
  2345.  
  2346.  
  2347.  
  2348. Francisco Alvarez
  2349.  
  2350. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8814221> 10 months ago
  2351.  
  2352. I don’t know what you are doing. This seems a never ending story, almost
  2353. 2 YEARS of DELAY, this SUCKS! Be CLEAR and provide us with a stimated
  2354. date of shipping!!!!
  2355.  
  2356.  
  2357.  
  2358.  
  2359. Bryan Walker
  2360.  
  2361. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 10 months ago
  2362.  
  2363. I’d like an update with more meat than fluff.
  2364.  
  2365.  
  2366.  
  2367.  
  2368. Jacob Ovard
  2369.  
  2370. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8671772> 10 months ago
  2371.  
  2372. Where is my order? Where is my money?
  2373.  
  2374.  
  2375.  
  2376.  
  2377. 1sgmgn
  2378.  
  2379. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4356995> 10 months ago
  2380.  
  2381. Sep 2014
  2382. Where is my order?
  2383.  
  2384.  
  2385.  
  2386.  
  2387. Marc Solondz
  2388.  
  2389. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8716841> 10 months ago
  2390.  
  2391. This is the second big scam crowdfunding item out of the UK. Well done
  2392. WEDG.
  2393. Your updates have been nothing but pure rhetoric since the campaign
  2394. ended. When you actually have something substantive I will take you
  2395. seriously otherwise I’ll continue to believe you are full of it.
  2396.  
  2397.  
  2398.  
  2399.  
  2400. tom.attree
  2401.  
  2402. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8491782> 10 months ago
  2403.  
  2404. 2 – Luckily I’ve backed many successful projects on Indiegogo and
  2405. Kickstarter and this hasn’t put me off investing in others in the
  2406. future. But it’s not just the reputation of Wedg that has been damaged
  2407. here, it’s the reputation of many that use crowdfunding as a source of
  2408. investment. However you plan on delivering/returning the investment of
  2409. the 968 backers, I would suggest, as an investor, not pursuing this
  2410. dream any further.
  2411.  
  2412.  
  2413.  
  2414.  
  2415. tom.attree
  2416.  
  2417. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8491782> 10 months ago
  2418.  
  2419. 1 – To quote ‘we will revisit and initiate refunds to all who want one’.
  2420. Who’s going to pay for that? I’m guessing the seed money is long gone
  2421. and I find it difficult to believe you have found an investor to put in
  2422. £131,537 just to refund 968 backers, where would their return be? Like
  2423. many others on this thread, technology has moved on. I wouldn’t find
  2424. this product relevant any more. Yes I want a refund but equally I’ve
  2425. written this off as a ‘bad choice’.
  2426.  
  2427.  
  2428.  
  2429.  
  2430. Bryan Walker
  2431.  
  2432. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 10 months ago
  2433.  
  2434. I too have replicated pretty much everything with other services. I’ve
  2435. set up my own chat server and file-share server, so I don’t know how
  2436. much of a gap this product would fill for me at this point. I’d like to
  2437. see Wedg provide us with some timeline guidance and some detail on how
  2438. the various services provided by this device will work.
  2439.  
  2440.  
  2441.  
  2442.  
  2443. Nikolai Tesla
  2444.  
  2445. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> 10 months ago
  2446.  
  2447. A few more months and it will be the 2nd anniversary of nothing.
  2448. Technology has caught up to WEDG and even have surpassed it. I bought an
  2449. off the shelf solution for about the same price of the fake dream that
  2450. is called WEDG.
  2451.  
  2452.  
  2453.  
  2454.  
  2455. Nikolai Tesla
  2456.  
  2457. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> 10 months ago
  2458.  
  2459. I was confused with the recent comments but I now understand and
  2460. appreciate the passive aggressive jokes. Sadly for Mr. Afzal he has his
  2461. face plastered all over the web and can not hide forever.
  2462.  
  2463.  
  2464.  
  2465.  
  2466. Bryan Walker
  2467.  
  2468. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 10 months ago
  2469.  
  2470. @Gordon,
  2471.  
  2472. I don’t know if I’d call CrowdFUNding™ a project such as this a
  2473. nightmare, but it certainly would be the end of the long night if Wedg
  2474. ever did ship to backers.
  2475.  
  2476.  
  2477.  
  2478.  
  2479. Gordon Keys
  2480.  
  2481. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8335278> 10 months ago
  2482.  
  2483. Wow! I cannot believe it. I just received my Wedg in the post. Oh… then
  2484. I woke up. All a nightmare… sorry.
  2485.  
  2486.  
  2487.  
  2488.  
  2489. Bryan Walker
  2490.  
  2491. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 11 months ago
  2492.  
  2493. 15 days of silence on the wall, 15 days of silence, if one of the
  2494. updates should happen to fall, 16 days of silence on the wall!
  2495.  
  2496.  
  2497.  
  2498.  
  2499. Bryan Walker
  2500.  
  2501. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 11 months ago
  2502.  
  2503. Tired of companies ignoring you on Twitter? Check out Gnu Social, the
  2504. open source, federated social network that doesn’t ask for your driver’s
  2505. license!
  2506. http://skilledtests.com/wiki/List_of_Independent_GNU_social_Instances
  2507.  
  2508.  
  2509.  
  2510.  
  2511. Bryan Walker
  2512.  
  2513. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 11 months ago
  2514.  
  2515. Seeing as how 1N34A diodes seem to be getting rare these days, I ordered
  2516. a bunch of Soviet-era D9D diodes from eBay. Even if 1/3 of them are
  2517. defective, that still leaves me with enough for a lifetime of projects.
  2518.  
  2519.  
  2520.  
  2521.  
  2522. Bryan Walker
  2523.  
  2524. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 11 months ago
  2525.  
  2526. Everyone should check out Gnu Social. You can run it yourself (
  2527. http://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/revisiting-open-source-social-networking-installing-gnu-social—cms-22456
  2528. ) or join one of the many instances. quitter.is and quitter.no are two
  2529. well know hosts.
  2530.  
  2531.  
  2532.  
  2533.  
  2534. Bryan Walker
  2535.  
  2536. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 11 months ago
  2537.  
  2538. So, the local Micro Center was closing out the Papyrus e-ink HATs for
  2539. the Raspberry Pi. I bought one for $25, found out it had all three sizes
  2540. of screen in it, and decided to go back and buy the other two they had
  2541. left. While it cost me $75, it’s something I have in my hand right now.
  2542.  
  2543.  
  2544.  
  2545.  
  2546. Scott McQueen
  2547.  
  2548. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8443500> 11 months ago
  2549.  
  2550. Today I although it’s been very warm, I decided to cut the grass and as
  2551. I had my motivational head on, with a stanley knife I edged the front
  2552. lawn. I would have used the lawn edger I bought from Tesco last year but
  2553. after a bout a minute of edging, the head fell of it. Boy did I laugh, I
  2554. invested that money in it so long ago that when I finally got to use it,
  2555. it didn’t work. Good job it was only £5 and not £300 aye!
  2556.  
  2557. Scott McQueen
  2558.  
  2559. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8443500> 11 months ago
  2560. oh and at least I got a minutes use out of it I suppose.
  2561.  
  2562.  
  2563.  
  2564. Bryan Walker
  2565.  
  2566. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 11 months ago
  2567.  
  2568. You’re all welcome, lololololol
  2569.  
  2570.  
  2571.  
  2572.  
  2573. Bryan Walker
  2574.  
  2575. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 11 months ago
  2576.  
  2577. SO, I recently picked up some of those tiny OLED screens, the blue and
  2578. yellow ones you used to see on things like Sandisk MP3 players. It’s
  2579. amazing how small they are, but of a high enough resolution to actually
  2580. have rudimentary graphics displayed on them. I plan on using a few of
  2581. them to display vital stats from my Pi stack. Who knows where the rest
  2582. will end up?
  2583.  
  2584. That’s my update for today, how about one from you WEDG?
  2585.  
  2586.  
  2587.  
  2588.  
  2589. Bryan Walker
  2590.  
  2591. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 11 months ago
  2592.  
  2593. I hate to say it – I don’t think this was a scam at the start, but I
  2594. don’t have any confidence the project will come to completion at this point.
  2595.  
  2596.  
  2597.  
  2598.  
  2599. Bryan Walker
  2600.  
  2601. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 11 months ago
  2602.  
  2603. Seems like the only time anyone “working” on this project spoke recently
  2604. in the comments was Jaypaul “Duck me” Barrow, and only after I started
  2605. writing daily updates. Perhaps I should keep doing that.
  2606.  
  2607.  
  2608.  
  2609.  
  2610. Scott McQueen
  2611.  
  2612. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8443500> 11 months ago
  2613.  
  2614. The personal scam you’ve been waiting for!
  2615.  
  2616.  
  2617.  
  2618.  
  2619. Scott McQueen
  2620.  
  2621. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8443500> 11 months ago
  2622.  
  2623. tbh I’ve forgotten how I paid for it…
  2624.  
  2625.  
  2626.  
  2627.  
  2628. Bryan Walker
  2629.  
  2630. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 11 months ago
  2631.  
  2632. I just wanted to remind everyone, that if you are in the UK and you paid
  2633. any portion your funding with a credit card (not debit or charge,) you
  2634. could be eligible for a refund under Section 75 of the Consumer Credit Act.
  2635.  
  2636.  
  2637.  
  2638.  
  2639. Bryan Walker
  2640.  
  2641. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 11 months ago
  2642.  
  2643. @John Raffin,
  2644.  
  2645. I think it’s more “We’re getting a wedgie.”
  2646.  
  2647.  
  2648.  
  2649.  
  2650. John Raffin
  2651.  
  2652. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4406292> 11 months ago
  2653.  
  2654. WEDG: the personal butt you’ve been waiting (forever) for
  2655.  
  2656. Does that mean us dudded backers can be called “Wedgies”???
  2657.  
  2658.  
  2659.  
  2660.  
  2661. Thomas Grundberg
  2662.  
  2663. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/5396919> 11 months ago
  2664.  
  2665. WEDG: the personal butt we still are waiting for.
  2666.  
  2667.  
  2668.  
  2669.  
  2670. Bryan Walker
  2671.  
  2672. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 12 months ago
  2673.  
  2674. @Scott McQueen,
  2675.  
  2676. If the number of stragglers in another tech project I backed is any
  2677. indication, there are a lot of people who have written this off, or have
  2678. simply forgotten about it. In light of the lack of updates, I’d say the
  2679. latter is the case.
  2680.  
  2681. Remember when?
  2682. Jaypaul Barrow 4 months ago
  2683. Update! Update! Update! Duck me it’s not hard to say. Still working
  2684. guys. Bear with us.
  2685.  
  2686. Quack.
  2687.  
  2688.  
  2689.  
  2690.  
  2691. Scott McQueen
  2692.  
  2693. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8443500> 12 months ago
  2694.  
  2695. Have 968 backers really just forgotten about this? I find that a little
  2696. strange to be honest, I would like a refund!
  2697.  
  2698.  
  2699.  
  2700.  
  2701. Scott McQueen
  2702.  
  2703. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8443500> 12 months ago
  2704.  
  2705. @shehbaz_afzal – Still waiting or have you really just done a bunk with
  2706. the WEDG indigogo fund ???
  2707.  
  2708.  
  2709.  
  2710.  
  2711. Scott McQueen
  2712.  
  2713. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8443500> 12 months ago
  2714.  
  2715. MCR seems to be registered to a private house in Manchester:
  2716.  
  2717. http://www.checkcompany.co.uk/company/07635344/MCR-ENTERPRISES-LTD
  2718.  
  2719.  
  2720.  
  2721.  
  2722. Mark Brown
  2723.  
  2724. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3433405> 12 months ago
  2725.  
  2726. Very sad to realise I’ve lost a lot of hard earned money :(
  2727.  
  2728.  
  2729.  
  2730.  
  2731. David Aldred
  2732.  
  2733. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> 12 months ago
  2734.  
  2735. Ah ok – the reason the signature matches is because he signed as the
  2736. CURRENT director of MCR. So perhaps (!?) there was indeed another
  2737. Mohammed Afzal born in the same year at the same company (relative?)
  2738.  
  2739. At v least, Shehbaz Afzal appears to be linked to min 3x companies
  2740.  
  2741. MCR:
  2742. https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/07635344/filing-history
  2743. https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/07635344/officers
  2744.  
  2745. iLoup
  2746. https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/08278329/filing-history
  2747.  
  2748.  
  2749.  
  2750.  
  2751. David Aldred
  2752.  
  2753. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> 12 months ago
  2754.  
  2755. 2/2
  2756. It wasn’t clear if it was the same person though. The dates of birth are
  2757. different, though same year.
  2758. However – there are scans of the signature for both MCR and iloup (and
  2759. we already linked Wedg to iloup) – the signatures are exactly the same
  2760. (and both begin with an S)
  2761.  
  2762. So not only do we have him switching names around, but using different
  2763. DOBs – and ultimately being treated as 2x different people by companies
  2764. house. Sounding more and more like fraud to me.
  2765.  
  2766. I’ll do another post with links
  2767.  
  2768.  
  2769.  
  2770.  
  2771. David Aldred
  2772.  
  2773. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> 12 months ago
  2774.  
  2775. 1/2
  2776. Whoa! Not looking good guys… (read my previous 2x posts first)
  2777.  
  2778. So I did a new search under the alter-ego Mohammed Afzal. Many hits came
  2779. up, but another Mohammed Afzal in Manchester born in 1979 was linked to
  2780. a company called MCR ENTERPRISES (07635344)
  2781.  
  2782. So, I had a look, and it had a director named Mohammed Afzal up until
  2783. 2011 when it was terminated…
  2784.  
  2785.  
  2786.  
  2787.  
  2788. David Aldred
  2789.  
  2790. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> 12 months ago
  2791.  
  2792. 2/2
  2793. Wedg was incorporated in 2013. He registered himself as director under
  2794. Shehbaz Afzal – this was already after he changed his name on the other
  2795. company (and was whilst that company still existed)
  2796.  
  2797. Then, in 2014 he again changed is name to Mohammed Shehbaz Afzal.
  2798.  
  2799. If nothing else, he seems to be suffering from a but of an identity crisis!
  2800.  
  2801.  
  2802.  
  2803.  
  2804. David Aldred
  2805.  
  2806. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> 12 months ago
  2807.  
  2808. 1/2
  2809. I tried doing some more digging. Nothing all that useful, but a couple
  2810. of bits I found…
  2811.  
  2812. Shehbaz had another company called iloup Ltd. Formed in 2012, then had a
  2813. Compulsory Strike Off in 2014. Doesn’t state the reason, but probably
  2814. due to no accounts being filed.
  2815.  
  2816. There was one interesting bit though…
  2817.  
  2818. In November 2012, he changed his name with companies house from Shehbaz
  2819. Afzal to Mohammed Shehbaz Afzal. Nothing all that odd there, until you
  2820. go back to Wedg…
  2821.  
  2822.  
  2823.  
  2824.  
  2825. Bryan Walker
  2826.  
  2827. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 12 months ago
  2828.  
  2829. I honestly don’t think there is anyone left to answer…
  2830.  
  2831.  
  2832.  
  2833.  
  2834. Craig Temporini
  2835.  
  2836. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8966008> 12 months ago
  2837.  
  2838. Awaiting a refund.
  2839.  
  2840.  
  2841.  
  2842.  
  2843. jrogers31
  2844.  
  2845. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> 12 months ago
  2846.  
  2847. F.A.O. Mr S Afzal – it is now 2 months since your last update. From the
  2848. comments below – the terms of service oblige you to find a satisfactory
  2849. resolution with backers in light of your failure to provide the perks
  2850. promised to the backers. A satisfactory solution for me would be a full
  2851. refund of my contributions, as I requested many months ago. I presume
  2852. other backers may require a similar resolution. Please issue an urgent
  2853. update and plan on how you intend to meet your obligation to the backers.
  2854.  
  2855.  
  2856.  
  2857.  
  2858. dbrissenden
  2859.  
  2860. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8114757> 12 months ago
  2861.  
  2862. Interesting post found here:
  2863. http://kickscammed.com/project/wedg/#.V3abglJ1ZVk
  2864.  
  2865.  
  2866.  
  2867.  
  2868. Mark Brown
  2869.  
  2870. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3433405> 12 months ago
  2871.  
  2872. No response to my email to info@wedg.co very disappointing. I should
  2873. have just bought a Synology NAS, would have cost less that what I
  2874. pledged – Stupid me!
  2875.  
  2876.  
  2877.  
  2878.  
  2879. Bryan Walker
  2880.  
  2881. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 12 months ago
  2882.  
  2883. And again, in the TOS:
  2884.  
  2885. Campaign Owners are legally bound to perform on any promise and/or
  2886. commitment to Contributors (including delivering any Perks). If a
  2887. Campaign Owner is unable to perform on any promise and/or commitment to
  2888. Contributors, the Campaign Owner will work with the Contributors to
  2889. reach a mutually satisfactory resolution, which may include the issuance
  2890. of a refund of Contributions by the Campaign Owner.
  2891.  
  2892.  
  2893.  
  2894.  
  2895. Bryan Walker
  2896.  
  2897. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 12 months ago
  2898.  
  2899. @jrogers31,
  2900.  
  2901. The TOS mentions:
  2902.  
  2903. Campaign Owners will respond promptly and truthfully to all questions
  2904. posed to them by Indiegogo or any Contributor. If any Campaign Owner is
  2905. unable to fulfill any of its commitments to Contributors (including
  2906. delivering any Perks), the Campaign Owner will work with the
  2907. Contributors to reach a mutually satisfactory resolution, which may
  2908. include refunding their Contributions.
  2909.  
  2910.  
  2911.  
  2912.  
  2913.  
  2914. jrogers31
  2915.  
  2916. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> 12 months ago
  2917.  
  2918. @dbrissenden It is good to know that you have been looking at potential
  2919. legal options open to individual backers or all the backers as a whole
  2920. group. However, if in light of the large some of money involved should
  2921. there be any evidence available, which would lead to allegegations of
  2922. wrong doing, then the matter should and could be dealt with by the UK
  2923. authorities. It would be helpfu,l if out of the 968 backers, there were
  2924. a few with legal backgrounds who can point us in the right direction.
  2925.  
  2926.  
  2927.  
  2928.  
  2929. Bryan Walker
  2930.  
  2931. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 1 year ago
  2932.  
  2933. @dbrissenden,
  2934.  
  2935. My correspondence with agencies, while promising at first, has gone
  2936. nowhere. I’ve basically tried to contact every party involved with this
  2937. project – everyone from the original school location to the sites that
  2938. reviewed the product (as listed on the “Story” section.) Other than some
  2939. initial “Hmm…” I have nothing. I even went as far as sending WEDG a WTF
  2940. on the original kickstarter page.
  2941.  
  2942.  
  2943.  
  2944.  
  2945. dbrissenden
  2946.  
  2947. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8114757> 1 year ago
  2948.  
  2949. @Bryan Walker
  2950. I’ve not forgotten but rather have been looking at the legal aspects
  2951. about going after Shehbaz in the courts.
  2952. Unfortunately unless everyone gets together, it is rather a case of
  2953. individuals which will have to bring claims. If targeted personally at
  2954. the creator and legally responsible person, I’m sure this would have the
  2955. desired effect.
  2956. Knowing the contents of your correspondence with agencies is useful as
  2957. others can collectively target without individual agendas becoming the norm.
  2958.  
  2959.  
  2960.  
  2961.  
  2962. Bryan Walker
  2963.  
  2964. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 1 year ago
  2965.  
  2966. @jrogers31,
  2967.  
  2968. I’m guessing a lot of people have forgotten about this project. It’s a
  2969. year past the funds collection point, and the updates have been so few
  2970. that it would be easy for them to get lost in a stack of emails.
  2971.  
  2972. Looking back at posts, there seems to be only a handful of people
  2973. posting on a regular basis. As much as I hate to say it, this project is
  2974. probably dead.
  2975.  
  2976.  
  2977.  
  2978.  
  2979. jrogers31
  2980.  
  2981. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> 1 year ago
  2982.  
  2983. @Glen – I agree with you – but unless >90% of the 968 backers decide to
  2984. start sending emails to the appropriate agencies, details of which were
  2985. given in the comments section many moons ago, very little is going to
  2986. happen. Indiegogo did nothing when this matter was highlighted over 18
  2987. months ago. Unfortunately, this is a situation which will only be
  2988. progressed when ‘the many’ act and not just ‘the few’. I applaud the
  2989. efforts of ‘the few’ and I am grateful to them.
  2990.  
  2991.  
  2992.  
  2993.  
  2994. Glen
  2995.  
  2996. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/635969> 1 year ago
  2997.  
  2998. IndieGoGo have a duty of care to report fraud to the UK Police when they
  2999. have reasonable suspicion that it has occurred. If they don’t take
  3000. reasonable action, then they open themselves to being sued for breach of
  3001. duty of care.
  3002.  
  3003. Even dating websites have been sued for allowing rapists to use their
  3004. sites. IndieGoGo’s policy is not to vet creators. That is the cause of
  3005. the problem here.
  3006.  
  3007. It’s a lot of money. It had to go somewhere. We have a right to know where.
  3008.  
  3009.  
  3010.  
  3011.  
  3012. jrogers31
  3013.  
  3014. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> 1 year ago
  3015.  
  3016. I once thought that WEDG updates, when they appear, were written by
  3017. means of a gobbledygook generator but having followed a recently
  3018. televised parliamentary investigation it occurred to me that they may
  3019. have been written with the help of a mythomaniac. Furthermore, I wonder
  3020. whether the initial project may have been devised or helped by the same
  3021. person who provides the updates.
  3022.  
  3023.  
  3024.  
  3025.  
  3026. Bryan Walker
  3027.  
  3028. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 1 year ago
  3029.  
  3030. (2/2)
  3031. If you have other information, like some of the other releases where
  3032. they posted (and revoked) a PDF, a more complete timeline, or
  3033. email/communication you’ve personally had, they may appreciate that as well.
  3034.  
  3035. I’m not going to post email addresses in this forum b/c this is an easy
  3036. target for scrapers, and I don’t wish to anger the people who may help.
  3037.  
  3038.  
  3039.  
  3040.  
  3041. Bryan Walker
  3042.  
  3043. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 1 year ago
  3044.  
  3045. (1/2)
  3046. @Nikolai,
  3047. The best response so far has been from Technutty – I don’t have the
  3048. exact link but you can find the article easily enough, and the author’s
  3049. name and contact details are easy to locate in the story.
  3050.  
  3051. I sent the author copies of the original letter from April 2015, as well
  3052. as copies of some of the email conversations I’ve had with Indiegogo. I
  3053. also pointed him to this forum, as well as FB, Twitter, and WEDG’s web page.
  3054.  
  3055.  
  3056.  
  3057.  
  3058. Nikolai Tesla
  3059.  
  3060. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> 1 year ago
  3061.  
  3062. @Bryan Walker: Could you provide their contacts? Website? This way I can
  3063. assist on writing to them as well. Mr. Afzal/WEDG is not getting out of
  3064. this without repercussions..
  3065.  
  3066.  
  3067.  
  3068.  
  3069. Bryan Walker
  3070.  
  3071. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 1 year ago
  3072.  
  3073. All: There is large list of sites in the “Story” section that reviewed
  3074. WEDG in some way. A good number of them are still online. I suggest you
  3075. contact each one of them in turn. I’ve started to do this and received
  3076. some promising results.
  3077.  
  3078.  
  3079.  
  3080.  
  3081. Bryan Walker
  3082.  
  3083. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 1 year ago
  3084.  
  3085. 4 updates (and a “pls don’t call our folks”) message in the last 6
  3086. months…c’mon! Throw us a bone!
  3087.  
  3088.  
  3089.  
  3090.  
  3091. Bryan Walker
  3092.  
  3093. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 1 year ago
  3094.  
  3095. @jrogers31,
  3096.  
  3097. I still get a few lines of the article and a “Want the full article and
  3098. instant website access?” message with a subscribe ad.
  3099.  
  3100. If there’s no “contact this authority to do the same for your shady
  3101. kickstarter” in the story, it doesn’t really matter if I can’t see the
  3102. rest of it.
  3103.  
  3104.  
  3105.  
  3106.  
  3107. jrogers31
  3108.  
  3109. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> 1 year ago
  3110.  
  3111. @Bryan Walker – no the link worked for me just now – its is an article
  3112. written by James Hurley, Enterprise Editor, June 7 2016, 12:01am, The Times.
  3113.  
  3114.  
  3115.  
  3116.  
  3117. Bryan Walker
  3118.  
  3119. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 1 year ago
  3120.  
  3121. Remember when?
  3122.  
  3123. Jaypaul Barrow
  3124. 3 months ago
  3125. Update! Update! Update! Duck me it’s not hard to say. Still working
  3126. guys. Bear with us.
  3127.  
  3128. Quack.
  3129.  
  3130.  
  3131.  
  3132.  
  3133. Bryan Walker
  3134.  
  3135. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 1 year ago
  3136.  
  3137. @jrogers31 – were there any links or contact information in the article?
  3138. The full article is locked out unless you are a subscriber.
  3139.  
  3140.  
  3141.  
  3142.  
  3143. jrogers31
  3144.  
  3145. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> 1 year ago
  3146.  
  3147. @Glen – I understand your view and that is one possible avenue. However,
  3148. it is clear from the article in TheTimes that the appropriate UK
  3149. authorities will undertake a criminal prosecution, when their
  3150. investigation uncovers evidence of fraud. Unfortunately, the UK
  3151. authorities will only look into allegations of fraud if they receive
  3152. complaints. A complaint from one or two backers out of 968 may be
  3153. insufficient to initiate an investigation. We need all backers to make
  3154. complaints via all avenues.
  3155.  
  3156.  
  3157.  
  3158.  
  3159. Glen
  3160.  
  3161. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/635969> 1 year ago
  3162.  
  3163. The creator is a fraud. He never intended to create the product. He
  3164. should be criminally prosecuted for fraud and go to jail. It’s not a
  3165. failure to deliver by the creator as Indiegogo claim. It is a failure of
  3166. Indiegogo to vet real creators from frauds. We should take a class
  3167. action against the creator and or Indiegogo.
  3168.  
  3169.  
  3170.  
  3171.  
  3172. jrogers31
  3173.  
  3174. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> 1 year ago
  3175.  
  3176. I wonder whether backers of WEDG will read an article like this about
  3177. WEDG in the future. It appears that on occasions scampaign owners on
  3178. crowdfunding sites are successfully prosecuted in the UK “The boss of a
  3179. vodka business defrauded crowdfunding investors out of thousands of
  3180. pounds in a case that raises fresh questions about standards of due
  3181. diligence in the industry.”
  3182. http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/fraudster-abused-crowdfund-investors-38p02zptn
  3183.  
  3184.  
  3185.  
  3186.  
  3187. Bryan Walker
  3188.  
  3189. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 1 year ago
  3190.  
  3191. I’ve sent notes off to TechCrunch, MMU (again,) WEDG (again,) and
  3192. Indiegogo (again.)
  3193.  
  3194. Only was the canned “We’re sorry, but sometimes projects don’t
  3195. deliver as promised” BS from IGG. Interestingly, however, IGG states
  3196. that “While we can’t force them to post an update, if they continue to
  3197. remain unresponsive, you can use our Terms of Use to take legal action
  3198. against the campaigner.”
  3199.  
  3200. Yah, right. Imma gon go laugh some more, brb.
  3201.  
  3202.  
  3203.  
  3204.  
  3205. jrogers31
  3206.  
  3207. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> 1 year ago
  3208.  
  3209. @Scott McQueen -a good effort on your part. If more backers bring the
  3210. matter to the attention of the media it may help progress matters. As
  3211. for WEDG’s saying the “project is still alive” – it must be in the
  3212. sense of medical acronyms such as FUBAR BUNDY. I am surprised the update
  3213. is late they can use
  3214. http://www.plainenglish.co.uk/gobbledygook-generator.html – One click
  3215. got “We need a more contemporary reimagining of our facilitating
  3216. organisational resources.” very WEDG like don’t you think!
  3217.  
  3218.  
  3219.  
  3220.  
  3221. Scott McQueen
  3222.  
  3223. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8443500> 1 year ago
  3224.  
  3225. I actually sent out quite a few all with @shehbaz_afzal in the title
  3226. along with the twitter address of the mag/website that did a initial
  3227. review of WEDG. Shortly after this I received an email from wedg
  3228. apologising for their late to my last email and informing me that
  3229. the project is still alive and they will be sending were going to write
  3230. and an update on Tuesday and would be releasing it this week. Well it’s
  3231. now Friday and still no update, yet!
  3232.  
  3233.  
  3234.  
  3235.  
  3236. jrogers31
  3237.  
  3238. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> 1 year ago
  3239.  
  3240. @Scott McQueen – good news if TechCrunch are going to do a follow up
  3241. story – they will find rich pickings in the comment section if they
  3242. choose to look. The last update appears to suggest that emails to MMU
  3243. are making Mr Afzal a little uncomfortable and more emails may make him
  3244. feel even more uncomfortable to the point when he comes clean and tells
  3245. the backers the truth about what is going on and backs it up with hard
  3246. independently verifiable evidence. More emails to MMU please backers.
  3247.  
  3248.  
  3249.  
  3250.  
  3251. Scott McQueen
  3252.  
  3253. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8443500> 1 year ago
  3254.  
  3255. Just because @shehbaz_afzal has made his twitter account private doesn’t
  3256. mean you cannot include it in tweets along with a few news articles,
  3257. colleges uni’s etc. I don’t know about you guys but we need answers or
  3258. refunds!
  3259.  
  3260. See 1 more ...
  3261. <https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/wedg-the-personal-cloud-you-ve-been-waiting-for>
  3262.  
  3263. Scott McQueen
  3264.  
  3265. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8443500> 1 year ago
  3266. In fact I will post everyone I do here as well starting with: @ManMetUni
  3267. how about doing a follow up story @shehbaz_afzal and Wedg Questions
  3268. about where has all the crowdfunding cash gone need answers?
  3269. Scott McQueen
  3270.  
  3271. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8443500> 1 year ago
  3272. @TechCrunch how about doing a follow up story @shehbaz_afzal and Wedg
  3273. Questions about where has all the crowdfunding cash gone need answers?
  3274.  
  3275.  
  3276.  
  3277. t.munari
  3278.  
  3279. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/7463940> 1 year ago
  3280.  
  3281. On the 4th of may I wrote an email to the address published in the
  3282. update asking for some clarifications and…. surprise!
  3283. No answer.
  3284.  
  3285.  
  3286.  
  3287.  
  3288. Scott McQueen
  3289.  
  3290. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8443500> 1 year ago
  3291.  
  3292. Come on Wedg… you’re having a laugh now, and at our expense might I add.
  3293. No information, no sign of Shehbaz. WTF is happening with this project
  3294. and more so our investment. If the only way we can get a rise out of you
  3295. is to contact the office space vendors then that seems the way to go.
  3296.  
  3297. We just want information as it just seems these updates are just to
  3298. string us along to make it more difficult to claim back our investment
  3299. or maybe you’re hoping we get bored and just forget about it ?
  3300.  
  3301.  
  3302.  
  3303.  
  3304. Gordon Keys
  3305.  
  3306. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8335278> 1 year ago
  3307.  
  3308. The problem with all of this is whether the new partners/investors will
  3309. actually honour the past backers. I for one have utterly lost faith in
  3310. the project and don’t expect to see a product delivered nor my £300 ever
  3311. again.
  3312.  
  3313. I shall be putting this down to experience and shall probably never use
  3314. Indiegogo again.
  3315.  
  3316.  
  3317.  
  3318.  
  3319. scott.henderson
  3320.  
  3321. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3201718> 1 year ago
  3322.  
  3323. Thanks for the update.
  3324.  
  3325. We all look forward to getting some detailed updates once everything is
  3326. signed and finalized with the new investor and mentors.
  3327.  
  3328. We need to actually SEE that the project is moving forward again. That
  3329. will hopefully alleviate some of this wasted time and energy being spend
  3330. by some backers in trying to get a refund from a crowdfunding campaign.
  3331. Everyone spent hard earned money to support Wedg, but they should have
  3332. done so knowing the risks involved in these ventures.
  3333.  
  3334.  
  3335.  
  3336.  
  3337. David Aldred
  3338.  
  3339. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> 1 year ago
  3340.  
  3341. Given your new partnership, I think it’s time to restore some
  3342. credibility with your backers and provide more details (like the name!)
  3343. of this elusive ‘3rd party’ company which is being blamed (along with
  3344. the developer) for the project being in the current position.
  3345.  
  3346.  
  3347.  
  3348.  
  3349. dbrissenden
  3350.  
  3351. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8114757> 1 year ago
  3352.  
  3353. If anyone wants to try to get their money back they could try the small
  3354. claims court???
  3355.  
  3356. Interesting wording under the Indiegogo T&Cs:
  3357. https://www.indiegogo.com/about/terms
  3358. under the arbitration section.
  3359.  
  3360. Article here about small claims court:
  3361. http://venturebeat.com/2013/01/22/why-this-jilted-kickstarter-backer-decided-to-sue-why-he-was-right/
  3362.  
  3363.  
  3364.  
  3365.  
  3366. jrogers31
  3367.  
  3368. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> 1 year ago
  3369.  
  3370. Nikolai Tesla - apologies for some reason the naff Indiegogo website
  3371. shows 'the at sign' on my computer when I type '’ but not when you read
  3372. the comments VC-PA@mmu.ac.uk (now its working!)
  3373. I guess it is screened by his PA but please check on his link here
  3374. http://www2.mmu.ac.uk/about/governance/vice-chancellor/
  3375.  
  3376.  
  3377.  
  3378.  
  3379. Nikolai Tesla
  3380.  
  3381. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> 1 year ago
  3382.  
  3383. jrogers31: Is MMU Professor Press EMail address VC-Pmmu.ac.uk correct?
  3384. Thank you in advance.
  3385.  
  3386.  
  3387.  
  3388.  
  3389. jrogers31
  3390.  
  3391. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> 1 year ago
  3392.  
  3393. Nikolai Tesla and @ALL Vice chancellor of MMU Professor Malcolm Press:
  3394. VC-PAmmu.ac.uk
  3395. Louise Kenworthy-Taylor is an Incubation Services Manager at Innospace:
  3396. innospace@mmu.ac.uk
  3397. Manchester evening news: helen.johnson@menmedia.co.uk
  3398. BBC watchdog: watchdog@bbc.co.uk Use “watchdog army” in title of email
  3399. to BBC Watchdog
  3400.  
  3401.  
  3402.  
  3403.  
  3404. Nikolai Tesla
  3405.  
  3406. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> 1 year ago
  3407.  
  3408. @jrogers31: I do agree, we need all backers to Email these institutions
  3409. in order to set pressure to Mr. Afzal/WEDG. Please provide, again, the
  3410. Email addresses of each institution that we all need to write in order
  3411. to submit our complaints/concerns/disappointments about Mr. Afzal/WEDG.
  3412. Thank you.
  3413.  
  3414.  
  3415.  
  3416.  
  3417. jrogers31
  3418.  
  3419. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> 1 year ago
  3420.  
  3421. @Bryan Walker – nice research – presumably because on kickstarter WEDG
  3422. failed to reach its funding target of £90,000.00. Solution? – go to
  3423. Indiegogo with a lower funding target (£71,000.00) and then get MMU and
  3424. MEN to publicise the “achievment” of reaching the target to draw in even
  3425. more backers by associating the project with a university. MMU and MEN
  3426. were effectively acting as “shills” to attract more funding from
  3427. backers. They have to be in the frame. The truth will out eventually.
  3428.  
  3429.  
  3430.  
  3431.  
  3432. jrogers31
  3433.  
  3434. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> 1 year ago
  3435.  
  3436. @Marc Solondz and @ALL – yes it may go the way of Zano but Mr Afzal’s
  3437. reputation and location is intimately tied to MMU who are in part
  3438. responsible http://www.mmu.ac.uk/news/news-items/2946/ – this gave
  3439. confidence to all backers. If any backer has the time to write a comment
  3440. here about their concens then they have the time to email – the VC of
  3441. MMU, – BBC watchdog, the Manchester Evening News, etc. 968 individual
  3442. complaints have a chance of getting the matter properly investigated.
  3443.  
  3444.  
  3445.  
  3446.  
  3447. Marc Solondz
  3448.  
  3449. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8716841> 1 year ago
  3450.  
  3451. This is the same cock and bull story we were told about the previous
  3452. backers. All I see is zero progress and empty promises. This is just
  3453. like the Zano debacle that occurred on Kickstarter.
  3454.  
  3455.  
  3456.  
  3457.  
  3458. jrogers31
  3459.  
  3460. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> 1 year ago
  3461.  
  3462. @Nikolai Tesla – exactly – if only @ALL would each email their concerns
  3463. to the VC of MMU – about Mr Afzal that would help Team WEDG get real.
  3464.  
  3465.  
  3466.  
  3467.  
  3468. Nikolai Tesla
  3469.  
  3470. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> 1 year ago
  3471.  
  3472. @jrogers31: That is a great website. It is not too far off from what
  3473. WEDG updates are like.
  3474.  
  3475. @ALL: I do agree with the recent comments. Most if not all of the WEDG
  3476. updates are providing us with no tangible facts. WEDG needs to provide
  3477. specifics (i.e. names, dates, schedules, quantities, designs, pictures,
  3478. videos, budgets, etc.). Until then it is all just fluff. What intrigues
  3479. me is why does WEDG post at all? Are they trying to reach a statute of
  3480. limitations with UK and/or Indiegogo law?
  3481.  
  3482.  
  3483.  
  3484.  
  3485. jrogers31
  3486.  
  3487. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> 1 year ago
  3488.  
  3489. When I look at this and other updates it occurred to me that they may
  3490. have been written with the help of this robot
  3491. http://www.plainenglish.co.uk/gobbledygook-generator.html – the
  3492. similarities are quite striking.
  3493.  
  3494.  
  3495.  
  3496.  
  3497. dbrissenden
  3498.  
  3499. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8114757> 1 year ago
  3500.  
  3501. Whilst I value the update, it really told us nothing.
  3502. Who are the new backers? I trust they are maintaining all the perks
  3503. everyone signed up to?
  3504. Importantly, what is the new timescale? Given the amount of time lapse,
  3505. are there any impacts on hardware?
  3506.  
  3507.  
  3508.  
  3509.  
  3510. scott.henderson
  3511.  
  3512. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3201718> 1 year ago
  3513.  
  3514. Thank you for the brief update today!
  3515.  
  3516. This is the type of information this group of supporters needs on a
  3517. regular basis. Short and to the point on what’s been going on. 5 minutes
  3518. out of your busy schedules each week just to let us know the project is
  3519. creeping forward.
  3520.  
  3521. Looking forward to hearing everything is signed off and development work
  3522. is beginning anew.
  3523.  
  3524.  
  3525.  
  3526.  
  3527. Jeremy Lai
  3528.  
  3529. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8879281> 1 year ago
  3530.  
  3531. @Bryan Walker – looks like it’s going to be a tough one… if you do make
  3532. any grounds with them… you have a supporter here.
  3533.  
  3534.  
  3535.  
  3536.  
  3537. jrogers31
  3538.  
  3539. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> 1 year ago
  3540.  
  3541. @Bryan Walker – I note the part in their where they say “we don’t
  3542. intestinally observe radio silence…” did you cut and paste their
  3543. or was it a typo on your part? If the former then intestinal seams
  3544. appropriate when the is taken in the round – their is a
  3545. product of the intestines.
  3546.  
  3547.  
  3548.  
  3549.  
  3550. jrogers31
  3551.  
  3552. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> 1 year ago
  3553.  
  3554. @Bryan Walker – yes – no is what I received when I brought it to
  3555. their attention. If one wants to stimulate the interest of journalists
  3556. or a TV consumer program such as BBC watchdog – then many hundreds of
  3557. emails from disgruntled consumers need to be received – as said before
  3558. emails from 968 backers would fill an inbox and may stimulate interest.
  3559.  
  3560.  
  3561.  
  3562.  
  3563. Nikolai Tesla
  3564.  
  3565. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> 1 year ago
  3566.  
  3567. Is there anyone local to Manchester, UK that could pay a visit to Mr.
  3568. Afzal in order to provide a face to face update? At the worst a private
  3569. investigator could provide more information about his whereabouts in
  3570. regards to WEDG.
  3571.  
  3572.  
  3573.  
  3574.  
  3575. jrogers31
  3576.  
  3577. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> 1 year ago
  3578.  
  3579. @Bryan Walker – and don’t forget this one either
  3580. http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/business/butt-firm-wedg-smashes-crowdfunding-7898382
  3581. Isn’t it amazing how poor journalism is in the UK and in Manchester in
  3582. particular as the newspaper have not done a follow up story! It would
  3583. make a good headline when one considers that ‘Wedge" is slang for
  3584. “cash”. Manchester Evening News investigates: “What happend to your
  3585. WEDG?” or "Afzal’s WEDG" Works on lots of levels. ?Try to bring to their
  3586. attention?
  3587.  
  3588.  
  3589.  
  3590.  
  3591. jrogers31
  3592.  
  3593. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> 1 year ago
  3594.  
  3595. @bryan walker – if you go back far enough you will find a copy of their
  3596. response to my enquiries – it definitely touched a nerve. I also copied
  3597. my email enquiries to the VC of MMU. The problem is that batting away
  3598. one or two disappointed backers sending an email is not a problem but
  3599. its harder when there are in the region of 968 to fend off. I mean this
  3600. http://www.mmu.ac.uk/news/news-items/2946/ gave confidence to all
  3601. backers. I printed a copy so if they take it down they are still in the
  3602. frame.
  3603.  
  3604.  
  3605.  
  3606.  
  3607. jrogers31
  3608.  
  3609. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> 1 year ago
  3610.  
  3611. If Mr Afzal still has any “currency” and by that I mean a reputation
  3612. worth maintaining (not our cash – he certainly has all of that!) it will
  3613. be how he is viewed at his Alma Mater, which helped promote and give
  3614. authority to his campaign. Backers may wish to express their feelings on
  3615. the matter to the vice-chancellor of MMU as they may be able to bring
  3616. some pressure to bear as their reputation is tarnished by association.
  3617. There are 968 backers – more than enough to fill an Inbox!
  3618.  
  3619.  
  3620.  
  3621.  
  3622. Jason Myatt
  3623.  
  3624. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/1967690> 1 year ago
  3625.  
  3626. I’d like to agree with @Bryan… Please WEDG; just talk to us ! Simple :)
  3627.  
  3628.  
  3629.  
  3630.  
  3631. Jeremy Lai
  3632.  
  3633. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8879281> 1 year ago
  3634.  
  3635. @bryan any luck with getting the money back?
  3636.  
  3637.  
  3638.  
  3639.  
  3640. Gaston Cardey
  3641.  
  3642. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8821945> 1 year ago
  3643.  
  3644. Hi, Bryan,
  3645. I’ve uploaded the file to:
  3646. https://www.docdroid.net/Fp4dgYo/statement-12-04-15.pdf.html
  3647.  
  3648.  
  3649.  
  3650.  
  3651. Gaston Cardey
  3652.  
  3653. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8821945> 1 year ago
  3654.  
  3655. I don’t support you and don’t send you encouraging words. I don’t want
  3656. the product (like this will ever exist). I want my money
  3657. back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  3658. I don’t know why you need “some investors”. We all give you money for
  3659. this proyect and “theorically”, was enough.
  3660. Give me my money. You’re helding me against my will in this “thing”. Cut
  3661. me loose. Give me my money.
  3662.  
  3663.  
  3664.  
  3665.  
  3666. t.munari
  3667.  
  3668. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/7463940> 1 year ago
  3669.  
  3670. well, well… strange update has not been posted april 1st.
  3671. why not try to build, first, confidence in your creditors?
  3672.  
  3673.  
  3674.  
  3675.  
  3676. Lex Drury
  3677.  
  3678. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3907235> 1 year ago
  3679.  
  3680. The weekend and start of the week have past and moving into the
  3681. following weekend. Where is that update you mentioned?
  3682.  
  3683.  
  3684.  
  3685.  
  3686. Gordon Keys
  3687.  
  3688. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8335278> 1 year ago
  3689.  
  3690. “Please accept our sincerest apologies for the radio silence…”
  3691.  
  3692. We shall not accept your apology, as it is to be expected, the norm, how
  3693. things are with all things Wedg like. It is mostly silence…… then a bit
  3694. of white noise……. then some fluff…… and……. phzzzt……. silence! Carry on.
  3695. Now where do I buy my DJ216? Or maybe the DJ215? Or a TS-212P? Any ideas?
  3696.  
  3697.  
  3698.  
  3699.  
  3700. Gordon Keys
  3701.  
  3702. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8335278> over 1 year ago
  3703.  
  3704. Wish I could add a picture to this site!
  3705.  
  3706. http://s1268.photobucket.com/user/Gordon_Keys/media/wedg%20pic_zpszjjry1vu.jpg.html
  3707.  
  3708. :D
  3709.  
  3710.  
  3711.  
  3712.  
  3713. Gordon Keys
  3714.  
  3715. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8335278> over 1 year ago
  3716.  
  3717. Ooh, ooh, there’s an update? Oh no, wait. It was an update to tell us
  3718. there will be an update about an update. Cool. Glad to hear it. I love a
  3719. Wedgy update!
  3720.  
  3721.  
  3722.  
  3723.  
  3724. dbrissenden
  3725.  
  3726. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8114757> over 1 year ago
  3727.  
  3728. @Brian Walker
  3729. Please try again ;)
  3730.  
  3731.  
  3732.  
  3733.  
  3734. Funs
  3735.  
  3736. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8707331> over 1 year ago
  3737.  
  3738. Just a thought. As many of us have been disappointed in many campaigns
  3739. on IGG an KS as well, I would fund a campaign that tracks these kind of
  3740. crooks. Anybody else? At least funding a campaign that tracks these guys
  3741. is more satisfying than reading these updates…
  3742.  
  3743.  
  3744.  
  3745.  
  3746. Ron Ko
  3747.  
  3748. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8444779> over 1 year ago
  3749.  
  3750. I almost forgot this campaign but was awaken by that silly update. The
  3751. update is no update.
  3752. Anyway, the 6 months you asked for is over. Keep this campaign as lesson
  3753. learnt for your next success but please return money to us.
  3754.  
  3755.  
  3756.  
  3757.  
  3758. t.munari
  3759.  
  3760. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/7463940> over 1 year ago
  3761.  
  3762. Probably someone has been abducted by aliens wanting to steal their NAS
  3763. technology?
  3764.  
  3765.  
  3766.  
  3767.  
  3768. Brad Magri-Olson
  3769.  
  3770. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8709187> over 1 year ago
  3771.  
  3772. Seriously? Did you just post an update telling us that the update will
  3773. be coming shortly? What a joke… How about you just refund us all…
  3774. Absolutely pathetic, how can anybody trust you to deliver the product
  3775. you promised, which is now extremely outdated.
  3776.  
  3777.  
  3778.  
  3779.  
  3780. Peter Dalmaris
  3781.  
  3782. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/7104926> over 1 year ago
  3783.  
  3784. The suspense is killing me! I can’t wait for the new dramatic news!
  3785. Maybe we’ll get an update in the next six months.
  3786.  
  3787.  
  3788.  
  3789.  
  3790. John Raffin
  3791.  
  3792. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4406292> over 1 year ago
  3793.  
  3794. Wow, I’ve had many Indiegogo / Kickstarter updates before but none as
  3795. unintentionally hilarious as this one! Very Monty Python.
  3796.  
  3797.  
  3798.  
  3799.  
  3800. dbrissenden
  3801.  
  3802. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8114757> over 1 year ago
  3803.  
  3804. @Brian Walker
  3805. http://pastebin.com/rQWAZq7c as requested.
  3806.  
  3807.  
  3808.  
  3809.  
  3810. dbrissenden
  3811.  
  3812. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8114757> over 1 year ago
  3813.  
  3814. I have been in contact with Manchester trading standards and they have
  3815. indicated that there is a case of breach of contract and that it is
  3816. possible to pursue for the item or damages. Quite a long detailed
  3817. response from them.
  3818. You can lodge a complaint here via CAB:
  3819. https://ssl.datamotion.com/form.aspx?co=3438&frm=citacomplainform&to=flare.fromforms
  3820.  
  3821.  
  3822.  
  3823.  
  3824. Gaston Cardey
  3825.  
  3826. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8821945> over 1 year ago
  3827.  
  3828. Hi, @Rich Willars,
  3829. I’ve bought a QNAP NAS (TS453 PRO) that works great. Even lets me
  3830. install a program called ownButt that works exactly like Dropbox (has an
  3831. app that can be installed on Windows, iOS, MacOS and Android). It also
  3832. came with a LOT of software bundled and at no cost. It even can work as
  3833. an iTunes server.
  3834. Has 4 HDD bays, but there’s other model (TS253 PRO) that came with 2
  3835. bays and it’s cheaper. It also can create RAID 0 and 1.
  3836. The initial start up is really simple.
  3837. Hope it helps.
  3838.  
  3839.  
  3840.  
  3841.  
  3842. Rich Willars
  3843.  
  3844. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8442821> over 1 year ago
  3845.  
  3846. Seeing as it looks like this isn’t going to happen, has anyone had any
  3847. thoughts about alternative off the shelf products, or already invested
  3848. in one?
  3849.  
  3850.  
  3851.  
  3852.  
  3853. Danilo Montesi
  3854.  
  3855. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/2102128> over 1 year ago
  3856.  
  3857. I agree
  3858.  
  3859.  
  3860.  
  3861.  
  3862. Gaston Cardey
  3863.  
  3864. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8821945> over 1 year ago
  3865.  
  3866. Hi everyone,
  3867. It’s terrible to say, but I really think that there will be no more
  3868. updates. Of course, “hasta la vista, money”. I’m convinced that this was
  3869. a scam from the beginning. And no one will convince me otherwise. Team
  3870. WEDG alone is giving me all the arguments so I can say this (almost a
  3871. year has gone from the delivery date).
  3872. For me was a very bad experience. This money (315 pounds) is a lot in my
  3873. country.
  3874. Never again will contribute in IndieGoGo and will sure to spread.
  3875. Good luck to all.
  3876.  
  3877.  
  3878.  
  3879.  
  3880. Joerg Erdmann
  3881.  
  3882. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4151450> over 1 year ago
  3883.  
  3884. just let me know if t’s worth spending my time on waitin’!!!
  3885.  
  3886.  
  3887.  
  3888.  
  3889. Jaypaul Barrow
  3890.  
  3891. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4145374> over 1 year ago
  3892.  
  3893. Update! Update! Update! Duck me it’s not hard to say. Still working
  3894. guys. Bear with us.
  3895.  
  3896.  
  3897.  
  3898.  
  3899. MARC-ANDRE RUNCIE-UNGER
  3900.  
  3901. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/5105783> over 1 year ago
  3902.  
  3903. So what’s happened to the promised ongoing updates???
  3904.  
  3905. Come on guys tell us what’s happening! :(
  3906.  
  3907.  
  3908.  
  3909.  
  3910. snaug9
  3911.  
  3912. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3216651> over 1 year ago
  3913.  
  3914. any news?
  3915.  
  3916.  
  3917.  
  3918.  
  3919. Scott McQueen
  3920.  
  3921. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8443500> over 1 year ago
  3922.  
  3923. For all those UK based, I believe we can take this to the ‘Small Claims’
  3924. court in order to get a refund, I’ve been patient but I think Mr Afzal
  3925. has cut and run… with our cash!
  3926.  
  3927.  
  3928.  
  3929.  
  3930. jrogers31
  3931.  
  3932. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> over 1 year ago
  3933.  
  3934. @dbrissenden 1 to 5 all good points. One avenue which should also be
  3935. considered is for all dissatisfied backers to individually bring the
  3936. matter to the attention of vice chancellor of MMU – the university who
  3937. took pride lauding Mr Afzal’s success in raising funds for WEDG and who
  3938. provided his company with the office space. Mr Afzal’s behaviour should
  3939. once again be brought to the attention of the university for at the very
  3940. least “behaviour unbecoming of a post-graduate student of MMU”
  3941.  
  3942.  
  3943.  
  3944.  
  3945. daves
  3946.  
  3947. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8713835> over 1 year ago
  3948.  
  3949. Come on guys, give us an update! You are pushing even the most patient
  3950. of backers to frustration.
  3951.  
  3952.  
  3953.  
  3954.  
  3955. dbrissenden
  3956.  
  3957. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8114757> over 1 year ago
  3958.  
  3959. 5/5
  3960. It is a regrettable situation to be in and I know I’m not along in being
  3961. put off backing future projects here or anywhere else and this kind of
  3962. behaviour is ultimately damaging to crowd funding
  3963.  
  3964.  
  3965.  
  3966.  
  3967. dbrissenden
  3968.  
  3969. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8114757> over 1 year ago
  3970.  
  3971. 4/5
  3972. In order to try and recover finds, it might be more useful for people to
  3973. try Group Litigation from someone such as
  3974. http://www.edwincoe.com/collapse-of-crowdfunder-torquing-group-draws-backers-to-class-action-specialist-lawyers-edwin-coe/
  3975. It appears they have experience in this field with this kind of thing
  3976. and they are based in the UK. Further information can be found here:
  3977. http://www.edwincoe.com/our-expertise/group-action-litigation/
  3978.  
  3979.  
  3980.  
  3981.  
  3982. dbrissenden
  3983.  
  3984. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8114757> over 1 year ago
  3985.  
  3986. 3/5
  3987. Whilst I agree it is the right thing to alert trading standards and the
  3988. Serious Fraud Office, I doubt whether this will get any funds back the
  3989. backers. It might however prevent Wedg or any of its employees, the only
  3990. one appears to be Shebaz anyway, cropping up again and trying this with
  3991. other unsuspecting people.
  3992.  
  3993.  
  3994.  
  3995.  
  3996. dbrissenden
  3997.  
  3998. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8114757> over 1 year ago
  3999.  
  4000. 2/5
  4001. I was willing to wait and continue backing the project but being
  4002. cynical, I’m now even starting to wonder whether there was even a
  4003. situation in the first place; did any of litigation with an unknown
  4004. technology provider exist or has the fact that Wedg has disappeared off
  4005. the face of the earth actually an indication of an elaborate scam?
  4006.  
  4007.  
  4008.  
  4009.  
  4010. dbrissenden
  4011.  
  4012. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8114757> over 1 year ago
  4013.  
  4014. 1/4
  4015. The lack of updates is clearly worrying people and rightly so. There is
  4016. nowhere I know of in Manchester where you cannot get on the internet and
  4017. it only takes 5 minutes to send backers an email saying whats going on,
  4018. so I’m even starting to lose sympathy on this one.
  4019.  
  4020.  
  4021.  
  4022.  
  4023. snaug9
  4024.  
  4025. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3216651> over 1 year ago
  4026.  
  4027. Any News?
  4028.  
  4029.  
  4030.  
  4031.  
  4032. t.munari
  4033.  
  4034. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/7463940> over 1 year ago
  4035.  
  4036. What I can say:
  4037. Website is down since forever;
  4038. I tried to contact him here and in twitter
  4039. (https://twitter.com/shehbaz_afzal) which has since the gone “private”,
  4040. no .
  4041. No apologies, no information apart some scarce and vague info sometimes
  4042. here.
  4043. Mr. Shehbaz Afzal, a real scumbag…. with no excuse.
  4044.  
  4045.  
  4046.  
  4047.  
  4048. jrogers31
  4049.  
  4050. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> over 1 year ago
  4051.  
  4052. 2/2 and in the local newspaper
  4053. http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/business/butt-firm-wedg-smashes-crowdfunding-7898382
  4054. This gave the project authority and the backers confidence. I cannot
  4055. understand what circumstances could exist to prevent Mr Afzal from
  4056. giving backers regular and honest updates unless the intent of the
  4057. fundraising was for a different purpose.
  4058.  
  4059.  
  4060.  
  4061.  
  4062. jrogers31
  4063.  
  4064. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> over 1 year ago
  4065.  
  4066. 1/2 Recent comments from backers are appropriate -the need for regular
  4067. updates and -the risks associated with such projects. My concern is that
  4068. this start up was heavily promoted and lauded by Mr Afzal’s Alma Mater
  4069. http://www.mmu.ac.uk/news/news-items/2946/
  4070.  
  4071.  
  4072.  
  4073.  
  4074. Michel Castan
  4075.  
  4076. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8203603> over 1 year ago
  4077.  
  4078. I propose instead to send regularly on any new project on Indiegogo the
  4079. following comment (possibly add other projects on the list):
  4080. Warning !!
  4081. Before financing a project on Indiegogo, remember that it may be wasted
  4082. as seems to be the case for the following projects that no longer gives
  4083. signs of life (at least so far):
  4084. . https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/3d-pocketcopter-the-flying-camera
  4085. .
  4086. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/wedg-the-personal-butt-you-ve-been-waiting-for
  4087.  
  4088.  
  4089.  
  4090.  
  4091. Nikolai Tesla
  4092.  
  4093. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> over 1 year ago
  4094.  
  4095. @James Taylor: I understand the hardships that new business and “new”
  4096. concepts bring. I did warn them about these perils and even suggested
  4097. them, early on, to study a documentary on how 3-D printer start ups
  4098. faced similar issues. The conflict here is the lack of transparency and
  4099. more frequent detailed communication with the backers. Reaching out
  4100. honestly and regularly to the backers does not cost $$$, it just costs
  4101. time and dedication to those who backed MR. SHEHBAZ AFZAL’s idea.
  4102.  
  4103.  
  4104.  
  4105.  
  4106. James Taylor
  4107.  
  4108. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/5657565> over 1 year ago
  4109.  
  4110. I am not ready to throw in the towel on this just yet. I have run a
  4111. company before and I understand the challenges that brings – creating
  4112. something new is unbelievably difficult. The story of the OS developer
  4113. is crazy enough that I believe it is true. Please remember: you did not
  4114. buy anything. You donated to a project and – if and when the project
  4115. succeeds – you will be “given” a perk. The language is very clear on
  4116. this. Any of these crowdfunded projects are inherently risky.
  4117.  
  4118.  
  4119.  
  4120.  
  4121. Carlos Garcia Conde
  4122.  
  4123. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4819372> over 1 year ago
  4124.  
  4125. WEDG = SCAM = INDIEGOGO
  4126.  
  4127.  
  4128.  
  4129.  
  4130. Anthony Reid
  4131.  
  4132. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8691990> over 1 year ago
  4133.  
  4134. well im asuming by now this was a scam as iv not herd anything back
  4135. think its time to start looking into the legal avenue on this.. has
  4136. anyone els herd anything from them…?
  4137.  
  4138.  
  4139.  
  4140.  
  4141. Ron Ko
  4142.  
  4143. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8444779> over 1 year ago
  4144.  
  4145. 1 month left
  4146.  
  4147.  
  4148.  
  4149.  
  4150. Ruanth Chrisley Thyssen
  4151.  
  4152. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/485007> over 1 year ago
  4153.  
  4154. I want my money back, anyone else? Can’t figure out if this was a scam
  4155. from the start or just ended that way. Seriously this is ridiculous,
  4156. last indiegogo “funding” for me. We better get a soon or some
  4157. answers at least, people should have their credit card details when they
  4158. want to start a project; that way they don’t just run away
  4159.  
  4160.  
  4161.  
  4162.  
  4163. tom.attree
  4164.  
  4165. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8491782> over 1 year ago
  4166.  
  4167. It’s probably about time for an update now…
  4168.  
  4169.  
  4170.  
  4171.  
  4172. Nikolai Tesla
  4173.  
  4174. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> over 1 year ago
  4175.  
  4176. @Bryan Walker, sattler, Patrik Jones, Carlos Garcia Conde: My
  4177. recommendation to you all is to report WEDG/MR.SHEHBAZ AFZAL, to the
  4178. already stated authorities, if you have not done so at this moment. The
  4179. alternative is the begging for a proper response from WEDG/MR.SHEHBAZ
  4180. AFZAL in a vicious cycle of nonsense. The technology has been eclipsed
  4181. by multiple competitors in 2015 and the only option is find proper
  4182. answers in this matter by the local authorities.
  4183.  
  4184.  
  4185.  
  4186.  
  4187. sattler
  4188.  
  4189. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8272012> over 1 year ago
  4190.  
  4191. This is seriously bothering me now. I can understand the problems you
  4192. have faced, but I would at least expect you to inform us on the
  4193. progress, as little as that may be.
  4194.  
  4195.  
  4196.  
  4197.  
  4198. Patrick Jones
  4199.  
  4200. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/5225415> over 1 year ago
  4201.  
  4202. @WEDG…please can you give us an update?
  4203. Thank you.
  4204.  
  4205.  
  4206.  
  4207.  
  4208. Carlos Garcia Conde
  4209.  
  4210. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4819372> over 1 year ago
  4211.  
  4212. I want a refund
  4213. This scam was my last time at Indiegogo
  4214.  
  4215.  
  4216.  
  4217.  
  4218. Rémi
  4219.  
  4220. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/9463606> over 1 year ago
  4221.  
  4222. I just got an answer from Team Wedg to my email. They apparently wrote
  4223. an update but it does not appear on the page. They are checking with IGG
  4224. to fix this issue
  4225.  
  4226.  
  4227.  
  4228.  
  4229. Pierre Lang
  4230.  
  4231. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4161016> over 1 year ago
  4232.  
  4233. #Team Wedg: 7 month ago, you answered to my question about coding anew
  4234. like this:“@Pierre Lang[..]. Ditching his work and starting again isn’t
  4235. possible yet as we’d have to prove a number of factors regarding the
  4236. authenticity of the ’new’code – that in actual fact would be a legal
  4237. procedure within itself. ^Chris”
  4238. So what makes recoding possible now, considering you don’t even have
  4239. legal support anymore?
  4240.  
  4241.  
  4242.  
  4243.  
  4244. Nikolai Tesla
  4245.  
  4246. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> over 1 year ago
  4247.  
  4248. Hello Bryan Walker,
  4249.  
  4250. Many of us already have gone that route with Indiegogo and at least they
  4251. provided you with a more elaborate response with the same statement
  4252. (Indiegogo does not care). I still much suggest that you report it to
  4253. the UK authorities as outlined on my previous posts. This is one of the
  4254. few options that we all have in order to bring this issue to an end,
  4255. justice will prevail against WEDG/MR.SHEHBAZ AFZAL if wrong doing is found.
  4256.  
  4257.  
  4258.  
  4259.  
  4260. Carlos Garcia Conde
  4261.  
  4262. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4819372> over 1 year ago
  4263.  
  4264. I’m not a fool, I reported the scam to Police yesterday
  4265. No more games, I want my money back
  4266.  
  4267.  
  4268.  
  4269.  
  4270. Ruanth Chrisley Thyssen
  4271.  
  4272. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/485007> over 1 year ago
  4273.  
  4274. I want my money back, anyone else? Can’t figure out if this was a scam
  4275. from the start or just ended that way. Seriously this is ridiculous,
  4276. last indiegogo “funding” for me. We better get a soon or some
  4277. answers at least, people should have their credit card details when they
  4278. want to start a project; that way they don’t just run away
  4279.  
  4280.  
  4281.  
  4282.  
  4283. tom.attree
  4284.  
  4285. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8491782> over 1 year ago
  4286.  
  4287. It’s probably about time for an update now…
  4288.  
  4289.  
  4290.  
  4291.  
  4292. Nikolai Tesla
  4293.  
  4294. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> over 1 year ago
  4295.  
  4296. @Bryan Walker, sattler, Patrik Jones, Carlos Garcia Conde: My
  4297. recommendation to you all is to report WEDG/MR.SHEHBAZ AFZAL, to the
  4298. already stated authorities, if you have not done so at this moment. The
  4299. alternative is the begging for a proper response from WEDG/MR.SHEHBAZ
  4300. AFZAL in a vicious cycle of nonsense. The technology has been eclipsed
  4301. by multiple competitors in 2015 and the only option is find proper
  4302. answers in this matter by the local authorities.
  4303.  
  4304.  
  4305.  
  4306.  
  4307. sattler
  4308.  
  4309. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8272012> over 1 year ago
  4310.  
  4311. This is seriously bothering me now. I can understand the problems you
  4312. have faced, but I would at least expect you to inform us on the
  4313. progress, as little as that may be.
  4314.  
  4315.  
  4316.  
  4317.  
  4318. Patrick Jones
  4319.  
  4320. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/5225415> over 1 year ago
  4321.  
  4322. @WEDG…please can you give us an update?
  4323. Thank you.
  4324.  
  4325.  
  4326.  
  4327.  
  4328. Carlos Garcia Conde
  4329.  
  4330. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4819372> over 1 year ago
  4331.  
  4332. I want a refund
  4333. This scam was my last time at Indiegogo
  4334.  
  4335.  
  4336.  
  4337.  
  4338. Rémi
  4339.  
  4340. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/9463606> over 1 year ago
  4341.  
  4342. I just got an answer from Team Wedg to my email. They apparently wrote
  4343. an update but it does not appear on the page. They are checking with IGG
  4344. to fix this issue
  4345.  
  4346.  
  4347.  
  4348.  
  4349. Pierre Lang
  4350.  
  4351. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4161016> over 1 year ago
  4352.  
  4353. #Team Wedg: 7 month ago, you answered to my question about coding anew
  4354. like this:“@Pierre Lang[..]. Ditching his work and starting again isn’t
  4355. possible yet as we’d have to prove a number of factors regarding the
  4356. authenticity of the ’new’code – that in actual fact would be a legal
  4357. procedure within itself. ^Chris”
  4358. So what makes recoding possible now, considering you don’t even have
  4359. legal support anymore?
  4360.  
  4361.  
  4362.  
  4363.  
  4364. Nikolai Tesla
  4365.  
  4366. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> over 1 year ago
  4367.  
  4368. Hello Bryan Walker,
  4369.  
  4370. Many of us already have gone that route with Indiegogo and at least they
  4371. provided you with a more elaborate response with the same statement
  4372. (Indiegogo does not care). I still much suggest that you report it to
  4373. the UK authorities as outlined on my previous posts. This is one of the
  4374. few options that we all have in order to bring this issue to an end,
  4375. justice will prevail against WEDG/MR.SHEHBAZ AFZAL if wrong doing is found.
  4376.  
  4377.  
  4378.  
  4379.  
  4380. Carlos Garcia Conde
  4381.  
  4382. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4819372> over 1 year ago
  4383.  
  4384. I’m not a fool, I reported the scam to Police yesterday
  4385. No more games, I want my money back
  4386.  
  4387.  
  4388.  
  4389.  
  4390. Nikolai Tesla
  4391.  
  4392. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> over 1 year ago
  4393.  
  4394. @Bryan Walker, niki.baev, Gordon Keys, t.munari, spencer robinson and
  4395. any other backer that is upset with the state of affairs with WEDG LTD.
  4396. Being a UK citizen or resident is NOT required in order to report this
  4397. issue to UK authorities. You are all welcome to do so. I have already
  4398. outlined (multiple times) the methods you all can use to bring a legal
  4399. investigation against WEDG LTD and MR. SHEHBAZ AFZAL. Please use them,
  4400. it is the few tools that you have.
  4401.  
  4402.  
  4403.  
  4404.  
  4405. spencer robinson
  4406.  
  4407. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/9152571> over 1 year ago
  4408.  
  4409. Merry Christmas Shehbaz Afzal. I hope you get what you want, because
  4410. none of you backers look to be getting anything.!
  4411.  
  4412.  
  4413.  
  4414.  
  4415. Ron Ko
  4416.  
  4417. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8444779> over 1 year ago
  4418.  
  4419. As stated 6 full months to deliver the promise, there are 2 months left.
  4420. I don’t mind to count down that for u.
  4421.  
  4422.  
  4423.  
  4424.  
  4425. t.munari
  4426.  
  4427. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/7463940> over 1 year ago
  4428.  
  4429. Please,
  4430. anyone in Uk that could try to understand what our Entrepreneur is doing?
  4431. I tried do contact him through twitter but (surprise) he has not replied.
  4432. I believe the only possibility we have is, someone in UK, filing a
  4433. request for a fraud prosecution.
  4434.  
  4435.  
  4436.  
  4437.  
  4438. nnik
  4439.  
  4440. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8709296> over 1 year ago
  4441.  
  4442. Hi. I want my money back. I want a full refund. Thanks!
  4443.  
  4444.  
  4445.  
  4446.  
  4447. Gordon Keys
  4448.  
  4449. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8335278> over 1 year ago
  4450.  
  4451. 1 month ago! Lol
  4452.  
  4453. “Dear backers
  4454.  
  4455. It gives us great joy to (finally) announce some very exciting news!!
  4456.  
  4457. Some months back we were approached by a small group of sympathising
  4458. programmers looking to further understand the difficulties our project
  4459. was experiencing and we’ve kept in touch since. At the time they we’re
  4460. planning to launch a crowdfunded project of their own…"
  4461.  
  4462. Why would other start-ups want to get involved in this atrocity? Another
  4463. month of radio silence. Why treat us like this?
  4464.  
  4465.  
  4466.  
  4467.  
  4468. nnik
  4469.  
  4470. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8709296> over 1 year ago
  4471.  
  4472. Hi. I want my money back. I want a full refund. Thanks!
  4473.  
  4474.  
  4475.  
  4476.  
  4477. Steven Newman
  4478.  
  4479. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/925661> over 1 year ago
  4480.  
  4481. @Carlos, I’ll also point out that whether we like it or not, this is
  4482. essentially venture capitalism in action and as such you have no
  4483. standing to report anything to the police. Kickstarter and Indiegogo
  4484. make no guarantees. You would need to prove actual malfeasance in court.
  4485. It is certainly frustrating what has happened, I agree. Updates could be
  4486. far more forthcoming and regular and should be. Even if there wasn’t
  4487. much if anything new to report.
  4488.  
  4489.  
  4490.  
  4491.  
  4492. Nikolai Tesla
  4493.  
  4494. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> over 1 year ago
  4495.  
  4496. 3 of 3
  4497. The more complaints submitted the more pressure will be introduced to
  4498. resolve this issue.
  4499.  
  4500. Company information:
  4501. WEDG LTD (NEW)
  4502. C/O Taxassist Accountants
  4503. 23 Flixton Road
  4504. Urmston
  4505. Manchester
  4506. M41 5AW
  4507.  
  4508. Company#08824160
  4509. Director ID: 917334076
  4510. Director: MR SHEHBAZ AFZAL
  4511.  
  4512. Write to the Manchester Evening News (newsdesk@men-news.co.uk) who wrote
  4513. about WEDG on 9 Oct 2014
  4514. (http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/business/butt-firm-wedg-smashes-crowdfunding-7898382),
  4515. Express your concerns about WEDG.
  4516.  
  4517.  
  4518.  
  4519.  
  4520. Nikolai Tesla
  4521.  
  4522. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> over 1 year ago
  4523.  
  4524. 2 of 3
  4525.  
  4526. @WEDG FUNDERS (that is you Carlos): You have the right to report this
  4527. situation to the corresponding authorities in the UK so they can
  4528. investigate:
  4529.  
  4530. The Insolvency Service, Companies House or the Serious Fraud Office.
  4531. More information at:
  4532.  
  4533. https://www.gov.uk/complain-about-a-limited-company
  4534.  
  4535. You can also submit a complaint to the Manchester Trading Standards at:
  4536.  
  4537. https://ssl.datamotion.com/form.aspx?co=3438&frm=citacomplainform&to=flare.fromforms
  4538.  
  4539.  
  4540.  
  4541.  
  4542. Nikolai Tesla
  4543.  
  4544. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> over 1 year ago
  4545.  
  4546. 1 of 3
  4547.  
  4548. Hello Carlos,
  4549.  
  4550. There is no need to contact the police but instead do the following
  4551. which is more effective on getting a solution to this situation with
  4552. WEDG / MR SHEHBAZ AFZAL. I have posted the following multiple times but
  4553. it is imperative that you do this if you require a solution this problem:
  4554.  
  4555.  
  4556.  
  4557.  
  4558. Carlos Garcia Conde
  4559.  
  4560. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4819372> over 1 year ago
  4561.  
  4562. SCAM, I WANT MY MONEY BACK NOW OR I’LL GO DIRECTLY TO POLICE
  4563. NO MORE TIME
  4564.  
  4565.  
  4566.  
  4567.  
  4568. Andrea Pietroboni
  4569.  
  4570. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/1106976> over 1 year ago
  4571.  
  4572. we want money no words
  4573.  
  4574.  
  4575.  
  4576.  
  4577. jrogers31
  4578.  
  4579. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> over 1 year ago
  4580.  
  4581. A letter on headed paper from WEDG’s insurance company stating that it
  4582. supported WEDG’s legal team in their dispute with a third party and
  4583. providing a letter from the lawyers stating that they were representing
  4584. WEDG in their dispute would have been sufficient evidence that the
  4585. updates from WEDG were truthful. These were never forthcoming casting
  4586. doubt on the veracity of the updates which contain many other
  4587. inconsistencies. WEDG’s updates contain no verifiable facts which is a
  4588. major problem
  4589.  
  4590.  
  4591.  
  4592.  
  4593. jrogers31
  4594.  
  4595. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> over 1 year ago
  4596.  
  4597. @Peter Dalmaris – it was alleged months ago that the software engineer
  4598. subsequently found to be on gardening leave from the third party
  4599. company, which began the dispute may have been a plant but it appears
  4600. that WEDG’s legal team were incapable of investigating or taking legal
  4601. action in this direction. The latter casts into doubt whether WEDG had
  4602. insurance to pay for a legal team as no proof of insurance or the
  4603. existance of a legal team was provided to backers despite many requests
  4604. for such proof
  4605.  
  4606.  
  4607.  
  4608.  
  4609. Peter Dalmaris
  4610.  
  4611. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/7104926> over 1 year ago
  4612.  
  4613. I found this story on Arstechnica: “Autodesk competitor that stole
  4614. AutoCAD source code blames rogue engineer”.
  4615.  
  4616. I wonder if it is similar case to what WEDG is dealing with.
  4617.  
  4618. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/11/autodesk-competitor-that-stole-autocad-source-code-blames-rogue-engineer/
  4619.  
  4620.  
  4621.  
  4622.  
  4623. Lewis Tsalis
  4624.  
  4625. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706426> over 1 year ago
  4626.  
  4627. That is good news, Shehbaz. Keep the updates coming, no matter how
  4628. insignificant. Hoping for more good news to come.
  4629.  
  4630.  
  4631.  
  4632.  
  4633. Nikolai Tesla
  4634.  
  4635. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> over 1 year ago
  4636.  
  4637. @TigerBus – “3 people” is not correct, last survey made by WEDG LTD,
  4638. over 4 months ago, was 199 of concerned backers that requested a refund
  4639. (~50% whom replied the survey). By this time I could provide you an
  4640. educated guess that this number is beyond 199. The opinions of all WEDG
  4641. backers need to be respected. As of this date no one here has lost
  4642. respect to anyone; let us keep it that way.
  4643.  
  4644.  
  4645.  
  4646.  
  4647. Brad Magri-Olson
  4648.  
  4649. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8709187> over 1 year ago
  4650.  
  4651. @TigerBus -Once again you are missing the point here. Nobody is
  4652. undermining the efforts of a campaign. WEDG have not done the right
  4653. thing by their backers and they deserve to be investigated. Yes, stuff
  4654. does happen, but the communication is key and has been severely lacking.
  4655. Their business decisions have undermined their backers and put their
  4656. project at risk as well as putting their backers off side. Everybody is
  4657. entitled to their opinion without having keyboard warriors personally
  4658. abusing them.
  4659.  
  4660.  
  4661.  
  4662.  
  4663. Tiger Bus
  4664.  
  4665. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706731> over 1 year ago
  4666.  
  4667. s/No/Not/
  4668.  
  4669.  
  4670.  
  4671.  
  4672. Tiger Bus
  4673.  
  4674. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706731> over 1 year ago
  4675.  
  4676. Hmm… nope. I don’t think undermining the efforts of a campaign with
  4677. actions like this needs to be tolerated, sorry. I also invested money
  4678. and I see stupid stuff like this as sabotage. We’re all in the same boat
  4679. here, some seem to forget that every once on a while. 3 people act up
  4680. like little kiddies who have not understood the rules of the game and
  4681. mess it up for 300 others. No. My. Game.
  4682.  
  4683.  
  4684.  
  4685.  
  4686. jrogers31
  4687.  
  4688. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> over 1 year ago
  4689.  
  4690. @Tiger Bus – although your opinion about WEDG may differ from that of
  4691. other contributors I do not think you have any right to make a
  4692. disparaging comment towards @Carlos Garcia Conde or any other
  4693. contributor who has a different opinion to yours. You do not know the
  4694. circumstances of other contributors or the details of the contribution
  4695. they made to WEDG, which may be to them a considerable sum of money – an
  4696. apology to CGC would be appropriate
  4697.  
  4698.  
  4699.  
  4700.  
  4701. Tiger Bus
  4702.  
  4703. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706731> over 1 year ago
  4704.  
  4705. Carlos: You are making a complete fool out of yourself. Better go tell
  4706. mommy, might be less embarrassing.
  4707.  
  4708.  
  4709.  
  4710.  
  4711. Carlos Garcia Conde
  4712.  
  4713. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4819372> over 1 year ago
  4714.  
  4715. Ok, after TEN emails and a lot of comments, and NO ANSWER I will
  4716. denounce to Wedg to police for Scam.
  4717. No more chances.
  4718.  
  4719.  
  4720.  
  4721.  
  4722. Steven Newman
  4723.  
  4724. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/925661> over 1 year ago
  4725.  
  4726. I couldn’t agree more with Scott Henderson. Crowd funding a project
  4727. brings inherent risk and no guarantees. This is almost a form of venture
  4728. capitalism. I appreciate that frustration that we’ve all felt with a
  4729. product that shows so much promise, but the ongoing bashing isn’t going
  4730. to accomplish anything. As far as we can tell, WEDG acted in good faith
  4731. before getting punched in the mouth by a Giant. It’s nice to see updates
  4732. starting to flow again and I’m glad to see things moving forward.
  4733.  
  4734.  
  4735.  
  4736.  
  4737. jrogers31
  4738.  
  4739. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> over 1 year ago
  4740.  
  4741. @Nikolai Tesla – I agree dissatisfied backers should continue to report
  4742. the activities of WEDG and Mr Afzal to the relevant authorities and
  4743. media. Doing so will ensure that their activities will come under
  4744. scrutiny in the public interest. Because we cannot independently verify
  4745. the content of updates we should be circumspect about their content.
  4746.  
  4747.  
  4748.  
  4749.  
  4750. Nikolai Tesla
  4751.  
  4752. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> over 1 year ago
  4753.  
  4754. @Bryan Walker,
  4755.  
  4756. Thank you for the correction. The “new” address for WEDG LTD is:
  4757.  
  4758. C/O Taxassist Accountants
  4759. 23 Flixton Road
  4760. Urmston
  4761. Manchester
  4762. M41 5AW
  4763.  
  4764. I urge all concerned backers to go ahead and submit your complaints as
  4765. outlined on previous posts in regardless to what update WEDG LTD/Mr.
  4766. Shehbaz Afzal continues to post. Submitting a complaint will provide an
  4767. unbiased investigation into this matter by a government and/or NEWS agency.
  4768.  
  4769.  
  4770.  
  4771.  
  4772. jrogers31
  4773.  
  4774. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> over 1 year ago
  4775.  
  4776. While backers may welcome the encouraging update with circumspection,
  4777. can we have more information – are the named programmers graduates or
  4778. undergraduates of MMU? When due diligence is done can we have specific
  4779. details of the objectives and milestones that WEDG will achieve going
  4780. forward. If with the help of the named programmers you are confident
  4781. that you will complete the project without using any disputed code will
  4782. you name and shame the third party who allegedly held up the project?
  4783.  
  4784.  
  4785.  
  4786.  
  4787. Brad Magri-Olson
  4788.  
  4789. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8709187> over 1 year ago
  4790.  
  4791. Too much time has passed for me and I now have an alternate solution.
  4792. Once again, i politely ask for a refund.
  4793.  
  4794.  
  4795.  
  4796.  
  4797. scott.henderson
  4798.  
  4799. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3201718> over 1 year ago
  4800.  
  4801. [1 of 3] It was great to read some promising news about the WEDG today.
  4802. I hope that everything can come together smoothly, in order to get this
  4803. project moving in the right direction again.
  4804.  
  4805. All of the loathing in the comments section has been discouraging I’m
  4806. sure for both the WEDG Team and definitely for those of us that still
  4807. believe in the concept. We all wholeheartedly believed at one point,
  4808. otherwise we would not have donated our hard-earned money.
  4809.  
  4810.  
  4811.  
  4812.  
  4813. scott.henderson
  4814.  
  4815. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3201718> over 1 year ago
  4816.  
  4817. [2 of 3 ] I’ve crowdfunded anthology graphics novels and other books
  4818. that were delayed a year and a half, so although I’m disappointed, I’ve
  4819. held back my frustration and haven’t vented here. Doing is simply
  4820. counter productive and a waste of time. I’ve been laid off work since
  4821. the end of June and a refund would definitely come in handy over the
  4822. holiday season, but I put my money towards a crowdfunded project I
  4823. believe in, instead of going out and purchasing an existing solution.
  4824.  
  4825.  
  4826.  
  4827.  
  4828. scott.henderson
  4829.  
  4830. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3201718> over 1 year ago
  4831.  
  4832. [3 of 3] Crowdfunding projects have inherent setbacks and delays. Yes
  4833. there are even some that never come to fruition. I’ve never heard of one
  4834. coming with a refund. Will I be disappointed if I don’t eventually get
  4835. my two WEDG Pro RAID devices, definitely. Will I be impressed and happy
  4836. when I do receive them, most certainly.
  4837.  
  4838. We seem to be on the cusp of moving forward, hopefully the worst is now
  4839. behind us.
  4840.  
  4841.  
  4842.  
  4843.  
  4844. Charles Collins
  4845.  
  4846. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/1658162> over 1 year ago
  4847.  
  4848. Sorry folks, but so much time elapsed from the original date that I have
  4849. lost interest in acquiring a Wedg. It seems that while the “developers”
  4850. dithered, technology remained in motion. The time has come for the
  4851. refund option. Please remit.
  4852.  
  4853.  
  4854.  
  4855.  
  4856. Jason Bayton
  4857.  
  4858. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/2720005> over 1 year ago
  4859.  
  4860. Has 6 months passed yet? I’ve just popped online to see if I can get my
  4861. refund.
  4862.  
  4863.  
  4864.  
  4865.  
  4866. Jacob Ovard
  4867.  
  4868. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8671772> over 1 year ago
  4869.  
  4870. I have given you my time and money in exchange for an awesome product.
  4871. You have not produced any hard evidence of this product even existing. I
  4872. demand my money back!
  4873.  
  4874.  
  4875.  
  4876.  
  4877. jrogers31
  4878.  
  4879. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> over 1 year ago
  4880.  
  4881. @Nikolai Tesla – thank you for re-posting these links in the hope that
  4882. the other backers will follow suit with the action we have already
  4883. taken. If we are to get a satisfactory resolution then it is important
  4884. that all dissatisfied backers take the time to file complaints so that
  4885. the relevant authorities and media investigate Mr Afzal and WEDG in the
  4886. public interest.
  4887.  
  4888.  
  4889.  
  4890.  
  4891. Nikolai Tesla
  4892.  
  4893. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> over 1 year ago
  4894.  
  4895. Additionally you can write to the Manchester Evening News
  4896. (newsdesk@men-news.co.uk), who did an article about WEDG on 9 Oct 2014
  4897. (http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/business/butt-firm-wedg-smashes-crowdfunding-7898382),
  4898. and express your concerns about WEDG and MR. AFZAL.
  4899.  
  4900.  
  4901.  
  4902.  
  4903. Nikolai Tesla
  4904.  
  4905. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> over 1 year ago
  4906.  
  4907. You can also submit a complaint to the Manchester Trading Standards at:
  4908.  
  4909. https://ssl.datamotion.com/form.aspx?co=3438&frm=citacomplainform&to=flare.fromforms
  4910.  
  4911. The more complaints submitted the more pressure will be introduced to
  4912. resolve this issue.
  4913.  
  4914. Here is the required WEDG company information:
  4915.  
  4916. WEDG LTD
  4917. 47 Chorlton Street
  4918. Manchester
  4919. Greater Manchester
  4920. M1 3FY
  4921.  
  4922. Company#08824160
  4923. Director ID: 917334076
  4924. Director: MR SHEHBAZ AFZAL
  4925.  
  4926.  
  4927.  
  4928.  
  4929. Nikolai Tesla
  4930.  
  4931. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> over 1 year ago
  4932.  
  4933. 2 of 2
  4934. @WEDG FUNDERS: You have the right to report this situation to the
  4935. corresponding authorities in the UK so they can investigate:
  4936.  
  4937. The Insolvency Service, Companies House or the Serious Fraud Office.
  4938. More information at:
  4939.  
  4940. https://www.gov.uk/complain-about-a-limited-company
  4941.  
  4942.  
  4943.  
  4944. Nikolai Tesla
  4945.  
  4946. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> over 1 year ago
  4947.  
  4948. So for those whom missed it:
  4949.  
  4950. 1 of 2
  4951. @WEDG FUNDERS: A way you can help WEDG is by reporting them to the
  4952. authorities in the UK. Here is how it works, if WEDG is legit the
  4953. authorities will confirm that it so and if they are not, then they will
  4954. be held liable for their actions. Both outcomes will bring the long
  4955. delayed resolution to this fiasco to all of us no matter if you support
  4956. them or not.
  4957.  
  4958.  
  4959.  
  4960.  
  4961. Nikolai Tesla
  4962.  
  4963. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> over 1 year ago
  4964.  
  4965. Be aware that WEDG/Mr. Afzal and/or Indiegogo are not taking into
  4966. consideration to any comments posted here. Our recourse is to continue
  4967. to request an investigation by local authorities and/or news media in
  4968. order to receive the facts which in turn could provide a solution to
  4969. this ongoing non sense. We need for all of the backers that are not
  4970. satisfied with this situation to request the investigation, posting here
  4971. will not help.
  4972.  
  4973.  
  4974.  
  4975.  
  4976. jrogers31
  4977.  
  4978. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> over 1 year ago
  4979.  
  4980. The problem with the recent update in common with all the updates is
  4981. that nothing stated in the updates can be verified independently.
  4982. Consequently, backers cannot rely on anything that is said by Mr Afzal
  4983. or the WEDG team. Mr Afzal and WEDG need to come clean and tell the
  4984. truth about what has been going on and whereabouts of the funds. They
  4985. can be made to do so if dissatisfied backers make complaints to the
  4986. agencies highlighted in previous messages. WEDG must be investigated by
  4987. the authorities.
  4988.  
  4989.  
  4990.  
  4991.  
  4992. Brad Magri-Olson
  4993.  
  4994. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8709187> over 1 year ago
  4995.  
  4996. Why send a survey out asking who wants a refund when you have no
  4997. intention of doing it? And why spend our money on a court case when we
  4998. clearly paid for a product that was already meant to be delivered… Man
  4999. up and refund the people that have asked!
  5000.  
  5001.  
  5002.  
  5003.  
  5004. rabeaumont
  5005.  
  5006. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8708749> over 1 year ago
  5007.  
  5008. Consider another possibiility, Could the WEDG team actually be battling
  5009. against a large organisation that has some incentive to prevent the
  5010. product coming to market.
  5011.  
  5012.  
  5013.  
  5014.  
  5015. MARC-ANDRE RUNCIE-UNGER
  5016.  
  5017. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/5105783> over 1 year ago
  5018.  
  5019. So if you lost legal support around a month ago why did you claim a
  5020. month ago “there will be an update in a few days once the legal team and
  5021. shebaz approve it” this all doesn’t add up and it’s about time this
  5022. project gets investigated by an outside body….
  5023.  
  5024.  
  5025.  
  5026.  
  5027. t.munari
  5028.  
  5029. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/7463940> over 1 year ago
  5030.  
  5031. (continued)
  5032. A) all the software mess happened when the “gardener” was working
  5033. (updates tell us he worked from 10th of february to 30th march) on an
  5034. almost finished system.
  5035. B) No proof of any real hardware apart from that 3d printed awfully
  5036. painted part (no it doesn’t look aluminium to me).
  5037. I am convinced Mr Shehbaz was not telling the truth on the real
  5038. advancement of the project (it was much behind schedule) and is not
  5039. telling the truth now.
  5040. OR
  5041. The project was vapor from the start.
  5042.  
  5043.  
  5044.  
  5045.  
  5046. t.munari
  5047.  
  5048. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/7463940> over 1 year ago
  5049.  
  5050. (continues)
  5051. 4) on the 12th of april we were told that 30th of march (when the
  5052. hardware should have already been procured and software ready to be
  5053. flashed) the big black hats hit base.
  5054. 5) in april-may we are shown a marginal part of the WEDG, stating it’s
  5055. not production grade (shouldn’t already been if not built at least
  5056. secured form suppliers?)
  5057. I am the only one noticing big incoherences?
  5058. (continues)
  5059.  
  5060.  
  5061.  
  5062.  
  5063. t.munari
  5064.  
  5065. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/7463940> over 1 year ago
  5066.  
  5067. Just a short recap picked up from the updates:
  5068. 1) Head linux developer left by the end of january (family tragedy)
  5069. 2) 9-10 February, new “gardener” programmer joined the team
  5070. 3) late february we were told production run and flashing (therefore
  5071. finished software) will be 30th of march and shipping will start
  5072. following week…
  5073. THEN…
  5074. (continues)
  5075.  
  5076.  
  5077.  
  5078.  
  5079. t.munari
  5080.  
  5081. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/7463940> over 1 year ago
  5082.  
  5083. So…
  5084. at this point recoding the contested part is feasible but you have no
  5085. money to pay coders?
  5086. Six months ago, it wasn’t possible but you had money…
  5087. I am not believing anything at all about a “beauty contest” to select
  5088. Prince Charming to save the Wedging Beauty…
  5089. I foresee it will just be the “theme” of the next few empty-as-vacuum
  5090. updates…
  5091. but don’t hold your breath for it….
  5092. Could you guess? No patience and no words of support from me.
  5093.  
  5094.  
  5095.  
  5096.  
  5097. Chris Horsfield
  5098.  
  5099. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4115733> over 1 year ago
  5100.  
  5101. I suspect the money has been spent. The chance of a full refund seems
  5102. remote. Maybe we should just divide up what is left.
  5103.  
  5104. Chris
  5105.  
  5106.  
  5107.  
  5108.  
  5109. paul.kulhavy
  5110.  
  5111. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8709012> over 1 year ago
  5112.  
  5113. Another backtrack and more delay – the head of the operation is on
  5114. stress leave – there are now only 2 other team members FFS!
  5115.  
  5116. Can’t even keep a website updated (wedg.co) it doesn’t look good for
  5117. delivery anytime soon.
  5118.  
  5119.  
  5120.  
  5121.  
  5122. Gaston Cardey
  5123.  
  5124. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8821945> over 1 year ago
  5125.  
  5126. Hi,
  5127. Four things: 1. Don’t thank me for “patience and support” because I
  5128. don’t have them anymore and long ago I don’t read any of the “words of
  5129. support”.
  5130. 2: No more legal support so all this months facing the lawsuit was for
  5131. nothing.
  5132. 3: Start the code all over will take at least 6 months. As some of the
  5133. backers, I’ve replaced the WEDG with another solution and I’m finally
  5134. convinced that was an excelent idea.
  5135. Come on!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  5136. 4. GIVE ME MY MONEY BACK. Clear, no mistakes. I only want my money.
  5137.  
  5138.  
  5139.  
  5140.  
  5141. MARC-ANDRE RUNCIE-UNGER
  5142.  
  5143. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/5105783> over 1 year ago
  5144.  
  5145. You are lucky Bryan. My ticket was closed down as solved without as much
  5146. as an answer….
  5147.  
  5148.  
  5149.  
  5150.  
  5151. MARC-ANDRE RUNCIE-UNGER
  5152.  
  5153. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/5105783> over 1 year ago
  5154.  
  5155. I’ve had no joy with indiegogo either. LIKE everyone else I have lost
  5156. faith in this project and actually ended up building my own solution
  5157. using a server setup. :(
  5158.  
  5159.  
  5160.  
  5161.  
  5162. Peter Dalmaris
  5163.  
  5164. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/7104926> over 1 year ago
  5165.  
  5166. I’ve contacted Indiegogo as well, twice, same generic answer. They don’t
  5167. seem to be doing even a curiosity check on one of their very successful
  5168. campaigns.
  5169.  
  5170.  
  5171.  
  5172.  
  5173. aaddiikk
  5174.  
  5175. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8707168> over 1 year ago
  5176.  
  5177. 131K pounds and no sign of any activity for more than a month (actually
  5178. for 8 months except few updates filled with empty words without any
  5179. content)… I want a refund but I have a bad feeling that I will never see
  5180. my money back… INDIEGOGO… PLEASE HELP YOUR USERS OR THEY WILL NEVER COME
  5181. BACK!
  5182.  
  5183.  
  5184.  
  5185.  
  5186. Carlos Garcia Conde
  5187.  
  5188. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4819372> over 1 year ago
  5189.  
  5190. I WANT A REFUND
  5191. NEVER AT INDIEGOGO NEVER!
  5192. 4 PROJECTS AND 2 SCAMS!
  5193. NEVER
  5194.  
  5195.  
  5196.  
  5197.  
  5198. Philipp Stäheli
  5199.  
  5200. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8723017> over 1 year ago
  5201.  
  5202. I am angry with Indiegogo. Please contact the magazine the wired
  5203. (submit@wired.com) and pitch them how bad Indiegogo treats its users.
  5204.  
  5205.  
  5206.  
  5207.  
  5208. Philipp Stäheli
  5209.  
  5210. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8723017> over 1 year ago
  5211.  
  5212. Look ppl, Indiegogo does not answer really. Just the usual bla bla. Then
  5213. they mark the support ticket as “solved”, even if you have follow up
  5214. questions and nothing is solved. I came here from Kickstarter,
  5215. definitely will not back anymore on Indiegogo. They really do no care
  5216. about their users.
  5217.  
  5218.  
  5219.  
  5220.  
  5221. t.munari
  5222.  
  5223. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/7463940> over 1 year ago
  5224.  
  5225. I think there will be no refunds, or bare metal shipping, since – by now
  5226. – I do believe this project is a scam.
  5227. I tried to contact the owner to have some info but, like many others, I
  5228. had no .
  5229. I even contacted Indiegogo asking to investigate on this project but,
  5230. apart form a generic and patronizing , I had no satisfaction at all.
  5231. 2 out of 2 projects on indiegogo I backed are crawling to death or are
  5232. in a coma.
  5233. I will think thrice before supporting anything more through this website.
  5234.  
  5235.  
  5236.  
  5237.  
  5238. Gerrit Freise
  5239.  
  5240. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8707250> over 1 year ago
  5241.  
  5242. Refund please! I do not want to wait anymore!
  5243.  
  5244.  
  5245.  
  5246.  
  5247. Scott McQueen
  5248.  
  5249. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8443500> over 1 year ago
  5250.  
  5251. We hope to post an update with more details in the NEXT FEW DAYS, just
  5252. waiting for approval from Shehbaz and the legal team on its contents.
  5253.  
  5254. It’s been 26 days now ??
  5255.  
  5256.  
  5257.  
  5258.  
  5259. Veehem
  5260.  
  5261. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4067160> over 1 year ago
  5262.  
  5263. Days, weeks, months are going away. Why not sending us the hardware with
  5264. Freedombox on it ? (http://freedomboxfoundation.org/)
  5265. Have a look at this presentation introduced by Eben Moglen
  5266. https://moglen.law.columbia.edu/sflc2015/04_freedombox.webm
  5267.  
  5268.  
  5269.  
  5270.  
  5271. John Raffin
  5272.  
  5273. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4406292> over 1 year ago
  5274.  
  5275. I don’t understand. If I completed the survey to say I wanted a refund,
  5276. why can’t it be sent now? WHY?
  5277.  
  5278.  
  5279.  
  5280.  
  5281. 1sgmgn
  5282.  
  5283. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4356995> over 1 year ago
  5284.  
  5285. Still waiting
  5286.  
  5287.  
  5288.  
  5289.  
  5290. Jairo
  5291.  
  5292. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8782016> over 1 year ago
  5293.  
  5294. There is the profile of the founder, let’s annoy there!
  5295. https://www.facebook.com/shehbaz.afzal
  5296.  
  5297.  
  5298.  
  5299.  
  5300. Jairo
  5301.  
  5302. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8782016> over 1 year ago
  5303.  
  5304. I want a refund too.
  5305.  
  5306.  
  5307.  
  5308.  
  5309. Gordon Keys
  5310.  
  5311. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8335278> over 1 year ago
  5312.  
  5313. ‘Thank you for your on-going patience and support’
  5314.  
  5315. Really? We have no choice but be patient. When will you actually give us
  5316. an update of proper substance, instead of empty platitudes?
  5317.  
  5318. Pull your finger out now and tell us what is REALLY happening.
  5319.  
  5320.  
  5321.  
  5322.  
  5323. Carlos Garcia Conde
  5324.  
  5325. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4819372> over 1 year ago
  5326.  
  5327. 4 emails
  5328. 4 messages
  5329. 4 post
  5330. and NO answer
  5331. SCAM!
  5332. I WANT MY MONEY BACK
  5333.  
  5334.  
  5335.  
  5336.  
  5337. M K
  5338.  
  5339. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8914705> over 1 year ago
  5340.  
  5341. Any progress on the legal issues?
  5342.  
  5343.  
  5344.  
  5345.  
  5346. Gaston Cardey
  5347.  
  5348. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8821945> over 1 year ago
  5349.  
  5350. It will be so nice to have my money back before christmas. I lost all my
  5351. hope that you’ll deliver the WEDG. Final. The end. No more excuses from
  5352. my side to try to believe.
  5353. I remember that before march, you contacted us all the time pushing to
  5354. get the next level for develop of a new feature. After april, all that
  5355. good contact was lost. Truly shame. Don’t you feel some regret? Don’t
  5356. you feel really bad about the people who trusted in this proyect?
  5357. (Sorry, english is not my primary language).
  5358.  
  5359.  
  5360.  
  5361.  
  5362. Andrea Pietroboni
  5363.  
  5364. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/1106976> over 1 year ago
  5365.  
  5366. You seno us an email for know Who want refound the money after?i want
  5367. the money and not only informations about the your legal office
  5368.  
  5369.  
  5370.  
  5371.  
  5372. Ron Ko
  5373.  
  5374. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8444779> over 1 year ago
  5375.  
  5376. @WEDG team, please refund.
  5377.  
  5378.  
  5379.  
  5380.  
  5381. Gaston Cardey
  5382.  
  5383. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8821945> over 1 year ago
  5384.  
  5385. WEDG Team, Shehbaz or anybody who’s reading: give the bakers who
  5386. requested a refund their money. At least end this business relationship
  5387. in good terms. Please.
  5388.  
  5389.  
  5390.  
  5391.  
  5392. Carlos Garcia Conde
  5393.  
  5394. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4819372> over 1 year ago
  5395.  
  5396. @WEDG I want a REFUND
  5397.  
  5398.  
  5399.  
  5400.  
  5401. Brad Magri-Olson
  5402.  
  5403. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8709187> over 1 year ago
  5404.  
  5405. Refund please!
  5406.  
  5407.  
  5408.  
  5409.  
  5410. S Artes
  5411.  
  5412. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3807430> over 1 year ago
  5413.  
  5414. There was a survey a while back asking backers if they wanted a refund.
  5415. I’m one of those that requested my money back. Any chance refunds will
  5416. be provided soon?
  5417.  
  5418.  
  5419.  
  5420.  
  5421. Tiger Bus
  5422.  
  5423. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706731> over 1 year ago
  5424.  
  5425. People complain about the WEDG not getting anywhere and on the other
  5426. hand trying to find every means to keep them from actually getting work
  5427. done by forcing stupid buerocracy onto them just because some egos feel
  5428. like their whining is not being heard these days. Holy cow, how can one
  5429. be so paradoxical? I hope you all stay away from crowd funding in the
  5430. future, because this behaviour exactly what makes it so annoying. It
  5431. even beats lack of communication.
  5432.  
  5433.  
  5434.  
  5435.  
  5436. jrogers31
  5437.  
  5438. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> over 1 year ago
  5439.  
  5440. @t.munari I would suggest that you try Manchester trading standards
  5441. first which you can do by completing the online form here
  5442. https://ssl.datamotion.com/form.aspx?co=3438&frm=citacomplainform&to=flare.fromforms
  5443. then if you have time you could also report to BBC Watchdog
  5444. https://ssl.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05vx18b/contact – I think it will help
  5445. to complain as it will put pressure on WEDG to do the right thing.
  5446.  
  5447.  
  5448.  
  5449.  
  5450. t.munari
  5451.  
  5452. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/7463940> over 1 year ago
  5453.  
  5454. @jrogers31 Since I am not in the Uk, I have some problems understanding
  5455. who or how (an email: which address? or some other way?) I should
  5456. contact to pressure Mr.Afzal (as an example: why I should contact
  5457. Manchester University?), please elaborate a bit more.
  5458. Thank you
  5459.  
  5460.  
  5461.  
  5462.  
  5463. Ron Ko
  5464.  
  5465. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8444779> over 1 year ago
  5466.  
  5467. @WEDG team, you begged for 6 months from us and now it’s almost the half
  5468. of such 6 months. Are you still confident to what you planned ?
  5469.  
  5470.  
  5471.  
  5472.  
  5473. bpicard
  5474.  
  5475. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/946042> over 1 year ago
  5476.  
  5477. I get it but I am not willing to invest more time. That’s what I ment
  5478. with acceptance. I had a simmilar experience on kickstarter and there
  5479. too are people who are invested in making them pay and I appriciate it
  5480. and hope they are successful in the end. I backed over 20 great projects
  5481. over the years and there had to be a few drawbacks. Crowdfunding is
  5482. risky. What I really hope for is that crowdfunding platforms take
  5483. responsibility. At least we pay them enough to do so through our
  5484. contributions.
  5485.  
  5486.  
  5487.  
  5488.  
  5489. jrogers31
  5490.  
  5491. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> over 1 year ago
  5492.  
  5493. @t.munari and @ bpicard – you should not accept this – help increase the
  5494. pressure and contact – The Insolvency Service, Manchester Trading
  5495. Standards, Manchester Evening News, BBC Watchdog, Innospace at
  5496. Manchester Metropolitan University. It is only when a large number of
  5497. complaints are received will the matter of Mr Afzal and WEDG’s shabby
  5498. behaviour be held to account
  5499.  
  5500.  
  5501.  
  5502.  
  5503. bpicard
  5504.  
  5505. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/946042> over 1 year ago
  5506.  
  5507. I have to admid I’m utterly frustrated by know and lost faith. You can
  5508. say I crossed through the denail stage (“they are just really, really
  5509. bad at communication, but hey they are programmers”), anger (“how hard
  5510. can it be to drop a few lines every couple of weeks”) bargaining (“there
  5511. is no way this is a scam”) and am knee deep in depression (“so much
  5512. money down the drain, and did you realy have to order the raid upgrade
  5513. too?”) I hope I reach acceptance soon…
  5514.  
  5515.  
  5516.  
  5517.  
  5518. t.munari
  5519.  
  5520. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/7463940> over 1 year ago
  5521.  
  5522. By now it looks like a bad joke.
  5523. With this “obscure legal affair” they are not giving us any information
  5524. at all.
  5525. Since the Wedg is hardware AND software, they should at least try to
  5526. pretend they are using the delay in production updating the
  5527. specifications for the same price we already shelled out.
  5528. By now, if we ever see the “Wedg” delivered for real, specifications
  5529. will be so dated that we could possibly receive something like that with
  5530. a “happy meal”.
  5531. Over all, pretty embarassing….
  5532.  
  5533.  
  5534.  
  5535.  
  5536. jrogers31
  5537.  
  5538. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> over 1 year ago
  5539.  
  5540. @David Aldred – I would agree with you that a further approach to Blazon
  5541. PR may be appropriate but as mentioned before it would have to come from
  5542. a large number of dissatisfied backers and they would have to also
  5543. contact – The Insolvency Service, Manchester Trading Standards,
  5544. Manchester Evening News, BBC Watchdog, Innospace at Manchester
  5545. Metropolitan University. It is only when a large number of complaints
  5546. are received will the matter of Mr Afzal and WEDG’s shabby behaviour be
  5547. held to account
  5548.  
  5549.  
  5550.  
  5551.  
  5552. jrogers31
  5553.  
  5554. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> over 1 year ago
  5555.  
  5556. @David Aldred – Yes, I contacted Mr Michael Raven (CEO) of Blazon PR on
  5557. 26 June 2015 pointing out that the updates from WEDG were inconsistent
  5558. with Indiegogo’s statement on their website that “We believe in open,
  5559. honest and transparent communications.” I asked if he would arrange for
  5560. me to receive a full refund. He said in his he would try but I
  5561. heard nothing more. I find todays update as opaque as ever. As for
  5562. “working on ongoing issues” the words ‘tracks, cover and trying’ come to
  5563. mind
  5564.  
  5565.  
  5566.  
  5567.  
  5568. Pierre Lang
  5569.  
  5570. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4161016> over 1 year ago
  5571.  
  5572. Oh, be nice people. They told you from the start. It’s “the personal
  5573. butt you’ve been WAITING for”.
  5574. We can’t very well complain to be kept waiting… :D
  5575.  
  5576.  
  5577.  
  5578.  
  5579. David Aldred
  5580.  
  5581. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> over 1 year ago
  5582.  
  5583. Has anyone tried approaching Blazon PR (see ‘IN PARTNERSHIP WITH’
  5584. section to the right)?
  5585. Looks like they’re a tech PR firm, and list Wedg under their case
  5586. studies. Probably don’t know much themselves, but can perhaps put some
  5587. pressure on them?
  5588. If there are no other takers, I’ll try dropping them a note during the week.
  5589.  
  5590.  
  5591.  
  5592.  
  5593. jrogers31
  5594.  
  5595. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> over 1 year ago
  5596.  
  5597. @Nikolai Tesla – I learned yesterday that for some backers the
  5598. contributions they have made to WEDG, which may appear modest to some,
  5599. are large sums of money in their regions of the world. When one
  5600. considers the behaviour and actions of WEDG and the effect it is having
  5601. on these and other backers – all of whom acted in good faith – suggests
  5602. to me that this matter must be pursued until the funds are recovered and
  5603. / or until an investigation leading to punitive action is taken by the
  5604. authorities
  5605.  
  5606.  
  5607.  
  5608.  
  5609. jrogers31
  5610.  
  5611. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> over 1 year ago
  5612.  
  5613. @Nikolai Tesla – I agree, all backers stand more of a chance of getting
  5614. redress if all dissatisfied backers raise their concerns with Manchester
  5615. Trading Standards, Manchester Evening News and the Insolvancy Service.
  5616. In addition, I think all dissatisfied backers should notify BBC Watchdog
  5617. (https://ssl.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05vx18b/contact) – they are a
  5618. powerful consumer program in the UK who may consider alleged internet
  5619. scams topical. I think the BBC would be interested in the links with MMU.
  5620.  
  5621.  
  5622.  
  5623.  
  5624. Nikolai Tesla
  5625.  
  5626. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> over 1 year ago
  5627.  
  5628. @jrodgers31 – Thank you for the additional information in regards to
  5629. News Desk and the Manchester Trading Standards. I will pursue both in
  5630. order to submit complaints against MR. SHEHBAZ AFZAL. I have already
  5631. submitted a investigation request with The Insolvency Service. They have
  5632. responded with acknowledgment of receiving my request. Moving forward in
  5633. order to bring light into this issue. I recommend all other backers to
  5634. do the same.
  5635.  
  5636.  
  5637.  
  5638.  
  5639. Gaston Cardey
  5640.  
  5641. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8821945> over 1 year ago
  5642.  
  5643. Carlos Garcia Conde (hope you speak spanish): Hola, he leido sus
  5644. comentarios y estoy totalmente de acuerdo. Estoy harto de estos tipos
  5645. que a todas luces nos están estafando. No se qué camino tomar con esta
  5646. gente. Tienen 315 libras mías y estoy casi convencido de que no las voy
  5647. a ver de nuevo. Le dejo mi dirección de correo por si quiere escribirme
  5648. e intercambiar ideas gaston.cardeygmail.com.
  5649. To the non-english speaking guys the keywords: scam-lost money-agree
  5650. with Carlos. To WEDG: shame.
  5651.  
  5652.  
  5653.  
  5654.  
  5655. Carlos Garcia Conde
  5656.  
  5657. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4819372> over 1 year ago
  5658.  
  5659. I want a refund, BE SERIOUS
  5660.  
  5661.  
  5662.  
  5663.  
  5664. jrogers31
  5665.  
  5666. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> over 1 year ago
  5667.  
  5668. @ Nikolai Tesla – Another avenue is to write to express your concerns to
  5669. the news desk (newsdesk@men-news.co.uk) of the Manchester Evening News
  5670. who did an article about WEDG on 9 Oct 2014
  5671. (http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/business/butt-firm-wedg-smashes-crowdfunding-7898382),
  5672. which may have prompted people to contribute. Dissatisfied contributors
  5673. could highlight their concerns and perhaps prompt the newspaper to do a
  5674. follow up story and investigate matters in the public interest
  5675.  
  5676.  
  5677.  
  5678.  
  5679. jrogers31
  5680.  
  5681. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> over 1 year ago
  5682.  
  5683. @Nikolai Tesla – I think one contributor has already reported to
  5684. companies house – I am not sure if they had any response. I have been
  5685. advised that a complaint to Manchester trading standards would also be
  5686. appropriate
  5687. https://ssl.datamotion.com/form.aspx?co=3438&frm=citacomplainform&to=flare.fromforms
  5688. – A number of dissatisfied contributors would each have to complete a
  5689. form to raise the matter to a priority level with trading standards.
  5690.  
  5691.  
  5692.  
  5693.  
  5694. Francisco Alvarez
  5695.  
  5696. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8814221> over 1 year ago
  5697.  
  5698. Almost one month from the last update… We should be near to the end of
  5699. the conflict, shouldn’t we? PLEASE, UPDATE!
  5700.  
  5701.  
  5702.  
  5703.  
  5704. Nikolai Tesla
  5705.  
  5706. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> over 1 year ago
  5707.  
  5708. @WEDG FUNDERS: You have the right to report this situation to the
  5709. corresponding authorities in the UK so they can investigate:
  5710.  
  5711. The Insolvency Service, Companies House or the Serious Fraud Office.
  5712. More information at:
  5713.  
  5714. https://www.gov.uk/complain-about-a-limited-company
  5715.  
  5716. Here is the required WEDG company information:
  5717.  
  5718. WEDG LTD
  5719. 47 Chorlton Street
  5720. Manchester
  5721. Greater Manchester
  5722. M1 3FY
  5723.  
  5724. Company#08824160
  5725. Director ID: 917334076
  5726. Director: MR SHEHBAZ AFZAL
  5727.  
  5728.  
  5729.  
  5730.  
  5731. jrogers31
  5732.  
  5733. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> over 1 year ago
  5734.  
  5735. @Bryan Walker – Yes you are right an update with some facts would be
  5736. welcome, but isn’t that part of the problem? – updates are infrequent
  5737. and lack verifiable facts, which raise concerns about probity. Mr Afzal
  5738. must be very busy doing something as it has been three weeks since the
  5739. last update. I wonder what he has been doing? – perhaps he will tell us
  5740. sometime soon.
  5741.  
  5742.  
  5743.  
  5744.  
  5745. jrogers31
  5746.  
  5747. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> over 1 year ago
  5748.  
  5749. @Bryan Walker – No, change of address was required due to a rule
  5750. infringement at Innospace “Licensees of Innospace are entitled to use
  5751. the Innospace address as a trading address only.” Note: that the new
  5752. registered address is now at an accountant’s office and accounts
  5753. recently submitted to Companies House for 2014 show: – Total current
  5754. liabilities £61,304.00; Total Current Assets £61,611.00; Net Worth
  5755. £1,187.00; Cash £61,610.00 – ?interesting and ?worrying in equal
  5756. measure. What do you think?
  5757.  
  5758.  
  5759.  
  5760.  
  5761. jrogers31
  5762.  
  5763. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> over 1 year ago
  5764.  
  5765. Registered office address changed from C/O Shehbaz Afzal 47 Chorlton
  5766. Street Manchester M1 3FY to C/O Taxassist Accountants 281 Palatine Road
  5767. Manchester M22 4ET on 21 September 2015
  5768.  
  5769.  
  5770.  
  5771.  
  5772. jrogers31
  5773.  
  5774. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> over 1 year ago
  5775.  
  5776. It appears that recent enquiries to MMU have stimulated recent action
  5777. from Mr Afzal! There have been two changes in registered office address
  5778. on 21 and 29 Sept 2015 and for the first time there appears to be
  5779. evidence of company accounts having been prepared, although the latter
  5780. gives further cause for concern. It will have to be examined in more
  5781. detail but the words ‘tracks’, ‘cover’ and ‘trying’ come to mind. See
  5782. more
  5783. https://companycheck.co.uk/company/08824160/WEDG-LTD/companies-house-docs
  5784.  
  5785.  
  5786.  
  5787.  
  5788. Justin Walton
  5789.  
  5790. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8707801> over 1 year ago
  5791.  
  5792. Almost three weeks since the last update, there must be something @Team
  5793. WEDG could say it they wanted to. Even if it’s just “we’re still here,
  5794. and still discussing the terms of rewriting the code”. Almost all my
  5795. faith in the ability of @Team WEDG to actually produce this system has
  5796. gone. Yes, I have some faith left, if you’ve got a high powered
  5797. microscope, you can just make it out.
  5798.  
  5799. UPDATE PLEASE – NOW
  5800.  
  5801.  
  5802.  
  5803.  
  5804. Carlos Garcia Conde
  5805.  
  5806. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4819372> over 1 year ago
  5807.  
  5808. You told about a refund
  5809. I wrote you FIVE emails and I’m waiting for the refund
  5810. I don’t want the item, I want my money back
  5811. And PLEASE answer my emails, you are and uneducated seller…
  5812.  
  5813.  
  5814.  
  5815.  
  5816. Steven Newman
  5817.  
  5818. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/925661> over 1 year ago
  5819.  
  5820. As I have looked about and found magazine and news site after site that
  5821. had interviewed WEDG, the more convinced I am that this is not a scam
  5822. and although not communicating as often as I would like, that they are
  5823. just doing their best to deal with the legal situation so they can move
  5824. forward and get back to developing WEDG. I’m choosing to keep the faith
  5825. and hope for the best.
  5826.  
  5827.  
  5828.  
  5829.  
  5830. Steven Newman
  5831.  
  5832. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/925661> over 1 year ago
  5833.  
  5834. Communication has always been a bit sporadic with WEDG. Certainly there
  5835. appears to be a camp forming that believe malfeasance may be involved. I
  5836. am not of that mind, but I also don’t have anything beyond hope keeping
  5837. me in the supporter category. I truly believe in their vision. There are
  5838. plenty of remote storage boxes out there. I’ve already got a
  5839. Transporter, etc. What set WEDG aside was WEDGnet, and the focus on
  5840. actual security. I really hope this comes through.
  5841.  
  5842.  
  5843.  
  5844.  
  5845. jrogers31
  5846.  
  5847. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> over 1 year ago
  5848.  
  5849. @Bryan Walker – you may be right – unfortunately MMU will not disclose
  5850. any further information and appear to be trying to distance themselves
  5851. from the activities of WEDG. MMU asked Mr Afzal to contact me directly
  5852. as a matter of urgency but I assume that he is running scared as MMU say
  5853. he intends to contact me via Indiegogo! With no further updates or
  5854. communication from WEDG I believe that the matter requires further
  5855. investigation into the whereabouts of the £131,537 – these will continue.
  5856.  
  5857.  
  5858.  
  5859.  
  5860. R Kapoor
  5861.  
  5862. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/2078088> over 1 year ago
  5863.  
  5864. Like all others, I too wish we can get this and put this behind us.
  5865. However, I don’t think this is a scam. The collection, GBP 131K, is not
  5866. a huge amount for a professional to earn. It cannot be about money. A
  5867. little pressure can’t hurt though. So yes, an update can help.
  5868.  
  5869.  
  5870.  
  5871.  
  5872. jrogers31
  5873.  
  5874. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  5875.  
  5876. 5/5 I would be grateful if you can confirm that MMU’s Innospace have
  5877. already satisfied themselves that Mr Afzal behaviour and actions to date
  5878. as the Director of WEDG Ltd and as a licensee of Innospace are
  5879. consistent with wording and spirit of the Innospace licence agreement
  5880. and conditions.
  5881.  
  5882. I would also be grateful if you can confirm that none of the funds
  5883. contributed by the backers of WEDG reside in any MMU accounts – research
  5884. or otherwise.
  5885.  
  5886. Many thanks for your help.
  5887.  
  5888. Kind regards
  5889.  
  5890. JR
  5891.  
  5892.  
  5893.  
  5894.  
  5895. jrogers31
  5896.  
  5897. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  5898.  
  5899. 4/5 Although I searched these WebPages I could not find the details
  5900. relating to the Innospace Licence Agreement or the details of the
  5901. Innospace Conditions, to which Mr Afzal must adhere. I would be grateful
  5902. if you can share with me the details relating to the Innospace Licence
  5903. Agreement and Innospace Conditions so that I can be better informed.
  5904.  
  5905.  
  5906.  
  5907.  
  5908. jrogers31
  5909.  
  5910. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  5911.  
  5912. 3/5 With regard to the latter I note from the information on this link
  5913. http://www.innospace.co.uk that licensees of Innospace are expected to
  5914. “Adhere to the Innospace licence agreement” “Engage with MMU and support
  5915. available” and “Adhere to the Innospace Conditions”.
  5916.  
  5917.  
  5918.  
  5919.  
  5920. jrogers31
  5921.  
  5922. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  5923.  
  5924. 2/5 I note the contents of your email which defines the relationship
  5925. between MMU and Mr Afzal, in particular -that WEDG Ltd is not affiliated
  5926. with MMU, -that Mr Afzal is an MMU graduate and -that Mr Afzal is a
  5927. licensee of your business incubator, Innospace.
  5928.  
  5929.  
  5930.  
  5931.  
  5932. jrogers31
  5933.  
  5934. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  5935.  
  5936. 1/5 Email sent today -
  5937.  
  5938. Dear Ms Kenworthy
  5939.  
  5940. Thank you for your message. I apologise for the delay in my .
  5941.  
  5942. It is one week since you sent your message and I am sorry to inform you
  5943. that Mr Afzal has not made any attempt to contact me even though you
  5944. asked him to do so “as a matter of urgency”.
  5945.  
  5946.  
  5947.  
  5948.  
  5949. Carlos Garcia Conde
  5950.  
  5951. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4819372> almost 2 years ago
  5952.  
  5953. WEDG = SCAM
  5954. INDIEGOGO = SCAM
  5955. I’ve wrote a LOT of emails and no answer
  5956.  
  5957. I WANT A REFUND NOW
  5958.  
  5959.  
  5960.  
  5961.  
  5962. MARC-ANDRE RUNCIE-UNGER
  5963.  
  5964. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/5105783> almost 2 years ago
  5965.  
  5966. taking to indiegogo doesn’t work at all either. they told me it has
  5967. nothing to do with them and blocked me from further messaging them on
  5968. facebook…
  5969.  
  5970.  
  5971.  
  5972.  
  5973. Ron Ko
  5974.  
  5975. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8444779> almost 2 years ago
  5976.  
  5977. Indiegogo is definitely a crowdfunding platform without corresponding
  5978. due diligent control. The campaign can sell pirate product. It’s amazing
  5979. that IGG is willing to manage complaint from the campaign but no
  5980. response for any pirate product report.
  5981.  
  5982. For WEDG, I am not surprised of IGG zero response even if it’s reported.
  5983. It’s appreciated so much for you guys effort to fight for what we
  5984. deserve, from backers perspective.
  5985.  
  5986.  
  5987.  
  5988.  
  5989. Scott McQueen
  5990.  
  5991. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8443500> almost 2 years ago
  5992.  
  5993. I’m actually quite disappointed that there has been no involvement from
  5994. Indiegogo, surely they must be aware of the situation due to the
  5995. comments made here. Maybe they just take their cut and be done with it!
  5996.  
  5997. This was my first venture into crowdfunding, will definitely be my last!
  5998.  
  5999.  
  6000.  
  6001.  
  6002. M K
  6003.  
  6004. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8914705> almost 2 years ago
  6005.  
  6006. The complete absence of ANY from WEDG, does not feel any good.
  6007.  
  6008. Are we getting scammed here?
  6009.  
  6010.  
  6011.  
  6012.  
  6013. Ron Ko
  6014.  
  6015. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8444779> almost 2 years ago
  6016.  
  6017. Thanks jrogers31 for this amazing update.
  6018.  
  6019.  
  6020.  
  6021.  
  6022. jrogers31
  6023.  
  6024. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  6025.  
  6026. 3/3
  6027. According to Companies House records, WEDG Limited’s current registered
  6028. office address is detailed as being at the old MMU Innospace premises.
  6029. Licensees of Innospace are entitled to use the Innospace address as a
  6030. trading address only.
  6031.  
  6032. I hope you resolve any issues you may have with WEDG Ltd as soon as
  6033. possible.
  6034.  
  6035. Thank you.
  6036. Kind regards,
  6037. Louise"
  6038.  
  6039. I am still awaiting a direct response from Mr Afzal as outlined in the
  6040. message above and I will update you further as enquiries continue. JR
  6041.  
  6042.  
  6043.  
  6044.  
  6045. jrogers31
  6046.  
  6047. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  6048.  
  6049. 2/3
  6050.  
  6051. MMU does not endorse any of the businesses in the incubator and none of
  6052. the businesses are affiliated with the university. They are all private
  6053. businesses and Innospace provides a supportive space for pre-start and
  6054. early stage businesses to help them to grow and develop.
  6055.  
  6056.  
  6057.  
  6058.  
  6059. jrogers31
  6060.  
  6061. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  6062.  
  6063. 1/3 Here is the I received from MMU today 21 Sept 2015 -
  6064.  
  6065. “Dear Mr Rogers,
  6066.  
  6067. Further to my email on Friday, thank you for your email and for bringing
  6068. this issue to my attention. I have contacted Mr Shehbaz Afzal and have
  6069. asked him to contact you as a matter of urgency. WEDG is not affiliated
  6070. to The Manchester Metropolitan University (“MMU”); Shehbaz Afzal is an
  6071. MMU graduate and a licensee of our business incubator, Innospace.
  6072.  
  6073.  
  6074.  
  6075.  
  6076. Peter Dalmaris
  6077.  
  6078. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/7104926> almost 2 years ago
  6079.  
  6080. @jrogers31 and @Nikolai Tesla, thumbs up for your efforts.
  6081.  
  6082.  
  6083.  
  6084.  
  6085. Carlos Garcia Conde
  6086.  
  6087. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4819372> almost 2 years ago
  6088.  
  6089. I’m still waiting for refund and for the answer about my 5 or 6 emails…
  6090. You’re not a serious person
  6091. REFUND NOW!
  6092.  
  6093.  
  6094.  
  6095.  
  6096. M K
  6097.  
  6098. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8914705> almost 2 years ago
  6099.  
  6100. i’m still waiting for a full refund.
  6101.  
  6102.  
  6103.  
  6104.  
  6105. jrogers31
  6106.  
  6107. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  6108.  
  6109. Thank you – I will share more information when I get it. If you do not
  6110. hear from me then it will be safe for you to assume that I have been
  6111. blocked from posting (2 times already!). In which case contact me at
  6112. www.gordcentre.org so that the information can be shared with those
  6113. backers that want to know what is going on.
  6114.  
  6115.  
  6116.  
  6117.  
  6118. Nikolai Tesla
  6119.  
  6120. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> almost 2 years ago
  6121.  
  6122. @jrogers31: Thank you for checking with management at Mr. Afzal’s place
  6123. of “work” and/or “study”. It has been one of the best encouragement
  6124. information we have all received for a very long time. Hopefully they
  6125. will shed light into this nonsense.
  6126.  
  6127.  
  6128.  
  6129.  
  6130. spencer robinson
  6131.  
  6132. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/9152571> almost 2 years ago
  6133.  
  6134. @jrogers31 Good work, cant wait the hear the response
  6135.  
  6136.  
  6137.  
  6138.  
  6139. Justin Walton
  6140.  
  6141. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8707801> almost 2 years ago
  6142.  
  6143. @jrogers31 – Thank-you! On behalf of all the backers who have been
  6144. wanting some concise information on where this project is going, thank-you.
  6145. I look forward to reading an update with tangible detail in due course.
  6146. It’s a shame this will probably not be from @Team WEDG itself, but from you.
  6147.  
  6148.  
  6149.  
  6150.  
  6151. jrogers31
  6152.  
  6153. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  6154.  
  6155. 8/8 And here is their : -
  6156.  
  6157. Dear Mr Rogers,
  6158.  
  6159. Thank your email and apologies for the email sent last night, that was
  6160. meant for a colleague.
  6161. I am due to meet with Shehbaz Afzal today and have sent this matter to
  6162. our Legal Team.
  6163. I will send a more detailed response once I know more shortly.
  6164.  
  6165. Thank you.
  6166. Kind regards,
  6167.  
  6168. Louise
  6169.  
  6170.  
  6171.  
  6172.  
  6173. jrogers31
  6174.  
  6175. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  6176.  
  6177. 7/8 I am also copying this email to your colleagues at Innospace and Mr
  6178. Rod Humphreys Head of the Department of Marketing, Operations and
  6179. Digital Business.
  6180.  
  6181. Thank you for your help with my enquiries.
  6182.  
  6183. JR
  6184.  
  6185.  
  6186.  
  6187.  
  6188. jrogers31
  6189.  
  6190. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  6191.  
  6192. 6/8 I would be grateful if you can confirm that Mr Afzal’s business is
  6193. still active at the 47 Chorlton Street address and I would be further
  6194. grateful if you can confirm that he still frequents the building.
  6195.  
  6196. Some backers are concerned to learn the whereabouts of their funds and
  6197. preparation is being made to inform the appropriate authorities to look
  6198. into the activities of this company (WEDG) and its director (Mr Shehbaz
  6199. Afzal).
  6200.  
  6201.  
  6202.  
  6203.  
  6204. jrogers31
  6205.  
  6206. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  6207.  
  6208. 5/8 If you wish to gauge the sentiments of the backers in Mr Afzal’s
  6209. business (WEDG) to which Innospace is associated by providing office
  6210. space then all you need to do is to click on this link
  6211. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/wedg-the-personal-butt-you-ve-been-waiting-for/x/8764397#/comments,
  6212. which provides you with the necessary information.
  6213.  
  6214.  
  6215.  
  6216.  
  6217. jrogers31
  6218.  
  6219. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  6220.  
  6221. 4/8 Indeed there is a link on the Manchester Metropolitan University
  6222. indicating Mr Afzal’s close association with the MMU Business &
  6223. Information Technology department.
  6224. http://www.mmu.ac.uk/news/news-items/2946/
  6225.  
  6226.  
  6227.  
  6228.  
  6229. jrogers31
  6230.  
  6231. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  6232.  
  6233. 3/8
  6234.  
  6235. I presume that Mr Afzal must have some connection with the Manchester
  6236. Metropolitan University to be able to set up his business at your
  6237. address, in which case I am very concerned. One would expect the highest
  6238. standards of behaviour and probity from a member of a University and
  6239. particularly one located in a major provincial city such as Manchester.
  6240.  
  6241.  
  6242.  
  6243.  
  6244. jrogers31
  6245.  
  6246. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  6247.  
  6248. 2/8 The reason for my investigation is as a result of unsatisfactory
  6249. responses to very reasonable enquiries from backers of this business as
  6250. to the whereabouts of the funds contributed by backers totalling
  6251. £131,537.00. Backers are also unhappy with the unsatisfactory updates
  6252. and progress reports from Mr Afzal which are completely lacking in
  6253. transparency.
  6254.  
  6255.  
  6256.  
  6257.  
  6258. jrogers31
  6259.  
  6260. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  6261.  
  6262. 1/8 OK – here goes!
  6263.  
  6264. Dear Ms Kenworthy,
  6265.  
  6266. I spoke to Sandra today as part of my investigation into the activities
  6267. of Mr Shehbaz Afzal who is running a start up business WEDG Ltd within
  6268. your (Innospace) premises on 47 Chorlton Street Manchester. Sandra
  6269. suggested I email you for further information.
  6270.  
  6271.  
  6272.  
  6273.  
  6274. jrogers31
  6275.  
  6276. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  6277.  
  6278. This is a test comment – Indiegogo have been blocking me from sharing
  6279. information with other backers.
  6280.  
  6281.  
  6282.  
  6283.  
  6284. M K
  6285.  
  6286. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8914705> almost 2 years ago
  6287.  
  6288. I still hope the WEDG is real and not like this scam:
  6289. http://kickscammed.com/project/storm-brewing/
  6290.  
  6291. The John Atherton will never get a job anywhere in the world, other than
  6292. cleaning toilets.
  6293.  
  6294.  
  6295.  
  6296.  
  6297. Nikolai Tesla
  6298.  
  6299. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> almost 2 years ago
  6300.  
  6301. 2 of 2: To report a complaint in the United States -
  6302.  
  6303. http://oag.ca.gov/contact/consumer-complaint-against-business-or-company
  6304. https://www.dca.ca.gov/webapps/cru/gencomplaint.php
  6305. https://www.usa.gov/consumer-complaints#item-35997
  6306. http://www.bbb.org/
  6307. https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov
  6308. http://www.econsumer.gov/english/ (if your transaction was with a
  6309. foreign retailer as WEDG LTD)
  6310.  
  6311. WEDG LTD/Mr. Shehbaz Afzal need to resolve this situation promptly
  6312. without any further delays.
  6313.  
  6314.  
  6315.  
  6316.  
  6317. Nikolai Tesla
  6318.  
  6319. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> almost 2 years ago
  6320.  
  6321. 1 of 2: From jrogers31 last post it surely appears that he has been
  6322. blocked from posting once again. We are touching a nerve here and WEDG
  6323. LTD/Mr. Shehbaz Afzal does not like it. I highly suggest to all WEDG
  6324. backers to submit a “policy violation report” with Indiegogo, UK
  6325. authorities (The Insolvency Service, Companies House or the Serious
  6326. Fraud Office), and/or to the following authorities in the U.S.A. before
  6327. I get silenced, for the second time, again:
  6328.  
  6329.  
  6330.  
  6331.  
  6332. M K
  6333.  
  6334. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8914705> almost 2 years ago
  6335.  
  6336. I think it better for WEDG to just give most backers a refund
  6337. immediately in order to prevent severe legal issues.
  6338.  
  6339.  
  6340.  
  6341.  
  6342. jrogers31
  6343.  
  6344. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  6345.  
  6346. @Nikolai Tesla above – Yes I have been blocked by Indiegogo – I have
  6347. some important information to share following my investigations here in
  6348. the UK. Indiegogo have no right to prevent me from informing the backers
  6349. – If backers would like me to post the information here then please
  6350. complain to Indiegogo.
  6351.  
  6352. Alternatively you can find my contact details at www.gordcentre.org
  6353.  
  6354. For US based backers US government is really hot on wire fraud and
  6355. Indiegogo have exposed themselves by blocking comments JR
  6356.  
  6357.  
  6358.  
  6359.  
  6360. jrogers31
  6361.  
  6362. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  6363.  
  6364. 1/6 Email to Innospace MMU – I spoke to Sandra today as part of my
  6365. investigation into the activities of Mr Shehbaz Afzal who is running a
  6366. start up business WEDG Ltd within your (Innospace) premises on 47
  6367. Chorlton Street Manchester. Sandra suggested I email you for further
  6368. information. The reason for my investigation is as a result of
  6369. unsatisfactory responses to very reasonable enquiries from backers of
  6370. this business as to the whereabouts of the funds contributed by backers
  6371. totalling £131,537.00.
  6372.  
  6373.  
  6374.  
  6375.  
  6376. jrogers31
  6377.  
  6378. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  6379.  
  6380. 4/4 There is no reason legal or otherwise why you cannot disclose the
  6381. name of -your business insurer, -the firm of lawyers your business
  6382. insurer has hired along with a statement from the lawyer on their headed
  6383. paper confirming that they are dealing with the matter of the software
  6384. contested by a third party. Your lawyers will not have to disclose any
  6385. confidential details of the dispute. If you fail to do any or all of the
  6386. above then the conclusion will be obvious to all.
  6387.  
  6388.  
  6389.  
  6390.  
  6391. jrogers31
  6392.  
  6393. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  6394.  
  6395. 3/4 Unless you come clean now with a completely transparent and signed
  6396. statement from your lawyers indicating the situation regarding all the
  6397. questions raised about your hardware, tooling, software and statement of
  6398. accounts regarding backers funds one can only conclude that you are
  6399. running a scampaign and not a campaign.
  6400.  
  6401.  
  6402.  
  6403.  
  6404. jrogers31
  6405.  
  6406. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  6407.  
  6408. 2/4 Lets assume for the moment that you are genuine, you see this
  6409. project through and fulfil your obligation to deliver functioning units
  6410. and other perks to backers. Can you not appreciate that your appalling
  6411. communication skills, lack of insight and behaviour to date is going to
  6412. render null and void your future chances of a successful business.
  6413.  
  6414.  
  6415.  
  6416.  
  6417. jrogers31
  6418.  
  6419. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  6420.  
  6421. 1/4 @Team WEDG – it appears to me that your recent ‘update’ has been
  6422. done only to satisfy Indiegogo that you are communication with the
  6423. backers. As regards the content of the update – my response is “So
  6424. what”. When are you going to answer the very reasonable questions from
  6425. backers like @Gordon Keys for information about the hardware and tooling
  6426. etc or the questions about the whereabouts of the backers funds and a
  6427. statement of accounts?
  6428.  
  6429.  
  6430.  
  6431.  
  6432. Peter Dalmaris
  6433.  
  6434. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/7104926> almost 2 years ago
  6435.  
  6436. @jrogers31 Thank you for all your work – I have submitted my policy
  6437. violation report to Indiegogo.
  6438.  
  6439.  
  6440.  
  6441.  
  6442. spencer robinson
  6443.  
  6444. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/9152571> almost 2 years ago
  6445.  
  6446. Nikolai Tesla – Just submitted “policy violation report” to indiegogo
  6447.  
  6448. I just logged one as well
  6449.  
  6450.  
  6451.  
  6452.  
  6453. Nikolai Tesla
  6454.  
  6455. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> almost 2 years ago
  6456.  
  6457. The links for the state of California would be to report Indiegogo if
  6458. they do not assist on investigating WEDG LTD against being a scam or
  6459. not. The other links could be used to report WEDG LTD in the United States.
  6460.  
  6461.  
  6462.  
  6463.  
  6464. Nikolai Tesla
  6465.  
  6466. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> almost 2 years ago
  6467.  
  6468. Did some research and found the following:
  6469.  
  6470. http://oag.ca.gov/contact/consumer-complaint-against-business-or-company
  6471.  
  6472. https://www.dca.ca.gov/webapps/cru/gencomplaint.php
  6473.  
  6474. https://www.usa.gov/consumer-complaints#item-35997
  6475.  
  6476. http://www.bbb.org/
  6477.  
  6478. https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov
  6479.  
  6480. http://www.econsumer.gov/english/ (if your purchase was with a foreign
  6481. retailer.)
  6482.  
  6483.  
  6484.  
  6485.  
  6486. Nikolai Tesla
  6487.  
  6488. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> almost 2 years ago
  6489.  
  6490. Just submitted “policy violation report” to indiegogo. Does anyone know
  6491. to whom we could report this in the United States of America? More
  6492. pressure could be obtained if we also report it in the U.S.A. since
  6493. Indiegogo HQ is located in San Francisco, California.
  6494.  
  6495.  
  6496.  
  6497.  
  6498. jrogers31
  6499.  
  6500. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  6501.  
  6502. Just sent this to Indiegogo as ‘policy violation report’
  6503.  
  6504. Alleged scampaign WEDG no activity from campaign owner for 10 months?
  6505.  
  6506. See recent comments regarding this campaign – can you confirm that you
  6507. are in regular contact with the campaign owner? Can you reassure backers
  6508. that the campaign owner has not absconded with the backers funds? It is
  6509. time for you to properly investigate and send a report to ALL backers.
  6510.  
  6511. If any other backers support this – please repeat the reporting process.
  6512.  
  6513.  
  6514.  
  6515.  
  6516. jrogers31
  6517.  
  6518. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  6519.  
  6520. Even more amusing is the reassurance from Indiegogo on this page
  6521. https://www.indiegogo.com/trust
  6522.  
  6523. Where you can read more about their
  6524.  
  6525. Fraud Detection Algorithm
  6526. Community Reporting
  6527. Trust & Safety Team
  6528.  
  6529.  
  6530.  
  6531.  
  6532. Gordon Keys
  6533.  
  6534. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8335278> almost 2 years ago
  6535.  
  6536. Amusing. Just took a look at Shehbaz activity page on Indiegogo and his
  6537. last response was 10 months ago! WTF!
  6538.  
  6539. Are you somewhere sunny?
  6540.  
  6541.  
  6542.  
  6543.  
  6544. jrogers31
  6545.  
  6546. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  6547.  
  6548. @Gordon Keys – I will be surprised if you get a sensible answer to all
  6549. your very reasonable points and observations regarding previous and
  6550. current information from WEDG and the inconsistencies in the so called
  6551. facts contained in the updates. Perhaps a large number of dissatisfied
  6552. backers need to make a direct complaint to Indiegogo asking for a review
  6553. of this campaign as it would be sad if more unsuspecting backers make
  6554. contributions to this campaign.
  6555.  
  6556.  
  6557.  
  6558.  
  6559. Gordon Keys
  6560.  
  6561. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8335278> almost 2 years ago
  6562.  
  6563. Shehbaz
  6564.  
  6565. I’ve emailed the below to you so that you don’t miss it, as I suspect
  6566. you’ve stopped looking at the comments page sometime ago!
  6567.  
  6568. Shame
  6569.  
  6570.  
  6571.  
  6572.  
  6573. Gordon Keys
  6574.  
  6575. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8335278> almost 2 years ago
  6576.  
  6577. Shehbaz 3/3
  6578.  
  6579. I’ve asked this before but what has happened to the mediation? Is this
  6580. no longer being used by team WEDG?
  6581. Much of what you’ve updated here is just a rehash of what has gone
  6582. before. What is the plan regarding the refunds? Will you give any? Why
  6583. poll us if you don’t then intend to carry this thru?
  6584. Why aren’t Chris or better still you, signing off on these updates? It
  6585. is Just a faceless Team WEDG at the end of the messages. I find that
  6586. disconcerting!
  6587.  
  6588.  
  6589.  
  6590.  
  6591. Gordon Keys
  6592.  
  6593. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8335278> almost 2 years ago
  6594.  
  6595. Shehbaz 2/3
  6596.  
  6597. I realise that much of the hardware is off the shelf so we don’t have to
  6598. worry about that. It’s just an order away.
  6599.  
  6600. What items are need to be manufactured? I guess the cases would be. Has
  6601. the tooling been manufactured? We’ve seen the picture of part of the
  6602. case. Was this a 3D printed prototype or something produced using a
  6603. completed tool? How long will it take to produce the cases? I’ve asked
  6604. this a couple of times before and no-one has answered this BIG question.
  6605.  
  6606.  
  6607.  
  6608.  
  6609. Gordon Keys
  6610.  
  6611. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8335278> almost 2 years ago
  6612.  
  6613. Shehbaz 1/3
  6614.  
  6615. I am pleased to see a new update and it does give a me glimmer of hope
  6616. that things may move forward. Does it answer many of the burning
  6617. questions that have been added here on the comments page? No.
  6618.  
  6619. We know about the code issue. We know you can’t be particularly
  6620. transparent about that due to legal reasons. The section of code to be
  6621. rewritten could take 3-6 months I would guess once a line in the sand
  6622. has been drawn from where to rewrite from.
  6623.  
  6624.  
  6625.  
  6626.  
  6627. jrogers31
  6628.  
  6629. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  6630.  
  6631. 3/3 If Shehbaz and WEDG are genuine then they should be very concerned
  6632. about the comments and sentiments expressed here by backers and take
  6633. them seriously. The responses and updates we receive appear to show
  6634. complete lack of concern about the backers and their opinions. If one
  6635. had taken a sum of £131,537.00 from a number of people who contributed
  6636. in good faith and failed to deliver – I imagine that the only way one
  6637. could feel comfortable was if one was a resident outside the E.U. or U.S.A.
  6638.  
  6639.  
  6640.  
  6641.  
  6642. jrogers31
  6643.  
  6644. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  6645.  
  6646. 2/2 In dealing with WEDG in the UK – some or all of the UK backers who
  6647. want a refund could act as a group and issue a statutory demand for the
  6648. funds they contributed. It would help if the total amont of the demand
  6649. was high – this would depend on number of backers and the amounts
  6650. contributed. If payment was not received within 21 days then the company
  6651. can be wound up – this and the reports to the insolvency service would
  6652. trigger an investigation with serious consequences for the WEDG director(s)
  6653.  
  6654.  
  6655.  
  6656.  
  6657. jrogers31
  6658.  
  6659. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  6660.  
  6661. 1/2 I have complained on more than one occasion to Indiegogo about the
  6662. WEDG campaign and drawn their attention to the lack of transparancy (one
  6663. of Indiegogo’s requirements of campaign owners) and the alleged
  6664. hallmarks of a scampaign. I have also drawn Indiegogo’s attention to the
  6665. fact that they are at risk under US State and Federal laws in assisting
  6666. in alleged online fraudulent activity. The latter would probably require
  6667. the assistance of a US backer to report the matter to US authorities.
  6668.  
  6669.  
  6670.  
  6671.  
  6672. M K
  6673.  
  6674. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8914705> almost 2 years ago
  6675.  
  6676. has anyone contacted Indiegogo regarding the NON-delivery of the WEDG
  6677. and the NON-delivery of real status information?
  6678.  
  6679.  
  6680.  
  6681.  
  6682. Justin Walton
  6683.  
  6684. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8707801> almost 2 years ago
  6685.  
  6686. Does anyone else remember when @Team WEDG used to to comments
  6687. posted? While their legal team reads the proposal (at £250/hour), they
  6688. ought to have time to actually talk to us person to person.
  6689.  
  6690. I suspect the team has shrunk, possibly to one. I think I remember a
  6691. comment that they weren’t drawing salaries. How long would we work for
  6692. nothing on a stalled project?
  6693.  
  6694. @Bryan Walker, OpenProducts OPI Box looks like it could be a worthy
  6695. replacement for the WEDG. Thank-you for that information!
  6696.  
  6697.  
  6698.  
  6699.  
  6700. Peter Dalmaris
  6701.  
  6702. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/7104926> almost 2 years ago
  6703.  
  6704. I have already made a formal request for an investigation by The
  6705. Insolvency Service. They have confirmed receipt of my request.
  6706.  
  6707. I have already made a formal request to WEDG asking for a refunds. Radio
  6708. silence on that.
  6709.  
  6710. The latest update from WEDG offers a glimmer of hope that things will go
  6711. back to normal, but nothing concrete and verifiable. That’s a common
  6712. tactic used by fraudsters.
  6713.  
  6714.  
  6715.  
  6716.  
  6717. Nikolai Tesla
  6718.  
  6719. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> almost 2 years ago
  6720.  
  6721. @Team WEDG: Formally I am requesting my contribution to be refunded
  6722. promptly.
  6723.  
  6724. @WEDG Backers: To help out in this matter you have the option to have
  6725. this situation formally investigated by UK authorities (The Insolvency
  6726. Service, Companies House or the Serious Fraud Office). This act will
  6727. clear things that Team WEDG has not been able to comply. There is no
  6728. harm done if they are legit and it will not delay this project more than
  6729. it actually is at this moment.
  6730.  
  6731.  
  6732.  
  6733.  
  6734. jrogers31
  6735.  
  6736. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  6737.  
  6738. @Team WEDG – yet another update which gives very little further
  6739. information and summarises what you have told us before. Please disclose
  6740. the whereabouts of the funds that backers contributed with a statement
  6741. of accounts. Please confirm that you have spent little or none of the
  6742. backers funds. After all you have bought nothing, built nothing and
  6743. stored nothing so it follows that you have spent nothing and your
  6744. insurance pays the fees for your less than able lawyers. It is time to
  6745. send out refunds.
  6746.  
  6747.  
  6748.  
  6749.  
  6750. Gordon Keys
  6751.  
  6752. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8335278> almost 2 years ago
  6753.  
  6754. @Bryan & @David – Many thanks for your suggestions. I am swaying towards
  6755. the Synology DiskStation DS115j 2 × 1 TB that’ll perhaps suit my needs.
  6756. I hope i’ll the UI on the iPhone, tablet and PC is up to scratch and I
  6757. can pool everything i need onto one location. My back-up requirements
  6758. are mainly photos, video and a bit of music back up of some old CDs.
  6759.  
  6760.  
  6761.  
  6762.  
  6763. Gaston Cardey
  6764.  
  6765. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8821945> almost 2 years ago
  6766.  
  6767. Hi, everyone,
  6768. I don’t know what was the point of creating a poll to ask backers
  6769. whether to choose a refund or wait if WEDG won’t do anything with the
  6770. results.
  6771. I you ask me if I want a refund and I say “yes”, then give me my money, ok?
  6772. Finish with this torture (both for you and us who want out). I see
  6773. everyday goes by and nothing happend.
  6774. Message to other backers: please respect my opinion as I respect yours
  6775. and please don’t say to me “this is not Amazon”. All of us know that.
  6776. Really.
  6777.  
  6778.  
  6779.  
  6780.  
  6781. jrogers31
  6782.  
  6783. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  6784.  
  6785. It appears that Shehbaz does not want to communicate with some or all of
  6786. the backers of the WEDG project. One way to lance this festering
  6787. carbuncle of a situation would be to issue a statutory demand for the
  6788. refund of our contributions. If not settled within 21 days then WEDG
  6789. could be wound up with an investigation into what has been done with the
  6790. funds of £131,537!
  6791.  
  6792. It really is time for Shehbaz to fulfill his responsibilites to the
  6793. backers, tell us the truth and refund the money.
  6794.  
  6795.  
  6796.  
  6797.  
  6798. Nikolai Tesla
  6799.  
  6800. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> almost 2 years ago
  6801.  
  6802. @M K: Thank you for sharing that story but sadly Indiegogo does not have
  6803. that particular policy that KickStarter has. If it did, we would have
  6804. received our refund months ago. Our solution is to use legal options in
  6805. the UK.
  6806.  
  6807. @Bryan Walker: Thank you for sharing the OpenProducts OPI box, that is a
  6808. very nice and almost complete replacement for the WEDG. Why did you back
  6809. WEDG if OpenProducts OPI box existed? I am also looking into QNAP TS-453
  6810. or Synology DiskStation DS715 along with the OPI box.
  6811.  
  6812.  
  6813.  
  6814.  
  6815. M K
  6816.  
  6817. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8914705> almost 2 years ago
  6818.  
  6819. Please have a look at this news:
  6820.  
  6821. http://www.geekwire.com/2014/attorney-general-asylum-playing-cards-crowdfunded-project/
  6822.  
  6823. http://nwnewsnetwork.org/post/strange-twist-asylum-playing-cards-crowdfunding-case
  6824.  
  6825. http://www.atg.wa.gov/news/news-releases/ag-makes-crowdfunded-company-pay-shady-deal
  6826.  
  6827. These guys got a big penalty for failing to deliver the Kickstarter project.
  6828.  
  6829.  
  6830.  
  6831.  
  6832. David Aldred
  6833.  
  6834. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> almost 2 years ago
  6835.  
  6836. @Gordon,
  6837. I’ve just bought a Synology NAS (DS414)
  6838.  
  6839. You get the ‘access anywhere butt sync’, you can configure it as a mail
  6840. server ( I don’t need this particular feature as I have a hosted server
  6841. for this), I also have it setup as a Plex media server, I can share
  6842. links publicly with passwords / expiry dates etc, and can handle
  6843. encrypted volumes
  6844.  
  6845. Possibly not quite as secure as Wedg is/was aiming to be, but I’m very
  6846. pleased with how the management OS has matured in the last 12 months.
  6847.  
  6848.  
  6849.  
  6850.  
  6851. Nikolai Tesla
  6852.  
  6853. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> almost 2 years ago
  6854.  
  6855. @jrogers31: No, you are not alone on this request. I do request the
  6856. same. Sadly I no longer trust WEDG at all and IF they do pull through
  6857. (major doubt) I would rather sell off (at the same price) this item to
  6858. one of the supporters here. WEDG has no professional work ethics and
  6859. much less willing to provide customer satisfaction now and/or in the
  6860. future (if the case). I just demand a refund and have them carry on if
  6861. they please otherwise I will continue to look for more legal solutions.
  6862.  
  6863.  
  6864.  
  6865.  
  6866. jrogers31
  6867.  
  6868. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  6869.  
  6870. Own-mailbox seems to offer part of what WEDG intended but we get no
  6871. assurance or communication from Shehbaz to suggest that WEDG is going to
  6872. progress. Under these circumstances additions to Own-mailbox would be a
  6873. NAS with iTwin (file access) for remote access encrypted personal butt
  6874. storage and Surfeasy or iTwin connect for encrypted VPN browsing. Am I
  6875. the only one who thinks that Shehbaz should make a clear and unambiguous
  6876. statement of his intentions with WEDG and the whereabouts of our funds?
  6877.  
  6878.  
  6879.  
  6880.  
  6881. M K
  6882.  
  6883. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8914705> almost 2 years ago
  6884.  
  6885. @Spencer Robinson: thanks for the link to the Own-Mailbox project.
  6886.  
  6887. It looks that the WEDG just became obsolete.
  6888.  
  6889. When will I receive my refund?
  6890.  
  6891.  
  6892.  
  6893.  
  6894. jrogers31
  6895.  
  6896. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  6897.  
  6898. Shehbaz – please make a clear unambiguous statement to backers
  6899. confirming that there are no fundamental hardware, software or other
  6900. issues, which will prevent further progress in the production of WEDG.
  6901. Give us a firm time-line for the rewritting of the disputed software and
  6902. delivery of the finished and fully functioning units. Please make a
  6903. detailed statement about the whereabouts of the funds. If you are unable
  6904. to make such statements then please refund all the backers that
  6905. requested a refund.
  6906.  
  6907.  
  6908.  
  6909.  
  6910. spencer robinson
  6911.  
  6912. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/9152571> almost 2 years ago
  6913.  
  6914. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1547898916/own-mailbox-the-first-100-confidential-mailbox?ref=popular
  6915.  
  6916. and they have actually open sourced their product, something else that
  6917. has gone very quiet with the wedg team
  6918.  
  6919.  
  6920.  
  6921.  
  6922. jrogers31
  6923.  
  6924. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  6925.  
  6926. Backers should not write-off their funds – there are legal remedies in
  6927. the UK to deal with WEDG and legal remedies (State and Federal) in the
  6928. US to deal with Indiegogo. Indiegogo started to focus when this was
  6929. pointed out to them https://support.indiegogo.com/hc/en-us/requests/757300
  6930. The updates are evidence as are WEDG’s dealings with the “third party”
  6931. which would have to be disclosed if backers seek a legal remedy. If
  6932. funds have been misused then WEDG and their directors would be liable.
  6933.  
  6934.  
  6935.  
  6936.  
  6937. Gordon Keys
  6938.  
  6939. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8335278> almost 2 years ago
  6940.  
  6941. @David Aldred: What was the more established device? I have also almost
  6942. written off the WEDG and my money and need to find something else.
  6943.  
  6944.  
  6945.  
  6946.  
  6947. Nikolai Tesla
  6948.  
  6949. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> almost 2 years ago
  6950.  
  6951. Per The Insolvency Service: “One possible outcome of our investigations,
  6952. however, is that the company complained about may be wound up by the
  6953. court on the
  6954. petition of this department. In that event there is quite often some
  6955. publicity surrounding the matter, particularly in the local area.”
  6956.  
  6957.  
  6958.  
  6959.  
  6960. Nikolai Tesla
  6961.  
  6962. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> almost 2 years ago
  6963.  
  6964. @MK: Per T.I.S.: “This requirement for confidentiality at all stages
  6965. extends even to communications with complainants themselves. We cannot
  6966. tell you
  6967. what action, if any, we intend to take in response to your complaint.
  6968. Nor can we provide you with updates at any point.”
  6969.  
  6970.  
  6971.  
  6972.  
  6973. Nikolai Tesla
  6974.  
  6975. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> almost 2 years ago
  6976.  
  6977. 2 of 2
  6978. @WEDG FUNDERS: You have the right to report this situation to the
  6979. corresponding authorities in the UK so they can investigate:
  6980.  
  6981. The Insolvency Service, Companies House or the Serious Fraud Office.
  6982. More information at:
  6983.  
  6984. https://www.gov.uk/complain-about-a-limited-company
  6985.  
  6986. Here is the required WEDG company information:
  6987.  
  6988. WEDG LTD
  6989. 47 Chorlton Street
  6990. Manchester
  6991. Greater Manchester
  6992. M1 3FY
  6993.  
  6994. Company#08824160
  6995. Director ID: 917334076
  6996. Director: MR SHEHBAZ AFZAL
  6997.  
  6998.  
  6999.  
  7000.  
  7001. Nikolai Tesla
  7002.  
  7003. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> almost 2 years ago
  7004.  
  7005. 1 of 2
  7006. @WEDG FUNDERS: A way you can help WEDG by reporting them to the
  7007. authorities in the UK. Here is how it works, if WEDG is legit the
  7008. authorities will confirm that it so and if they are not, then they will
  7009. be held liable for their actions. Both outcomes will bring the long
  7010. delayed resolution to this fiasco to all of us no matter if you support
  7011. them or not.
  7012.  
  7013.  
  7014.  
  7015.  
  7016. Nikolai Tesla
  7017.  
  7018. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> almost 2 years ago
  7019.  
  7020. 09/09/2015: Finally I am able to post again! It is dubious as for the
  7021. timing and specific funders that were unable to post here. It definitely
  7022. gives a bad reputation to both Indiegogo and WEDG.
  7023.  
  7024.  
  7025.  
  7026.  
  7027. M K
  7028.  
  7029. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8914705> almost 2 years ago
  7030.  
  7031. Any update on the Insolvency Office?
  7032.  
  7033.  
  7034.  
  7035.  
  7036. David Aldred
  7037.  
  7038. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> almost 2 years ago
  7039.  
  7040. 2/2
  7041. Sadly, I’ve pretty much ‘written off’ the money I put in. With no end
  7042. date in sight, I had to fill the requirement I had that led me to
  7043. investing in this.
  7044.  
  7045. Tech has moved on in the last 12 months, and what is on the market now
  7046. more than completes with what Wedg was offering, and so have gone with a
  7047. more established device.
  7048.  
  7049. Of course, if Wedg materializes I’ll be giving it a go, but it’ll be a
  7050. ‘bonus’ rather than my expectation :(
  7051.  
  7052.  
  7053.  
  7054.  
  7055. David Aldred
  7056.  
  7057. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> almost 2 years ago
  7058.  
  7059. 1/2
  7060. To tweak an old analogy…
  7061. It rather sounds like this 3rd party have said ‘bend over’ and you’ve
  7062. responded with ‘How far’
  7063.  
  7064. Re-writing the code from scratch, in a process they will outline –
  7065. whilst at least allows you to move on, is hardly cause for celebration.
  7066.  
  7067. Sounds like a pretty bum deal to me.
  7068.  
  7069.  
  7070.  
  7071.  
  7072. jrogers31
  7073.  
  7074. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  7075.  
  7076. Backers should be made aware that over the last 15+ days some of us were
  7077. blocked from making comments in this open forum. Indiegogo said “our
  7078. Tech Team is aware of an issue which affects commenting ability for a
  7079. small subset of users” It appeared that the “subset of users” were the
  7080. ones who were first to raise concerns about WEDG. @Nikolai Tesla said in
  7081. his last message that he was being “frozen out”. This is a serious
  7082. breach of trust and an act of bad faith on behalf of Indiegogo and WEDG.
  7083.  
  7084.  
  7085.  
  7086.  
  7087. M K
  7088.  
  7089. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8914705> almost 2 years ago
  7090.  
  7091. Thanks for the update, but I still prefer to receive refund a.s.a.p.
  7092.  
  7093.  
  7094.  
  7095.  
  7096. Justin Walton
  7097.  
  7098. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8707801> almost 2 years ago
  7099.  
  7100. Finally some news, and it sounds good.
  7101. So now we need a timeline, it took 3 months to write the disputed
  7102. software, rewriting under scrutiny will take longer.
  7103. With a way forward open, I now expect @Team WEDG to have time to provide
  7104. regular updates, at least weekly.
  7105. The comments all have one thing in common, us backers want to know
  7106. what’s happening!
  7107. The little information we’ve received recently has all been on the
  7108. dispute, lets hear about a timeline and the hardware (including tee shirts)
  7109.  
  7110.  
  7111.  
  7112.  
  7113. Lewis Tsalis
  7114.  
  7115. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706426> almost 2 years ago
  7116.  
  7117. With this new announcement, I’m keen to see what the timeline is now
  7118. going to be.
  7119.  
  7120.  
  7121.  
  7122.  
  7123. Peter Dalmaris
  7124.  
  7125. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/7104926> almost 2 years ago
  7126.  
  7127. I wonder who is “Team WEDG”.
  7128.  
  7129. Why not use a real name?
  7130.  
  7131. In these circumstances, it would be appropriate to see Shehbaz’s name
  7132. signing these “updates”.
  7133.  
  7134.  
  7135.  
  7136.  
  7137. jrogers31
  7138.  
  7139. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  7140.  
  7141. Although the update of 10 mins ago sounds positive I am still sceptical.
  7142. If the update is accurate then there should be no reason why Shehbaz
  7143. cannot give a clear unambiguous statement and assurances regarding
  7144. hardware etc as previously requested.
  7145.  
  7146. As for their thanks to backers “for their patience and unfaltering
  7147. support” one wonders whether Team WEDG understand the recent sentiments
  7148. expressed by backers! Team WEDG need to improve on the transparency of
  7149. their communications.
  7150.  
  7151.  
  7152.  
  7153.  
  7154. jrogers31
  7155.  
  7156. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  7157.  
  7158. http://observer.com/2014/08/indiegogos-scampaign-problem-latest-crowdfunded-smartwatch-is-total-garbage/
  7159.  
  7160. I hope that we don’t find a similar article written about the WEDG
  7161. campaign in the future
  7162.  
  7163.  
  7164.  
  7165.  
  7166. jrogers31
  7167.  
  7168. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  7169.  
  7170. I agree with @Gordon Keys and other dissatisfied backers. 30+ days ago I
  7171. asked that Shehbaz make a clear and unambiguous statement “confirming
  7172. that there are no fundamental hardware, software or supply issues from
  7173. other contractors, which will prevent progress when the third party
  7174. issue is resolved.” Provided of course the third party issue is not a
  7175. charade. If this project is on the level do not understand why Shehbaz
  7176. cannot make such a statement and tell us about the whereabouts of the funds.
  7177.  
  7178.  
  7179.  
  7180.  
  7181. Steve Box
  7182.  
  7183. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/7734890> almost 2 years ago
  7184.  
  7185. @snhs06 – just to add, what you’re talking about came after they
  7186. announced the production schedule and told us when to expect our WEDGs.
  7187. It seems like they a) either knew all along that the software issue was
  7188. a show-stopper, which then questions why make the production
  7189. announcement or b) they prematurely announced production, which is
  7190. strange because those things have to be carefully planned. Either way it
  7191. doesn’t look or sound right. I’d be happy to be see the WEDG, but we
  7192. have a right to ask.
  7193.  
  7194.  
  7195.  
  7196.  
  7197. Steve Box
  7198.  
  7199. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/7734890> almost 2 years ago
  7200.  
  7201. @snhs06 – maybe you should pay attention.
  7202.  
  7203. Seven months ago – “We’re holding off from purchasing components and
  7204. materials just yet to avoid warehousing fees.”
  7205.  
  7206. Six months ago – “We will be ordering all hardware components including
  7207. materials WC 23 March 2015. … Thus the WEDG shell will go into
  7208. production on 26 March for a full day to produce 2200 units.”
  7209.  
  7210. So according to what was written all of the hardware should have been
  7211. done. It’s just hardware, why haven’t we seen it? Why no news?
  7212.  
  7213.  
  7214.  
  7215.  
  7216. maskedmarauder
  7217.  
  7218. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8106278> almost 2 years ago
  7219.  
  7220. I have asked for a refund three times already and have not even received
  7221. a response.
  7222.  
  7223. To all those who still believe this is NOT a scam – I can’t make up my
  7224. mind if I admire or pity you. Yes, it is a trust issue by now, and I
  7225. have none anymore.
  7226.  
  7227. Any help in getting a refund would be very much appreciated.
  7228.  
  7229.  
  7230.  
  7231.  
  7232. snhs06
  7233.  
  7234. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/9119033> almost 2 years ago
  7235.  
  7236. 2 of 2
  7237.  
  7238. @Carlos They are being serious – per 27/7/2015 they are seeking
  7239. alternative financing so those of you mistakenly thinking Indiegogo is
  7240. Amazon can get your money back if Wedg is not ready within 6 months i.e.
  7241. just under 5 months to go – seriously.
  7242.  
  7243. @Tiger Bus I can only agree with your sentiment. I suspect the
  7244. Insolvency Service will point out that by contributing they accepted the
  7245. T&Cs which Wedg are following. No wonder they have been so quiet – must
  7246. be sick of repeating themselves.
  7247.  
  7248.  
  7249.  
  7250.  
  7251. snhs06
  7252.  
  7253. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/9119033> almost 2 years ago
  7254.  
  7255. 1 of 2
  7256.  
  7257. I am starting to wonder if any of those incessantly complaining have
  7258. been paying attention.
  7259.  
  7260. @Steve Box Wedg said at the time of publicly announcing the legal issues
  7261. that they were not proceeding with manufacture at that time because they
  7262. would then have had to pay storage fees for the duration of the dispute
  7263. – seems reasonable to me. What did you expect that they would put them
  7264. together round a kitchen table – factory manufacturing requires a
  7265. certain volume to be economically viable.
  7266.  
  7267.  
  7268.  
  7269.  
  7270. Carlos Garcia Conde
  7271.  
  7272. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4819372> almost 2 years ago
  7273.  
  7274. This is my 4th comment and my 4th email and NO RESPONSE
  7275. I WANT A REFUND NOW
  7276. Be a serious people
  7277.  
  7278.  
  7279.  
  7280.  
  7281. Gordon Keys
  7282.  
  7283. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8335278> almost 2 years ago
  7284.  
  7285. Here, Here, @Steve Box!
  7286.  
  7287.  
  7288.  
  7289.  
  7290. Steve Box
  7291.  
  7292. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/7734890> almost 2 years ago
  7293.  
  7294. @ Tiger Bus – all of us want to believe in WEDG. But look at the timeline:
  7295.  
  7296. Mid March 2015 – ordering all materials March 23, going into production
  7297. March 26.
  7298. Early April 2015 – planning on shipping between April 8-13
  7299. Mid April 2015 – an aluminum prototype of the back
  7300.  
  7301. Please note that this has nothing to do with the software. We have been
  7302. told that the product was going to be done in late March, yet have only
  7303. been shown a case. Since then nothing about the hardware.
  7304.  
  7305.  
  7306.  
  7307.  
  7308. Steve Box
  7309.  
  7310. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/7734890> almost 2 years ago
  7311.  
  7312. While I understand the issues with the software developer, it seems to
  7313. me that the hardware should be ready to go. So why have we not heard
  7314. anything about completed hardware? According to the timeline the product
  7315. should have been finished.
  7316.  
  7317. Which leaves me to believe that the problems with the software side and
  7318. legality of releasing the WEDGE were known before they sent the
  7319. announcements out about the hardware. So why lie to use about the
  7320. shipping date in early April?
  7321.  
  7322.  
  7323.  
  7324.  
  7325. Steve Box
  7326.  
  7327. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/7734890> almost 2 years ago
  7328.  
  7329. Ultimately, as others have mentioned, it becomes a trust issue. We were
  7330. all excited about the WEDG, but the way things have been handled make
  7331. supporters question the direction and the leadership. It seems to me
  7332. that the WEDG team could have been talking about the hardware side
  7333. throughout all of these issues, just to allay fears that this wasn’t a
  7334. scam. But the radio silence on everything but the supposed negotiations
  7335. makes it difficult to understand what is happening.
  7336.  
  7337.  
  7338.  
  7339.  
  7340. Peter Dalmaris
  7341.  
  7342. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/7104926> almost 2 years ago
  7343.  
  7344. Spencer, look at Nikolai Tesla’s comment further down the list (26 days
  7345. ago), it contains the info I used.
  7346.  
  7347. Tiger Bus, as I said in my previous post, Failure is No Problem.
  7348. Crowdfunding has risks, and that’s fine. At this point, I doubt that
  7349. there is a mysterious “third party” that is responsible for this mess.
  7350. WEDG has given us no information we can verify independently, and have
  7351. broken every promise they made. I hope you are right. If not maybe the
  7352. Insolvency Service can shed some light.
  7353.  
  7354.  
  7355.  
  7356.  
  7357. Gordon Keys
  7358.  
  7359. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8335278> almost 2 years ago
  7360.  
  7361. Sorry… I just couldnt resist!
  7362.  
  7363. pic.twitter.com/OYzHMPrhZ1
  7364.  
  7365.  
  7366.  
  7367.  
  7368. spencer robinson
  7369.  
  7370. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/9152571> almost 2 years ago
  7371.  
  7372. how do you go about reporting to the Insolvency Service?
  7373.  
  7374. I feel as backers we now need bring this to an end, No one has contacted
  7375. me with regards to a refund as requested in the survey, and no
  7376. information has been release to confirm the truthfulness of the
  7377. situation wedg are reporting
  7378.  
  7379.  
  7380.  
  7381.  
  7382. Tiger Bus
  7383.  
  7384. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706731> almost 2 years ago
  7385.  
  7386. Oh Peter, thanx for having another f*cked up legal issue for them to
  7387. fight off and delay it for all other backers yet again. This is not
  7388. amazon and your case will result in paperwork and further mess only.
  7389. Thanks again on behalf of everyone who actually unterstands the meaning
  7390. of “funding a startup”. Damn.
  7391.  
  7392.  
  7393.  
  7394.  
  7395. Ron Ko
  7396.  
  7397. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8444779> almost 2 years ago
  7398.  
  7399. @Peter, agree and support you!
  7400.  
  7401.  
  7402.  
  7403.  
  7404. Peter Dalmaris
  7405.  
  7406. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/7104926> almost 2 years ago
  7407.  
  7408. With reluctance, I have reported WEDG to The Insolvency Service.
  7409.  
  7410. I have received acknowledgement of my submission and will update you of
  7411. the progress.
  7412.  
  7413. I did this with reluctance because I truly believed in WEDG. I hope they
  7414. will get through it and deliver OR come out to speak about what is
  7415. happening with honesty and transparency.
  7416.  
  7417. Failure is no problem. Treating your supporters like WEDG has for so
  7418. long is very disturbing.
  7419.  
  7420.  
  7421.  
  7422.  
  7423. Carlos Garcia Conde
  7424.  
  7425. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4819372> almost 2 years ago
  7426.  
  7427. No answer about my refund…
  7428. PLEASE be a serious person, refund now
  7429.  
  7430.  
  7431.  
  7432.  
  7433. Peter Dalmaris
  7434.  
  7435. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/7104926> almost 2 years ago
  7436.  
  7437. Has anyone reported this to The Insolvency Service, Companies House or
  7438. the Serious Fraud Office?
  7439.  
  7440.  
  7441.  
  7442.  
  7443. M K
  7444.  
  7445. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8914705> almost 2 years ago
  7446.  
  7447. By the time the dispute is resolved, the hardware and software are both
  7448. rendered obsolete.
  7449.  
  7450.  
  7451.  
  7452.  
  7453. Ruanth Chrisley Thyssen
  7454.  
  7455. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/485007> almost 2 years ago
  7456.  
  7457. I have only ever funded few, carefully hand picked campaigns on
  7458. indiegogo – WEDG seemed like one such campaign. However after reading
  7459. some of the other comments below, I am seriously concerned.
  7460. While there are some who say this is a scam, I still have hope that this
  7461. project pulls through. My only real concern is delivery time. Technology
  7462. is constantly evolving and advancing, and what may seem as a harmless
  7463. few months seriously concerns me regarding WEDG tech. Please give us a
  7464. real update!
  7465.  
  7466.  
  7467.  
  7468.  
  7469. michiel pauwels
  7470.  
  7471. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3426891> almost 2 years ago
  7472.  
  7473. As everyone else i’m also still waiting for my refund
  7474.  
  7475.  
  7476.  
  7477.  
  7478. Gordon Keys
  7479.  
  7480. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8335278> almost 2 years ago
  7481.  
  7482. Part 2/2
  7483. I’d like to know where we are with the tooling for the chassis for the
  7484. WEDG. If this had been still on schedule, there should be some moulds
  7485. made to produce the WEDG cases? We’ve seen some sort of picture in a
  7486. dingy shed. Is that it? REALLY?
  7487.  
  7488.  
  7489.  
  7490.  
  7491. Gordon Keys
  7492.  
  7493. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8335278> almost 2 years ago
  7494.  
  7495. Part 1/2
  7496. The last two updates tell us little as WEDG cannot tell us anything much
  7497. regarding this legal dispute.
  7498.  
  7499. I still find it hard to take you guys seriously because these updates
  7500. are passed via your legal eagles and the typos and poor grammar are
  7501. shocking! Surely they would have done something about them? What has
  7502. happened regarding the mediation service you were using? There’s been
  7503. little about them for some time. Are they still working on this and in
  7504. what capacity?
  7505.  
  7506.  
  7507.  
  7508.  
  7509. Peter Dalmaris
  7510.  
  7511. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/7104926> almost 2 years ago
  7512.  
  7513. Hi all,
  7514.  
  7515. I have emailed WEDG asking for a refund. I had ordered 2xIntel WEDGs.
  7516. After total radio silence from WEDG for so long in this thread, I have
  7517. little confidence that I will ever see a product. I also have little
  7518. confidence that I will ever see my money.
  7519.  
  7520. If anyone here has actually received a refund, please let me know.
  7521.  
  7522. I will look at making a formal complaint at The Insolvency Service in
  7523. the next few days. Just wish to give WEDG one more chance to get back to us.
  7524.  
  7525.  
  7526.  
  7527.  
  7528. M K
  7529.  
  7530. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8914705> almost 2 years ago
  7531.  
  7532. Reminder #1:
  7533. We need evidence of development of the product and proof that the WEDG
  7534. is there directly after the legal issue is resolved.
  7535.  
  7536.  
  7537.  
  7538.  
  7539. Andrea Pietroboni
  7540.  
  7541. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/1106976> almost 2 years ago
  7542.  
  7543. Hi all
  7544. If i remember they ask e refound of money with Paypal …. You rechi ed
  7545. The money?
  7546.  
  7547.  
  7548.  
  7549.  
  7550. M K
  7551.  
  7552. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8914705> almost 2 years ago
  7553.  
  7554. We need evidence of development of the product and proof that the WEDG
  7555. is there directly after the legal issue is resolved.
  7556.  
  7557.  
  7558.  
  7559.  
  7560. Peter Dalmaris
  7561.  
  7562. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/7104926> almost 2 years ago
  7563.  
  7564. … continuing from previous post …
  7565.  
  7566. Also, reading at all the comments from other backers about WEDG being a
  7567. scam, can you provide any information to help clear the air?
  7568.  
  7569.  
  7570.  
  7571.  
  7572. Peter Dalmaris
  7573.  
  7574. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/7104926> almost 2 years ago
  7575.  
  7576. Hello @TeamWEDG,
  7577.  
  7578. I’ve been a supporter of your project for over two years now
  7579. (contributed at your Kickstarter campaign). I still am. I find it hard
  7580. to believe that we have been stuck in this legal issue for so long.
  7581. Still, my patience is not exhausted, I want you to come through it.
  7582.  
  7583. All the updates we have received in the last few months have been about
  7584. legal stuff.
  7585.  
  7586. Has any progress been made in the technology front? Can you tell us how
  7587. the technology is doing after years in development?
  7588.  
  7589.  
  7590.  
  7591.  
  7592. Justin Walton
  7593.  
  7594. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8707801> almost 2 years ago
  7595.  
  7596. @ Chris – thanks’ for the update. Pity it wasn’t more positive news, but
  7597. at least it’s news.
  7598.  
  7599.  
  7600.  
  7601.  
  7602. MARC-ANDRE RUNCIE-UNGER
  7603.  
  7604. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/5105783> almost 2 years ago
  7605.  
  7606. Hi there,
  7607.  
  7608. Could we please get a proper update on what’s going on???
  7609.  
  7610. Thanks,
  7611.  
  7612. Marc
  7613.  
  7614.  
  7615.  
  7616.  
  7617. Carlos Garcia Conde
  7618.  
  7619. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4819372> almost 2 years ago
  7620.  
  7621. Please refund me the money NOW or I’ll report you
  7622. At least, anwser my emails, comments…
  7623. You are NOT serious
  7624.  
  7625.  
  7626.  
  7627.  
  7628. Nikolai Tesla
  7629.  
  7630. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> almost 2 years ago
  7631.  
  7632. @WEDG FUNDERS: If WEDG is a scam, you can report it to the corresponding
  7633. authorities in the UK so they can investigate:
  7634.  
  7635. The Insolvency Service, Companies House or the Serious Fraud Office.
  7636. More information at:
  7637.  
  7638. https://www.gov.uk/complain-about-a-limited-company
  7639.  
  7640. Here is the required WEDG company information:
  7641.  
  7642. WEDG LTD
  7643. 47 Chorlton Street
  7644. Manchester
  7645. Greater Manchester
  7646. M1 3FY
  7647.  
  7648. Company#08824160
  7649. Director ID: 917334076
  7650. Director: MR SHEHBAZ AFZAL
  7651.  
  7652.  
  7653.  
  7654.  
  7655. M K
  7656.  
  7657. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8914705> almost 2 years ago
  7658.  
  7659. i’m really fed up with this project…. No replies, no information,
  7660. nothing it all.
  7661.  
  7662. We’ve sent reminders out for 5 times… but still no response…. I’m
  7663. getting the feeling we are getting scammed here.
  7664.  
  7665. Just send out refund to the 199 kickstarters, so we can get on with our
  7666. true lives.
  7667.  
  7668.  
  7669.  
  7670.  
  7671. Ron Ko
  7672.  
  7673. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8444779> almost 2 years ago
  7674.  
  7675. @Gaston, I totally agree with you.
  7676.  
  7677. In the beginning, this product target aimed to get around £72,000
  7678. funding and now it’s beyond that value. There are 199 people voted to
  7679. refund. Why the team didn’t let them go and your supporters can keep
  7680. going with you & the product?
  7681.  
  7682.  
  7683.  
  7684.  
  7685. Gaston Cardey
  7686.  
  7687. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8821945> almost 2 years ago
  7688.  
  7689. Hi everyone,
  7690. “Divide and conquer”. Reading the comments, I find out that some backers
  7691. have take a position on favor of WEDG and some others (like me), against.
  7692. Guys, won’t it be great that Team WEDG respond to some of the questions
  7693. here, instead that some backers defend their case?
  7694. Only what I ask is respect to the next guy position.
  7695. I really trusted in this proyect, but not anymore. I even talked to two
  7696. of my clients into this and at last minute they had some emergency so
  7697. the got out.
  7698. Thanks
  7699.  
  7700.  
  7701.  
  7702.  
  7703. Justin Walton
  7704.  
  7705. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8707801> almost 2 years ago
  7706.  
  7707. I am very disappointed by the communications we have received from Team
  7708. WEDG. Ever since the issue with the software IP arose, we have heard too
  7709. little, too late.
  7710. I understand that there are details that can’t be released, due to the
  7711. ongoing discussions, and there have been recent holidays and illnesses
  7712. slowing things down. But what happened to the weekly updates? Come on,
  7713. throw us a bone here. Any news would be welcome news. I’m so upset I
  7714. can’t even bring myself to ask about tee shirts anymore
  7715.  
  7716.  
  7717.  
  7718.  
  7719. snhs06
  7720.  
  7721. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/9119033> almost 2 years ago
  7722.  
  7723. 2 of 2
  7724.  
  7725. In this they seem to be following a well thought out & systematic
  7726. approach, which is commendable especially in a new business. All
  7727. mudslinging and repeated demands in comments do is reflect poorly on
  7728. those making them.
  7729.  
  7730. There is no one here who would not far rather it was over, but this is
  7731. the real world – delays happen, legal matters take time and respecting
  7732. confidentiality greases the wheels. In the meantime crowdfunding is not
  7733. shopping, sure the SFO etc will tell you the same thing.
  7734.  
  7735.  
  7736.  
  7737.  
  7738. snhs06
  7739.  
  7740. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/9119033> almost 2 years ago
  7741.  
  7742. 1 of 2
  7743.  
  7744. I have to agree with Tiger Bus. As per the Indiegogo T&Cs Wedg are not
  7745. obligated to give refunds. The delayed is due to factors outwith their
  7746. control, they are doing their best to resolve it. Moreover they have
  7747. consulted backers, reached a decision which has been communicated on how
  7748. they intend to proceed and placed a clear time limit on when they will
  7749. issue refunds to those who wish them while protecting the interests of
  7750. other backers and the company by arranging alternative financing.
  7751.  
  7752.  
  7753.  
  7754.  
  7755. Carlos Garcia Conde
  7756.  
  7757. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4819372> almost 2 years ago
  7758.  
  7759. I’ve asked you for a refund and I had no answer…
  7760. No information, no refund…
  7761. I WANT a refund
  7762. What are you waiting for?
  7763.  
  7764.  
  7765.  
  7766.  
  7767. Ron Ko
  7768.  
  7769. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8444779> almost 2 years ago
  7770.  
  7771. There’s a key word missed in previous comment: I am NOT saying this
  7772. campaign following the same route but ….
  7773.  
  7774.  
  7775.  
  7776.  
  7777. Ron Ko
  7778.  
  7779. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8444779> almost 2 years ago
  7780.  
  7781. If the product can’t be delivered to market at the right time, why
  7782. should I still support it?
  7783. This is not a charity campaign. Some people who raise a scam campaign to
  7784. resell pirate electronic stuffs which were manufactured from China.
  7785. Should we still keep silent and let them cheat money on that way? I am
  7786. saying this campaign following the same route but the campaign team has
  7787. to admit – they can’t fulfil what they expected. “EXIT” plan is what
  7788. they need to do but not talking a dream.(2/2)
  7789.  
  7790.  
  7791.  
  7792.  
  7793. Ron Ko
  7794.  
  7795. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8444779> almost 2 years ago
  7796.  
  7797. @M K, it’s you but not me asking for real info. I am one of 199 backers
  7798. who looks for refund in the survey.
  7799.  
  7800. In day one, as I said, this project was good to support and the campaign
  7801. team can rely on IGG to get funding. However, it’s not run properly and
  7802. so even can’s deliver any stuff. As a backer, I fully understood the
  7803. risk but it doesn’t mean that we can let the campaign team to free run.
  7804. I supported the campaign and the only reason is not able to find the
  7805. right product in the market. (1/2)
  7806.  
  7807.  
  7808.  
  7809.  
  7810. M K
  7811.  
  7812. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8914705> almost 2 years ago
  7813.  
  7814. @ Ron Ko and @ Tiger Bus: we only want to be informed periodically with
  7815. real information and this has not happened in the past 3 months.
  7816.  
  7817.  
  7818.  
  7819.  
  7820. Ron Ko
  7821.  
  7822. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8444779> almost 2 years ago
  7823.  
  7824. For those who still fully support this campaign, you can consider to
  7825. take over the order ownership from those want to refund. It would then
  7826. eliminate negative noise in this page. Good deal?
  7827.  
  7828.  
  7829.  
  7830.  
  7831. Tiger Bus
  7832.  
  7833. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706731> almost 2 years ago
  7834.  
  7835. As I see it: there are like 5 backers needing personal comforting, as
  7836. they only now seem to realize the difference between amazon and
  7837. indiegogo. Sorry sight.
  7838.  
  7839.  
  7840.  
  7841.  
  7842. jrogers31
  7843.  
  7844. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  7845.  
  7846. 2 of 2 – The results of the poll seem clear – this project is a dead
  7847. duck. The only apparent reason WEDG can have to continue this putative
  7848. charade is to try and keep some or all of the backer’s funds – without
  7849. delivering on the product. As stated many times before – it is time for
  7850. Shehbaz to come clean and tell us the TRUTH.
  7851.  
  7852.  
  7853.  
  7854.  
  7855. jrogers31
  7856.  
  7857. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  7858.  
  7859. 1 of 2 – The comments from the backers over the last 9 days are
  7860. interesting as it appears that more backers are now happy to express
  7861. their concerns, in addition to the one or two original dissenting
  7862. voices. The update from WEDG 5 days ago gives no real information and
  7863. adds nothing to previous updates, which also gave no real information. I
  7864. agree with the comments of others pointing out the inconsistencies in
  7865. the updates.
  7866.  
  7867.  
  7868.  
  7869.  
  7870. Nikolai Tesla
  7871.  
  7872. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> almost 2 years ago
  7873.  
  7874. @WEDG Funders:
  7875.  
  7876. You can send a complain to The Insolvency Service, Companies House or
  7877. the Serious Fraud Office so they can investigate. More information at:
  7878.  
  7879. https://www.gov.uk/complain-about-a-limited-company
  7880.  
  7881. Here is the required WEDG company information:
  7882.  
  7883. WEDG LTD
  7884. 47 Chorlton Street
  7885. Manchester
  7886. Greater Manchester
  7887. M1 3FY
  7888.  
  7889. Company#08824160
  7890. Director ID: 917334076
  7891. Director: MR SHEHBAZ AFZAL
  7892.  
  7893.  
  7894.  
  7895.  
  7896. Ron Ko
  7897.  
  7898. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8444779> almost 2 years ago
  7899.  
  7900. @WEDG team, some of your supporters have lost confidence to you
  7901. guys…..Acknowledge to show your respect to them…..Even if you had
  7902. excellent product, you would still get failure as you are not willing to
  7903. have interactive communication …..
  7904.  
  7905.  
  7906.  
  7907.  
  7908. M K
  7909.  
  7910. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8914705> almost 2 years ago
  7911.  
  7912. Based on the last update, I’ve lost completely my confidence in the WEDG
  7913. still coming into production in 2015.
  7914.  
  7915. I get annoyed especially by this phrase:
  7916. “We have on numerous occasions expressed our feelings but little has
  7917. been done to address the concerns raised.”
  7918.  
  7919. This gives me the feeling that the WEDG team is not fighting the battle
  7920. hard enough with the (still undisclosed) 3rd party, but instead is
  7921. preaching love and hoping the issue will be resolved in a peaceful matter.
  7922.  
  7923. Refund please…
  7924.  
  7925.  
  7926.  
  7927.  
  7928. Carlos Garcia Conde
  7929.  
  7930. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4819372> almost 2 years ago
  7931.  
  7932. Dear friends, I want a refund.
  7933. I told you for email… but not response…
  7934.  
  7935.  
  7936.  
  7937.  
  7938. James Taylor
  7939.  
  7940. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/5657565> almost 2 years ago
  7941.  
  7942. I would agree with Richard Alter: this does not mesh at all with having
  7943. an Arbitrator. If your update is true, then you have grounds for a
  7944. lawsuit seeking compensation for damages – they have not even complied
  7945. with their own standards and have cost you significant damage
  7946. financially and in terms of reputation, through no fault of your own.
  7947.  
  7948. This really should have been handled via an Arbitrator – what happened
  7949. to them?
  7950.  
  7951.  
  7952.  
  7953.  
  7954. richard alter
  7955.  
  7956. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/1968091> almost 2 years ago
  7957.  
  7958. I was under the impression that the legal problems were being handled by
  7959. an arbitrator. None of what you describe would be happening if that is
  7960. the case. The definition of an arbitrated case is that an independent
  7961. 3rd party would make the decisions on the course of action. None of that
  7962. is happening here. I’m having a hard time believing the story line.
  7963.  
  7964.  
  7965.  
  7966.  
  7967. Ron Ko
  7968.  
  7969. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8444779> almost 2 years ago
  7970.  
  7971. @WEDG, I am happy with update from you and we know at least this
  7972. campaign still alive. It’s nice that you have process improvement change
  7973. internally. However, could you please read our comments and then respond
  7974. us accordingly?
  7975.  
  7976.  
  7977.  
  7978.  
  7979. MARC-ANDRE RUNCIE-UNGER
  7980.  
  7981. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/5105783> almost 2 years ago
  7982.  
  7983. While I have been very much in support of yourselves and the project I
  7984. am getting worried as there has been no update despite the promise “We
  7985. will post an update as promised on Thursday or earlier if there are any
  7986. developments.” 10 days ago?
  7987.  
  7988. What’s happening? :(
  7989.  
  7990. Thanks,
  7991.  
  7992. Marc
  7993.  
  7994.  
  7995.  
  7996.  
  7997. Nikolai Tesla
  7998.  
  7999. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> almost 2 years ago
  8000.  
  8001. 2 of 2
  8002.  
  8003. https://www.gov.uk/complain-about-a-limited-company
  8004.  
  8005. WEDG LTD
  8006. 47 Chorlton Street
  8007. Manchester
  8008. Greater Manchester
  8009. M1 3FY
  8010.  
  8011. Company#08824160 Director ID: 917334076
  8012. Director: MR SHEHBAZ AFZAL
  8013.  
  8014.  
  8015.  
  8016.  
  8017. Nikolai Tesla
  8018.  
  8019. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> almost 2 years ago
  8020.  
  8021. 1 of 2
  8022. @WEDG Funders: It is sad and obvious that Team WEDG has major problems
  8023. (real or not) and that there is no clear indication of a concrete
  8024. solution even in their set six month timeline. The lack of any recent
  8025. updates and the repetitive legal issue reporting is not helping the
  8026. already 49%, and counting, of concerned funders. You can send a complain
  8027. to The Insolvency Service, Companies House or the Serious Fraud Office
  8028. so they can investigate.
  8029.  
  8030.  
  8031.  
  8032.  
  8033. Gaston Cardey
  8034.  
  8035. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8821945> almost 2 years ago
  8036.  
  8037. Hello backers! This one is for you, since I had to go many days (26) to
  8038. find out the last response from WEDG. I’m feeling that we’ve been abandoned.
  8039. Meanwile, we can use this thead to share experiences. Last night, my cat
  8040. jumped over me at 3:30 am. Almost die from a heart atack. Her
  8041. explanaition was that she was having an argument with the male cat about
  8042. the food bowl.
  8043. By the way, I’ve buyed a replacement for the WEDG (yes, more expensive).
  8044. QNap TP-453 PRO.
  8045. Good bye for now.
  8046.  
  8047.  
  8048.  
  8049.  
  8050. Ron Ko
  8051.  
  8052. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8444779> almost 2 years ago
  8053.  
  8054. According to the survey result, why don’t let that 200 people off from
  8055. the ship and they can still move on with the rest (those support or even
  8056. no response)? Now, they blend all guys to move on but it is unlikely
  8057. ready in this year…..
  8058.  
  8059.  
  8060.  
  8061.  
  8062. Andrea Pietroboni
  8063.  
  8064. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/1106976> almost 2 years ago
  8065.  
  8066. hi
  8067. but who want the money back and respond at your email how many time we
  8068. hope to see the money return at us?
  8069.  
  8070.  
  8071.  
  8072.  
  8073. jrogers31
  8074.  
  8075. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  8076.  
  8077. Dear WEDG team
  8078.  
  8079. In an update 6 days ago you said “We will post an update as promised on
  8080. Thursday or earlier”
  8081.  
  8082. Can you give the backers an update please.
  8083.  
  8084.  
  8085.  
  8086.  
  8087. M K
  8088.  
  8089. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8914705> almost 2 years ago
  8090.  
  8091. Reminder #6:
  8092.  
  8093. Can you please share an update with real substance in it?
  8094.  
  8095. It’s good to share updates, but till now, it only has been updates from
  8096. the process side of the issue.
  8097.  
  8098. Based on all the updates, I still can not make up my mind regarding
  8099. supporting the WEDG. It’s a great product and I surely want it… but only
  8100. if it is there in 2015…..
  8101.  
  8102.  
  8103.  
  8104.  
  8105. Ken Taylor
  8106.  
  8107. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6123904> almost 2 years ago
  8108.  
  8109. @jrogers31 my details of hardware are from following the project from
  8110. Kickstarter through to Indiegogo, reading the project briefs, writing to
  8111. Shahbaz individually and reading all the updates and comments here. and
  8112. following the hardware specific forums and G+ page
  8113. Yes Im taking it on trust that we are being told the truth about the
  8114. state of the project. I supported them in the survey. otherwise i would
  8115. just buy the hardware or a VM and run Linux, Kolab, a backup program &
  8116. possibly Kodi (XBMC)
  8117.  
  8118.  
  8119.  
  8120.  
  8121. jrogers31
  8122.  
  8123. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  8124.  
  8125. 2 of 2 – It is time for Shahbaz to make a clear and unambiguous
  8126. statement confirming that there are no fundamental hardware, software or
  8127. supply issues from other contractors, which will prevent progress when
  8128. the third party issue is resolved. Assuming that is that the third party
  8129. software issue is not a smokescreen as suggested by @t.munari
  8130.  
  8131. Shahbaz – the truth will set you free
  8132.  
  8133.  
  8134.  
  8135.  
  8136. jrogers31
  8137.  
  8138. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  8139.  
  8140. 1 of 2 – @t.munari – you are not the only backer to suspect that there
  8141. is something fishy going on.
  8142.  
  8143. @ken taylor – in your response to @t.munari it appears that you have
  8144. detailed knowledge about hardware, suppliers etc but is this based on
  8145. hard facts or your interpretation of what you see in the WEDG pages and
  8146. a belief that the backers are being told the truth?
  8147.  
  8148. @ MK I admire your patience but agree with @ken Taylor if you have not
  8149. had a response after 5 requests – you are unlikely to get one
  8150.  
  8151.  
  8152.  
  8153.  
  8154. Ken Taylor
  8155.  
  8156. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6123904> almost 2 years ago
  8157.  
  8158. @MK
  8159. yes we get it you are frustrated and can copy and paste your comment to
  8160. the top every day.
  8161. its getting old already !
  8162.  
  8163.  
  8164.  
  8165.  
  8166. Ken Taylor
  8167.  
  8168. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6123904> almost 2 years ago
  8169.  
  8170. @ t.munari if you read the pages you will see the boards are production
  8171. devices the arm is a cubieboard and intel is a minnowbord max so it is
  8172. just a case of ordering from the suppliers. the OS is in dispute so they
  8173. cant talk about it. the case will need specifically manufacturing. they
  8174. have been working on office and messaging suites. they said they were
  8175. ready for production before the legal issues.they have given a 9 month
  8176. maximum to delivery.
  8177. Indiegogo is not amazon with next day delivery
  8178.  
  8179.  
  8180.  
  8181.  
  8182. M K
  8183.  
  8184. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8914705> almost 2 years ago
  8185.  
  8186. Reminder #5:
  8187.  
  8188. Can you please share an update with real substance in it?
  8189.  
  8190. It’s good to share updates, but till now, it only has been updates from
  8191. the process side of the issue.
  8192.  
  8193. Based on all the updates, I still can not make up my mind regarding
  8194. supporting the WEDG. It’s a great product and I surely want it… but only
  8195. if it is there in 2015…..
  8196.  
  8197.  
  8198.  
  8199.  
  8200. t.munari
  8201.  
  8202. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/7463940> almost 2 years ago
  8203.  
  8204. Please, be considerate, could you give us some real info on the project
  8205. status?
  8206. Like
  8207. Hardware %:
  8208. Product finalization,
  8209. Expected production time,
  8210. Software %:
  8211. Main os,
  8212. Primary Services,
  8213. Plugins or whatever…
  8214. This info have nothing to do with the legal dispute and will help remove
  8215. the bitter taste last 30 updates deliver: They look like a smokescreen
  8216. to cover something fishy going on.
  8217. BTW: consider to appoint someone with basic PR skills to handle the
  8218. campaign updates.
  8219. Thank you
  8220.  
  8221.  
  8222.  
  8223.  
  8224. M K
  8225.  
  8226. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8914705> almost 2 years ago
  8227.  
  8228. Reminder #4:
  8229.  
  8230. Can you please share an update with real substance in it?
  8231.  
  8232. It’s good to share updates, but till now, it only has been updates from
  8233. the process side of the issue.
  8234.  
  8235. Based on all the updates, I still can not make up my mind regarding
  8236. supporting the WEDG. It’s a great product and I surely want it… but only
  8237. if it is there in 2015…..
  8238.  
  8239.  
  8240.  
  8241.  
  8242. Rémi
  8243.  
  8244. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/9463606> almost 2 years ago
  8245.  
  8246. @Shehbaz Could we have some update on the ongoing development of the
  8247. project. Do update on the legal issue is good, but it would be better
  8248. with some news on the evolution of the project and it may help the
  8249. pessimistic backers.
  8250.  
  8251.  
  8252.  
  8253.  
  8254. Nikolai Tesla
  8255.  
  8256. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> almost 2 years ago
  8257.  
  8258. Take note, this is how any “Crowd Source Campaign” should be run:
  8259.  
  8260. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/sondors-electric-bike/x/8695962#/story
  8261.  
  8262.  
  8263.  
  8264.  
  8265. Nikolai Tesla
  8266.  
  8267. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> almost 2 years ago
  8268.  
  8269. 2 of 2
  8270. What is your “Plan B” if you do not have WEDG ready in six (6) months
  8271. for the other half that still support you? You still lack any evidence
  8272. that the WEDG idea even exist! Either your team is very naive or
  8273. massively lack the skills to run a start up. How do you expect anyone to
  8274. continue to support this idea? less so from “trusted private individual
  8275. investors”.
  8276.  
  8277.  
  8278.  
  8279.  
  8280. Nikolai Tesla
  8281.  
  8282. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> almost 2 years ago
  8283.  
  8284. 1 of 2
  8285. @Shehbaz: Thank you for providing a clear indicator that a significant
  8286. amount of your backers are not pleased with the WEDG situation and in
  8287. turn demand a refund. As Justin Walton mentioned, if you have been more
  8288. transparent and have provided more information on the completed process
  8289. with WEDG things would have been different. There are inconsistencies
  8290. with your recent update. Why are you dealing with the “Third Party”
  8291. directly? What happened with the mediator?
  8292.  
  8293.  
  8294.  
  8295.  
  8296. Justin Walton
  8297.  
  8298. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8707801> almost 2 years ago
  8299.  
  8300. Oh wow, those poll results must have been devastating to everyone at
  8301. Team WEDG. It’s nice to see a little more information in the latest
  8302. update, and the teams determination to finish what they’ve started. I
  8303. wonder what the poll results would have looked like if more information
  8304. had been released prior to the poll? I suspect a lot fewer backers would
  8305. have asked for a refund.
  8306.  
  8307.  
  8308.  
  8309.  
  8310. jrogers31
  8311.  
  8312. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  8313.  
  8314. 5 of 5 – It is well overdue for you to be a lot tougher with regard to
  8315. your approach to handling these matters if the remaining backers are to
  8316. continue to have confidence in you, your team and your project. You also
  8317. need to improve your communications with backers providing facts and
  8318. details without further reservation. There is no reason why your legal
  8319. team cannot provide a P&C statement to be sent to the private paypal
  8320. email addresses of the backers.
  8321.  
  8322.  
  8323.  
  8324.  
  8325. jrogers31
  8326.  
  8327. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  8328.  
  8329. 4 of 5 – a) the recruitment firm who found you this engineer and are at
  8330. fault for not checking the individual’s status b) the software engineer
  8331. who did not disclose his employment conditions and c) the third party
  8332. who did not make it clear to their employee that he should not make
  8333. himself available for work while on gardening leave. If you have told us
  8334. the truth in these matters then you should be successful on all three
  8335. counts.
  8336.  
  8337.  
  8338.  
  8339.  
  8340. jrogers31
  8341.  
  8342. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  8343.  
  8344. 3 of 5 – The first is for you to make a clear and unambiguous statement
  8345. confirming that there are no fundamental hardware, software or supply
  8346. issues from other contractors, which will prevent progress when the
  8347. third party issue is resolved. The second is that you accept the fact
  8348. that you are at fault for not carrying out appropriate due diligence in
  8349. hiring the software engineer which caused the third party issue and take
  8350. out legal proceedings against: -
  8351.  
  8352.  
  8353.  
  8354.  
  8355. jrogers31
  8356.  
  8357. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  8358.  
  8359. 2 of 5 – 1) very poor PR in communications with backers, 2) very poor
  8360. risk management skills with regard to HR in hiring staff and 3) very
  8361. poor quality legal advice in regard of the third party dispute. If you
  8362. really have the capability to build the hardware and software into a
  8363. working device as stated in the project outline for which you attracted
  8364. backers – then it is important that you make 2 outstanding issues a
  8365. priority.
  8366.  
  8367.  
  8368.  
  8369.  
  8370. jrogers31
  8371.  
  8372. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  8373.  
  8374. 1 of 5 – Thank you for carrying out the poll that I suggested some weeks
  8375. ago. Although not all backers answered the poll the sample size is more
  8376. than adequate for interpretation. Based on the results it appears that
  8377. around 50% are for continuing and 50% would like to walk away. This
  8378. indicates that project WEDG is teetering on the edge of failure to come
  8379. to fruition. If you have been totally honest with us as backers this is
  8380. for three reasons: -
  8381.  
  8382.  
  8383.  
  8384.  
  8385. Ken Taylor
  8386.  
  8387. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6123904> almost 2 years ago
  8388.  
  8389. Thanks for the Update
  8390. Its unfortunate that less than half of funders completed the survey. and
  8391. that so many people want out after such a short delay
  8392. I have been waiting since 2013 for one crowd funded item apparently just
  8393. shipped 24/07/15 and software still at 0.91 beta
  8394. even if you have to clean rewrite the disputed code you should be able
  8395. to do this within 3 months after the 6 month cut off for legal resolution
  8396. due to delay if hardware is upgraded and cost is same can we have an
  8397. upgrade? ;-)
  8398.  
  8399.  
  8400.  
  8401.  
  8402. M K
  8403.  
  8404. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8914705> almost 2 years ago
  8405.  
  8406. Reminder #3:
  8407.  
  8408. Can you please share an update with real substance in it?
  8409.  
  8410. It’s good to share updates, but till now, it only has been updates from
  8411. the process side of the issue.
  8412.  
  8413. Based on all the updates, I still can not make up my mind regarding
  8414. supporting the WEDG. It’s a great product and I surely want it… but only
  8415. if it is there in 2015…..
  8416.  
  8417.  
  8418.  
  8419.  
  8420. aaddiikk
  8421.  
  8422. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8707168> almost 2 years ago
  8423.  
  8424. 2/2 I asked for that many times, but the only thing weve seen so far is
  8425. a part of plastic enclosure painted in someones garage… I want to
  8426. believe but Im tired now reading updates that does not contain any
  8427. details and will look for an alternative. Sorry guys…
  8428.  
  8429.  
  8430.  
  8431.  
  8432. aaddiikk
  8433.  
  8434. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8707168> almost 2 years ago
  8435.  
  8436. 1/2 I havent filled the survey neither as I was patiently waiting for an
  8437. update regarding so called ‘plan B’… Actually, it never happened and it
  8438. ensured me that I want my refund now! Im probably sceptic but there must
  8439. be something else happening behind the stage, besides the legal thing,
  8440. that prevents WEDG team from going forward as actually weve never seen
  8441. any movie that would present working interface, WEDGnet and hardware itself.
  8442.  
  8443.  
  8444.  
  8445.  
  8446. Gerrit Freise
  8447.  
  8448. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8707250> almost 2 years ago
  8449.  
  8450. I have decided to get a refund. But anybody has answered me if this
  8451. refund now is guarenteed! I want get back my money to buy an alternative.
  8452.  
  8453.  
  8454.  
  8455.  
  8456. MARC-ANDRE RUNCIE-UNGER
  8457.  
  8458. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/5105783> almost 2 years ago
  8459.  
  8460. I haven’t filled out the survey simply because there weren’t enough
  8461. facts to base it on…
  8462.  
  8463. I am happy to support WEDG BUT only if it will be delivered this year…
  8464. As otherwise I’ll need to purchase an alternative :(
  8465.  
  8466. Thanks,
  8467.  
  8468. Marc
  8469.  
  8470.  
  8471.  
  8472.  
  8473. jrogers31
  8474.  
  8475. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  8476.  
  8477. The updates section indicates that the deadline for the responses to the
  8478. poll was Sunday 19 July. Can Team WEDG let us know when we can expect to
  8479. receive the results of the poll?
  8480. With regard to the most recent update, I am not sure that this adds much
  8481. to what we already didn’t know. Indeed it is as opaque as ever.
  8482. I think that it is misguided for Team WEDG to keep its backers in the
  8483. dark. There must be something more fundamental preventing the progress
  8484. of this project than the third party issue.
  8485.  
  8486.  
  8487.  
  8488.  
  8489. Mark Brown
  8490.  
  8491. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3433405> almost 2 years ago
  8492.  
  8493. My email has not been replied to. I too am happy to support WEDG but
  8494. only if I know that WEDG will be fulfilled before end 2015. Otherwise I
  8495. need to look for something as close to WEDG as possible for my requirements.
  8496.  
  8497.  
  8498.  
  8499.  
  8500. Scott McQueen
  8501.  
  8502. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8443500> almost 2 years ago
  8503.  
  8504. So I am happy to continue to support WEDG but only on the grounds that
  8505. this product can be fulfilled during 2015. If not I would like to be
  8506. refunded as I will have to source an alternative. Updates are becoming
  8507. few and far between, so any chance of regular updates ?
  8508.  
  8509. 2/2
  8510.  
  8511.  
  8512.  
  8513.  
  8514. Scott McQueen
  8515.  
  8516. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8443500> almost 2 years ago
  8517.  
  8518. I’ve filled out the survey stating that I would like to continue to
  8519. support WEDG but I am already beginning to think this was a bad idea.
  8520. Unless this product can be delivered this year it’s going to be pretty
  8521. useless to me and I’m going to have to invest in something else. My
  8522. mailserver is on its last legs and I have already found an alternative
  8523. home butt server for my images, files etc.
  8524.  
  8525. 1/2
  8526.  
  8527.  
  8528.  
  8529.  
  8530. MyWorks Design
  8531.  
  8532. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8394882> almost 2 years ago
  8533.  
  8534. I’m tending to agree with the below commentors, WEDG. It’s hard to send
  8535. out a survey for them to decide, with no cold hard facts. Even if you
  8536. told us the legal action would continue for a few months, I’m sure you’d
  8537. still retain many backers. However, you really do need to provide some
  8538. cold hard dates, and some firm specific facts. Whether these are past or
  8539. present, they can’t make up their minds without them.
  8540.  
  8541.  
  8542.  
  8543.  
  8544. spencer robinson
  8545.  
  8546. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/9152571> almost 2 years ago
  8547.  
  8548. This just ridiculous
  8549.  
  8550. Come on we need some real information as we are being asked to make a
  8551. decision and with out it this is just a farce
  8552.  
  8553. How do we know the value of the refund or if there is any chance the
  8554. project will be able to continue.
  8555.  
  8556.  
  8557.  
  8558.  
  8559. M K
  8560.  
  8561. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8914705> almost 2 years ago
  8562.  
  8563. Reminder #2:
  8564.  
  8565. Can you please share an update with real substance in it?
  8566.  
  8567. It’s good to share updates, but till now, it only has been updates from
  8568. the process side of the issue.
  8569.  
  8570. Based on all the updates, I still can not make up my mind regarding
  8571. supporting the WEDG. It’s a great product and I surely want it… but only
  8572. if it is there in 2015…..
  8573.  
  8574.  
  8575.  
  8576.  
  8577. Justin Walton
  8578.  
  8579. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8707801> almost 2 years ago
  8580.  
  8581. The survey deadline is approaching, is there any news? I’d like to hear
  8582. how the negotiations are going before making my decision. As Jrogers31
  8583. said, the time to market is very relevant. I still want to believe in
  8584. Team WEDG and the project. Can you convince me I will get mine before
  8585. man lands on Mars? Please?
  8586.  
  8587.  
  8588.  
  8589.  
  8590. jrogers31
  8591.  
  8592. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  8593.  
  8594. I think it would be wise for all to await the outcome of the poll – as
  8595. some comments notably the last contain inaccuracies, that is, if the
  8596. information given in updates and the comments section by WEDG are true.
  8597.  
  8598. The time to market of this device is very relevant – if not very soon
  8599. then it will be what a sony cassette walkman was to an ipod or smartphone.
  8600.  
  8601.  
  8602.  
  8603.  
  8604. snhs06
  8605.  
  8606. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/9119033> almost 2 years ago
  8607.  
  8608. 2 of 2
  8609. 2) 3 or 4 people does not come close. Trusting that the majority of
  8610. funders are aware of crowdfunding I think they will understand the delay.
  8611.  
  8612. If Wedg were that type of company responses would have stopped months
  8613. ago. Legal options will abide by the T&Cs you agreed to by contributing.
  8614. A pro rata settlement, accounting for liabilities, would be likely, and
  8615. legal fees will take up much of that. Wedg also have a duty to the rest
  8616. of the backers to not increase the risk for other funders.
  8617.  
  8618.  
  8619.  
  8620.  
  8621. snhs06
  8622.  
  8623. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/9119033> almost 2 years ago
  8624.  
  8625. 1 of 2
  8626. @Nikolai Tesla Thank you but I think I have a good understanding of the
  8627. facts, from reading both the updates and the T&Cs.
  8628.  
  8629. 1) Any business, even on a shoestring budget, has expenses – utilities,
  8630. insurance, hosting for their website, travel to/hosting meetings with
  8631. suppliers etc. Further there may be commitments to a particular volume
  8632. of orders or deposits. Plus as you should know 4% to indiegogo when the
  8633. campaign reaches its goal.
  8634.  
  8635.  
  8636.  
  8637.  
  8638. M K
  8639.  
  8640. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8914705> almost 2 years ago
  8641.  
  8642. Reminder #1:
  8643.  
  8644. Can you please share an update with real substance in it?
  8645.  
  8646. It’s good to share updates, but till now, it only has been updates from
  8647. the process side of the issue.
  8648.  
  8649. Based on all the update, I still can not make up my mind regarding
  8650. supporting the WEDG. It’s a great product and I surely want it… but only
  8651. if it is there in 2015…..
  8652.  
  8653.  
  8654.  
  8655.  
  8656. Nikolai Tesla
  8657.  
  8658. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> almost 2 years ago
  8659.  
  8660. 2 of 2
  8661. One thing you may have correct, WEDG is under no obligation to provide
  8662. refunds. But again, if they wish to start that way it will just create a
  8663. bad reputation on a startup company. Not only that, most of us live in a
  8664. free society and have the liberty to use legal options to receive a
  8665. refund. If you think that the IP issue is a problem just imagine
  8666. multi-front legal headache. I do not wish this and would rather just
  8667. receive a refund so all of you can continue with the WEDG dream.
  8668.  
  8669.  
  8670.  
  8671.  
  8672. Nikolai Tesla
  8673.  
  8674. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> almost 2 years ago
  8675.  
  8676. 1 of 2
  8677. @snhs06 – Perhaps you need to review your “facts”. Here are a few:
  8678.  
  8679. 1- Per Shehbaz one month ago " I will say that none of us, including
  8680. myself have drawn a salary from WEDG, not until we fulfil IGG orders and
  8681. get to market thereafter." So where is the proportion that has been used
  8682. that you mention?
  8683.  
  8684. 2- The refund survey still has a week to go. Are you making assumptions
  8685. that the funders requesting a refund are just a minority? or do you work
  8686. for WEDG?
  8687.  
  8688.  
  8689.  
  8690.  
  8691. snhs06
  8692.  
  8693. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/9119033> almost 2 years ago
  8694.  
  8695. @t.munari I believe they have explained the difficulty previously. The
  8696. code can be rewritten, but because the other company are involved Wedg
  8697. need to be able to show work by the ‘gardening leave’ developer is not
  8698. used, which presents a further legal challenge. Without an agreed
  8699. procedure for verification it could create as many problems as it
  8700. solves. That does seem to be one of the options put forward by Wedg
  8701. under the mediation approach, so hopefully it will bear fruit.
  8702.  
  8703.  
  8704.  
  8705.  
  8706. snhs06
  8707.  
  8708. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/9119033> almost 2 years ago
  8709.  
  8710. @Shehbaz Thank you for your response, makes perfect sense.
  8711.  
  8712. @Nikolai Tesla Perhaps you ought to have looked in to crowdfunding a bit
  8713. more before committing to backing the project then. The main reason I
  8714. posted previously was to make the point that the refunds to the penny
  8715. demanded by the vocal minority are unrealistic both because WEDG is
  8716. under no obligation to do so while the project is ongoing and some
  8717. proportion of the original stake will have been used.
  8718.  
  8719.  
  8720.  
  8721.  
  8722. t.munari
  8723.  
  8724. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/7463940> almost 2 years ago
  8725.  
  8726. I have some difficulty understanding why it is not possible to
  8727. “sanitize” the code written by the contested developer and go on eith
  8728. the project.
  8729. I can’t believe that there is not another way to write the code….
  8730.  
  8731.  
  8732.  
  8733.  
  8734. Nikolai Tesla
  8735.  
  8736. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> almost 2 years ago
  8737.  
  8738. 3/3
  8739. I do hope that WEDG comes out of this “black hole” but currently nothing
  8740. indicates the contrary at least in the short term. For those who still
  8741. wish to stick my best wishes and please prove me wrong, there is no
  8742. shame in it (just the contrary). Thank you.
  8743.  
  8744.  
  8745.  
  8746.  
  8747. Nikolai Tesla
  8748.  
  8749. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> almost 2 years ago
  8750.  
  8751. 2/3
  8752. IF, and that is a huge IF, they do pull out soon (less than two or three
  8753. months) from these legal issues, able to create a fairly well running
  8754. business along with a great product for public consumption then and only
  8755. then I will support them. I will purchase their retail and proven
  8756. product while spreading the word of how everyone should buy one. Until
  8757. then, I just want my funds returned. Just pay a visit to their web page:
  8758. http://wedg.co/ to see if it can provide you of any hope.
  8759.  
  8760.  
  8761.  
  8762.  
  8763. Nikolai Tesla
  8764.  
  8765. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> almost 2 years ago
  8766.  
  8767. 1/3
  8768. @Gatto Fontainäou: Sadly or hopefully you are not alone. There are
  8769. others, including myself, that have asked the same questions to WEDG and
  8770. have similar concerns and have provided ideas on how to solve this
  8771. “legal issue(s)”. Personally I did support WEDG and their great idea but
  8772. with the current “legal issue” and plenty of gaps on how WEDG manages
  8773. their “company” makes me pull out my funds.
  8774.  
  8775.  
  8776.  
  8777.  
  8778. Gatto Fontainäou
  8779.  
  8780. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/604966> almost 2 years ago
  8781.  
  8782. 3/3
  8783. cont:
  8784. Instead of “we’re waiting already 3 months and counting…” I’d prefer a
  8785. countdown: “at most 30 weeks to delivery”. And I can hardly imagine I’m
  8786. alone to think so, or am I?
  8787.  
  8788.  
  8789.  
  8790.  
  8791. Gatto Fontainäou
  8792.  
  8793. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/604966> almost 2 years ago
  8794.  
  8795. 2/3
  8796. cont:
  8797.  
  8798. whereas defining the software licence at the very beginning might have
  8799. or might have not let you avoid the problem, today you’d need a plan B
  8800. stating exactly when and what you do if legal issues are not solved or
  8801. mediation is inefficient (start developing the alternative software for
  8802. instance, choose licence, search for developers, see that your contract
  8803. with new developers protect you against new claims, anything
  8804. constructive). cont…
  8805.  
  8806.  
  8807.  
  8808. Gatto Fontainäou
  8809.  
  8810. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/604966> almost 2 years ago
  8811.  
  8812. 1/3
  8813. @M K +1
  8814. @WEDG
  8815. there is no suitable answer to your survey for me.
  8816. I am still ready to wait (read: support you) if you (* I’ll refer to
  8817. that later) will manage to send out the product to backers in the near
  8818. future. However, if it will end up in settlement in five years
  8819. (temporise, postpone etc. – that’s what lawyers do for living, isn’t
  8820. it?), I want the refund already today.
  8821. cont…
  8822.  
  8823.  
  8824.  
  8825.  
  8826. MyWorks Design
  8827.  
  8828. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8394882> almost 2 years ago
  8829.  
  8830. @Tiger Bus @WEDG – No freaking kidding! Lets give a few backers some
  8831. refunds ASAP so they can move on and get off this comment board. Please.
  8832.  
  8833.  
  8834.  
  8835.  
  8836. Tiger Bus
  8837.  
  8838. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706731> almost 2 years ago
  8839.  
  8840. Seems like 2-3 guys on here really need to get their refund soon. Hope
  8841. they will stop pestering once they got it…
  8842.  
  8843.  
  8844.  
  8845.  
  8846. Hjalte Osborn Frandsen
  8847.  
  8848. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6086866> almost 2 years ago
  8849.  
  8850. @Shehbaz: Thanks for your and for the hard work you guys put in –
  8851. I look very much forward to a great product!
  8852.  
  8853.  
  8854.  
  8855.  
  8856. M K
  8857.  
  8858. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8914705> almost 2 years ago
  8859.  
  8860. Can you please share an update with real substance in it?
  8861.  
  8862. It’s good to share updates, but till now, it only has been updates from
  8863. the process side of the issue.
  8864.  
  8865. Based on all the update, I still can not make up my mind regarding
  8866. supporting the WEDG. It’s a great product and I surely want it… but only
  8867. if it is there in 2015…..
  8868.  
  8869.  
  8870.  
  8871.  
  8872. Justin Walton
  8873.  
  8874. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8707801> almost 2 years ago
  8875.  
  8876. The third party wanting more details on two of your proposals sounds
  8877. like good news, well done Team WEDG. Any idea when they might provide
  8878. feedback? I know you’re all tired, and would prefer just to get on with
  8879. things, but I’ve been holding off on completing my survey, waiting for
  8880. good news!
  8881. I still believe, but I’m worried the lawyers will kill the dream.
  8882.  
  8883.  
  8884.  
  8885.  
  8886. MyWorks Design
  8887.  
  8888. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8394882> almost 2 years ago
  8889.  
  8890. Any update guys?
  8891.  
  8892.  
  8893.  
  8894.  
  8895. Ken Taylor
  8896.  
  8897. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6123904> almost 2 years ago
  8898.  
  8899. Thanks Chris
  8900. with the legal oversight required to show the new code is not
  8901. compromised or influenced by Disputed code. Im sure this will add
  8902. considerable time and cost to any rewrite. at least double :-(
  8903. I know you for insurance reasons need to complete mediation. but at some
  8904. point it must become necessary in parallel to the mediation to rewrite
  8905. the disputed code if mediation takes too long to resolve.
  8906.  
  8907. still supporting, Please keep updates coming.
  8908.  
  8909.  
  8910.  
  8911.  
  8912. rabeaumont
  8913.  
  8914. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8708749> almost 2 years ago
  8915.  
  8916. I’m choosing to keep supporting WEDG.
  8917.  
  8918.  
  8919.  
  8920.  
  8921. jrogers31
  8922.  
  8923. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  8924.  
  8925. @Team WEDG – Thanks Chris for the information -it is so much better when
  8926. WEDG shares information with its backers.
  8927.  
  8928. Its good to know that Shehbaz and the WEDG Team have invented the WEDG
  8929. device for the good of mankind so that individuals can keep their
  8930. personal data secure. It is also good to know that WEDG LTD 08824160
  8931. Director ID: 917334076 are a not-for-profit organisation.
  8932.  
  8933.  
  8934.  
  8935.  
  8936. Team WEDG
  8937.  
  8938. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner almost 2
  8939. years ago
  8940.  
  8941. @jrogers31 there are no shareholders, we are a start-up.
  8942. ^Chris
  8943.  
  8944.  
  8945.  
  8946.  
  8947. jrogers31
  8948.  
  8949. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  8950.  
  8951. 3 of 3
  8952. 10. “Third party” at fault for not clarifying to gardening-leave
  8953. programmer he should not work.
  8954. 11. Backers who want functioning WEGD units should not need to wait
  8955. longer than necessary for the functioning units.
  8956. 12. Current delays due to “legal issues” are only of interest to the
  8957. shareholders in WEDG Co. who are arguing about their %age of revenue
  8958. going forward with the “third party”
  8959. 13. A deal will have to be done at some stage
  8960. 14. A percentage of nothing is nothing!
  8961.  
  8962.  
  8963.  
  8964.  
  8965. jrogers31
  8966.  
  8967. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  8968.  
  8969. 2 of 3
  8970. 5. Disputed code could have been re-written weeks ago and change the
  8971. nature of the"third party" dispute.
  8972. 6. 100% of nothing is nothing (see points 2 and 3 as dispute drags on).
  8973. 7. 70 or 80 or 90% of something big in revenue terms is better than 100%
  8974. of nothing.
  8975. 8. WEDG and their recruitment company are at fault for not doing due
  8976. diligence in hiring gardening-leave programmer.
  8977. 9. Gardening-leave programmer is at fault for not declaring his
  8978. situation if to WEDG.
  8979.  
  8980.  
  8981.  
  8982.  
  8983. jrogers31
  8984.  
  8985. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  8986.  
  8987. 1 of 3 Answers to @ Ken Taylor reveal that it would take one month to
  8988. rewrite disputed code.
  8989. Here are more facts:
  8990. 1. WEDG is a post-Snowden ?killer device with ?killer applications but
  8991. only if brought to market very very soon or
  8992. 2. WEDG will be overtaken by a rival unit.
  8993. 3. Every day of delay is another nail in the coffin for the WEDG project.
  8994. 4. Legal expenses vs. “third party” are paid for by insurance (no draw
  8995. down on funds we are told).
  8996.  
  8997.  
  8998.  
  8999.  
  9000. Team WEDG
  9001.  
  9002. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner almost 2
  9003. years ago
  9004.  
  9005. @Ken Taylor 2/2…on a LibreOffice base; for two reasons really it can
  9006. handle the popular .docx, .xlsx formats and it already works pretty well
  9007. in a browser!
  9008.  
  9009. An update by Shehbaz is in review with our legal team and will be posted
  9010. as sson as its approved.
  9011. ^Chris
  9012.  
  9013.  
  9014.  
  9015.  
  9016. Team WEDG
  9017.  
  9018. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner almost 2
  9019. years ago
  9020.  
  9021. @Ken Taylor 1/2 thanks for support and questions;
  9022. 1) Currently there is not but we are stressing to apply workable time
  9023. frames to the process as quickly as possible.
  9024. 2) It really depends on the speed of the developer and how much code we
  9025. have to strip back; internally here though we take an educated guess at
  9026. four weeks at most with one dedicated developer.
  9027. 3) The Office suite is progressing at a relaxed pace as some of its
  9028. elements tie into the disputed code. We’re currently working…
  9029.  
  9030.  
  9031.  
  9032.  
  9033. Ken Taylor
  9034.  
  9035. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6123904> almost 2 years ago
  9036.  
  9037. 2 of 2
  9038. I have a few questions
  9039. 1)Is there a binding time limit on the mediation Process to stop the 3rd
  9040. party stringing it out?
  9041. 2)How long do you think it would take to rewrite the affected code and
  9042. get it legally signed off as IP free?
  9043. 3)how is the development of the Office server going and has the program
  9044. for this been chosen? open, libre, Kingston(WPS), etc.
  9045.  
  9046. the hardware is all “off the shelf” except the case its the software its
  9047. integration and GUI that make this project.
  9048.  
  9049. Keep the Faith.
  9050.  
  9051.  
  9052.  
  9053.  
  9054. Ken Taylor
  9055.  
  9056. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6123904> almost 2 years ago
  9057.  
  9058. 1 of 2
  9059. I see 3 outcomes.
  9060. 1) win and get ownership of the existing code free of IP – Best outcome.
  9061. 2) loose and have to pay licencing fees to the 3rd party for the code –
  9062. Totally BAD as WEDG then reliant on third party forever.
  9063. 3) loose and have to rewrite the disputed code showing “beyond ALL
  9064. Doubt” that the code is clean and free of IP – costly and time consuming
  9065. so would need continued support of backers and companies who have agreed
  9066. to stock WEDG but keeps the software open and yours.
  9067.  
  9068.  
  9069.  
  9070.  
  9071. Team WEDG
  9072.  
  9073. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner almost 2
  9074. years ago
  9075.  
  9076. @Heiko Zeller thank you for supporting WEDG. As far as we know the third
  9077. party wants to establish the facts of IP ownership and we can not
  9078. speculate on other matters. ^Chris
  9079.  
  9080.  
  9081.  
  9082.  
  9083. Heiko Zeller
  9084.  
  9085. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8715891> almost 2 years ago
  9086.  
  9087. If I decide to continue to support the Project, will I get my Wedg after
  9088. solving the legal issue? How possible is it to solve the legal issue
  9089. without ruining of the wedge Company? I have the feeling that the third
  9090. Party will strangle or slighting your upcoming Company.
  9091.  
  9092. Kind regards
  9093. Heiko
  9094.  
  9095.  
  9096.  
  9097.  
  9098. Team WEDG
  9099.  
  9100. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner almost 2
  9101. years ago
  9102.  
  9103. @M K I think an update is coming this week, Shehbaz has a couple of
  9104. telephone conferences this week.
  9105.  
  9106. We’re not in a position to reveal the third party as doing so will
  9107. jeopardise our position legally. This has been explained in detail in
  9108. pervious updates. ^Shehbaz
  9109.  
  9110.  
  9111.  
  9112.  
  9113. M K
  9114.  
  9115. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8914705> almost 2 years ago
  9116.  
  9117. Any update?
  9118.  
  9119. I still cant believe that a 3rd party would claim property right on WEDG….
  9120.  
  9121. Backers have a right to know which 3rd party it is….
  9122.  
  9123.  
  9124.  
  9125.  
  9126. Steve Box
  9127.  
  9128. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/7734890> almost 2 years ago
  9129.  
  9130. I think a lot of people would feel more comfortable staying with the
  9131. project if there was some semblance of a ship date, i.e. we could
  9132. receive our WEDG’s by spring 2016 at the latest. It seems like the team
  9133. could identify a new developer to reengineer the software to avoid the
  9134. IP issues within that timeframe. But since I haven’t seen anything to
  9135. that effect, difficult to justify the waiting game. Sorry.
  9136.  
  9137.  
  9138.  
  9139.  
  9140. Team WEDG
  9141.  
  9142. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner almost 2
  9143. years ago
  9144.  
  9145. @M K we are not being sued, the legal situation is a dispute over the
  9146. intellectual property rights of the software that the developer was
  9147. involved in coding while on the payroll of the third party. ^Chris
  9148.  
  9149.  
  9150.  
  9151.  
  9152. jrogers31
  9153.  
  9154. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  9155.  
  9156. 3 of 3 – When I made the suggestion of the poll – I was in favour of
  9157. sticking with the project. However, the complete lack of transparency in
  9158. updates and the delayed lame responses since that time give me a sense
  9159. that there are other issues, which we are not being told about. It is
  9160. for that reason that I now want out. Why can’t Team WEDG instruct its
  9161. legal team to write a P&C statement of the facts of the case to the
  9162. backers is beyond my comprehension. The backers have a right to see the
  9163. facts.
  9164.  
  9165.  
  9166.  
  9167.  
  9168. jrogers31
  9169.  
  9170. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  9171.  
  9172. 2 of 3 If there were only a few that wanted out it would make sense to
  9173. fully refund them (a sign of good faith) and continue with the full
  9174. support of the remaining backers who were content to wait. If a large
  9175. number of backers wanted out then Team WEDG would have no option other
  9176. than to make an urgent deal with the “third party” to get them out of
  9177. the way so that the units could be built.
  9178.  
  9179.  
  9180.  
  9181.  
  9182. jrogers31
  9183.  
  9184. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  9185.  
  9186. 1 of 3 – 18 days ago I put forward a suggestion of a poll which would
  9187. get some clarity for backers and put urgent pressure on Team WEDG to
  9188. move the project on by solving the “third party” issue, which we are
  9189. told is the only reason why we do not have our WEDG units. At the time
  9190. some backers wanted out as indicated in the comments.
  9191.  
  9192.  
  9193.  
  9194.  
  9195. Gordon Keys
  9196.  
  9197. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8335278> almost 2 years ago
  9198.  
  9199. My problem is that the legal issue became apparent so late in the
  9200. timeline of the project. Okay, these things happen. But I am still
  9201. surprised that there were no repeat no parts made, no tools to make
  9202. those parts and no discussions around that. There was no way a tool can
  9203. be made in a week, is there. There’ll need to be injection moulded cases
  9204. made to fit the chassis into and we saw a rough prototype that could
  9205. have been 3D printed by the looks of it! For those reasons I think I’m out!
  9206.  
  9207.  
  9208.  
  9209.  
  9210. Gordon Keys
  9211.  
  9212. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8335278> almost 2 years ago
  9213.  
  9214. @M K – I don’t believe anyone is suing anyone! There is a dispute over
  9215. some code that the third party states contractually belongs to them,
  9216. only because the developer was still under contract to them whilst on
  9217. garden leave. I think if Wedg had been able to discuss who the third
  9218. party were they would have disclosed by now. This is the world of legal
  9219. wrangles and nothing is ever likely to be disclosed even IF an agreement
  9220. can be made.
  9221.  
  9222.  
  9223.  
  9224.  
  9225. M K
  9226.  
  9227. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8914705> almost 2 years ago
  9228.  
  9229. Shehbaz,
  9230.  
  9231. I am currently making up my mind regarding refund or not.
  9232.  
  9233. Can you share the name of the 3rd party that is involved?
  9234.  
  9235. I am quite curious about which company would sue WEDG because of hiring
  9236. a programmer that is on gardening leave. In normal situations the 3rd
  9237. party would sue the programmer himself instead of WEDG.
  9238.  
  9239. The 3rd party is basically destroying the development and creation of a
  9240. good idea & product AND wasting time/money of WEDG and all the backers!
  9241.  
  9242.  
  9243.  
  9244.  
  9245. Nikolai Tesla
  9246.  
  9247. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> almost 2 years ago
  9248.  
  9249. @snhs06 @Team WEDG: Please provide the exact “additional expenses” that
  9250. are mentioned. We require exact amounts not just estimates. Just because
  9251. delays are common does not make it something to be complacent. If Team
  9252. WEDG stands to be a “good will” firm then they should in turn show it
  9253. with actions. Funders requiring refunds “should” be a minority, if not
  9254. Team WEDG has a bigger issue to attend. They don’t need to have a legal
  9255. battle on two fronts.
  9256.  
  9257.  
  9258.  
  9259.  
  9260. Team WEDG
  9261.  
  9262. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner almost 2
  9263. years ago
  9264.  
  9265. FYI everyone, Chris won’t be available for the rest of the evening and I
  9266. have some personal commitments myself. I will endeavour to respond to
  9267. your comments here as quickly as possible; please excuse the lateness.
  9268.  
  9269. Thank you Chris for your commitment and being awesome this weekend (y).
  9270.  
  9271. ^Shehbaz
  9272.  
  9273.  
  9274.  
  9275.  
  9276. Team WEDG
  9277.  
  9278. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner almost 2
  9279. years ago
  9280.  
  9281. @snhs06 Your points are accurate, the short answer to your question
  9282. right now is simply we have and see what percentage of backers request a
  9283. refund to fully understand the potential deficit.
  9284. ^Shehbaz
  9285.  
  9286.  
  9287.  
  9288.  
  9289. Team WEDG
  9290.  
  9291. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner almost 2
  9292. years ago
  9293.  
  9294. @David Aldred ditto. From our part we are ready to go into manufacturing
  9295. the moment the legal dispute is resolved lifting the numerous restrictions.
  9296. ^Shehbaz
  9297.  
  9298.  
  9299.  
  9300.  
  9301. Team WEDG
  9302.  
  9303. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner almost 2
  9304. years ago
  9305.  
  9306. @hjalteworm we are committed to delivering WEDG, as soon as the legal
  9307. dispute is resolved we’re ready to get going, we’ve come a long way and
  9308. made numerous personal sacrifices to give up now.
  9309. ^Shehbaz
  9310.  
  9311.  
  9312.  
  9313.  
  9314. snhs06
  9315.  
  9316. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/9119033> almost 2 years ago
  9317.  
  9318. 2 of 2
  9319.  
  9320. So any full refunds issued will eat into the remaining capital, and
  9321. potentially compromise the success of the project at the expense of it
  9322. and backers who stick with you. If this is correct then I would suggest
  9323. refunds ought to be issued at a reduced rate reflecting expenses. This
  9324. would be in line with the facts that all contributors made the same
  9325. commitment at the outset, such delays are common in crowd funding and
  9326. you are not under any obligation to provide refunds at this stage.
  9327.  
  9328.  
  9329.  
  9330.  
  9331. snhs06
  9332.  
  9333. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/9119033> almost 2 years ago
  9334.  
  9335. 1 of 2
  9336.  
  9337. Team WEDG,
  9338. Glad that there seems to be progress recently. I wonder if you may be
  9339. able to clarify a point in relation to the possibility of refunds being
  9340. offered.
  9341.  
  9342. As I understand the terms of indiegogo there is a charge for their
  9343. services levied as a percentage of contributions received, along with
  9344. other costs prior to the legal problems arising. As a result at least
  9345. some portion of the initial funding has been spent.
  9346.  
  9347.  
  9348.  
  9349.  
  9350. David Aldred
  9351.  
  9352. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> almost 2 years ago
  9353.  
  9354. Such a shame it’s come to this point, seemingly through no fault of your
  9355. own.
  9356.  
  9357. I don’t particularly want to pull out – been a keen supporter from your
  9358. original kickstarter campaign.
  9359.  
  9360. What would help though is a more general update on the state of the
  9361. project – what is there left to do and what the possible outcomes are. A
  9362. more informed decision can then be made.
  9363.  
  9364.  
  9365.  
  9366.  
  9367. Team WEDG
  9368.  
  9369. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner almost 2
  9370. years ago
  9371.  
  9372. @Marc-André Runcie-Unger of course, we will continue to post legal issue
  9373. updates as normal.
  9374.  
  9375. At this point I’d like to remind everyone, the costs of the legal
  9376. dispute are handled by our business insurance policy and not by us.
  9377. ^Chris
  9378.  
  9379.  
  9380.  
  9381.  
  9382. Hjalte Osborn Frandsen
  9383.  
  9384. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6086866> almost 2 years ago
  9385.  
  9386. Dear WEDG,
  9387.  
  9388. If we do not take back our contribution – how likely are we to receive
  9389. our WEDGs?
  9390.  
  9391. Best,
  9392. Hjalte
  9393.  
  9394.  
  9395.  
  9396.  
  9397. MARC-ANDRE RUNCIE-UNGER
  9398.  
  9399. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/5105783> almost 2 years ago
  9400.  
  9401. Will we get an update on the legal issue prior to the end of the survey?
  9402.  
  9403.  
  9404.  
  9405.  
  9406. Team WEDG
  9407.  
  9408. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner almost 2
  9409. years ago
  9410.  
  9411. Big thanks @MyWorks Design! :)
  9412.  
  9413.  
  9414.  
  9415.  
  9416. Team WEDG
  9417.  
  9418. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner almost 2
  9419. years ago
  9420.  
  9421. @astron thanks for the questions; frankly right now we just don’t know,
  9422. results from the survey will shed more light on WEDG future and how we
  9423. deal with the impact. Demands from contributors have been for a means of
  9424. refund without cause for what this will mean for the overall project. We
  9425. don’t intend to give up on WEDG and are committed to bringing it market.
  9426. The legal issue is our highest priority right now. ^Chris
  9427.  
  9428.  
  9429.  
  9430.  
  9431. MyWorks Design
  9432.  
  9433. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8394882> almost 2 years ago
  9434.  
  9435. Just finished the survey too, heck yea we want our Wedg!
  9436.  
  9437.  
  9438.  
  9439.  
  9440. astron
  9441.  
  9442. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/5182113> almost 2 years ago
  9443.  
  9444. I hope you guys can shed some more light in this. I’m holding back my
  9445. survey until then…
  9446.  
  9447.  
  9448.  
  9449.  
  9450. astron
  9451.  
  9452. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/5182113> almost 2 years ago
  9453.  
  9454. As much as I would like to stay faithful to WEDG I fail to see a clear
  9455. comminucation in this matter. To me as a backer, in order to make this
  9456. decision, there are questions that haven’t been sufficiently answered.
  9457. What are the possible outcomes of this situation? Will the work progress
  9458. in a regular and timely fashion if a favorable agreement can be reached?
  9459. What if they fail to reach an agreement in favor of WEDG? Would this put
  9460. the whole project to an end? Would this cause financial issues?
  9461.  
  9462.  
  9463.  
  9464.  
  9465. Team WEDG
  9466.  
  9467. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner almost 2
  9468. years ago
  9469.  
  9470. You rock @Tiger Bus thank you!
  9471. As @Tiger Bus said the survey has been sent. Please check your PayPal
  9472. attached email addresses including the Junk folder.
  9473.  
  9474. Please allow at least 24 hours to inform us if you have not received the
  9475. survey. After 24 hours if you still haven’t received the survey please
  9476. email us at info@wedg.co no other form of communication regarding this
  9477. matter will be responded to.
  9478.  
  9479.  
  9480.  
  9481.  
  9482. Tiger Bus
  9483.  
  9484. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706731> almost 2 years ago
  9485.  
  9486. Survey done, staying on board! Want my intel-raid-double-bla-super-butt
  9487. SOON! ;)
  9488.  
  9489.  
  9490.  
  9491.  
  9492. jrogers31
  9493.  
  9494. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  9495.  
  9496. To Chris @Team WEDG – presumably the UPDATE notifications go to the
  9497. PayPal associated email addresses?
  9498.  
  9499. However, if you are in any doubt about ensuring that all backers receive
  9500. the email with the link to the poll – in addition to reconciling email
  9501. addresses you should also send an UPDATE to confirm the email with the
  9502. poll link has been sent AND post a message in the comments section.
  9503.  
  9504.  
  9505.  
  9506.  
  9507. Team WEDG
  9508.  
  9509. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner almost 2
  9510. years ago
  9511.  
  9512. The survey is complete, since the last survey many backers have changed
  9513. their PayPal email address and we are reconciling email addresses to
  9514. ensure nobody is missed and there are zero administrative anomalies. ^Chris
  9515.  
  9516.  
  9517.  
  9518.  
  9519. jrogers31
  9520.  
  9521. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  9522.  
  9523. From the delay in sending out the poll to the backers one assumes that
  9524. the poll when it does come will consist of an extensive number of
  9525. complex questions. I would have thought that the poll could be
  9526. simplified to: -
  9527. 1. Do you believe in WEDG and are you prepared to wait for the “legal”
  9528. issues to be settled?
  9529. 2. Do you no longer believe in WEDG and would you like your money back?
  9530. My answer to 1. is NO.
  9531. My answer to 2. is YES
  9532. If the poll does not come soon then responses will appear under comments
  9533.  
  9534.  
  9535.  
  9536.  
  9537. Nikolai Tesla
  9538.  
  9539. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> almost 2 years ago
  9540.  
  9541. @Shehbaz: This weekend is almost over (for some of us) and you mentioned
  9542. the following: “As explained in our last update; this weekend Chris will
  9543. be sending out a survey for you tell us if you want a refund to your
  9544. contribution”. Where is the survey? and please don’t wait two weeks to
  9545. provide the results, there is no need for further delays. Thank you.
  9546.  
  9547.  
  9548.  
  9549.  
  9550. Justin Walton
  9551.  
  9552. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8707801> almost 2 years ago
  9553.  
  9554. We have some news on the legal discussions. Good news! But if we will
  9555. only have two weeks to decide if we want a refund, will there be more
  9556. news from the mediation team as well? If I am forced to decide based on
  9557. the current glacial pace the negotiations, I may well I might have to
  9558. make the “wrong” choice. I still believe in the dream you all had @ Team
  9559. WEDG. But do I still believe you can free the project from it’s legal
  9560. shackles in a timely manner? That is the question …
  9561.  
  9562.  
  9563.  
  9564.  
  9565. paul.kulhavy
  9566.  
  9567. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8709012> almost 2 years ago
  9568.  
  9569. I’ve backed this project from the start (kickstarter), but its been a
  9570. long story of lengthy delays and excuses – and now it seems unlikely to
  9571. me that the WEDG will ever get done – legal costs may sink the project.
  9572.  
  9573. If the WEDG ever comes out as a retail item or finished product online
  9574. then I will happily buy it and pay the bigger retail price and
  9575. congratulate you – but 16 months is a year too long.
  9576.  
  9577. I want a refund – so send that poll out. Return my pledge.
  9578.  
  9579.  
  9580.  
  9581.  
  9582. richard alter
  9583.  
  9584. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/1968091> almost 2 years ago
  9585.  
  9586. This is not how mediation works. Sounds very strange to me
  9587.  
  9588.  
  9589.  
  9590.  
  9591. jrogers31
  9592.  
  9593. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  9594.  
  9595. It’s not in the interest of the legal team to set deadlines for an
  9596. agreement to be reached. I would think that a London firm would bill
  9597. around £350.00 – £500.00 per hour – plus VAT. I don’t understand why the
  9598. “American software company” cannot be named and shamed if it is true
  9599. that they have no interest in this technology other than to profit from
  9600. the happenstance of an employee who was on gardening leave who wrote a
  9601. few lines of code for a company who failed in its due diligence in
  9602. hiring him.
  9603.  
  9604.  
  9605.  
  9606.  
  9607. Team WEDG
  9608.  
  9609. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner almost 2
  9610. years ago
  9611.  
  9612. @MyWorks Design not at this stage, we have pressed for deadlines along
  9613. milestones and hope that they will be implemented. ^Shehbaz
  9614.  
  9615.  
  9616.  
  9617.  
  9618. MyWorks Design
  9619.  
  9620. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8394882> almost 2 years ago
  9621.  
  9622. Is there a deadline any legal team has set on the mediation?
  9623.  
  9624.  
  9625.  
  9626.  
  9627. jrogers31
  9628.  
  9629. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  9630.  
  9631. 2 of 2 Because of the delay in doing a deal with the “third party”, I
  9632. have a sense that the “third-party” issue may be conveniently disguising
  9633. more fundamental problems with the project – hardware, software, supply
  9634. contractors or another issue. I do not accept that legal reasons exists
  9635. for the total lack of transparency in the updates. Please poll the
  9636. backers without any further delay
  9637.  
  9638.  
  9639.  
  9640.  
  9641. jrogers31
  9642.  
  9643. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  9644.  
  9645. 1 of 2 A poll of the backers as suggested 15 days ago is essential – if
  9646. there are only a small number of backers that want a refund – then
  9647. refund them promptly. If there are a large number of backers that want a
  9648. refund – then team WEDG will have no choice other that do a deal with
  9649. the third party and get the project moving again. I do not understand
  9650. why that has not been done already – after all WEDG failed in their due
  9651. diligence hiring the programmer as he failed to be honest with WEDG.
  9652.  
  9653.  
  9654.  
  9655.  
  9656. MyWorks Design
  9657.  
  9658. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8394882> almost 2 years ago
  9659.  
  9660. 2/2 (Cont.) ,,,daily updates just a paragraph long, outlining the most
  9661. current progress. I bet 99% of us don’t care about T-Shirts, we just
  9662. want to see the latest legal or product progress – both are equally
  9663. important. While we understand you have to run it by your legal team, I
  9664. don’t see it in any way damaging to either side if you give us mediation
  9665. status.
  9666.  
  9667.  
  9668.  
  9669.  
  9670. MyWorks Design
  9671.  
  9672. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8394882> almost 2 years ago
  9673.  
  9674. Nikolai,
  9675.  
  9676. You have valid concerns, and I understand where you’re coming from –
  9677. it’s only fair that some backers get a refund, it’s not like it will
  9678. kill the project if it’s only a few.
  9679.  
  9680. However, I’m sure they’re busy – plus there’s a legal team that I’m sure
  9681. is standing between them and their updates to us. Just a guess though,
  9682. but I agree that’s a weak point of theirs.
  9683.  
  9684. @Wedge – we just want to see progress. I bet you’ll squash all refund
  9685. requests by posting (cont.)
  9686.  
  9687.  
  9688.  
  9689.  
  9690. Nikolai Tesla
  9691.  
  9692. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> almost 2 years ago
  9693.  
  9694. Please provide a choice to the funders in order to receive a full refund
  9695. if they wish. If not, make it clear to all here. This way it provides a
  9696. clear indication on how some funders may resolve this situation.
  9697.  
  9698.  
  9699.  
  9700.  
  9701. Nikolai Tesla
  9702.  
  9703. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> almost 2 years ago
  9704.  
  9705. I knew that my funds were to provide support for this project but there
  9706. are other issues at hand that require close attention if they wish to
  9707. succeed. Refunds should be a no issue if there are only “a vocal
  9708. minority that makes a lot of noise” as mentioned previously. I want to
  9709. “believe” in the WEDG but each update makes it a step closer not to.
  9710.  
  9711.  
  9712.  
  9713.  
  9714. Nikolai Tesla
  9715.  
  9716. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> almost 2 years ago
  9717.  
  9718. @MyWorks Design, Philipp Stäheli: Understood, since that was the main
  9719. reason I even funded the project to begin with. The issue is at the end
  9720. of the day they are a company (or trying to be). Here is a nice example,
  9721. two days ago Shehbaz posts the following “shortly we will be sending out
  9722. a survey” and two days have passed with no such survey. They also post
  9723. about “positive outcomes from a meeting yesterday will also be included
  9724. in this update” which there is no such update as of this post.
  9725.  
  9726.  
  9727.  
  9728.  
  9729. MyWorks Design
  9730.  
  9731. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8394882> almost 2 years ago
  9732.  
  9733. Guys, relax! Like Phillip said, it’s not like there’s something else
  9734. like this even as an idea yet out there! Sure, Transporter, but that’s
  9735. such a far comparison. In a lot of our opinion, it’s worth the wait.
  9736. Hopefully a shorter wait, nevertheless – with frequent updates ;)
  9737.  
  9738.  
  9739.  
  9740.  
  9741. Philipp Stäheli
  9742.  
  9743. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8723017> almost 2 years ago
  9744.  
  9745. Common backers, do not dispair! It’s not like there is another wedg-kind
  9746. of thing waiting around the corner. Forget about this campain for a
  9747. while and it might be over sooner than you think and all will be good.
  9748.  
  9749.  
  9750.  
  9751.  
  9752. Team WEDG
  9753.  
  9754. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner almost 2
  9755. years ago
  9756.  
  9757. @Peter Dalmaris thank you very much for your support! : ) ^Chris
  9758.  
  9759.  
  9760.  
  9761.  
  9762. Peter Dalmaris
  9763.  
  9764. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/7104926> almost 2 years ago
  9765.  
  9766. I’m sticking with you Team WEDG, thank you for the frequent updates.
  9767.  
  9768.  
  9769.  
  9770.  
  9771. Team WEDG
  9772.  
  9773. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner almost 2
  9774. years ago
  9775.  
  9776. @Ken Taylor thank you for your everlasting supper and understanding in
  9777. this matter. ^Chris
  9778.  
  9779.  
  9780.  
  9781.  
  9782. Ken Taylor
  9783.  
  9784. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6123904> almost 2 years ago
  9785.  
  9786. Wedg have not believe breached any of the T&C, YES there’s a delay
  9787. caused by the legal case but i dont believe WEDG are “unable to fulfill
  9788. any of its commitments to Contributors (including delivering any Perks)”
  9789. lm funding an idea not “buying” a product. IMHO Certain backers here
  9790. need to close their crowd funding accounts and wait for products to
  9791. arrive in Best Buy, PC World, ETC,
  9792. Would i like to already have my WEDG – Yes! but I will wait
  9793. Unfortunately a vocal minority make a lot of noise.
  9794.  
  9795.  
  9796.  
  9797.  
  9798. Team WEDG
  9799.  
  9800. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner almost 2
  9801. years ago
  9802.  
  9803. @nikolai we’re preparing things to survey backers on this matter and an
  9804. update will be sent out later this evening. Some positive outcomes from
  9805. a meeting yesterday will also be included in this update. ^Chris
  9806.  
  9807.  
  9808.  
  9809.  
  9810. Nikolai Tesla
  9811.  
  9812. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> almost 2 years ago
  9813.  
  9814. @Team WEDG: Thank you for providing the much awaited notice. Sadly it
  9815. still does not provide a timeline or an educated estimate of when this
  9816. legal issue may be resolved. Since this information has not been
  9817. provided I still demand a refund, otherwise I will need to seek counsel
  9818. on how to resolve this very matter.
  9819.  
  9820.  
  9821.  
  9822.  
  9823. James Taylor
  9824.  
  9825. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/5657565> 2 years ago
  9826.  
  9827. @Wedg – I will wait, but I confess my patience is running thin. I have
  9828. been through legal battles and mediation so I understand the process,
  9829. but that also means that I understand how the third party can easily
  9830. mess with you. You have continued to report they are empathetic but tied
  9831. by policy, and I find no support for that. They can not empathetically
  9832. watch your project die on the vine… They are a business and can find a
  9833. business solution to let you move forward. Or not.
  9834.  
  9835.  
  9836.  
  9837.  
  9838. jrogers31
  9839.  
  9840. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> 2 years ago
  9841.  
  9842. 2 of 2 Refund them promptly and move on at the pace dictated by the
  9843. legal team and mediation. Only the ‘believers’ will remain waiting and
  9844. only the ‘believers’ will be taking the risk.
  9845.  
  9846. I do not think it is for anyone to judge whether contributors made
  9847. significant or insignificant contribution – for me it is a matter of
  9848. trust and a matter of principle.
  9849.  
  9850.  
  9851.  
  9852.  
  9853. jrogers31
  9854.  
  9855. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> 2 years ago
  9856.  
  9857. 1 of 2 @Dermot Loughnane neatly takes us back to the suggestion I made 8
  9858. days ago.
  9859.  
  9860. Make available a full refund all the contributors to the campaign who
  9861. have decided that they no longer wish to endure any further delays in
  9862. light of the fact that the promise of fully functioning units by March
  9863. 2015 has not been fulfilled.
  9864.  
  9865.  
  9866.  
  9867.  
  9868. Dermot Loughnane
  9869.  
  9870. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/1839484> 2 years ago
  9871.  
  9872. Thanks for the update, given the small amounts of money individually at
  9873. stake here I’m not sure why people are so cranky about this. Shit
  9874. happens but you seem to be doing your best to resolve unfortunate
  9875. circumstances and I’m happy to wait till you can crank out my WEDG. Good
  9876. luck with the mediation and look forward to hearing how it went.
  9877.  
  9878.  
  9879.  
  9880.  
  9881. jrogers31
  9882.  
  9883. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> 2 years ago
  9884.  
  9885. Thank you for the update, which I read with interest. From my point of
  9886. view it does not add any significant detail to what I thought I already
  9887. knew from previous messages and updates.
  9888.  
  9889. Blazon PR who arranged your crowd funding on Indiegogo state on their
  9890. website that “We believe in open, honest and transparent
  9891. communications.” I find your responses inconsistent with that statement.
  9892.  
  9893. I would be grateful if you would kindly arrange for a full refund of the
  9894. £624.00 I contributed to the campaign.
  9895.  
  9896.  
  9897.  
  9898.  
  9899. Nikolai Tesla
  9900.  
  9901. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> 2 years ago
  9902.  
  9903. Team WEDG, sadly I am in the same camp as the latest posts. I am
  9904. requesting the option for a full refund. Your idea and push to provide
  9905. the Wedg was tremendous but these legal issues has given me a lost in
  9906. confidence with this project.
  9907.  
  9908.  
  9909.  
  9910.  
  9911. spencer robinson
  9912.  
  9913. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/9152571> 2 years ago
  9914.  
  9915. @jrogers31 +1 :-(
  9916.  
  9917.  
  9918.  
  9919.  
  9920. jrogers31
  9921.  
  9922. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> 2 years ago
  9923.  
  9924. 7-days has passed since a comprehensive update was promised regarding
  9925. issues highlighted in the messages below. One wonders when the lawyers
  9926. will approve the release of the update – how much time do they need? Is
  9927. this update a multipage document requiring hours of their professional
  9928. time or is this a thinly veiled attempt by the WEDG to continue
  9929. stalling. From my point of view trust in WEDG is rapidly evaporating and
  9930. as a result I am now with Ron Ko and would like to be fully refunded please.
  9931.  
  9932.  
  9933.  
  9934.  
  9935. Team WEDG
  9936.  
  9937. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  9938.  
  9939. @Ken Taylor yes I believe mediation was agreed upon is legally binding.
  9940. Something that Shehbaz’s pending update includes is how we’re looking at
  9941. ways to allow the case run its course and allow us to segue way and
  9942. recode efficiently. Thank you for support Ken. ^Chris
  9943.  
  9944.  
  9945.  
  9946.  
  9947. Team WEDG
  9948.  
  9949. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  9950.  
  9951. @Ron Ko my to you has disappeared as well. No need to apologise,
  9952. we’re all frustrated and hoping things a resolved soon. Thanks for
  9953. clarifying all the same. ^Chris
  9954.  
  9955.  
  9956.  
  9957.  
  9958. Team WEDG
  9959.  
  9960. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  9961.  
  9962. Hi Guys
  9963. I posted a comment here yesterday but it seems to have disappeared. I’ve
  9964. only noticed upon seeing @Ken Taylor’s message come through.
  9965.  
  9966. My comment was to say that Shehbaz is waiting for the legal team to
  9967. approve his update, its comprehensive and covers a great deal and so
  9968. there is a delay as a result. Apologies for the delay ^Chris
  9969.  
  9970.  
  9971.  
  9972.  
  9973. Ken Taylor
  9974.  
  9975. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6123904> 2 years ago
  9976.  
  9977. Hi WEDG Team,
  9978. Is the mediation decision legally binding for both parties?
  9979. I hope that the mediation reaches an amicable solution.
  9980. If Not then the Developer has loads to answer for due to false
  9981. representation. The insurance company may wish to go after him for costs.
  9982. Then more lawyers will be needed to make sure a rewrite of the
  9983. compromised code is provable beyond a reasonable doubt to be completely
  9984. fresh, not influenced or tainted in any way. “clean” so no IP can be
  9985. claimed over it.
  9986. Good Luck
  9987.  
  9988.  
  9989.  
  9990.  
  9991. Ron Ko
  9992.  
  9993. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8444779> 2 years ago
  9994.  
  9995. Hi Chris, thanks for your response. Frankly speaking, I have lost
  9996. patience to the products perked via IGG. “Disappointed” is the only word
  9997. to comment. Please accept my apology and wish WEDG with great success in
  9998. future. Please advise me the refund channel, thanks.
  9999.  
  10000.  
  10001.  
  10002.  
  10003. Team WEDG
  10004.  
  10005. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  10006.  
  10007. @Justin Walton my pending update will provide more answers – but as you
  10008. know I have to ensure its content doesn’t infringe on the various
  10009. agreements between WEDG and other parties. Once approved it’ll be
  10010. online. ^Shehbaz
  10011.  
  10012.  
  10013.  
  10014.  
  10015. Justin Walton
  10016.  
  10017. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8707801> 2 years ago
  10018.  
  10019. @jrogers31 – I agree with all your comments about the pace of change in
  10020. the tech. sector. I’ve been backing WEDG since early Kickstarter days.
  10021. We all want to know what’s happening, that’s why I see a problem with
  10022. polling now, we don’t yet know how long we might have to wait. Would you
  10023. vote for a refund this month if WEDG was shipped to everyone else a week
  10024. later? But other devices are now available, even from major suppliers,
  10025. that provide the core functionality. We need more input from team WEDG
  10026.  
  10027.  
  10028.  
  10029.  
  10030. Team WEDG
  10031.  
  10032. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  10033.  
  10034. @Ron Ko Shehbaz is preparing an update for all discussed issues below
  10035. and will post as soon as possible, ^Chris
  10036.  
  10037.  
  10038.  
  10039.  
  10040. Ron Ko
  10041.  
  10042. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8444779> 2 years ago
  10043.  
  10044. Hello, any channel for refund?
  10045.  
  10046.  
  10047.  
  10048.  
  10049. jrogers31
  10050.  
  10051. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> 2 years ago
  10052.  
  10053. 2 of 2 @Justin Watson -Things move quickly in the tech sector. Is WEDG a
  10054. pipe dream or is it deliverable? If it is deliverable and if it is a
  10055. game changer, which backers thought it was going to be when they made
  10056. their contributions then the “third party hold up” is a trivial matter
  10057. with a deal to be done to move the project on. If the hardware or
  10058. software can’t be made to deliver the objectives reliably – then it’s a
  10059. dead duck. If you want to find out where this project is going–poll the
  10060. backers
  10061.  
  10062.  
  10063.  
  10064.  
  10065. jrogers31
  10066.  
  10067. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> 2 years ago
  10068.  
  10069. 1 of 2 @Justin Watson – as things stand we only know what we have been
  10070. told, which is very little. Development of the device is on hold, a
  10071. nameless third party has an interest because of the prior contractual
  10072. obligations of an employee hired -?in good faith with -?failure of due
  10073. diligence. Is it possible there are other reasons? When backers pitched
  10074. in some 9 months or so ago the device and stretch goals were relevant
  10075. and desirable within the time frame of a Spring delivery.
  10076.  
  10077.  
  10078.  
  10079.  
  10080. Justin Walton
  10081.  
  10082. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8707801> 2 years ago
  10083.  
  10084. @jrogers31 – I see one small problem with polling the backers, while
  10085. some may want a refund now, others will be prepared to wait a bit
  10086. longer. Perhaps a few may wait indefinitely. I’m not in the last
  10087. category, so would need an idea of how long it would take to resolve the
  10088. legal issues. As you rightly point out, lawyers aren’t in any rush! So
  10089. how long is the piece of string? When might everything be resolved? I
  10090. doubt anyone could even give an estimate. My choices in such a poll seem
  10091. limited.
  10092.  
  10093.  
  10094.  
  10095.  
  10096. Team WEDG
  10097.  
  10098. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  10099.  
  10100. @jrogers31 thanks for your comments. I will respond to you and the
  10101. general debate fully in an update as I have been discussing these
  10102. comments with our advisory team (made up of legal, insurance and
  10103. business mentors) this afternoon. Since we are in a sensitive position
  10104. the update as usual will be approved by our legal team first. I will
  10105. stress the point though the purpose of taking on mediation is to break
  10106. free from the pace of the third party and to move the case along
  10107. quickly. Regards, Shehbaz
  10108.  
  10109.  
  10110.  
  10111.  
  10112. jrogers31
  10113.  
  10114. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> 2 years ago
  10115.  
  10116. 3 of 3
  10117. If the WEDG team find that only a small proportion of the contributors
  10118. would wish to be fully refunded – then refund them promptly and move on
  10119. at the pace dictated by the legal team (it is in their pecuniary
  10120. interest to move slowly). Only the ‘believers’ will remain waiting.
  10121.  
  10122. If the WEDG team find that a large proportion of the contributors would
  10123. wish to be fully refunded – then this will add the urgency and focus
  10124. that I believe is required to get the project back on track.
  10125.  
  10126.  
  10127.  
  10128.  
  10129. jrogers31
  10130.  
  10131. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> 2 years ago
  10132.  
  10133. 2 of 3
  10134. 1. Make available a full refund all the contributors to the campaign who
  10135. have decided that they no longer wish to endure any further delays in
  10136. light of the fact that the promise of fully functioning units by March
  10137. 2015 has not been fulfilled.
  10138.  
  10139. 2. Poll all the contributors to see how many would wish to opt for a
  10140. full refund of the funds they contributed.
  10141.  
  10142.  
  10143.  
  10144.  
  10145. jrogers31
  10146.  
  10147. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> 2 years ago
  10148.  
  10149. 1 of 3
  10150.  
  10151. I have read the recent exchanges and while I have some sympathy for the
  10152. WEDG team and the current “legal” predicament I believe Nikolai Tesla
  10153. has a very valid point and I support his position. As a result I suggest
  10154. the following, which may focus the WEDG team on arriving at a solution
  10155. with the unnamed “third party”.
  10156.  
  10157.  
  10158.  
  10159.  
  10160. Team WEDG
  10161.  
  10162. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  10163.  
  10164. smadyk please send us your new address along with your PayPal email
  10165. address to infowedg.co and I’ll update our records, I’ll contact you
  10166. before we print the post labels to double check. ^Chris
  10167.  
  10168.  
  10169.  
  10170.  
  10171. smadyk
  10172.  
  10173. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/7989688> 2 years ago
  10174.  
  10175. @Team WEDG I’m going to move house in the next month, will you ask for
  10176. the addresses before to send it (when it’d be ready)?
  10177.  
  10178.  
  10179.  
  10180.  
  10181. Team WEDG
  10182.  
  10183. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  10184.  
  10185. @Nikolai Tesla personally I do not want to endure this experience a
  10186. moment longer than I have to. The dream remains to fulfil IGG orders and
  10187. bring WEDG to market, if this seems unlikely post mediation we will seek
  10188. ‘Plan A, Plan B etc’. But I have to stress that we are hopeful with the
  10189. involvement of mediation a successful outcome is highly likely – the
  10190. third party accepting mediation without resistance is a very positive
  10191. sign indeed. Best regards Shehbaz
  10192.  
  10193.  
  10194.  
  10195.  
  10196. Team WEDG
  10197.  
  10198. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  10199.  
  10200. @Nikolai Tesla I don’t believe a conspiracy is at play here. Having
  10201. heard the developer’s testimony we here believe his rationale for taking
  10202. on employment elsewhere and keeping his garden leave a secret; we do not
  10203. justify it and he recognises the harm he has caused and is regretful of
  10204. his actions. But that doesn’t change anything.
  10205.  
  10206. For the foreseeable future we must commit to the procedure as we are
  10207. under contract with various parties now. We and more cont…1/2
  10208.  
  10209.  
  10210.  
  10211.  
  10212. Nikolai Tesla
  10213.  
  10214. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> 2 years ago
  10215.  
  10216. @Team WEDG: Sadly the burden is on you, Team WEDG, to provide your
  10217. Funders with a satisfying solution and not just leave it to the legal
  10218. team. It is hard and it is not fair after all the hard work you have
  10219. done as of this date to bring up this superb idea just to have a single
  10220. person bring it to a complete halt. What options are there? Shirts and
  10221. stickers is not the main reason we successfully funded this project, it
  10222. is for the WEDG (your device)!
  10223.  
  10224.  
  10225.  
  10226.  
  10227. Nikolai Tesla
  10228.  
  10229. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> 2 years ago
  10230.  
  10231. @Team WEDG 2 fo 2: The third party legal team could easily drag this
  10232. issue for eternity (unless I am ignorant to some British law) if they so
  10233. wished. It is reasonable to assume that many, if not all, of the Funders
  10234. will not wait indefinitely for this issue to sort out. Team WEDG needs
  10235. to provide a plan A, B or even a C if this legal issue drags out for
  10236. another month.
  10237.  
  10238.  
  10239.  
  10240.  
  10241. Nikolai Tesla
  10242.  
  10243. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> 2 years ago
  10244.  
  10245. @Team WEDG 1 fo 2: My faith for the WEDG project is demonstrated with my
  10246. already provided funds and as agreed the WEDG Team agreed on providing
  10247. the corresponding perk early 2015. It could have been bad timing or an
  10248. intentional sabotage (conspiracy mind here) that the contracted
  10249. developer worked on WEDG code during his “garden leave” which in turn
  10250. completely legally halted this great project.
  10251.  
  10252.  
  10253.  
  10254.  
  10255. Team WEDG
  10256.  
  10257. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  10258.  
  10259. @Ton Sonneveldt i.e. to show we are willing and co-operative and to
  10260. prevent any further charges against us. ^Shehbaz
  10261.  
  10262.  
  10263.  
  10264.  
  10265. Team WEDG
  10266.  
  10267. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  10268.  
  10269. @Ton Sonneveldt i.e. the third party. It is this which is in dispute.
  10270. For many of us it seems clear that WEDG is not at fault – however the
  10271. third party simply don’t see it this way and after deliberating with
  10272. them directly we have chosen the route of mediation to which they have
  10273. agreed. They have refuted clean builds claiming that we must prove the
  10274. developer’s influence won’t in the new build.
  10275.  
  10276. The entire situation is disappointing and frustrating but we must follow
  10277. the due process to cont.
  10278.  
  10279.  
  10280.  
  10281.  
  10282. Team WEDG
  10283.  
  10284. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  10285.  
  10286. @Ton Sonneveldt I understand your frustration. Indeed we do have a
  10287. contract with the developer and the agency through whom we hired him had
  10288. references and performed due diligence before bringing him to our
  10289. attention as any professional recruitment agency would. He chose not to
  10290. disclose his employment at the third party where he is on garden leave.
  10291. His contract of employment states that any work related to his
  10292. employment during or outside of working hours is the IP of his employer
  10293. cont…
  10294.  
  10295.  
  10296.  
  10297.  
  10298. Team WEDG
  10299.  
  10300. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  10301.  
  10302. @MyWorks Design as we understand it the mediation team are gathering
  10303. facts and information about the case and reading through meeting
  10304. minutes. Our first meeting/review with the mediation team is scheduled
  10305. for Tuesday 23rd June and Shehbaz will be attending that with our legal
  10306. team. ^Chris
  10307.  
  10308.  
  10309.  
  10310.  
  10311. Ton Sonneveldt
  10312.  
  10313. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/631163> 2 years ago
  10314.  
  10315. part 2:
  10316. As it is taking so many months now to solve that problem it seems that
  10317. you had no good contract with the person you hired for the coding. I am
  10318. getting skeptical about the whole project as there seems to be no
  10319. developments in this case and certainly no new date for producing the
  10320. hardware, solving the software problem (by hiring someone else to recode
  10321. the disputed part) or delivering. How much time you think you still need
  10322. to deliver? Hope to hear from you.
  10323.  
  10324.  
  10325.  
  10326.  
  10327. Ton Sonneveldt
  10328.  
  10329. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/631163> 2 years ago
  10330.  
  10331. part 1:
  10332. I am one of those funders expecting a good piece of hardware and
  10333. software based on your information during the Indiegogo campaign; to be
  10334. delivered early 2015. By that time it became clear that you could not
  10335. deliver the hardware – there was still only a prototype – but you
  10336. explained that lack of realization by bringing up a problem with a third
  10337. party concerning a software developer who worked for you but also for them.
  10338.  
  10339.  
  10340.  
  10341.  
  10342. MyWorks Design
  10343.  
  10344. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8394882> 2 years ago
  10345.  
  10346. Hey guys,
  10347.  
  10348. Any update? How’s the mediation?
  10349.  
  10350. Thanks!!
  10351.  
  10352.  
  10353.  
  10354.  
  10355. Team WEDG
  10356.  
  10357. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  10358.  
  10359. @Justin Walton haha! that brought a smile to our faces : ) love to see
  10360. the Mediators sporting WEDG Tshirts in meetings with complete
  10361. nonchalance! I think Tubthumping will be our theme song after all this
  10362. is behind us. Thanks for your support Justin and everyone, looking
  10363. forward to getting the Tees out to you soon! ^Shehbaz
  10364.  
  10365.  
  10366.  
  10367.  
  10368. Justin Walton
  10369.  
  10370. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8707801> 2 years ago
  10371.  
  10372. Tee shirts and stickers! Hurrah! Something to quieten all the doubters
  10373. out there who thought they’d get nothing after the legal issues became
  10374. apparent. One more thing crossed off the long ‘to do’ list on the road
  10375. to success. Have you ordered a few some extra for the mediation team to
  10376. wear in negotiations? Let’s hope those discussions do only take a short
  10377. time. I feel the need to play Tubthumping by Chumbawamba and thumb my
  10378. nose at all lawyers in general. Keep up the good work Team WEDG.
  10379.  
  10380.  
  10381.  
  10382.  
  10383. Team WEDG
  10384.  
  10385. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  10386.  
  10387. @Justin Walton thank you for your support Justin. We have amazing
  10388. support from our legal team; I know Shehbaz is in talks with them often
  10389. during and outside of normal business hours and yes this was a course of
  10390. action suggested by them. Thanks again : ) ^Chris
  10391.  
  10392.  
  10393.  
  10394.  
  10395. Justin Walton
  10396.  
  10397. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8707801> 2 years ago
  10398.  
  10399. @Shehbaz and Team WEDG. Thank-you for the update, it’s good to have
  10400. these more regular posts from you guys. Whatever you are able to tell us
  10401. is always gratefully received. I am encouraged that the legal team have
  10402. suggested this course of action, and that the insurers are supporting
  10403. it. I hope your selected mediator has a big stick! I still believe.
  10404.  
  10405.  
  10406.  
  10407.  
  10408. Team WEDG
  10409.  
  10410. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  10411.  
  10412. Just a quick note to say I have been in intense talks with the third
  10413. party this week, details of which I will share with you as soon as
  10414. approved by our legal support. I suspect however this maybe early next
  10415. week with it being the end of the working week.
  10416. ^Shehbaz
  10417.  
  10418.  
  10419.  
  10420.  
  10421. Team WEDG
  10422.  
  10423. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  10424.  
  10425. @Nikolai Tesla 2/2 while I can’t discuss working terms and agreements in
  10426. place with the individual team members, I will say that none of us,
  10427. including myself have drawn a salary from WEDG, not until we fulfil IGG
  10428. orders and get to market thereafter.
  10429. ^Shehbaz
  10430.  
  10431.  
  10432.  
  10433.  
  10434. Team WEDG
  10435.  
  10436. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  10437.  
  10438. @Nikolai Tesla the medium to long term plan for the project if these
  10439. issues continues is something I am personally restless about and seeking
  10440. seeking counsel from experts who can advise contingency and
  10441. strategically. Furthermore points you raise are stressed to the third
  10442. party on a regular basis so we one way or another we may proceed with
  10443. bringing the project to market.
  10444.  
  10445. The team are committed to WEDG, some are working on other projects
  10446. alongside WEDG till we are able pick up ground again 1/2
  10447.  
  10448.  
  10449.  
  10450.  
  10451. Nikolai Tesla
  10452.  
  10453. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> 2 years ago
  10454.  
  10455. 2 of 2 @Team WEDG: This is not even considering your WEDG team (14 as of
  10456. today) is either working for free or not. It is almost two months since
  10457. this product should have shipped. What are your contingency plans if the
  10458. legal issue drags for another four months? There is a limit.
  10459.  
  10460.  
  10461.  
  10462.  
  10463. Nikolai Tesla
  10464.  
  10465. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> 2 years ago
  10466.  
  10467. 1 of 2 @Team WEDG, Pierre Lang has a very valid point which brings up
  10468. the following question: how long are you willing this legal issue?
  10469. Definitely you can not do so indefinitely since your technology and
  10470. ideal will be surpassed by someone else making it irrelevant in due
  10471. time. Also, as I have mentioned on an earlier posted comment, your
  10472. manufacturing partners will no longer able to honour your agreed prices
  10473. from almost a year ago which in turn dig into your raised funds.
  10474.  
  10475.  
  10476.  
  10477.  
  10478. Team WEDG
  10479.  
  10480. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  10481.  
  10482. @Pierre Lang the legal procedure hasn’t cost us a penny fortunately as
  10483. we have business insurance which is paying for a great legal team.
  10484. Ditching his work and starting again isn’t possible yet as we’d have to
  10485. prove a number of factors regarding the authenticity of the ’new’code –
  10486. that in actual fact would be a legal procedure within itself. ^Chris
  10487.  
  10488.  
  10489.  
  10490.  
  10491. Pierre Lang
  10492.  
  10493. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4161016> 2 years ago
  10494.  
  10495. Sorry to add to the (maybe) useless comments, but considering your
  10496. statement here: http://wedg.co/news/statement-12-04-15.pdf the developer
  10497. worked for you from late january to end of march.
  10498. This is, more or less, 2 months worth of work.
  10499. Of course, I’m not aware of what the legal issue exactly is, but did you
  10500. consider simply ditching his work, and have someone else recode
  10501. independently what is in dispute? Anyway, the legal proc.probably did
  10502. cost you more than these 2 months of work already…
  10503.  
  10504.  
  10505.  
  10506.  
  10507. Team WEDG
  10508.  
  10509. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  10510.  
  10511. @George Baily unfortunately we don’t, the updates are the most
  10512. comprehensive details on the issue. ^Chris
  10513.  
  10514.  
  10515.  
  10516.  
  10517. George Baily
  10518.  
  10519. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/5420941> 2 years ago
  10520.  
  10521. As someone who (sorry) is not up to date with your legal issue, do you
  10522. have a blog post or status page where someone can catch up to what that
  10523. is all about, without having to read back through each fragmentary
  10524. status update?
  10525.  
  10526.  
  10527.  
  10528.  
  10529. Team WEDG
  10530.  
  10531. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  10532.  
  10533. @Veehem as @Marc-André Runcie-Unger (thanks for chipping in) said.
  10534. Furthermore, we have promised to deliver a single complete solution to
  10535. IGG backers and retail partners; it would be commercially impossible to
  10536. only produce a handful of units without the WEDG OS. Also, the WEDG OS
  10537. is designed to be flashed on to the hardware, your suggestion is
  10538. untested ground.
  10539.  
  10540.  
  10541.  
  10542.  
  10543. MARC-ANDRE RUNCIE-UNGER
  10544.  
  10545. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/5105783> 2 years ago
  10546.  
  10547. @veehem I am guessing the wedg needs an operating system like anything
  10548. else. If the legal dispute is related to that part of the software there
  10549. is no way to use the hardware without it. So while add on apps may be
  10550. open source unfortunately we will have to wait until the legal case is
  10551. resolved. Fingers crossed they won’t be held up much longer. I still
  10552. believe in them and the project!
  10553.  
  10554.  
  10555.  
  10556.  
  10557. Veehem
  10558.  
  10559. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4067160> 2 years ago
  10560.  
  10561. @ Chris (Team WEDG) I don’t understand why. You always says that the
  10562. software would be opensource. Could you be more explicit about the
  10563. reasons why it’s not feasible for you. Thanks
  10564.  
  10565.  
  10566.  
  10567.  
  10568. Team WEDG
  10569.  
  10570. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  10571.  
  10572. @Veehem you understand correctly, however your suggestion would not be
  10573. feasible for us. ^Chris
  10574.  
  10575.  
  10576.  
  10577.  
  10578. Veehem
  10579.  
  10580. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4067160> 2 years ago
  10581.  
  10582. If I understand correctly, the dispute is about the software. So why
  10583. don’t you send us the hardware? Meanwhile, we may install something like
  10584. Yunohost. And later, the Wedg software
  10585.  
  10586.  
  10587.  
  10588.  
  10589. Team WEDG
  10590.  
  10591. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  10592.  
  10593. @Steven Newman thank you Steven, those are encouraging words. Your
  10594. support and confidence means a great deal to me and the team here. ^Shehbaz
  10595.  
  10596.  
  10597.  
  10598.  
  10599. Steven Newman
  10600.  
  10601. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/925661> 2 years ago
  10602.  
  10603. We believe. Stay strong.
  10604.  
  10605. “Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain’t all
  10606. sunshine and rainbows. It’s a very mean and nasty place and I don’t care
  10607. how tough you are, it will beat you to your knees and keep you there
  10608. permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as
  10609. life. But it ain’t about how hard ya hit. It’s about how hard you can
  10610. get hit and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving
  10611. forward. That’s how winning is done!”
  10612. ― Rocky Balboa
  10613.  
  10614.  
  10615.  
  10616.  
  10617. Team WEDG
  10618.  
  10619. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  10620.  
  10621. @rabeaumont happy to have the discussion but please don’t let the legal
  10622. situation be a cause for concern regarding money in the project. That’s
  10623. all in hand with insurance. .
  10624.  
  10625.  
  10626.  
  10627.  
  10628. Team WEDG
  10629.  
  10630. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  10631.  
  10632. @Justin Walton thanks for the invite Justin, a couple of sample freebies
  10633. were sent in the post today, but if I am ever local I’ll certainly be in
  10634. touch : ) #TeamLewisHamilton (Y) ^Shehbaz
  10635.  
  10636.  
  10637.  
  10638.  
  10639. rabeaumont
  10640.  
  10641. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8708749> 2 years ago
  10642.  
  10643. I don’t know about others but I couldn’t give a monkeys about the
  10644. t-shirt. If it meant more money to the project I’d happily forgo mine.
  10645.  
  10646.  
  10647.  
  10648.  
  10649. Justin Walton
  10650.  
  10651. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8707801> 2 years ago
  10652.  
  10653. @Shehbaz and Team WEDG. Another update. I could get used to these. It
  10654. looks like slow and steady progress on the legal front. Not much more
  10655. could be expected when lawyers charge by the hour. Perhaps better news
  10656. on the tee shirt front. As it happens, I live in Leicester, If you’re
  10657. coming over to collect samples Shehbaz, drop me a line, we could meet up
  10658. for a chat about F1 and WEDG! I still believe.
  10659.  
  10660.  
  10661.  
  10662.  
  10663. Team WEDG
  10664.  
  10665. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  10666.  
  10667. @Alex Stamp I believe Shehbaz is working with another tshirt distributor
  10668. as the original company wouldn’t honour the agreement since the time
  10669. frames had changed. There will be an update on the Ts this week I have
  10670. been told just now.
  10671.  
  10672. We’ll make Friday the update day from this point onwards unless there is
  10673. significant news to report during the week. ^Chris
  10674.  
  10675.  
  10676.  
  10677.  
  10678. Alex Stamp
  10679.  
  10680. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6787108> 2 years ago
  10681.  
  10682. Part 2:
  10683. I believe the last request was about 2 weeks ago. Having arranged custom
  10684. T-Shirts and Hoodies before I would be surprised if you didn’t have some
  10685. update to give us regarding these. Also you said your guys were gonna
  10686. spend the time to work on the chat app any progress with that? Yet again
  10687. there may be no substantial news but it would be nice to even just see
  10688. no news…
  10689. Can I suggest maybe picking one day a week and say every friday just
  10690. give us a state of play even if it just says no news
  10691.  
  10692.  
  10693.  
  10694.  
  10695. Alex Stamp
  10696.  
  10697. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6787108> 2 years ago
  10698.  
  10699. Hi Guys,
  10700.  
  10701. Part 1:
  10702.  
  10703. While I appreciate there maybe no news on the legal front and you do
  10704. have my support I was just wondering a few things. Now I check the
  10705. comments most days for updates so there are a few things I’ve noticed.
  10706. First of all T-Shirts have been mentioned while I am a bit indifferent
  10707. over the T-Shirt personally however a number of backers have requested
  10708. updates on these items over the last couple of and we have been told you
  10709. will contact the suppliers and find out.
  10710.  
  10711.  
  10712.  
  10713.  
  10714. Team WEDG
  10715.  
  10716. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  10717.  
  10718. @Gaston Cardey…the case hypothetically. So we will only report what we
  10719. know and are consented to share as soon as we know it.
  10720.  
  10721. I know this a frustrating and testing time for you; our backers and
  10722. partners, but rest-assured we are doing all that we can come to a prompt
  10723. and amicable outcome and get the WEDG out everyone.
  10724.  
  10725. Best regards
  10726. Chris
  10727.  
  10728.  
  10729.  
  10730.  
  10731. Team WEDG
  10732.  
  10733. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  10734.  
  10735. @Gaston Cardey Hi Gaston, it is our objective to keep our backers and
  10736. partners updated on a regular basis. Sometimes there isn’t anything to
  10737. report as we are waiting to hear news ourselves. Last week is a primary
  10738. example of this; the third party arranged to interview the developer
  10739. last week, we have asked for an update but haven’t heard back yet. I
  10740. know Shehbaz has conf call tomorrow with our legal team and might have
  10741. some feedback then. We are under strict instructions not to discuss cont…
  10742.  
  10743.  
  10744.  
  10745.  
  10746. Gaston Cardey
  10747.  
  10748. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8821945> 2 years ago
  10749.  
  10750. Part 2:
  10751. We’re waiting that this huge legal problem solves urgently. And I think
  10752. many of us require this solved in a urgent basis since the distribution
  10753. date has paseed 1 month ago.
  10754. Please help us to end this proyect with the confidence of backing new ones.
  10755. I think we all back you in this I do, but we need more of you. You can
  10756. say that is confidential. Ok. But we’re stuck in this “confidential”
  10757. argument.
  10758. Hope you understand.
  10759. Regards,
  10760. Gastón Cardey
  10761.  
  10762.  
  10763.  
  10764.  
  10765. Gaston Cardey
  10766.  
  10767. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8821945> 2 years ago
  10768.  
  10769. Part 1:
  10770. Hi,
  10771. 1 week has passed from the last message from WEDG and I’m thinking that
  10772. I need a status update every week. I wouldn’t ask you this in a normal
  10773. situation, but we passed that 1 mont ago. There are news every week in
  10774. everything.
  10775. Right now, there are some other manufacturers offering products that
  10776. “looks like” the WEDG. Some has a few extra functionalities and some
  10777. lack of many that the WEDG includes. But are available right now at a
  10778. store. (continue …)
  10779.  
  10780.  
  10781.  
  10782.  
  10783. Team WEDG
  10784.  
  10785. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  10786.  
  10787. @Justin Walton thank you for the support and your enthusiasm Justin (Y).
  10788. ^Chris
  10789.  
  10790.  
  10791.  
  10792.  
  10793. Justin Walton
  10794.  
  10795. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8707801> 2 years ago
  10796.  
  10797. @ Shehbaz and Team WEDG. Thank-you for the update, this seems like
  10798. positive news.
  10799.  
  10800. @ Chris. The production times are also good news.
  10801.  
  10802. I’m sure I’m not the only one who sees these two points as positive.
  10803. Well done everyone at Team WEDG, please keep up the good work
  10804. (especially the frequent updates, however sparse they have to be for
  10805. legal reasons). In fact, I’m so happy about all of this, I won’t even
  10806. ask about tee shirts. I still believe.
  10807.  
  10808.  
  10809.  
  10810.  
  10811. Team WEDG
  10812.  
  10813. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  10814.  
  10815. @jrogers31 our manufacturing and supply partners have offered lead times
  10816. of up to 72 hours in a business week to start a production run. So we
  10817. envisage within 7 days we would be in a position to begin shipping
  10818. orders. ^Chris
  10819.  
  10820.  
  10821.  
  10822.  
  10823. jrogers31
  10824.  
  10825. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> 2 years ago
  10826.  
  10827. I think that it would be helpful for the backers to know how long it
  10828. would take you to produce and supply the fully functioning units with
  10829. associated software if the legal issues were to evapourate tomorrow?
  10830.  
  10831.  
  10832.  
  10833.  
  10834. Thomas Grundberg
  10835.  
  10836. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/5396919> 2 years ago
  10837.  
  10838. @Philipp Stäheli: +1
  10839.  
  10840.  
  10841.  
  10842.  
  10843. Philipp Stäheli
  10844.  
  10845. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8723017> 2 years ago
  10846.  
  10847. I appreciate the irony of the campains title.
  10848.  
  10849.  
  10850.  
  10851.  
  10852. Team WEDG
  10853.  
  10854. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  10855.  
  10856. @db unfortunately we can’t disclose privately over emails, we are
  10857. sharing all the information that we can and that is deemed relevant to
  10858. backers and other partners involved. Your support and powers ;) are very
  10859. much appreciated! ^Shehbaz
  10860.  
  10861.  
  10862.  
  10863.  
  10864. Team WEDG
  10865.  
  10866. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  10867.  
  10868. @Justin Walton indeed and fortunately we’re in good and very experienced
  10869. hands.
  10870. The t-shirts is on my list of priorities – I haven’t forgotten, I will
  10871. catch up with distributors and get back to everyone. ^Shehbaz
  10872.  
  10873.  
  10874.  
  10875.  
  10876. Team WEDG
  10877.  
  10878. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  10879.  
  10880. @Nikolai Tesla thank you and the respect is mutual. We are aware of the
  10881. environment and pressures against us and are doing all that we can to
  10882. proceed with the project. ^Shehbaz
  10883.  
  10884.  
  10885.  
  10886.  
  10887. db
  10888.  
  10889. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706846> 2 years ago
  10890.  
  10891. It would be also awesome if we can get detailed Information on out Email
  10892. Adresses
  10893. which you should have. Informations only for Backers about the exact
  10894. detailed Status.
  10895.  
  10896. (i think that nobody who backed you will get you in trouble with these
  10897. informations – it will us belive that somthing goes behind the lines :-) )
  10898.  
  10899. Still beliving on WEDG and send you super power to solve the issues.
  10900.  
  10901.  
  10902.  
  10903.  
  10904. Justin Walton
  10905.  
  10906. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8707801> 2 years ago
  10907.  
  10908. It seems the legal issue is more complex than it needs to be (no real
  10909. surprise when lawyers get involved!) as there are other parties
  10910. involved. I fear this could take quite a while. I’m rooting for you Team
  10911. WEDG! Wish I could wear my tee shirt to show my support. Which sort of
  10912. reminds me, whatever happened to those?
  10913.  
  10914.  
  10915.  
  10916.  
  10917. Nikolai Tesla
  10918.  
  10919. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> 2 years ago
  10920.  
  10921. 2/2
  10922. @Shehbaz
  10923. We all need a road map/timeline of when we could expect this product and
  10924. services otherwise there is no tangible pressure to have this legal
  10925. issue resolved in a prompt manner. In the meantime the funds will dry
  10926. out and this ideal dream will just evaporate in due time. I wish you the
  10927. utmost strength and spirit to see this through to the end successfully
  10928. but with a tangible timeline.
  10929.  
  10930. Kindest regards,
  10931.  
  10932. Nikolai.
  10933.  
  10934.  
  10935.  
  10936.  
  10937. Nikolai Tesla
  10938.  
  10939. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> 2 years ago
  10940.  
  10941. 1/2
  10942. @Shehbaz, Keep in mind that I have respect for you and your great idea
  10943. to provide the power of privacy and security to those who could afford
  10944. it. Be aware that many of your founders are unable to wait indefinitely
  10945. for many reasons. Also keep in mind that technology moves forward a fast
  10946. pace and that each passing month the technology you offered back in 2014
  10947. will become irrelevant and/or outdated to new standards.
  10948.  
  10949.  
  10950.  
  10951.  
  10952. Team WEDG
  10953.  
  10954. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  10955.  
  10956. 2/2
  10957. @MyWorks Design I deeply regret the delay and the inconvenience this is
  10958. causing to you, Alex and all other backers. ^Shehbaz
  10959.  
  10960.  
  10961.  
  10962.  
  10963. Team WEDG
  10964.  
  10965. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  10966.  
  10967. 1/2
  10968. @MyWorks Design it’s a combination of discussions and investigations on
  10969. their side which lead to more questions and answer sessions with us. We
  10970. are one of many legal cases the third party legal division are engaged with.
  10971. We i.e. myself and our legal legal support have and will continue to
  10972. respond quickly, truthfully and with complete transparency in all
  10973. communications – that for now is all we can do. Anything we can disclose
  10974. will be disclosed publicly for the benefit of all backers.
  10975.  
  10976.  
  10977.  
  10978.  
  10979. MyWorks Design
  10980.  
  10981. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8394882> 2 years ago
  10982.  
  10983. 2/2
  10984.  
  10985. What are the issues standing in your way? Just negotiations with this
  10986. company? Many of us, like Alex, are patching together old systems in
  10987. preparation for Wedg, so we’re fairly dependent on the timing of the
  10988. launch.
  10989. Anything you can share privately?
  10990.  
  10991. Thanks!
  10992.  
  10993.  
  10994.  
  10995.  
  10996. MyWorks Design
  10997.  
  10998. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8394882> 2 years ago
  10999.  
  11000. 1/2
  11001. Hey guys,
  11002.  
  11003. Any latest updates? I can definitely realize the restrictions of what
  11004. information you can share with the public, but any specific details
  11005. would help!
  11006.  
  11007. What portion of legal proceedings has been conducted so far? Have
  11008. initial negotiations been completed yet?
  11009.  
  11010.  
  11011.  
  11012.  
  11013. Team WEDG
  11014.  
  11015. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  11016.  
  11017. @Alex Stamp sorry to hear your current system is dying. Right now we
  11018. can’t say because we don’t know ourselves. I know Shehbaz is push our
  11019. legal team and the third party for a roadmap but nothing has been
  11020. forthcoming yet. ^Chris
  11021.  
  11022.  
  11023.  
  11024.  
  11025. Alex Stamp
  11026.  
  11027. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6787108> 2 years ago
  11028.  
  11029. Hi,
  11030.  
  11031. I know you probably can’t give an accurate time estimate but the system
  11032. I’m currently using is dying and I was wondering if it worth attempting
  11033. to prop it back up. Are we looking at weeks or months worth of delay.
  11034. Just a guesstimate would do :)
  11035.  
  11036. Thanks
  11037.  
  11038.  
  11039.  
  11040.  
  11041. Team WEDG
  11042.  
  11043. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  11044.  
  11045. @Steven Newman thank you Steven, I sincerely appreciate your support and
  11046. confidence in us.
  11047. ^Shehbaz
  11048.  
  11049.  
  11050.  
  11051.  
  11052. Team WEDG
  11053.  
  11054. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  11055.  
  11056. @Justin Walton thank you for your on going support Justin, it means a
  11057. great deal to me and the team.
  11058. ^Shehbaz
  11059.  
  11060.  
  11061.  
  11062.  
  11063. Steven Newman
  11064.  
  11065. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/925661> 2 years ago
  11066.  
  11067. I am proud to have supported your efforts from Kickstarter on over to
  11068. Indiegogo. I believe in you and your team and will keep the faith.
  11069.  
  11070. Hang in there!
  11071.  
  11072.  
  11073.  
  11074.  
  11075. Justin Walton
  11076.  
  11077. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8707801> 2 years ago
  11078.  
  11079. @Shehbaz and Team WEDG. Thank-you for the update. As you say, little
  11080. news that you can talk openly about. Legal disputes are often lengthy,
  11081. as well as soul destroying. Here’s hoping it’s all resolved
  11082. satisfactorily, quickly. Wish I could wear my tee shirt to show my
  11083. support. I still believe.
  11084.  
  11085.  
  11086.  
  11087.  
  11088. Team WEDG
  11089.  
  11090. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  11091.  
  11092. @Marc-André Runcie-Unger thank you ^Shehbaz
  11093.  
  11094.  
  11095.  
  11096.  
  11097. MARC-ANDRE RUNCIE-UNGER
  11098.  
  11099. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/5105783> 2 years ago
  11100.  
  11101. Thank you Shebaz! I can imagine it’s a very stressful time for you all
  11102. and I’ll keep my fingers crossed that it can all be worked out quickly.
  11103.  
  11104.  
  11105.  
  11106.  
  11107. Team WEDG
  11108.  
  11109. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  11110.  
  11111. @Marc-André Runcie-Unger I have drafted an update and sent it on to the
  11112. legal advisers to review, after their feedback/approval I will post an
  11113. update to the project.
  11114.  
  11115. Thank you everyone for your patience and co-operation.
  11116. ^Shehbaz
  11117.  
  11118.  
  11119.  
  11120.  
  11121. MARC-ANDRE RUNCIE-UNGER
  11122.  
  11123. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/5105783> 2 years ago
  11124.  
  11125. Not wanting to sound pushy but are there any updates from the
  11126. conference? I hope it is good news. :(
  11127.  
  11128.  
  11129.  
  11130.  
  11131. Team WEDG
  11132.  
  11133. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  11134.  
  11135. @MyWorks Design Shehbaz has a telephone conf tonight so will update you
  11136. guys on the outcome thereafter. ^Chris
  11137.  
  11138.  
  11139.  
  11140.  
  11141. MyWorks Design
  11142.  
  11143. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8394882> 2 years ago
  11144.  
  11145. Team, any updates? :)
  11146.  
  11147.  
  11148.  
  11149.  
  11150. Team WEDG
  11151.  
  11152. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  11153.  
  11154. @rabeaumont thank you for your confidence and support. Its an
  11155. overwhelming experience with a steep learning curve. The lack of control
  11156. and minimal influence over the whole siltation only makes things more
  11157. intense and stressful.
  11158.  
  11159.  
  11160.  
  11161.  
  11162. Team WEDG
  11163.  
  11164. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  11165.  
  11166. @Franco we ran behind on the production schedule as our manufacturing
  11167. partners were delayed, furthermore some of our components were held by
  11168. customs at the time too. However, as per the terms of our agreement our
  11169. manufacturing partners would have ramped up output to meet agreed
  11170. deadlines as the delay was on their part and not ours.
  11171.  
  11172.  
  11173.  
  11174.  
  11175. rabeaumont
  11176.  
  11177. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8708749> 2 years ago
  11178.  
  11179. Just wanted to say that I have complete faith in Team Wedg. Working in
  11180. software myself, and knowing a bit about intellectual property rights in
  11181. contracts, I know how difficult these issues can be, and how long it can
  11182. take to resolve them.
  11183.  
  11184. I believe you are doing all you can to get my Wedg to me, and am
  11185. prepared to be patient.
  11186.  
  11187.  
  11188.  
  11189.  
  11190. Franco
  11191.  
  11192. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8707014> 2 years ago
  11193.  
  11194. Shehbaz, the letter was received 30 March so can you clear up your
  11195. update from a month ago, “…the WEDG shell will go into production on 26
  11196. March for a full day to produce 2200 units. On Monday 30 March assembly
  11197. of WEDG will commence! Boards will be flashed during assembly before
  11198. they go into the WEDG. Assembly will run for four days. Each completed
  11199. WEDG will be packaged and addressed as it runs off the production line
  11200. and stored until all units are complete and ready for shipment.”
  11201.  
  11202.  
  11203.  
  11204.  
  11205. Team WEDG
  11206.  
  11207. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  11208.  
  11209. @Gordon Keys I hope the update just posted to the project will rest your
  11210. concerns.
  11211. ^Shehbaz
  11212.  
  11213.  
  11214.  
  11215.  
  11216. Gordon Keys
  11217.  
  11218. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8335278> 2 years ago
  11219.  
  11220. I also find the timing of ‘The Statement’ rather ominous. It all comes
  11221. out of the woodwork after the Idiegogo campaign is closed.
  11222.  
  11223. I also feel the legal team would have read ‘The Statement’ and corrected
  11224. the errors in grammar and content before release. It was poorly written
  11225. and not proof read in any way which surprised me with regard to the
  11226. gravity of the issue.
  11227.  
  11228.  
  11229.  
  11230.  
  11231. Gordon Keys
  11232.  
  11233. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8335278> 2 years ago
  11234.  
  11235. I find this situation quiet worrying. I know the legal stuff isn’t
  11236. something you’ll be discussing, but to hear there isn’t even any casings
  11237. produced is shocking! Delivery should have been last month. and the IP
  11238. issue is way after this. You could show shots of the tooling you must
  11239. have paid for. Would a test of the tool produced any case parts? Have
  11240. you tested if they fit together? Do the internals fit?
  11241.  
  11242. This just gets worse and worse.
  11243.  
  11244.  
  11245.  
  11246.  
  11247. Justin Walton
  11248.  
  11249. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8707801> 2 years ago
  11250.  
  11251. @Team WEDG. Could you clarify where we got to on production please? Your
  11252. comment about ordering a one off has me confused. The initial production
  11253. run was due to be finished by now. I know you said you had some delays.
  11254. Did these coincide with the software dispute to the extent you held off
  11255. on production? I would have thought just getting a finished unit out of
  11256. the box to photograph would be easier than ordering a ‘special’. Any
  11257. news on the tee shirts and stickers? I still want to believe.
  11258.  
  11259.  
  11260.  
  11261.  
  11262. Team WEDG
  11263.  
  11264. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  11265.  
  11266. @Nikolai Tesla this week we ordered a single aluminium back part of the
  11267. WEDG at great cost as it’s an unscheduled one-off production. This
  11268. should help ease concerns over the legitimacy of the production plan.
  11269. The unit will be produced on 23/04 and Shehbaz or I will send photos the
  11270. moment it’s received. Our hands are tied as to how detail about the
  11271. legal dispute can be disclosed without making matters worse for
  11272. ourselves. We are committed to resolving the dispute as quickly as possible.
  11273.  
  11274.  
  11275.  
  11276.  
  11277. Nikolai Tesla
  11278.  
  11279. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> 2 years ago
  11280.  
  11281. @Team WEDG, @Chris, @Shehbaz, It has been over two days. Where are the
  11282. photos? Video? Proof? Your team should provide means for its funders to
  11283. receive a full refund if you are bound by the legal implication of
  11284. providing any further proof of such product. It is a sad state of
  11285. affairs if your team is unable to shed any light into this ideal project
  11286. to the people that have provided the funds.
  11287.  
  11288.  
  11289.  
  11290.  
  11291. Team WEDG
  11292.  
  11293. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  11294.  
  11295. @Veehem its just not that clear cut unfortunately, we/our legal
  11296. representation pushed that point. But the issues here are the legal
  11297. right to the works undertaken by the developer in question as per his
  11298. contract of employment with third party.
  11299. ^Chris
  11300.  
  11301.  
  11302.  
  11303.  
  11304. Veehem
  11305.  
  11306. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4067160> 2 years ago
  11307.  
  11308. I’ve make a long comment & question. You don’t anwser anything, just
  11309. “thank you for your support”. :/
  11310. All this stuff is supposed to be opensource. Why it is still not? Don’t
  11311. you think it would avoid the problems?
  11312.  
  11313.  
  11314.  
  11315.  
  11316. Team WEDG
  11317.  
  11318. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  11319.  
  11320. @aaddiikk I understand that the apps and WEDGNET are also within the
  11321. disputed remit of the claims until satisfactorily released. And I also
  11322. understand there to be some promotional reasoning to satisfy retail
  11323. partner Rider agreements.
  11324. ^Chris
  11325.  
  11326.  
  11327.  
  11328.  
  11329. aaddiikk
  11330.  
  11331. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8707168> 2 years ago
  11332.  
  11333. @Chis,
  11334.  
  11335. Thank you. Looking forward to head from you about their decision. In the
  11336. meantime, could you please tell us why apps were not pushed to stores yet?
  11337.  
  11338.  
  11339.  
  11340.  
  11341. Team WEDG
  11342.  
  11343. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  11344.  
  11345. @aaddiikk I’ll take your suggestion to the legal team before taking
  11346. photos or screen shots just in case.
  11347. ^Chris
  11348.  
  11349.  
  11350.  
  11351.  
  11352. aaddiikk
  11353.  
  11354. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8707168> 2 years ago
  11355.  
  11356. Team WEDG,
  11357. If you really want to convince us why not provide
  11358. screenshots/screencasts/videos of something that should be already in
  11359. place so WEDGNET web interface, apps (why apps are not yet in
  11360. stores?!?!)? As I understand the legal issue, it is related to linux
  11361. development so wedg internal software but wedgnet and ios/android apps
  11362. are different story and should be already feature complete.
  11363.  
  11364.  
  11365.  
  11366.  
  11367. Team WEDG
  11368.  
  11369. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  11370.  
  11371. @Philipp Stäheli we don’t have a workshop setup here, we work from an
  11372. incubator shared with many other small/startup businesses; however
  11373. Shehbaz has requested some hardware ‘evidence’ from our manufacturing
  11374. partners, He’s waiting for a quote and ETA as he only managed to speak
  11375. to them on late Thursday afternoon.
  11376. ^Chris
  11377.  
  11378.  
  11379.  
  11380.  
  11381. Philipp Stäheli
  11382.  
  11383. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8723017> 2 years ago
  11384.  
  11385. Nobody minds the delay, that’s how crowdfunding always is.
  11386. We have two problems: The legal, and the updates.
  11387. There has not been a single update, which was not exclusively text. It
  11388. has been 4 days since we asked for more proof. How hard can it be to
  11389. walk around the office and snap a few pictures or browse through what
  11390. suppliers have sent you. I can not believe that you are not doing this.
  11391. All you need to take is 30 minutes and you make all concerns shut up.
  11392. That is, if they are not justified.
  11393.  
  11394.  
  11395.  
  11396.  
  11397. Team WEDG
  11398.  
  11399. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  11400.  
  11401. @Ken Taylor thanks for your support
  11402.  
  11403.  
  11404.  
  11405.  
  11406. Ken Taylor
  11407.  
  11408. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6123904> 2 years ago
  11409.  
  11410. Hi WEDG Team
  11411. Its Friday, Get the Team to Grab a Pizza and beer at the end of the day
  11412. take a Photo and post it
  11413. This will hopefully keep some people wanting photos happy others wont be
  11414. happy whatever you do
  11415. we have had an update about every month which is better than some
  11416. projects I have supported, more would be good though ;-)
  11417. enjoy the weekend and come back refreshed on Monday and work on what you
  11418. do have control over like the Office app etc.
  11419. Show Support the delays are not their Fault !!!
  11420.  
  11421.  
  11422.  
  11423.  
  11424. Team WEDG
  11425.  
  11426. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  11427.  
  11428. Hi guys
  11429. I’m Chris, I’m taking over from Shehbaz to respond to comments in a
  11430. timely fashion while he focuses the legal disputes.
  11431.  
  11432. @Franco Shehbaz is working on getting some pics to share with everyone
  11433. of the tooling stuff so will share those when we have them.
  11434. @MyWorks Design yep we’ll share something soon, we’re a bare-bones
  11435. operation here where every penny had to be justified so we don’t much to
  11436. share.
  11437. @Justin Walton good question will get back to you on that.
  11438.  
  11439.  
  11440.  
  11441.  
  11442. Justin Walton
  11443.  
  11444. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8707801> 2 years ago
  11445.  
  11446. “T-shirts and stickers will be sent from a different fulfilment partner
  11447. so expect two shipments from us” … How are we doing on those? Yes, I
  11448. know the WEDG team are all busy trying to sort out the legal issues with
  11449. the software, but these are factored out separately. Do we have an ETA?
  11450. Please? Something positive? We want to believe!
  11451.  
  11452.  
  11453.  
  11454.  
  11455. MyWorks Design
  11456.  
  11457. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8394882> 2 years ago
  11458.  
  11459. I agree with Franco. Surely there’s something (app, website, packaging,
  11460. ports, extension cords, anything) that you can snap a picture of and post.
  11461.  
  11462. We support you 100% but you don’t want 2 battlefields to deal with when
  11463. you only need one. :)
  11464.  
  11465.  
  11466.  
  11467.  
  11468. Franco
  11469.  
  11470. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8707014> 2 years ago
  11471.  
  11472. I understand and agree with the points made by both @Philipp Stäheli
  11473. @Nikolai Tesla. After receiving the last update, I’ll admit I was
  11474. skeptical. This was the 1st of 13 projects I’ve backed (1st on
  11475. indiegogo) that has gotten away with virtually no legitimate updates,
  11476. and no one complained. I came from the failed kickstarter and went on to
  11477. pay for 3 WEDGs so @Team WEDG certainly at this point something as
  11478. trivial as box art/packaging has been made, why not share those pics?
  11479.  
  11480.  
  11481.  
  11482.  
  11483. Team WEDG
  11484.  
  11485. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  11486.  
  11487. @Philipp Stäheli @Nikolai Tesla I understand your concerns, we don’t
  11488. have any pictures because I guess just haven’t taken any. All of our
  11489. prep work was done before the crowd funding stage with a regimented
  11490. process to follow which was supposed to be fool proof and that’s how
  11491. we’ve been working – with a lot of work offloaded to partners/suppliers.
  11492. We are at the very start of dispute and still getting our heads around
  11493. much of this situation, still I will aim to gather some resources asap.
  11494.  
  11495.  
  11496.  
  11497.  
  11498. Nikolai Tesla
  11499.  
  11500. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> 2 years ago
  11501.  
  11502. Team WEDG, My apologies if I am being a pest to you, but I am posting
  11503. obvious and common concerns. You have not responded to the following:
  11504. “Providing updated information to your “funders” on a regular basis and
  11505. current pictures, videos of the product would calm down nerves in the
  11506. time being. Also, my professional recommendation, is to provide a way to
  11507. receive a refund if the legal issue drags out longer than anticipated
  11508. for those funders that need this option.” Your response is appreciated.
  11509.  
  11510.  
  11511.  
  11512.  
  11513. Philipp Stäheli
  11514.  
  11515. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8723017> 2 years ago
  11516.  
  11517. 2/2 employees having a pizza together. In all the 39 updates you have
  11518. never given any proof on whats going on. Why are you so secretive?
  11519. Obviously you do not want to reveal any secrets but a little proof of
  11520. existence here and there is not too much to ask for is it? I already had
  11521. to a couple of times before you released your business adress… there is
  11522. a little voice in my head growing louder that asks:
  11523. “Where’s the poop Robin?”
  11524.  
  11525.  
  11526.  
  11527.  
  11528. Philipp Stäheli
  11529.  
  11530. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8723017> 2 years ago
  11531.  
  11532. 1/2 Hey Team Wedg, I love this project and want it very much to succeed.
  11533. But this time I am the devil’s advocate: I want an update where I
  11534. actually see something of the Wedg. Since the beginning of the campain I
  11535. have not seen any new pictures of anything. From the multiple campains I
  11536. have backed mostly on Kickstarter I am used from the updates to see all
  11537. kinds of things: People working in their offices, a pile of parts that
  11538. just arrived, a 3D or a picture of an injection mould or even just the
  11539.  
  11540.  
  11541.  
  11542.  
  11543. Team WEDG
  11544.  
  11545. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  11546.  
  11547. @Justin Walton thank you for your support and compassion, yes it is a
  11548. very testing time personally and professionally too. All parties
  11549. involved are sympathetic to our situation and want to come to an
  11550. amicable resolution as quickly as possible. The business insurance
  11551. support was a huge relief as you can appreciate.
  11552.  
  11553.  
  11554.  
  11555.  
  11556. Team WEDG
  11557.  
  11558. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  11559.  
  11560. @aaddiikk @Nikolai Tesla thank you for your ongoing support; yes this is
  11561. a software issue, we were facing minor delays with shipments anyway but
  11562. knew we could overcome this in production. But when news broke of the
  11563. severity of the claim against us all focus turned towards that and we
  11564. held back on shipments of hardware to avoid warehousing costs.
  11565. Fulfilment is our top priority and we have the co-operation of our
  11566. manufacturing and shipping partners for when we start things off again.
  11567.  
  11568.  
  11569.  
  11570.  
  11571. Team WEDG
  11572.  
  11573. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  11574.  
  11575. @fia thanks for your support its really appreciated here
  11576.  
  11577.  
  11578.  
  11579.  
  11580. Nikolai Tesla
  11581.  
  11582. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> 2 years ago
  11583.  
  11584. I do agree with the comments made by both aaddiikk and Justin Walton.
  11585. Providing updated information to your “funders” on a regular basis and
  11586. current pictures, videos of the product would calm down nerves in the
  11587. time being. Also, my professional recommendation, is to provide a way to
  11588. receive a refund if the legal issue drags out longer than anticipated
  11589. for those funders that need this option. I am a huge supporter of this
  11590. project and you have my backing as long as things are kept transparent.
  11591.  
  11592.  
  11593.  
  11594.  
  11595. Justin Walton
  11596.  
  11597. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8707801> 2 years ago
  11598.  
  11599. @Shehbaz and Team Wedg. Thank-you for taking time to update us so
  11600. quickly following the disappointing news about the legal position on the
  11601. software. I for one am extremely relieved to hear the legal costs will
  11602. be covered by your business insurance. I think this issue has been
  11603. eating in to your time more than you’re letting on, but hope you will be
  11604. able to continue to provide frequent updates as matters develop. It will
  11605. help stop our nerves fraying!
  11606.  
  11607.  
  11608.  
  11609.  
  11610. aaddiikk
  11611.  
  11612. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8707168> 2 years ago
  11613.  
  11614. Team,
  11615.  
  11616. I’m really sorry about issues that you described in last update and you
  11617. have my full support on that but if I understand the issue correctly the
  11618. showstopper is related to software part. Based on the previously
  11619. published schedule, hardware should be packed and ready to be shipped
  11620. just after the legal issues are resolved. Therefore, could you please
  11621. share some shots from production to ensure us that in fact the product
  11622. is indeed ready and finished?
  11623.  
  11624.  
  11625.  
  11626.  
  11627. blandat
  11628.  
  11629. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6957871> 2 years ago
  11630.  
  11631. Just want to give you my support and think it will all end happily for you.
  11632. These things are a pain in the but, and I hope the big company will see
  11633. how absurd this claim of theirs is. Garden leave is a problem. They
  11634. should have sent him/her to some nice tropical island for the time
  11635. suspended…
  11636.  
  11637. But I guess we all can wait for this to solve amicably since we wait for
  11638. something great!
  11639.  
  11640. group hug
  11641.  
  11642.  
  11643.  
  11644.  
  11645. Team WEDG
  11646.  
  11647. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  11648.  
  11649. Many of you have suggested that we start a campaign to cover the legal
  11650. costs of this dispute and that you would support us financially there too.
  11651.  
  11652. This is a most generous and kind offer and I thank you all very dearly
  11653. for this immense show of solidarity. Fortunately, we have business
  11654. insurance and on Friday 10th April the insurance company agreed to
  11655. accept our claim and so we don’t have to worry about the legal and
  11656. sundry costs involved.
  11657.  
  11658. A huge thank you again.
  11659.  
  11660.  
  11661.  
  11662.  
  11663. Team WEDG
  11664.  
  11665. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  11666.  
  11667. @M K not right now we can’t, but we hope that when the matter is
  11668. amicably resolved we will be able to say the parties involved are.
  11669.  
  11670.  
  11671.  
  11672.  
  11673. Team WEDG
  11674.  
  11675. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  11676.  
  11677. @Steven Newman yes this is a very stressful time for me and my
  11678. colleagues right now. Your and everyone else’s support is very much
  11679. appreciated, I can’t thank you all enough.
  11680.  
  11681. PS. I’ve been called worse, don’t worry ;)
  11682.  
  11683.  
  11684.  
  11685.  
  11686. Team WEDG
  11687.  
  11688. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  11689.  
  11690. @Bryan Walker yes completely agree, and this is also evidence that we
  11691. have presented to the third party to vindicate our actions. Absolutely,
  11692. I can’t say much, but what I want to say and do say will for the time
  11693. being will be vetted by our legal advisers who by the way are fight
  11694. tooth and nail for WEDG.
  11695.  
  11696.  
  11697.  
  11698.  
  11699. Team WEDG
  11700.  
  11701. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  11702.  
  11703. @jrogers31 thanks for your comments. I can tell you our legal
  11704. representation has made contact with the agency from an investigatory
  11705. aspect and other reasons.
  11706.  
  11707.  
  11708.  
  11709.  
  11710. Team WEDG
  11711.  
  11712. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  11713.  
  11714. @Ken Taylor thank you for your support, much of the code is for WEDG
  11715. core and some of it extends to WEDGNET. I can’t really discuss what we
  11716. can do regarding the developer however re-engineering the project is
  11717. something we have put forward to the third party as a suggested
  11718. resolution to move forward.
  11719.  
  11720.  
  11721.  
  11722.  
  11723. Team WEDG
  11724.  
  11725. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  11726.  
  11727. @Veehem the build is complex and my hands are tied to some extent as to
  11728. what I can say regarding the dispute. Nevertheless we all appreciate
  11729. your ongoing support here.
  11730.  
  11731.  
  11732.  
  11733.  
  11734. Team WEDG
  11735.  
  11736. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  11737.  
  11738. @Justin Walton for the time being we’re going to wait and see what the
  11739. outcome is and consider our position thereafter. From yesterday’s
  11740. meeting and discussions it was plain to see the third party are
  11741. sympathetic to our cause and are working to free us from obligation as
  11742. soon as possible – without contradicting company policy at the same time.
  11743.  
  11744.  
  11745.  
  11746.  
  11747. Team WEDG
  11748.  
  11749. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  11750.  
  11751. Dear all
  11752. I’ve just got back online after a day of travelling to London and back
  11753. by car to meet regarding the legal dispute we have. I’m going to review
  11754. the comments, respond to emails from backers and post an update shortly
  11755. after that.
  11756.  
  11757. Thank you for your patience.
  11758. Shehbaz
  11759.  
  11760.  
  11761.  
  11762.  
  11763. M K
  11764.  
  11765. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8914705> 2 years ago
  11766.  
  11767. Hi,
  11768.  
  11769. Can you disclose the name of company that is giving you (and many more)
  11770. headaches?
  11771.  
  11772.  
  11773.  
  11774.  
  11775. Steven Newman
  11776.  
  11777. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/925661> 2 years ago
  11778.  
  11779. Of course, the moment I click POST I realize I’ve misspelled your name.
  11780. My apologies. :)
  11781.  
  11782.  
  11783.  
  11784.  
  11785. Steven Newman
  11786.  
  11787. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/925661> 2 years ago
  11788.  
  11789. Shebaz, I can’t imagine the feeling in the pit of your stomach that you
  11790. all must be feeling right now, on the verge of jumping off with the new
  11791. product.
  11792.  
  11793. I’ve read the comments by Bryan Walker, jrogers31, and Ken Taylor below
  11794. and agree with each of them. I’m sure you’ve considered all of these
  11795. things as well.
  11796.  
  11797. I just want you to know that you have my support. I believe in you and
  11798. your team. I’ll be praying for a speedy resolution that is favorable for
  11799. you guys. Hang in there!
  11800.  
  11801.  
  11802.  
  11803.  
  11804. jrogers31
  11805.  
  11806. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> 2 years ago
  11807.  
  11808. The agency that provided this individual must come under scrutiny also
  11809. as it appears that there was a failure of due diligence in the checks
  11810. carried out by the agency and your company before hiring this individual.
  11811.  
  11812.  
  11813.  
  11814.  
  11815. jrogers31
  11816.  
  11817. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> 2 years ago
  11818.  
  11819. I hope you get the matter resolved with no on going issues. Having read
  11820. your statement it occurred to me that the ‘gardening leave’ may have
  11821. been a convenient means by which the other company could take the
  11822. opportunity to deliberately plant this individual into your company at a
  11823. critical time in the development of the product for the purpose of
  11824. disrupting your plans, getting access to your IP and access to other
  11825. confidential information.
  11826.  
  11827.  
  11828.  
  11829.  
  11830. Ken Taylor
  11831.  
  11832. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6123904> 2 years ago
  11833.  
  11834. Hi Shehbaz and Team
  11835. Sorry to hear about the legal issues. I hope they can be quickly resolved
  11836. If you cant resolve this I hope you can recover any costs from the
  11837. developer (false representation ?)
  11838. In the worst case. If they wont agree to a deal can you get a new
  11839. developer to recode this section with no reference to the disputed code
  11840. (using clean room reverse engineering) or cant it be re engineered
  11841. is the disputed code on the WEDG or on WEDGnet
  11842. Good Luck, please keep us updated
  11843. Thanks Ken
  11844.  
  11845.  
  11846.  
  11847.  
  11848. Veehem
  11849.  
  11850. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4067160> 2 years ago
  11851.  
  11852. PART 4 Now, I hope you will quickly overtake the legal problem, and on a
  11853. opensource base could build a big community (users & contributors)
  11854. around this beautiful product. (End of comment)
  11855.  
  11856.  
  11857.  
  11858.  
  11859. Veehem
  11860.  
  11861. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4067160> 2 years ago
  11862.  
  11863. PART 3 Have a look e.g. the join venture between LaBriqueInter.net [FR]
  11864. (http://labriqueinter.net/) a hardware and Yunohost [EN]
  11865. (https://yunohost.org/#/docs_en) a simple self hosting platform. On this
  11866. project, everyone may buy the whole thing or build it by himself
  11867. (hardware, software are opensource). You probably know some other
  11868. project like that.
  11869. (…)
  11870.  
  11871.  
  11872.  
  11873.  
  11874. Veehem
  11875.  
  11876. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4067160> 2 years ago
  11877.  
  11878. PART 2 (on two ways:
  11879. ) 1/ Many people are concern about privacy and don’t have the time or
  11880. the competences for this purpose. They are ready to pay for a “out of
  11881. the box” hardware & software AND regular updates. Only big commercial
  11882. company can offer that BUT
  11883. 2/ Some people are already able to build this kind of system AND are
  11884. also ready to give a hand to a hardware & software which could attend a
  11885. general public audience. They are already doing that in many opensource
  11886. project
  11887. (…)
  11888.  
  11889.  
  11890.  
  11891.  
  11892. Veehem
  11893.  
  11894. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4067160> 2 years ago
  11895.  
  11896. PART1/ Sorry to hear about the legal issue. But as I said in previous
  11897. comments, the code should be opensource from the firsts days. This would
  11898. probably avoid the legal problem.
  11899. And for the future I insist how it’s important.
  11900. I’m supporting Wedg, not because I need it but because I think this kind
  11901. of product is very important and need to be distributed on two ways:
  11902. (…)
  11903.  
  11904.  
  11905.  
  11906.  
  11907. Justin Walton
  11908.  
  11909. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8707801> 2 years ago
  11910.  
  11911. I’m sorry to hear about the IP issues you’re having with the software.
  11912. Will you be re-flashing the stock of WEDG units to a pre-production
  11913. version unaffected by this dispute and shipping them? Or are you waiting
  11914. to see if the dispute can be quickly resolved?
  11915.  
  11916.  
  11917.  
  11918.  
  11919. Team WEDG
  11920.  
  11921. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  11922.  
  11923. rpolan01 please drop us an email at infowedg.co with your PayPal email
  11924. address and we’ll get them out to you.
  11925.  
  11926.  
  11927.  
  11928.  
  11929. rpolan01
  11930.  
  11931. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4475929> 2 years ago
  11932.  
  11933. I also did not receive a survey either…
  11934.  
  11935.  
  11936.  
  11937.  
  11938. Team WEDG
  11939.  
  11940. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  11941.  
  11942. Haitham Gad and @Heiko Zeller please drop us an email at infowedg.co
  11943. with your PayPal email address and we’ll fire the surveys out to you.
  11944.  
  11945.  
  11946.  
  11947.  
  11948. Heiko Zeller
  11949.  
  11950. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8715891> 2 years ago
  11951.  
  11952. Hi Wedg Team, I did not Receiver the Survey also.
  11953.  
  11954.  
  11955.  
  11956.  
  11957. Haitham Gad
  11958.  
  11959. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8733244> 2 years ago
  11960.  
  11961. Hi @TeamWEDGE, I didn’t receive the survey either.
  11962.  
  11963.  
  11964.  
  11965.  
  11966. Team WEDG
  11967.  
  11968. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  11969.  
  11970. @MyWorks Design sorry for the delay, Shehbaz is drafting an update right
  11971. now and will post shortly. Thank you for your patience.
  11972.  
  11973.  
  11974.  
  11975.  
  11976. Team WEDG
  11977.  
  11978. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  11979.  
  11980. Johan Wijngaard apologies you haven't received the survey, you're not
  11981. alone. The survey will come from surveymonkey.com with the sender's
  11982. address as infowedg.co.
  11983.  
  11984. Please send us your PayPal email address at info@wedg.co and we’ll get
  11985. the surveys out to you.
  11986.  
  11987.  
  11988.  
  11989.  
  11990. Team WEDG
  11991.  
  11992. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  11993.  
  11994. @Francisco Alvarez don’t worry about that for now, you’re not alone and
  11995. we will be contacting backers in the same situation in time.
  11996.  
  11997.  
  11998.  
  11999.  
  12000. Team WEDG
  12001.  
  12002. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  12003.  
  12004. @db thanks db, think its because the fund raising has ended, so links to
  12005. the perks are broken. Will fix it.
  12006.  
  12007.  
  12008.  
  12009.  
  12010. MyWorks Design
  12011.  
  12012. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8394882> 2 years ago
  12013.  
  12014. Any update, guys? We’re getting excited!
  12015.  
  12016.  
  12017.  
  12018.  
  12019. Johan Wijngaard
  12020.  
  12021. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/2469755> 2 years ago
  12022.  
  12023. Hi Team off the Wedge,
  12024.  
  12025. I have also not yet received a survey!
  12026.  
  12027. Please try to work on it if you published it in a update. We are all
  12028. waiting on the WEDG so we can install it on the network at home. And can
  12029. use it to storage, mail, backup ect.
  12030.  
  12031. I still believe this the solution for me as home worker ect.
  12032.  
  12033. But you must inform us as we are the people how has believe and trust in
  12034. your story and have made a “Perk” to get a ready product.
  12035.  
  12036. Regards
  12037.  
  12038. Johan
  12039.  
  12040.  
  12041.  
  12042.  
  12043. Francisco Alvarez
  12044.  
  12045. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8814221> 2 years ago
  12046.  
  12047. I forgot the shipping payment! Sorry! How could I pay it?
  12048. Thank you,
  12049.  
  12050.  
  12051.  
  12052.  
  12053. db
  12054.  
  12055. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706846> 2 years ago
  12056.  
  12057. Just 4 your Information – the Links for Preorder on wedg.co does not
  12058. work anymore.
  12059.  
  12060.  
  12061.  
  12062.  
  12063. Team WEDG
  12064.  
  12065. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  12066.  
  12067. @aaddiikk we’re just in the process of putting some details together.
  12068.  
  12069.  
  12070.  
  12071.  
  12072. aaddiikk
  12073.  
  12074. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8707168> 2 years ago
  12075.  
  12076. Hi team,
  12077.  
  12078. Could you please update us, the backers about where we are? According to
  12079. the schedule youve published a month ago, today shipping of wedg should
  12080. start where actually I dont even see the app in stores (which also takes
  12081. some time). Tease us a bit with some photos/screenshots, updated
  12082. schedule etc.
  12083.  
  12084. Cant wait for my wedg! :)
  12085.  
  12086.  
  12087.  
  12088.  
  12089. Team WEDG
  12090.  
  12091. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  12092.  
  12093. @1sgmgn April 2015!
  12094.  
  12095.  
  12096.  
  12097.  
  12098. 1sgmgn
  12099.  
  12100. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4356995> 2 years ago
  12101.  
  12102. When does it Ship?
  12103.  
  12104.  
  12105.  
  12106.  
  12107. Team WEDG
  12108.  
  12109. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  12110.  
  12111. Philipp Stäheli, @ZHUO YANG please email us at infowedg.co quoting your
  12112. PayPal email address and we’ll send the survey out to you again.
  12113.  
  12114.  
  12115.  
  12116.  
  12117. ZHUO YANG
  12118.  
  12119. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8355345> 2 years ago
  12120.  
  12121. Haven’t received a survey either..
  12122.  
  12123.  
  12124.  
  12125.  
  12126. Philipp Stäheli
  12127.  
  12128. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8723017> 2 years ago
  12129.  
  12130. Haven’t received a survey either..
  12131.  
  12132.  
  12133.  
  12134.  
  12135. Patrick Jones
  12136.  
  12137. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/5225415> 2 years ago
  12138.  
  12139. Hello,
  12140. I have not received the survey yet, is there a problem?
  12141. Thanks and Happy Easter?
  12142.  
  12143.  
  12144.  
  12145.  
  12146. James Taylor
  12147.  
  12148. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/5657565> 2 years ago
  12149.  
  12150. Just got (and returned) the survey – thank you! I did not understand the
  12151. “put your email address in the comments section” on the hard
  12152. drive/T-shirt survey (there is no comments section, just a place to say
  12153. what to do with the second shirt, for us literal types…). I tried to
  12154. modify it, but I can’t (“you’ve already taken this survey.”). So here is
  12155. the repeat: I said “chose a hard drive for me” and "I want both shirts
  12156. blue, XL, and “His”). Address is j c t at m a c dot c o m.
  12157.  
  12158.  
  12159.  
  12160.  
  12161. Team WEDG
  12162.  
  12163. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  12164.  
  12165. @Steven Newman thank you Steven! Have a good Easter break!
  12166.  
  12167.  
  12168.  
  12169.  
  12170. Steven Newman
  12171.  
  12172. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/925661> 2 years ago
  12173.  
  12174. Happy Easter, guys! So thrilled we are so close to seeing your vision
  12175. made real!
  12176.  
  12177.  
  12178.  
  12179.  
  12180. Team WEDG
  12181.  
  12182. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  12183.  
  12184. Hey guys
  12185. Just an FYI we have a public holiday starting Friday 3rd April in the UK
  12186. and until Tuesday 7th. During this time we’ll be operating on skeleton
  12187. staff at varied times and so responses to emails and comments may be
  12188. subject to delay in .
  12189.  
  12190.  
  12191.  
  12192.  
  12193. Team WEDG
  12194.  
  12195. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  12196.  
  12197. @Steven Newman good question. We currently have a 3 bad passwords and 15
  12198. minute lock out from that IP address, followed by 2-step auth attempts.
  12199. But all quantities are variable, so you can set for example 3 bad
  12200. password attempts or 10 followed by 15 minute lockout or no lockout.
  12201.  
  12202.  
  12203.  
  12204.  
  12205. Team WEDG
  12206.  
  12207. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  12208.  
  12209. @db shortly after we go in to production next week we’ll have a better
  12210. idea of exact date. PR team are hard at work for this working with
  12211. retailers that we’ll be announcing partnerships with.
  12212.  
  12213.  
  12214.  
  12215.  
  12216. Steven Newman
  12217.  
  12218. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/925661> 2 years ago
  12219.  
  12220. Hey, a question just came to mind. I am currently using a Synology
  12221. device to handle my mail. One of the security features I like is that I
  12222. can set how many bad password attempts in a given time frame from an IP
  12223. address will get the IP locked out for a period of time.
  12224.  
  12225. So three bad passwords in fifteen minutes from a given IP get it
  12226. blacklisted for 30 days. Or what have you.
  12227.  
  12228. Will WEDG have anything similar?
  12229.  
  12230. Thanks!
  12231. Steven
  12232.  
  12233.  
  12234.  
  12235.  
  12236. db
  12237.  
  12238. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706846> 2 years ago
  12239.  
  12240. hi, could you tell us when the feature presentation is planned for your
  12241. launch?
  12242.  
  12243.  
  12244.  
  12245.  
  12246. Team WEDG
  12247.  
  12248. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  12249.  
  12250. George G please email us at infowedg.co confirming your PayPal email address
  12251.  
  12252.  
  12253.  
  12254.  
  12255. Team WEDG
  12256.  
  12257. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  12258.  
  12259. @David Aldred yep that’s cool
  12260.  
  12261.  
  12262.  
  12263.  
  12264. George G
  12265.  
  12266. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/5941051> 2 years ago
  12267.  
  12268. Hi, i have also not received a survey
  12269.  
  12270.  
  12271.  
  12272.  
  12273. David Aldred
  12274.  
  12275. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> 2 years ago
  12276.  
  12277. I got the emails, but didn’t complete the form, as I’ve got the diskless
  12278. version – assume that’s ok?
  12279.  
  12280.  
  12281.  
  12282.  
  12283. Team WEDG
  12284.  
  12285. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  12286.  
  12287. @Gordon Keys no issue with emails our side, coming in thick and fast
  12288. every minute. Please try again, maybe from another account if you have
  12289. one? We just need you to confirm your PayPal email address as thats
  12290. where we send surveys.
  12291.  
  12292.  
  12293.  
  12294.  
  12295. Gordon Keys
  12296.  
  12297. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8335278> 2 years ago
  12298.  
  12299. email at infowedg.co doesn’t seem to be working. Just got bounced twice!
  12300. I’ve not got my survey yet either. Wondered why it had gone quiet!
  12301.  
  12302.  
  12303.  
  12304.  
  12305. Team WEDG
  12306.  
  12307. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  12308.  
  12309. M K please drop us an email at infowedg.co verifying your PayPal email
  12310. address and we’ll get it out to you asap.
  12311.  
  12312.  
  12313.  
  12314.  
  12315. M K
  12316.  
  12317. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8914705> 2 years ago
  12318.  
  12319. Hi, i have also not received a survey.
  12320.  
  12321.  
  12322.  
  12323.  
  12324. Team WEDG
  12325.  
  12326. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  12327.  
  12328. @Bryan Walker thanks Brian, have just replied to your email this minute.
  12329.  
  12330.  
  12331.  
  12332.  
  12333. Team WEDG
  12334.  
  12335. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  12336.  
  12337. smadyk think we have an email from you and have sent the survey. If not
  12338. please email us at infowedg.co
  12339.  
  12340.  
  12341.  
  12342.  
  12343. smadyk
  12344.  
  12345. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/7989688> over 2 years ago
  12346.  
  12347. Hi, I don’t know if I wrote this before. So only to be sure.
  12348. I didn’t receive the survey, could you send me, please?
  12349.  
  12350.  
  12351.  
  12352.  
  12353. Team WEDG
  12354.  
  12355. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  12356.  
  12357. @Ken Taylor, @mark saunders apologies you haven’t received the survey. I
  12358. will send you a link by email.
  12359.  
  12360. everyone else - if you haven't received the survey please email your
  12361. PayPal email address (this is the email address we collect via
  12362. Indiegogo) to infowedg.co and I will send you the survey on Sunday morning.
  12363.  
  12364. The survey will be sent from info@wedg.co and will contain
  12365. Surveymonkey.com URLs.
  12366.  
  12367.  
  12368.  
  12369.  
  12370. mark saunders
  12371.  
  12372. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8466324> over 2 years ago
  12373.  
  12374. Hi Shehbaz and WEDG team,
  12375. I have checked my emails & my junk folder also I have not received any
  12376. emails about surveys. I believe I found the reason why and i sent an
  12377. email to: info@wedg.co with my PayPal email addresses. As far as I know
  12378. I have not received any surveys but maybe my fault with that, and sent
  12379. email should explain. Can wait to get my WEDG !!!
  12380.  
  12381. Thanks again
  12382. Mark
  12383.  
  12384.  
  12385.  
  12386.  
  12387. Ken Taylor
  12388.  
  12389. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6123904> over 2 years ago
  12390.  
  12391. Hi Shehbaz,
  12392. I have checked my emails & my junk folder & then to double check I went
  12393. and checked the server & I have not received any emails about surveys.
  12394. the last email I got was the email saying that you were sending a survey
  12395. later in the week so it looks like I have missed 2 surveys the one that
  12396. closed today & the one that closes on Sunday
  12397. As previously discussed I need to know the HDD choices. & I definitely
  12398. want to choose the colour & anything else that was on the form
  12399. Regards
  12400. Ken
  12401.  
  12402.  
  12403.  
  12404.  
  12405. Team WEDG
  12406.  
  12407. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  12408.  
  12409. @Gatto Fontainäou the thought hadn’t even crossed my mind. Thank you all
  12410. the same : ) Will get back to you over email.
  12411.  
  12412.  
  12413.  
  12414.  
  12415. Gatto Fontainäou
  12416.  
  12417. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/604966> over 2 years ago
  12418.  
  12419. @Shehbaz, thank for you comment, I sent you an email.
  12420. And btw – as the written text can always be misinterpreted – my last
  12421. comment was meant to be a joke (and by no means a reproach). Cheers
  12422.  
  12423.  
  12424.  
  12425.  
  12426. Team WEDG
  12427.  
  12428. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  12429.  
  12430. @Gatto Fontainäou the survey was sent to the email address connected to
  12431. your PayPal account. Can you double check you haven’t received it, if
  12432. you haven’t I’ll send you a link again.
  12433.  
  12434. Please email us at info@wedg.co with your PayPal email address.
  12435.  
  12436.  
  12437.  
  12438.  
  12439. Gatto Fontainäou
  12440.  
  12441. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/604966> over 2 years ago
  12442.  
  12443. @Shehbaz, did I miss something important? 3 days ago (update 38) you
  12444. said: " we’ll be sending out the survey this week" and now you say it
  12445. closed 1.5 hours ago?
  12446. I was waiting impatiently and never received any link to the survey.
  12447. Shall I go to search for an ophthalmologist already?
  12448.  
  12449.  
  12450.  
  12451.  
  12452. Team WEDG
  12453.  
  12454. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  12455.  
  12456. Hey guys!
  12457.  
  12458. Just a heads up, because we set the survey out a little late, you have
  12459. till 6PM UK today to complete and submit your HDD choices.
  12460.  
  12461. After which time, you will be sent a WEDG with the most popular hard
  12462. drive and blue, medium his t-shirt where applicable.
  12463.  
  12464. The WEDG colour choices survey is open until Sunday 29 March 9PM.
  12465.  
  12466. Thanks!
  12467.  
  12468.  
  12469.  
  12470.  
  12471. Team WEDG
  12472.  
  12473. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  12474.  
  12475. @Gatto Fontainäou just an FYI the survey closes at 6PM UK time, so if
  12476. you haven’t decided yet you still have just over 1 hour to submit your
  12477. choices.
  12478.  
  12479. Yes, two separate hdd models can be used to RAID – even two separate
  12480. capacities but the lowest capacity is volume limit.
  12481.  
  12482. Hope that helps!
  12483.  
  12484.  
  12485.  
  12486.  
  12487. Gatto Fontainäou
  12488.  
  12489. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/604966> over 2 years ago
  12490.  
  12491. So, we will be able to configure RAID1 or not use RAID at all – that’s
  12492. awesome, but after reading some statistics about HDD failures I wonder
  12493. if it would be possible to use two different HDDs in the RAID1
  12494. configuration? I mean same capacity, but from different manufacturers?
  12495. If yes, will we be able to choose that in the survey? (sorry, if it’s
  12496. been answered earlier).
  12497. I’m still hesitating to upgrade for 2tb, but wouldn’t like to use RAID
  12498. mirroring if the benefits are statistically negligible ;)
  12499.  
  12500.  
  12501.  
  12502.  
  12503. Team WEDG
  12504.  
  12505. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  12506.  
  12507. @Brian, Hi! Yes that Amazon would be fine location to send your backup
  12508. archives to, as the archive is encrypted – its a password protected .zip
  12509. file.
  12510.  
  12511. With regards to selective backup, yes it is possible as the backup
  12512. solution allows you to select files and folders to capture in the back,
  12513. but that selection is not made by encrypted/not encrypted I’m afraid.
  12514.  
  12515.  
  12516.  
  12517.  
  12518. Brian
  12519.  
  12520. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4535871> over 2 years ago
  12521.  
  12522. https://www.amazon.com/buttdrive/home/
  12523.  
  12524. With Amazon offering unlimited butt storage, is that a viable way to
  12525. backup the WEDG? Can we set it up to only backup “public” information on
  12526. the server to my butt, and leave the encrypted, private things local only?
  12527.  
  12528.  
  12529.  
  12530.  
  12531. Team WEDG
  12532.  
  12533. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  12534.  
  12535. fia yes you can, you'll need to pay the difference between your chosen
  12536. Perk and WEDG Pro with Intel +1TB +£56. Please drop us an email at
  12537. infowedg.co when you have done this so we can make a note on our side
  12538. for the change to your order.
  12539.  
  12540.  
  12541.  
  12542.  
  12543. blandat
  12544.  
  12545. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6957871> over 2 years ago
  12546.  
  12547. I selected a wedg withour HDD since I wanted 2TB, now that you can offer
  12548. that, can I add it now? Is it an option in the upcoming survety?
  12549.  
  12550.  
  12551.  
  12552.  
  12553. Team WEDG
  12554.  
  12555. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  12556.  
  12557. @David Aldred watch this space! ;)
  12558.  
  12559. RE HDD, there is enough space to stack two 15mm HDDs with approx. 2.5mm
  12560. amount of space between them after the guides/rails.
  12561.  
  12562.  
  12563.  
  12564.  
  12565. David Aldred
  12566.  
  12567. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> over 2 years ago
  12568.  
  12569. Sorry, another HDD question.
  12570.  
  12571. Will it take 15mm HDD, 9mm or either?
  12572.  
  12573.  
  12574.  
  12575.  
  12576. David Aldred
  12577.  
  12578. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> over 2 years ago
  12579.  
  12580. What might be a really good way to showcase the hardware & software, is
  12581. a bit of a dropbox v OneDrive v Google Drive v OwnButt v Wedg
  12582. comparison, pointing out cost / storage / security as well as specific
  12583. features (apps, auto-upload, offline etc).
  12584.  
  12585. Would really help those who are hooked to dropbox et al make the plunge
  12586. if they knew they’d get the same functionality, plus other stuff on top.
  12587.  
  12588. ps – getting excited now!
  12589.  
  12590.  
  12591.  
  12592.  
  12593. Team WEDG
  12594.  
  12595. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  12596.  
  12597. @spencer robinson sorry for the late . I went away for the weekend
  12598. and I’m catching up on public and private comments. I’d love to show you
  12599. something right now but we have a feature presentation planned for our
  12600. launch so coincide with social media and PR activities and really want
  12601. to make an impact with that.
  12602.  
  12603. The wait is worth it I assure you and we appreciate your patience and
  12604. excitement :)
  12605.  
  12606.  
  12607.  
  12608.  
  12609. spencer robinson
  12610.  
  12611. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/9152571> over 2 years ago
  12612.  
  12613. Show me some eye candy!! (No im not posting on the wrong site)
  12614.  
  12615. I know the actual release date will soon be here but i cant wait!
  12616.  
  12617. Can you not give us some screen shots of the software as it stands (it
  12618. most be nearly there, though i do understand not 100% finalized)
  12619.  
  12620. Come on tease us all a bit
  12621.  
  12622.  
  12623.  
  12624.  
  12625. David Aldred
  12626.  
  12627. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> over 2 years ago
  12628.  
  12629. excellent, thanks – best get myself some drives then!
  12630.  
  12631.  
  12632.  
  12633.  
  12634. Team WEDG
  12635.  
  12636. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  12637.  
  12638. @David Aldred yes there is an ‘offline’ mode as such as described, we’re
  12639. actually reviewing our user manual document and on that very topic right
  12640. now! Spooky!
  12641.  
  12642. HDDs are 2.5" not 3.5" and are standard SATA drives. Yes even with the
  12643. RAID component installed you can operate two independent drives of
  12644. different storage capability.
  12645.  
  12646. Hope that helps!
  12647.  
  12648.  
  12649.  
  12650.  
  12651. David Aldred
  12652.  
  12653. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> over 2 years ago
  12654.  
  12655. Can you remind me… is there an offline-files mode? ie, a folder or flag
  12656. I can assign to files that I want to be saved locally and synced as
  12657. required? Will come in handy for larger spreadsheets etc than having to
  12658. pull from the the network each time. (Similar to OwnButt if you’re
  12659. familiar?)
  12660.  
  12661. And I know I keep asking about HDD’s – but they’re standard 3.5" right?
  12662. And for those getting the raid option, I can configure in raid 0 or no
  12663. raid at all, with different disk capacities?
  12664.  
  12665.  
  12666.  
  12667.  
  12668. Team WEDG
  12669.  
  12670. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  12671.  
  12672. @Ken Taylor 5400rpm drives are not included in our discussions with
  12673. suppliers, so rest assured no on will get a 5400rpm drive. If when the
  12674. survey is sent funding has ended, we could always take payment via
  12675. alternative means – but lets see what drives we bring to the table ;)
  12676.  
  12677. Thank you for your support Ken (Y)
  12678.  
  12679.  
  12680.  
  12681.  
  12682. Ken Taylor
  12683.  
  12684. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6123904> over 2 years ago
  12685.  
  12686. @Team Wedg
  12687. Thanks that helps I hope the survey comes out before funding finishes as
  12688. depending on drive specs i may need to up funding to 2x 2TB drives (but
  12689. not for Toshiba MQ @5400rpm drives)
  12690. Great to know the office suite will make it , (My pref Libra office)
  12691. I hope “Active sync” will also make it at some point (revisit option).
  12692. As i guess we cant just app get install Z-push / O-Push / Syncroton on
  12693. the server
  12694. Great Project cant wait to get my hand on my WEDG .. Next month
  12695. Thanks Ken
  12696.  
  12697.  
  12698.  
  12699.  
  12700. Team WEDG
  12701.  
  12702. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  12703.  
  12704. @Ken Taylor we are currently negotiating hard drive brands and models so
  12705. that you the backers can pick the drives you want in your WEDG, This
  12706. applies for 1TB and 2TB drives. We plan to send out a survey which will
  12707. collect this information from you as well as identify which hard drive
  12708. brands and models we have access to. Hope that helps!
  12709.  
  12710.  
  12711.  
  12712.  
  12713. Ken Taylor
  12714.  
  12715. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6123904> over 2 years ago
  12716.  
  12717. Hi Shehbaz,
  12718. In a to @David Aldred you recommend drives over 72000rpm but in
  12719. the update “2TERABYTE TO BE OR NOT 2TERABYTE TO BE” you say the drives
  12720. available for 2TB are Toshiba MQ series @5400RPM can you let us know
  12721. which drives will be used for the 2TB raid version as this may make a
  12722. difference to my funding level,
  12723. Thanks Ken
  12724.  
  12725.  
  12726.  
  12727.  
  12728. Team WEDG
  12729.  
  12730. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  12731.  
  12732. @Ken Taylor continued funding does count towards the stretch goals and
  12733. that’s why we left the graphic on the project. But it doesn’t look like
  12734. it’ll happen as we’ll be closing the project here on the day we start
  12735. manufacturing.
  12736.  
  12737. The good news is we are committed to producing the Office suite and so
  12738. will take this on after Indiegogo fulfilment (and a short break!).
  12739.  
  12740.  
  12741.  
  12742.  
  12743. Ken Taylor
  12744.  
  12745. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6123904> over 2 years ago
  12746.  
  12747. £4,957 to go until the Office suite stretch goal is unlocked if the
  12748. continued funding counts towards the stretch goals?
  12749. If this does not count or is not reached is it still something that will
  12750. be developed for the Wedg as time permits after launch?
  12751.  
  12752.  
  12753.  
  12754.  
  12755. Alex Stamp
  12756.  
  12757. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6787108> over 2 years ago
  12758.  
  12759. Hey Guys,
  12760.  
  12761. Looking forward to getting my Wedg, just a thought for the feature
  12762. wishlist. Onedrive currently allows you to use “smart files” on windows
  12763. 8.1. This just allows you to designate certain files and folders in the
  12764. onedrive folder as online only, so it just pulls those files across when
  12765. you want them. I appreciate it wouldn’t be at launch and probably fairly
  12766. difficult to implement period but it would be a cool feature to have as
  12767. a possibility for the future.
  12768.  
  12769. Thanks,
  12770.  
  12771. Alex
  12772.  
  12773.  
  12774.  
  12775.  
  12776. Team WEDG
  12777.  
  12778. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  12779.  
  12780. Bryan Walker apologies for the late , I didn’t receive an alert to
  12781. the new comments. Do you mind me asking what the similar device was? :)
  12782. In response to your question, we collected shipping addresses at
  12783. checkout but if you've moved since then pretty much as @Pierre Lang said
  12784. - just drop us an email at infowedg.co and we’ll confirm or update your
  12785. address.
  12786.  
  12787.  
  12788.  
  12789.  
  12790. Team WEDG
  12791.  
  12792. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  12793.  
  12794. @David Aldred apologies for the late , I didn’t receive an alert to
  12795. the new comments. To answer your question; those with drive-less WEDG we
  12796. would recommend drives over 72,000RPM – we didn’t find any advantages
  12797. between cache sizes.
  12798.  
  12799. Those with referral commissions will be contacted directly by email
  12800. post-shipping.
  12801.  
  12802.  
  12803.  
  12804.  
  12805. Pierre Lang
  12806.  
  12807. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4161016> over 2 years ago
  12808.  
  12809. @Bryan Walker: see update from 25 days ago:
  12810. “Going somewhere?
  12811.  
  12812. Many of you have contacted us to say you’ve relocated and need to change
  12813. your shipping address. If you are relocating or when you do, please
  12814. email us at info@wedg.co with your PayPal email address, new shipping
  12815. address and current or the shipping address you had when you first
  12816. Contributed and we’ll make the changes our side."
  12817.  
  12818.  
  12819.  
  12820.  
  12821. David Aldred
  12822.  
  12823. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> over 2 years ago
  12824.  
  12825. Great update – shipping early April is a great result vs target of March.
  12826.  
  12827. couple of questions…
  12828.  
  12829. - Sure it’s been covered in the past, but what are the recommended specs
  12830. for HDD’s for those of us buying diskless?
  12831.  
  12832. - Again, this may have been discussed, but what happens to our referrals
  12833. commission (from the 1st affiliate program that was ran)?
  12834.  
  12835.  
  12836.  
  12837.  
  12838. scott.henderson
  12839.  
  12840. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3201718> over 2 years ago
  12841.  
  12842. Thank you for the detailed update!
  12843.  
  12844.  
  12845.  
  12846.  
  12847. scott.henderson
  12848.  
  12849. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3201718> over 2 years ago
  12850.  
  12851. Great to hear the project is still on target.
  12852.  
  12853.  
  12854.  
  12855.  
  12856. Team WEDG
  12857.  
  12858. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  12859.  
  12860. @scott.henderson love your excitement! I have an update all drafted out
  12861. and ready post, it just needs the specifics from suppliers and others
  12862. partners regarding dates for example so I can share those with everyone.
  12863. I haven’t had all the details through yet but have been promised results
  12864. for the weekend.
  12865.  
  12866. I assure you’re not behind on schedule, things might be occurring in a
  12867. different order compared to how originally planned but nevertheless we
  12868. are on target.
  12869.  
  12870.  
  12871.  
  12872.  
  12873. scott.henderson
  12874.  
  12875. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3201718> over 2 years ago
  12876.  
  12877. I’m another Scott looking for an update! :) Based on the past one, it
  12878. appears things are running about 2-3 months behind schedule. Hopefully
  12879. the update promised for the end of this week (today or tomorrow) shines
  12880. a better light on the progress.
  12881.  
  12882. January to Early February
  12883. Mass Production
  12884. Flash Firmware to Boards with QA
  12885.  
  12886. February to Early March
  12887. Assembly and Packaging
  12888. Ship to WEDG
  12889.  
  12890. A supporter simply excited and busting at the seams to get a hold of his
  12891. two WEDGgies. :P
  12892.  
  12893.  
  12894.  
  12895.  
  12896. Team WEDG
  12897.  
  12898. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  12899.  
  12900. @Scott McQueen hi Scott, I’m waiting back from others so I have
  12901. something worthwhile to report back on updates with rather than ’we’re
  12902. hard at work’ responses. Having said that though we are hard at work! I
  12903. hope to have an update mid-end of this week.
  12904.  
  12905.  
  12906.  
  12907.  
  12908. Scott McQueen
  12909.  
  12910. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8443500> over 2 years ago
  12911.  
  12912. Any more updates due, it’s been a bit quiet in here lately ?
  12913.  
  12914.  
  12915.  
  12916.  
  12917. Team WEDG
  12918.  
  12919. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  12920.  
  12921. @M K yep you can add a signature in the web interface and via your mail
  12922. client
  12923.  
  12924.  
  12925.  
  12926.  
  12927. M K
  12928.  
  12929. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8914705> over 2 years ago
  12930.  
  12931. I’m interested in stickers!
  12932.  
  12933. Are you planning to add a WEDG email signature for users?
  12934.  
  12935.  
  12936.  
  12937.  
  12938. Team WEDG
  12939.  
  12940. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  12941.  
  12942. Gaston Cardey drop us an email at infowedg.co with details of your
  12943. contribution and we can look into that for you ;)
  12944.  
  12945.  
  12946.  
  12947.  
  12948. Gaston Cardey
  12949.  
  12950. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8821945> over 2 years ago
  12951.  
  12952. Hi!
  12953. I think that the T shirts are no included in my pledge. Is it possible
  12954. to include a couple at some cost?
  12955. Hope you get well in no time!
  12956. Wishing that time go faster so I can get the WEDG.
  12957. Thanks!
  12958.  
  12959.  
  12960.  
  12961.  
  12962. Team WEDG
  12963.  
  12964. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  12965.  
  12966. @aaddiikk thank you :)
  12967.  
  12968.  
  12969.  
  12970.  
  12971. aaddiikk
  12972.  
  12973. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8707168> over 2 years ago
  12974.  
  12975. Thanks for almost instant and I wish you a speedy recovery!
  12976.  
  12977.  
  12978.  
  12979.  
  12980. Team WEDG
  12981.  
  12982. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  12983.  
  12984. @aaddiikk yes I am in the process of compiling an update with feedback
  12985. from the team. I’ve been very ill since late last year with a virus but
  12986. well on the road to recovery now so comms will be more frequent from now on.
  12987.  
  12988. The team have been hard at work according to the plan nevertheless.
  12989.  
  12990. Hope to post a complete update tomorrow!
  12991.  
  12992.  
  12993.  
  12994.  
  12995. aaddiikk
  12996.  
  12997. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8707168> over 2 years ago
  12998.  
  12999. WEDG,
  13000.  
  13001. Don’t you think that it would be a good idea to post an update to all
  13002. backers about what is happening behind the stage? Just to ensure us that
  13003. you are still alive and ‘on track’ with the schedule? I’m really curious
  13004. whats happening there… :)
  13005.  
  13006.  
  13007.  
  13008.  
  13009. Team WEDG
  13010.  
  13011. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  13012.  
  13013. @slimchan thank you for your support! We are hard at work and committed
  13014. to the late March/early April shipping date. We will have a more
  13015. accurate idea of dates closer to manufacture.
  13016.  
  13017. If anything changes, of course we will alert and update our backers
  13018. accordingly.
  13019.  
  13020.  
  13021.  
  13022.  
  13023. CHAN SZE LIM
  13024.  
  13025. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6990832> over 2 years ago
  13026.  
  13027. Sorry WEDG,
  13028.  
  13029. I pledged both your KS and indiegogo campigns. Do you have any update
  13030. regarding the shipping date? Thanks.
  13031.  
  13032.  
  13033.  
  13034.  
  13035. Team WEDG
  13036.  
  13037. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  13038.  
  13039. @Philip Stäheli of course WEDGNET will be free while we’re campaigning
  13040. on Indiegogo. And yes to regarding forwarding messages to one another,
  13041. you can set this up in the WEDGNET control panel :)
  13042.  
  13043.  
  13044.  
  13045.  
  13046. Philipp Stäheli
  13047.  
  13048. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8723017> over 2 years ago
  13049.  
  13050. Hello Team Wedg,
  13051.  
  13052. I got a friend of mine very interested in the Wedg.
  13053. I he pledges now, will he still profit from lifelong WEDGNET
  13054. for free, eventhough funding is technically over?
  13055.  
  13056. Can two WEDG forward each other’s emails when one wedg is down?
  13057. Similar as to how WEDGNET would do, but basicly over selected WEDG?
  13058.  
  13059.  
  13060.  
  13061.  
  13062. Team WEDG
  13063.  
  13064. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  13065.  
  13066. @M K got it thanks. Interesting read
  13067.  
  13068.  
  13069.  
  13070.  
  13071. M K
  13072.  
  13073. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8914705> over 2 years ago
  13074.  
  13075. This link works for sure with me:
  13076.  
  13077. http://www.tomsguide.com/us/dime-secure-email-defcon,news-19296.html
  13078.  
  13079. On IOS in Safari.
  13080.  
  13081.  
  13082.  
  13083.  
  13084. Team WEDG
  13085.  
  13086. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  13087.  
  13088. @M K the link you sent leads to a 404 page. However, there are no plans
  13089. to support DIME until launch. Post launch we can certainly consider
  13090. other support for other protocols.
  13091.  
  13092.  
  13093.  
  13094.  
  13095. M K
  13096.  
  13097. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8914705> over 2 years ago
  13098.  
  13099. @Team WEDG: are you planning to include support for DIME secure email
  13100. protocol?
  13101. (http://www.tomsguide.com/us/dime-secure-email-defcon,news-19296.html)
  13102.  
  13103. It was featured at the CCC in Berlin last december.
  13104.  
  13105.  
  13106.  
  13107.  
  13108. Team WEDG
  13109.  
  13110. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  13111.  
  13112. @John Raffin happy new year! Apologies for the late . Thank you for
  13113. your feedback, we are looking at TOR possibilities for WEDG and will
  13114. update everyone on any progress when we have something to report.
  13115.  
  13116.  
  13117.  
  13118.  
  13119. Team WEDG
  13120.  
  13121. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  13122.  
  13123. @Jacob Ovard happy new year! Apologies for the late , Currently you
  13124. can’t, but I believe Indiegogo are looking at changing the site to
  13125. reflect the FF amount.
  13126.  
  13127.  
  13128.  
  13129.  
  13130. John Raffin
  13131.  
  13132. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4406292> over 2 years ago
  13133.  
  13134. The TOR capability interests me.
  13135.  
  13136. Currently on Indiegogo there is a campaign for a TOR hardware device.
  13137.  
  13138. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/anonabox-the-tor-hardware-router/x/4406292
  13139.  
  13140. This sits between router and computer. One of the things it mentions is
  13141. that latency increases so you wouldn’t use it for speed-critical
  13142. applications like gaming.
  13143.  
  13144. Is the proposal for WEDG similar in concept? And could you turn TOR
  13145. off-and-on?
  13146.  
  13147.  
  13148.  
  13149.  
  13150. Jacob Ovard
  13151.  
  13152. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8671772> over 2 years ago
  13153.  
  13154. The Campaign no longer shows how much has been raised past the funded
  13155. date amount. Where can I see the current amount of how much has been
  13156. raised along so I can see where we are in comparison to our stretch goals?
  13157.  
  13158.  
  13159.  
  13160.  
  13161. Team WEDG
  13162.  
  13163. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  13164.  
  13165. Alex Stamp yes you can! Drop us a note when you have at infowedg.co :)
  13166.  
  13167.  
  13168.  
  13169.  
  13170. Alex Stamp
  13171.  
  13172. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6787108> over 2 years ago
  13173.  
  13174. Hi,
  13175.  
  13176. Just wondering even though all the perks are now labeled for the pro
  13177. wedge can i still buy the 2tb upgrade for my ARM wedge (I’ve already
  13178. bought it for my PRO wedge)
  13179.  
  13180.  
  13181.  
  13182.  
  13183. Team WEDG
  13184.  
  13185. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  13186.  
  13187. @1sgmgn around mid to late March or early April. We know for sure by
  13188. early February ;)
  13189.  
  13190.  
  13191.  
  13192.  
  13193. 1sgmgn
  13194.  
  13195. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4356995> over 2 years ago
  13196.  
  13197. Shipping when?
  13198.  
  13199.  
  13200.  
  13201.  
  13202. Team WEDG
  13203.  
  13204. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  13205.  
  13206. @Ken Taylor, @William Grouch correct!
  13207.  
  13208.  
  13209.  
  13210.  
  13211. Team WEDG
  13212.  
  13213. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  13214.  
  13215. @AVN6293 my pleasure and thank you for your feedback, we appreciate your
  13216. thoughts.
  13217.  
  13218.  
  13219.  
  13220.  
  13221. Team WEDG
  13222.  
  13223. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  13224.  
  13225. @Ken Taylor i don’t know :( but I have reported this concern to the
  13226. Indiegogo support team and I think they’re going to change it to reflect
  13227. the increasing contributions.
  13228.  
  13229. As of yet we haven’t received a great deal of more funding, if nothing
  13230. changes as we progress over the coming weeks then we will keep a manual
  13231. record of new contributions on the top of the project page.
  13232.  
  13233.  
  13234.  
  13235.  
  13236. Team WEDG
  13237.  
  13238. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  13239.  
  13240. @William Groh no need to apologise, we love to hear from our supports
  13241. and backers. We appreciate you feedback and input ;)
  13242.  
  13243.  
  13244.  
  13245.  
  13246. Ken Taylor
  13247.  
  13248. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6123904> over 2 years ago
  13249.  
  13250. @William Grouch. If you have a WEDG Pro pay the £40 for Raid upgrade you
  13251. will then have a Raid capable WEDG (with HDD config your pledge had).
  13252. With a standard WEDG Pro you are limited to 1 HDD as there is additional
  13253. hardware in the Raid version, so for future user upgrade options + £40
  13254. Raid upgrade now. I believe the Hardware is essentially as it will be
  13255. launched no big changes. just software work still being done for stretch
  13256. goals & new features.
  13257.  
  13258.  
  13259.  
  13260.  
  13261. Andrea V.
  13262.  
  13263. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/9040474> over 2 years ago
  13264.  
  13265. @WEDG Thank you for the about my concern! I greatly appreciate it.
  13266. I’m just terrified that the overall saturation of T0R by conservative
  13267. groups could have had the potential to turn the service into a honeypot.
  13268. Now of course this is all hypothetical but if even the slightest chance
  13269. remains i would want more research to be done on possible “sinkholes” in
  13270. the service, where they could be+how we could use T0R to the best of our
  13271. abilities so that the fundamentals are a help + not a hinder
  13272.  
  13273.  
  13274.  
  13275.  
  13276. Ken Taylor
  13277.  
  13278. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6123904> over 2 years ago
  13279.  
  13280. How do we know what the current pledged amount is with regards to
  13281. getting to the stretch goals. the indiegogo page i am looking at no
  13282. longer shows the infinity sign to signify forever funding it just says
  13283. “This campaign has ended, and is still offering perks.” and does not
  13284. show the amount raised increasing. even though there have been recent
  13285. pledges.
  13286.  
  13287.  
  13288.  
  13289.  
  13290. William Groh
  13291.  
  13292. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6101735> over 2 years ago
  13293.  
  13294. @Team WEDG, I will wait for them launch all they said they will then I
  13295. will buy which one suits best my needs hence my initial question about
  13296. future upgrades because I don’t want buy perks and more perks as things
  13297. progress, I rather wait for your final notice on what is going to be
  13298. launched and when and how then I will do a top purchase you can count on
  13299. me for that. Sorry for the long messages and all the best going forward!
  13300.  
  13301.  
  13302.  
  13303.  
  13304. William Groh
  13305.  
  13306. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6101735> over 2 years ago
  13307.  
  13308. @Team WEDG, make it real, so as you guys get more and more orders
  13309. allowing you guys to deliver more and more, it’s fair to say you have to
  13310. ask more for the early birds but it’s also fair to say that a reasonable
  13311. amount could be take into the consideration.
  13312. Anyway, all this speech was to say congrats for the hard work and please
  13313. consider “One of Fee Upgrade” for those who initially got one perk but
  13314. now want to get the most of, in the way I can see you guys launching all
  13315. I keep thinking is ..
  13316.  
  13317.  
  13318.  
  13319.  
  13320. William Groh
  13321.  
  13322. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6101735> over 2 years ago
  13323.  
  13324. @Team WEDG, for those who want the max of the product without have to
  13325. pay such a premium price if you add every single perk upgrade, in other
  13326. words, doesn’t feel the early birds would get real discounts at the end
  13327. of the project comparing to the ones that bought after you guys are
  13328. fully funded, not sure if I’m being so sentimental here but you guys are
  13329. here for second time as I reckon so I’m sure initially you guys had the
  13330. concern of might not go through again and people like me helped … cont.
  13331.  
  13332.  
  13333.  
  13334.  
  13335. William Groh
  13336.  
  13337. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6101735> over 2 years ago
  13338.  
  13339. @Team WEDG, is does answer as well it does confirm what I was afraid,
  13340. have to keep paying single upgrades prices, so here a suggestion, why
  13341. don’t you guys work perks to ugprade from whatever you are to whatever
  13342. you want to go ? Not sure if this would end up making you guys have to
  13343. create ton’s of perks but I think it’s a good idea to simple offer a one
  13344. off fee for all the upgrade the customer want so as much upgrades you
  13345. want in once a small incentive would work perfect as a nudge … cont…
  13346.  
  13347.  
  13348.  
  13349.  
  13350. Team WEDG
  13351.  
  13352. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  13353.  
  13354. @AVN6293 thanks for your input. If/when we do enable TOR support for
  13355. WEDG it will be very much a user choice to install and use. Naturally
  13356. closer to the time a debate may very well be required amongst this
  13357. community.
  13358.  
  13359.  
  13360.  
  13361.  
  13362. Andrea V.
  13363.  
  13364. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/9040474> over 2 years ago
  13365.  
  13366. @Devs @All and @Wedg staff
  13367.  
  13368. After two major p-2-p markets overtaken by poIitics, both using T0R im
  13369. deathIy concerned about the use of T0R “baked into” the wedg by default.
  13370. I think this is a issue that at the very least needs painstaking discussion!
  13371.  
  13372.  
  13373.  
  13374.  
  13375. Team WEDG
  13376.  
  13377. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  13378.  
  13379. @William Groh 2/2 …
  13380. Perk 1 will take you to RAID1 with a 1TB HDD so you now have 2 × 1TB
  13381. HDD, Perk 2 will then upgrade your 1TB HDDs to 2TB HDDs totalling 2 ×
  13382. 2TB HDDs.
  13383.  
  13384. I hope that helps!
  13385.  
  13386.  
  13387.  
  13388.  
  13389. Team WEDG
  13390.  
  13391. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  13392.  
  13393. @William Groh thanks for reaching out. For now we don’t have any further
  13394. upgrade options unless you want the Carbon Fibre WEDG :D
  13395.  
  13396. In order for you to max out your options you’ll need the following Perks:
  13397.  
  13398. 1.
  13399. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/wedg-the-personal-butt-you-ve-been-waiting-for/contributions/new?perk_amt=90&perk_id=2359747
  13400.  
  13401. 2.
  13402. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/wedg-the-personal-butt-you-ve-been-waiting-for/contributions/new?perk_amt=112&perk_id=2491609
  13403.  
  13404. Cont…
  13405.  
  13406.  
  13407.  
  13408.  
  13409. William Groh
  13410.  
  13411. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6101735> over 2 years ago
  13412.  
  13413. Also, will more updates coming requiring me to buy new perks ? I mean,
  13414. once I already invested £225 I will invest as much as I can afford to
  13415. have your top spec device at the launch time, I don’t want be an early
  13416. contributor and not have the latest device just because I sponsor at the
  13417. time you guys needed the fund so any guidance and early indication of
  13418. future perks will be much appreciated.
  13419.  
  13420.  
  13421.  
  13422.  
  13423. William Groh
  13424.  
  13425. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6101735> over 2 years ago
  13426.  
  13427. Hi, I cannot wait to play with my WEDG but I’ve a concern.
  13428. I appreciate the effort in make available as many things as you can
  13429. specially when they’re ready but now I’m feeling a bit confused to what
  13430. I can do to upgrade my perk.
  13431. I have initially bought WEDG Pro with Intel + 1TB for £225 and now I
  13432. would like to have RAID + 2TB storage, so I would assume I need a perk
  13433. that gives me 3x 1TB storage or 2 × 2TB and replace my 1TB originally
  13434. bought ? I can’t see this as a perk so how should I do ?
  13435.  
  13436.  
  13437.  
  13438.  
  13439. Andrea Pietroboni
  13440.  
  13441. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/1106976> over 2 years ago
  13442.  
  13443. Hi i can’t complete
  13444. http://email.indiegogo.com/wf/click?upn=fQzVZ7ERXduzUTS-2FtYMbUfK2N2xQlUNbtMKfszn4SLjZWRIBWJBGAMCmT0-2FV-2BG0r_apDWgKE-2FO-2Fs1Dr9mDAF-2FnjKALX8rOt3sjyt12voND7L9FEs8ujgOsUi8jcsq3wXnTUP7RwVWYVbRBKtPzHhCOzB-2FxXgJIyB-2FKPdFmBPv5wTxd-2FcJIFD0MxP30MMhP7yw5TYdcSPP0imgAJdFKMvbgiuZ9fLnkWLFYU4Tar5DUCeQQitOnw5THLyFcOzsqG5h4oEET5aSG1xm5UJ-2F2xHiUmG2PWH7w3iYzqtK1-2FOcMVzN9u6zc-2FL2lkPji52KYku0
  13445.  
  13446.  
  13447.  
  13448.  
  13449. Team WEDG
  13450.  
  13451. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  13452.  
  13453. @Ken Taylor welcome back! That’s a good idea, yes we’ll publish those
  13454. details with the survey results. Thank you for completing the survey, we
  13455. appreciate your feedback and time :)
  13456.  
  13457.  
  13458.  
  13459.  
  13460. Ken Taylor
  13461.  
  13462. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6123904> over 2 years ago
  13463.  
  13464. Hi Shebaz, Congratulations, I go away for a few weeks and everything
  13465. changes, from other campaigns i know there is lots of info that you get
  13466. from Indiegogo, Any chance on letting us know where geographically the
  13467. funding came from, how may ARM how many INTEL and how many upgrades to
  13468. Raid there were. ETC. Good luck on Forever funding, I hope the team can
  13469. keep the campaign in the media to get to the 135k stretch goal and
  13470. further yet to be announced Goals. Active Sync? I have completed the survey
  13471.  
  13472.  
  13473.  
  13474.  
  13475. Team WEDG
  13476.  
  13477. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  13478.  
  13479. @Bryan Walker thanks for your feedback. I think the closest we can do is
  13480. give the user the option to set the app to sit idle when not in the
  13481. foreground. I’ll relay back to the dev guys anyway.
  13482.  
  13483. Thank you for your support enthusiasm! :D
  13484.  
  13485.  
  13486.  
  13487.  
  13488. Team WEDG
  13489.  
  13490. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  13491.  
  13492. @M K I think some of your suggestions could make it through gradual updates.
  13493.  
  13494.  
  13495.  
  13496.  
  13497. M K
  13498.  
  13499. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8914705> over 2 years ago
  13500.  
  13501. Stretchgoal idea #33: support for S/MIME in the mail client. It’s a
  13502. complimentary to PGP.
  13503.  
  13504.  
  13505.  
  13506.  
  13507. M K
  13508.  
  13509. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8914705> over 2 years ago
  13510.  
  13511. Stretchgoal idea #32: support for a 3G USB dongle.
  13512.  
  13513.  
  13514.  
  13515.  
  13516. M K
  13517.  
  13518. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8914705> over 2 years ago
  13519.  
  13520. Stretchgoal idea #30: TOR support
  13521. Stretchgoal idea #31: support for VMware
  13522.  
  13523.  
  13524.  
  13525.  
  13526. Team WEDG
  13527.  
  13528. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  13529.  
  13530. @M K loving it MK…some great suggestions! Hoping to launch the survey
  13531. tomorrow so we can collect some suggestions from everyone.
  13532.  
  13533.  
  13534.  
  13535.  
  13536. Team WEDG
  13537.  
  13538. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  13539.  
  13540. @david.j.aldred thanks for letting me know, we have a small but great
  13541. group of testers here. Right now the software is optimised for for our
  13542. chosen hardware but in time we will expand that range.
  13543.  
  13544. Yes absolutely, we will launch the forum after FF mostly likely if not
  13545. sooner, we want to be able to engage with discussions by both
  13546. communities and right now we’re not in a position to do that effectively
  13547. either.
  13548.  
  13549.  
  13550.  
  13551.  
  13552. M K
  13553.  
  13554. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8914705> over 2 years ago
  13555.  
  13556. Stretchgoal idea #29: a jumbo WEDG with multiple 3.5 inch HDD’s and raid
  13557. 5 support.
  13558.  
  13559.  
  13560.  
  13561.  
  13562. M K
  13563.  
  13564. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8914705> over 2 years ago
  13565.  
  13566. Stretchgoal idea #25: reiserFS or BTRFS filesystem for ultimate snapshotting
  13567. Stretchgoal idea #26: app suggestion: SABNZBd
  13568. Stretchgoal idea #27: app suggestion: itunes server
  13569. Stretchgoal idea #28: support for SMTP over TLS (STARTTLS)
  13570.  
  13571. @Shehbaz: i’m still figuring out more stretchgoals!
  13572.  
  13573.  
  13574.  
  13575.  
  13576. David Aldred
  13577.  
  13578. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> over 2 years ago
  13579.  
  13580. Thanks for the latest updates – been a great campaign.
  13581.  
  13582. I know you’ve stated your preference for keeping discussion on here vs
  13583. forum, esp in light of forever funding, but dont discount a forum,
  13584. worked really well for a very similar campaign im backing.
  13585.  
  13586. Seperate question… Will the software run on other platforms? Just in
  13587. case you need a few software beta testers before the hardware is really
  13588. – I have a pi lying around and happy to do some uat, if you need it, of
  13589. course :-)
  13590.  
  13591.  
  13592.  
  13593.  
  13594. Team WEDG
  13595.  
  13596. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  13597.  
  13598. @M K thanks for the feedback MK! :)
  13599.  
  13600.  
  13601.  
  13602.  
  13603. M K
  13604.  
  13605. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8914705> over 2 years ago
  13606.  
  13607. @Team WEDG: cctv centric solution would be a real killer app on the WEDG
  13608. IMHO!
  13609.  
  13610.  
  13611.  
  13612.  
  13613. Team WEDG
  13614.  
  13615. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  13616.  
  13617. @Tiger Bus hahaha!! that was a good night!
  13618.  
  13619.  
  13620.  
  13621.  
  13622. Team WEDG
  13623.  
  13624. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  13625.  
  13626. @M K we don’t know too much ourselves at this point, but one of
  13627. developers who has expressed an interest in developing apps for WEDG has
  13628. an idea for CCTV centric solution. We will be contacting developers in
  13629. the coming weeks and hope to be able to bring some of their ideas for
  13630. WEDG to you guys.
  13631.  
  13632.  
  13633.  
  13634.  
  13635. Tiger Bus
  13636.  
  13637. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706731> over 2 years ago
  13638.  
  13639. Shebaz: Remember, you lost yours that one night somewhere… ;)
  13640.  
  13641.  
  13642.  
  13643.  
  13644. M K
  13645.  
  13646. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8914705> over 2 years ago
  13647.  
  13648. @ Team WEDG: could you elaborate on the independent dev?
  13649.  
  13650.  
  13651.  
  13652.  
  13653. Team WEDG
  13654.  
  13655. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  13656.  
  13657. @Tiger Bus invitation only, or you can have mine ;)
  13658.  
  13659.  
  13660.  
  13661.  
  13662. Team WEDG
  13663.  
  13664. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  13665.  
  13666. @M K that’s on its way as an independent dev is building this feature.
  13667.  
  13668.  
  13669.  
  13670.  
  13671. Tiger Bus
  13672.  
  13673. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706731> over 2 years ago
  13674.  
  13675. MK: We definitely need WEDG string tangas, don’t you think? :P
  13676.  
  13677.  
  13678.  
  13679.  
  13680. M K
  13681.  
  13682. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8914705> over 2 years ago
  13683.  
  13684. Stretchgoal suggestion:
  13685. -surveillance camera storage mode, so it can store IP camera streams on
  13686. the WEDG (killer app)
  13687.  
  13688.  
  13689.  
  13690.  
  13691. Team WEDG
  13692.  
  13693. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  13694.  
  13695. @M K ;)
  13696.  
  13697.  
  13698.  
  13699.  
  13700. M K
  13701.  
  13702. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8914705> over 2 years ago
  13703.  
  13704. Stretchgoal idea: at 140k every contributer gets a NTHSTP sticker set.
  13705.  
  13706.  
  13707.  
  13708.  
  13709. Team WEDG
  13710.  
  13711. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  13712.  
  13713. @Scott McQueen for the time being we’d like to keep the conversation
  13714. going here until we’ve planned our strategy on how to maximise the
  13715. Forever Funding opportunity – as this was unexpected for us. It helps us
  13716. keep on top of the conversation too while we’re full throttle with WEDG
  13717. Phase 2 as well.
  13718.  
  13719. I’ll be in touch very shortly regarding VAT invoices.
  13720.  
  13721.  
  13722.  
  13723.  
  13724. Scott McQueen
  13725.  
  13726. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8443500> over 2 years ago
  13727.  
  13728. Team WEDG, are you considering setting up a forum on your web site? I’m
  13729. pretty sure a load of good ideas would come out of it and it would also
  13730. give you a chance to set up a FAQ/User Manual section to save you
  13731. answering questions over and over again. Also now this has gone through
  13732. Indiegogo, where can I get a VAT invoice from?
  13733.  
  13734. Scott
  13735.  
  13736.  
  13737.  
  13738.  
  13739. Tiger Bus
  13740.  
  13741. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706731> over 2 years ago
  13742.  
  13743. Shebaz: Remember, you lost yours that one night somewhere… ;)
  13744.  
  13745.  
  13746.  
  13747.  
  13748. M K
  13749.  
  13750. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8914705> over 2 years ago
  13751.  
  13752. @ Team WEDG: could you elaborate on the independent dev?
  13753.  
  13754.  
  13755.  
  13756.  
  13757. Team WEDG
  13758.  
  13759. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  13760.  
  13761. @Tiger Bus invitation only, or you can have mine ;)
  13762.  
  13763.  
  13764.  
  13765.  
  13766. Team WEDG
  13767.  
  13768. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  13769.  
  13770. @M K that’s on its way as an independent dev is building this feature.
  13771.  
  13772.  
  13773.  
  13774.  
  13775. Tiger Bus
  13776.  
  13777. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706731> over 2 years ago
  13778.  
  13779. MK: We definitely need WEDG string tangas, don’t you think? :P
  13780.  
  13781.  
  13782.  
  13783.  
  13784. M K
  13785.  
  13786. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8914705> over 2 years ago
  13787.  
  13788. Stretchgoal suggestion:
  13789. -surveillance camera storage mode, so it can store IP camera streams on
  13790. the WEDG (killer app)
  13791.  
  13792.  
  13793.  
  13794.  
  13795. Team WEDG
  13796.  
  13797. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  13798.  
  13799. @M K ;)
  13800.  
  13801.  
  13802.  
  13803.  
  13804. M K
  13805.  
  13806. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8914705> over 2 years ago
  13807.  
  13808. Stretchgoal idea: at 140k every contributer gets a NTHSTP sticker set.
  13809.  
  13810.  
  13811.  
  13812.  
  13813. Team WEDG
  13814.  
  13815. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  13816.  
  13817. @Scott McQueen for the time being we’d like to keep the conversation
  13818. going here until we’ve planned our strategy on how to maximise the
  13819. Forever Funding opportunity – as this was unexpected for us. It helps us
  13820. keep on top of the conversation too while we’re full throttle with WEDG
  13821. Phase 2 as well.
  13822.  
  13823. I’ll be in touch very shortly regarding VAT invoices.
  13824.  
  13825.  
  13826.  
  13827.  
  13828. Scott McQueen
  13829.  
  13830. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8443500> over 2 years ago
  13831.  
  13832. Team WEDG, are you considering setting up a forum on your web site? I’m
  13833. pretty sure a load of good ideas would come out of it and it would also
  13834. give you a chance to set up a FAQ/User Manual section to save you
  13835. answering questions over and over again. Also now this has gone through
  13836. Indiegogo, where can I get a VAT invoice from?
  13837.  
  13838. Scott
  13839.  
  13840.  
  13841.  
  13842.  
  13843. Team WEDG
  13844.  
  13845. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  13846.  
  13847. @Mikhail Granin I’m sorry you didnt receive a , we don’t actually
  13848. see a message from you. Nevertheless to upgrade to the Driveless WEDG
  13849. Pro is £50 for early supporters and £40 for RAID, so £90 please. You
  13850. select RAID Perk and manually increase the amount to enter the amount on
  13851. the right and we’ll do the rest our side.
  13852.  
  13853.  
  13854.  
  13855.  
  13856. Mikhail Granin
  13857.  
  13858. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8719646> over 2 years ago
  13859.  
  13860. I already asked in private comment and didn’t find a , please
  13861. soon. I was backer on kickstarted and one of 1st backers here for ARM
  13862. driveless, how much to pay for upgrade to intel driverless with raid?
  13863. Hope for discount for 1st backers :)
  13864.  
  13865.  
  13866.  
  13867.  
  13868. Tiger Bus
  13869.  
  13870. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706731> over 2 years ago
  13871.  
  13872. ports should be freely configurable, the name for the wedgenet subdomain
  13873. aswell i guess… plus the option to quickly find out the IP where it is
  13874. pointing to, in case everything *.WEDG get’s blocked – which is very likely.
  13875.  
  13876.  
  13877.  
  13878.  
  13879. Tiger Bus
  13880.  
  13881. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706731> over 2 years ago
  13882.  
  13883. As I understand right now you basically habe payload encryption, maybe
  13884. SSL for the rest. That doesn’t help much for accessing data in
  13885. firewalled countries, as you first problem is: gaining open access to
  13886. the internet at all. since this should be pretty easy software solution
  13887. on the WEDG, it could be easy to add – especially given the fact, that
  13888. you have wedgenet dynDNS service.
  13889.  
  13890.  
  13891.  
  13892.  
  13893. Team WEDG
  13894.  
  13895. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  13896.  
  13897. @M K yes but we could make the interface a little easier some what for
  13898. novice users
  13899.  
  13900.  
  13901.  
  13902.  
  13903. M K
  13904.  
  13905. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8914705> over 2 years ago
  13906.  
  13907. Dont the remote apps already use encryption to get access to the WEDG
  13908. butt device?
  13909.  
  13910.  
  13911.  
  13912.  
  13913. Team WEDG
  13914.  
  13915. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  13916.  
  13917. @tiger bus good idea and an easy one piggybacking on the back of WEDGNET.
  13918.  
  13919. Appreciate all the ideas guys!
  13920.  
  13921.  
  13922.  
  13923.  
  13924. Tiger Bus
  13925.  
  13926. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706731> over 2 years ago
  13927.  
  13928. stretchgoal idea: EASYly configurable VPN server for local and remote
  13929. use. Wouldn’t want to access my data over some crazy chinese internet
  13930. café network plus I might need to circumnavigate local firewalls and
  13931. gain full internet access via my own line at home. #china #iran #whatnot
  13932.  
  13933.  
  13934.  
  13935.  
  13936. Team WEDG
  13937.  
  13938. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  13939.  
  13940. @richard alter the difference between a 24 HRS SPECIAL 1 WEDG ARM and 24
  13941. HRS SPECIAL 2 WEDG INTEL is £70. You can make a manual contribution on
  13942. the right and send us a private message to infowedg.co if you prefer.
  13943.  
  13944.  
  13945.  
  13946.  
  13947. richard alter
  13948.  
  13949. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/1968091> over 2 years ago
  13950.  
  13951. I will try for an answer again. I purchased the 24 HRS SPECIAL 1 WEDG
  13952. ARM and wanted to take you up on the offer to upgrade to the intel. As
  13953. best as I can figure, the price difference is 20 pounds but I cannot
  13954. contribute that amount and write a comment about what it is for. Please
  13955. advise on how to pay for the upgrade and make sure it is credited
  13956. properly. The previous answers were vague and gave me no confidence that
  13957. anyone on your end would know what the payment was for.
  13958.  
  13959.  
  13960.  
  13961.  
  13962. M K
  13963.  
  13964. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8914705> over 2 years ago
  13965.  
  13966. Stretchgoal idea: Dual ethernet
  13967.  
  13968.  
  13969.  
  13970.  
  13971. Team WEDG
  13972.  
  13973. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  13974.  
  13975. @spencer robinson we’re getting that a lot on emails too
  13976.  
  13977. We plan to send out a survey early next week so we can collect real data
  13978. and opinions from you guys.
  13979.  
  13980.  
  13981.  
  13982.  
  13983. spencer robinson
  13984.  
  13985. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/9152571> over 2 years ago
  13986.  
  13987. Definitely +1 for a Tor router feature.
  13988.  
  13989.  
  13990.  
  13991.  
  13992. Team WEDG
  13993.  
  13994. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  13995.  
  13996. @Alex Stamp no, we are committed to fulfilling our Q1 shipping date. FF
  13997. will allow us to raise more funding so we can increase component
  13998. qualities and reduce overall costs by buying in bulk.
  13999.  
  14000.  
  14001.  
  14002.  
  14003. Alex Stamp
  14004.  
  14005. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6787108> over 2 years ago
  14006.  
  14007. Hi can i just double check this forever funding wont push back the
  14008. expected arrival time of our devices will it?
  14009.  
  14010.  
  14011.  
  14012.  
  14013. Team WEDG
  14014.  
  14015. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  14016.  
  14017. @M K hmm…i’ll add that to the list to consider
  14018.  
  14019.  
  14020.  
  14021.  
  14022. Team WEDG
  14023.  
  14024. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  14025.  
  14026. @Pierre Lang two good ideas, the VOIP is on our list here for sure but I
  14027. also know there are developers also looking to create VOIP solutions for
  14028. WEDG.
  14029.  
  14030.  
  14031.  
  14032.  
  14033. M K
  14034.  
  14035. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8914705> over 2 years ago
  14036.  
  14037. WEDG as a internet proxy for outgoing internet traffic?
  14038. WEDG as a reverse proxy for incoming internet traffic?
  14039.  
  14040.  
  14041.  
  14042.  
  14043. Pierre Lang
  14044.  
  14045. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4161016> over 2 years ago
  14046.  
  14047. VOIP between two wedges maybe too?
  14048.  
  14049.  
  14050.  
  14051.  
  14052. Pierre Lang
  14053.  
  14054. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4161016> over 2 years ago
  14055.  
  14056. Stretch goal idea: WEDG as a Tor Proxy
  14057.  
  14058.  
  14059.  
  14060.  
  14061. Team WEDG
  14062.  
  14063. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  14064.  
  14065. @M K yes a little. Keep scratching! ;)
  14066.  
  14067.  
  14068.  
  14069.  
  14070. M K
  14071.  
  14072. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8914705> over 2 years ago
  14073.  
  14074. Stretchgoal idea: WEDG mesh networking: group several WEDG’s in a group
  14075. (mesh) and distribute encrypted parity backups over the mesh.
  14076.  
  14077. Sounds complex?
  14078.  
  14079.  
  14080.  
  14081.  
  14082. Team WEDG
  14083.  
  14084. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  14085.  
  14086. @david.j.aldred thats sort of already available in different forms. But
  14087. we’re not ruling it out here.
  14088.  
  14089. I think we’ll invite everyone to a survey soon asking our loyal backers
  14090. and supports for ideas which we can then review and pick the hot ones!
  14091.  
  14092.  
  14093.  
  14094.  
  14095. David Aldred
  14096.  
  14097. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> over 2 years ago
  14098.  
  14099. @team wedg -what about a remote control add-on for those wishing to use
  14100. the xbmc feature?
  14101.  
  14102.  
  14103.  
  14104.  
  14105. Team WEDG
  14106.  
  14107. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  14108.  
  14109. @M K plenty of head scratching here – let us know if you have any ideas
  14110.  
  14111.  
  14112.  
  14113.  
  14114. Team WEDG
  14115.  
  14116. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  14117.  
  14118. @Andrew Cook by no means is the WEDG with ARM obsolete. We’ve decided to
  14119. streamline our Perks here as one of the complaints from many was that
  14120. the range of perks was confusing.
  14121.  
  14122. The WEDG with ARM will still be available directly from our online store
  14123. (coming soon) during this current campaign and post Indiegogo order
  14124. fulfilment.
  14125.  
  14126.  
  14127.  
  14128.  
  14129. Andrew Cook
  14130.  
  14131. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706115> over 2 years ago
  14132.  
  14133. So the ARM WEDG is obsolete before delivery… I would not be happy if
  14134. that were the model I’d bought. I must admit though that the dropping of
  14135. ARM this quickly makes me concerned about the likely support I can
  14136. expect in future on the device I paid for.
  14137.  
  14138.  
  14139.  
  14140.  
  14141. M K
  14142.  
  14143. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8914705> over 2 years ago
  14144.  
  14145. Forever funding means new stretchgoals IMHO.
  14146.  
  14147. ;)
  14148.  
  14149.  
  14150.  
  14151.  
  14152. Team WEDG
  14153.  
  14154. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  14155.  
  14156. @tetardbleu thank you so much for your kindness :)
  14157.  
  14158.  
  14159.  
  14160.  
  14161. tetardbleu
  14162.  
  14163. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3829087> over 2 years ago
  14164.  
  14165. what a wonderful surprise to discover the forever funding! Completely
  14166. deserved in my opinion !
  14167.  
  14168.  
  14169.  
  14170.  
  14171. Team WEDG
  14172.  
  14173. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  14174.  
  14175. @michiel pauwels thank you, we really really hope so!
  14176.  
  14177.  
  14178.  
  14179.  
  14180. michiel pauwels
  14181.  
  14182. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3426891> over 2 years ago
  14183.  
  14184. congrats on the forever funding, does this also mean that the last
  14185. stretch goal will be realized as well?
  14186.  
  14187.  
  14188.  
  14189.  
  14190. Team WEDG
  14191.  
  14192. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  14193.  
  14194. @Pierre Lang thank you!!
  14195.  
  14196.  
  14197.  
  14198.  
  14199. Pierre Lang
  14200.  
  14201. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4161016> over 2 years ago
  14202.  
  14203. Congrats! This is a great success!
  14204.  
  14205.  
  14206.  
  14207.  
  14208. Team WEDG
  14209.  
  14210. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  14211.  
  14212. @Antoine C thank you! Same here! :D
  14213.  
  14214.  
  14215.  
  14216.  
  14217. Antoine C
  14218.  
  14219. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4041109> over 2 years ago
  14220.  
  14221. Congrats for the ∞ funding ! Can’t wait to receive my WEDG :D
  14222.  
  14223.  
  14224.  
  14225.  
  14226. Team WEDG
  14227.  
  14228. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  14229.  
  14230. @Tiger Bus thank you! Its non stop for us now we’re powering ahead!
  14231.  
  14232.  
  14233.  
  14234.  
  14235. Tiger Bus
  14236.  
  14237. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706731> over 2 years ago
  14238.  
  14239. Well…. done! Now 4 months to turn everything into reality! ;) Congrats…
  14240.  
  14241.  
  14242.  
  14243.  
  14244. mark saunders
  14245.  
  14246. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8466324> over 2 years ago
  14247.  
  14248. Hello TEAM WEDG.
  14249. I had to place 2 different orders for the options i wanted. £249GBP WEDG
  14250. Pro with Intel + 1TB in first order. Second order £90GBP WEDG Pro RAID
  14251. +1TB Upgrade #2;
  14252. £112GBP 1TB to 2TB HDD Upgrade both drives to 2TB; and £6GBP Worldwide
  14253. Shipping. Hope its not a problem ,,, Thanks again keep up the great work.
  14254.  
  14255.  
  14256.  
  14257.  
  14258. Team WEDG
  14259.  
  14260. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  14261.  
  14262. @Neil Campbell thats awesome! thank you very much and thank you for the
  14263. compliments :)
  14264.  
  14265.  
  14266.  
  14267.  
  14268. Neil Campbell
  14269.  
  14270. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/5713479> over 2 years ago
  14271.  
  14272. Just added a second WEDG Pro with RAID. Hope my multiple pledges all
  14273. make sense and congratulations on the successful campaign!
  14274.  
  14275.  
  14276.  
  14277.  
  14278. Team WEDG
  14279.  
  14280. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  14281.  
  14282. @fia10 ;)
  14283.  
  14284.  
  14285.  
  14286.  
  14287. blandat
  14288.  
  14289. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6957871> over 2 years ago
  14290.  
  14291. I could use a time machine ;)
  14292.  
  14293.  
  14294.  
  14295.  
  14296. Team WEDG
  14297.  
  14298. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  14299.  
  14300. @fia10 thank you! Its been a lot of fun with you guys, we’ve made some
  14301. friends a long the way which is ace :)
  14302.  
  14303. Did you wish for online privacy and all the conveniences of my butt?
  14304. because we have a surprise for you ;)
  14305.  
  14306.  
  14307.  
  14308.  
  14309. blandat
  14310.  
  14311. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6957871> over 2 years ago
  14312.  
  14313. Congrats to you all! It’s been really fun following you for these past
  14314. months. So happy to see how many got it and supported the startup.
  14315. 4 month left til’ my birthday, guess what I wish for? ;)
  14316.  
  14317.  
  14318.  
  14319.  
  14320. Team WEDG
  14321.  
  14322. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  14323.  
  14324. @tetardbleu woohoo! that’s awesome! Thank you for bringing it to our
  14325. attention!
  14326.  
  14327. Thank you to every for the support and voting for WEDG! YOU GUYS ROCK!
  14328.  
  14329.  
  14330.  
  14331.  
  14332. tetardbleu
  14333.  
  14334. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3829087> over 2 years ago
  14335.  
  14336. http://www.cnbc.com/id/102207824
  14337.  
  14338.  
  14339.  
  14340.  
  14341. Team WEDG
  14342.  
  14343. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  14344.  
  14345. @tetardbleu :-O how do you know?!
  14346.  
  14347.  
  14348.  
  14349.  
  14350. tetardbleu
  14351.  
  14352. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3829087> over 2 years ago
  14353.  
  14354. We won the CNBC contest !
  14355.  
  14356.  
  14357.  
  14358.  
  14359. Team WEDG
  14360.  
  14361. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  14362.  
  14363. @M K ahh!! you’ll just have to wait and see MK ;) as and when that time
  14364. comes, our Indiegogo backers will be the first to know.
  14365.  
  14366.  
  14367.  
  14368.  
  14369. M K
  14370.  
  14371. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8914705> over 2 years ago
  14372.  
  14373. OK. Was interested in finding out what your plans are after the release
  14374. of WEDG? Are you planning hardware upgrades or other types of WEDG-es
  14375. after 2015 and beyond?
  14376.  
  14377.  
  14378.  
  14379.  
  14380. Team WEDG
  14381.  
  14382. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  14383.  
  14384. @M K could you elaborate on that MK?
  14385.  
  14386.  
  14387.  
  14388.  
  14389. M K
  14390.  
  14391. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8914705> over 2 years ago
  14392.  
  14393. @Team WEDG: was curious about whether you a development roadmap for the
  14394. WEDG (hardware, software etc.).
  14395.  
  14396. Can you share us that information (if any)?
  14397.  
  14398.  
  14399.  
  14400.  
  14401. Team WEDG
  14402.  
  14403. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  14404.  
  14405. @aaddiikk LDAP support is something we are working along with SSO. It’s
  14406. not something we expect to include in our initial launch, but we do plan
  14407. to include it in future software updates, maybe 2nd or 3rd major
  14408. software update.
  14409.  
  14410.  
  14411.  
  14412.  
  14413. aaddiikk
  14414.  
  14415. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8707168> over 2 years ago
  14416.  
  14417. @Team WEDG As some of us are going to use WEDG in our business
  14418. environments, I’m wondering if WEDG is going to support external
  14419. authentication databases like LDAP or Active Directory? If yes, do you
  14420. plan to include single-sign-on (SSO) also?
  14421.  
  14422.  
  14423.  
  14424.  
  14425. Team WEDG
  14426.  
  14427. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  14428.  
  14429. @M K yes Advanced Format drives are compatible with WEDG.
  14430.  
  14431.  
  14432.  
  14433.  
  14434. M K
  14435.  
  14436. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8914705> over 2 years ago
  14437.  
  14438. @ Team WEDG: does WEDG support advanced format drives?
  14439.  
  14440. (http://www.hgst.com/hard-drives/advanced-format-drives)
  14441.  
  14442.  
  14443.  
  14444.  
  14445. Team WEDG
  14446.  
  14447. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  14448.  
  14449. @M K we haven’t tested hybrid SSDs but we see no reason for them not to
  14450. be compatible with WEDG.
  14451.  
  14452.  
  14453.  
  14454.  
  14455. M K
  14456.  
  14457. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8914705> over 2 years ago
  14458.  
  14459. @ Team WEDG: does WEDG support hybrid SSD harddisks like the seaget SSHD?:
  14460.  
  14461. http://www.seagate.com/internal-hard-drives/solid-state-hybrid/laptop-solid-state-hybrid-drive/
  14462.  
  14463.  
  14464.  
  14465.  
  14466. Team WEDG
  14467.  
  14468. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  14469.  
  14470. Gordon Keys please drop us an email at infowedg.co so we can find your
  14471. contributions and double check for you.
  14472.  
  14473.  
  14474.  
  14475.  
  14476. Gordon Keys
  14477.  
  14478. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8335278> over 2 years ago
  14479.  
  14480. I added a new contribution the other day. Did it make sence that I
  14481. wanted a complete upgrade of the ARM perk and not just 1 x perk and a
  14482. contribution?
  14483.  
  14484.  
  14485.  
  14486.  
  14487. Team WEDG
  14488.  
  14489. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  14490.  
  14491. @M K as david.j.aldred and we are enabling the USB port on WEDG for
  14492. wireless keyboards so that third party remotes can be used to control
  14493. media and search for titles and use the features XBMC offers.
  14494.  
  14495.  
  14496.  
  14497.  
  14498. David Aldred
  14499.  
  14500. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> over 2 years ago
  14501.  
  14502. @M K – on the remote control, you can use a remote control, but you’d
  14503. need an IR receiver for this to work, and unsure if WEDG will be
  14504. compatible with this. All else fails, you plug in a keyboard (I have a
  14505. small wireless keyboard I use in emergencies to control XBMC, but do
  14506. most of it from my phone)
  14507.  
  14508.  
  14509.  
  14510.  
  14511. David Aldred
  14512.  
  14513. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> over 2 years ago
  14514.  
  14515. @M K – yes – there are some great apps for XBMC!
  14516.  
  14517. For iOS, the official XBMC / Kodi (as it’s now to be called) is very
  14518. good. For android, the official app is functional, but pretty basic. I
  14519. use an app called ’ XBMC Music Pump’. Been using it since it was first
  14520. released a couple of years ago, and is years ahead of the official app –
  14521. looks amazing, both on phone and tablet.
  14522.  
  14523.  
  14524.  
  14525.  
  14526. M K
  14527.  
  14528. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8914705> over 2 years ago
  14529.  
  14530. @Team WEDG:
  14531. another question: how do I use the XBMC player, can I control it via an
  14532. app? (or maybe a remote control?)
  14533.  
  14534.  
  14535.  
  14536.  
  14537. Team WEDG
  14538.  
  14539. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  14540.  
  14541. @M K yes, it’ll be a multi platform app which includes desktop OSs too
  14542.  
  14543.  
  14544.  
  14545.  
  14546. M K
  14547.  
  14548. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8914705> over 2 years ago
  14549.  
  14550. @Team WEDG: will the IM app run on IOS?
  14551.  
  14552.  
  14553.  
  14554.  
  14555. Team WEDG
  14556.  
  14557. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  14558.  
  14559. @Scott McQueen thank you Scott. I know exactly how you feel, I have
  14560. clients from my previous job who used Lotus Notes and its built-in
  14561. messaging function…still gives me nightmares!
  14562.  
  14563. Privacy is key for WEDG and users and so that focus will be reflected in
  14564. the IM app, along with other cool features of course ;)
  14565.  
  14566.  
  14567.  
  14568.  
  14569. Scott McQueen
  14570.  
  14571. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8443500> over 2 years ago
  14572.  
  14573. Great News and well done Team WEDG. Looking forward to the IM app to
  14574. replace the ageing corporate icq (loved by many here but definitely not
  14575. me) we still use, especially if it has an independent user db to the
  14576. email side and the ability to broadcast to groups and ‘all’.
  14577.  
  14578.  
  14579.  
  14580.  
  14581. Team WEDG
  14582.  
  14583. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  14584.  
  14585. @James Taylor I don’t think we know how to do anything else any more :-| ;p
  14586.  
  14587.  
  14588.  
  14589.  
  14590. James Taylor
  14591.  
  14592. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/5657565> over 2 years ago
  14593.  
  14594. Congrats!
  14595. (Now get back to work! I want my Wedg…. ;) )
  14596.  
  14597.  
  14598.  
  14599.  
  14600. Team WEDG
  14601.  
  14602. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  14603.  
  14604. @Haitham Gad thank you! The feeling is the same here :)
  14605.  
  14606.  
  14607.  
  14608.  
  14609. Haitham Gad
  14610.  
  14611. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8733244> over 2 years ago
  14612.  
  14613. Congratulations for unlocking the third stretch goal! Now I can’t wait
  14614. to get it :)
  14615.  
  14616.  
  14617.  
  14618.  
  14619. Team WEDG
  14620.  
  14621. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  14622.  
  14623. @adrenalineslut thank you! Yes it does, its a user level option ;)
  14624.  
  14625.  
  14626.  
  14627.  
  14628. adrenalineslut
  14629.  
  14630. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/1998190> over 2 years ago
  14631.  
  14632. Congrats on the success of the campaign!
  14633.  
  14634. I was wondering if the Exif data will be removed from files when stored
  14635. in the WEDG? Hope so!
  14636.  
  14637.  
  14638.  
  14639.  
  14640. Team WEDG
  14641.  
  14642. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  14643.  
  14644. @scott.henderson1 thank you and thank you for your support too! haha! he
  14645. doesn’t mind ;) we’re trying to figure out right now where to cram all
  14646. this info in! He’s pretty awesome though, I’m sure we’ll figure it out.
  14647.  
  14648.  
  14649.  
  14650.  
  14651. scott.henderson
  14652.  
  14653. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3201718> over 2 years ago
  14654.  
  14655. Congratulations Team WEDG and supporters. I feel for the poor soul
  14656. having to update the Stretch Goal graphics every couple of days! :)
  14657. Can’t wait to see Multiplatform IM App UNLOCKED a new splash on the
  14658. video launch graphic!
  14659.  
  14660.  
  14661.  
  14662.  
  14663. Team WEDG
  14664.  
  14665. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  14666.  
  14667. @tetardbleu fingers crossed!…after the performance this week, I am
  14668. quietly confident ;)
  14669.  
  14670.  
  14671.  
  14672.  
  14673. tetardbleu
  14674.  
  14675. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3829087> over 2 years ago
  14676.  
  14677. if we win the poll and with the project being among firsts in the
  14678. “Ending soon” category, we could indeed…
  14679.  
  14680.  
  14681.  
  14682.  
  14683. Team WEDG
  14684.  
  14685. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  14686.  
  14687. @david.j.aldred ditto! dare i say it, 2 days to go…£135,000 lets do it!!
  14688.  
  14689.  
  14690.  
  14691.  
  14692. David Aldred
  14693.  
  14694. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> over 2 years ago
  14695.  
  14696. Wow! What a few days – a week ago we were all fingers crossed we’d just
  14697. manage to get WiFi, and a few days later we’re hitting the next stretch
  14698. after it – awesome!
  14699.  
  14700.  
  14701.  
  14702.  
  14703. Team WEDG
  14704.  
  14705. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  14706.  
  14707. @M K BINGO! Thank you for your contribution!
  14708.  
  14709.  
  14710.  
  14711.  
  14712. Team WEDG
  14713.  
  14714. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  14715.  
  14716. @tetardbleu we’re proud of you guys who have made this happen! The best
  14717. backers EVER!
  14718.  
  14719.  
  14720.  
  14721.  
  14722. Team WEDG
  14723.  
  14724. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  14725.  
  14726. @Tiger Bus I know! :-o
  14727.  
  14728.  
  14729.  
  14730.  
  14731. Team WEDG
  14732.  
  14733. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  14734.  
  14735. @loesljrg thank you! High5!
  14736.  
  14737.  
  14738.  
  14739.  
  14740. Team WEDG
  14741.  
  14742. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  14743.  
  14744. @david.j.aldred will respond to you on a private threat shortly.
  14745.  
  14746.  
  14747.  
  14748.  
  14749. Team WEDG
  14750.  
  14751. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  14752.  
  14753. @M K haha! youuu! Thank you! :D
  14754.  
  14755.  
  14756.  
  14757.  
  14758. Team WEDG
  14759.  
  14760. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  14761.  
  14762. O.M.G!!!
  14763.  
  14764.  
  14765.  
  14766.  
  14767. M K
  14768.  
  14769. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8914705> over 2 years ago
  14770.  
  14771. @Team WEDG:
  14772.  
  14773. I pledged for an WEDG intel pro + raid + shipping.
  14774.  
  14775. Did I had to do 3 separate pledges (179+6+40)?
  14776.  
  14777. I pledged 225GBP at once, so hope that is going to get OK?
  14778.  
  14779. Shehbaz. can you help me out?
  14780.  
  14781.  
  14782.  
  14783.  
  14784. tetardbleu
  14785.  
  14786. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3829087> over 2 years ago
  14787.  
  14788. congrats @teamwedg, you can be proud!
  14789.  
  14790.  
  14791.  
  14792.  
  14793. Tiger Bus
  14794.  
  14795. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706731> over 2 years ago
  14796.  
  14797. un-be-lie-va-ble
  14798.  
  14799.  
  14800.  
  14801.  
  14802. loesljrg
  14803.  
  14804. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4049843> over 2 years ago
  14805.  
  14806. Well done!! 117K+ !!
  14807.  
  14808.  
  14809.  
  14810.  
  14811. David Aldred
  14812.  
  14813. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> over 2 years ago
  14814.  
  14815. @Team Wedg- could you remind me what it would cost to upgrade from the
  14816. early special pro to the aluminium version? Will I be able to put my
  14817. referrals credit towards this? (Does that all take place
  14818. post-campaign?). Not 100% decided- I always liked the grey backlighting
  14819. of the aluminium, just can’t decide if it’ll fit in. Tell a lie- I know
  14820. it won’t, trying to decide if I care ;-)
  14821.  
  14822.  
  14823.  
  14824.  
  14825. M K
  14826.  
  14827. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8914705> over 2 years ago
  14828.  
  14829. YEAH!
  14830.  
  14831. I just pushed it through 117k barrier! (been holding my pledge for weeks
  14832. to do just that)….
  14833.  
  14834.  
  14835.  
  14836.  
  14837. Tiger Bus
  14838.  
  14839. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706731> over 2 years ago
  14840.  
  14841. I don’t even know what I pledged for anymore, time for the campaign to
  14842. end!! ;))
  14843.  
  14844.  
  14845.  
  14846.  
  14847. Team WEDG
  14848.  
  14849. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  14850.  
  14851. We’re one Aluminium WEDG away from Stretch Goal THREE!!
  14852.  
  14853.  
  14854.  
  14855.  
  14856. Team WEDG
  14857.  
  14858. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  14859.  
  14860. @tetardbleu you’re a WEDGster now nothing else matters! Thank you for
  14861. your vote! :)
  14862.  
  14863.  
  14864.  
  14865.  
  14866. Team WEDG
  14867.  
  14868. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  14869.  
  14870. @Tiger Bus glad we made it, thanks for the effort!
  14871.  
  14872.  
  14873.  
  14874.  
  14875. Tiger Bus
  14876.  
  14877. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706731> over 2 years ago
  14878.  
  14879. Yeah… adblock wasn’t the key, though, had to disable this to vote:
  14880. https://disconnect.me/ So I voted and turned it back on… incredible how
  14881. much $hit this page is trying to load…. Thanx a bunch ;)
  14882.  
  14883.  
  14884.  
  14885.  
  14886. Team WEDG
  14887.  
  14888. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  14889.  
  14890. @Tiger Bus how odd…oh wait. Are you running an add blocker? I can see
  14891. ads are missing in places where I have ads so maybe its related?
  14892.  
  14893.  
  14894.  
  14895.  
  14896. Tiger Bus
  14897.  
  14898. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706731> over 2 years ago
  14899.  
  14900. I’m obviously too stupid….. http://up.picr.de/20165061tz.jpg
  14901.  
  14902.  
  14903.  
  14904.  
  14905. Team WEDG
  14906.  
  14907. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  14908.  
  14909. @Antoine C thank you! high5!
  14910.  
  14911.  
  14912.  
  14913.  
  14914. Team WEDG
  14915.  
  14916. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  14917.  
  14918. @Tiger Bus scroll down a touch its defo there!
  14919. http://www.cnbc.com/id/102194832
  14920.  
  14921.  
  14922.  
  14923.  
  14924. Antoine C
  14925.  
  14926. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4041109> over 2 years ago
  14927.  
  14928. Voted. Let’s go for the next stretch goal!
  14929.  
  14930.  
  14931.  
  14932.  
  14933. Tiger Bus
  14934.  
  14935. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706731> over 2 years ago
  14936.  
  14937. I actually don’t see where on the CNBC page I could vote?! I see a video…
  14938.  
  14939.  
  14940.  
  14941.  
  14942. Team WEDG
  14943.  
  14944. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  14945.  
  14946. @Gordon Keys ah! well let me clarify all the same. £50 difference for
  14947. the driveless WEDG Pro with Intel and £70 for the 24 Hour WEDG Pro with
  14948. Intel +1TB ;)
  14949.  
  14950.  
  14951.  
  14952.  
  14953. Gordon Keys
  14954.  
  14955. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8335278> over 2 years ago
  14956.  
  14957. My question wasn’t rhetorical BTW ;)
  14958.  
  14959. “I didn’t think the difference between the 24 HRS SPECIAL 1 WEDG ARM and
  14960. INTEL was £70. Wasn’t it £50?”
  14961.  
  14962.  
  14963.  
  14964.  
  14965. Team WEDG
  14966.  
  14967. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  14968.  
  14969. @david.j.aldred that’s why you rock David! Thank you!
  14970.  
  14971.  
  14972.  
  14973.  
  14974. David Aldred
  14975.  
  14976. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> over 2 years ago
  14977.  
  14978. Voted – did look at mooltipass the other day – interesting project!
  14979. (not sure if it was intentional, but mooltipass just reminds me of the
  14980. film The Fifth Element – ‘Lilu Dallas Multipass’)
  14981.  
  14982.  
  14983.  
  14984.  
  14985. Team WEDG
  14986.  
  14987. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  14988.  
  14989. Hey guys we’re featured on CNBC News this week. This is a huge profile
  14990. boost for us and we can make it go further!
  14991.  
  14992. Please vote for WEDG on their online poll
  14993. http://www.cnbc.com/id/102194832 and show the world how much we all love
  14994. WEDG!
  14995.  
  14996. Thank you! :D
  14997.  
  14998.  
  14999.  
  15000.  
  15001. Team WEDG
  15002.  
  15003. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  15004.  
  15005. @david.j.aldred great minds ;) I was just putting an update together
  15006. about the possibility of hitting the next stretch goal!
  15007.  
  15008. We’re also whipping up a flow chart here! :)
  15009.  
  15010.  
  15011.  
  15012.  
  15013. Gordon Keys
  15014.  
  15015. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8335278> over 2 years ago
  15016.  
  15017. I didn’t think the difference between the 24 HRS SPECIAL 1 WEDG ARM and
  15018. INTEL was £70. Wasn’t it £50?
  15019.  
  15020.  
  15021.  
  15022.  
  15023. David Aldred
  15024.  
  15025. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> over 2 years ago
  15026.  
  15027. Anyone else thinking next stretch goal is a real possibility?
  15028.  
  15029. @Team Wedg – there have been quite a few people asking / getting
  15030. confused about upgrades paths – worth knocking together a quick ‘flow
  15031. chart’ or similar showing what people can upgrade to, what it would cost
  15032. / how they should do it?
  15033.  
  15034. (but like the ‘pro v arm’ one you did on the main page, I guess)
  15035.  
  15036. Might get a few more people upgrading who are unsure of their options
  15037.  
  15038.  
  15039.  
  15040.  
  15041. Team WEDG
  15042.  
  15043. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  15044.  
  15045. @Gordon Keys RAID came along due to consumer demand! a little later on.
  15046. Thank you for your support at the start of our campaign. For you to
  15047. upgrade to WEDG Pro with Intel +RAID is £70 + RAID £40 or £90 depending
  15048. on your RAID Upgrade and £6 for shipping please and we’ll do the rest on
  15049. our side :)
  15050.  
  15051.  
  15052.  
  15053.  
  15054. Gordon Keys
  15055.  
  15056. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8335278> over 2 years ago
  15057.  
  15058. Hi, clearly I missed the fact I owe £6 too! Thought that was for
  15059. overseas delivery charge.
  15060.  
  15061. I would also lile to know how much it’ll be for me to upgrade to Intel +
  15062. Raid + 1TB (+ delivery)? I’ve got the 24 HRS SPECIAL 1 WEDG ARM. Had I
  15063. known RAID was an option on the INTEL version that would have tipped the
  15064. balance with me!
  15065.  
  15066. Good work guys!
  15067.  
  15068.  
  15069.  
  15070.  
  15071. Team WEDG
  15072.  
  15073. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  15074.  
  15075. @Paul Nichols sure, we had two 24 hour perks back then, the WEDG with
  15076. ARM and the WEDG Pro with Intel. Both came with 1 × 1TB HDD. So pretty
  15077. much all of the upgrades are available to you…lucky you! ;)
  15078.  
  15079.  
  15080.  
  15081.  
  15082. Paul Nichols
  15083.  
  15084. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/5748211> over 2 years ago
  15085.  
  15086. Hi, I backed the 24hr special (kickstarter) at the start of the
  15087. campaign, but I can’t remember what was included. Could you please
  15088. remind me so I can purchase suitable upgrades. Cheers, Paul.
  15089.  
  15090.  
  15091.  
  15092.  
  15093. Team WEDG
  15094.  
  15095. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  15096.  
  15097. @Alexander Blaauwgeers OK, lets go back to the beginning just so I fully
  15098. understand.
  15099.  
  15100. I can see that you have backed WEDG with ARM @£129 + £6 for the
  15101. pre-launch ‘24 HRS SPECIAL 1 WEDG ARM’.
  15102.  
  15103. Are you looking to upgrade to the WEDG Pro with Intel?
  15104.  
  15105. If you find it easier to email us please feel free to do so info@wedg.co
  15106. where there is no character limit.
  15107.  
  15108.  
  15109.  
  15110.  
  15111. Alexander Blaauwgeers
  15112.  
  15113. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8674531> over 2 years ago
  15114.  
  15115. @Team WEDG @scott.henderson1 Relates how this related to the upgrade of
  15116. @Antoine C at the same time just between my question and answer with
  15117. just 90£ and I have to pay almost double £160
  15118.  
  15119. Team WEDG
  15120. @Antoine C yep! we’ll handle the rest on our side :)
  15121.  
  15122. Antoine C
  15123. Hi all. Just to be sure : i’ve pledged for an ARM version (129£+6£
  15124. shipping). I want to change this for the Intel Version + RAID solution
  15125. (179+40+6£ shipping). So I do just need to pay 90£ and you’ll know what
  15126. I want, that’s it ?
  15127.  
  15128.  
  15129.  
  15130.  
  15131. Team WEDG
  15132.  
  15133. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  15134.  
  15135. @Alexander Blaauwgeers, @scott.henderson1 is correct. Does that help you
  15136. make your decision? Happy to help you further either way.
  15137.  
  15138. @@scott.henderson1 thanks for chipping in there, had a conf call with
  15139. suppliers and partners this morning that went waaay over!
  15140.  
  15141.  
  15142.  
  15143.  
  15144. scott.henderson
  15145.  
  15146. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3201718> over 2 years ago
  15147.  
  15148. @ Alexander Blaauwgeers, I believe if you were a Kickstarter backer and
  15149. purchased WEDG with ARM + 1TB @ £129 prelaunch, then you’d first have to
  15150. upgrade to the Intel version which was £70 more during that period, then
  15151. add the £90 for the WEDG Pro Raid + 1TB Upgrade #2.
  15152.  
  15153. So you’d need to contribute an additional £160 to get WEDG Pro with
  15154. Intel + 1TB plus WEDG Pro Raid + 1 TB Upgrade #2, from your current WEDG
  15155. with ARM + 1TB. You would owe nothing more for shipping.
  15156.  
  15157.  
  15158.  
  15159.  
  15160. Alexander Blaauwgeers
  15161.  
  15162. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8674531> over 2 years ago
  15163.  
  15164. Hi , 3 days ago you replied on my comment
  15165. " @Alexander Blaauwgeers Sure you can upgrade, ju … rest. "
  15166.  
  15167. I am not quite sure about the amount of money. Before I am making a
  15168. decision need to know the right price. I pledged £129 (+ £6 ) for " 24
  15169. HRS SPECIAL 1 WEDG ARM ( Kickstarter) "
  15170.  
  15171. Below I see the message " @Antoine C 16 hours ago " ;
  15172.  
  15173. So if I add the upgrade perk £40 with an additional Gift of £50 = £90
  15174. Then you’ll change my perk to WEDG INTEL with RAID ?
  15175.  
  15176.  
  15177.  
  15178.  
  15179. Team WEDG
  15180.  
  15181. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  15182.  
  15183. @Tiger Bus on the rear? No no, the BNC connector this goes on the front
  15184. for pride of place! :D
  15185.  
  15186.  
  15187.  
  15188.  
  15189. Tiger Bus
  15190.  
  15191. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706731> over 2 years ago
  15192.  
  15193. 200000 GBP: BNC connector in the rear! yay ;)
  15194.  
  15195.  
  15196.  
  15197.  
  15198. Team WEDG
  15199.  
  15200. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  15201.  
  15202. @Tiger Bus please see stretch goal :P
  15203.  
  15204.  
  15205.  
  15206.  
  15207. Tiger Bus
  15208.  
  15209. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706731> over 2 years ago
  15210.  
  15211. How do I connect my Koax network to this?! :P
  15212.  
  15213.  
  15214.  
  15215.  
  15216. Team WEDG
  15217.  
  15218. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  15219.  
  15220. @Tiger Bus yep, and with the WEDG Pro with Intel that’s gigabit ethernet ;)
  15221.  
  15222.  
  15223.  
  15224.  
  15225. Tiger Bus
  15226.  
  15227. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706731> over 2 years ago
  15228.  
  15229. If I wanted to hardwire the WEDG behind a firewall with just a few
  15230. dedicated ports forwarded to it, I could always completely disable the
  15231. WiFi, right? ;)
  15232.  
  15233.  
  15234.  
  15235.  
  15236. Team WEDG
  15237.  
  15238. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  15239.  
  15240. @david.j.aldred thanks David :)
  15241.  
  15242.  
  15243.  
  15244.  
  15245. David Aldred
  15246.  
  15247. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> over 2 years ago
  15248.  
  15249. Great to see the impact the WiFi stretch has had. Been a great few days
  15250. for the campaign – great work @team wedg!
  15251.  
  15252.  
  15253.  
  15254.  
  15255. Team WEDG
  15256.  
  15257. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  15258.  
  15259. @Alex Stamp for sure.
  15260.  
  15261.  
  15262.  
  15263.  
  15264. Team WEDG
  15265.  
  15266. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  15267.  
  15268. @Pif loads! You can upgrade to RAID support with or with out a 1TB HDD,
  15269. you can also upgrade your 1TB HDDs for 2TB HDDs. If you really feel like
  15270. pushing the boat out why upgrade to an Aluminium WEDG…or go nuts like
  15271. one of our valuable backers and go for a Carbon Fibre WEDG!
  15272.  
  15273.  
  15274.  
  15275.  
  15276. Alex Stamp
  15277.  
  15278. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6787108> over 2 years ago
  15279.  
  15280. Shipping should now be correct, seems that wifi has pulled in a few
  15281. people already
  15282.  
  15283.  
  15284.  
  15285.  
  15286. Pif
  15287.  
  15288. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8709078> over 2 years ago
  15289.  
  15290. I have pledged the perk 24 HRS SPECIAL 2 WEDG INTEL for £199+6
  15291. (shipping) = £205 back in September. What upgrade options do I have? I
  15292. cannot find the original perk and I am sure about the specs I signed
  15293. for. Thanks in advance.
  15294.  
  15295.  
  15296.  
  15297.  
  15298. Team WEDG
  15299.  
  15300. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  15301.  
  15302. @temp32 correct and thank you! :) woohoo WiFi!! :D
  15303.  
  15304.  
  15305.  
  15306.  
  15307. Pierre Lang
  15308.  
  15309. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4161016> over 2 years ago
  15310.  
  15311. Congratulations to reaching the WiFi goal and thus allowing me to
  15312. contribute :)
  15313.  
  15314.  
  15315.  
  15316.  
  15317. Pierre Lang
  15318.  
  15319. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4161016> over 2 years ago
  15320.  
  15321. Contributed for WEDG Pro with Intel + 1TB + Radi Upgrade 1TB + Shipping
  15322. in one payment. I hope it’s ok
  15323.  
  15324.  
  15325.  
  15326.  
  15327. Team WEDG
  15328.  
  15329. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  15330.  
  15331. @Alex Stamp if you paid the Perk listed price then you will need to add
  15332. shipping please. Thats £6 per WEDG.
  15333.  
  15334.  
  15335.  
  15336.  
  15337. Alex Stamp
  15338.  
  15339. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6787108> over 2 years ago
  15340.  
  15341. Hi can I just double check I have got both the 24hr arm and 24 hr wedge
  15342. pro did these include UK shipping or do I need to add it?
  15343.  
  15344.  
  15345.  
  15346.  
  15347. Team WEDG
  15348.  
  15349. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  15350.  
  15351. Antoine C awesome thank you! Just to make sure there is no confusion,
  15352. could you email us your old and new email address please infowedg.co.
  15353.  
  15354.  
  15355.  
  15356.  
  15357. Antoine C
  15358.  
  15359. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4041109> over 2 years ago
  15360.  
  15361. Thanks ! It’s done (by the way, i’ve change my email address, I hope
  15362. there will not be any problem)
  15363.  
  15364.  
  15365.  
  15366.  
  15367. Team WEDG
  15368.  
  15369. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  15370.  
  15371. @Antoine C yep! we’ll handle the rest on our side :)
  15372.  
  15373.  
  15374.  
  15375.  
  15376. Team WEDG
  15377.  
  15378. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  15379.  
  15380. @Heiko Zeller thank you! hi5!!
  15381.  
  15382.  
  15383.  
  15384.  
  15385. Team WEDG
  15386.  
  15387. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  15388.  
  15389. @david.j.aldred I did!! Wake up!!
  15390.  
  15391.  
  15392.  
  15393.  
  15394. Heiko Zeller
  15395.  
  15396. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8715891> over 2 years ago
  15397.  
  15398. Congrat’s guys to reach the wifi goal
  15399.  
  15400.  
  15401.  
  15402.  
  15403. Antoine C
  15404.  
  15405. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4041109> over 2 years ago
  15406.  
  15407. Hi all. Just to be sure : i’ve pledged for an ARM version (129£+6£
  15408. shipping). I want to change this for the Intel Version + RAID solution
  15409. (179+40+6£ shipping). So I do just need to pay 90£ and you’ll know what
  15410. I want, that’s it ?
  15411.  
  15412.  
  15413.  
  15414.  
  15415. David Aldred
  15416.  
  15417. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> over 2 years ago
  15418.  
  15419. Will I be waking up to WiFi?! Exciting!
  15420.  
  15421.  
  15422.  
  15423.  
  15424. Team WEDG
  15425.  
  15426. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  15427.  
  15428. @paul.kulhavy yes you have paid for shipping. Thank you for your
  15429. contribution and early support.
  15430.  
  15431.  
  15432.  
  15433.  
  15434. paul.kulhavy
  15435.  
  15436. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8709012> over 2 years ago
  15437.  
  15438. Also receiving your prompts for postage – and frankly I’ve got no idea
  15439. what I’ve paid for now. You have so many options – yet the “perk” title
  15440. I have is not there.
  15441.  
  15442. Perk: 24 HRS SPECIAL 2 WEDG INTEL – Contribution Amount: £205
  15443.  
  15444. Have I paid for shipping charges? No idea – as I can’t find the
  15445. perk/price listed here at all.
  15446.  
  15447.  
  15448.  
  15449.  
  15450. Team WEDG
  15451.  
  15452. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  15453.  
  15454. @Tiger Bus :D hahaha!!
  15455.  
  15456.  
  15457.  
  15458.  
  15459. Tiger Bus
  15460.  
  15461. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706731> over 2 years ago
  15462.  
  15463. I can almost SMELL those wifi giga-hertz frequencies…
  15464.  
  15465.  
  15466.  
  15467.  
  15468. Team WEDG
  15469.  
  15470. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  15471.  
  15472. @Paul Targett thank you for your support at the early stages of our
  15473. campaign, it means a lot to us Sure, to upgrade the WEDG Pro with Intel
  15474. +1TB Early Bird price (£219) and RAID (£40/£90)…
  15475.  
  15476. £90 + £40 or £90 depending on the RAID upgrade you prefer plus shipping
  15477. if you haven’t already please. Just hit the CONTRIBUTE NOW button on the
  15478. right and we’ll handle the rest our side.
  15479.  
  15480. Thanks Paul :)
  15481.  
  15482.  
  15483.  
  15484.  
  15485. Paul Targett
  15486.  
  15487. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706793> over 2 years ago
  15488.  
  15489. I put £129 for the early bird ARM version (coming from Kickstarter). At
  15490. the time if I could have afforded it, I would have paid for the Intel
  15491. version. To help towards £110k, could I pay extra to upgrade to the
  15492. early bird Intel version price and also include raid? If so, how much
  15493. should I put.
  15494.  
  15495.  
  15496.  
  15497.  
  15498. Team WEDG
  15499.  
  15500. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  15501.  
  15502. @moelliott the shipping charges are for UK and International. The
  15503. shipping fees were originally £6 for UK and ~£20 for International but
  15504. with support from business advisers we managed to negotiate a flat fee
  15505. for worldwide shipping and it stuck at £6.
  15506.  
  15507.  
  15508.  
  15509.  
  15510. moelliott
  15511.  
  15512. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8707340> over 2 years ago
  15513.  
  15514. Hello, just to echo Andrews’ comment regarding the shipping, is the
  15515. £6.00 shipping charge also applicable for UK orders? Or just international?
  15516.  
  15517.  
  15518.  
  15519.  
  15520. Team WEDG
  15521.  
  15522. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  15523.  
  15524. @Andrew Cook we wanted to show a clear distinction between unit price
  15525. and shipping as well as show that prices from our campaign attempt on
  15526. Kickstarter hadn’t changed.
  15527.  
  15528.  
  15529.  
  15530.  
  15531. Andrew Cook
  15532.  
  15533. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706115> over 2 years ago
  15534.  
  15535. I’m a little confused about continual reminders to pay for shipping.
  15536.  
  15537. Is that a flat rate of £6 that needs to be paid for anywhere in the
  15538. world, including the UK? and if so why wasn’t it included in the base price?
  15539.  
  15540.  
  15541.  
  15542.  
  15543. Team WEDG
  15544.  
  15545. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  15546.  
  15547. @Alex Stamp you can add the additional drive later and the RAID
  15548. management will start the replication process. Thanks, we’re really
  15549. excited and relieved too :)
  15550.  
  15551.  
  15552.  
  15553.  
  15554. Team WEDG
  15555.  
  15556. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  15557.  
  15558. @john34754 hi5 fellow Manc! Absolutely just contribute the difference
  15559. and leave the rest to us! Sure we can arrange local pick up closer the
  15560. time :)
  15561.  
  15562.  
  15563.  
  15564.  
  15565. Alex Stamp
  15566.  
  15567. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6787108> over 2 years ago
  15568.  
  15569. Another little question guys, if we start off with one drive then add
  15570. our raid drive at a later date will the system just ask if we want to
  15571. set up raid and start copying files or will it wipe everything and have
  15572. to start from scratch? So glad this has came to fruition been a long
  15573. time waiting since kickstarter haha.
  15574.  
  15575.  
  15576.  
  15577.  
  15578. john34754
  15579.  
  15580. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8707691> over 2 years ago
  15581.  
  15582. Hello
  15583. I backed the 24hr special ARM. Can I upgrade to 2TB by clicking the
  15584. relevant perk? Also I live in Manchester, can I pick up? I’ll buy the beer!
  15585. Cheers
  15586. John
  15587.  
  15588.  
  15589.  
  15590.  
  15591. Team WEDG
  15592.  
  15593. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  15594.  
  15595. @Gaston Cardey yes, default build is stored in ROM for first boot and
  15596. system recovery purposes and then OS is stored on a MicroSD card.
  15597.  
  15598. Getting there slowly but surely! :)
  15599.  
  15600.  
  15601.  
  15602.  
  15603. Team WEDG
  15604.  
  15605. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  15606.  
  15607. @Gaston Cardey yes, default build is stored in ROM for first boot and
  15608. system recovery purposes and then OS is stored on a MicroSD card.
  15609.  
  15610. Getting there slowly but surely! :)
  15611.  
  15612.  
  15613.  
  15614.  
  15615. Team WEDG
  15616.  
  15617. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  15618.  
  15619. @Patrick Jones yeh! We’re edging closer every few mins right now. Come
  15620. on WiFi!!
  15621.  
  15622.  
  15623.  
  15624.  
  15625. Gaston Cardey
  15626.  
  15627. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8821945> over 2 years ago
  15628.  
  15629. Hi!
  15630. I wonder where it will be saved the WEDG software, since we can replace
  15631. both HDD. Is it in a non volatile flash memory or a ROM?
  15632.  
  15633. Almos there! Only £ 1.701 to go!!!!
  15634. Thanks!
  15635.  
  15636.  
  15637.  
  15638.  
  15639. Patrick Jones
  15640.  
  15641. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/5225415> over 2 years ago
  15642.  
  15643. Looks like lots of us forgot to add postage!
  15644. Good luck with getting to £110K…and beyond…we all want Wi-Fi…!
  15645.  
  15646.  
  15647.  
  15648.  
  15649. Team WEDG
  15650.  
  15651. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  15652.  
  15653. @tiger bus haha! you should get it check out :p I’ll dig it out and send
  15654. again.
  15655.  
  15656.  
  15657.  
  15658.  
  15659. Tiger Bus
  15660.  
  15661. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706731> over 2 years ago
  15662.  
  15663. Oops you did?! Never received anything so I’ve been coughing quite a lot
  15664. lately! ;)
  15665.  
  15666.  
  15667.  
  15668.  
  15669. Team WEDG
  15670.  
  15671. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  15672.  
  15673. @tiger bus I replied to your email with the revised calca weeks ago. You
  15674. should get that cough looked at :p
  15675.  
  15676.  
  15677.  
  15678.  
  15679. Tiger Bus
  15680.  
  15681. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706731> over 2 years ago
  15682.  
  15683. Ah spreadsheets… I think it got lost together with the power consumption
  15684. calculations cough ;))
  15685.  
  15686.  
  15687.  
  15688.  
  15689. tetardbleu
  15690.  
  15691. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3829087> over 2 years ago
  15692.  
  15693. @david.j.aldred of course, you’re right… I was so happy with myself :(.
  15694. I should have known, i have a t-shirt who says: “Dear math, solve your
  15695. own problem.”
  15696.  
  15697.  
  15698.  
  15699.  
  15700. Team WEDG
  15701.  
  15702. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  15703.  
  15704. @david.j.aldred we did have a spreadsheet that did some sums for us to
  15705. compare our forecasts against real results up until £43,000ish – it
  15706. wasn’t accurate and we failed to keep it up to date due to other tasks
  15707. taking priority. The with various update options we didn’t consider
  15708. reviving it. Could fire it up again may take a day two to get the
  15709. formula right.
  15710.  
  15711. Shipping nudge goes out tomorrow.
  15712.  
  15713.  
  15714.  
  15715.  
  15716. David Aldred
  15717.  
  15718. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> over 2 years ago
  15719.  
  15720. … although does show that just a little last push will get us wiFi, so
  15721. the delivery reminder should be a big help!
  15722.  
  15723.  
  15724.  
  15725.  
  15726. David Aldred
  15727.  
  15728. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> over 2 years ago
  15729.  
  15730. @tetardbleu – just because it’s Friday and I’ve not got anything better
  15731. to do… but I’m not sure that’s necessarily correct ;o)
  15732. I might be wrong, but believe the ‘backers’ count is actually the sum of
  15733. single contributions, not unique backers – so, I did £1 to start (to ask
  15734. couple of questions), my Wedg, RAID upgrade, + £5 as I realised I’d not
  15735. done shipping – but it counts that as 4 funders.
  15736.  
  15737. Wonder if @Team Wedg know how many unique backers there are – or how
  15738. many WEDG have now been funded?
  15739.  
  15740.  
  15741.  
  15742.  
  15743. Team WEDG
  15744.  
  15745. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  15746.  
  15747. @tetarbkeu haha! thanks! :)
  15748.  
  15749.  
  15750.  
  15751.  
  15752. tetardbleu
  15753.  
  15754. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3829087> over 2 years ago
  15755.  
  15756. If everyone who contributed so far was adding £4 we could make it. Just
  15757. saying :)
  15758.  
  15759.  
  15760.  
  15761.  
  15762. Team WEDG
  15763.  
  15764. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  15765.  
  15766. @wj.van.duin we’ll be posting a Polite Reminder update shortly for those
  15767. backers who might not have selected the shipping perk. Thanks for caring :)
  15768.  
  15769.  
  15770.  
  15771.  
  15772. Team WEDG
  15773.  
  15774. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  15775.  
  15776. @richard alter simply hit the ‘CONTRIBUTE NOW’ button on the right and
  15777. enter a ‘custom’ amount to the Perk difference value.
  15778.  
  15779.  
  15780.  
  15781.  
  15782. Team WEDG
  15783.  
  15784. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  15785.  
  15786. @sbensley2 we can’t confirm which HDD we’ll be installing in the WEDG at
  15787. this moment, however drives engineered for NAS use are our preferred
  15788. from our suppliers.
  15789.  
  15790.  
  15791.  
  15792.  
  15793. richard alter
  15794.  
  15795. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/1968091> over 2 years ago
  15796.  
  15797. I would like to upgrade from Arm to Intel Pro and I believe that would
  15798. be a 20 pound difference. How do I make that payment? There is no
  15799. contribution choice for that amount. Please advise
  15800. Richard Alter at richardalter@yahoo.com
  15801.  
  15802.  
  15803.  
  15804.  
  15805. wj.van.duin
  15806.  
  15807. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8267955> over 2 years ago
  15808.  
  15809. Hope these additional contributions will be rightfully understood as for
  15810. the additonal upgrade to 2 × 2 Tb and for the worldwide shipping fee
  15811. that has not been contributed before.
  15812.  
  15813. Wouter J.
  15814.  
  15815.  
  15816.  
  15817.  
  15818. sbensley2
  15819.  
  15820. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/7967712> over 2 years ago
  15821.  
  15822. Hi,
  15823.  
  15824. I have ordered the Wedg driveless with Raid upgrade and I assume that it
  15825. might be better to use Nas hard drives with this device. Can you please
  15826. confirm?
  15827.  
  15828. Thanks,
  15829.  
  15830.  
  15831.  
  15832.  
  15833. Team WEDG
  15834.  
  15835. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  15836.  
  15837. @Alexander Blaauwgeers Wi-Fi will be supported on BOTH models of WEDG :-)
  15838.  
  15839. Sure you can upgrade, just hit the ‘CONTRIBUTE NOW’ button on the right
  15840. and manually enter the difference between your current Perk and the one
  15841. you want – and we’ll do the rest.
  15842.  
  15843.  
  15844.  
  15845.  
  15846. Alexander Blaauwgeers
  15847.  
  15848. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8674531> over 2 years ago
  15849.  
  15850. 1. I really hope that my WEDGE also gets Wi-Fi support and that it is
  15851. not only for the Intel version like RAID
  15852.  
  15853. 2. At the moment of backing I didn’t know about the RAID future… is
  15854. there any possibility to upgrade from ARM to Intel ?
  15855. ( because it might push the project over the 110.000 line )
  15856.  
  15857.  
  15858.  
  15859.  
  15860. Team WEDG
  15861.  
  15862. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  15863.  
  15864. @Nikolai Tesla thank you for your valuable words of encouragement and
  15865. support Nikolai and for contributing again. I’ll looking into ‘Print the
  15866. Legend’, we’re always open to learn from others’ experiences.
  15867.  
  15868.  
  15869.  
  15870.  
  15871. Nikolai Tesla
  15872.  
  15873. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> over 2 years ago
  15874.  
  15875. @Shehbaz (2 of 2), Stay focused, don’t lose sight on what makes WEDG
  15876. important to your contributors. Continue with your enthusiasm, it is
  15877. contagious. Thank you.
  15878.  
  15879.  
  15880.  
  15881.  
  15882. Nikolai Tesla
  15883.  
  15884. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> over 2 years ago
  15885.  
  15886. @Shehbaz (1 of 2), I have contributed again to support your
  15887. project/philosophy in order to get back control of our data. Either way,
  15888. I recommend that you and your team take the time to study the “recent”
  15889. documentary called “Print the Legend”. It is about the home 3D printing
  15890. movement and the obstacles that “start-ups” (similar to WEDG) went thru
  15891. in order to develop a technology that works, a brand name that can sell
  15892. and create an effective company.
  15893.  
  15894.  
  15895.  
  15896.  
  15897. Team WEDG
  15898.  
  15899. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  15900.  
  15901. @Veehem we hear you and all supports who want to know more about how and
  15902. when we will be releasing our code. You must understand this is
  15903. something that needs to be done properly. We have no experience in
  15904. managing an open community and we don’t want to get it wrong. We have
  15905. started working with an advisor who will help us plan a strategy for the
  15906. process to ensure its don’t competently and that a support structure is
  15907. in place. This isn’t something we are prepared to rush into.
  15908.  
  15909.  
  15910.  
  15911.  
  15912. Philipp Stäheli
  15913.  
  15914. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8723017> over 2 years ago
  15915.  
  15916. I agree with Veehem.
  15917.  
  15918.  
  15919.  
  15920.  
  15921. Veehem
  15922.  
  15923. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4067160> over 2 years ago
  15924.  
  15925. Hardware, hardware again. 2 TB? 10TB ? Carbon fire ?Aluminium ? A gold
  15926. special serie? A underwear? A string? For secure actions, a carbon fire
  15927. condom with Wedg logo ?
  15928. Please stop all those gadgets. Now it’s necessary to talk about the
  15929. software.
  15930. Not any update information about the software.
  15931. Please explain how and when, you’re going to liberate the software? How
  15932. it looks like? How do you intend to build a real community?
  15933. Yes, you promise to do so “in due course” Don’t you think its time now?
  15934.  
  15935.  
  15936.  
  15937.  
  15938. Team WEDG
  15939.  
  15940. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  15941.  
  15942. @jrogers31 awesome! Thank YOU!
  15943.  
  15944.  
  15945.  
  15946.  
  15947. jrogers31
  15948.  
  15949. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> over 2 years ago
  15950.  
  15951. Thanks for the update – I have doubled up – I hope you make all the
  15952. stretch goals. JR
  15953.  
  15954.  
  15955.  
  15956.  
  15957. Team WEDG
  15958.  
  15959. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  15960.  
  15961. @scott.henderson1 complete oversight on our part, will resolve that
  15962. asap. Thanks for the heads-up!
  15963.  
  15964. And thanks for the feedback too ;)
  15965.  
  15966.  
  15967.  
  15968.  
  15969. scott.henderson
  15970.  
  15971. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3201718> over 2 years ago
  15972.  
  15973. Team WEDG,
  15974.  
  15975. With ENDING SOON upon us, you may want to reinstate, modify or remove
  15976. all of the BUY NOW – £179 LIMITED TIME ONLY! links listed under the
  15977. Story page, as they currently take people to a WHERE DID IT GO? page,
  15978. which is kind of off-putting.
  15979.  
  15980. If there is anyway to bring back the Driver-less WEDG Pro with Intel,
  15981. I’m sure that would help in reaching the next Stretch Goal.
  15982.  
  15983.  
  15984.  
  15985.  
  15986. tetardbleu
  15987.  
  15988. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3829087> over 2 years ago
  15989.  
  15990. @scott.henderson1 Well, Team Wedg was very convincing!
  15991. @ david.j.aldred and @Team Wedg Maybe someone from IG can change the
  15992. count manually (Not for me, it doesn’t matter and i trust you but for
  15993. other people to give them the necessary impulse)?
  15994.  
  15995.  
  15996.  
  15997.  
  15998. Team WEDG
  15999.  
  16000. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  16001.  
  16002. @david.j.aldred i know :-s we’re actually thinking of creating a banner
  16003. to add to the top of the campaign page to mark the occasion and give
  16004. kudos to @ tetardbleu
  16005.  
  16006.  
  16007.  
  16008.  
  16009. David Aldred
  16010.  
  16011. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> over 2 years ago
  16012.  
  16013. Shame you can’t ‘count’ the CB model from @tetardbleu – it’s a massive
  16014. vote of confidence in the product for anyone new / undecided!
  16015.  
  16016.  
  16017.  
  16018.  
  16019. scott.henderson
  16020.  
  16021. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3201718> over 2 years ago
  16022.  
  16023. @ tetardbleu, congrats on purchasing the Carbon Fibre WEDG!
  16024.  
  16025.  
  16026.  
  16027.  
  16028. Team WEDG
  16029.  
  16030. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  16031.  
  16032. @tetardbleu done! A Carbon Fibre WEDG has your name all over it! (but we
  16033. can’t change the count on the back end)
  16034.  
  16035.  
  16036.  
  16037.  
  16038. tetardbleu
  16039.  
  16040. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3829087> over 2 years ago
  16041.  
  16042. don’t forget to reserve me one of the five precious! :) Go wifi!
  16043.  
  16044.  
  16045.  
  16046.  
  16047. Team WEDG
  16048.  
  16049. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  16050.  
  16051. @Ken Taylor that’s a good question, there were a few reasons but one of
  16052. the main reasons we decided to dump ActiveSync was due to its
  16053. instability and it was also very resource hungry. But we do have
  16054. ActiveSync under the ‘Revisit’ column on our feature list so ‘never say
  16055. never’ right?
  16056.  
  16057. PS. Thank you for the accurate calculations for the next Stretchgoal I
  16058. think we might do it you know!!
  16059.  
  16060.  
  16061.  
  16062.  
  16063. Team WEDG
  16064.  
  16065. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  16066.  
  16067. @Ken Taylor your calculations are correct £162 will take you up to 2 ×
  16068. 2TB drives capability.
  16069.  
  16070.  
  16071.  
  16072.  
  16073. Ken Taylor
  16074.  
  16075. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6123904> over 2 years ago
  16076.  
  16077. Hi Team WEDG,
  16078. is there a reason that Active sync (or freeware alternative) is not
  16079. supported.
  16080. I know caldav, and carddav are supported as well as IMAP and POP3.
  16081. for user setup with sync of mail. contacts and other features Active
  16082. sync with the one server settings for a user its the easiest rather than
  16083. configuring each protocol.
  16084. Is Active sync support a possibility or are there technical reasons that
  16085. this cannot be supported?
  16086. thanks
  16087.  
  16088.  
  16089.  
  16090.  
  16091. Ken Taylor
  16092.  
  16093. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6123904> over 2 years ago
  16094.  
  16095. @ Team WEDG, are my calculations right,
  16096. I have a WEDG pro + 1TB plus shipping + Upgrade to Raid (£40)
  16097. so to get 2×2TB…..
  16098. I would need to pay £50 to make the raid 2×1TB then pay £112 to upgrade
  16099. the drives to 2×2TB drives so….. £162.00 total? is this correct.
  16100.  
  16101. need 154.92958% funding to reach £110,00 and the next stretch goal. Good
  16102. Luck.
  16103.  
  16104.  
  16105.  
  16106.  
  16107. tetardbleu
  16108.  
  16109. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3829087> over 2 years ago
  16110.  
  16111. i juste emailed you via your website’s mail, because i didn’t receive
  16112. anything…
  16113.  
  16114.  
  16115.  
  16116.  
  16117. Team WEDG
  16118.  
  16119. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  16120.  
  16121. @tetardbleu i just sent it
  16122.  
  16123.  
  16124.  
  16125.  
  16126. tetardbleu
  16127.  
  16128. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3829087> over 2 years ago
  16129.  
  16130. ok, just tell me here when you did, just in case, as it seems that pm
  16131. sometimes does not work well…
  16132.  
  16133.  
  16134.  
  16135.  
  16136. Team WEDG
  16137.  
  16138. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  16139.  
  16140. @tetardbleu welcome to the darkside! I’ll message you privately as I
  16141. need some details from you.
  16142.  
  16143.  
  16144.  
  16145.  
  16146. tetardbleu
  16147.  
  16148. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3829087> over 2 years ago
  16149.  
  16150. Thank you, thank you thank you!I now have to ask if it would be possible
  16151. to have my config (2* 2TB HDDs) And the carbon fibre. I would completely
  16152. understand if it wasn’t, but if You can make this happen (ssds replaced
  16153. by hdds) and tell me how much it would cost me, as i imagine standard
  16154. hard drives are less expensive, my crazy side is ready! Again i know
  16155. it’s a lot to ask and i would completely understand a no.
  16156.  
  16157.  
  16158.  
  16159.  
  16160. Team WEDG
  16161.  
  16162. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  16163.  
  16164. @James Cowell yes, that’s correct
  16165.  
  16166.  
  16167.  
  16168.  
  16169. James Cowell
  16170.  
  16171. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4283722> over 2 years ago
  16172.  
  16173. My contribution was for the “24 HRS SPECIAL 2 WEDG INTEL” but as it’s
  16174. not listed anymore as a perk I can’t find the specifics of what it was.
  16175. I believe it is equivalent specs to the “WEDG Pro with Intel + 1Tb”. Is
  16176. that correct?
  16177.  
  16178.  
  16179.  
  16180.  
  16181. Team WEDG
  16182.  
  16183. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  16184.  
  16185. @Seth Barribeau you can upgrade your drive in your WEDG as and when you
  16186. like. The WEDG takes a standard 2.5" SATA hard drive.
  16187.  
  16188.  
  16189.  
  16190.  
  16191. Seth Barribeau
  16192.  
  16193. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8723584> over 2 years ago
  16194.  
  16195. Regarding the 2Tb upgrade. Is this something where we could replace the
  16196. HDs ourselves to improve space as needed, or do you need to upgrade
  16197. additional hardware first?
  16198.  
  16199.  
  16200.  
  16201.  
  16202. Team WEDG
  16203.  
  16204. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  16205.  
  16206. @jrogers31 I understand and have taken your feedback on-board ;-)
  16207.  
  16208.  
  16209.  
  16210.  
  16211. Team WEDG
  16212.  
  16213. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  16214.  
  16215. @Law Cheung spot on, that is the correct way to do it, thank you for
  16216. your support and contribution!
  16217.  
  16218.  
  16219.  
  16220.  
  16221. Team WEDG
  16222.  
  16223. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  16224.  
  16225. @wj.van.duin you may certainly postpone your decision up until the end
  16226. of the campaign only I’m afraid as the prices we have negotiated are
  16227. only available to us until the end of 21st November. I’m sorry if this
  16228. applies undue pressure upon you right now.
  16229.  
  16230.  
  16231.  
  16232.  
  16233. jrogers31
  16234.  
  16235. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> over 2 years ago
  16236.  
  16237. Sorry to repeat my suggestion to help reach the stretch goals but I
  16238. would like the option to “double up” on my current perks at the same
  16239. rate as my first contribution, which was WEDG Pro with Intel + 1TB
  16240. (£219) plus WEDG Pro RAID + 1TB (£90). This may get you closer to the
  16241. stretch goal targets – particularly if existing contributors want to
  16242. double or treble up. JR
  16243.  
  16244.  
  16245.  
  16246.  
  16247. Law Cheung
  16248.  
  16249. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/2929772> over 2 years ago
  16250.  
  16251. Hi Shehbaz,
  16252.  
  16253. That’s a good idea of you to allow an upgrade to a 2TB drive. I have
  16254. added an extra £56 to make £112 to have two of them for a raid setup. I
  16255. hope this is the correct way of doing it.
  16256.  
  16257. Kind Regards,
  16258.  
  16259. Law Cheung (Mr)
  16260.  
  16261.  
  16262.  
  16263.  
  16264. wj.van.duin
  16265.  
  16266. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8267955> over 2 years ago
  16267.  
  16268. I would like you to let me know if it will be possible to postpone the
  16269. decision for the change of configuration from 1 × 1 Tb to 1 × 2 Tb or
  16270. even 2 × 2Tb until a later moment just prior to production and delivery.
  16271.  
  16272. Wouter J. van Duin
  16273.  
  16274.  
  16275.  
  16276.  
  16277. Team WEDG
  16278.  
  16279. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  16280.  
  16281. @Scott McQueen I think I follow you now. WEDG does support POP3 and so
  16282. you could add any POP3 accounts to your WEDG collecting mail on the fly.
  16283. Aliases is also fully supported and you can setup a one-to-many email
  16284. account like ’salesexample.com’ for example where the messages are
  16285. forwarded on to designated users.
  16286.  
  16287. Thank you for the compliments and of course your ongoing support! :)
  16288.  
  16289.  
  16290.  
  16291.  
  16292. Team WEDG
  16293.  
  16294. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  16295.  
  16296. @Veehem thank you for your feedback, we have every intention on
  16297. providing more information in due course. Currently we have a tight
  16298. schedule we’ve planned for and are working hard to commit to that.
  16299.  
  16300.  
  16301.  
  16302.  
  16303. Veehem
  16304.  
  16305. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4067160> over 2 years ago
  16306.  
  16307. An update message explaining how and when you’re going to liberate the
  16308. code is necessary. Wedg is going to be a long time success if there is a
  16309. real community. Without an open source code, people will go to Ownbutt,
  16310. Yunohost, …
  16311. Please, be more clear about that
  16312.  
  16313.  
  16314.  
  16315.  
  16316. Scott McQueen
  16317.  
  16318. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8443500> over 2 years ago
  16319.  
  16320. Team WEDG – Sorry was not clearer, By scheduled pop3 collection I mean,
  16321. use pop3 to collect mail from a third party account, strip of everything
  16322. after the ‘at symbol’ and distribute to the users of the mailserver
  16323. every say ten minutes. This way I can include an existing pop3 mail
  16324. address. Also will the WEDG support aliases and group forwarding?
  16325.  
  16326. BTW Congrats on the 100K, well done to all involved!
  16327.  
  16328.  
  16329.  
  16330.  
  16331. Team WEDG
  16332.  
  16333. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  16334.  
  16335. @tetardbleu thanks for feedback! :)
  16336.  
  16337.  
  16338.  
  16339.  
  16340. tetardbleu
  16341.  
  16342. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3829087> over 2 years ago
  16343.  
  16344. I’ll probably succumb if the offer stays the same… Still, if your
  16345. meeting monday works out, i must say i prefer bigger hdds than faster
  16346. ssds. particularly for mid-long term storage. SSDs are great but in case
  16347. of failure it’s pretty definitive and unannounced, when HDDs can show
  16348. preventive warnings and let us recover some data. Well its just a
  16349. personal opinion of course. Good night and good luck today!
  16350.  
  16351.  
  16352.  
  16353.  
  16354. Team WEDG
  16355.  
  16356. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  16357.  
  16358. @tetardbleu agghh! dashed are my hopes of a Carbon Fibre WEDG backer
  16359. today! ;-)
  16360.  
  16361.  
  16362.  
  16363.  
  16364. tetardbleu
  16365.  
  16366. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3829087> over 2 years ago
  16367.  
  16368. Ok so i’ll wait your monday’s report before letting go out my crazy side :)
  16369.  
  16370.  
  16371.  
  16372.  
  16373. Team WEDG
  16374.  
  16375. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  16376.  
  16377. @Ken Taylor this is a discussion we need to have again with our
  16378. suppliers on Monday morning, as you stated cost is a factor and having
  16379. discussed this topic previous with our suppliers 2TB disks weren’t cheap
  16380. and didn’t even come under any price breaks at that time. But time has
  16381. passed so worth revisiting. Either way I will report back on Monday.
  16382.  
  16383.  
  16384.  
  16385.  
  16386. Ken Taylor
  16387.  
  16388. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6123904> over 2 years ago
  16389.  
  16390. if you can meet minimum purchase requirements for 1tb and 2tb drives to
  16391. keep prices good. i also vote for @ aaddiikk’s suggestion and it has
  16392. been suggested before. as i will just be looking at possibly putting 2Tb
  16393. drives in mine. but cost is a factor. also now featuring the 3k option
  16394. puts the Wedg pro way down the list for funding choices. make the
  16395. funding option look very expensive for someone new looking at the project.
  16396.  
  16397.  
  16398.  
  16399.  
  16400. Team WEDG
  16401.  
  16402. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  16403.  
  16404. Congratulations you guys we’ve hit a major milestone at £100,000! A
  16405. little overwhelmed if I’m honest and very grateful to everyone for their
  16406. everlasting and so valuable support. THANK YOU!!
  16407.  
  16408.  
  16409.  
  16410.  
  16411. Team WEDG
  16412.  
  16413. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  16414.  
  16415. @tetardbleu listen to your crazy side ;-) yes @aaddiikk’s suggestion is
  16416. pulling weight this side too.
  16417.  
  16418. If you do decide to upgrade to the Carbon Fibre WEDG then please
  16419. contribute the difference only and we’ll do the rest. The Carbon Fibre
  16420. sample material is of a high standard to ensure its rigidity and the
  16421. WEDG will be hand assembled start to finish. I should also emphasise
  16422. that Carbon Fibre WEDG is only available on Indiegogo and won’t be
  16423. available after the campaign ends.
  16424.  
  16425.  
  16426.  
  16427.  
  16428. tetardbleu
  16429.  
  16430. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3829087> over 2 years ago
  16431.  
  16432. As you can guess by my previous comments here, i strongly support
  16433. @aaddiikk suggestion.I’m also considering the carbon fibre perk. A bit
  16434. pricey but seems to be a really cool design. Which perk should i choose
  16435. if i want an upgrade? Just an arbitrary payment with the difference? Not
  16436. sure i’ll do it but sometimes i have crazy expensive ideas!
  16437.  
  16438.  
  16439.  
  16440.  
  16441. Team WEDG
  16442.  
  16443. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  16444.  
  16445. @jrogers31 thank you for your suggestion, certainly worth considering
  16446. along with other ideas too. Will report back.
  16447.  
  16448.  
  16449.  
  16450.  
  16451. Team WEDG
  16452.  
  16453. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  16454.  
  16455. @aaddiikk thanks for your feedback, we’ll certainly consider your
  16456. suggestion and report back.
  16457.  
  16458.  
  16459.  
  16460.  
  16461. jrogers31
  16462.  
  16463. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> over 2 years ago
  16464.  
  16465. I think one option you may consider to enable you to reach your stretch
  16466. goal targets is to release a further time limited perk for the WEDG Pro
  16467. with Intel + 1TB at £219 like you did for Tech Crunch – after all the
  16468. campaign ends on 21 Nov 2014.
  16469.  
  16470. Alternatively allow existing contributors to double up (or treble up) on
  16471. their orginial contribution and perks at the same discounted rate. JR
  16472.  
  16473.  
  16474.  
  16475.  
  16476. aaddiikk
  16477.  
  16478. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8707168> over 2 years ago
  16479.  
  16480. Guys,
  16481.  
  16482. How about extending storage options and allow people to pay extra for
  16483. it? I mean extra options to double the storage (so from 1TB to 2TB in
  16484. case of ARM, from 1TB to 2TB in case of Intel and from 1TB to 2TB so
  16485. 2×2TB drives in case of Intel/RAID)? I’m pretty sure that many backers
  16486. would go this way and get us closer to WiFi… What do you think?
  16487.  
  16488.  
  16489.  
  16490.  
  16491. Team WEDG
  16492.  
  16493. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  16494.  
  16495. @scott.henderson1 that’s a good idea. I’ll ask all registered developers
  16496. to share their potential ideas.
  16497.  
  16498.  
  16499.  
  16500.  
  16501. scott.henderson
  16502.  
  16503. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3201718> over 2 years ago
  16504.  
  16505. Hey Team!
  16506.  
  16507. Any chance of having the 7 campaign backing Developers mention what they
  16508. are hoping to develop for the WEDG? Their potential ideas and solutions
  16509. might help expand interest.
  16510.  
  16511. Cheers!
  16512.  
  16513.  
  16514.  
  16515.  
  16516. Team WEDG
  16517.  
  16518. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  16519.  
  16520. @Ken Taylor thanks for the precise maths :) we’re working on a couple of
  16521. promos – can’t say too much now but we have high hopes for those
  16522. alongside some press pushing too.
  16523. Yes, a good few backers have missed the shipping perk but ultimately not
  16524. enough to push us very far, nevertheless we will politely remind them.
  16525.  
  16526.  
  16527.  
  16528.  
  16529. Team WEDG
  16530.  
  16531. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  16532.  
  16533. @scott.henderson1 thanks for the support, it means a great deal to us
  16534. all here. Regarding perks…watch this space! :-o I’ve said too much!
  16535.  
  16536.  
  16537.  
  16538.  
  16539. Ken Taylor
  16540.  
  16541. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6123904> over 2 years ago
  16542.  
  16543. I think there are LOTS of people who have not paid the £6 postage just
  16544. looking through the Funders page but Shebaz should be able to see more
  16545. so maybe a nudge to get them to pay but dont think it will get us any
  16546. where near £110k but it all helps. we need 2.671 Wedg Pro’s to be funded
  16547. per day with postage to make the next stretch goal by the end of the
  16548. campaign.
  16549.  
  16550.  
  16551.  
  16552.  
  16553. scott.henderson
  16554.  
  16555. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3201718> over 2 years ago
  16556.  
  16557. 2/2
  16558. Are there any last minute perks that could be added to the project that
  16559. would add £15-20 value to end product?
  16560.  
  16561. While only needing just £10,500 to achieve Wi-Fi, if every existing
  16562. funder paid an additional £16 / $25US towards the project right now,
  16563. we’d meet it.
  16564.  
  16565. Good luck on the home stretch! I hope we can hit that mark, once the
  16566. “Ending Soon” promotion begins.
  16567.  
  16568.  
  16569.  
  16570.  
  16571. scott.henderson
  16572.  
  16573. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3201718> over 2 years ago
  16574.  
  16575. 1/2
  16576. With the initial Goal met and surpassed, is there any chance of making
  16577. more Drive-less WEDG with Intel perks available again for the last two
  16578. weeks of the campaign? It might help out.
  16579. I somehow totally mis-read the Wi-Fi stretch goal at the beginning of
  16580. the campaign, thinking it was an upgrade to an existing Wi-Fi feature,
  16581. not an addition of Wi-Fi to the board. Wi-Fi is definitely a must have
  16582. capability. I agree that not having this might actually be holding some
  16583. people back.
  16584.  
  16585.  
  16586.  
  16587.  
  16588. Team WEDG
  16589.  
  16590. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  16591.  
  16592. @Scott McQueen WEDG Pro with Intel can support ~68 users while WEDG with
  16593. ARM can support ~38 users. Yes Spam filter and attachment rules can be
  16594. configured as you prefer. POP3 is support by WEDG, can you elaborate on
  16595. ’ scheduled collection from another server’?
  16596.  
  16597.  
  16598.  
  16599.  
  16600. Scott McQueen
  16601.  
  16602. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8443500> over 2 years ago
  16603.  
  16604. How many users will the mailserver side of it support on the device,
  16605. will it have sorting, spam and attachment rules and will it be capable
  16606. of pop3 scheduled collection from another server?
  16607.  
  16608.  
  16609.  
  16610.  
  16611. Team WEDG
  16612.  
  16613. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  16614.  
  16615. @tetardbleu (y) Like! :)
  16616.  
  16617.  
  16618.  
  16619.  
  16620. tetardbleu
  16621.  
  16622. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3829087> over 2 years ago
  16623.  
  16624. Well, if i want to enjoy HDMI and network access, i will need wifi… Or
  16625. to rewire my entire appartment to bring an ethernet cable next to my tv
  16626. screen! I’ll keep praying for wifi :)
  16627.  
  16628.  
  16629.  
  16630.  
  16631. Team WEDG
  16632.  
  16633. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  16634.  
  16635. @david.j.aldred we imagine the same, as the campaign enters the ‘Ending
  16636. Soon’ category on Indiegogo that might be enough to push us through the
  16637. £110,000 mark. We’re working hard on our side try and hit some of the
  16638. major publications and news channels too which might help increase
  16639. exposure. Fingers crossed!
  16640.  
  16641.  
  16642.  
  16643.  
  16644. David Aldred
  16645.  
  16646. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> over 2 years ago
  16647.  
  16648. ref WiFi stetch goal – it’ll be tight, but it can still be done – we’ve
  16649. been on pretty much the same trajectory for a couple of weeks now, which
  16650. should just about see us hit it. If there is the ‘ending soon rush’ that
  16651. should certainly tip it in favour.
  16652.  
  16653. Personally, not too fussed, but can certainly see its appeal to people.
  16654. Slightly frustratingly, there are probably a good few holding off until
  16655. WiFi is unlocked – I think the same was true with HDMI – but hey, that’s
  16656. the nature of it all!
  16657.  
  16658.  
  16659.  
  16660.  
  16661. Team WEDG
  16662.  
  16663. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  16664.  
  16665. @tetardbleu :) we’d love to! But right now its just not feasible. If
  16666. anything changes prior to shipping we’ll let our backers know.
  16667.  
  16668.  
  16669.  
  16670.  
  16671. tetardbleu
  16672.  
  16673. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3829087> over 2 years ago
  16674.  
  16675. Any hope to obtain wifi embedded under 110 k’ :) ?
  16676.  
  16677.  
  16678.  
  16679.  
  16680. Team WEDG
  16681.  
  16682. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  16683.  
  16684. @Alex Stamp No, see the WiFi stretch goal enables us to build a Wireless
  16685. Connection and Network Management interface for WEDG. So we must hit the
  16686. £110,000!!
  16687.  
  16688.  
  16689.  
  16690.  
  16691. Alex Stamp
  16692.  
  16693. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6787108> over 2 years ago
  16694.  
  16695. In the event we don’t get to the wifi stretch goal will a usb wifi
  16696. dongle work with the wedge?
  16697.  
  16698.  
  16699.  
  16700.  
  16701. Team WEDG
  16702.  
  16703. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  16704.  
  16705. @Danilo Montesi yes, we don’t have a road map to detail this yet, but
  16706. sometime soon after shipping WEDG we aim to release the s/w.
  16707.  
  16708.  
  16709.  
  16710.  
  16711. Danilo Montesi
  16712.  
  16713. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/2102128> over 2 years ago
  16714.  
  16715. will the software running on WEDG be available freely to be used on a
  16716. linux box?
  16717.  
  16718.  
  16719.  
  16720.  
  16721. Antoine C
  16722.  
  16723. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4041109> over 2 years ago
  16724.  
  16725. Not a pb for me (I’ve several HDD copy if necessary, I’ll C/C all this).
  16726. Thanks anyway :)
  16727.  
  16728.  
  16729.  
  16730.  
  16731. Team WEDG
  16732.  
  16733. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  16734.  
  16735. @Antoine C great! welcome on-board! Unfortunately RAID support isn’t
  16736. physically possible for WEDG with ARM :s
  16737.  
  16738.  
  16739.  
  16740.  
  16741. Antoine C
  16742.  
  16743. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4041109> over 2 years ago
  16744.  
  16745. That’s a WEDG ARM for me, cleary enough for what I need (NAS/Mail).
  16746. Can’t wait, I’ve been using a Synology for years so I’ll see what WEDG
  16747. can do for me. Any possibility for a RAID with the ARM version ?
  16748.  
  16749.  
  16750.  
  16751.  
  16752. Team WEDG
  16753.  
  16754. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  16755.  
  16756. @Philipp Stäheli ;) as many as you want but we expect users to respect a
  16757. fair usage policy to prevent email address hogging.
  16758.  
  16759.  
  16760.  
  16761.  
  16762. Philipp Stäheli
  16763.  
  16764. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8723017> over 2 years ago
  16765.  
  16766. Yes it does, and very fast as always too. :)
  16767.  
  16768. So how many WEDGMail email adresses are included?
  16769.  
  16770.  
  16771.  
  16772.  
  16773. Team WEDG
  16774.  
  16775. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  16776.  
  16777. @Philipp Stäheli 2/2, The cost associated with WEDGNET at that point
  16778. with be in the region of £2 a month and will allow 2 x WEDG devices but
  16779. this is not for anyone who has backed WEDG on Indiegogo.
  16780.  
  16781. We/WEDGNET is not a domain registrar so you’ll have to buy a domain from
  16782. another party like GoDaddy, One&One, FastHosts, etc and then point your
  16783. DNS to your WEDG.
  16784.  
  16785. Does that clear things up?
  16786.  
  16787.  
  16788.  
  16789.  
  16790. Team WEDG
  16791.  
  16792. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  16793.  
  16794. @Philipp Stäheli 1/2 Sure, with WEDG there are no monthly fees for using
  16795. the our WEDGMail (our domains), your own domain on you own WEDG, WEDGNET
  16796. or any other service WEDG is capable of providing – no monthly fees at
  16797. all. This is strictly true for Indiegogo backers.
  16798.  
  16799. Post Indiegogo, a WEDG bought from a shop or online store will again
  16800. have no monthly fees, except for WEDGNET only for those customers who
  16801. buy a WEDG from a store.
  16802.  
  16803.  
  16804.  
  16805.  
  16806. Philipp Stäheli
  16807.  
  16808. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8723017> over 2 years ago
  16809.  
  16810. In ‘Story’ it says:
  16811. “Alternatively, you can use the WEDG Mail web interface (webmail),
  16812. compatible across all browsers and is mobile friendly too.”
  16813. Can you clarify what services fall under the monthly fee and mark them
  16814. in the discription?
  16815.  
  16816. Can you also elaborate on the lifetime wedgenet membership? What does it
  16817. give me, and how is it connected to the monthly fee?
  16818.  
  16819. If I want to run my own email on WEDG I will have to get my own domain
  16820. as well? Or do I use wedgnet and then pay monthly?
  16821.  
  16822.  
  16823.  
  16824.  
  16825. Team WEDG
  16826.  
  16827. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  16828.  
  16829. @john34754 thanks for your support at the start of our campaign! Yes!!
  16830. The 24 Hour Perks included a 1TB drive – how awesome is that?!
  16831.  
  16832.  
  16833.  
  16834.  
  16835. john34754
  16836.  
  16837. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8707691> over 2 years ago
  16838.  
  16839. Hi guys, I backed the 24 HRS SPECIAL 1 WEDG ARM in the first few hours
  16840. of your launch from the email you sent to Kickstarter backers. Does that
  16841. include a drive?
  16842. Thanks
  16843. John
  16844.  
  16845.  
  16846.  
  16847.  
  16848. Team WEDG
  16849.  
  16850. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  16851.  
  16852. @Bryan Walker love your enthusiasm! We’re focused on Sync and that’s
  16853. what we intend on delivering :)
  16854.  
  16855.  
  16856.  
  16857.  
  16858. Team WEDG
  16859.  
  16860. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  16861.  
  16862. @m562522 thanks for the feedback! I’ll add both suggestions to our
  16863. wishlist and discuss them the dev team. If we are able to include such
  16864. features they’ll either be available in our first release or in software
  16865. updates post shipping.
  16866.  
  16867.  
  16868.  
  16869.  
  16870. Mikhail Granin
  16871.  
  16872. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8719646> over 2 years ago
  16873.  
  16874. Suggestions on couple of killer features\apps:
  16875.  
  16876. 1 Will WEDG allow comments to photos and common albums? This way you are
  16877. getting a great value for all those who are ready to pay for butt
  16878. storage to Google+, Apple iButt photos (just released) and Dropbox
  16879. Carousel users a much better option.
  16880.  
  16881. 2 Will WEDG have it’s own web\mobile media player with
  16882. 1) playlists\smart playlists
  16883. 2) play counts
  16884. 3) rating
  16885. to replace iTunes Match, (I use it but I store mostly my own audio that
  16886. is not matched)
  16887.  
  16888.  
  16889.  
  16890.  
  16891. Team WEDG
  16892.  
  16893. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  16894.  
  16895. @Gaston Cardey unfortunately implementing a Kensington lock is not
  16896. something we can currently build into the WEDG due to the cost of
  16897. tooling and components. However, we realise how valuable this feature
  16898. would be and if its something we can strategically implement without
  16899. compromise during the manufacturing process we will certainly try.
  16900.  
  16901.  
  16902.  
  16903.  
  16904. Gaston Cardey
  16905.  
  16906. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8821945> over 2 years ago
  16907.  
  16908. Hi!
  16909. I wonder if you plan to add some sort of kensington lock so we can
  16910. secure the unit to a desk or some.
  16911. Thanks and keep up with the good work!
  16912.  
  16913.  
  16914.  
  16915.  
  16916. Team WEDG
  16917.  
  16918. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  16919.  
  16920. @smadyk by upgrading to the ’WEDG Pro RAID +1TB Upgrade #2 perk you will
  16921. receive another 1TB HDD giving you potentially 2 × 1TB drives, not 1 ×
  16922. 2TB drive.
  16923.  
  16924.  
  16925.  
  16926.  
  16927. Team WEDG
  16928.  
  16929. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  16930.  
  16931. @Rich Willars awesome! Thanks! :D
  16932.  
  16933.  
  16934.  
  16935.  
  16936. Rich Willars
  16937.  
  16938. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8442821> over 2 years ago
  16939.  
  16940. @Team WEDG Incredible, thanks! Going to share the news with the Lima
  16941. investors over on Kickstarter, this looks like a viable alternative
  16942.  
  16943.  
  16944.  
  16945.  
  16946. Team WEDG
  16947.  
  16948. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  16949.  
  16950. @Rich Willars loving your enthusiasm! Yes, you can plug in an external
  16951. unencrypted USB drive and access the files and watch the movies on it
  16952. via XMBC!
  16953.  
  16954. The backup process can capture external USB drives as well and…WEDG is a
  16955. full sync and share solution, you can access your files via a desktop
  16956. client, mobile app and web browser which is responsive for mobile
  16957. devices too! There you go full marks 10/10!
  16958.  
  16959.  
  16960.  
  16961.  
  16962. Rich Willars
  16963.  
  16964. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8442821> over 2 years ago
  16965.  
  16966. 2/2
  16967.  
  16968. What’d be really nice if the WEDG could then backup those external
  16969. drives onto the NAS server as well. It’d be acting as a full backup
  16970. solution for encrypted and unencrypted data, with potentially unlimited
  16971. storage limits.
  16972.  
  16973. Other question is surrounding file access. How sophisticated is the
  16974. solution for accessing files remotely (from say mobile phones over the
  16975. internet). Does this work similar to Lima on Kickstarter in that it
  16976. syncs files or is it just a simple file browser app?
  16977.  
  16978.  
  16979.  
  16980.  
  16981. Rich Willars
  16982.  
  16983. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8442821> over 2 years ago
  16984.  
  16985. 1/2
  16986.  
  16987. Can’t wait for this.. March seems so far away!
  16988.  
  16989. I’m planning to run the 1TB internal drive and then use the backup
  16990. features on the WEDG to back everything up to a NAS drive. However, I
  16991. don’t want to eat into that precious 1TB with media such as films, which
  16992. don’t really need to be encrypted anyway. Does it support plugging
  16993. external USB drives into the WEDG and being as fully featured as
  16994. accessing files on the internal drive? For example, using an unencrypted
  16995. external drive for XBMC.
  16996.  
  16997.  
  16998.  
  16999. Team WEDG
  17000.  
  17001. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  17002.  
  17003. @Seth Barribeau yes we did this just before we launched on Indiegogo and
  17004. ran GIT (sudo apt-get install git-core) on WEDG with ARM and WEDG Pro
  17005. with Intel. But we didn’t build it into the WEDG as we want to allow
  17006. independent developers build solutions like this for WEDG – or allow
  17007. owners to install their own existing solution.
  17008.  
  17009.  
  17010.  
  17011.  
  17012. Seth Barribeau
  17013.  
  17014. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8723584> over 2 years ago
  17015.  
  17016. Have you tried to set up a private Git repository on the wedg?
  17017.  
  17018.  
  17019.  
  17020.  
  17021. Team WEDG
  17022.  
  17023. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  17024.  
  17025. @jrodgers31 apologies *jrodgers31
  17026.  
  17027.  
  17028.  
  17029.  
  17030. Team WEDG
  17031.  
  17032. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  17033.  
  17034. @jridger31 that’s all we’re thinking about and are internally preparing
  17035. for the manufacturing phase of the project.
  17036.  
  17037.  
  17038.  
  17039.  
  17040. jrogers31
  17041.  
  17042. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> over 2 years ago
  17043.  
  17044. All these stretch goals are great and when you have reached them can you
  17045. get on and build the thing to exacting standards, make sure it works
  17046. properly and supply it please. Many thanks.
  17047.  
  17048.  
  17049.  
  17050.  
  17051. Team WEDG
  17052.  
  17053. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  17054.  
  17055. @david.j.aldred WOOHOO!! Thank you David, and THANK YOU EVERYONE who has
  17056. helped us reached this stage.
  17057.  
  17058.  
  17059.  
  17060.  
  17061. David Aldred
  17062.  
  17063. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> over 2 years ago
  17064.  
  17065. 90k guys – congrats on hitting a significant milestone :o)
  17066.  
  17067.  
  17068.  
  17069.  
  17070. Team WEDG
  17071.  
  17072. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  17073.  
  17074. @Alex Stamp, apologies *Alex
  17075.  
  17076.  
  17077.  
  17078.  
  17079. Team WEDG
  17080.  
  17081. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  17082.  
  17083. @Alan Stamp multiple! We’ve managed to test up to 6, there restriction
  17084. would be at the WEDGNET side of things and we haven’t set a limit.
  17085.  
  17086.  
  17087.  
  17088.  
  17089. Alex Stamp
  17090.  
  17091. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6787108> over 2 years ago
  17092.  
  17093. Hi quick question how many wedg’s can you have in a master slave config?
  17094. Is it just one master and one slave or can you have 1 master and
  17095. multiple slaves?
  17096.  
  17097.  
  17098.  
  17099.  
  17100. smadyk
  17101.  
  17102. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/7989688> over 2 years ago
  17103.  
  17104. Hi,
  17105. I contributed to get a “Wedg Pro with Intel + 1TB”.
  17106. Now, I would like to contribute to get “Wedg PRO RAID”. However, I’m not
  17107. really sure if I can contribute to get “Wedg PRO RAID + 1TB” getting 2TB
  17108. to the end.
  17109.  
  17110. Thank you!
  17111.  
  17112.  
  17113.  
  17114.  
  17115. Team WEDG
  17116.  
  17117. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  17118.  
  17119. @Nickolas Not right now, but just had a quick word of confirmation of
  17120. from the developers and yes its something we can and will implement for
  17121. shipping target. Thanks for the tip! ;)
  17122.  
  17123.  
  17124.  
  17125.  
  17126. Nickolas
  17127.  
  17128. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8474340> over 2 years ago
  17129.  
  17130. Will WEDG include an option to be able to limit the number of times a
  17131. shared link can be used? Like Dropbox?
  17132.  
  17133.  
  17134.  
  17135.  
  17136. Team WEDG
  17137.  
  17138. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  17139.  
  17140. @Dan USB 3.0 hub yes RAID’d no as performance all round is severely
  17141. hindered.
  17142.  
  17143.  
  17144.  
  17145.  
  17146. Dan
  17147.  
  17148. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8707396> over 2 years ago
  17149.  
  17150. Not sure if it’s been answered, but will Wedg allow a USB 3.0 hub and
  17151. multiple external drives to be RAID’ed?
  17152.  
  17153.  
  17154.  
  17155.  
  17156. Team WEDG
  17157.  
  17158. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  17159.  
  17160. @Michael Right-Lawson :D thank you for the support! Means a lot to us here.
  17161.  
  17162.  
  17163.  
  17164.  
  17165. Michael Right-Lawson
  17166.  
  17167. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8741582> over 2 years ago
  17168.  
  17169. ps. good luck at #TCDISRUPT see you on BBClick or something!
  17170.  
  17171.  
  17172.  
  17173.  
  17174. Michael Right-Lawson
  17175.  
  17176. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8741582> over 2 years ago
  17177.  
  17178. Love what you guys are doing here. Frankly I can’t understand why you
  17179. werent funded at kickstarter but every butt huh…and now you are back
  17180. better which is awesome! Shows you have determination and courage and we
  17181. respect you hugely for that. Its so important in today’s connected world
  17182. to have a product like this, the giants can’t and wont relent on our
  17183. privacy its what their business models are based on. keep it up we’re
  17184. right behind you and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.
  17185.  
  17186.  
  17187.  
  17188.  
  17189. Team WEDG
  17190.  
  17191. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  17192.  
  17193. @Philipp Stäheli the website guys are actually waiting for me to provide
  17194. company and contact details I just haven’t had a moment to respond.
  17195. Anyway, here is our company number 08824160, search for that number here
  17196. http://wck2.companieshouse.gov.uk//wcframe?name=accessCompanyInfo and
  17197. you’ll get these results http://wedg.co/company-details.jpg
  17198.  
  17199.  
  17200.  
  17201.  
  17202. Philipp Stäheli
  17203.  
  17204. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8723017> over 2 years ago
  17205.  
  17206. On all your websites there is no company listed, no adress. Unless I
  17207. have not seen it. What is the name of your company? Companies House has
  17208. no search result for ‘Wedg’. Can you post the link to your company?
  17209. It is not that I don’t trust you, but since we are all about security I
  17210. though I’d ask.
  17211.  
  17212.  
  17213.  
  17214.  
  17215. Team WEDG
  17216.  
  17217. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  17218.  
  17219. @Philipp Stäheli 2/2 have over 300 happy supporters. Sure some will have
  17220. their doubts and we respect that; but if and when they do decide WEDG is
  17221. for them, we’ll be here to warmly welcome them into our community.
  17222.  
  17223.  
  17224.  
  17225.  
  17226. Team WEDG
  17227.  
  17228. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  17229.  
  17230. @Philipp Stäheli 1/2 Hi! So we simply can’t see your data, your data is
  17231. encrypted and you retain the encryption keys not us. Your WEDG is in
  17232. your home/office not our data centre (we don’t have one). We have no
  17233. interest in your data. We are in Manchester UK, our company was
  17234. incorporated 23/12/2013 and you can search for us on Companies House
  17235. http://www.companieshouse.gov.uk.
  17236. Ultimately, I guess it boils down to trust, we have done what we can
  17237. express our product is secure and private and
  17238.  
  17239.  
  17240.  
  17241.  
  17242. Philipp Stäheli
  17243.  
  17244. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8723017> over 2 years ago
  17245.  
  17246. Dear Wedg,
  17247.  
  17248. I know that my google email is red and analysed by a robot and
  17249. potentially visible on demand by governments. But the chance this would
  17250. effect me is minimal. That google themselves will be criminally active
  17251. on my account is near impossible.
  17252. With Wedg I have no risk of being analysed, but who tells me your team
  17253. is not after my data? Can you see my data? Who watches over you? Who are
  17254. you? Where’s your company located? Is there a company?
  17255.  
  17256.  
  17257.  
  17258.  
  17259. Team WEDG
  17260.  
  17261. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  17262.  
  17263. @loesljrg Thanks! Really want that £90k, so many of you voted for it in
  17264. the Post Kickstarter survey and we want to deliver it to you!
  17265.  
  17266.  
  17267.  
  17268.  
  17269. loesljrg
  17270.  
  17271. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4049843> over 2 years ago
  17272.  
  17273. We’re creeping up on that 90K goal … and Wedg have just reinstated some
  17274. of the better perks!! [Smart move, guys!] Come on, folks …
  17275.  
  17276.  
  17277.  
  17278.  
  17279. Team WEDG
  17280.  
  17281. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  17282.  
  17283. @Nickolas
  17284. 1. Post Indiegogo WEDGNET will be offered to customers at a monthly fee
  17285. of around £2 a month for up to 2 WEDG connections
  17286.  
  17287. 2. Unlimited yes, however each WEDG will able to pair with another WEDG
  17288. – like to 2 for the price of 1.
  17289.  
  17290. 3. Yes, we can put something together, won’t be immediate as we are
  17291. attending an even next week and will be showing casing WEDG
  17292. there…details soon!
  17293.  
  17294.  
  17295.  
  17296.  
  17297. Nickolas
  17298.  
  17299. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8474340> over 2 years ago
  17300.  
  17301. I just have a few questions.
  17302.  
  17303. 1. How much do you plan on making your WEDGNET service available for
  17304. after the campaign?
  17305. 2. Will a WEDGNET membership cover an unlimited number of WEDG’s?
  17306. 3. Can you make a video demonstration on how easy it actually is to
  17307. setup a WEDG for the first time?
  17308. 4. Can you make a video showing off the WEDG control panel and WEDG apps?
  17309.  
  17310. Thanks
  17311.  
  17312.  
  17313.  
  17314.  
  17315. Team WEDG
  17316.  
  17317. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  17318.  
  17319. @bensonlow78 just sent you a direct message for company details. Thanks
  17320. for the compliments!! :)
  17321.  
  17322.  
  17323.  
  17324.  
  17325. Benson Low
  17326.  
  17327. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/5581723> over 2 years ago
  17328.  
  17329. hi, i need an invoice for my company claims. Can i have one? thanks!
  17330.  
  17331. By the way, it is a great product especially recent news on Dropbox
  17332. security on stolen pasword. Keep up the good work!!!
  17333.  
  17334.  
  17335.  
  17336.  
  17337. Team WEDG
  17338.  
  17339. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  17340.  
  17341. @Igi Lama I recall reaching out to them some months back when we were on
  17342. Kickstarter. I’ll reach out again. Thanks for feedback.
  17343.  
  17344.  
  17345.  
  17346.  
  17347. Igi Lama
  17348.  
  17349. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/5887739> over 2 years ago
  17350.  
  17351. Also a suggestion – have you tried to cooperate with FreedomBox
  17352. Foundation? They have exactly something like this in mind, maybe there
  17353. is some common ground you could work with them on. They’re also very
  17354. focused on open-source and well known in Free Software world so if
  17355. you’re going the open-source way, cooperation with them could raise your
  17356. profile in those circles and maybe provide some guidance…
  17357.  
  17358.  
  17359.  
  17360.  
  17361. Igi Lama
  17362.  
  17363. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/5887739> over 2 years ago
  17364.  
  17365. “Soon after the campaign ends we will plan our road map for releasing
  17366. the code and providing support to the community too.” – Well, I hope for
  17367. the best but after the campaign is a little too late, I’d like to know
  17368. what exactly I’d be pledging for – finding out after I pledged is really
  17369. not acceptable for such a critical issue affecting security of the whole
  17370. product, wouldn’t you say? Guess I’ll just wait and see … Thanks
  17371.  
  17372.  
  17373.  
  17374.  
  17375. Tiger Bus
  17376.  
  17377. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706731> over 2 years ago
  17378.  
  17379. Stevan Newman: 1 ;) Been using Dyndns.org for 10 years until they
  17380. pricing got ridiculous.
  17381.  
  17382.  
  17383.  
  17384.  
  17385. Team WEDG
  17386.  
  17387. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  17388.  
  17389. @Steven Newman Like! :)
  17390.  
  17391.  
  17392.  
  17393.  
  17394. Steven Newman
  17395.  
  17396. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/925661> over 2 years ago
  17397.  
  17398. @Marek459 – DynDNS prices have continued to climb dramatically over the
  17399. last few years. WEDGNET being FREE FOR LIFE definitely helped bring me
  17400. into the fold. :) Well, that an the security conscious, fantastic
  17401. approach that these guys are taking.
  17402.  
  17403.  
  17404.  
  17405.  
  17406. Team WEDG
  17407.  
  17408. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  17409.  
  17410. @marek459 my pleasure. Have fun! :)
  17411.  
  17412.  
  17413.  
  17414.  
  17415. marek
  17416.  
  17417. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8728643> over 2 years ago
  17418.  
  17419. Excellent (and interesting – I hadn’t come across DynDNS before). Thanks!
  17420.  
  17421.  
  17422.  
  17423.  
  17424. Team WEDG
  17425.  
  17426. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  17427.  
  17428. @marek459 WEDGNET is nothing like bitsync or wuala. Its more like
  17429. DynDNS. WEDGNET provides a dynamic DNS service so your WEDG can be
  17430. located on the internet. It also provides a Relay Server for SMTP.
  17431. Encrypted data from other WEDG devices would only appear on your WEDG if
  17432. you have agreed with a friend to act as their remote backup and vice versa.
  17433. WEDGNET is an optional service, so you could chose other Dynamic DNS and
  17434. Relay providers. WEDGNET is also FREE FOR LIFE for Indiegogo backers :)
  17435.  
  17436.  
  17437.  
  17438.  
  17439. marek
  17440.  
  17441. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8728643> over 2 years ago
  17442.  
  17443. Could you provide a little bit more detail on the technology behind
  17444. WEDGNet? It seems to share some features with services like btsync or
  17445. Wuala, is it at all similar in the way it operates? (And would this
  17446. mean, for instance, that some encrypted information from other WEDGs
  17447. would spend some time on my WEDG?)
  17448.  
  17449.  
  17450.  
  17451.  
  17452. Team WEDG
  17453.  
  17454. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  17455.  
  17456. @Steve Ng good questions;
  17457. 1. Yes, scheduled replication to secondary drive is possible
  17458. 2. This is something we are looking at as its on our wishlist, with
  17459. particular attention on separating media such a movie and music file.
  17460. 3. Yes, you can add a new HDD for RAID1 any time without the primary
  17461. drive having to do anything
  17462. Yes, the built in recovery tool asks you to authorise the backup archive
  17463. with password or by uploading the encryption key.
  17464. Thank you!
  17465.  
  17466.  
  17467.  
  17468.  
  17469. Steve Ng
  17470.  
  17471. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/2113279> over 2 years ago
  17472.  
  17473. With dual-drive support, would it be possible to
  17474. 1. configure a scheduled replication from master drive to secondary drive?
  17475. 2. Separate different content (doc, email, media) onto separate drives?
  17476. 3. upgrade single-drive (with data) to RAID-1 later without data loss?
  17477.  
  17478. Also, for backup to local USB, would it be possible to configure both
  17479. encrypted and unencrypted backup? If encrypted, how can the data on the
  17480. USB drive be restored with a WEDG?
  17481.  
  17482. Thanks.
  17483.  
  17484.  
  17485.  
  17486.  
  17487. Team WEDG
  17488.  
  17489. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  17490.  
  17491. @Igi Lama 2/2 Soon after the campaign ends we will plan our road map for
  17492. releasing the code and providing support to the community too. This has
  17493. to be done properly and that’s how we want to do it.
  17494.  
  17495. Personally, we’ve all used open source software in our personal and
  17496. professional lives and collectively we’re excited about the opportunity
  17497. to give something back to the open community.
  17498.  
  17499.  
  17500.  
  17501.  
  17502. Team WEDG
  17503.  
  17504. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  17505.  
  17506. @Igi Lama 1/2 glad you love our project :) there is no intentional
  17507. obscurity and we have every intention to release our code. Since 06/13
  17508. we have been focused on building the solution, soon after we focused on
  17509. getting our crowd-funding campaign up and ready, the first attempt
  17510. failed so we tried again. Now our focus as part of the plan on is
  17511. pushing and promoting the campaign as well responding backer queries.
  17512.  
  17513. We want to do things properly; fail to prepare, prepare to fail right?
  17514.  
  17515.  
  17516.  
  17517.  
  17518. Igi Lama
  17519.  
  17520. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/5887739> over 2 years ago
  17521.  
  17522. I love this project but there is no security through obscurity – unless
  17523. it’s completely open-source, it can not be considered secure. You’re
  17524. very vague about open-sourcing it … AGPLv3 would be ideal for this kind
  17525. of project, I hope you’ll make clear your intentions as if there would
  17526. end up being closed blobs, that would be very disapointing …
  17527.  
  17528.  
  17529.  
  17530.  
  17531. Team WEDG
  17532.  
  17533. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  17534.  
  17535. @Tiger Bus thanks for your input as always. I guess the choice is there
  17536. for individuals, if/when the IM app is developed and made available. We
  17537. see our future in privacy and security.
  17538.  
  17539. Ultimately its you guys to tell us what you want by voting with your
  17540. fingers on the survey; so if you haven’t already please compete the
  17541. survey today – https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/QK36QSR – you have till
  17542. Friday midnight GMT.
  17543.  
  17544. We’ve had 158 responses so far!
  17545.  
  17546.  
  17547.  
  17548.  
  17549. Team WEDG
  17550.  
  17551. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  17552.  
  17553. @Nikolai Tesla thank you for your feedback and of course we very much
  17554. value your and everyone’s ‘hard earned funds’ very much.
  17555.  
  17556.  
  17557.  
  17558.  
  17559. Tiger Bus
  17560.  
  17561. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706731> over 2 years ago
  17562.  
  17563. Oh yes, security all the way! But a messenger?! I Do you seriously want
  17564. YET ANOTHER messenger on your phone? I have only two, one of them being
  17565. fully encrypted, and I already have the problem with different friend
  17566. groups using different services. Awful! Maybe we can find a different
  17567. goal in the security/privacy ecosystem? I completely agree on all the
  17568. media streaming blabla stuff. No need to build a mini dreambox here ;)
  17569.  
  17570.  
  17571.  
  17572.  
  17573. Nikolai Tesla
  17574.  
  17575. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> over 2 years ago
  17576.  
  17577. I agree completely with contributor Steven Newman remarks about Wedg
  17578. being a security centric product and everything else should take a back
  17579. seat. That is what attracted me to this idea and product while providing
  17580. my hard earned funds to see it into a fully functional device. All other
  17581. options are bells & whistles since I rather have the security and
  17582. privacy aspects of Wedg. My advice to Team WEDG is to FOCUS on security
  17583. and privacy in order to create an ironclad device.
  17584.  
  17585.  
  17586.  
  17587.  
  17588. Team WEDG
  17589.  
  17590. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  17591.  
  17592. @Steven Newman thank you for your input Steven :)
  17593.  
  17594.  
  17595.  
  17596.  
  17597. Steven Newman
  17598.  
  17599. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/925661> over 2 years ago
  17600.  
  17601. I disagree regarding the Messenger feature. It’s expanding your goal of
  17602. security. Because it wasn’t HDMI or streaming video that brought us to
  17603. your product. There are oodles of devices out there that do that, and do
  17604. it well. What brought us here was a company taking security seriously
  17605. for a change, and offering that to folks.
  17606.  
  17607. So for me? I’d rather have the secure Messenger feature before either
  17608. the Wi-Fi or the HDMI goal. I know that’s just me, but please keep
  17609. focused on the security.
  17610.  
  17611.  
  17612.  
  17613.  
  17614. Team WEDG
  17615.  
  17616. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  17617.  
  17618. @Philipp Stäheli the bandwidth monitor allows you to see how much data
  17619. is passing through your WEDG. You can limit the bandwidth if you wish to
  17620. yes.
  17621.  
  17622.  
  17623.  
  17624.  
  17625. Philipp Stäheli
  17626.  
  17627. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8723017> over 2 years ago
  17628.  
  17629. In the features list it says: Bandwith and Data transfer monitor.
  17630. Does that mean I also have control over it, can I limit bandwith?
  17631.  
  17632.  
  17633.  
  17634.  
  17635. Tiger Bus
  17636.  
  17637. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706731> over 2 years ago
  17638.  
  17639. I’d fully support Philipp’s view in terms of features, stretch goals and
  17640. the IM ;) Just keep it real and make the key features perfect for now…
  17641. will be hard enough ;)
  17642.  
  17643.  
  17644.  
  17645.  
  17646. Team WEDG
  17647.  
  17648. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  17649.  
  17650. @Philipp Staheli :) thank you so much we’re touched by your compliment!
  17651.  
  17652.  
  17653.  
  17654.  
  17655. Philipp Stäheli
  17656.  
  17657. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8723017> over 2 years ago
  17658.  
  17659. Team Wedg, it is nice to see how professionally you keep doing this.
  17660. Ever since I started following this campain on KS it’s become my
  17661. standart in terms of PR/user contact and now I am frequently
  17662. dissapointed by other campains not being as professional about it as you
  17663. are. :)
  17664.  
  17665.  
  17666.  
  17667.  
  17668. Team WEDG
  17669.  
  17670. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  17671.  
  17672. @Philipp Stäheli thanks for your feedback.
  17673.  
  17674.  
  17675.  
  17676.  
  17677. Philipp Stäheli
  17678.  
  17679. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8723017> over 2 years ago
  17680.  
  17681. the answers are too limited for me to take the survey.
  17682.  
  17683. the question should be which other strech goal should move forward.
  17684. This LED is just kids stuff and you want to burn money on it. This
  17685. messanger is an idea, but it is too far off your concept of secure data
  17686. storage and transmission. Stay true to your concept and expand as you
  17687. go. Don’t overload WEDG with things you do not know if there is a demand
  17688. for it. People want HDMI, they want WIFI, why suddenly introduce this
  17689. messanger thing?
  17690.  
  17691.  
  17692.  
  17693.  
  17694. Team WEDG
  17695.  
  17696. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  17697.  
  17698. @fia10 great minds! ;)
  17699.  
  17700.  
  17701.  
  17702.  
  17703. Team WEDG
  17704.  
  17705. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  17706.  
  17707. @Steve Ng no, the Upgrade RAID perks enables the standard WEDG Pro with
  17708. Intel to support RAID1 or two independent drives.
  17709.  
  17710.  
  17711.  
  17712.  
  17713. blandat
  17714.  
  17715. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6957871> over 2 years ago
  17716.  
  17717. @Ken Taylor, that’s understandable, let me rephrase it. (English is not
  17718. my native language…)
  17719.  
  17720. I would prefer to bump up the development of the office suit , so the
  17721. strechgoals would be something like
  17722.  
  17723. HDMI
  17724. wi-fi
  17725. web-based office suit
  17726. led/IM (don’t care what order)
  17727.  
  17728. That’s my opinion and wish, I can see it might not be possible, but I
  17729. rather have the office suit up and running before IM or the possibility
  17730. to change the led.
  17731.  
  17732. @wedge, glad you chose a suit I use already :)
  17733.  
  17734.  
  17735.  
  17736.  
  17737. Steve Ng
  17738.  
  17739. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/2113279> over 2 years ago
  17740.  
  17741. The Storage page states “Due to popular demand WEDG Pro with Intel now
  17742. supports RAID1 or two independent drives. To enable RAID support for
  17743. your WEDG Pro with Intel please select an Upgrade Perk on the right.”
  17744.  
  17745. Does this imply that the standard WEDG Pro with Intel supports two
  17746. independent drives and does not need the Upgrade Perk?
  17747.  
  17748. Thanks.
  17749.  
  17750.  
  17751.  
  17752.  
  17753. Team WEDG
  17754.  
  17755. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  17756.  
  17757. @fia10 @Ken Taylor we have short listed LibreOffice and OpenOffice as
  17758. the suites we will consider for development to make our own web based
  17759. office suite with WPS Office as a possibility to consider too.
  17760.  
  17761.  
  17762.  
  17763.  
  17764. Ken Taylor
  17765.  
  17766. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6123904> over 2 years ago
  17767.  
  17768. @fia10 – any mega corp butt solution be it google docs or web office
  17769. docs is what the WEDG is going to replace so we can have total control
  17770. over our own email and files, changing from one mega corp to another is
  17771. not the goal
  17772. We don’t know yet what office suite the WEDG will use yet but
  17773. LibreOffice can be made to work as a web app, Its still in beta and
  17774. under development. It would be easier to use an existing suite that
  17775. users already know than learning and creating yet another office suite
  17776.  
  17777.  
  17778.  
  17779.  
  17780. blandat
  17781.  
  17782. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6957871> over 2 years ago
  17783.  
  17784. or jump right to the web office docs apps? a perfect replacement for
  17785. google docs
  17786.  
  17787.  
  17788.  
  17789.  
  17790. Scott McQueen
  17791.  
  17792. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8443500> over 2 years ago
  17793.  
  17794. I haven’t decided yet if I’m keeping the first device for myself or
  17795. installing it in the main office (Will probably end up with four of
  17796. them). For home use the hdmi, xbmc, plex etc I could use quite easily
  17797. alongside the secure features of the device but for work these are not
  17798. needed, The secure IM, emails, and data storage are of much greater use.
  17799. We use an old version of ICQcorp IM still to this day but a version
  17800. integrated into the WEDG would be very useful alongside the WEDG’s other
  17801. features
  17802.  
  17803.  
  17804.  
  17805.  
  17806. Neil Campbell
  17807.  
  17808. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/5713479> over 2 years ago
  17809.  
  17810. I agree with the IM naysayers, I’m sorry to say. I’d rather have
  17811. something like Crashplan support or richer functionality within the
  17812. planned apps please.
  17813.  
  17814.  
  17815.  
  17816.  
  17817. Team WEDG
  17818.  
  17819. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  17820.  
  17821. Thanks for the feedback guys. The point really is to expand on the
  17822. privacy factor; email is a form of communication as is IM so why not
  17823. secure them both off; was our thinking. Indeed it would be handled as a
  17824. project in itself and introduced overtime – not at the same time as
  17825. shipping the WEDG.
  17826.  
  17827.  
  17828.  
  17829.  
  17830. Team WEDG
  17831.  
  17832. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  17833.  
  17834. @Mikko Värri if I understood you correctly; if you wanted to ‘format’
  17835. your WEDG and install your own software you may do so its your hardware;
  17836. however by doing so none of the WEDG offerings will be available to you.
  17837. If you wanted to run WEDG and other software side by side – we couldn’t
  17838. be sure that other software won’t introduce performance and reliability
  17839. issues so you’d need to aware of these possibilities.
  17840.  
  17841.  
  17842.  
  17843.  
  17844. Ken Taylor
  17845.  
  17846. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6123904> over 2 years ago
  17847.  
  17848. Just to promote a discussion what are we looking for next after we reach
  17849. the stretch goals – RAID5 ? – (only joking) ;-)
  17850. HDMI, XBMC, WIFI, LEDs, WEB Office suite, are already on the list. so
  17851. what else do we want from WEDG or external developers
  17852. 2TB HDDs (upgrade perk?), USB Hub, Card Reader, messenger, SABNZB,
  17853. BTorrent, Crashplan, VLC, antivirus, Airtame compatible, password
  17854. manager (keepass?), OPTware, Asterisk
  17855. what does everyone else want to see? is there a list of most requested APPs?
  17856.  
  17857.  
  17858.  
  17859.  
  17860. Ken Taylor
  17861.  
  17862. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6123904> over 2 years ago
  17863.  
  17864. Dont think the messenger is a priority, think lots more coding required
  17865. for the messenger over coloured LEDs, Getting people using yet another
  17866. messenger is a Hard. OK for internal office but not home user,
  17867. Interested in more INFO about the office App and getting to this stretch
  17868. goal (Modifying something like Libra Office online would be good), Put
  17869. messenger after existing stretch goals or let an external Dev create it.
  17870. there are LOADS of good uses for the WEDG. but have them optional Apps.
  17871.  
  17872.  
  17873.  
  17874.  
  17875. Ken Taylor
  17876.  
  17877. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6123904> over 2 years ago
  17878.  
  17879. @Mikko Varri, looks pretty open the board for the Pro can run Debian
  17880. GNU/Linux, Windows 8.1, Yocto Project Compatible, Android 4.4 System and
  17881. seen posts of other Linux versions and BSD being installed.
  17882. http://www.elinux.org/Minnowboard:MinnowMax#Layout_2 details of the board
  17883.  
  17884.  
  17885.  
  17886.  
  17887. Tiger Bus
  17888.  
  17889. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706731> over 2 years ago
  17890.  
  17891. A messenger built onto the WEDG platform doesn’t really sound like a
  17892. neccessity to me, especially the connection to the WEDG is rather “weak”
  17893. if not… useless? Starting a secure messaging system is a whole new
  17894. project, whether that’d be in times of numerous other working messengers
  17895. (e.g. Threema…) a good idea, is not clear to me. If you can clearly
  17896. define the selling point how the WEDG itself as a system would benefit
  17897. from having a messenger…. why not ;) “Hey Fred, I have a file for you.”?
  17898.  
  17899.  
  17900.  
  17901.  
  17902. Mikko Värri
  17903.  
  17904. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8212665> over 2 years ago
  17905.  
  17906. Thanks team wedg. On many mobile phones the telephony side is running
  17907. its own sw that isn’t as open as the app side (hw specs aren’t
  17908. released). Another example: on many Linux PCs the BIOS is still closed
  17909. source. On WEDG, will it be possible to replace all the software with
  17910. Free Software, or will there be some hardware for which proprietary
  17911. software is required?
  17912.  
  17913.  
  17914.  
  17915.  
  17916. Team WEDG
  17917.  
  17918. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  17919.  
  17920. @Mikko Värri
  17921. As individuals we consciously want give back to the open community by
  17922. releasing our software so we are very serious; we just don’t have a road
  17923. map yet.
  17924. Could you elaborate on the hardware question?
  17925.  
  17926.  
  17927.  
  17928.  
  17929. Mikko Värri
  17930.  
  17931. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8212665> over 2 years ago
  17932.  
  17933. Hi, how serious are you guys about open sourcing the software? How about
  17934. the hardware, will it be “Free Software friendly” or will there always
  17935. be some closed source components? Thanks.
  17936.  
  17937.  
  17938.  
  17939.  
  17940. Team WEDG
  17941.  
  17942. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  17943.  
  17944. @david.j.aldred good question. It would be invitation based. So Person A
  17945. would invite Person B to click on a link (download the app if needed)
  17946. and join a list of contacts and start conversing.
  17947.  
  17948.  
  17949.  
  17950.  
  17951. David Aldred
  17952.  
  17953. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> over 2 years ago
  17954.  
  17955. Interesting update guys. On the face of it – I think it’s a fab idea.
  17956. How would it work with regards to who can/can’t contact you via the system?
  17957. Would it be only other WEDG owners, or is anyone you ‘give access to’ –
  17958. like running your own whatsapp server, so to speak?
  17959.  
  17960.  
  17961.  
  17962.  
  17963. Team WEDG
  17964.  
  17965. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  17966.  
  17967. @Tiger Bus let me catch up with our electronics guy and get back you and
  17968. response to your emails too.
  17969.  
  17970.  
  17971.  
  17972.  
  17973. Tiger Bus
  17974.  
  17975. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706731> over 2 years ago
  17976.  
  17977. 3/3
  17978.  
  17979. The amperage on the 5V side would of course be much higher, like 1.275A
  17980. – which fits into reality given that you will probably need to supply a
  17981. 2.5A@5V DC supply just like a raspi.
  17982.  
  17983. As expected, the maximum ratings for borad and processor are in no way
  17984. close to real life usage in THIS case. In fact, we’ll probably end up as
  17985. less than half. Yay.
  17986.  
  17987. Thanx!
  17988.  
  17989.  
  17990.  
  17991.  
  17992. Tiger Bus
  17993.  
  17994. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706731> over 2 years ago
  17995.  
  17996. 2/3
  17997.  
  17998. So If I calculate back “in time” for the Intel variant I take 918whrs
  17999. divided by 144 (?) hours and get am average wattage of 6.375W of board
  18000. AND a single HD. Which is really ok, especially given the fact, that no
  18001. power saving has been used. You state about 0.051A, which is most
  18002. certainly AC side @110volts (not 5V!), as 6.375W/110V=0.057A indicates.
  18003.  
  18004.  
  18005.  
  18006.  
  18007. Tiger Bus
  18008.  
  18009. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706731> over 2 years ago
  18010.  
  18011. 1/3
  18012.  
  18013. Hmm….. I don’t understand the power consumption
  18014. calculation/measurements. Over a time period, you measured WHAT? kWh I
  18015. guess? Then on the other hand you multiply amperage (this is what?
  18016. average over the time period?) that is most certainly AC with the 5V DC
  18017. side to show wattage……. which is most certainly wrong.
  18018.  
  18019. I guess you did not manually integrate over time, so you probably had
  18020. some devoce to measure kWh on the AC side, right?
  18021.  
  18022.  
  18023.  
  18024.  
  18025. Team WEDG
  18026.  
  18027. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  18028.  
  18029. @david.j.aldred yes it does and at the same time thanks to you and
  18030. everyone who has supported us on Indiegogo we look forward to a new
  18031. phase in the WEDG journey one we can embark on together.
  18032.  
  18033.  
  18034.  
  18035.  
  18036. David Aldred
  18037.  
  18038. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> over 2 years ago
  18039.  
  18040. Inching closer towards the 90k mark – which I’m sure holds physiological
  18041. significance for the team as well as unlocking that first stretch goal!
  18042. The Wedg message is spreading!
  18043.  
  18044.  
  18045.  
  18046.  
  18047. Tiger Bus
  18048.  
  18049. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706731> over 2 years ago
  18050.  
  18051. @Philipp: I think you can limit mobile data to wifi-only in Android…
  18052. with specials apps you can probably to that even per-app, but I haven’t
  18053. tried personally… dig through Google and the Playstore, there is so much
  18054. out there…….
  18055.  
  18056.  
  18057.  
  18058.  
  18059. Team WEDG
  18060.  
  18061. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  18062.  
  18063. @Philipp Staheli it’s not something we’ve built into our app. But it’s a
  18064. good suggestion, and I’ll add it to our features wish list :)
  18065.  
  18066.  
  18067.  
  18068.  
  18069. Philipp Stäheli
  18070.  
  18071. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8723017> over 2 years ago
  18072.  
  18073. With the wedg app on my adroid phone, can I set it so it only
  18074. synchronizes when connected to a wifi to save on my data limitations?
  18075. (or is that something I need to set in adroid?)
  18076.  
  18077.  
  18078.  
  18079.  
  18080. Team WEDG
  18081.  
  18082. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  18083.  
  18084. @scott.henderson1 hmm…thanks for the heads up, I changed it to ‘WEDG Pro
  18085. with Intel @ £249’ almost immediately when the last Perk sold out. I’ve
  18086. removed it and re-added it just in case – cleared my cache and its
  18087. definitely set now.
  18088.  
  18089.  
  18090.  
  18091.  
  18092. scott.henderson
  18093.  
  18094. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3201718> over 2 years ago
  18095.  
  18096. Hey Team WEDG!
  18097.  
  18098. With the £219 WEDG Pro with Intel + 1 TB now sold out, you may want to
  18099. Feature the £249 version or the £149 WEDG with ARM + 1TB, as new
  18100. supporters need to scroll down quite a ways to get to the actual hardware.
  18101.  
  18102. Cheers!
  18103.  
  18104.  
  18105.  
  18106.  
  18107. Team WEDG
  18108.  
  18109. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  18110.  
  18111. @Tiger Bus agreed.
  18112.  
  18113.  
  18114.  
  18115.  
  18116. Tiger Bus
  18117.  
  18118. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706731> over 2 years ago
  18119.  
  18120. Nice, that all of the recent press coverage seems to emphasize the
  18121. privacy aspect. Good call these days!
  18122.  
  18123.  
  18124.  
  18125.  
  18126. Team WEDG
  18127.  
  18128. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  18129.  
  18130. @Peter Dalmaris no need to apologise, we’re here to help :) Yes, file
  18131. versioning is available per user on WEDG.
  18132.  
  18133.  
  18134.  
  18135.  
  18136. Peter Dalmaris
  18137.  
  18138. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/7104926> over 2 years ago
  18139.  
  18140. Hi Team Wedg, sorry if this is mentioned before. Will it be possible to
  18141. restore a previous version of a file, like it is possible to do on
  18142. Dropbox? If not now, maybe in the future?
  18143.  
  18144.  
  18145.  
  18146.  
  18147. Team WEDG
  18148.  
  18149. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  18150.  
  18151. @Ken Taylor thanks for chipping in there Ken, @jon.gagne exactly as @Ken
  18152. Taylor said :)
  18153.  
  18154.  
  18155.  
  18156.  
  18157. Ken Taylor
  18158.  
  18159. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6123904> over 2 years ago
  18160.  
  18161. @jon,gagne : @loesljrg asked a similar question 3 days ago.
  18162. Backups can be made To a USB drive or a NAS so if you have backups on a
  18163. remote Drive then the standalone mini version of the WEDG Backup
  18164. Recovery tool under development will facilitate this process allowing
  18165. you to gain access to files which might not already be in your WEDG Sync
  18166. folder. This should sort your problems out and allow you to access your
  18167. files without a second WEDG
  18168.  
  18169.  
  18170.  
  18171.  
  18172. jon.gagne
  18173.  
  18174. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/7870344> over 2 years ago
  18175.  
  18176. Hey Guys! Product looks great!
  18177.  
  18178. Quick question. In a similar scenario as James Taylor below. In a
  18179. situation where I do not have a WEDG device at a separate location that
  18180. would be connected to my WEDG. What would happen if a natural disaster
  18181. would destroy my WEDG? Is there a way to get those files/backups back?
  18182. In other words, is a secondary WEDG necessary to ensure that I can
  18183. reclaim my files if ever an unfortunate scenario were to happen to my WEDG.
  18184.  
  18185. Thanks!
  18186.  
  18187.  
  18188.  
  18189.  
  18190. Scott McQueen
  18191.  
  18192. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8443500> over 2 years ago
  18193.  
  18194. Cheers, missed that one completely :s
  18195.  
  18196.  
  18197.  
  18198.  
  18199. Team WEDG
  18200.  
  18201. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  18202.  
  18203. @Scott McQueen @david.j.aldred pretty much covered it, thanks for
  18204. chipping there ;)
  18205.  
  18206.  
  18207.  
  18208.  
  18209. David Aldred
  18210.  
  18211. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> over 2 years ago
  18212.  
  18213. Here is the vid….
  18214. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/wedg-the-personal-butt-you-ve-been-waiting-for/x/8470844#designanddev
  18215.  
  18216.  
  18217.  
  18218.  
  18219. David Aldred
  18220.  
  18221. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> over 2 years ago
  18222.  
  18223. @Scott – Yes, all the LED’s can be turned off! There is a video about 2
  18224. thirds of the way down showing the different LED options available.
  18225.  
  18226.  
  18227.  
  18228.  
  18229. Scott McQueen
  18230.  
  18231. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8443500> over 2 years ago
  18232.  
  18233. I know the WedG is designed to be ‘pretty’ but is there an option to
  18234. disable all led’s/warnings as I intend to store my device somewhere out
  18235. of sight and secure. Not much point to me having secure storage and
  18236. leaving it in plain sight ;)
  18237.  
  18238.  
  18239.  
  18240.  
  18241. Carol Bohm-Scott
  18242.  
  18243. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  18244.  
  18245. @Brian sure you can, just click the Contribute Now button and manually
  18246. enter £40 or £90 and we’ll do the rest here.
  18247.  
  18248.  
  18249.  
  18250.  
  18251. Brian
  18252.  
  18253. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4535871> over 2 years ago
  18254.  
  18255. Can we add the RAID ready perk to the driveless Intel WEDG? How do we
  18256. update our contribution to add it?
  18257.  
  18258.  
  18259.  
  18260.  
  18261. Carol Bohm-Scott
  18262.  
  18263. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  18264.  
  18265. @vasvi.cakir :)
  18266.  
  18267.  
  18268.  
  18269.  
  18270. vasvi.cakir
  18271.  
  18272. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8713392> over 2 years ago
  18273.  
  18274. Great!
  18275.  
  18276.  
  18277.  
  18278.  
  18279. Carol Bohm-Scott
  18280.  
  18281. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  18282.  
  18283. @Anders Stangeland yes that was my typing error, apologies. I mean to
  18284. type 35mm
  18285.  
  18286.  
  18287.  
  18288.  
  18289. Anders Stangeland
  18290.  
  18291. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8673957> over 2 years ago
  18292.  
  18293. Standard 2,5" HDD size is 9,5mm, so 3,5mm look wrong.
  18294.  
  18295.  
  18296.  
  18297.  
  18298. Carol Bohm-Scott
  18299.  
  18300. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  18301.  
  18302. @Ken Taylor the current bay is 3.5mm tall as it was designed to house
  18303. the operating and spare HDD. We may adjust the bay dimensions when
  18304. building in additional support racks for RAID supported WEDG devices and
  18305. and this will take the 15mm thick HDDs into consideration too.
  18306.  
  18307.  
  18308.  
  18309.  
  18310. Ken Taylor
  18311.  
  18312. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6123904> over 2 years ago
  18313.  
  18314. How big will the bays for the HDDs be as many of the 2TB drives are up
  18315. to 15mm thick? will we be able to fit this thickness of drive.
  18316. thanks
  18317.  
  18318.  
  18319.  
  18320.  
  18321. Carol Bohm-Scott
  18322.  
  18323. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  18324.  
  18325. @James Taylor sorry to hear about your house fire. As @david.j.aldred
  18326. (thank you!) kindly pointed out, yes you can off-set backups between two
  18327. or more WEDG devices and that’s just one of the backup types WEDG is
  18328. able to provide.
  18329.  
  18330.  
  18331.  
  18332.  
  18333. David Aldred
  18334.  
  18335. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> over 2 years ago
  18336.  
  18337. @James
  18338. Yes absolutely you can!
  18339. Take a look at the ‘Backups’ section..
  18340. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/wedg-the-personal-butt-you-ve-been-waiting-for/x/8470844#backups
  18341.  
  18342. 2 of the (several) options include: ‘Master & Slave’ config which I
  18343. think keeps your WEDG fully sync’d (probably not quite what you’re after
  18344. in this case) and ‘Backup to Another WEDG’, which sends periodic
  18345. encrypted backups to someone else’s WEDG (assuming they’ve allowed it,
  18346. of course).
  18347.  
  18348.  
  18349.  
  18350.  
  18351. James Taylor
  18352.  
  18353. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/5657565> over 2 years ago
  18354.  
  18355. If I have a WEDG and my parents have one as well, can we both use our
  18356. own WEDG’s but also back up each others? That is, we would both be an
  18357. offsite backup for each other.
  18358.  
  18359. We lost a house years ago, and it was amazing (in a bad way) to realize
  18360. just how much you lose when the house goes up in flames. We had backups
  18361. of many things, but nearly all of them where in the same house together.
  18362. This would be a great incentive for them to buy one (and be my back up…).
  18363.  
  18364. Thanks
  18365.  
  18366.  
  18367.  
  18368.  
  18369. Carol Bohm-Scott
  18370.  
  18371. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  18372.  
  18373. tetardbleu sorry I didn't get your message, I have reported it to
  18374. supportindiegogo.com. Well just to say, you could still use 2×2TB, we
  18375. currently aren’t in a position to offer it.
  18376.  
  18377. PING! Your Upgrade just came through! Thank you for your on going
  18378. support, good night!
  18379.  
  18380.  
  18381.  
  18382.  
  18383. tetardbleu
  18384.  
  18385. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3829087> over 2 years ago
  18386.  
  18387. Just to say after the @tigerbus comment, that i had sent you a private
  18388. message via indiegogo too. i figured that you would answer when you
  18389. could, but maybe you didn’t receive it after all? Anyway, it was about
  18390. the 2TB or more drive, before the raid option was suggested. I’m happy
  18391. with this option. except in my dream, it would have been : 2X 2TB drive.
  18392. (I have a lot of multimedia files :) ). Good night and good luck for the
  18393. stretch goals. I’m going for the updated perk right now.
  18394.  
  18395.  
  18396.  
  18397.  
  18398. Carol Bohm-Scott
  18399.  
  18400. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  18401.  
  18402. @Ken Taylor sl-eeep? :-| Thank you for the support and best wishes!
  18403.  
  18404.  
  18405.  
  18406.  
  18407. Ken Taylor
  18408.  
  18409. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6123904> over 2 years ago
  18410.  
  18411. @Tiger bus: Shehbas is normally right on top of emails, I dont think he
  18412. leaves the office or sleeps
  18413. I think there shouldn’t be more driveless WEDG (devices, appliances,
  18414. servers?) offered but when the team have sufficient volume to Exceed
  18415. MOQ’s they could offer another upgrade perk for 2TB drives but would
  18416. need to calculate (may be by a survey?) if they will still meet MOQ’s or
  18417. not. I have +1.5TB on USB HDD so need at least this space.
  18418. Congratulations WEDG team roll on Easter.
  18419.  
  18420.  
  18421.  
  18422.  
  18423. Carol Bohm-Scott
  18424.  
  18425. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  18426.  
  18427. @loesljrg Yes! We have a standalone mini version of the WEDG Backup
  18428. Recovery tool under development which will facilitate this process
  18429. allowing you to gain access to files which might not already be in your
  18430. WEDG Sync folder.
  18431.  
  18432. Thank you for the awesome support! :)
  18433.  
  18434.  
  18435.  
  18436.  
  18437. loesljrg
  18438.  
  18439. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4049843> over 2 years ago
  18440.  
  18441. Suppose I’ve been uploading encrypted .zip archives to a butt service
  18442. such as Dropbox. Then, my Wedg fails or needs repair. Is there a
  18443. disaster recovery tool for unencrypting the .zips stored at my butt
  18444. service, when the Wedg is down?
  18445.  
  18446. Congrats on meeting the 71K goal!! Press on.
  18447.  
  18448.  
  18449.  
  18450.  
  18451. Carol Bohm-Scott
  18452.  
  18453. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  18454.  
  18455. @Tiger Bus I do get messages from others via Indiegogo but I haven’t
  18456. received any from you :( We are busy here yes but I’m keeping one and
  18457. half eyes on the comments too, anything I can help you with?
  18458.  
  18459.  
  18460.  
  18461.  
  18462. Tiger Bus
  18463.  
  18464. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706731> over 2 years ago
  18465.  
  18466. @shebaz: I tried contacting you via indiegogo, but it seems you either
  18467. don’t receive these messages or are too busy? comment section seems to
  18468. get updates frequently, so I’m trying to find the error in the system
  18469. here ;))
  18470.  
  18471.  
  18472.  
  18473.  
  18474. Carol Bohm-Scott
  18475.  
  18476. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  18477.  
  18478. @fia10 uncross those fingers, you’ll need them to setup your WEDG!
  18479. Stretch goal targets are unaffected and remain at the specified targets.
  18480.  
  18481.  
  18482.  
  18483.  
  18484. Carol Bohm-Scott
  18485.  
  18486. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  18487.  
  18488. @scott.henderson1 hi-5! Yes agree with all you said!
  18489.  
  18490.  
  18491.  
  18492.  
  18493. Carol Bohm-Scott
  18494.  
  18495. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  18496.  
  18497. @Peter Dalmaris thank you Peter, means a lot!
  18498.  
  18499.  
  18500.  
  18501.  
  18502. blandat
  18503.  
  18504. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6957871> over 2 years ago
  18505.  
  18506. Congrats to you all, keep up the good work!
  18507.  
  18508. just one question (for now…)
  18509.  
  18510. Since the HDMI perk in my MOST WANTED to, is the £40 for the RAID
  18511. upgrade included in the goals/stretchgoals or not? Guess it shouldn’t,
  18512. but will the figures shown here be with or without?
  18513.  
  18514. so I know when to stop crossing my fingers, hopefully before the need of
  18515. medical attention ;)
  18516.  
  18517.  
  18518.  
  18519.  
  18520. scott.henderson
  18521.  
  18522. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3201718> over 2 years ago
  18523.  
  18524. Congrats WEDG team and supporters!
  18525.  
  18526. Now on to my MOST WANTED perk @ £90,000, HDMI connection on the back
  18527. with built-in media player (XBMC).
  18528.  
  18529. I also hope you reach your necessary target to release more Drive-less
  18530. WEDG Pro with Intel models, as those sold really well and could
  18531. definitely help with getting to further Stretch Goals.
  18532.  
  18533. Cheers and Hi-5!
  18534.  
  18535.  
  18536.  
  18537.  
  18538. Peter Dalmaris
  18539.  
  18540. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/7104926> over 2 years ago
  18541.  
  18542. Congratulations Team WEDG, very happy for you!
  18543.  
  18544.  
  18545.  
  18546.  
  18547. Carol Bohm-Scott
  18548.  
  18549. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  18550.  
  18551. @aaddiikk thank you! No time to drink much hard work yet to do, some
  18552. dancing and hi5’ing very likely though :)
  18553.  
  18554.  
  18555.  
  18556.  
  18557. aaddiikk
  18558.  
  18559. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8707168> over 2 years ago
  18560.  
  18561. Hope the drives will be HGST as they are lasting ages comparing to other
  18562. brands…
  18563.  
  18564. P.S. We’ve done it guys! Congrats! (don’t drink too much today!)
  18565.  
  18566.  
  18567.  
  18568.  
  18569. Carol Bohm-Scott
  18570.  
  18571. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  18572.  
  18573. @david.j.aldred yes your plural example is perfectly accurate.
  18574.  
  18575.  
  18576.  
  18577.  
  18578. Carol Bohm-Scott
  18579.  
  18580. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  18581.  
  18582. @stefan.woessner yes we’ll figure it out! Thank you for you support! :)
  18583.  
  18584.  
  18585.  
  18586.  
  18587. Carol Bohm-Scott
  18588.  
  18589. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  18590.  
  18591. @david.j.aldred without getting into the complexities of MOQs,
  18592. manufacturing contracts, guaranteed factory time, etc. we aren’t in a
  18593. position quit yet to release more Drive-less WEDG Pro with Intel models.
  18594.  
  18595. Thanks for caring so much about our brand values :) The plural for
  18596. ’WEDG’s’ is WEDG or WEDG devices…we tend to say “the WEDG LEDs look
  18597. stunning” or “if Tom has 3 WEDG devices how will he carry them?”
  18598. :)
  18599.  
  18600.  
  18601.  
  18602.  
  18603. David Aldred
  18604.  
  18605. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> over 2 years ago
  18606.  
  18607. @stefan – I wondered that, the Wedg is the brand, not the shape, so not
  18608. sure you can really ‘es’ it? (But I make no claim to be an expert on
  18609. English Language!).
  18610. I thought Wedg’s, but wondered if simlpy keeping it an irregular noun –
  18611. so Wedg as the plural – like fish, sheep
  18612.  
  18613.  
  18614.  
  18615.  
  18616. Carol Bohm-Scott
  18617.  
  18618. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  18619.  
  18620. @david.j.aldred we haven’t finalised which brand of HDD we’ll be
  18621. shipping yet as things can change over the course of 60 days but minimum
  18622. specification will be SATA3 @7200RPM.
  18623.  
  18624.  
  18625.  
  18626.  
  18627. Carol Bohm-Scott
  18628.  
  18629. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  18630.  
  18631. @t.munari we plan to run a decibel test with two internal hard drives
  18632. later this week so I’ll report back the results.
  18633.  
  18634. At this stage we aren’t concerned that heat will be an issue or a show
  18635. stopper as during development we found the entire enclosure reached an
  18636. average of 24.3 degrees Celsius with CPU and HDD under a great amount of
  18637. load.
  18638.  
  18639.  
  18640.  
  18641.  
  18642. stefan.woessner
  18643.  
  18644. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6518395> over 2 years ago
  18645.  
  18646. Hi, I made two perks now, one for the Pro w drive plus one for the Raid
  18647. upgrade w drive. I’m sure you guys will figure it out that these two
  18648. belong together!?
  18649. @ david.j.aldred I guess it should be Wedges ;-)
  18650.  
  18651.  
  18652.  
  18653.  
  18654. David Aldred
  18655.  
  18656. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> over 2 years ago
  18657.  
  18658. Just a thought – presumably you still need a few more orders to hit your
  18659. original MOQ’s with your manufacturers. Given the RAID solution should
  18660. now have given your HDD order a good boost, perhaps releasing some more
  18661. drive-less Wedg’s is again an option – these seemed very popular and
  18662. sold out fast.
  18663.  
  18664. *Side note – what is the correct plural for Wedg? ;o)
  18665.  
  18666.  
  18667.  
  18668.  
  18669. Carol Bohm-Scott
  18670.  
  18671. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  18672.  
  18673. @scott.henderson1 thanks for chipping in there :)
  18674.  
  18675.  
  18676.  
  18677.  
  18678. Carol Bohm-Scott
  18679.  
  18680. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  18681.  
  18682. @Steve Ng no the standard WEDG Pro with Intel supports one HDD, the
  18683. upgrade then enables two HDD over SATA.
  18684.  
  18685.  
  18686.  
  18687.  
  18688. Scott McQueen
  18689.  
  18690. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8443500> over 2 years ago
  18691.  
  18692. Well done guys, nice to know this is finally going to happen!
  18693.  
  18694.  
  18695.  
  18696.  
  18697. David Aldred
  18698.  
  18699. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> over 2 years ago
  18700.  
  18701. Guys, quick question – what drives are you planning to put in these?
  18702.  
  18703.  
  18704.  
  18705.  
  18706. Heiko Zeller
  18707.  
  18708. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8715891> over 2 years ago
  18709.  
  18710. Congrats guys!
  18711.  
  18712.  
  18713.  
  18714.  
  18715. Carol Bohm-Scott
  18716.  
  18717. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  18718.  
  18719. What a wonderful surprise to wake up to! THANK YOU EVERYONE!! I’ll get
  18720. back to all of your comments individually shortly. :D :D :D
  18721.  
  18722.  
  18723.  
  18724.  
  18725. David Aldred
  18726.  
  18727. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> over 2 years ago
  18728.  
  18729. 71k!!
  18730. Congrats guys – now let’s smash it!
  18731.  
  18732.  
  18733.  
  18734.  
  18735. t.munari
  18736.  
  18737. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/7463940> over 2 years ago
  18738.  
  18739. Hi,
  18740. I ma quite bothered by noise level,
  18741. If it’s an appliance going to be always on, in a home environment, I
  18742. would really like it to be as silent as possible,
  18743. What are the plans?
  18744. Could you assure passive cooling (also in the intel version) will be enough?
  18745. Even with 2nd hard drive in raid?
  18746. Thank you
  18747.  
  18748.  
  18749.  
  18750.  
  18751. Steven Newman
  18752.  
  18753. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/925661> over 2 years ago
  18754.  
  18755. Hey guys, quick question regarding features. I know we’ve discussed
  18756. shared calendars but what about a shared Task list(s)?
  18757.  
  18758. Thanks,
  18759. Steven
  18760.  
  18761.  
  18762.  
  18763.  
  18764. scott.henderson
  18765.  
  18766. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3201718> over 2 years ago
  18767.  
  18768. @ Steve Ng, you’ll need to UPGRADE the standard WEDG Pro with Intel in
  18769. order to gain the RAID1 or RAID1 + 1TB.
  18770.  
  18771. So if you’ve already contributed to the campaign and chosen a WEDG Pro
  18772. with Intel perk, you’ll simply need to select your desired RAID1 or
  18773. RAID1 + 1TB perk in order to have out of the box RAID-1 support when you
  18774. receive the WEDG.
  18775.  
  18776.  
  18777.  
  18778.  
  18779. Steve Ng
  18780.  
  18781. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/2113279> over 2 years ago
  18782.  
  18783. Really happy to see the option of RAID-1 support!
  18784.  
  18785. Quote “Due to popular demand WEDG Pro with Intel now supports RAID1 or
  18786. two independent drives.” – Does the standard WDGE Pro with Intel plaform
  18787. supports two independent drives by default or need to UPGRADE to get the
  18788. 2nd drive support (can be configured for RAID1 or two independent drives)?
  18789.  
  18790. Thanks!
  18791.  
  18792.  
  18793.  
  18794.  
  18795. Carol Bohm-Scott
  18796.  
  18797. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  18798.  
  18799. @Avidan Perry thanks for the support!
  18800.  
  18801.  
  18802.  
  18803.  
  18804. Avidan Perry
  18805.  
  18806. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8759384> over 2 years ago
  18807.  
  18808. HI,
  18809. I’m very excited with WEDG solution. I beleive this is the face of the
  18810. future where privacy is respected and users consume competative online
  18811. services.
  18812. Good Luck t’ya all!
  18813.  
  18814.  
  18815.  
  18816.  
  18817. Carol Bohm-Scott
  18818.  
  18819. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  18820.  
  18821. @Tiger Bus thanks for the support…not long now!
  18822.  
  18823.  
  18824.  
  18825.  
  18826. Carol Bohm-Scott
  18827.  
  18828. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  18829.  
  18830. @Dan sorry for the late , we don’t know but will find out for you
  18831. as a soon as possible. Thanks for your patience.
  18832.  
  18833.  
  18834.  
  18835.  
  18836. Tiger Bus
  18837.  
  18838. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706731> over 2 years ago
  18839.  
  18840. Damn, seems like I will need to upgrade even though I’m broke already!!
  18841. ;) Let’s wait for the good news to actually happen……. This campaign has
  18842. already been won, congrats!
  18843.  
  18844.  
  18845.  
  18846.  
  18847. Carol Bohm-Scott
  18848.  
  18849. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner over 2 years ago
  18850.  
  18851. @david.j.aldred we’ll figure it out ;p
  18852.  
  18853.  
  18854.  
  18855.  
  18856. David Aldred
  18857.  
  18858. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> over 2 years ago
  18859.  
  18860. Hmm, the below didn’t quite come out as planned – but you get the jist
  18861. I’m sure ;o)
  18862.  
  18863.  
  18864.  
  18865.  
  18866. David Aldred
  18867.  
  18868. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> over 2 years ago
  18869.  
  18870. Thanks for update guys – look forward to hearing the results today/tomorrow!
  18871.  
  18872. <Voice tone=soft volume=Low>Upgrade Perk. Upgrade Perk
  18873.  
  18874. </fingers crossed>
  18875.  
  18876.  
  18877.  
  18878.  
  18879. Dan
  18880.  
  18881. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8707396> over 2 years ago
  18882.  
  18883. Can a USB 3.0 hub and multiple external drives be set up in a RAID
  18884. configuration?
  18885.  
  18886.  
  18887.  
  18888.  
  18889. Tiger Bus
  18890.  
  18891. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706731> almost 3 years ago
  18892.  
  18893. There is not mich processing power involved in simple RAID1 logics, so
  18894. there shouldn’t be huge power draw on this board. Main power draw will
  18895. be in the second drive itself, which will most certainly not need active
  18896. cooling…
  18897.  
  18898.  
  18899.  
  18900.  
  18901. Carol Bohm-Scott
  18902.  
  18903. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  18904. years ago
  18905.  
  18906. @Mark Ragowski 2/2 load and all LEDs on for 24 hours. The HDD reported
  18907. ~33 degrees (SMART) well within its recommended operating temperature
  18908. and the board showed ~32 degrees using an infrared thermometer.
  18909.  
  18910. We can reengineer the enclosure and or add a fan if we need to without
  18911. having to pass the costs on to backers but we’re confident in the design
  18912. and that heat is able to escape through the vents on the top back of the
  18913. WEDG enclosure.
  18914.  
  18915.  
  18916.  
  18917.  
  18918. Carol Bohm-Scott
  18919.  
  18920. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  18921. years ago
  18922.  
  18923. @Mark Ragowski 1/2 we haven’t performed any thermal tests yet – we
  18924. wanted to try and get RAID working first. Our meeting scheduled for
  18925. Monday will cover this and other issues we need to be potentially aware
  18926. of and our manufacturing partners are best placed to advise us of this.
  18927.  
  18928. At this stage we aren’t concerned that heat will be an issue or a show
  18929. stopper as during development we found the entire enclosure reached an
  18930. average of 24.3 degrees Celsius with CPU and HDD under a great amount of
  18931.  
  18932.  
  18933.  
  18934.  
  18935. Mark Ragowski
  18936.  
  18937. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8735670> almost 3 years ago
  18938.  
  18939. @Wedg – I’m curious if you’ve done the thermals with extra XOR RAID
  18940. processor and 2nd drive. Seems like a lot of extra heat to dissipate
  18941. with (I’m assuming) no cooling fan. Thanks.
  18942.  
  18943.  
  18944.  
  18945.  
  18946. Tiger Bus
  18947.  
  18948. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706731> almost 3 years ago
  18949.  
  18950. likey, likey
  18951.  
  18952.  
  18953.  
  18954.  
  18955. Carol Bohm-Scott
  18956.  
  18957. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  18958. years ago
  18959.  
  18960. @Tiger Bus :) Yep! Same enclosure but we need to make some modifications
  18961. to accommodate two drives, two sets of cables and fixtures to keep the
  18962. drives securely positioned in the WEDG.
  18963.  
  18964. I have a meeting planned with the manufacturing partners and tooling
  18965. designer for Monday morning to discuss these requirements and I will
  18966. report when I get back to base.
  18967.  
  18968.  
  18969.  
  18970.  
  18971. Tiger Bus
  18972.  
  18973. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706731> almost 3 years ago
  18974.  
  18975. So IF raid1, the two drives will fit in the same enclosure? Now THAT
  18976. would be cool. “Native” system backup would be an argument to upgrade
  18977. for sure, as I have experienced drive failures before ;)
  18978.  
  18979.  
  18980.  
  18981.  
  18982. Carol Bohm-Scott
  18983.  
  18984. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  18985. years ago
  18986.  
  18987. @scott.henderson1 and @david.j.aldred thank you for your feedback. We
  18988. have a preferred method too which we feel is fair for everyone, but will
  18989. we keep mum until the results are in.
  18990.  
  18991.  
  18992.  
  18993.  
  18994. David Aldred
  18995.  
  18996. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> almost 3 years ago
  18997.  
  18998. Agree with every point Scott made.
  18999. Hopefully the survey results will match that – I think those who are
  19000. interested in this will be more than happy to pay (if the price is right
  19001. of course)
  19002.  
  19003.  
  19004.  
  19005.  
  19006. scott.henderson
  19007.  
  19008. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3201718> almost 3 years ago
  19009.  
  19010. WEDG Team thank you for allowing the community to choose which way to
  19011. offer the RAID option within the campaign. I’ve voted for the Upgrade
  19012. Perk options (RAID and RAID + 1TB) for a number of reasons.
  19013.  
  19014. 1. A mid-level Stretch Goal makes it a possibility, but not a certainty,
  19015. 2. The money raised with these perks gets us closer to the existing
  19016. Stretch Goals.
  19017. 3. More drives sold, might mean more Drive-less with Intel perks could
  19018. be made available, which means even more money towards the Goal.
  19019.  
  19020.  
  19021.  
  19022.  
  19023. Carol Bohm-Scott
  19024.  
  19025. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  19026. years ago
  19027.  
  19028. @Chris Horsfield yes, you can pay the difference and upgrade to a WEDG
  19029. Pro with Inte. Simply hit the Contribute Now button and manually enter
  19030. the difference – and we’ll do the rest on our side :)
  19031.  
  19032.  
  19033.  
  19034.  
  19035. Carol Bohm-Scott
  19036.  
  19037. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  19038. years ago
  19039.  
  19040. @david.j.aldred and Philipp Stäheli a dedicated media drive and or data
  19041. only drive was supported via USB anyway and is now with SATA too.
  19042.  
  19043.  
  19044.  
  19045.  
  19046. Chris Horsfield
  19047.  
  19048. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4115733> almost 3 years ago
  19049.  
  19050. If the RAID add on goes ahead will there be a pathway for those who
  19051. chose ARM to pay the extra £70 and upgrade to an Intel board? My initial
  19052. judgement was that the extra expense of the Intel board was not
  19053. warranted but twin drives and RAID would be a significant enhancement.
  19054.  
  19055. Chris
  19056.  
  19057.  
  19058.  
  19059.  
  19060. Philipp Stäheli
  19061.  
  19062. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8723017> almost 3 years ago
  19063.  
  19064. Indeed @David.j.aldred, that is a great idea. If there were according
  19065. options in the software (strong seperation), it would be awesome if one
  19066. drive could serve as NAS storage and the other as my butt drive. I would
  19067. feel much more comfortable storing public and private data.
  19068. Me personally, I’d choose mirroring though.
  19069.  
  19070.  
  19071.  
  19072.  
  19073. David Aldred
  19074.  
  19075. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> almost 3 years ago
  19076.  
  19077. Awesome – drive for private, drive for public (media) – just awesome.
  19078.  
  19079.  
  19080.  
  19081.  
  19082. Carol Bohm-Scott
  19083.  
  19084. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  19085. years ago
  19086.  
  19087. @david.j.aldred thank you! :) YES! You can also run two drives
  19088. independently as well!
  19089.  
  19090.  
  19091.  
  19092.  
  19093. Carol Bohm-Scott
  19094.  
  19095. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  19096. years ago
  19097.  
  19098. @Philipp Stäheli yes printer sharing is possible, but we haven’t
  19099. implemented it. Like you said we would prefer for a developer to take
  19100. this on. If however no one does shortly after shipping, we will make
  19101. this available in the system as part of an OS update.
  19102.  
  19103.  
  19104.  
  19105.  
  19106. David Aldred
  19107.  
  19108. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> almost 3 years ago
  19109.  
  19110. Great news on raid guys, well done.
  19111. Would this extend to running two drives without raid?
  19112.  
  19113.  
  19114.  
  19115.  
  19116. Philipp Stäheli
  19117.  
  19118. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8723017> almost 3 years ago
  19119.  
  19120. Hey Wedg, have you looked in the printer share option again from KS still?
  19121. Is this something a developer could add later if you do not?
  19122.  
  19123.  
  19124.  
  19125.  
  19126. Carol Bohm-Scott
  19127.  
  19128. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  19129. years ago
  19130.  
  19131. @psalois yes sure I’ll add it to the list, we’re currently testing Opera
  19132. Mail too!
  19133.  
  19134.  
  19135.  
  19136.  
  19137. psalois
  19138.  
  19139. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8721127> almost 3 years ago
  19140.  
  19141. This is a great project !
  19142.  
  19143. You write that WEDG mail will support Outlook, AppleMail and
  19144. Thunderbird. What about KDE Kmail and Kontact ? If not presently
  19145. supported, can you think about adding it ?
  19146.  
  19147. Thanks.
  19148.  
  19149.  
  19150.  
  19151.  
  19152. Carol Bohm-Scott
  19153.  
  19154. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  19155. years ago
  19156.  
  19157. @loesljrg you’re very welcome :) and thanks for confirming the link!
  19158.  
  19159.  
  19160.  
  19161.  
  19162. loesljrg
  19163.  
  19164. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4049843> almost 3 years ago
  19165.  
  19166. @Shehbaz
  19167.  
  19168. The alternative URL works here (after enabling Javascript).
  19169.  
  19170. Regardless of the final implementation decision, thanks much for
  19171. listening, and for finding a way to offer RAID. Awesome!
  19172.  
  19173.  
  19174.  
  19175.  
  19176. Carol Bohm-Scott
  19177.  
  19178. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  19179. years ago
  19180.  
  19181. Hi Steve Ng
  19182.  
  19183. Sorry I don’t know why that is, looks like the link is pointing to
  19184. another survey on our account, try this one –
  19185. https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/M5CRLKK
  19186.  
  19187. Thanks
  19188. Shehbaz
  19189.  
  19190.  
  19191.  
  19192.  
  19193. Steve Ng
  19194.  
  19195. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/2113279> almost 3 years ago
  19196.  
  19197. The Surveymonkey link does not work. Thanks
  19198.  
  19199.  
  19200.  
  19201.  
  19202. Carol Bohm-Scott
  19203.  
  19204. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  19205. years ago
  19206.  
  19207. @david.j.aldred its agonising for us here! C’mooooon!
  19208.  
  19209.  
  19210.  
  19211.  
  19212. David Aldred
  19213.  
  19214. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> almost 3 years ago
  19215.  
  19216. £5k to go! Going to be a long 50+ day wait!
  19217.  
  19218.  
  19219.  
  19220.  
  19221. scott.henderson
  19222.  
  19223. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3201718> almost 3 years ago
  19224.  
  19225. @ Ken Taylor – Thanks for digging through the list of contributors.
  19226.  
  19227.  
  19228.  
  19229.  
  19230. Tiger Bus
  19231.  
  19232. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706731> almost 3 years ago
  19233.  
  19234. 2/2
  19235.  
  19236. The WEDGNET part is quite hard to judge, I still don’t fully grasp
  19237. what’s this all about, mainly, because I personally don’t care for much
  19238. more than dynamic dns service. All the rest will be done using standards
  19239. I have in productive operation already. Maybe I just don’t understand it
  19240. properly, but i will most certainly not have @wedgnet email aliases or
  19241. alike to communicate securely ;) I’ll see once this tower of power
  19242. actually ships ;)) To sum it up: I’m quite confident they’ll make it.
  19243.  
  19244.  
  19245.  
  19246.  
  19247. Tiger Bus
  19248.  
  19249. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706731> almost 3 years ago
  19250.  
  19251. 1/2
  19252.  
  19253. @Mark Ragowski: These are “just” quite a few (open-source) software
  19254. packages that need to be tailored and stripped down into proper
  19255. symbiosis with some custom glue. Basis functionality should be pretty
  19256. easy and is probably already there, advanced detailing to actually morph
  19257. the whole thing into THE WEDG will most certainly take more time than
  19258. they have – but a few updates after delivery will be highly appreciated,
  19259. as long as key functionality is relaiable and secure.
  19260.  
  19261.  
  19262.  
  19263.  
  19264. Tiger Bus
  19265.  
  19266. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706731> almost 3 years ago
  19267.  
  19268. The more this campaign is “over-funded” the more funds can go into
  19269. software quality. No need to deliver banana software like many other’s
  19270. do, just because they anounced some ridiculous stretch goals wasting
  19271. precious funds for crap ;)
  19272.  
  19273.  
  19274.  
  19275.  
  19276. Ken Taylor
  19277.  
  19278. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6123904> almost 3 years ago
  19279.  
  19280. @scott.henderson1
  19281. looking at contributions from mark “I love the vision and am genuinely
  19282. interested in how they do (hence the reason I contributed)”
  19283. To the tune of £1 looking through the funders list
  19284. I may be wrong but looks like he only contributed just enough to comment.
  19285.  
  19286. I hope the Wedg team smash the funding so they don’t need the additional
  19287. support of family and friends to make this project fly.
  19288.  
  19289.  
  19290.  
  19291.  
  19292. scott.henderson
  19293.  
  19294. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3201718> almost 3 years ago
  19295.  
  19296. @Mark Ragowski – Thanks for pointing out your occupation and thus
  19297. providing some context for your preceding comments. If you look back, I
  19298. hope you see how they could be taken negatively.
  19299.  
  19300. For those of us who backed the project initially in KS, we have a bit
  19301. more context with regards to the 70K goal this time out. Needless to say
  19302. the team is supported by a great bunch of friends and family members,
  19303. who believe in them.
  19304.  
  19305. Glad you are on board and interested in the end result. Cheers!
  19306.  
  19307.  
  19308.  
  19309.  
  19310. Mark Ragowski
  19311.  
  19312. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8735670> almost 3 years ago
  19313.  
  19314. @scott.henderson1
  19315.  
  19316. I’m a butt architect by day, so I know how difficult it is to pull this
  19317. off. I have backed similar projects on KS (Transporter, Lima, Space
  19318. Monkey) and some of the other backers asked me what I thought about Wedg.
  19319.  
  19320. I love the vision and am genuinely interested in how they do (hence the
  19321. reason I contributed). I just know how hard this is to do even with
  19322. years of development and millions of dollars. I have no idea how they
  19323. plan to get this done with only 70K quid.
  19324.  
  19325.  
  19326.  
  19327.  
  19328. sattler
  19329.  
  19330. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8272012> almost 3 years ago
  19331.  
  19332. I find it actually very entertaining to follow the comments here (thanks
  19333. scott.henderson1). As always in crowdfunding and data security in
  19334. general) there is the question of trust.
  19335. I trust these guys here, too. More than some competitors who are
  19336. seemingly getting down to dubious marketing practise at least.
  19337.  
  19338.  
  19339.  
  19340.  
  19341. scott.henderson
  19342.  
  19343. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3201718> almost 3 years ago
  19344.  
  19345. I have two great HP MediaSmart Windows Home Servers and a D-Link DNS-345
  19346. Sharecenter working fine right now here at home. However I’m still
  19347. supporting the WEDG as I believe in the campaign, product and the team
  19348. behind it. I don’t see the “kitchen sink” approach, I see a team that
  19349. was unsuccessful raising funds initially, surveyed their supporters to
  19350. see what they wanted in the product and went back to the drawing board
  19351. to come up with a new campaign and products.
  19352.  
  19353.  
  19354.  
  19355.  
  19356. scott.henderson
  19357.  
  19358. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3201718> almost 3 years ago
  19359.  
  19360. @ Mark Ragowski – I find it odd that you’d contribute to campaign that
  19361. you obviously do not support, just so that you could post comments to
  19362. promote another product and talk down about others. Is Connected Data
  19363. that scared of innovation and competition from another company? It is
  19364. also interesting that this is the first campaign that you’ve contributed
  19365. to and commented on within Indiegogo.
  19366.  
  19367. @ Steve Newman – Well said!
  19368.  
  19369.  
  19370.  
  19371.  
  19372. Steven Newman
  19373.  
  19374. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/925661> almost 3 years ago
  19375.  
  19376. We all make a decision to support or not. I’ve followed these chaps from
  19377. the KS campaign. I believe in them and their vision. I believe enough to
  19378. divert funds from other things to help this product see the light of day.
  19379.  
  19380. I would much rather support a visionary team who are taking security and
  19381. privacy concerns seriously, and making them available to home and small
  19382. business users than a product that sort of meets my needs. I am 110% in
  19383. their camp. I am a believer.
  19384.  
  19385.  
  19386.  
  19387.  
  19388. Mark Ragowski
  19389.  
  19390. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8735670> almost 3 years ago
  19391.  
  19392. @Ken Taylor
  19393. Exactly my point. The Wedg guys are promising more than Transporter or
  19394. even Dropbox does today & they both have $M in VC backing, loads of
  19395. really smart engineers & 5+ year head start. The Lima folks @ KS did the
  19396. same “kitchen sink” approach, raised 10X Wedg’s goal & are almost a YEAR
  19397. past their promised delivery date with no product in sight.
  19398.  
  19399. @david.j.aldred
  19400. Are you sure it’s existing hardware? I saw a guy soldering in the video
  19401. and it’s clearly not off-the-shelf I.D.
  19402.  
  19403.  
  19404.  
  19405.  
  19406. Carol Bohm-Scott
  19407.  
  19408. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  19409. years ago
  19410.  
  19411. @tetardbleu no worries, your support here is what counts and what we
  19412. appreciate the most.
  19413.  
  19414.  
  19415.  
  19416.  
  19417. tetardbleu
  19418.  
  19419. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3829087> almost 3 years ago
  19420.  
  19421. Thats indeed exactly why i didn’t participated to the thunderclap… Sorry.
  19422.  
  19423.  
  19424.  
  19425.  
  19426. Carol Bohm-Scott
  19427.  
  19428. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  19429. years ago
  19430.  
  19431. @Nikolai Tesla point well made.
  19432.  
  19433.  
  19434.  
  19435.  
  19436. Nikolai Tesla
  19437.  
  19438. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> almost 3 years ago
  19439.  
  19440. @WEDG UK, I am not surprised that Thunderclap is only at 53% since a
  19441. chunk of your contributors are privacy and security conscious group of
  19442. people and Thunderclap requires Facebook, Twitter and Tumbler, which
  19443. collect data, to propagate this campaign.
  19444.  
  19445.  
  19446.  
  19447.  
  19448. Carol Bohm-Scott
  19449.  
  19450. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  19451. years ago
  19452.  
  19453. Just a reminder, we’re running a Thunderclap for October 7th and we’re
  19454. 53%… clapped(?) If you haven’t already please join in today, its FREE
  19455. and will give our campaign a boost of awareness on social media! Here’s
  19456. the link – https://www.thunderclap.it/projects/16458-wedg-on-indiegogo
  19457.  
  19458. Thank you all! :)
  19459.  
  19460.  
  19461.  
  19462.  
  19463. Ken Taylor
  19464.  
  19465. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6123904> almost 3 years ago
  19466.  
  19467. @Mark Ragowski
  19468. The Wedg is not like the transporter, they share some of the same
  19469. features but so does my NAS The Wedg is an email server with Groupware
  19470. features + media server if stretch goal is reached + additional apps
  19471. from developers
  19472. I don’t see the Lima as a failure, OK its currently running 10+ months
  19473. late but it will eventually arrive
  19474. if you want a product NOW with a guaranteed next day delivery wait & buy
  19475. it at Amazon Ill continue to give patronage to ideas I believe are worth
  19476. the risk
  19477.  
  19478.  
  19479.  
  19480.  
  19481. David Aldred
  19482.  
  19483. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> almost 3 years ago
  19484.  
  19485. Haha – Indiegogo projects, of course ;o)
  19486. (spend waaay too much time on both sites!)
  19487.  
  19488.  
  19489.  
  19490.  
  19491. David Aldred
  19492.  
  19493. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> almost 3 years ago
  19494.  
  19495. @Mark All KS projects have an element of risk – and it is of course down
  19496. to the user (us) to balance risk v reward – and of course for the
  19497. creators to be upfront with any risks and challenges, where they
  19498. currently are with progress etc
  19499.  
  19500. It’s worth noting that what the guys are doing is taking existing
  19501. hardware elements, and building their own software platform on top of
  19502. it. This takes away much of the challenge around building hardware from
  19503. scratch, so the biggest risk is around the s/ware dev
  19504.  
  19505.  
  19506.  
  19507.  
  19508. Mark Ragowski
  19509.  
  19510. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8735670> almost 3 years ago
  19511.  
  19512. Interesting concept, but it has been done before and can be purchased
  19513. today. I backed a similar product called Transporter
  19514. (www.filetransporter.com) on KS over a year ago. It works great and they
  19515. keep improving it all the time with free updates.
  19516.  
  19517. The WEDG guys have promised the moon just like the failed Lima project
  19518. on KS. Their backers are out over $1.2M US and are screaming for
  19519. refunds. I hope these guys can deliver, but have serious doubts with the
  19520. promises they are making. Good luck lads.
  19521.  
  19522.  
  19523.  
  19524.  
  19525. Carol Bohm-Scott
  19526.  
  19527. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  19528. years ago
  19529.  
  19530. @Eliasz 2/2 If a vulnerability that affects WEDG is discovered we will
  19531. commit to finding a fix as a matter of priority. Each situation is
  19532. different and so I can’t commit to a time frame at this moment, rest
  19533. assured the issue will be dealt with urgently and we will keep all lines
  19534. of communication open to support and guide users.
  19535.  
  19536.  
  19537.  
  19538.  
  19539. Carol Bohm-Scott
  19540.  
  19541. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  19542. years ago
  19543.  
  19544. @Eliasz 1/2 so, we have two methods of updating the WEDG OS, you can
  19545. download the update manually from our website and flash the WEDG. Or you
  19546. can use the built-in automatic update function. The automatic update
  19547. function will download the patch and advise the Admin its ready for install.
  19548.  
  19549.  
  19550.  
  19551.  
  19552. Eliasz
  19553.  
  19554. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695051> almost 3 years ago
  19555.  
  19556. Hi Guys,
  19557.  
  19558. I’m curious about how you plan to release patches/system updates for the
  19559. WEDG? If there is another vulnerability like the current issues in Bash
  19560. or the recent heartbleed, how long could it be before we could expect a
  19561. patch from your team? Will patches be manually applied, or will there be
  19562. a way for the WEDG to pull system updates automatically? Will it based
  19563. on something like apt or yum, or will you be creating your own custom
  19564. update systems?
  19565.  
  19566. Thanks
  19567.  
  19568.  
  19569.  
  19570.  
  19571. Carol Bohm-Scott
  19572.  
  19573. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  19574. years ago
  19575.  
  19576. @Philipp Stäheli and @Ken Taylor correct! Bulk buying helps keep cost of
  19577. production low and also helps us keep strong relationships with
  19578. suppliers over the long term.
  19579.  
  19580. We are working hard to get to the bottom of the RAID issue, I can
  19581. apologise for the delay and thank you for your support and patience but
  19582. we must get this right, first time, one way or another.
  19583.  
  19584.  
  19585.  
  19586.  
  19587. Ken Taylor
  19588.  
  19589. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6123904> almost 3 years ago
  19590.  
  19591. @Philip Staheli
  19592. In July they answered this as “economies of scale” they have to purchase
  19593. a minimum number of HDD for a discount and if they do lots of diskless
  19594. Wedg they would not be able to achieve this
  19595. I would like a raid system myself £$ dependant
  19596. I looked at possibility to mod Intel board with a seacat lure for mSATA
  19597. & mPCIe for 802.11ac. but performance is the question?
  19598. Hope Shehbaz can sort something out. he has emailed and posted an update
  19599. so lets give them a chance to look in to it
  19600.  
  19601.  
  19602.  
  19603.  
  19604. Tiger Bus
  19605.  
  19606. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706731> almost 3 years ago
  19607.  
  19608. @David Christian: I don’t think they can judge every USB device out
  19609. there without having access to one. There are thousands of USB storage
  19610. solutions with hundreds of special implementations of soft-raids and
  19611. what not… No way they can support all of them or even know which devices
  19612. use which specialties………….
  19613.  
  19614.  
  19615.  
  19616.  
  19617. Philipp Stäheli
  19618.  
  19619. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8723017> almost 3 years ago
  19620.  
  19621. Hello Wedg,
  19622.  
  19623. thank you for your quick and professional answer (as always) about RAID.
  19624. It is looking very well for your campain. Have you considered
  19625. re-prioritising
  19626. the strechgoals in favour of a RAID? I like to play around with LED
  19627. colours as much as anyone,.. but RAID trumps LED or maybe other things
  19628. in the strechgoallist..
  19629.  
  19630. A different question:
  19631. Why do you limit the drive-less intel option? It seems a lot of people
  19632. prefer this option.
  19633.  
  19634.  
  19635.  
  19636.  
  19637. Carol Bohm-Scott
  19638.  
  19639. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  19640. years ago
  19641.  
  19642. @Eric Reddoch we see both contributions, thanks for the support :)
  19643.  
  19644.  
  19645.  
  19646.  
  19647. Eris Reddoch
  19648.  
  19649. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4761761> almost 3 years ago
  19650.  
  19651. I didn’t see a way to add the International Shipping when I made the
  19652. first contribution, so I added the 6 pound one.
  19653.  
  19654.  
  19655.  
  19656.  
  19657. Carol Bohm-Scott
  19658.  
  19659. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  19660. years ago
  19661.  
  19662. @scott.henderson1 SNAP! We love it here too and it will be a feature in
  19663. the WEDG shipping for March! :)
  19664.  
  19665.  
  19666.  
  19667.  
  19668. scott.henderson
  19669.  
  19670. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3201718> almost 3 years ago
  19671.  
  19672. Thanks for the Raid update team!
  19673.  
  19674. I also like Alex Stamps idea if it is not already part of the basic
  19675. controls for the LED display on the unit.
  19676.  
  19677.  
  19678.  
  19679.  
  19680. Carol Bohm-Scott
  19681.  
  19682. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  19683. years ago
  19684.  
  19685. @Alex Stamp that’s a really good idea, its not currently a feature we
  19686. have in mind but I’ll add it to the feature wish list so it is available
  19687. when the app is developed or even just part of the WEDG system anyway :)
  19688.  
  19689.  
  19690.  
  19691.  
  19692. Alex Stamp
  19693.  
  19694. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6787108> almost 3 years ago
  19695.  
  19696. I don’t know if it would be covered by the LED App stretch goal but
  19697. would it be possible to look at having the LED profile set by time of
  19698. day? For example show all during the day but notifications only at
  19699. night. This would be useful say if it was kept in a room where someone
  19700. sleeps so you wouldn’t have to go into the dash to turn of the LED’s
  19701. every night.
  19702.  
  19703.  
  19704.  
  19705.  
  19706. David Christian
  19707.  
  19708. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8374740> almost 3 years ago
  19709.  
  19710. There are only two left of the one I’m interested in.
  19711. If your unable to provide a by then, I’ll have to pass.
  19712.  
  19713.  
  19714.  
  19715.  
  19716. Carol Bohm-Scott
  19717.  
  19718. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  19719. years ago
  19720.  
  19721. Here’s an update on the WEDG RAID support topic that many of you have
  19722. expressed an interest in.
  19723.  
  19724. We’ve had a lengthy discussion together and as a result we have a plan
  19725. to action to determine if RAID is possible and if it is what’s involved
  19726. in achieving it. We are going to action this work as a matter of top
  19727. priority and aim to have a definitive answer for you as soon as possible.
  19728.  
  19729. Thank you for your patience :)
  19730.  
  19731.  
  19732.  
  19733.  
  19734. Carol Bohm-Scott
  19735.  
  19736. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  19737. years ago
  19738.  
  19739. @tetardbleu noted!
  19740.  
  19741.  
  19742.  
  19743.  
  19744. Carol Bohm-Scott
  19745.  
  19746. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  19747. years ago
  19748.  
  19749. @David Christian please bear with us, we think yes it will work but
  19750. we’re waiting for a response from a contact who might have one…I want to
  19751. give you a 100% accurate answer.
  19752.  
  19753.  
  19754.  
  19755.  
  19756. tetardbleu
  19757.  
  19758. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3829087> almost 3 years ago
  19759.  
  19760. I Also vote for the eventual stretch goal of 2X 2TB drive instead of an
  19761. imaginary 4TB 2.5 inches drive!
  19762.  
  19763.  
  19764.  
  19765.  
  19766. David Christian
  19767.  
  19768. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8374740> almost 3 years ago
  19769.  
  19770. Wedge, Any to my USB Drobo question?
  19771. The Pro driveless option is filling up fast…
  19772.  
  19773.  
  19774.  
  19775.  
  19776. Carol Bohm-Scott
  19777.  
  19778. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  19779. years ago
  19780.  
  19781. @ZHUO YANG the ‘drive-less’ WEDG does not come pre-installed with storage.
  19782.  
  19783.  
  19784.  
  19785.  
  19786. Carol Bohm-Scott
  19787.  
  19788. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  19789. years ago
  19790.  
  19791. @Philipp Stäheli thank you for your passion and support for WEDG. This
  19792. is a request made by many people which is obviously something that is in
  19793. demand. I’m going to arranging an urgent meeting after this post with
  19794. the developers and we’re going to find a solution to this one way or
  19795. another. I will get back to you and everyone else when we have a
  19796. definitive answer.
  19797.  
  19798. Thank you for your patience.
  19799.  
  19800.  
  19801.  
  19802.  
  19803. ZHUO YANG
  19804.  
  19805. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8355345> almost 3 years ago
  19806.  
  19807. Hi, does the drive-less (INTEL) has storage pre-installed? It seems to
  19808. me that it doesn’t include the 1TB.
  19809.  
  19810.  
  19811.  
  19812.  
  19813. Carol Bohm-Scott
  19814.  
  19815. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  19816. years ago
  19817.  
  19818. @Stefan Berger there is no VPN offering as such from us, however we do
  19819. provide a Dynamic DNS service free for all Indiegogo backers for life
  19820. called WEDGNET –
  19821. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/wedg-the-personal-butt-you-ve-been-waiting-for/x/8453832#wedgnet
  19822.  
  19823.  
  19824.  
  19825.  
  19826. Philipp Stäheli
  19827.  
  19828. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8723017> almost 3 years ago
  19829.  
  19830. Hello Wedg,
  19831. I hoped you would add a second drive in the wedg. All Wedg is about is
  19832. security and design. But then when it comes to the most essential, most
  19833. important piece you ignore it and make me do weird backup solutions that
  19834. go against your design and concept:
  19835. - connect a USB drive kills the design
  19836. - upload to gmail? try uploading 1 TB
  19837. - get a second wedg? “all in one solution?”
  19838. - upload to NAS? i want wedg as my NAS
  19839. - seriously, how much is a raid controller?
  19840.  
  19841.  
  19842.  
  19843.  
  19844. Stefan Berger
  19845.  
  19846. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4274586> almost 3 years ago
  19847.  
  19848. Will there be VPN support?
  19849.  
  19850.  
  19851.  
  19852.  
  19853. Carol Bohm-Scott
  19854.  
  19855. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  19856. years ago
  19857.  
  19858. @Anders Stangeland there is no support ActiveSync, however our mobile
  19859. app manages all sync elements and can even push calendar and contacts to
  19860. your device calendar and address book if you’d prefer.
  19861.  
  19862.  
  19863.  
  19864.  
  19865. Anders Stangeland
  19866.  
  19867. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8673957> almost 3 years ago
  19868.  
  19869. I wonder if you are planning support for ActiveSync for mobile devices.
  19870. ActiveSync is the easiest way for mail, calendar and contact sync on
  19871. mobile. Or how will this work with iOS, Windows Phone and Android?
  19872.  
  19873.  
  19874.  
  19875.  
  19876. Carol Bohm-Scott
  19877.  
  19878. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  19879. years ago
  19880.  
  19881. @david.j.aldred yep! :)
  19882.  
  19883.  
  19884.  
  19885.  
  19886. David Aldred
  19887.  
  19888. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> almost 3 years ago
  19889.  
  19890. ok, thanks – so we have the option of a connected USB drive can being
  19891. fully encrypted in much the same way as the existing internal drive?
  19892.  
  19893. Perfect, thanks – gives a degree of flexibility in the setup!
  19894.  
  19895.  
  19896.  
  19897.  
  19898. Carol Bohm-Scott
  19899.  
  19900. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  19901. years ago
  19902.  
  19903. *…encrypt folders and files on the FLY or the entire drive.
  19904.  
  19905.  
  19906.  
  19907.  
  19908. Carol Bohm-Scott
  19909.  
  19910. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  19911. years ago
  19912.  
  19913. @david.j.aldred well let me clear that one up for you then. Yes,
  19914. external drives can be encrypted as well, you can choose to encrypt
  19915. folders and files on the file or the entire drive.
  19916.  
  19917.  
  19918.  
  19919.  
  19920. David Aldred
  19921.  
  19922. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> almost 3 years ago
  19923.  
  19924. @Neil – didn’t mean to hijack your question, but yes, confirmation that
  19925. the USB drive can be used as active storage.
  19926.  
  19927. Where I’m not 100% sure – @Wedg … can Wedg manage encryption of an
  19928. externally plugged USB drive? Or does it just manage the interfacing /
  19929. accessing of the (unencrypted) data on it?
  19930. Latter is still useful, as I can then use it to hold media content, but
  19931. keep personal content encrypted within Wedg
  19932.  
  19933.  
  19934.  
  19935.  
  19936. Carol Bohm-Scott
  19937.  
  19938. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  19939. years ago
  19940.  
  19941. @david.j.aldred correct, and thats how additional storage can be added.
  19942.  
  19943. YES! Get those claps in only 13 days left!
  19944.  
  19945.  
  19946.  
  19947.  
  19948. Neil Campbell
  19949.  
  19950. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/5713479> almost 3 years ago
  19951.  
  19952. My question was about USB drives, not internal 2.5" drives. So, can they
  19953. be used for active storage, rather than just for backup?
  19954.  
  19955.  
  19956.  
  19957.  
  19958. David Aldred
  19959.  
  19960. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> almost 3 years ago
  19961.  
  19962. It’s also good to see the thunderclap gaining support too – 47%
  19963. For those not yet done so – do back it here…
  19964. https://www.thunderclap.it/projects/16458-wedg-on-indiegogo?locale=en
  19965.  
  19966. Helps spread the message in one big bang!
  19967.  
  19968.  
  19969.  
  19970.  
  19971. David Aldred
  19972.  
  19973. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> almost 3 years ago
  19974.  
  19975. Thanks – so out of curiosity, why is it a connected usb drive works ok
  19976. with it? Does it have its own controller?
  19977.  
  19978.  
  19979.  
  19980.  
  19981. Carol Bohm-Scott
  19982.  
  19983. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  19984. years ago
  19985.  
  19986. @david.j.aldred not at the moment as read/write performance degrades
  19987. dramatically
  19988.  
  19989.  
  19990.  
  19991.  
  19992. David Aldred
  19993.  
  19994. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> almost 3 years ago
  19995.  
  19996. “yes 2.5” drives but there is enough room for you to stack two drives
  19997. (one on top of the other) easily"
  19998.  
  19999. Very interesting – can both be connected / used at the same time?
  20000.  
  20001.  
  20002.  
  20003.  
  20004. Neil Campbell
  20005.  
  20006. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/5713479> almost 3 years ago
  20007.  
  20008. Can we add storage (rather than just a backup device) via the USB port?
  20009. If so, can it be a RAID device?
  20010.  
  20011.  
  20012.  
  20013.  
  20014. Carol Bohm-Scott
  20015.  
  20016. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  20017. years ago
  20018.  
  20019. @jdifour yes 2.5" drives but there is enough room for you to stack two
  20020. drives (one on top of the other) easily. We’ve done this so there is a
  20021. secure location to store a spare hard drive during potential upgrade
  20022. procedure.
  20023.  
  20024. We can’t make recommendations/endorsements unfortunately, but a simple
  20025. search will show results on good hardware options and public
  20026. recommendations. :)
  20027.  
  20028.  
  20029.  
  20030.  
  20031. Carol Bohm-Scott
  20032.  
  20033. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  20034. years ago
  20035.  
  20036. @brad6936 we intend to release our source code but don’t have a road map
  20037. as of yet.
  20038.  
  20039. For WEDG Pro with Intel around 60 users
  20040. For WEDG with ARM around 38 users
  20041.  
  20042. As you’ve said performance issues, so WEDG can handle more but it just
  20043. depends on their individual usage.
  20044.  
  20045.  
  20046.  
  20047.  
  20048. James Ireland IV
  20049.  
  20050. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4111941> almost 3 years ago
  20051.  
  20052. Just to confirm, because I didn’t see a spec listed, if we’re supplying
  20053. our own drive, it must be a 2.5"? And is there a restriction on drive
  20054. height, or will 15mm fit? What’s the best/most reliable/enterprise-level
  20055. drive that you guys recommend?
  20056.  
  20057.  
  20058.  
  20059.  
  20060. Brad Magri-Olson
  20061.  
  20062. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8709187> almost 3 years ago
  20063.  
  20064. Also, how many users (email and file storage) will the Wedge Pro be able
  20065. to support without having any performance issues.
  20066.  
  20067.  
  20068.  
  20069.  
  20070. Brad Magri-Olson
  20071.  
  20072. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8709187> almost 3 years ago
  20073.  
  20074. Hi There,
  20075.  
  20076. will your OS be available to install on more power hardware going forward?
  20077.  
  20078.  
  20079.  
  20080.  
  20081. Carol Bohm-Scott
  20082.  
  20083. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  20084. years ago
  20085.  
  20086. @Rainer Stober keep your fingers crossed like us! :)
  20087.  
  20088.  
  20089.  
  20090.  
  20091. David Christian
  20092.  
  20093. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8374740> almost 3 years ago
  20094.  
  20095. Wedge, Thanks.
  20096.  
  20097. Rainer, That seems a forgone conclusion!
  20098.  
  20099.  
  20100.  
  20101.  
  20102. Rainer Stober
  20103.  
  20104. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/7857754> almost 3 years ago
  20105.  
  20106. Hope this time you got hit your aims…
  20107.  
  20108.  
  20109.  
  20110.  
  20111. Carol Bohm-Scott
  20112.  
  20113. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  20114. years ago
  20115.  
  20116. @David Christian interesting, we’ll take a closer look at the Drobo D5
  20117. and confirm your original question one way or another. Thanks for your
  20118. patience :)
  20119.  
  20120.  
  20121.  
  20122.  
  20123. David Christian
  20124.  
  20125. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8374740> almost 3 years ago
  20126.  
  20127. The Drobo uses a Type B connection for USB 3.0 and it also has the newer
  20128. Intel Thunderbolt.
  20129.  
  20130.  
  20131.  
  20132.  
  20133. Carol Bohm-Scott
  20134.  
  20135. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  20136. years ago
  20137.  
  20138. @David Christian
  20139. We don’t have a Drobo D5 to hand, however we understand it has USB Type
  20140. A connections, like WEDG as such a connection cannot be formed. If the
  20141. Drobo D5 has a Type B connection then its certainly worth investigating.
  20142.  
  20143. Can you advise and or confirm?
  20144.  
  20145.  
  20146.  
  20147.  
  20148. David Christian
  20149.  
  20150. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8374740> almost 3 years ago
  20151.  
  20152. Wedge,
  20153.  
  20154. You replied to my earlier question:
  20155. 1. No you can’t connect the Drobo 5D to WEDG, you can however send
  20156. encrypted backup archives to the Drobo or any NAS for that matter.
  20157.  
  20158. So if the Drobo can’t be connected via USB 3.0 then the only option is a
  20159. NAS.
  20160.  
  20161. What is the reason the Drobo cannot be connected to the USB port on the
  20162. Wedge?
  20163. Is it strictly for single drives/USB sticks?
  20164.  
  20165.  
  20166.  
  20167.  
  20168. David Christian
  20169.  
  20170. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8374740> almost 3 years ago
  20171.  
  20172. My hope was the Wedge would solve this shortcoming with VLC by allowing
  20173. access to the content beyond the local network. To stream movies for the
  20174. kids to view on IOS devices.
  20175.  
  20176.  
  20177.  
  20178.  
  20179. David Christian
  20180.  
  20181. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8374740> almost 3 years ago
  20182.  
  20183. Tiger, thanks…I use VLC currently. It works by installing the client
  20184. side to a computer with the file to be viewed. The app on the IOS device
  20185. then streams the content.
  20186.  
  20187. If content was on the Wedge drive, without an OS on the Wedge (VLC
  20188. supported) there wouldn’t be a client for the app to connect to. Plus
  20189. VLC only works on a local network.
  20190.  
  20191.  
  20192.  
  20193.  
  20194. Carol Bohm-Scott
  20195.  
  20196. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  20197. years ago
  20198.  
  20199. @tigerbus thanks!
  20200.  
  20201.  
  20202.  
  20203.  
  20204. Carol Bohm-Scott
  20205.  
  20206. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  20207. years ago
  20208.  
  20209. @David Christian the USB ports can be used read AND write during normal
  20210. use and during backup stages :)
  20211.  
  20212. That’s a really an iOS question which we can’t answer in that regard,
  20213. however we can confirm that our mobile app can play the MKV format.
  20214.  
  20215. Hope that helps!
  20216.  
  20217.  
  20218.  
  20219.  
  20220. Tiger Bus
  20221.  
  20222. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706731> almost 3 years ago
  20223.  
  20224. @David Christian: This is an iOS specific problem completely unrelated
  20225. to the WEDG, but here you go:
  20226. http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-ios.html ;)
  20227.  
  20228.  
  20229.  
  20230.  
  20231. David Christian
  20232.  
  20233. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8374740> almost 3 years ago
  20234.  
  20235. A few follow up questions & a confirmation.
  20236. The USB is then strictly for writing to a external source? It cannot be
  20237. read from except to restore a backup? presumably to the internal Wedge
  20238. drive?
  20239.  
  20240. The IOS video player does not play MKV files, so in instances of those
  20241. formats, is there an alternative?
  20242.  
  20243.  
  20244.  
  20245.  
  20246. Carol Bohm-Scott
  20247.  
  20248. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  20249. years ago
  20250.  
  20251. @tigerbus good idea. We’ll get something drawn up soon!
  20252.  
  20253.  
  20254.  
  20255.  
  20256. Tiger Bus
  20257.  
  20258. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706731> almost 3 years ago
  20259.  
  20260. But hey let’s face it: Even the ARM board will do more or less NOTHING
  20261. most of the day, once the OS is loaded. The services are mostly
  20262. scheduled in large intervals (compared to how quickly they COULD be run)
  20263. and are not even very CPU intensive. Unless, of course, you are
  20264. encrypting some large files or watching some HD stream and alike. But
  20265. those rare occasions will probably not influence the yearly average
  20266. thaaaat much ;)
  20267.  
  20268. Looking forward to your own measurements, maybe categorize them by use?
  20269.  
  20270.  
  20271.  
  20272.  
  20273. Tiger Bus
  20274.  
  20275. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706731> almost 3 years ago
  20276.  
  20277. I found that you are advised to buy a 1.2amps 5V power supply for your
  20278. RasPi to have enough power in all situations – that’s 6W on the DC side.
  20279. Let’s consider this an “absolute maxium rating”. Then I found a thread
  20280. by people who use batteries to power their RasPi and have great interest
  20281. in actual power consumption. They did many measurements, most if them
  20282. running a linux clone of some sort, even X. Result: 2W is most common,
  20283. even starting X, maxium on shutdown at round 3W.
  20284.  
  20285.  
  20286.  
  20287.  
  20288. Carol Bohm-Scott
  20289.  
  20290. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  20291. years ago
  20292.  
  20293. @Tiger Bus because there are so many variables its difficult to give
  20294. single definitive answer. Let us know what you find on the Rasp Pi side
  20295. and we’ll kick off some tests here too tomorrow.
  20296.  
  20297.  
  20298.  
  20299.  
  20300. Carol Bohm-Scott
  20301.  
  20302. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  20303. years ago
  20304.  
  20305. @Tiger Bus because there are so many variables its difficult to give
  20306. single definitive answer. Let us know what you find on the Rasp Pi side
  20307. and we’ll kick off some tests here too tomorrow.
  20308.  
  20309.  
  20310.  
  20311.  
  20312. Carol Bohm-Scott
  20313.  
  20314. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  20315. years ago
  20316.  
  20317. @Tiger Bus because there are so many variables its difficult to give
  20318. single definitive answer. Let us know what you find on the Rasp Pi side
  20319. and we’ll kick off some tests here too tomorrow.
  20320.  
  20321.  
  20322.  
  20323.  
  20324. Carol Bohm-Scott
  20325.  
  20326. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  20327. years ago
  20328.  
  20329. @Tiger Bus because there are so many variables its difficult to give
  20330. single definitive answer. Let us know what you find on the Rasp Pi side
  20331. and we’ll kick off some tests here too tomorrow.
  20332.  
  20333.  
  20334.  
  20335.  
  20336. Tiger Bus
  20337.  
  20338. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706731> almost 3 years ago
  20339.  
  20340. As I say… even the 2.5amps are absolute maximum ratings for the board
  20341. itself. That means 100% CPU all the time. NO WAY ;) So again, I suspect
  20342. the actual average to be way below that… I’ll try finding specs and user
  20343. feedback from the raspi community, that should help judging the specs….
  20344.  
  20345.  
  20346.  
  20347.  
  20348. Carol Bohm-Scott
  20349.  
  20350. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  20351. years ago
  20352.  
  20353. @tigerbus 2/2
  20354.  
  20355. Assume 24 hours usage and 30 days average in a month;
  20356. 24 × 30 = 5040 hours per month
  20357.  
  20358. 5040 × 0.014 = 50.4 watts
  20359. 10p = £0.1
  20360. 50.4 × 0.1 = £5.04
  20361.  
  20362. To run WEDG constantly costs £5.04 /month, £60.48 /year. But this will
  20363. change as the drive spins down during inactivity.
  20364.  
  20365. Hope this helps?
  20366.  
  20367.  
  20368.  
  20369.  
  20370. Carol Bohm-Scott
  20371.  
  20372. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  20373. years ago
  20374.  
  20375. @tigerbus 1/2
  20376. Here’s what I have from our electronics guy:
  20377. 5V * 2.5A = 12.5W
  20378. 12.5W + 1.5W is 14W total.
  20379.  
  20380. 14W is the total power consumption per second.
  20381. 1000W = 10p rough guess
  20382. 14 / 1000 = 0.014 kilowatts per hour
  20383.  
  20384.  
  20385.  
  20386.  
  20387. Tiger Bus
  20388.  
  20389. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706731> almost 3 years ago
  20390.  
  20391. s/so/no/
  20392.  
  20393.  
  20394.  
  20395.  
  20396. Tiger Bus
  20397.  
  20398. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706731> almost 3 years ago
  20399.  
  20400. About wattage etc: These are ABSOLUTE MAXIMUM ratings… so way this thing
  20401. is going to burn 130W 24/7! A standard desktop PC has a 600+W power
  20402. supply, but this is definately not constant power draw during average
  20403. use. I suspect the actual average over a year to be rather in the range
  20404. for 20% of the absolute maximum ratings….
  20405.  
  20406.  
  20407.  
  20408.  
  20409. Carol Bohm-Scott
  20410.  
  20411. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  20412. years ago
  20413.  
  20414. @David Christian
  20415. Glad to know you’re think of backing the WEDG Pro with Intel.
  20416.  
  20417. 1. No you can’t connect the Drobo 5D to WEDG, you can however send
  20418. encrypted backup archives to the Drobo or any NAS for that matter.
  20419.  
  20420. 2. Yes, your iPhone can play media on the WEDG and you dont have to use
  20421. the app, Safari alone is fine as it will launch the video within the iOS
  20422. video player.
  20423.  
  20424. 3. The 4TB limit is implied by the CPU, we can’t say if an update will
  20425. allow the CPU to see past 4TB.
  20426.  
  20427.  
  20428.  
  20429.  
  20430. David Christian
  20431.  
  20432. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8374740> almost 3 years ago
  20433.  
  20434. I am considering backing this with the Pro version. I do have a few
  20435. questions though.
  20436.  
  20437. 1) The USB port, can I connect a Drobo 5D and have access to its files
  20438. and data through the Wedge? a. If it can, does it also encrypt the Drobo
  20439. data? & if so, can you explain how.
  20440.  
  20441. 2) Can the Wedge stream content to an iPhone through the LAN connection?
  20442. This would then also need an iPhone app to work with.
  20443.  
  20444. 3) Will the Wedge be able to accept firmware updates to install drives
  20445. larger than 4TB?
  20446.  
  20447.  
  20448.  
  20449.  
  20450. Carol Bohm-Scott
  20451.  
  20452. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  20453. years ago
  20454.  
  20455. @Chris Thyssen well you could pick the perk where you’d be a our VIP
  20456. guest? Otherwise we aim to ship for late March, closer the time if you
  20457. are in Manchester we could arrange local pick up yes.
  20458.  
  20459.  
  20460.  
  20461.  
  20462. Ruanth Chrisley Thyssen
  20463.  
  20464. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/485007> almost 3 years ago
  20465.  
  20466. when does it ship! Can I go to Britain and pick it up from your head office?
  20467.  
  20468.  
  20469.  
  20470.  
  20471. Carol Bohm-Scott
  20472.  
  20473. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  20474. years ago
  20475.  
  20476. @vasvi.cakir we’ll be working super hard to get the WEDG out to by March!!
  20477.  
  20478.  
  20479.  
  20480.  
  20481. tetardbleu
  20482.  
  20483. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3829087> almost 3 years ago
  20484.  
  20485. I totally agree with @sattler’s comment below, if the HD exists of course!
  20486.  
  20487.  
  20488.  
  20489.  
  20490. vasvi.cakir
  20491.  
  20492. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8713392> almost 3 years ago
  20493.  
  20494. Great Product-Idea “WEDG”.
  20495. I’m still waiting for March 2015 (Delivery) ;-)
  20496.  
  20497.  
  20498.  
  20499.  
  20500. David Aldred
  20501.  
  20502. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> almost 3 years ago
  20503.  
  20504. @sattler – could be wrong, but think 2tb is currently max size for a
  20505. 2.5" drive – sure it won’t be long before it’s 3+tb though
  20506.  
  20507. Personally, I foresee SSD’s out-sizing HDDs in the 2.5" arena
  20508.  
  20509.  
  20510.  
  20511.  
  20512. Carol Bohm-Scott
  20513.  
  20514. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  20515. years ago
  20516.  
  20517. @jane vassar lol! not sure we could afford the royalties! Thank you for
  20518. your support and encouragement!
  20519.  
  20520.  
  20521.  
  20522.  
  20523. Carol Bohm-Scott
  20524.  
  20525. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  20526. years ago
  20527.  
  20528. @sattler thanks for your support! We’ll add it to the list of possible
  20529. stretchgoals :)
  20530.  
  20531.  
  20532.  
  20533.  
  20534. jennifer jane
  20535.  
  20536. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8711702> almost 3 years ago
  20537.  
  20538. how many times have people asked you if you will use, “Get Off of My
  20539. Butt” as a theme song? How many times has Mick Jagger asked you that?
  20540.  
  20541. anyway, brilliant, brilliant, and well done, you. or as we say in
  20542. brooklyn, youse.
  20543.  
  20544. cheers,
  20545. jane vassar
  20546.  
  20547.  
  20548.  
  20549.  
  20550. sattler
  20551.  
  20552. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8272012> almost 3 years ago
  20553.  
  20554. Great to see you guys back. BTW, I guess a 2 or even maybe 4 TB upgrade
  20555. perk would be much appreciated. At least by me it would ;-)
  20556. I’m pretty sure this time WEDG will be funded! Keep going!
  20557.  
  20558.  
  20559.  
  20560.  
  20561. Carol Bohm-Scott
  20562.  
  20563. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  20564. years ago
  20565.  
  20566. @david.j.aldred correct its 5V, the maths looks right to me but i’ve
  20567. asked the electronics guy to double check so will get back to you shortly.
  20568.  
  20569.  
  20570.  
  20571.  
  20572. David Aldred
  20573.  
  20574. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> almost 3 years ago
  20575.  
  20576. Assuming it is 5v, my ‘back of a fag packet’ maths says it has a rating
  20577. of 15w, or about 130kwh p/a
  20578.  
  20579. I pay 10.1p per kwh, giving running cost of about £13 p/a
  20580.  
  20581. But feel free to picks holes in my calculations (and assumes running at
  20582. full power 24/7/365 – I assume the disk spins down when not in use?)
  20583.  
  20584.  
  20585.  
  20586.  
  20587. David Aldred
  20588.  
  20589. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> almost 3 years ago
  20590.  
  20591. You’ve mentioned a basic setup would run on ~3amp, but on what voltage
  20592. does it run (so I can calc wattage—>kwh—>cost!). The Minnowmax wiki
  20593. suggests 5v – is this correct?
  20594.  
  20595. thanks!
  20596.  
  20597.  
  20598.  
  20599.  
  20600. Carol Bohm-Scott
  20601.  
  20602. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  20603. years ago
  20604.  
  20605. @Ken Taylor the £6 is for UK and International shipping.
  20606.  
  20607.  
  20608.  
  20609.  
  20610. Ken Taylor
  20611.  
  20612. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6123904> almost 3 years ago
  20613.  
  20614. Hi,
  20615.  
  20616. Is the extra £6 for shipping for outside the UK or do we need to add it
  20617. for shipping to the UK as well,
  20618. Just went through the contribute now and saw no option to add it. but am
  20619. in the UK.
  20620.  
  20621. Thanks
  20622.  
  20623.  
  20624.  
  20625.  
  20626. Carol Bohm-Scott
  20627.  
  20628. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  20629. years ago
  20630.  
  20631. @tigerbus yes, CalDAV and CardDAV are fully supported on WEDG.
  20632.  
  20633.  
  20634.  
  20635.  
  20636. Carol Bohm-Scott
  20637.  
  20638. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  20639. years ago
  20640.  
  20641. @david.j.aldred echo echo echosystem has been replaced with ‘ecosystem’
  20642. :) thanks for the heads up!
  20643.  
  20644.  
  20645.  
  20646.  
  20647. Carol Bohm-Scott
  20648.  
  20649. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  20650. years ago
  20651.  
  20652. @James Taylor thanks James!
  20653.  
  20654.  
  20655.  
  20656.  
  20657. Tiger Bus
  20658.  
  20659. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706731> almost 3 years ago
  20660.  
  20661. Btw, do you support standard CalDAV and CardDAV syncs or can I run a
  20662. calendar server on the WEDG without internet connection? I don’t want to
  20663. rely on anything but a private infrastructure, not even on wedgnet –
  20664. possible?
  20665.  
  20666.  
  20667.  
  20668.  
  20669. David Aldred
  20670.  
  20671. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> almost 3 years ago
  20672.  
  20673. Spotted another type guys…
  20674. Our platform is built on Open Source software and as such we intend to
  20675. honour the license agreements and respect the echosystem of free software.
  20676.  
  20677. Unless it’s a new feature I’m unfamiliar with ;)
  20678.  
  20679.  
  20680.  
  20681.  
  20682. James Taylor
  20683.  
  20684. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/5657565> almost 3 years ago
  20685.  
  20686. Great to see you guys at it again! Hopefully, this time I’ll get the
  20687. terrific product you have designed…. Can’t believe it didn’t fly the
  20688. first time, but here’s hoping you get it this time.
  20689.  
  20690.  
  20691.  
  20692.  
  20693. Carol Bohm-Scott
  20694.  
  20695. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  20696. years ago
  20697.  
  20698. @david.j.aldred today was just for you, the Kickstarter supports,
  20699. tomorrow we ‘officially’ launch and get messages out to many more
  20700. channels including social media and press contacts.
  20701.  
  20702. Correct, this campaign is for the maximum 60 days allowed, while the
  20703. Kickstarter campaign ran for 45.
  20704.  
  20705.  
  20706.  
  20707.  
  20708. Carol Bohm-Scott
  20709.  
  20710. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  20711. years ago
  20712.  
  20713. @Charles Verghese thank you so much for your support and for backing us
  20714. again :)
  20715.  
  20716.  
  20717.  
  20718.  
  20719. Carol Bohm-Scott
  20720.  
  20721. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  20722. years ago
  20723.  
  20724. @Steven Newman thats a problem we look forward to having, although since
  20725. your comment came through we’ve been head scratching and making a list
  20726. of potential contenders.
  20727.  
  20728. We appreciate your support Steven and value you as a backer very much.
  20729.  
  20730. Yes, the process requires the WEDG app to access your mobile address
  20731. book, import them into the app and then on to WEDG Mail address book.
  20732.  
  20733.  
  20734.  
  20735.  
  20736. Carol Bohm-Scott
  20737.  
  20738. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  20739. years ago
  20740.  
  20741. @Chris Horsfield thanks for the support! :)
  20742.  
  20743.  
  20744.  
  20745.  
  20746. Carol Bohm-Scott
  20747.  
  20748. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  20749. years ago
  20750.  
  20751. @tetardbleu thanks for your feedback. We’ll do something to address this
  20752. and get back to you asap and then if we need to adjust the contribution
  20753. amount we’ll help you through that.
  20754.  
  20755.  
  20756.  
  20757.  
  20758. Charles Verghese
  20759.  
  20760. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3250887> almost 3 years ago
  20761.  
  20762. One of the old Kickstarter backers!
  20763.  
  20764. Glad you’re on round 2…though I wish it was a little bit later….running
  20765. short on funds…but funded anyways!!
  20766.  
  20767. All the best to Shehbaz & the rest of team WEDG !
  20768.  
  20769. 2nd time’s a charm, eh?
  20770.  
  20771.  
  20772.  
  20773.  
  20774. David Aldred
  20775.  
  20776. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> almost 3 years ago
  20777.  
  20778. @Steven
  20779. It’s a great achievement – and testament to the great product the guys
  20780. have come up with – but don’t forget 20k is ‘only’ a third of what had
  20781. previously been raised, and all backers are those ported from the
  20782. previous campaign.
  20783.  
  20784. But it’s a great start, and sounds like the team have really taken on
  20785. board all the previous feedback and built it into the revised product.
  20786.  
  20787. Am I also right in thinking this is a much longer campaign at 60 days?
  20788. What was KS – 30?
  20789.  
  20790.  
  20791.  
  20792.  
  20793. Steven Newman
  20794.  
  20795. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/925661> almost 3 years ago
  20796.  
  20797. 27% in under 5 hours. If we keep this up, you’ll need to come up with
  20798. some new stretch goals! What an awesome problem to have!!
  20799.  
  20800. As I’ve said before, I’m totally excited by your product and your team.
  20801.  
  20802. Is there a way to sync email contacts between WEDG email and either iOS
  20803. or Android systems?
  20804.  
  20805. Thanks!
  20806.  
  20807.  
  20808.  
  20809.  
  20810. Chris Horsfield
  20811.  
  20812. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4115733> almost 3 years ago
  20813.  
  20814. The Wedg Arm looks too good a bargain to not pick.It’s the original Wedg
  20815. but cheaper. From a household with 3 Raspberry Pi’s it looks powerful
  20816. enough for the job.
  20817. Good luck second time around.
  20818.  
  20819. Chris
  20820.  
  20821.  
  20822.  
  20823.  
  20824. tetardbleu
  20825.  
  20826. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3829087> almost 3 years ago
  20827.  
  20828. @teamwedg I was wondering why this time, the aluminum edition didn’t
  20829. come with a 2TB drive? Actually i was a little sad about it, even if i’m
  20830. sure you had your reasons.
  20831.  
  20832.  
  20833.  
  20834.  
  20835. Carol Bohm-Scott
  20836.  
  20837. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  20838. years ago
  20839.  
  20840. @david.j.aldred i see how that’s misleading, its actually because the
  20841. Minnowboard Max has USB 3.0 so 802.11AC is capable, while the
  20842. Cubieboard2 has USB 2.0 and is limited to 802.11N.
  20843.  
  20844. We will clarify this though!
  20845.  
  20846.  
  20847.  
  20848.  
  20849. David Aldred
  20850.  
  20851. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> almost 3 years ago
  20852.  
  20853. Wicked, thanks for clarifying – it read as though WiFi was Pro only
  20854. “But the Minnowboard Max living up to its name also offers us the
  20855. ability to add real 802.11AC Wi-Fi – see stretchgoals.
  20856. "
  20857.  
  20858.  
  20859.  
  20860.  
  20861. Carol Bohm-Scott
  20862.  
  20863. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  20864. years ago
  20865.  
  20866. @david.j.aldred whoops! we’ll get those corrected asap!
  20867. No, the stretch goals are not model specific, they apply to both models.
  20868.  
  20869.  
  20870.  
  20871.  
  20872. David Aldred
  20873.  
  20874. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> almost 3 years ago
  20875.  
  20876. Sorry – another question!
  20877.  
  20878. Are the stretch goals device specific – eg, does HDMI & Wifi Stretches
  20879. relate only to Pro? Not clear if it is, but if so, may be worth
  20880. clarifying on the page
  20881.  
  20882.  
  20883.  
  20884.  
  20885. David Aldred
  20886.  
  20887. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> almost 3 years ago
  20888.  
  20889. ps – typo on your page…
  20890. “Does the WEDG come with a warrantee?
  20891. Yes, we offer a one-year replacement warrantee”
  20892.  
  20893. Warrant-ee refers to the recipient of a warrant-y ;p
  20894.  
  20895.  
  20896.  
  20897.  
  20898. Carol Bohm-Scott
  20899.  
  20900. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  20901. years ago
  20902.  
  20903. @scott.henderson1 thank you for your support and best wishes Scott! :D
  20904.  
  20905.  
  20906.  
  20907.  
  20908. scott.henderson
  20909.  
  20910. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3201718> almost 3 years ago
  20911.  
  20912. You’re at 20% and the campaign doesn’t officially kick off until
  20913. tomorrow! :)
  20914.  
  20915. Can’t wait for my 2 Wedg Pros to arrive next March/April!
  20916.  
  20917. Good luck Shehbaz and the rest of the WEDG team!
  20918.  
  20919.  
  20920.  
  20921.  
  20922. Carol Bohm-Scott
  20923.  
  20924. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  20925. years ago
  20926.  
  20927. @david.j.aldred thanks for your best wishes. We’ll have a think about
  20928. your comments for sure and see what we can do to help. Yes, photo backup
  20929. is now standard with our mobile app for all mobile platforms; Android,
  20930. iOS, Windows and BlackBerry – we are also including Firefox OS on our
  20931. wishlist for post funding success.
  20932.  
  20933.  
  20934.  
  20935.  
  20936. David Aldred
  20937.  
  20938. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> almost 3 years ago
  20939.  
  20940. 3/3
  20941. Did I read the description right that auto-photo-backup to wedg from
  20942. android phone is now a standard feature? I use this feature within
  20943. ownButt and works superb – better than the built-in Google Plus auto backup.
  20944.  
  20945.  
  20946.  
  20947.  
  20948. David Aldred
  20949.  
  20950. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> almost 3 years ago
  20951.  
  20952. 2/3
  20953. Incidentally, I’ve backed a similar project on Kickstarter (Slice, hence
  20954. not fussed re XBMC stretch) that gave 2tb drive as a stretch goal (paid)
  20955. upgrade, and was very popular – worth thinking about :o) (in fact, the
  20956. diskless options were extremely popular there too – worth thinking
  20957. about, as I think you’ve limited diskless options here)
  20958.  
  20959.  
  20960.  
  20961.  
  20962. David Aldred
  20963.  
  20964. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> almost 3 years ago
  20965.  
  20966. 1/3 (silly 500 char limit!)
  20967. Tricky choices guys.
  20968.  
  20969. Like the sound of the pro – though don’t really need the extra power
  20970. (though 4tb ability helps).
  20971. I would go diskless, as I want a 2tb drive, but it’s only a little extra
  20972. for the 1tb option. Shame the 24hr special Pro isn’t as heavily
  20973. discounted as the 24hr ARM
  20974.  
  20975. I’ll likely go pro, but need to figure out if it’s worth the extra £70
  20976. first. But either way – glad you’re back & hope it succeeds this time.
  20977.  
  20978.  
  20979.  
  20980.  
  20981. Carol Bohm-Scott
  20982.  
  20983. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  20984. years ago
  20985.  
  20986. @Eliasz Zurawka we’ve seen your email and have replied regarding
  20987. adjusting your perk.
  20988.  
  20989. For shipping, we now have a new perk just for shipping so you can also
  20990. select that or hit the Contribute Now button and manually enter £6.
  20991.  
  20992.  
  20993.  
  20994.  
  20995. Carol Bohm-Scott
  20996.  
  20997. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  20998. years ago
  20999.  
  21000. What aaddiikk said or you can now add the ‘Worldwide Shipping’ Perk if
  21001. you forget. :)
  21002.  
  21003. Thanks aaddiikk!
  21004.  
  21005.  
  21006.  
  21007.  
  21008. aaddiikk
  21009.  
  21010. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8707168> almost 3 years ago
  21011.  
  21012. Guys, just click on ‘contribute now’ and put shipping cost there if you
  21013. forgot to add it before.
  21014.  
  21015.  
  21016.  
  21017.  
  21018. Eliasz
  21019.  
  21020. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695051> almost 3 years ago
  21021.  
  21022. Also, i forgot to add 6$(pounds) to the order i want for shipping. How
  21023. can i adjust the pledge amount?
  21024.  
  21025.  
  21026.  
  21027.  
  21028. Eliasz
  21029.  
  21030. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695051> almost 3 years ago
  21031.  
  21032. Sorry im new to Indiegogo.
  21033.  
  21034. I picked the 129 level frist, and realized i want the intel box instead.
  21035. So i re-pledge at 199, however it looks like now i have ordered both??
  21036.  
  21037. I thought it would just update my pledge. How can i remove the one i no
  21038. longer want?
  21039.  
  21040. Thanks
  21041.  
  21042.  
  21043.  
  21044.  
  21045. Carol Bohm-Scott
  21046.  
  21047. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  21048. years ago
  21049.  
  21050. @Franco the WEDG Pro with Intel is actually capable of seeing drives
  21051. with up to 4TB, while the WEDG with ARM is capable of seeing drives with
  21052. up to 2TB of storage.
  21053.  
  21054.  
  21055.  
  21056.  
  21057. Franco
  21058.  
  21059. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8707014> almost 3 years ago
  21060.  
  21061. For the Intel WEDG it lists max storage 4TB and ARM is 2TB. I understand
  21062. the internal storage for both must be 2TB so what is 4TB referring to?
  21063.  
  21064.  
  21065.  
  21066.  
  21067. Carol Bohm-Scott
  21068.  
  21069. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  21070. years ago
  21071.  
  21072. @Steven Newman welcome back and thank you for your support. Yes, anyone
  21073. your send an email to is automatically whitelisted on the Spam Filter,
  21074. unless you manually tag them as ‘Spam’ or ‘Block’ – for no future messages.
  21075.  
  21076.  
  21077.  
  21078.  
  21079. Carol Bohm-Scott
  21080.  
  21081. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  21082. years ago
  21083.  
  21084. @Jacob Ovard no worries, just add another contribution £6.
  21085.  
  21086.  
  21087.  
  21088.  
  21089. Carol Bohm-Scott
  21090.  
  21091. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  21092. years ago
  21093.  
  21094. @aaddiikk thank you so much! You’re keeping our fingers crossed tightly too!
  21095.  
  21096.  
  21097.  
  21098.  
  21099. Carol Bohm-Scott
  21100.  
  21101. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  21102. years ago
  21103.  
  21104. @tetardbleu thank you for your support! Fingers crossed!
  21105.  
  21106.  
  21107.  
  21108.  
  21109. Steven Newman
  21110.  
  21111. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/925661> almost 3 years ago
  21112.  
  21113. Hey, guys – just a question on the spam protection. Will you offer white
  21114. listing so that automatically whomever we send an email to will always
  21115. get through unless we manually add them to a spam block?
  21116.  
  21117. Thanks and good luck! I completely believe in your product and team and
  21118. am so excited to be a part of it!
  21119.  
  21120. Steven
  21121.  
  21122.  
  21123.  
  21124.  
  21125. Jacob Ovard
  21126.  
  21127. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8671772> almost 3 years ago
  21128.  
  21129. Whoops! I forgot to add $6 for shipping. I can’t figure out how to edit
  21130. the pledge.
  21131.  
  21132.  
  21133.  
  21134.  
  21135. aaddiikk
  21136.  
  21137. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8707168> almost 3 years ago
  21138.  
  21139. Taken both Intel and ARM (for main and backup site). Good luck guys and
  21140. I will keep my fingers crossed till the end of the campaign! :)
  21141.  
  21142.  
  21143.  
  21144.  
  21145. tetardbleu
  21146.  
  21147. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3829087> almost 3 years ago
  21148.  
  21149. Done! I hope this time it will work for you (and us) guys. Good luck!
  21150.  
  21151.  
  21152.  
  21153.  
  21154. Carol Bohm-Scott
  21155.  
  21156. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  21157. years ago
  21158.  
  21159. @aaddiikk :D you’re pretty awesome too! Please kindly add £12, but if
  21160. you choose the multiple Perk then its just £6 Thanks for you support!
  21161.  
  21162.  
  21163.  
  21164.  
  21165. Carol Bohm-Scott
  21166.  
  21167. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  21168. years ago
  21169.  
  21170. @Brian Somes thanks for you support! Yes, shipping must be added
  21171. manually to the total. You can simply click the big pink ‘CONTRIBUTE
  21172. NOW’ button and pay £6, and we’ll know its for your shipping charges :)
  21173.  
  21174.  
  21175.  
  21176.  
  21177. aaddiikk
  21178.  
  21179. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8707168> almost 3 years ago
  21180.  
  21181. if I buy two, and would like a shipping to Poland, should I add 6 or 12
  21182. pounds? BTW. you guys roooock! :)
  21183.  
  21184.  
  21185.  
  21186.  
  21187. Brian Somes
  21188.  
  21189. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8705869> almost 3 years ago
  21190.  
  21191. So I noticed this did not add the shipping. How to add?
  21192. I’m in for the Wedge Pro Intel special !
  21193. Good luck guys – very happy to see this going again!
  21194.  
  21195.  
  21196.  
  21197.  
  21198. Carol Bohm-Scott
  21199.  
  21200. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  21201. years ago
  21202.  
  21203. @MyWorks Design thank you so much! Glad you like the WEDG Pro! :D
  21204.  
  21205.  
  21206.  
  21207.  
  21208. Carol Bohm-Scott
  21209.  
  21210. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  21211. years ago
  21212.  
  21213. @Nikolai Tesla thank you very much and thank you for your support!
  21214.  
  21215.  
  21216.  
  21217.  
  21218. MyWorks Design
  21219.  
  21220. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8394882> almost 3 years ago
  21221.  
  21222. Yay, #3 – with the Intel Pro version!
  21223.  
  21224. Looking forward to seeing your progress, and I have no doubt this
  21225. campaign will be successful!
  21226.  
  21227.  
  21228.  
  21229.  
  21230. Nikolai Tesla
  21231.  
  21232. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> almost 3 years ago
  21233.  
  21234. Hope you success and looking forward to the Intel based solution.
  21235.  
  21236.  
  21237.  
  21238.  
  21239. Carol Bohm-Scott
  21240.  
  21241. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  21242. years ago
  21243.  
  21244. @Tiger Bus
  21245. :) WOOHOO! Thank you for your support!
  21246.  
  21247.  
  21248.  
  21249.  
  21250. Tiger Bus
  21251.  
  21252. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706731> almost 3 years ago
  21253.  
  21254. #1! yay ;)
  21255.  
  21256.  
  21257.  
  21258.  
  21259. Perks
  21260. £249
  21261. GBP
  21262. WEDG Pro with Intel +1TB
  21263. WEDG Pro powered by Intel! It has 2GB of RAM, USB 3.0 and Gigabit
  21264. Ethernet! Available in black or white with a 1TB drive, t-shirt of your
  21265. choice and size and a pack of stickers. Worldwide Shipping please add £6
  21266. 1 x WEDG 1 x T-Shirt 1 x Sticker pack
  21267. 12 claimed
  21268. Ships Worldwide
  21269. Estimated March 2015
  21270. Estimated March 2015
  21271. Get this perk
  21272.  
  21273. £6
  21274. GBP
  21275. Worldwide Shipping
  21276. Add this perk if you forget to add shipping at the time of backing us.
  21277. 144 claimed
  21278. Ships Worldwide
  21279. Estimated March 2015
  21280. Estimated March 2015
  21281. Get this perk
  21282.  
  21283. £40
  21284. GBP
  21285. WEDG Pro RAID Upgrade #1
  21286. Upgrade your WEDG Pro with Intel to support RAID1. We will install an
  21287. additional component and cables and ship your WEDG out of the box ready.
  21288. Please Note: this Perk is only available for WEDG Pro with Intel.
  21289. 108 claimed
  21290. Ships Worldwide
  21291. Estimated March 2015
  21292. Estimated March 2015
  21293. Get this perk
  21294.  
  21295. £56
  21296. GBP
  21297. 2TB HDD Upgrade
  21298. Double your WEDG storage from 1TB to 2TBs! For WEDG Pro with Intel +1TB
  21299. only. Please do not select this Perk if you have a Drive-less WEDG, you
  21300. will need to upgrade to a WEDG Pro with Intel +1TB first. See Updates
  21301. tab for more information.
  21302. 1 claimed
  21303. Ships Worldwide
  21304. Estimated March 2015
  21305. Estimated March 2015
  21306. Get this perk
  21307.  
  21308. £90
  21309. GBP
  21310. WEDG Pro RAID +1TB Upgrade #2
  21311. Upgrade your WEDG Pro with Intel to support RAID1 with an additional 1TB
  21312. HDD. We will install an additional component, cables and another 1TB HDD
  21313. (totalling 2 disks) and ship your WEDG out of the box ready. Please
  21314. Note: this Perk is only available for WEDG Pro with Intel.
  21315. 108 claimed
  21316. Ships Worldwide
  21317. Estimated March 2015
  21318. Estimated March 2015
  21319. Get this perk
  21320.  
  21321. £112
  21322. GBP
  21323. RAID 1TB to 2TB HDD Upgrade
  21324. Double your WEDG RAID storage from 2 x 1TB to 2 x 2TB hard drives! For
  21325. WEDG Pro with Intel and RAID only. See Updates tab for more information.
  21326. 8 claimed
  21327. Ships Worldwide
  21328. Estimated March 2015
  21329. Estimated March 2015
  21330. Get this perk
  21331.  
  21332. £199
  21333. GBP
  21334. Driveless WEDG with Intel
  21335. Just add storage! A driveless WEDG Pro with Intel in black. Back with
  21336. popular demand! 1 x WEDG Worldwide Shipping, please add £6
  21337. 4 claimed
  21338. Ships Worldwide
  21339. Estimated March 2015
  21340. Estimated March 2015
  21341. Get this perk
  21342.  
  21343. £289
  21344. GBP
  21345. Premium Aluminium INTEL
  21346. WEDG with Intel in Premium Anodised Aluminium with a 1TB drive, t-shirt
  21347. of your choice and size and a pack of stickers. 1 x WEDG 1 x T-Shirt 1 x
  21348. Sticker Pack Worldwide Shipping, please add £6
  21349. 12 claimed
  21350. Ships Worldwide
  21351. Estimated March 2015
  21352. Estimated March 2015
  21353. Get this perk
  21354.  
  21355. £299
  21356. GBP
  21357. Developer Pack Pro
  21358. For the developers; a WEDG Pro with Intel with ‘developer mode’ access
  21359. in any finish with a 1TB drive. Download our API &amp; SDK (when it’s
  21360. available), beta software releases and Lifetime access to our developer
  21361. portal. Contact our in-house development team. Be the first to know
  21362. about news at WEDG and join our video Skype brainstorming sessions. Plus
  21363. a t-shirt of your choice and size and a pack of stickers. 1 x WEDG 1 x
  21364. Developer Privileges 1 x T-Shirt 1 x Sticker Pack FREE Worldwide Shipping
  21365. 13 claimed
  21366. Ships Worldwide
  21367. Estimated March 2015
  21368. Estimated March 2015
  21369. Get this perk
  21370.  
  21371. £448
  21372. GBP
  21373. DUAL WEDG Pro with Intel
  21374. The Dual Pack is perfect for you and a friend or for remote redundancy.
  21375. You’ll receive 2 x WEDG with Intel in black or white with a 1TB drive.
  21376. Plus 2 x t-shirt of your choice and size and 2 x pack of stickers.
  21377. Saving £50 as multipack! 2 x WEDG 2 x T-Shirt 2 x Sticker Pack FREE
  21378. Worldwide Shipping
  21379. 7 claimed
  21380. Ships Worldwide
  21381. Estimated March 2015
  21382. Estimated March 2015
  21383. Get this perk
  21384.  
  21385. £3000
  21386. GBP
  21387. WEDG Pro in Carbon Fibre
  21388. 1 GONE ONLY 4 REMAIN! A limited edition WEDG exclusively for Indiegogo -
  21389. WEDG Pro with Intel hand finished in Carbon Fibre. This WEDG model comes
  21390. ready with RAID1 support and 2 x 1TB solid state drives (SSDs) with FREE
  21391. worldwide shipping. This Perk includes a T-shirt of your choice and size
  21392. and a pack of stickers. 1 x WEDG RAID ready and finished in Carbon Fibre
  21393. 1 x T-Shirt 1 x Sticker Pack
  21394. 0 out of 4 claimed
  21395. Ships Worldwide
  21396. Estimated March 2015
  21397. Estimated March 2015
  21398. Get this perk
  21399.  
  21400. £5000
  21401. GBP
  21402. Mega Backer Pack
  21403. For this generous boost in funding you’ll receive 2 x WEDG Pro with
  21404. Intel in black, white or Aluminium with a 1TB SSD or 2TB standard hard
  21405. drive. Plus 2 x t-shirts of your choice and size and 2 x pack of
  21406. stickers. 2 x WEDG 2 x T-Shirt 2 x Sticker Pack FREE Worldwide Shipping
  21407. 0 out of 5 claimed
  21408. Ships Worldwide
  21409. Estimated March 2015
  21410. Estimated March 2015
  21411. Get this perk
  21412.  
  21413. £10000
  21414. GBP
  21415. Be our VIP guests 2 Nights
  21416. Be our guest in Manchester for two nights. VIP treatment for you and a
  21417. friend from the airport, 2 nights in a luxury hotel of your choice, meal
  21418. with the team, flash your own WEDG Pro with Intel in any finish with a
  21419. 1TB SSD or 2TB standard hard drive and not forgetting 2 x t-shirts of
  21420. your choice and size and 2 x pack of stickers. 2 x Nights in Manchester
  21421. 2 x WEDG 2 x T-Shirt 2 x Sticker Pack FREE Worldwide Shipping
  21422. 0 out of 1 claimed
  21423. Ships Worldwide
  21424. Estimated March 2015
  21425. Estimated March 2015
  21426. Get this perk
  21427.  
  21428. Read the Story
  21429. Perks
  21430. £249
  21431. GBP
  21432. WEDG Pro with Intel +1TB
  21433. WEDG Pro powered by Intel! It has 2GB of RAM, USB 3.0 and Gigabit
  21434. Ethernet! Available in black or white with a 1TB drive, t-shirt of your
  21435. choice and size and a pack of stickers. Worldwide Shipping please add £6
  21436. 1 x WEDG 1 x T-Shirt 1 x Sticker pack
  21437. 12 claimed
  21438. Ships Worldwide
  21439. Estimated March 2015
  21440. Estimated March 2015
  21441. Get this perk
  21442.  
  21443. £6
  21444. GBP
  21445. Worldwide Shipping
  21446. Add this perk if you forget to add shipping at the time of backing us.
  21447. 144 claimed
  21448. Ships Worldwide
  21449. Estimated March 2015
  21450. Estimated March 2015
  21451. Get this perk
  21452.  
  21453. £40
  21454. GBP
  21455. WEDG Pro RAID Upgrade #1
  21456. Upgrade your WEDG Pro with Intel to support RAID1. We will install an
  21457. additional component and cables and ship your WEDG out of the box ready.
  21458. Please Note: this Perk is only available for WEDG Pro with Intel.
  21459. 108 claimed
  21460. Ships Worldwide
  21461. Estimated March 2015
  21462. Estimated March 2015
  21463. Get this perk
  21464.  
  21465. £56
  21466. GBP
  21467. 2TB HDD Upgrade
  21468. Double your WEDG storage from 1TB to 2TBs! For WEDG Pro with Intel +1TB
  21469. only. Please do not select this Perk if you have a Drive-less WEDG, you
  21470. will need to upgrade to a WEDG Pro with Intel +1TB first. See Updates
  21471. tab for more information.
  21472. 1 claimed
  21473. Ships Worldwide
  21474. Estimated March 2015
  21475. Estimated March 2015
  21476. Get this perk
  21477.  
  21478. £90
  21479. GBP
  21480. WEDG Pro RAID +1TB Upgrade #2
  21481. Upgrade your WEDG Pro with Intel to support RAID1 with an additional 1TB
  21482. HDD. We will install an additional component, cables and another 1TB HDD
  21483. (totalling 2 disks) and ship your WEDG out of the box ready. Please
  21484. Note: this Perk is only available for WEDG Pro with Intel.
  21485. 108 claimed
  21486. Ships Worldwide
  21487. Estimated March 2015
  21488. Estimated March 2015
  21489. Get this perk
  21490.  
  21491. £112
  21492. GBP
  21493. RAID 1TB to 2TB HDD Upgrade
  21494. Double your WEDG RAID storage from 2 x 1TB to 2 x 2TB hard drives! For
  21495. WEDG Pro with Intel and RAID only. See Updates tab for more information.
  21496. 8 claimed
  21497. Ships Worldwide
  21498. Estimated March 2015
  21499. Estimated March 2015
  21500. Get this perk
  21501.  
  21502. £199
  21503. GBP
  21504. Driveless WEDG with Intel
  21505. Just add storage! A driveless WEDG Pro with Intel in black. Back with
  21506. popular demand! 1 x WEDG Worldwide Shipping, please add £6
  21507. 4 claimed
  21508. Ships Worldwide
  21509. Estimated March 2015
  21510. Estimated March 2015
  21511. Get this perk
  21512.  
  21513. £289
  21514. GBP
  21515. Premium Aluminium INTEL
  21516. WEDG with Intel in Premium Anodised Aluminium with a 1TB drive, t-shirt
  21517. of your choice and size and a pack of stickers. 1 x WEDG 1 x T-Shirt 1 x
  21518. Sticker Pack Worldwide Shipping, please add £6
  21519. 12 claimed
  21520. Ships Worldwide
  21521. Estimated March 2015
  21522. Estimated March 2015
  21523. Get this perk
  21524.  
  21525. £299
  21526. GBP
  21527. Developer Pack Pro
  21528. For the developers; a WEDG Pro with Intel with ‘developer mode’ access
  21529. in any finish with a 1TB drive. Download our API &amp; SDK (when it’s
  21530. available), beta software releases and Lifetime access to our developer
  21531. portal. Contact our in-house development team. Be the first to know
  21532. about news at WEDG and join our video Skype brainstorming sessions. Plus
  21533. a t-shirt of your choice and size and a pack of stickers. 1 x WEDG 1 x
  21534. Developer Privileges 1 x T-Shirt 1 x Sticker Pack FREE Worldwide Shipping
  21535. 13 claimed
  21536. Ships Worldwide
  21537. Estimated March 2015
  21538. Estimated March 2015
  21539. Get this perk
  21540.  
  21541. £448
  21542. GBP
  21543. DUAL WEDG Pro with Intel
  21544. The Dual Pack is perfect for you and a friend or for remote redundancy.
  21545. You’ll receive 2 x WEDG with Intel in black or white with a 1TB drive.
  21546. Plus 2 x t-shirt of your choice and size and 2 x pack of stickers.
  21547. Saving £50 as multipack! 2 x WEDG 2 x T-Shirt 2 x Sticker Pack FREE
  21548. Worldwide Shipping
  21549. 7 claimed
  21550. Ships Worldwide
  21551. Estimated March 2015
  21552. Estimated March 2015
  21553. Get this perk
  21554.  
  21555. £3000
  21556. GBP
  21557. WEDG Pro in Carbon Fibre
  21558. 1 GONE ONLY 4 REMAIN! A limited edition WEDG exclusively for Indiegogo -
  21559. WEDG Pro with Intel hand finished in Carbon Fibre. This WEDG model comes
  21560. ready with RAID1 support and 2 x 1TB solid state drives (SSDs) with FREE
  21561. worldwide shipping. This Perk includes a T-shirt of your choice and size
  21562. and a pack of stickers. 1 x WEDG RAID ready and finished in Carbon Fibre
  21563. 1 x T-Shirt 1 x Sticker Pack
  21564. 0 out of 4 claimed
  21565. Ships Worldwide
  21566. Estimated March 2015
  21567. Estimated March 2015
  21568. Get this perk
  21569.  
  21570. £5000
  21571. GBP
  21572. Mega Backer Pack
  21573. For this generous boost in funding you’ll receive 2 x WEDG Pro with
  21574. Intel in black, white or Aluminium with a 1TB SSD or 2TB standard hard
  21575. drive. Plus 2 x t-shirts of your choice and size and 2 x pack of
  21576. stickers. 2 x WEDG 2 x T-Shirt 2 x Sticker Pack FREE Worldwide Shipping
  21577. 0 out of 5 claimed
  21578. Ships Worldwide
  21579. Estimated March 2015
  21580. Estimated March 2015
  21581. Get this perk
  21582.  
  21583. £10000
  21584. GBP
  21585. Be our VIP guests 2 Nights
  21586. Be our guest in Manchester for two nights. VIP treatment for you and a
  21587. friend from the airport, 2 nights in a luxury hotel of your choice, meal
  21588. with the team, flash your own WEDG Pro with Intel in any finish with a
  21589. 1TB SSD or 2TB standard hard drive and not forgetting 2 x t-shirts of
  21590. your choice and size and 2 x pack of stickers. 2 x Nights in Manchester
  21591. 2 x WEDG 2 x T-Shirt 2 x Sticker Pack FREE Worldwide Shipping
  21592. 0 out of 1 claimed
  21593. Ships Worldwide
  21594. Estimated March 2015
  21595. Estimated March 2015
  21596. Get this perk
  21597.  
  21598. *
  21599. Updates (77)
  21600.  
  21601. *
  21602. Comments (1,899)
  21603.  
  21604. You must be a logged in contributor to comment. Log In
  21605. <https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/wedg-the-personal-cloud-you-ve-been-waiting-for>
  21606.  
  21607. Marc Solondz
  21608.  
  21609. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8716841> 7 days ago
  21610.  
  21611. IGG doesn’t care about this. They received their cut of the money.
  21612. If they had any integrity they would at least refund us their share
  21613. of the profit. It’s only a small percentage for each of us but it
  21614. would go a long way as a gesture of good faith.
  21615.  
  21616.  
  21617.  
  21618.  
  21619. Marc Solondz
  21620.  
  21621. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8716841> 7 days ago
  21622.  
  21623. 5 months since the last bogus update. No news is not good news.
  21624.  
  21625.  
  21626.  
  21627.  
  21628. Bryan Walker
  21629.  
  21630. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 15 days ago
  21631.  
  21632. @Scott McQueen – nothing new except the domain wedg.co and twitter
  21633. account wearewedg were dropped. I have both now. This project is
  21634. dead, dead, dead.
  21635.  
  21636.  
  21637.  
  21638.  
  21639. Scott McQueen
  21640.  
  21641. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8443500> 15 days ago
  21642.  
  21643. Still here… I pop by now and again to see how the project is getting
  21644. along LOL
  21645.  
  21646. What a total joke!
  21647.  
  21648.  
  21649.  
  21650.  
  21651. Bryan Walker
  21652.  
  21653. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 1 month ago
  21654.  
  21655. @Ian Cockburn, I received the same canned response about a year ago.
  21656. Indienono is totally useless when it comes to making the campaign
  21657. creator talk – it would surprise me if they had a valid email
  21658. address at this point.
  21659.  
  21660.  
  21661.  
  21662.  
  21663. Gaston Cardey
  21664.  
  21665. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8821945> 1 month ago
  21666.  
  21667. Obviously, they wash theirs hands. “Start a campaign and get away
  21668. with the money!”
  21669. IGG: YOU HAVE RESPONSIBILITY IN THIS.
  21670.  
  21671.  
  21672.  
  21673.  
  21674. Ian Cockburn
  21675.  
  21676. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/1720386> 1 month ago
  21677.  
  21678. @Bryan Walker
  21679.  
  21680. "
  21681. However, our minimum expectation is that a campaign owner is
  21682. transparent to contributors about the status of their project by
  21683. posting updates to their campaign. We will be reaching out to them
  21684. directly to urge them to post an update. While we can’t force them
  21685. to post an update, if they continue to remain unresponsive, you can
  21686. use our Terms of Use to take legal action against the campaigner. "
  21687.  
  21688.  
  21689.  
  21690.  
  21691. Ian Cockburn
  21692.  
  21693. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/1720386> 1 month ago
  21694.  
  21695. @Bryan Walker they did the same with mine. I have reopened it and it
  21696. was escalated to Trust and Safety.
  21697.  
  21698. “As with any early-stage project, crowdfunding campaigns may take
  21699. unexpected turns, which can include changes, delays or unforeseen
  21700. challenges. While your contribution helps to bring something new
  21701. closer to reality, there is always the risk that a project may end
  21702. up falling through, and that the campaign owner may not be able to
  21703. deliver the perks they’d originally offered.”
  21704.  
  21705.  
  21706.  
  21707.  
  21708. Bryan Walker
  21709.  
  21710. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 1 month ago
  21711.  
  21712. I see Indiegogo has marked my message detailing Wedg’s lack of web
  21713. presence as “solved” without even a . I guess this scam project
  21714. truly is dead.
  21715.  
  21716.  
  21717.  
  21718.  
  21719. Bryan Walker
  21720.  
  21721. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 1 month ago
  21722.  
  21723. @Gaston Cardey, I don’t know of anyone close to that area. From what
  21724. I could tell, there are some UK backers here, but I don’t know
  21725. anyone specifically.
  21726.  
  21727.  
  21728.  
  21729.  
  21730. Gaston Cardey
  21731.  
  21732. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8821945> 1 month ago
  21733.  
  21734. @Bryan Walker, I was about to build a page plenty of “scam” in the
  21735. background and was to tell the history of this notorious scam.
  21736. I’m sure that there are some really good and respectful
  21737. entrepreneurs in IGG, but how can we trust?
  21738. I’d like to go to UK to confront this guys (like I have a chance to
  21739. do that). Do you know if there are some backers living in UK or near
  21740. Manchester?
  21741.  
  21742.  
  21743.  
  21744.  
  21745. Bryan Walker
  21746.  
  21747. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 1 month ago
  21748.  
  21749. @Gaston Cardey But, having said that, if you have a better use for
  21750. the website please let me know – I’m more than happy to point it
  21751. towards a new page.
  21752.  
  21753.  
  21754.  
  21755.  
  21756. Bryan Walker
  21757.  
  21758. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 1 month ago
  21759.  
  21760. @Gaston Cardey, It became painfully apparent to me some time ago
  21761. that Indiegogo has no (by their own rules) desire to do anything
  21762. more than provide a platform to collect money. They don’t have to
  21763. care because there is no accountability. They have their money. The
  21764. fact that the campaign fleeced us of funds – by bad intentions or
  21765. bad luck, we’ll never truly know – is nothing that they are ever
  21766. going to care about. At least, not until the money stops because of
  21767. said bad press!
  21768.  
  21769.  
  21770.  
  21771.  
  21772. Bryan Walker
  21773.  
  21774. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 1 month ago
  21775.  
  21776. @Gaston Cardey, It is kind of disturbing to see both the domain and
  21777. twitter cancelled, that seems to indicate that Wedg considers itself
  21778. to be a dead project. The domain, maybe – that costs money, but the
  21779. twitter account is free. I guess they don’t want any evidence laying
  21780. around?
  21781.  
  21782. It is amusing to see all of the links and whatnot now pointing to
  21783. the twitter rant.
  21784.  
  21785.  
  21786.  
  21787.  
  21788. Gaston Cardey
  21789.  
  21790. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8821945> 1 month ago
  21791.  
  21792. @bryan walker, You’re my hero! I was about to buy that domain, but
  21793. you won the race!
  21794. These guys really are amazing. And IGG can’t support this kind of
  21795. theft in their platform. But they do.
  21796.  
  21797.  
  21798.  
  21799.  
  21800. Bryan Walker
  21801.  
  21802. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 1 month ago
  21803.  
  21804. 3 of the 4 projects that Blazon PR helped on kickstarter didn’t
  21805. deliver – the fourth seems to have delivered for the most part, but
  21806. still has a lot of no-shows and complaints about short product life.
  21807.  
  21808. https://www.indiegogo.com/partners/BlazonPR
  21809.  
  21810.  
  21811.  
  21812.  
  21813. Bryan Walker
  21814.  
  21815. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 1 month ago
  21816.  
  21817. I love how all wedg.co and @wearewedg now direct to the rant page.
  21818.  
  21819.  
  21820.  
  21821.  
  21822. Bryan Walker
  21823.  
  21824. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 1 month ago
  21825.  
  21826. Actually, I sent it to the twitter page. Better for today’s audience.
  21827.  
  21828.  
  21829.  
  21830.  
  21831. Bryan Walker
  21832.  
  21833. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 1 month ago
  21834.  
  21835. wedg.co is registered and now points here.
  21836.  
  21837.  
  21838.  
  21839.  
  21840. Bryan Walker
  21841.  
  21842. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 1 month ago
  21843.  
  21844. Check out our new twitter page! https://twitter.com/wearewedg
  21845.  
  21846.  
  21847.  
  21848.  
  21849. Bryan Walker
  21850.  
  21851. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 1 month ago
  21852.  
  21853. The twitter account, @wearewedg, appears to be dead too. That’s now
  21854. mine as well.
  21855.  
  21856.  
  21857.  
  21858.  
  21859. Bryan Walker
  21860.  
  21861. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 1 month ago
  21862.  
  21863. All,
  21864.  
  21865. I now own WEDG.CO – which tells me this project has no intention of
  21866. completing.
  21867.  
  21868. I believe I can force a simple redirect on the name through the
  21869. host, so if someone wanted to create a webpage that I could point it
  21870. to – let’s talk.
  21871.  
  21872.  
  21873.  
  21874.  
  21875. Bryan Walker
  21876.  
  21877. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 1 month ago
  21878.  
  21879. @Rémi
  21880.  
  21881. It does now. I just bought it.
  21882.  
  21883.  
  21884.  
  21885.  
  21886. Rémi
  21887.  
  21888. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/9463606> 2 months ago
  21889.  
  21890. The domain name wedge.co does not exists anymore.
  21891.  
  21892.  
  21893.  
  21894.  
  21895. moelliott
  21896.  
  21897. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8707340> 2 months ago
  21898.  
  21899. I do, however, see that I can create a fictional product, and skip
  21900. away with £100,000 of cash fleeced from trusting backers. I’ll
  21901. remember that if I’m ever in dire need of a cash injection, knowing
  21902. full well that any fraud perpetuated won’t be acted upon. (6)
  21903.  
  21904.  
  21905.  
  21906.  
  21907. moelliott
  21908.  
  21909. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8707340> 2 months ago
  21910.  
  21911. The fact that Indiegogo has shrugged off legitimate complaints,
  21912. pacified by clear subterfuge on behalf of Wedg and it’s vague,
  21913. anonymous, and ghostly staff via empty and infrequent updates. From
  21914. what I gather from the rest of my fellow disappointed backers, you
  21915. have been pathetic.
  21916.  
  21917. So guess what? There’s no reason for me to visit Indiegogo, as there
  21918. is no protection, support, or accountability enforced in your
  21919. platform. (5)
  21920.  
  21921.  
  21922.  
  21923.  
  21924. moelliott
  21925.  
  21926. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8707340> 2 months ago
  21927.  
  21928. I backed the WEDG
  21929. (https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/wedg-the-personal-butt-you-ve-been-waiting-for/x/8707340#/)
  21930. project along with many other people. Like many other people we have
  21931. been ripped off. Now, I understand that this is part and parcel of
  21932. the platform, and that backing projects is not risk free.
  21933.  
  21934. However, read through the comments section of that project, I
  21935. implore you. The fact that we’ve all been ripped off is annoying,
  21936. yes, and those feelings are made clear. (4)
  21937.  
  21938.  
  21939.  
  21940.  
  21941. moelliott
  21942.  
  21943. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8707340> 2 months ago
  21944.  
  21945. real use, warning anyone that stumbles upon this page as a ‘Here be
  21946. dragons’ missive, but to add my tuppence to the mix, here’s my
  21947. message to IG in full:
  21948.  
  21949. Hi,
  21950.  
  21951. I received an email from you this morning, cheerfully informing me
  21952. that “It’s been a while since you’ve visited Indiegogo” and asking
  21953. the – “Would You Like to Start Raising Money?” The inference of
  21954. course, that Indiegogo is a wonderful platform for doing so. (3)
  21955.  
  21956.  
  21957.  
  21958.  
  21959. moelliott
  21960.  
  21961. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8707340> 2 months ago
  21962.  
  21963. Must admit though, it did push my buttons somewhat. So I fired back
  21964. a missive through their customer support service – as pointless a
  21965. task as I can imagine – and vented my frustrations over this
  21966. project. It made me feel better at least; I’ve long since been
  21967. resigned to having lost £250 on this piece of vapourware, but that
  21968. casual email enquiring as to why I’ve not a happy regular user of
  21969. IG’s platform caused me the need to have my say. As a cautionary
  21970. tale, it’s way too late to be of any (2)
  21971.  
  21972.  
  21973.  
  21974.  
  21975. moelliott
  21976.  
  21977. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8707340> 2 months ago
  21978.  
  21979. Hello all, long term backer (all the way back to the failed
  21980. Kickstarter) and long term lurker here, and I’ve stayed quiet,
  21981. knowing that I might as well be screaming into a cave to register my
  21982. dissatisfaction. However, I received an email from Indiegogo this
  21983. morning, entitled ‘Start raising money with Indiegogo’ Some of you
  21984. may have received the same. The email itself was a cheerful reminder
  21985. that I hadn’t visited in a while, the usual vacuous platitudes
  21986. served up in any advertising copy. (1)
  21987.  
  21988.  
  21989.  
  21990.  
  21991. Bryan Walker
  21992.  
  21993. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 2 months ago
  21994.  
  21995. Indiegogo and Wedg Suck.
  21996.  
  21997.  
  21998.  
  21999.  
  22000. Bryan Walker
  22001.  
  22002. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 2 months ago
  22003.  
  22004. Yep. Marked “Solved” with no input at all, about 2 hours ago (about
  22005. 2100UTC).
  22006.  
  22007. Indiegogo simply doesn’t care once the money changes hands, and it’s
  22008. pretty obvious that they’re not going to do anything to help.
  22009.  
  22010. So, Ladies and Gentlemen, I consider my money to be stolen.
  22011. Unfortunately, authorities aren’t going to open an international
  22012. case for US$300. Guess it sucks to be me (and you.)
  22013.  
  22014.  
  22015.  
  22016.  
  22017. Bryan Walker
  22018.  
  22019. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 2 months ago
  22020.  
  22021. Dropped another note to Indiegogo about Wedg. Got this in my email:
  22022.  
  22023. “Please note, we’ve recently received an increased number of
  22024. requests, and as a result, it may take us a little longer than
  22025. normal to respond. We apologize in advance for the inconvenience.”
  22026.  
  22027. Really. People getting pissed at not even getting so much as a “Fuck
  22028. You” from campaigns, perhaps?
  22029.  
  22030.  
  22031.  
  22032.  
  22033. Bryan Walker
  22034.  
  22035. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 2 months ago
  22036.  
  22037. Over 3 months since the last update. Indiegogo has written this
  22038. project off, as they close tickets without even ing. Where
  22039. should we hold the funeral for this project?
  22040.  
  22041.  
  22042.  
  22043.  
  22044. Bryan Walker
  22045.  
  22046. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 2 months ago
  22047.  
  22048. @dbrissenden, I reached out to a number of UK entities some time
  22049. ago. The only thing they could tell me is that since I wasn’t a UK
  22050. resident, all they could do was note my query.
  22051.  
  22052.  
  22053.  
  22054.  
  22055. dbrissenden
  22056.  
  22057. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8114757> 2 months ago
  22058.  
  22059. I’ve had enough of this deceit so I have reported to ActionFraud for
  22060. them to decide whether there is a case to answer to.
  22061. I would urge anyone who believes this is a fraud to do the same at
  22062. http://www.actionfraud.police.uk/report-a-fraud-including-online-crime
  22063. I provided them with as much information as I was able to regarding
  22064. when the money was taken, lack of communication, refusal to engage
  22065. with backers along with the new companies which have cropped up,
  22066. mysterious name changing etc….
  22067.  
  22068.  
  22069.  
  22070.  
  22071. jrogers31
  22072.  
  22073. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> 3 months ago
  22074.  
  22075. @Ian Cockburn -as mentioned 4 months ago -Carol Bohm-Scott is a
  22076. ghost/fictional character (allegedly) in a game being played to
  22077. obfuscate matters relating to WEDG and the whereabouts of OUR MONEY.
  22078. A company has been created with an address at a hot desk office – I
  22079. bet if you turned up at the address you would not find any evidence
  22080. of the company ever having been there other than having paid one
  22081. months rent. Unfortunately, we need a backer with friends in low
  22082. places to sort this out. (allegedly)
  22083.  
  22084.  
  22085.  
  22086.  
  22087. Ian Cockburn
  22088.  
  22089. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/1720386> 3 months ago
  22090.  
  22091. And looking up the details of his new company, it seems to be in
  22092. exactly the same place as Wedg was.. at the Innospace MMU Business
  22093. Incubator. Has anyone managed to find out anything about Montrose
  22094. Innovations and Carol Bohm-Scott ?
  22095.  
  22096.  
  22097.  
  22098.  
  22099. Ian Cockburn
  22100.  
  22101. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/1720386> 3 months ago
  22102.  
  22103. Based on this, I do wonder how much work/legal meetings were
  22104. actually carried out on Wedg, or were we just fed lies and have been
  22105. scammed? Given that it’s been now 2 months since the last communication…
  22106.  
  22107.  
  22108.  
  22109.  
  22110. Ian Cockburn
  22111.  
  22112. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/1720386> 3 months ago
  22113.  
  22114. It seems that Mr. Afzal is not longer with Wedg (having left Nov
  22115. 2016). Currently running Indiefalcon Limited a mobile app developer
  22116. (since July 2016). This is according to his
  22117. https://www.linkedin.com/in/shehbazafzal/. On further searching, it
  22118. seems that Indiefalcon was something that he has had on the
  22119. backburner for a while – marketing reported posted Feb 4, 2016 –
  22120. https://www.slideshare.net/JakeStainton/indiefalcon-project-report.
  22121.  
  22122.  
  22123.  
  22124.  
  22125. Mark Brown
  22126.  
  22127. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3433405> 3 months ago
  22128.  
  22129. :(
  22130.  
  22131.  
  22132.  
  22133.  
  22134. Bryan Walker
  22135.  
  22136. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 3 months ago
  22137.  
  22138. Well, since the goons@gogo have abandoned us, and Wedg has fed us
  22139. nothing but fluff for four months – is this project dead? Can we
  22140. call it a scam for reals now?
  22141.  
  22142.  
  22143.  
  22144.  
  22145. Bryan Walker
  22146.  
  22147. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 3 months ago
  22148.  
  22149. My request is marked “solved” as well. No explanation or .
  22150.  
  22151. Seems that our friends and Indienono have washed their hands of us
  22152. and this bad project. I guess this means that everyone who backed
  22153. the project lost their hard-earned cash.
  22154.  
  22155. Bryan Walker
  22156.  
  22157. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 3 months ago
  22158. *at Indienono, that is. It's quite late and words aren't working at
  22159. the moment.
  22160.  
  22161.  
  22162.  
  22163. Nikolai Tesla
  22164.  
  22165. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> 3 months ago
  22166.  
  22167. Interesting enough. I opened up my request four days ago and
  22168. recently Indiegogo decided to set it to a “SOLVED” status without
  22169. any explanation. I have opened a new request for them to explain
  22170. this “new” way of handling requests from backers. My suggestion to
  22171. others whom have submitted recent requests to Indiegogo is to check
  22172. the status.
  22173.  
  22174.  
  22175.  
  22176.  
  22177. Nikolai Tesla
  22178.  
  22179. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> 4 months ago
  22180.  
  22181. Interesting article from BBC but Bryan is right on his conclusion.
  22182. The best bet is to continue to pressure them as we are doing. I have
  22183. submitted my complaint Email to the ignorant Indie-no-no staff.
  22184.  
  22185.  
  22186.  
  22187.  
  22188. Bryan Walker
  22189.  
  22190. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 4 months ago
  22191.  
  22192. @rickyfew The spectrum campaign was still being funded, which is why
  22193. IGG could shut it down.
  22194.  
  22195. Our money has floated away into the void of bad venture capital.
  22196.  
  22197. It sounds like its time for everyone to write another complaint
  22198. email to the goons at gogo. If we do this every month, maybe they
  22199. will get the hint…
  22200.  
  22201.  
  22202.  
  22203.  
  22204. rickyfews
  22205.  
  22206. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/9005627> 4 months ago
  22207.  
  22208. Could there be hope?
  22209. http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-39191064
  22210.  
  22211.  
  22212.  
  22213.  
  22214. Bryan Walker
  22215.  
  22216. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 4 months ago
  22217.  
  22218. @Nikolai, I know my wallet certainly came out of the wash clean.
  22219. What’s really sad is I’m already considering what to purchase to
  22220. replace the device that took the place of Wedg…
  22221.  
  22222.  
  22223.  
  22224.  
  22225. Nikolai Tesla
  22226.  
  22227. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> 4 months ago
  22228.  
  22229. The same wash cycle. Cleanse, fold and manipulate Indiegogo to shut
  22230. us up! This needs to stop.
  22231.  
  22232.  
  22233.  
  22234.  
  22235. Bryan Walker
  22236.  
  22237. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 4 months ago
  22238.  
  22239. As we come upon another month, one wonders if Wedg will supply us
  22240. with another basket of dryer fluff…
  22241.  
  22242.  
  22243.  
  22244.  
  22245. Bryan Walker
  22246.  
  22247. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 5 months ago
  22248.  
  22249. @Philipp Stäheli, whatever they had at the start of the campaign has
  22250. already reached that point. I do feel really bad for the one backer
  22251. that dropped £3000 on this dead turkey.
  22252.  
  22253.  
  22254.  
  22255.  
  22256. Philipp Stäheli
  22257.  
  22258. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8723017> 5 months ago
  22259.  
  22260. By the time they pull through with the project the hardware will be
  22261. so outdated it can go right in a museeum. (also filed under scam /
  22262. bullshit / please fuck me over)
  22263.  
  22264.  
  22265.  
  22266.  
  22267. jrogers31
  22268.  
  22269. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> 5 months ago
  22270.  
  22271. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anwy2MPT5RE a possible Wedg sing
  22272. along video just change the p to c in the word spam. Funny how the
  22273. shape of the Wedg unit resembles the Viking helmet without the
  22274. horns. Any backers with video skills who can create a parody video
  22275. to the sound track using multiple images of the Wedg unit with horns
  22276. attached and upload it to Youtube? It may get some much needed
  22277. publicity to highlight the disgrace that is Team Wedg.
  22278.  
  22279.  
  22280.  
  22281.  
  22282. Scott McQueen
  22283.  
  22284. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8443500> 5 months ago
  22285.  
  22286. Seriously, could these updates be any more vague?
  22287.  
  22288.  
  22289.  
  22290.  
  22291. Bryan Walker
  22292.  
  22293. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 5 months ago
  22294.  
  22295. @rickyfews, your best bet would be contact paypal directly. Point
  22296. them towards the comments, explain the mess that’s happened here. If
  22297. you go back far enough someone (sorry forget the name) posted a PDF
  22298. copy of their “We’re in legal trouble letter.”
  22299.  
  22300.  
  22301.  
  22302.  
  22303. jrogers31
  22304.  
  22305. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> 5 months ago
  22306.  
  22307. Latest update – more unverifiable tripe. “While many of you feel the
  22308. project is a scam…” nothing can be closer to the truth would be more
  22309. apt. If this is not a scam the writer of the update should properly
  22310. Identify themselves and provide verifiable evidence to support what
  22311. is being said. If the writer, aka Team Wedg does not then logic
  22312. would dictate that it is a scam.
  22313.  
  22314.  
  22315.  
  22316.  
  22317. guillaume
  22318.  
  22319. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6772792> 5 months ago
  22320.  
  22321. I’ve joined the troops to find out the truth about all this. I’ve
  22322. just sent an email to IGG. I think if more and more backers do the
  22323. same we might be able to speed things up.
  22324.  
  22325. Next step for me will probably be reporting the fraud to UK gov
  22326. (suggested by @Nikolai Tesla
  22327. https://www.sfo.gov.uk/contact-us/reporting-serious-fraud-bribery-corruption/
  22328. and @Cosmarchy in his open email to WEDG http://pastebin.com/JQR0FD1N)
  22329.  
  22330. Keep you posted about any IGG answer…
  22331.  
  22332. guillaume
  22333.  
  22334. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6772792> 5 months ago
  22335. Here is the IGG (automated) answer: “Thanks for reaching out. While
  22336. perk offers are made and managed by campaign owners, we at Indiegogo
  22337. expect campaign owners to communicate regularly with their
  22338. contributors. I am sorry to see that this has not been the case with
  22339. this campaign. We will send a message to the campaign owner to
  22340. remind them of their responsibilities to keep you and backers
  22341. updated on the status of their project. In addition, I encourage you
  22342. to get in touch with them directly. …”
  22343.  
  22344.  
  22345.  
  22346. sattler
  22347.  
  22348. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8272012> 5 months ago
  22349.  
  22350. Although I don’t really believe this is a scam, I do think someone
  22351. screwed up big time. Really frustrating to bury that much money.
  22352. Actually I really needed such a device two years ago. Now I don’t
  22353. anymore as I had to find other solutions. Most expesive paperweight
  22354. of my life.
  22355.  
  22356.  
  22357.  
  22358.  
  22359. Gordon Keys
  22360.  
  22361. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8335278> 5 months ago
  22362.  
  22363. Another update that tells us nothing!
  22364.  
  22365.  
  22366.  
  22367.  
  22368. rickyfews
  22369.  
  22370. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/9005627> 5 months ago
  22371.  
  22372. Hi, does anyone know what the chances are of getting a refund if the
  22373. payment was made through PayPal?
  22374.  
  22375. Thanks,
  22376.  
  22377.  
  22378.  
  22379.  
  22380. Nikolai Tesla
  22381.  
  22382. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> 5 months ago
  22383.  
  22384. I added my drop into the bucket against this scam. I have also found
  22385. this valuable option to report this scam to the UK Serious Fraud Office:
  22386.  
  22387. https://www.sfo.gov.uk/contact-us/reporting-serious-fraud-bribery-corruption/
  22388.  
  22389.  
  22390.  
  22391.  
  22392. Bryan Walker
  22393.  
  22394. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 5 months ago
  22395.  
  22396. Yet another email to Indiegogo went a few minutes ago. I suggest
  22397. everyone do the same.
  22398.  
  22399. If you’re in the UK, you may be eligible for a refund under Section
  22400. 75 of the Consumer Credit Act, if you paid for any portion of the
  22401. funding with a credit (not debit) card.
  22402.  
  22403.  
  22404.  
  22405.  
  22406. Bryan Walker
  22407.  
  22408. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 5 months ago
  22409.  
  22410. @dbrissenden The biggest problem with this whole mess is: no
  22411. accountability once the money has been paid.
  22412.  
  22413. Indiegogo just says “LOL” and Wedg doesn’t exist…
  22414.  
  22415.  
  22416.  
  22417.  
  22418. dbrissenden
  22419.  
  22420. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8114757> 5 months ago
  22421.  
  22422. Looks like we aren’t the only ones who are trying to find out info….
  22423. http://pastebin.com/JQR0FD1N
  22424.  
  22425.  
  22426.  
  22427.  
  22428. Nikolai Tesla
  22429.  
  22430. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> 5 months ago
  22431.  
  22432. As long as we still put pressure against Indiegogo and WEDG/SHEHBAZ
  22433. AFZAL something will have to give. Definitely without a doubt this
  22434. is a scam and I will not rest until the authorities bring to justice
  22435. the responsible party.
  22436.  
  22437.  
  22438.  
  22439.  
  22440. Bryan Walker
  22441.  
  22442. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 5 months ago
  22443.  
  22444. And another month begins to slip by…silence on the radio…a desperate
  22445. cry on the airwaves, faint, and without power: “Wedg! Where are you?”
  22446.  
  22447.  
  22448.  
  22449.  
  22450. Bryan Walker
  22451.  
  22452. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 6 months ago
  22453.  
  22454. @Gaston Cardey, at this point I can’t believe the update from Wedg
  22455. was more than hush money paid to keep Indiegogo from cancelling the
  22456. campaign.
  22457.  
  22458. There is absolutely no reason why more frequent updates can’t be
  22459. given – it’s not like said director has to report to an office in
  22460. some far off city to submit it.
  22461.  
  22462.  
  22463.  
  22464.  
  22465. Gaston Cardey
  22466.  
  22467. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8821945> 6 months ago
  22468.  
  22469. @Bryan Walker. I was thinking exactly the same. And will go an go an
  22470. go untill every one of us give up and never come back here.
  22471. At least, send me the HDD and will try to use them in any way (2 HDD
  22472. of 1 Tb each).
  22473. There should be a way for these platforms offer some warranty or
  22474. settlement to the poor basterds that fall into a scam like this.
  22475.  
  22476. Gaston Cardey
  22477.  
  22478. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8821945> 6 months ago
  22479. Oh! The HDD should be NEW, ok? NEW means not refurbished or used. OK?
  22480.  
  22481.  
  22482.  
  22483. Bryan Walker
  22484.  
  22485. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 6 months ago
  22486.  
  22487. We taking bets on how long before another update? I’m guessing it’s
  22488. going to be exactly the amount of time it takes for us to start
  22489. yelling at Indiegogo again.
  22490.  
  22491.  
  22492.  
  22493.  
  22494. Scott McQueen
  22495.  
  22496. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8443500> 6 months ago
  22497.  
  22498. @Team Wedg: Thank you for the update but can you go into the a few
  22499. more details. We would like to know about the new MD, their
  22500. interest, background etc and also about the new team members. Surely
  22501. a new website update would be in order and/or a forum where we, the
  22502. investors could input our ideas.
  22503.  
  22504.  
  22505.  
  22506.  
  22507. jrogers31
  22508.  
  22509. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> 6 months ago
  22510.  
  22511. @john34754 – as indicated in the comments thread below research
  22512. suggests that the new director of the company is a fictional
  22513. character / ghost / figment of someones imagination / not real.
  22514. Smoke and mirrors to obfuscate the gullible.
  22515.  
  22516.  
  22517.  
  22518.  
  22519. john34754
  22520.  
  22521. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8707691> 6 months ago
  22522.  
  22523. A change of director for me is welcomed and overdue. Rather than
  22524. bashing the new director and company I’m going to be positive and
  22525. hope that Montrose Innovations can rescue the situation. Carol,
  22526. please introduce yourself and the team and what roles you all will
  22527. play. How do you intend to move forward? Regular updates are
  22528. essential to backers preferably once a week. An update which has
  22529. very little information or maybe includes setbacks must still be
  22530. posted. We need to be kept in the loop.
  22531.  
  22532.  
  22533.  
  22534.  
  22535. Gaston Cardey
  22536.  
  22537. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8821945> 6 months ago
  22538.  
  22539. They don’t tell you in an open way, but if you read between lines,
  22540. it’s perfectly clear: “We can’t do anything, sorry. The campaign
  22541. owner is another failure of this crownfunding way. We have another
  22542. guy who scam the backers (another and the total goes up to…).
  22543. We let that this things happen so others can deliver.”
  22544.  
  22545.  
  22546.  
  22547.  
  22548. Gaston Cardey
  22549.  
  22550. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8821945> 6 months ago
  22551.  
  22552. I’ve got a super-ultra-fantastic answer from IGG!
  22553. “In looking at your contribution to the campaign “WEDG: the personal
  22554. butt you’ve been waiting for,” I see that your contribution has
  22555. already been sent to the campaigner. This means that a refund can no
  22556. longer be issued by Indiegogo."
  22557. Really? Are you sure about this? Really-really sure?
  22558. jjajjaejjajjejajejjejeja
  22559.  
  22560. See 1 more ...
  22561. <https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/wedg-the-personal-cloud-you-ve-been-waiting-for>
  22562.  
  22563. Gaston Cardey
  22564.  
  22565. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8821945> 6 months ago
  22566. And... "Indiegogo is not able to guarantee that perks will be
  22567. delivered or deemed satisfactory. The nature of crowdfunding is such
  22568. that campaigns on Indiegogo are raising funds for work-in-progress
  22569. projects, ideas, or causes. Contributing to a campaign and claiming
  22570. a perk on Indiegogo is not the same as buying something online.
  22571. Because projects may still be in their early stages, many things can
  22572. happen between the time the project is raising funds and the
  22573. expected project release date."
  22574. Gaston Cardey
  22575.  
  22576. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8821945> 6 months ago
  22577. ... "While your contribution brings the campaign idea closer to
  22578. becoming reality, there's always the chance that a project may end
  22579. up falling through, and the campaign owner may not be able to offer
  22580. their contributors the perks they'd originally promised. If you’re
  22581. still interested in receiving a refund, we recommend you get in
  22582. touch with the campaign owner directly. Campaign Owner's: Carol
  22583. Bohm-Scott, carol.bs@wedg.co" = You're all dumbs and you're scammed.
  22584. But we (IGG) have our money.
  22585.  
  22586.  
  22587.  
  22588. Bryan Walker
  22589.  
  22590. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 6 months ago
  22591.  
  22592. @jrogers31
  22593.  
  22594. >> I believe that this update has been sent to satisfy Indiegogo only
  22595.  
  22596. You think? Awfully suspicious that as soon as Indiegogo starts
  22597. making a little bit of effort to be more than a fat, lazy slug that
  22598. does nothing more than collect money, our beloved WEDG & CO shits
  22599. out an update with more fluff than a laundromat dryer…
  22600.  
  22601.  
  22602.  
  22603.  
  22604. Nikolai Tesla
  22605.  
  22606. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> 6 months ago
  22607.  
  22608. @ SHEHBAZ AFZAL/WEDG/“CAROL BOHM-SCOTT”: Provide details, in the
  22609. next 24 hrs, of such “progress” with names of who is on board to the
  22610. “new team”, address of your “new” London office, pictures & videos
  22611. of your prototypes and work environment, time schedules of
  22612. deliverables, current budget to make this project work, etc. Without
  22613. these you and this “project” are still considered a scam, as such I
  22614. and many others will continue to push Indiegogo, UK authorities and
  22615. credit card companies against you.
  22616.  
  22617.  
  22618.  
  22619.  
  22620. jrogers31
  22621.  
  22622. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> 6 months ago
  22623.  
  22624. Yet another unverifiable update from WEDG. This has always been the
  22625. problem – nothing said in their updates can be confirmed
  22626. independently. I believe that this update has been sent to satisfy
  22627. Indiegogo only (allegedly). No names given of who is in the team.
  22628. Relocation to London – yeah right. Nothing said to address concerns
  22629. of backers as detailed in the comments below. No proof of anything.
  22630. WEDG are in a hole and they still keep digging – still it adds to
  22631. the evidence when Plod starts knocking.
  22632.  
  22633.  
  22634.  
  22635.  
  22636. Johan Wijngaard
  22637.  
  22638. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/2469755> 6 months ago
  22639.  
  22640. Team of “The Wedg”
  22641.  
  22642. At the first have did you have a few happy day’s, if so the good
  22643. wishes for the end off the year.
  22644. But after four month’s it ios time for a new update.
  22645. Please take a moment off your free time to compose a status update.
  22646. A lot off people thing that we lose the money.
  22647. This is one off my bad perk’s/back’s I made, but I still believe in
  22648. you as team that you can make it :)
  22649. I still believe in the product you want to made (host your own
  22650. storrage at home).
  22651. Johan
  22652.  
  22653.  
  22654.  
  22655.  
  22656. Bryan Walker
  22657.  
  22658. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 6 months ago
  22659.  
  22660. @Gaston,
  22661.  
  22662. It took them 4 days to to me. I’m assuming that with the
  22663. Christmas and year-end holidays, you may not get a until early
  22664. next year.
  22665.  
  22666.  
  22667.  
  22668.  
  22669. Bryan Walker
  22670.  
  22671. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 6 months ago
  22672.  
  22673. If you are in the UK and have paid for any of this item with a
  22674. credit card (not debit) you may be eligible for a refund under
  22675. Section 75 of the Consumer Credit Act of 1974.
  22676.  
  22677.  
  22678.  
  22679.  
  22680. Gaston Cardey
  22681.  
  22682. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8821945> 6 months ago
  22683.  
  22684. Hi, everyone,
  22685. I’ve payed my money on time. It has passed more that two years
  22686. (oct-2014) and still nothing. If (by any miracle) I receive this
  22687. device, I’m probably dissasemble because I won’t trust in any
  22688. software that this scammers produce. Hey guys, have you thought
  22689. about this?
  22690. The only way for me is my money back.
  22691. I’m so tired of this… I think that we’ll find ourselves in 1 year at
  22692. the same position. Oh! And IndieGogo will respond the same bullshit.
  22693. Two years had gone. £315.
  22694.  
  22695. Gaston Cardey
  22696.  
  22697. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8821945> 6 months ago
  22698. And, of course, to my email sended on december 23rd, no one
  22699. answered. Maybe they're all drunk and naked somewhere. Thank you
  22700. IndieGoGo for erasing the little faith in your service and
  22701. responsibility. (sorry if I mispell some word, I speak in spanish).
  22702.  
  22703.  
  22704.  
  22705. Bryan Walker
  22706.  
  22707. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 6 months ago
  22708.  
  22709. Other than a few responses indicating “Yeah, I wish I’d never seen
  22710. this thing,” I had one angry idiot whom got somewhat pissy with me,
  22711. asking me exactly who did I think I was?
  22712.  
  22713. I told him I was a guy that lost a lot of money on a project that
  22714. didn’t bother to tell me why, and he shut up.
  22715.  
  22716. Bryan Walker
  22717.  
  22718. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 6 months ago
  22719. I see a few others have replied, one of which seems to be another
  22720. backer... Jaypaul, where are you? Why won't you duck us and update?
  22721.  
  22722.  
  22723.  
  22724. Bryan Walker
  22725.  
  22726. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 6 months ago
  22727.  
  22728. @Nikolai
  22729.  
  22730. Indiegogo is responsible in that they do not have ANY requirements
  22731. once the project has closed. They say that the creator is
  22732. responsible for communicating with backers, but to me it sounds like
  22733. that extends to a “please talk to your backers” email to what’s
  22734. probably a dead address.
  22735.  
  22736. I’ve also been going down through their twitter and looking for
  22737. messages that had other @handles attached to the message, and
  22738. tweeting things indicating that WEDG & Co has fallen off the earth.
  22739.  
  22740.  
  22741.  
  22742.  
  22743. Nikolai Tesla
  22744.  
  22745. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> 6 months ago
  22746.  
  22747. I made sure that Indiegogo is aware that they are the “middleman” to
  22748. this scam. They providing a safe haven and breeding ground for
  22749. scammers to run their “business” without any guarantees to provide
  22750. anything except taking money from good will contributors. I am
  22751. holding Indiegogo partially responsible for allowing this practice.
  22752.  
  22753.  
  22754.  
  22755.  
  22756. Nikolai Tesla
  22757.  
  22758. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> 6 months ago
  22759.  
  22760. @Bryan Walker: In my case, I have only received a generic response
  22761. from Indiegogo that they “will send a message to the campaign owner
  22762. of WEDG to remind them of their responsibilities to keep you and
  22763. backers updated on the status of their project” but they encourage
  22764. me to contact the make believe campaign owner “Carol Bohm-Scott” at
  22765. the following:
  22766.  
  22767. carol.bs@wedg.co / info@wedg.co
  22768. http://www.wedg.co
  22769. http://www.twitter.com/wearewedg
  22770.  
  22771.  
  22772.  
  22773.  
  22774. Bryan Walker
  22775.  
  22776. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 6 months ago
  22777.  
  22778. @Gaston Cardey
  22779.  
  22780. I find it interesting that Carol is listed as “Male” on that
  22781. profile. Probably an oversight, but it simply adds more WTF to the pot.
  22782.  
  22783. I’d also like everyone to note that the ad agency that Wedg had
  22784. partnered with seems to have vanished from these pages as well.
  22785.  
  22786.  
  22787.  
  22788.  
  22789. Bryan Walker
  22790.  
  22791. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 6 months ago
  22792.  
  22793. I posted a copy of the email I received regarding the project being
  22794. under review here.
  22795.  
  22796. http://imgur.com/a/q6vRW
  22797.  
  22798. Thank you all for taking the time to let Indiegogo have a piece of
  22799. your mind.
  22800.  
  22801.  
  22802.  
  22803.  
  22804. Gaston Cardey
  22805.  
  22806. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8821945> 6 months ago
  22807.  
  22808. Well, following the Bryan’s advice I have write again. After that, I
  22809. started a Google search and found:
  22810. https://www.datocapital.com/uk/ejecutivos/Carol-Bohm_Scott-(1985_1).html
  22811. It’s in spanish, but you can translate easily. It says that we’re
  22812. f***ed. She’s 75% partner and has £ 748, so…
  22813. Anybody near this? 17 Grosvenor Gardens, London, England, SW1W 0BD
  22814. (Correspondence address of Montrose Innovations). The company is
  22815. listed at Companies House under company no. 10344848.
  22816. Tired of all this.
  22817.  
  22818. Gaston Cardey
  22819.  
  22820. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8821945> 6 months ago
  22821. I hope you guys have a Merry Christmas (the ones you believe). And a
  22822. Very Very Happy New Year.
  22823.  
  22824.  
  22825.  
  22826. Bryan Walker
  22827.  
  22828. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 6 months ago
  22829.  
  22830. @Nikolai Tesla
  22831.  
  22832. Awesome. Hopefully more people screaming will do something – anything!
  22833.  
  22834. Just as a note, it took about 4 days to get the initial .
  22835.  
  22836. Bryan Walker
  22837.  
  22838. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 6 months ago
  22839. And even then, I had to respond with the fact that I've tried every
  22840. method of communication I could find relating to Wedg, and all of
  22841. them are closed, empty, or stale. I pointed out the recent principal
  22842. change, the lack of information on this change, and the fact that I
  22843. contacted reviewers and related agencies in Manchester. I pointed
  22844. out that I got nothing other than "Hmmm...." back from some of the
  22845. reviewers. Nothing else...
  22846.  
  22847.  
  22848.  
  22849. Nikolai Tesla
  22850.  
  22851. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> 6 months ago
  22852.  
  22853. @Bryan Walker: Provided my .02 to them. Pending a response with action.
  22854.  
  22855.  
  22856.  
  22857.  
  22858. Bryan Walker
  22859.  
  22860. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 6 months ago
  22861.  
  22862. Indiegogo emailed me back and stated that this campaign is under
  22863. review. What you need to do:
  22864.  
  22865. Log in to your Indiegogo account and go to the contact us section.
  22866. Pick whatever you want, but make sure you let Indiegogo know that
  22867. Wedg isn’t talking, if and when you’ve tried to contact them, and
  22868. how much money you lost on this project. Let them have it, don’t be
  22869. kind or worry about hurting feelings. Bitch, moan, complain, scream,
  22870. and yell.
  22871.  
  22872.  
  22873.  
  22874.  
  22875. Bryan Walker
  22876.  
  22877. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 6 months ago
  22878.  
  22879. Indiegogo emailed me back and stated that this campaign is under
  22880. review. What you need to do:
  22881.  
  22882. Log in to your Indiegogo account and go to the contact us section.
  22883. Pick whatever you want, but make sure you let Indiegogo know that
  22884. Wedg isn’t talking, if and when you’ve tried to contact them, and
  22885. how much money you lost on this project. Let them have it, don’t be
  22886. kind or worry about hurting feelings. Bitch, moan, complain, scream,
  22887. and yell.
  22888.  
  22889.  
  22890.  
  22891.  
  22892. Bryan Walker
  22893.  
  22894. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 6 months ago
  22895.  
  22896. Surprise. The minute I get pissy here on Indiemoneystealer, I get a
  22897. in my email. “Oh, there’s nothing we can do, contact them
  22898. directly.” Yeah, well I’ve tried. What the fuck do you think we’ve
  22899. been doing all this time, jerking off?
  22900.  
  22901. And AGAIN. As a reminder, if you are in the UK please please please
  22902. see if you can get this refunded under Section 75 of the Consumer
  22903. Credit Act. Let Wedg know we don’t appreciate this bullshit.
  22904.  
  22905.  
  22906.  
  22907.  
  22908. Bryan Walker
  22909.  
  22910. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 6 months ago
  22911.  
  22912. Just as I suspected, neither Indiegogo or the artificially created
  22913. Carol Bohm-Scott (which I sincerely do not believe is a real person)
  22914. have responded to my requests for more information.
  22915.  
  22916. Both of you are fucking bastards. Go to hell and burn.
  22917.  
  22918.  
  22919.  
  22920.  
  22921. Bryan Walker
  22922.  
  22923. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 6 months ago
  22924.  
  22925. I just checked their twitter page. Last comment is a spam comment as
  22926. if the account got hacked.
  22927.  
  22928.  
  22929.  
  22930.  
  22931. Bryan Walker
  22932.  
  22933. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 6 months ago
  22934.  
  22935. (4 of 4, and end)
  22936.  
  22937. While I doubt this will do anything (in fact, I know it won’t do
  22938. anything other than get me a “we can’t do anything” answer,) well,
  22939. I’m not sure what I’m expecting at this point. Nothing would be the
  22940. easiest thing, and I think just writing this off as a bad investment
  22941. and not backing any more tech devices would be my best bet.
  22942.  
  22943. Indiegogo doesn’t want to do anything, and I don’t understand that.
  22944.  
  22945.  
  22946.  
  22947.  
  22948. Bryan Walker
  22949.  
  22950. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 6 months ago
  22951.  
  22952. (3 of many)
  22953.  
  22954. Can you:
  22955.  
  22956. Force Wedg to talk. Anything, even a “Ha ha, you’re suckers and
  22957. we’re never delivering!” would be preferable to wondering what the
  22958. **** happened to our money.
  22959.  
  22960. Force Wedg, to continue the campaign or refund our money or DO
  22961. SOMETHING!
  22962.  
  22963.  
  22964.  
  22965.  
  22966. Bryan Walker
  22967.  
  22968. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 6 months ago
  22969.  
  22970. (2 of many)
  22971.  
  22972. By the comments, some people lost money they could not afford to
  22973. lose in a project that won’t even respond to queries from it’s
  22974. investors.
  22975.  
  22976. Wedg hasn’t updated their twitter in ages. Their website is a
  22977. placeholder. email to various agencies involved with the project go
  22978. unanswered.
  22979.  
  22980.  
  22981.  
  22982.  
  22983. Bryan Walker
  22984.  
  22985. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 6 months ago
  22986.  
  22987. Yet another email to Indiegogo support, although I doubt it’s going
  22988. to do anything. (1 of many)
  22989.  
  22990. Hi. I backed the Wedg project here almost two years ago. Since then,
  22991. Wedg has claimed legal troubles, and has changed the responsible
  22992. individual’s name on the project, as well as apparently removing the
  22993. partner agency they dealt with. We the backers have received no
  22994. communication from Wedg for 4 months. The project is so old that
  22995. things it claims to support (iOS8 and BlackBerry) are no longer things.
  22996.  
  22997.  
  22998.  
  22999.  
  23000. Gaston Cardey
  23001.  
  23002. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8821945> 6 months ago
  23003.  
  23004. Hi everyone,
  23005. As I have mentioned before, we’ve lost our money. But I’d like to
  23006. say a few words to this “Afzal” guy: I live in Colombia, South
  23007. America and we have to multiply x COP 3,761 every British Pound.
  23008. I’ve lost almost 2 minimum salary in this.
  23009. It was really hard to earn this money and all I can think is “shame
  23010. on you”. I trust you receive you punishment in this life by some
  23011. force (jail, flat tire in a heavy rain without spare, flood in your
  23012. home, rats, unfaithful couple, etc.).
  23013. Bye, guys.
  23014.  
  23015.  
  23016.  
  23017.  
  23018. Nikolai Tesla
  23019.  
  23020. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> 7 months ago
  23021.  
  23022. @Howard Celnik: Yes, you are correct. Wedg has been eclipsed by many
  23023. NAS providers, dedicated appliances and other startups providing
  23024. reliable services with an actual product. The goal to receive a
  23025. working “Wedg” device expired a long time ago. The issue has been on
  23026. how to bring justice against Mr. Afzal and get a full refund as well.
  23027.  
  23028.  
  23029.  
  23030.  
  23031. Carlos Garcia Conde
  23032.  
  23033. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4819372> 7 months ago
  23034.  
  23035. A NEW SCAM AT INDIEGOGO
  23036. I VE LOST MY MONEY?
  23037.  
  23038.  
  23039.  
  23040.  
  23041. Howard Celnik
  23042.  
  23043. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4274214> 7 months ago
  23044.  
  23045. If they were to deliver today, wouldn’t this already be old
  23046. technology? Would it be selling for less?
  23047.  
  23048.  
  23049.  
  23050.  
  23051. Bryan Walker
  23052.  
  23053. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 7 months ago
  23054.  
  23055. @jrogers31
  23056.  
  23057. The statement I made was more in jest than overlaid with any real
  23058. hope of hearing news. As there has been silence for so long, I doubt
  23059. there’s going to be any news to hear in the coming months.
  23060.  
  23061. Those in the UK can still try to claim a section 75 refund. For the
  23062. rest of us, I think we were playing the fool. I’m not sure if that
  23063. was the intent from the beginning, or if legal troubles erased any
  23064. possibility of this project completing, but it’s dead. Stick a fork
  23065. in it.
  23066.  
  23067.  
  23068.  
  23069.  
  23070. jrogers31
  23071.  
  23072. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> 7 months ago
  23073.  
  23074. @Bryan Walker – admire your optimism. Your guess is as good as
  23075. anyone’s as to which of the team members (if there were more than
  23076. one) was the last one out of the door. My guess is that Mr Afzal was
  23077. the last (and ?first) out the door. The profile overwrite to Carol
  23078. Bohm-Scott was allegedly intended to mislead. If CB-S exists one
  23079. would think an update would have been forthcoming by now,
  23080. particularly in light of the concerns expressed below. The words
  23081. Walter Mitty smoke and mirrors come to mind.
  23082.  
  23083.  
  23084.  
  23085.  
  23086. Bryan Walker
  23087.  
  23088. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 7 months ago
  23089.  
  23090. There were supposedly some other people on this “team” – would any
  23091. of them like to speak up?
  23092.  
  23093.  
  23094.  
  23095.  
  23096. jrogers31
  23097.  
  23098. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> 7 months ago
  23099.  
  23100. @Heiko Zeller – It occurred to me that we are looking for a
  23101. ghost/fictional character (allegedly) in a game being played to
  23102. obfuscate matters relating to WEDG and the whereabouts of OUR MONEY.
  23103. It would surprise me if £500 per month was being paid to the
  23104. ‘hot-desk’ offices at the address below. If it can be shown that C
  23105. B-S is not a real person then I wonder whether a company set up with
  23106. an allegedly fictional director constitutes a crime in English Law
  23107. or are ‘doing-business-as’ names allowed?
  23108.  
  23109.  
  23110.  
  23111.  
  23112. Heiko Zeller
  23113.  
  23114. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8715891> 7 months ago
  23115.  
  23116. 17 Grosvenor Gardens, London, England, SW1W 0BD company exist since
  23117. August 2016. As far as I used Google in the right way this company
  23118. is a one man show. And the Address is connected to a huge number of
  23119. companies. I think shebaz rid of the annoying customers by placing
  23120. in a new postbox company.
  23121.  
  23122.  
  23123.  
  23124.  
  23125. dbrissenden
  23126.  
  23127. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8114757> 7 months ago
  23128.  
  23129. @Scott McQueen,
  23130. The link you provided does not work. I get an access denied error……
  23131.  
  23132.  
  23133.  
  23134.  
  23135. Scott McQueen
  23136.  
  23137. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8443500> 7 months ago
  23138.  
  23139. For information: http://tinyurl.com/zgjtyg4
  23140.  
  23141.  
  23142.  
  23143.  
  23144. Scott McQueen
  23145.  
  23146. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8443500> 7 months ago
  23147.  
  23148. Has anyone managed to find a contact number for Montrose Innovations
  23149. yet?
  23150.  
  23151.  
  23152.  
  23153.  
  23154. dbrissenden
  23155.  
  23156. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8114757> 7 months ago
  23157.  
  23158. @Scott McQueen,
  23159. “…penning an update for all backers this afternoon and will push it
  23160. this week…”
  23161. They’ve failed again. Sounds like a fob off to me to keep you quiet.
  23162.  
  23163.  
  23164.  
  23165.  
  23166. jrogers31
  23167.  
  23168. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> 7 months ago
  23169.  
  23170. It is very unusual in this day and age for a real person’s name not
  23171. to come up with multiple hits on an internet search. For an
  23172. individual age 31 years in the software business with an uncommon
  23173. surname one might expect a linked-in entry, facebook, twitter, skype
  23174. etc. The only address that comes up is a hot desk address @£500.00
  23175. per month. I wonder how many months Montrose innovations will be
  23176. paid-up at this address. No update – no response to a request for an
  23177. update. We need the ghostbusters.
  23178.  
  23179.  
  23180.  
  23181.  
  23182. Bryan Walker
  23183.  
  23184. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 7 months ago
  23185.  
  23186. @dbrissenden
  23187.  
  23188. One other “person” communicated on this project back when I started
  23189. doing daily updates of what I was doing.
  23190.  
  23191. Jaypaul Barrow
  23192. 8 months ago
  23193. Update! Update! Update! Duck me it’s not hard to say. Still working
  23194. guys. Bear with us.
  23195.  
  23196.  
  23197.  
  23198.  
  23199. dbrissenden
  23200.  
  23201. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8114757> 7 months ago
  23202.  
  23203. @Scott McQueen,
  23204. If this is indeed true they had better pull their finger out and
  23205. communicate. I don’t believe there are many here who either believe
  23206. the cock and bull stories or even have much sympathy any longer.
  23207. This is not the way to go about treating the very people who funded
  23208. what ever it is that they ended up funding!!
  23209. As for the profile overwrite, well…. what can I say?
  23210.  
  23211.  
  23212.  
  23213.  
  23214. Scott McQueen
  23215.  
  23216. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8443500> 7 months ago
  23217.  
  23218. Another thing I find strange is that when you click on the
  23219. ‘individual’ link for Shehbaz (
  23220. https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053/a2e2) it takes you to…
  23221. YES! you guessed it folks – Carol Bohm-Scott. So it’s not a new
  23222. player but a profile overwrite!
  23223.  
  23224.  
  23225.  
  23226.  
  23227. Scott McQueen
  23228.  
  23229. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8443500> 7 months ago
  23230.  
  23231. (3of3) and its typically a little bureaucratic.
  23232.  
  23233. We are penning an update for all backers this afternoon and will
  23234. push it this week.
  23235.  
  23236. I’d like to thank you for your patience and co-operation on behalf
  23237. of the entire WEDG team and hope that you’ll take a compassionate
  23238. view of situation.
  23239.  
  23240. Kind regards
  23241.  
  23242. Lisa
  23243. Team WEDG
  23244.  
  23245.  
  23246.  
  23247.  
  23248. Scott McQueen
  23249.  
  23250. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8443500> 7 months ago
  23251.  
  23252. (2of3)Fortunately, a local and well experienced group of
  23253. entrepreneurs have taken an interest in our situation and have
  23254. defined an accelerated road map for us to move ahead with the
  23255. project. As well as their knowledge and expertise they’re also
  23256. bringing funding which will help us move forward with leaps and
  23257. bounds. Contracts and various other documentation is making its way
  23258. around the system so that the investors can reclaim their tax-its
  23259. known as SEIS investment
  23260.  
  23261.  
  23262.  
  23263.  
  23264. Scott McQueen
  23265.  
  23266. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8443500> 7 months ago
  23267.  
  23268. (1of3)
  23269. @dbrissenden I have also had a from a ‘Lisa’ at ‘Team Wedg’
  23270.  
  23271. (24th MAY)Hi Scott Apologies for the late , we are working
  23272. through emails from backers as fast as we can. Rest assured Scott
  23273. the project is still alive and well. As you know we are battling
  23274. with a fierce and unruly third party hell-bent on making claims to
  23275. our source code that doesn’t belong to them. Our every move is
  23276. criticized and we’re doing all we can to defend our reputation and
  23277. our intellectual property.
  23278.  
  23279.  
  23280.  
  23281.  
  23282. dbrissenden
  23283.  
  23284. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8114757> 7 months ago
  23285.  
  23286. (2 of 2)
  23287. Indeed there doesn’t appear to be any website for this company
  23288. either which is also very strange for investment / tech companies.
  23289. All in all this is very fishy if you also consider the utter
  23290. contempt and lack of communication shown by Shehbaz.
  23291. As to whether there is enough evidence for the authorities, I would
  23292. think there is enough but since there appears to be a lack of
  23293. interest from the other 968 backers, it is unlikely to get to their
  23294. attention.
  23295.  
  23296.  
  23297.  
  23298.  
  23299. dbrissenden
  23300.  
  23301. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8114757> 7 months ago
  23302.  
  23303. (1 of 2)
  23304. @jrogers31 – The only ‘other’ person who has communicated on this
  23305. project is Chris. But, Chris who? There is no mention of any of the
  23306. team who started out developing Wedg or what contribution they made
  23307. so it could look there might have only been one person….
  23308. I can find no mention of anyone called Carol Bohm-Scott prior to the
  23309. creation of Montrose Innovations which I find very strange
  23310. considering these are supposedly international investors.
  23311.  
  23312.  
  23313.  
  23314.  
  23315. jrogers31
  23316.  
  23317. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> 7 months ago
  23318.  
  23319. @dbrissenden – interesting research – so are you saying that there
  23320. is evidence that Mr Afzal et al are trying to create a smoke screen
  23321. to distance themselves from their responsibilities. Is there enough
  23322. evidence for an investigation by appropriate authorities with
  23323. statutory powers? If so it is well overdue. Interestingly, I have
  23324. not received a to my request for an update from the new owner
  23325. Carol Bohm-Scott, which rather fits in with the results of your
  23326. research – I think.
  23327.  
  23328.  
  23329.  
  23330.  
  23331. dbrissenden
  23332.  
  23333. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8114757> 7 months ago
  23334.  
  23335. (2 of 2)
  23336. Back in April 2016, Shehbaz’s communication detailed “…introduced us
  23337. to a group of tech entrepreneurs and investors from the UK and US
  23338. who operate an international scale business…”. So much so that it
  23339. took them until August 2016 to register the company…. Come on pull
  23340. the other one.
  23341.  
  23342.  
  23343.  
  23344.  
  23345. dbrissenden
  23346.  
  23347. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8114757> 7 months ago
  23348.  
  23349. (1 of 2)
  23350. Well, looks like 08 Nov 2016 Mohammad Shehbaz Afzal resigned as
  23351. director of Wedg and on the same date Montrose Innovations Limited
  23352. was appointed as a director. The same day the registered address was
  23353. moved from The Shed Innospace Chester Street Manchester to 17
  23354. Grosvenor Gardens Grosvenor Gardens London and Mrs Carol Bohm-Scott
  23355. (or Mr Carol Bohm-Scott as it appears on the certificate of
  23356. incorporation or is it Chris AKA Mohammad Shehbaz Afzal???).
  23357.  
  23358.  
  23359.  
  23360.  
  23361. jrogers31
  23362.  
  23363. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> 7 months ago
  23364.  
  23365. @Andrea V. Did they take your money? Was it literally the $2.00 you
  23366. mentioned (as a token gesture) or substantially more than that? –
  23367. and did you get a thank you note and update in response? I would be
  23368. happy to sell you my WEDG devices order for its original value if
  23369. you are interested. I need a helping hand – to get my money back.
  23370.  
  23371.  
  23372.  
  23373.  
  23374. Ken Taylor
  23375.  
  23376. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6123904> 7 months ago
  23377.  
  23378. @Andrea V. I hope the WEDG comes to fruition. I have avoided posting
  23379. for years as i don’t have a pitch fork. After 2 years hardware,
  23380. software and people have moved on. many will have found other
  23381. solutions, for me a WEDG would NOW just be an expensive raided Kodi
  23382. box as i would not trust it with my Email.
  23383.  
  23384.  
  23385.  
  23386.  
  23387. Bryan Walker
  23388.  
  23389. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 7 months ago
  23390.  
  23391. @Andrea V.
  23392.  
  23393. It would be easier to be supportive if Wedg would at least talk to us.
  23394.  
  23395. Silence does nothing to quell the pitchsporks.
  23396.  
  23397.  
  23398.  
  23399.  
  23400. Andrea V.
  23401.  
  23402. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/9040474> 7 months ago
  23403.  
  23404. I have to say I still support this project.
  23405.  
  23406. I know by now many of you have already banned together & picked up
  23407. your pitch forks. But i really want to see WEDG come to fruition.
  23408. It’s very easy to knock a outfit down when they are already down.
  23409. But its very hard to help them get back up. So i’m going to do
  23410. something rather crazy & send them a couple extra bucks. It is not
  23411. much but i think what every1 needs right now is a helping hand.
  23412. sometimes ppl are so far down they need help gettin back up
  23413.  
  23414.  
  23415.  
  23416.  
  23417. Bryan Walker
  23418.  
  23419. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 7 months ago
  23420.  
  23421. @Scott McQueen
  23422.  
  23423. I guess some startup-centric office is better than the TaxAct
  23424. Accountants location that they claimed was their “office” after they
  23425. were kicked out of the university digs.
  23426.  
  23427.  
  23428.  
  23429.  
  23430. Bryan Walker
  23431.  
  23432. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 7 months ago
  23433.  
  23434. @Ken Taylor
  23435.  
  23436. I asked for one of the pre-release units (black and blue) because I
  23437. wanted to wash my hands of it. I actually tried to use it, and I
  23438. think I was the first to report they hadn’t actually changed their
  23439. codebase language.
  23440.  
  23441. I got fed up with it when I noticed it was duplicating everything,
  23442. and I had to delete my setup when a new version came out. Tried to
  23443. reflash it with new firmware, messed it up, Lima said F-U! and I
  23444. threw it in the recycle box here at work. No more Lima for me.
  23445.  
  23446.  
  23447.  
  23448.  
  23449. Scott McQueen
  23450.  
  23451. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8443500> 7 months ago
  23452.  
  23453. @Ken Taylor Looks like the UBER office is just another startup base
  23454. like Wedg had in Manchester and not a proper company hq which is a
  23455. real shame.
  23456.  
  23457.  
  23458.  
  23459.  
  23460. Scott McQueen
  23461.  
  23462. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8443500> 7 months ago
  23463.  
  23464. Message sent to Carol Bohm-Scott: We have noticed your name has
  23465. replaced Shehbaz Afzal’s as the CEO of WEDG. Does this mean the
  23466. project will finally come into fruition and the many Indiegogo
  23467. backers will finally get either a product or a refund. Or will you
  23468. also choose to bury your head in the sand and choose to ignore the
  23469. fact that a lot of people have spent their own hard earned money and
  23470. have been left out of pocket?
  23471.  
  23472.  
  23473.  
  23474.  
  23475. Scott McQueen
  23476.  
  23477. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8443500> 7 months ago
  23478.  
  23479. Im moving house in January, who do I inform so they no where to send
  23480. my new WEDG device when it’s built ? :)
  23481.  
  23482.  
  23483.  
  23484.  
  23485. Ken Taylor
  23486.  
  23487. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6123904> 7 months ago
  23488.  
  23489. @Bryan Walker. So you will not be buying the Lima Ultra then… ;-) My
  23490. lima still in its box unused. I didnt like the idea of linking to
  23491. their server for what would be for me a local system and as you say
  23492. does not do what it promised. the WEDG I wanted for mail server and
  23493. network file backups and server based Libreoffice. but now can do 2
  23494. of 3 on my NAS. getting a refund from CC would be hard now the
  23495. original company no longer exists. :-(
  23496.  
  23497.  
  23498.  
  23499.  
  23500. Bryan Walker
  23501.  
  23502. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 7 months ago
  23503.  
  23504. (3 of 2)
  23505.  
  23506. In addition, so many of these “butt” devices still need some remote
  23507. backend to work. In Lima’s case, they have a negotiation server that
  23508. does unknown things. Makes me wonder that Wedg was going to need,
  23509. and what the “Daplie: My Butt” device is going to require since they
  23510. talk about name access and stuff.
  23511.  
  23512.  
  23513.  
  23514.  
  23515. Bryan Walker
  23516.  
  23517. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 7 months ago
  23518.  
  23519. (2 of 2)
  23520.  
  23521. These “personal butt” devices all seem to want to be a complete
  23522. management system instead of simply giving you a secure portal to
  23523. stash data remotely. Every single one of them attempts to re-invent
  23524. features already present in most devices. I have no idea why.
  23525.  
  23526.  
  23527.  
  23528.  
  23529. Bryan Walker
  23530.  
  23531. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 7 months ago
  23532.  
  23533. >> Sound familar?
  23534. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/daplie-the-butt-system-to-take-back-the-internet/x/8764397#/
  23535.  
  23536. There was another project, called Lima (nee Plug) that promised to
  23537. do the same thing. I invested in it as well. While the group
  23538. eventually shipped it, it was nothing like what they promised and is
  23539. just now (years after the “we just need last mile funding”) gaining
  23540. a subset of the features promised during the campaign. (1 of 2)
  23541.  
  23542.  
  23543.  
  23544.  
  23545. Bryan Walker
  23546.  
  23547. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 7 months ago
  23548.  
  23549. Just a reminder, UK residents may be eligible for a Section 75
  23550. refund, if you paid for any part of the item with a credit card (not
  23551. debit) and the item cost more than £100.
  23552.  
  23553. http://www.which.co.uk/consumer-rights/regulation/section-75-of-the-consumer-credit-act
  23554.  
  23555.  
  23556.  
  23557.  
  23558. Bryan Walker
  23559.  
  23560. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 7 months ago
  23561.  
  23562. @jrogers31
  23563.  
  23564. “…you gain the ability to take the form of a wolf?”
  23565.  
  23566. Hmm, I’m guessing that isn’t the ending you had in mind.
  23567.  
  23568.  
  23569.  
  23570.  
  23571. jrogers31
  23572.  
  23573. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> 7 months ago
  23574.  
  23575. Test – complete the following “once bitten …”
  23576.  
  23577.  
  23578.  
  23579.  
  23580. jrogers31
  23581.  
  23582. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> 7 months ago
  23583.  
  23584. Sound familar?
  23585. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/daplie-the-butt-system-to-take-back-the-internet/x/8764397#/
  23586.  
  23587.  
  23588.  
  23589.  
  23590. Scott McQueen
  23591.  
  23592. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8443500> 7 months ago
  23593.  
  23594. jrogers31 Yes I would like to know what happened to him as well!
  23595.  
  23596.  
  23597.  
  23598.  
  23599. jrogers31
  23600.  
  23601. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> 7 months ago
  23602.  
  23603. Interesting – so when are we going to receive the “Hello I am Carol
  23604. Bohm-Scott” update? Good to know that the office is in London it
  23605. will be easy to pop in and pick up the full refund or the devices I
  23606. ordered, which ever becomes available first. I hope the update
  23607. includes “a summary of events which lead to the departure of Mr Afzal”
  23608.  
  23609.  
  23610.  
  23611.  
  23612. Ken Taylor
  23613.  
  23614. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6123904> 8 months ago
  23615.  
  23616. Carol, is director of Montrose, setup in August 2016, based in UBER
  23617. offices in London, looks like they now own WEDG. Shehbaz resigned as
  23618. a director on 08 Nov. (on companies house website). will be
  23619. interesting if we get an update by the 22Nov which will be 2 years
  23620. from the end of the campaign.
  23621.  
  23622.  
  23623.  
  23624.  
  23625. Bryan Walker
  23626.  
  23627. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 8 months ago
  23628.  
  23629. @Scott,
  23630.  
  23631. That is quite interesting. Shebaz did make some noise about
  23632. reorganization as the legal trouble wrapped up, this could be
  23633. related in some way. Evidence suggests otherwise…
  23634.  
  23635.  
  23636.  
  23637.  
  23638. Scott McQueen
  23639.  
  23640. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8443500> 8 months ago
  23641.  
  23642. Hmmm, Shebaz has disappeared from the up there on the right, it now
  23643. says Carol Bohm-Scott. Has he gone into hiding so we forget about
  23644. him or is something happening… Intrigued!
  23645.  
  23646.  
  23647.  
  23648.  
  23649. Bryan Walker
  23650.  
  23651. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 8 months ago
  23652.  
  23653. I have to say, I don’t expect to see anything at this point. :(
  23654.  
  23655.  
  23656.  
  23657.  
  23658. Bryan Walker
  23659.  
  23660. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 8 months ago
  23661.  
  23662. Remember when?
  23663.  
  23664. Jaypaul Barrow
  23665. 8 months ago
  23666. Update! Update! Update! Duck me it’s not hard to say. Still working
  23667. guys. Bear with us.
  23668.  
  23669. Quack.
  23670.  
  23671.  
  23672.  
  23673.  
  23674. Jacob Ovard
  23675.  
  23676. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8671772> 8 months ago
  23677.  
  23678. Hey WEDG, give us an update and give us back our money.
  23679.  
  23680.  
  23681.  
  23682.  
  23683. Bryan Walker
  23684.  
  23685. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 8 months ago
  23686.  
  23687. Just a reminder, UK residents may be eligible for a Section 75
  23688. refund, if you paid for any part of the item with a credit card (not
  23689. debit) and the item cost more than £100.
  23690.  
  23691. http://www.which.co.uk/consumer-rights/regulation/section-75-of-the-consumer-credit-act
  23692.  
  23693.  
  23694.  
  23695.  
  23696. Bryan Walker
  23697.  
  23698. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 8 months ago
  23699.  
  23700. @Scott McQueen,
  23701.  
  23702. With only £350 in the bank, it certainly doesn’t look good, does it?
  23703.  
  23704.  
  23705.  
  23706.  
  23707. Scott McQueen
  23708.  
  23709. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8443500> 8 months ago
  23710.  
  23711. Every now and again I get really annoyed at myself for falling for
  23712. this and not seeing through the bullshit earlier, lets face it the
  23713. money has gone ( http://www.endole.co.uk/company/08824160/wedg-ltd )
  23714. but I still can’t help coming back for that glimmer of what I
  23715. thought was a great idea.
  23716.  
  23717.  
  23718.  
  23719.  
  23720. Scott McQueen
  23721.  
  23722. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8443500> 8 months ago
  23723.  
  23724. You know one of the most frustrating things about this is I have
  23725. been taking in twice by this scam, once on kickstarter and then on
  23726. here. I’ve had a couple of responses from ‘team wedg’ when I’ve
  23727. tweeted local Manchester news about running a follow up story.
  23728. Spookily enough the timing of those responses is about an hour or
  23729. two after I’ve tweeted so I can only assume they are still
  23730. working/living in the Manchester area and are worried by the bad press.
  23731.  
  23732.  
  23733.  
  23734.  
  23735. Bryan Walker
  23736.  
  23737. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 8 months ago
  23738.  
  23739. @1sgmgn
  23740.  
  23741. That’s the way most of us feel, along with WTF, :(, Hello?, and “Say
  23742. Something Dammit!”
  23743.  
  23744.  
  23745.  
  23746.  
  23747. Bryan Walker
  23748.  
  23749. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 8 months ago
  23750.  
  23751. My weekend project was to clean up the power supplies that feed the
  23752. wireless sensors and leak detectors in my home (yeah, it’s wired…)
  23753. Was pretty pleased with how it turned out. Designed a few of my own
  23754. boards and did a nice layout. Hard part was finding power
  23755. transformers – with RatShack being gone, they are hard to find
  23756. unless you want to spend lots of cash. Still cleaning up the wiring,
  23757. so don’t hate on the layout. http://imgur.com/a/lgkjD
  23758.  
  23759.  
  23760.  
  23761.  
  23762. 1sgmgn
  23763.  
  23764. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4356995> 8 months ago
  23765.  
  23766. ????
  23767.  
  23768.  
  23769.  
  23770.  
  23771. Bryan Walker
  23772.  
  23773. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 8 months ago
  23774.  
  23775. Just a reminder, UK residents may be eligible for a Section 75
  23776. refund, if you paid for any part of the item with a credit card (not
  23777. debit) and the item cost more than £100.
  23778.  
  23779. http://www.which.co.uk/consumer-rights/regulation/section-75-of-the-consumer-credit-act
  23780.  
  23781.  
  23782.  
  23783.  
  23784. Nikolai Tesla
  23785.  
  23786. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> 8 months ago
  23787.  
  23788. @Magri-Olson and 1sgmgn: I very much recommend that you do not waste
  23789. your efforts with Indiegogo and/or Mr. Afzal. Report your concerns
  23790. to the authorities as described multiple times, for over a year now,
  23791. on this backer comments section.
  23792.  
  23793.  
  23794.  
  23795.  
  23796. Brad Magri-Olson
  23797.  
  23798. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8709187> 8 months ago
  23799.  
  23800. So when do we get our refunds we requested?
  23801.  
  23802.  
  23803.  
  23804.  
  23805. 1sgmgn
  23806.  
  23807. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4356995> 9 months ago
  23808.  
  23809. WHEN DO I GET WHAT I PAID FOR?
  23810.  
  23811.  
  23812.  
  23813.  
  23814. Bryan Walker
  23815.  
  23816. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 9 months ago
  23817.  
  23818. The Nextbutt box, a private remote storage unit (Butt) should be
  23819. shipping within the next few weeks. You’ll need to provide your own
  23820. Raspberry Pi, but it’s powerful enough you could also run Prosody
  23821. for IM and other things on it.
  23822.  
  23823. https://nextbutt.com/box/
  23824.  
  23825.  
  23826.  
  23827.  
  23828. Bryan Walker
  23829.  
  23830. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 9 months ago
  23831.  
  23832. Just a reminder, UK residents may be eligible for a Section 75
  23833. refund, if you paid for any part of the item with a credit card (not
  23834. debit) and the item cost more than £100.
  23835.  
  23836. http://www.which.co.uk/consumer-rights/regulation/section-75-of-the-consumer-credit-act
  23837.  
  23838. For the rest of us, we’re pretty much SOL.
  23839.  
  23840. I’d really like to see this deliver, but I really don’t need it
  23841. anymore. Replaced everything with a couple of Raspberry Pi units.
  23842.  
  23843.  
  23844.  
  23845.  
  23846. Bryan Walker
  23847.  
  23848. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 9 months ago
  23849.  
  23850. @Nikolai,
  23851.  
  23852. Let’s assume they really did have some legal troubles that
  23853. prohibited them from speaking freely about what was going on. I only
  23854. remember this being implied in some communications, but nothing
  23855. concrete. I DO however, remember them saying they were now no longer
  23856. under that duress (“New arrangements for public announcements
  23857. without being vetted”) so there’s no reason that Wedg & Co. can’t be
  23858. more chatty with us.
  23859.  
  23860. Without more information, that’s the biggest failure I see at this
  23861. point.
  23862.  
  23863.  
  23864.  
  23865.  
  23866. Scott McQueen
  23867.  
  23868. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8443500> 9 months ago
  23869.  
  23870. Hi, I’m still here… are you Wedg?
  23871.  
  23872.  
  23873.  
  23874.  
  23875. Nikolai Tesla
  23876.  
  23877. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> 9 months ago
  23878.  
  23879. My suggestion, to any bakers that is interested, is to still pursue
  23880. legal means to have Mr. Afzal accountable to this project,
  23881. investment or whatever you wish to call it.
  23882.  
  23883.  
  23884.  
  23885.  
  23886. Nikolai Tesla
  23887.  
  23888. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> 9 months ago
  23889.  
  23890. At this point in time, two years and counting, logically it does not
  23891. make sense that this project is a scam. I came to reason this since
  23892. there is no purpose for a scammer to still provide any feedback,
  23893. even non-sense muck, to anyone after they have received all the
  23894. funds. This leads me to believe that it is a totally anemically
  23895. managed project by a novice (Mr. Afzal) that attempted to create his
  23896. university term project into a real world product. At the end, it
  23897. appears to have hugely failed.
  23898.  
  23899.  
  23900.  
  23901.  
  23902. martijn.koolhoven
  23903.  
  23904. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8708990> 9 months ago
  23905.  
  23906. the personal butt you’ve been waiting for… I now get the point….
  23907. wtf …
  23908.  
  23909.  
  23910.  
  23911.  
  23912. Bryan Walker
  23913.  
  23914. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 9 months ago
  23915.  
  23916. @Philipp Stäheli, They do not check on projects, that is.
  23917.  
  23918.  
  23919.  
  23920.  
  23921. Bryan Walker
  23922.  
  23923. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 9 months ago
  23924.  
  23925. @Philipp Stäheli – No, they do not. Once a project is funded,
  23926. Indiegogo goes strictly hands-off, almost as if the project never
  23927. existed. I’ve contacted them a few times about this and they state
  23928. all they can do is message the project creator and ask that they be
  23929. more forthcoming.
  23930.  
  23931. There’s vague language in the TOS that says it’s the creator’s duty
  23932. to report progress and issues, but that’s about as enforceable as
  23933. telling the Sun to be less hot today.
  23934.  
  23935.  
  23936.  
  23937.  
  23938. Philipp Stäheli
  23939.  
  23940. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8723017> 9 months ago
  23941.  
  23942. I was just wondering, how does Indiegogo not check on their so
  23943. called “office” and whether there is an alive project or not? That
  23944. would be fairly easy to do, but nothing like that ever happened.. I
  23945. know I am an investor and not a buyer in a store. Still I feel very
  23946. let down by Indiegogo, it seems to not bother them at all that
  23947. project founders just stall their projects.
  23948.  
  23949.  
  23950.  
  23951.  
  23952. Benson Low
  23953.  
  23954. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/5581723> 9 months ago
  23955.  
  23956. I want a refund now
  23957.  
  23958.  
  23959.  
  23960.  
  23961. Bryan Walker
  23962.  
  23963. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 10 months ago
  23964.  
  23965. Wedg, Francisco is right – you need to start singing like a canary.
  23966.  
  23967.  
  23968.  
  23969.  
  23970. Francisco Alvarez
  23971.  
  23972. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8814221> 10 months ago
  23973.  
  23974. I don’t know what you are doing. This seems a never ending story,
  23975. almost 2 YEARS of DELAY, this SUCKS! Be CLEAR and provide us with a
  23976. stimated date of shipping!!!!
  23977.  
  23978.  
  23979.  
  23980.  
  23981. Bryan Walker
  23982.  
  23983. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 10 months ago
  23984.  
  23985. I’d like an update with more meat than fluff.
  23986.  
  23987.  
  23988.  
  23989.  
  23990. Jacob Ovard
  23991.  
  23992. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8671772> 10 months ago
  23993.  
  23994. Where is my order? Where is my money?
  23995.  
  23996.  
  23997.  
  23998.  
  23999. 1sgmgn
  24000.  
  24001. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4356995> 10 months ago
  24002.  
  24003. Sep 2014
  24004. Where is my order?
  24005.  
  24006.  
  24007.  
  24008.  
  24009. Marc Solondz
  24010.  
  24011. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8716841> 10 months ago
  24012.  
  24013. This is the second big scam crowdfunding item out of the UK. Well
  24014. done WEDG.
  24015. Your updates have been nothing but pure rhetoric since the campaign
  24016. ended. When you actually have something substantive I will take you
  24017. seriously otherwise I’ll continue to believe you are full of it.
  24018.  
  24019.  
  24020.  
  24021.  
  24022. tom.attree
  24023.  
  24024. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8491782> 10 months ago
  24025.  
  24026. 2 – Luckily I’ve backed many successful projects on Indiegogo and
  24027. Kickstarter and this hasn’t put me off investing in others in the
  24028. future. But it’s not just the reputation of Wedg that has been
  24029. damaged here, it’s the reputation of many that use crowdfunding as a
  24030. source of investment. However you plan on delivering/returning the
  24031. investment of the 968 backers, I would suggest, as an investor, not
  24032. pursuing this dream any further.
  24033.  
  24034.  
  24035.  
  24036.  
  24037. tom.attree
  24038.  
  24039. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8491782> 10 months ago
  24040.  
  24041. 1 – To quote ‘we will revisit and initiate refunds to all who want
  24042. one’. Who’s going to pay for that? I’m guessing the seed money is
  24043. long gone and I find it difficult to believe you have found an
  24044. investor to put in £131,537 just to refund 968 backers, where would
  24045. their return be? Like many others on this thread, technology has
  24046. moved on. I wouldn’t find this product relevant any more. Yes I want
  24047. a refund but equally I’ve written this off as a ‘bad choice’.
  24048.  
  24049.  
  24050.  
  24051.  
  24052. Bryan Walker
  24053.  
  24054. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 10 months ago
  24055.  
  24056. I too have replicated pretty much everything with other services.
  24057. I’ve set up my own chat server and file-share server, so I don’t
  24058. know how much of a gap this product would fill for me at this point.
  24059. I’d like to see Wedg provide us with some timeline guidance and some
  24060. detail on how the various services provided by this device will work.
  24061.  
  24062.  
  24063.  
  24064.  
  24065. Nikolai Tesla
  24066.  
  24067. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> 10 months ago
  24068.  
  24069. A few more months and it will be the 2nd anniversary of nothing.
  24070. Technology has caught up to WEDG and even have surpassed it. I
  24071. bought an off the shelf solution for about the same price of the
  24072. fake dream that is called WEDG.
  24073.  
  24074.  
  24075.  
  24076.  
  24077. Nikolai Tesla
  24078.  
  24079. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> 10 months ago
  24080.  
  24081. I was confused with the recent comments but I now understand and
  24082. appreciate the passive aggressive jokes. Sadly for Mr. Afzal he has
  24083. his face plastered all over the web and can not hide forever.
  24084.  
  24085.  
  24086.  
  24087.  
  24088. Bryan Walker
  24089.  
  24090. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 10 months ago
  24091.  
  24092. @Gordon,
  24093.  
  24094. I don’t know if I’d call CrowdFUNding™ a project such as this a
  24095. nightmare, but it certainly would be the end of the long night if
  24096. Wedg ever did ship to backers.
  24097.  
  24098.  
  24099.  
  24100.  
  24101. Gordon Keys
  24102.  
  24103. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8335278> 10 months ago
  24104.  
  24105. Wow! I cannot believe it. I just received my Wedg in the post. Oh…
  24106. then I woke up. All a nightmare… sorry.
  24107.  
  24108.  
  24109.  
  24110.  
  24111. Bryan Walker
  24112.  
  24113. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 11 months ago
  24114.  
  24115. 15 days of silence on the wall, 15 days of silence, if one of the
  24116. updates should happen to fall, 16 days of silence on the wall!
  24117.  
  24118.  
  24119.  
  24120.  
  24121. Bryan Walker
  24122.  
  24123. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 11 months ago
  24124.  
  24125. Tired of companies ignoring you on Twitter? Check out Gnu Social,
  24126. the open source, federated social network that doesn’t ask for your
  24127. driver’s license!
  24128. http://skilledtests.com/wiki/List_of_Independent_GNU_social_Instances
  24129.  
  24130.  
  24131.  
  24132.  
  24133. Bryan Walker
  24134.  
  24135. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 11 months ago
  24136.  
  24137. Seeing as how 1N34A diodes seem to be getting rare these days, I
  24138. ordered a bunch of Soviet-era D9D diodes from eBay. Even if 1/3 of
  24139. them are defective, that still leaves me with enough for a lifetime
  24140. of projects.
  24141.  
  24142.  
  24143.  
  24144.  
  24145. Bryan Walker
  24146.  
  24147. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 11 months ago
  24148.  
  24149. Everyone should check out Gnu Social. You can run it yourself (
  24150. http://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/revisiting-open-source-social-networking-installing-gnu-social—cms-22456
  24151. ) or join one of the many instances. quitter.is and quitter.no are
  24152. two well know hosts.
  24153.  
  24154.  
  24155.  
  24156.  
  24157. Bryan Walker
  24158.  
  24159. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 11 months ago
  24160.  
  24161. So, the local Micro Center was closing out the Papyrus e-ink HATs
  24162. for the Raspberry Pi. I bought one for $25, found out it had all
  24163. three sizes of screen in it, and decided to go back and buy the
  24164. other two they had left. While it cost me $75, it’s something I have
  24165. in my hand right now.
  24166.  
  24167.  
  24168.  
  24169.  
  24170. Scott McQueen
  24171.  
  24172. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8443500> 11 months ago
  24173.  
  24174. Today I although it’s been very warm, I decided to cut the grass and
  24175. as I had my motivational head on, with a stanley knife I edged the
  24176. front lawn. I would have used the lawn edger I bought from Tesco
  24177. last year but after a bout a minute of edging, the head fell of it.
  24178. Boy did I laugh, I invested that money in it so long ago that when I
  24179. finally got to use it, it didn’t work. Good job it was only £5 and
  24180. not £300 aye!
  24181.  
  24182. Scott McQueen
  24183.  
  24184. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8443500> 11 months ago
  24185. oh and at least I got a minutes use out of it I suppose.
  24186.  
  24187.  
  24188.  
  24189. Bryan Walker
  24190.  
  24191. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 11 months ago
  24192.  
  24193. You’re all welcome, lololololol
  24194.  
  24195.  
  24196.  
  24197.  
  24198. Bryan Walker
  24199.  
  24200. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 11 months ago
  24201.  
  24202. SO, I recently picked up some of those tiny OLED screens, the blue
  24203. and yellow ones you used to see on things like Sandisk MP3 players.
  24204. It’s amazing how small they are, but of a high enough resolution to
  24205. actually have rudimentary graphics displayed on them. I plan on
  24206. using a few of them to display vital stats from my Pi stack. Who
  24207. knows where the rest will end up?
  24208.  
  24209. That’s my update for today, how about one from you WEDG?
  24210.  
  24211.  
  24212.  
  24213.  
  24214. Bryan Walker
  24215.  
  24216. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 11 months ago
  24217.  
  24218. I hate to say it – I don’t think this was a scam at the start, but I
  24219. don’t have any confidence the project will come to completion at
  24220. this point.
  24221.  
  24222.  
  24223.  
  24224.  
  24225. Bryan Walker
  24226.  
  24227. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 11 months ago
  24228.  
  24229. Seems like the only time anyone “working” on this project spoke
  24230. recently in the comments was Jaypaul “Duck me” Barrow, and only
  24231. after I started writing daily updates. Perhaps I should keep doing that.
  24232.  
  24233.  
  24234.  
  24235.  
  24236. Scott McQueen
  24237.  
  24238. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8443500> 11 months ago
  24239.  
  24240. The personal scam you’ve been waiting for!
  24241.  
  24242.  
  24243.  
  24244.  
  24245. Scott McQueen
  24246.  
  24247. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8443500> 11 months ago
  24248.  
  24249. tbh I’ve forgotten how I paid for it…
  24250.  
  24251.  
  24252.  
  24253.  
  24254. Bryan Walker
  24255.  
  24256. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 11 months ago
  24257.  
  24258. I just wanted to remind everyone, that if you are in the UK and you
  24259. paid any portion your funding with a credit card (not debit or
  24260. charge,) you could be eligible for a refund under Section 75 of the
  24261. Consumer Credit Act.
  24262.  
  24263.  
  24264.  
  24265.  
  24266. Bryan Walker
  24267.  
  24268. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 11 months ago
  24269.  
  24270. @John Raffin,
  24271.  
  24272. I think it’s more “We’re getting a wedgie.”
  24273.  
  24274.  
  24275.  
  24276.  
  24277. John Raffin
  24278.  
  24279. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4406292> 11 months ago
  24280.  
  24281. WEDG: the personal butt you’ve been waiting (forever) for
  24282.  
  24283. Does that mean us dudded backers can be called “Wedgies”???
  24284.  
  24285.  
  24286.  
  24287.  
  24288. Thomas Grundberg
  24289.  
  24290. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/5396919> 11 months ago
  24291.  
  24292. WEDG: the personal butt we still are waiting for.
  24293.  
  24294.  
  24295.  
  24296.  
  24297. Bryan Walker
  24298.  
  24299. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 12 months ago
  24300.  
  24301. @Scott McQueen,
  24302.  
  24303. If the number of stragglers in another tech project I backed is any
  24304. indication, there are a lot of people who have written this off, or
  24305. have simply forgotten about it. In light of the lack of updates, I’d
  24306. say the latter is the case.
  24307.  
  24308. Remember when?
  24309. Jaypaul Barrow 4 months ago
  24310. Update! Update! Update! Duck me it’s not hard to say. Still working
  24311. guys. Bear with us.
  24312.  
  24313. Quack.
  24314.  
  24315.  
  24316.  
  24317.  
  24318. Scott McQueen
  24319.  
  24320. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8443500> 12 months ago
  24321.  
  24322. Have 968 backers really just forgotten about this? I find that a
  24323. little strange to be honest, I would like a refund!
  24324.  
  24325.  
  24326.  
  24327.  
  24328. Scott McQueen
  24329.  
  24330. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8443500> 12 months ago
  24331.  
  24332. @shehbaz_afzal – Still waiting or have you really just done a bunk
  24333. with the WEDG indigogo fund ???
  24334.  
  24335.  
  24336.  
  24337.  
  24338. Scott McQueen
  24339.  
  24340. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8443500> 12 months ago
  24341.  
  24342. MCR seems to be registered to a private house in Manchester:
  24343.  
  24344. http://www.checkcompany.co.uk/company/07635344/MCR-ENTERPRISES-LTD
  24345.  
  24346.  
  24347.  
  24348.  
  24349. Mark Brown
  24350.  
  24351. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3433405> 12 months ago
  24352.  
  24353. Very sad to realise I’ve lost a lot of hard earned money :(
  24354.  
  24355.  
  24356.  
  24357.  
  24358. David Aldred
  24359.  
  24360. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> 12 months ago
  24361.  
  24362. Ah ok – the reason the signature matches is because he signed as the
  24363. CURRENT director of MCR. So perhaps (!?) there was indeed another
  24364. Mohammed Afzal born in the same year at the same company (relative?)
  24365.  
  24366. At v least, Shehbaz Afzal appears to be linked to min 3x companies
  24367.  
  24368. MCR:
  24369. https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/07635344/filing-history
  24370. https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/07635344/officers
  24371.  
  24372. iLoup
  24373. https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/08278329/filing-history
  24374.  
  24375.  
  24376.  
  24377.  
  24378. David Aldred
  24379.  
  24380. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> 12 months ago
  24381.  
  24382. 2/2
  24383. It wasn’t clear if it was the same person though. The dates of birth
  24384. are different, though same year.
  24385. However – there are scans of the signature for both MCR and iloup
  24386. (and we already linked Wedg to iloup) – the signatures are exactly
  24387. the same (and both begin with an S)
  24388.  
  24389. So not only do we have him switching names around, but using
  24390. different DOBs – and ultimately being treated as 2x different people
  24391. by companies house. Sounding more and more like fraud to me.
  24392.  
  24393. I’ll do another post with links
  24394.  
  24395.  
  24396.  
  24397.  
  24398. David Aldred
  24399.  
  24400. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> 12 months ago
  24401.  
  24402. 1/2
  24403. Whoa! Not looking good guys… (read my previous 2x posts first)
  24404.  
  24405. So I did a new search under the alter-ego Mohammed Afzal. Many hits
  24406. came up, but another Mohammed Afzal in Manchester born in 1979 was
  24407. linked to a company called MCR ENTERPRISES (07635344)
  24408.  
  24409. So, I had a look, and it had a director named Mohammed Afzal up
  24410. until 2011 when it was terminated…
  24411.  
  24412.  
  24413.  
  24414.  
  24415. David Aldred
  24416.  
  24417. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> 12 months ago
  24418.  
  24419. 2/2
  24420. Wedg was incorporated in 2013. He registered himself as director
  24421. under Shehbaz Afzal – this was already after he changed his name on
  24422. the other company (and was whilst that company still existed)
  24423.  
  24424. Then, in 2014 he again changed is name to Mohammed Shehbaz Afzal.
  24425.  
  24426. If nothing else, he seems to be suffering from a but of an identity
  24427. crisis!
  24428.  
  24429.  
  24430.  
  24431.  
  24432. David Aldred
  24433.  
  24434. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> 12 months ago
  24435.  
  24436. 1/2
  24437. I tried doing some more digging. Nothing all that useful, but a
  24438. couple of bits I found…
  24439.  
  24440. Shehbaz had another company called iloup Ltd. Formed in 2012, then
  24441. had a Compulsory Strike Off in 2014. Doesn’t state the reason, but
  24442. probably due to no accounts being filed.
  24443.  
  24444. There was one interesting bit though…
  24445.  
  24446. In November 2012, he changed his name with companies house from
  24447. Shehbaz Afzal to Mohammed Shehbaz Afzal. Nothing all that odd there,
  24448. until you go back to Wedg…
  24449.  
  24450.  
  24451.  
  24452.  
  24453. Bryan Walker
  24454.  
  24455. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 12 months ago
  24456.  
  24457. I honestly don’t think there is anyone left to answer…
  24458.  
  24459.  
  24460.  
  24461.  
  24462. Craig Temporini
  24463.  
  24464. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8966008> 12 months ago
  24465.  
  24466. Awaiting a refund.
  24467.  
  24468.  
  24469.  
  24470.  
  24471. jrogers31
  24472.  
  24473. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> 12 months ago
  24474.  
  24475. F.A.O. Mr S Afzal – it is now 2 months since your last update. From
  24476. the comments below – the terms of service oblige you to find a
  24477. satisfactory resolution with backers in light of your failure to
  24478. provide the perks promised to the backers. A satisfactory solution
  24479. for me would be a full refund of my contributions, as I requested
  24480. many months ago. I presume other backers may require a similar
  24481. resolution. Please issue an urgent update and plan on how you intend
  24482. to meet your obligation to the backers.
  24483.  
  24484.  
  24485.  
  24486.  
  24487. dbrissenden
  24488.  
  24489. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8114757> 12 months ago
  24490.  
  24491. Interesting post found here:
  24492. http://kickscammed.com/project/wedg/#.V3abglJ1ZVk
  24493.  
  24494.  
  24495.  
  24496.  
  24497. Mark Brown
  24498.  
  24499. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3433405> 12 months ago
  24500.  
  24501. No response to my email to info@wedg.co very disappointing. I should
  24502. have just bought a Synology NAS, would have cost less that what I
  24503. pledged – Stupid me!
  24504.  
  24505.  
  24506.  
  24507.  
  24508. Bryan Walker
  24509.  
  24510. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 12 months ago
  24511.  
  24512. And again, in the TOS:
  24513.  
  24514. Campaign Owners are legally bound to perform on any promise and/or
  24515. commitment to Contributors (including delivering any Perks). If a
  24516. Campaign Owner is unable to perform on any promise and/or commitment
  24517. to Contributors, the Campaign Owner will work with the Contributors
  24518. to reach a mutually satisfactory resolution, which may include the
  24519. issuance of a refund of Contributions by the Campaign Owner.
  24520.  
  24521.  
  24522.  
  24523.  
  24524. Bryan Walker
  24525.  
  24526. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 12 months ago
  24527.  
  24528. @jrogers31,
  24529.  
  24530. The TOS mentions:
  24531.  
  24532. Campaign Owners will respond promptly and truthfully to all
  24533. questions posed to them by Indiegogo or any Contributor. If any
  24534. Campaign Owner is unable to fulfill any of its commitments to
  24535. Contributors (including delivering any Perks), the Campaign Owner
  24536. will work with the Contributors to reach a mutually satisfactory
  24537. resolution, which may include refunding their Contributions.
  24538.  
  24539.  
  24540.  
  24541.  
  24542.  
  24543. jrogers31
  24544.  
  24545. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> 12 months ago
  24546.  
  24547. @dbrissenden It is good to know that you have been looking at
  24548. potential legal options open to individual backers or all the
  24549. backers as a whole group. However, if in light of the large some of
  24550. money involved should there be any evidence available, which would
  24551. lead to allegegations of wrong doing, then the matter should and
  24552. could be dealt with by the UK authorities. It would be helpfu,l if
  24553. out of the 968 backers, there were a few with legal backgrounds who
  24554. can point us in the right direction.
  24555.  
  24556.  
  24557.  
  24558.  
  24559. Bryan Walker
  24560.  
  24561. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 1 year ago
  24562.  
  24563. @dbrissenden,
  24564.  
  24565. My correspondence with agencies, while promising at first, has gone
  24566. nowhere. I’ve basically tried to contact every party involved with
  24567. this project – everyone from the original school location to the
  24568. sites that reviewed the product (as listed on the “Story” section.)
  24569. Other than some initial “Hmm…” I have nothing. I even went as far as
  24570. sending WEDG a WTF on the original kickstarter page.
  24571.  
  24572.  
  24573.  
  24574.  
  24575. dbrissenden
  24576.  
  24577. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8114757> 1 year ago
  24578.  
  24579. @Bryan Walker
  24580. I’ve not forgotten but rather have been looking at the legal aspects
  24581. about going after Shehbaz in the courts.
  24582. Unfortunately unless everyone gets together, it is rather a case of
  24583. individuals which will have to bring claims. If targeted personally
  24584. at the creator and legally responsible person, I’m sure this would
  24585. have the desired effect.
  24586. Knowing the contents of your correspondence with agencies is useful
  24587. as others can collectively target without individual agendas
  24588. becoming the norm.
  24589.  
  24590.  
  24591.  
  24592.  
  24593. Bryan Walker
  24594.  
  24595. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 1 year ago
  24596.  
  24597. @jrogers31,
  24598.  
  24599. I’m guessing a lot of people have forgotten about this project. It’s
  24600. a year past the funds collection point, and the updates have been so
  24601. few that it would be easy for them to get lost in a stack of emails.
  24602.  
  24603. Looking back at posts, there seems to be only a handful of people
  24604. posting on a regular basis. As much as I hate to say it, this
  24605. project is probably dead.
  24606.  
  24607.  
  24608.  
  24609.  
  24610. jrogers31
  24611.  
  24612. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> 1 year ago
  24613.  
  24614. @Glen – I agree with you – but unless >90% of the 968 backers decide
  24615. to start sending emails to the appropriate agencies, details of
  24616. which were given in the comments section many moons ago, very little
  24617. is going to happen. Indiegogo did nothing when this matter was
  24618. highlighted over 18 months ago. Unfortunately, this is a situation
  24619. which will only be progressed when ‘the many’ act and not just ‘the
  24620. few’. I applaud the efforts of ‘the few’ and I am grateful to them.
  24621.  
  24622.  
  24623.  
  24624.  
  24625. Glen
  24626.  
  24627. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/635969> 1 year ago
  24628.  
  24629. IndieGoGo have a duty of care to report fraud to the UK Police when
  24630. they have reasonable suspicion that it has occurred. If they don’t
  24631. take reasonable action, then they open themselves to being sued for
  24632. breach of duty of care.
  24633.  
  24634. Even dating websites have been sued for allowing rapists to use
  24635. their sites. IndieGoGo’s policy is not to vet creators. That is the
  24636. cause of the problem here.
  24637.  
  24638. It’s a lot of money. It had to go somewhere. We have a right to know
  24639. where.
  24640.  
  24641.  
  24642.  
  24643.  
  24644. jrogers31
  24645.  
  24646. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> 1 year ago
  24647.  
  24648. I once thought that WEDG updates, when they appear, were written by
  24649. means of a gobbledygook generator but having followed a recently
  24650. televised parliamentary investigation it occurred to me that they
  24651. may have been written with the help of a mythomaniac. Furthermore, I
  24652. wonder whether the initial project may have been devised or helped
  24653. by the same person who provides the updates.
  24654.  
  24655.  
  24656.  
  24657.  
  24658. Bryan Walker
  24659.  
  24660. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 1 year ago
  24661.  
  24662. (2/2)
  24663. If you have other information, like some of the other releases where
  24664. they posted (and revoked) a PDF, a more complete timeline, or
  24665. email/communication you’ve personally had, they may appreciate that
  24666. as well.
  24667.  
  24668. I’m not going to post email addresses in this forum b/c this is an
  24669. easy target for scrapers, and I don’t wish to anger the people who
  24670. may help.
  24671.  
  24672.  
  24673.  
  24674.  
  24675. Bryan Walker
  24676.  
  24677. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 1 year ago
  24678.  
  24679. (1/2)
  24680. @Nikolai,
  24681. The best response so far has been from Technutty – I don’t have the
  24682. exact link but you can find the article easily enough, and the
  24683. author’s name and contact details are easy to locate in the story.
  24684.  
  24685. I sent the author copies of the original letter from April 2015, as
  24686. well as copies of some of the email conversations I’ve had with
  24687. Indiegogo. I also pointed him to this forum, as well as FB, Twitter,
  24688. and WEDG’s web page.
  24689.  
  24690.  
  24691.  
  24692.  
  24693. Nikolai Tesla
  24694.  
  24695. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> 1 year ago
  24696.  
  24697. @Bryan Walker: Could you provide their contacts? Website? This way I
  24698. can assist on writing to them as well. Mr. Afzal/WEDG is not getting
  24699. out of this without repercussions..
  24700.  
  24701.  
  24702.  
  24703.  
  24704. Bryan Walker
  24705.  
  24706. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 1 year ago
  24707.  
  24708. All: There is large list of sites in the “Story” section that
  24709. reviewed WEDG in some way. A good number of them are still online. I
  24710. suggest you contact each one of them in turn. I’ve started to do
  24711. this and received some promising results.
  24712.  
  24713.  
  24714.  
  24715.  
  24716. Bryan Walker
  24717.  
  24718. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 1 year ago
  24719.  
  24720. 4 updates (and a “pls don’t call our folks”) message in the last 6
  24721. months…c’mon! Throw us a bone!
  24722.  
  24723.  
  24724.  
  24725.  
  24726. Bryan Walker
  24727.  
  24728. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 1 year ago
  24729.  
  24730. @jrogers31,
  24731.  
  24732. I still get a few lines of the article and a “Want the full article
  24733. and instant website access?” message with a subscribe ad.
  24734.  
  24735. If there’s no “contact this authority to do the same for your shady
  24736. kickstarter” in the story, it doesn’t really matter if I can’t see
  24737. the rest of it.
  24738.  
  24739.  
  24740.  
  24741.  
  24742. jrogers31
  24743.  
  24744. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> 1 year ago
  24745.  
  24746. @Bryan Walker – no the link worked for me just now – its is an
  24747. article written by James Hurley, Enterprise Editor, June 7 2016,
  24748. 12:01am, The Times.
  24749.  
  24750.  
  24751.  
  24752.  
  24753. Bryan Walker
  24754.  
  24755. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 1 year ago
  24756.  
  24757. Remember when?
  24758.  
  24759. Jaypaul Barrow
  24760. 3 months ago
  24761. Update! Update! Update! Duck me it’s not hard to say. Still working
  24762. guys. Bear with us.
  24763.  
  24764. Quack.
  24765.  
  24766.  
  24767.  
  24768.  
  24769. Bryan Walker
  24770.  
  24771. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 1 year ago
  24772.  
  24773. @jrogers31 – were there any links or contact information in the
  24774. article? The full article is locked out unless you are a subscriber.
  24775.  
  24776.  
  24777.  
  24778.  
  24779. jrogers31
  24780.  
  24781. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> 1 year ago
  24782.  
  24783. @Glen – I understand your view and that is one possible avenue.
  24784. However, it is clear from the article in TheTimes that the
  24785. appropriate UK authorities will undertake a criminal prosecution,
  24786. when their investigation uncovers evidence of fraud. Unfortunately,
  24787. the UK authorities will only look into allegations of fraud if they
  24788. receive complaints. A complaint from one or two backers out of 968
  24789. may be insufficient to initiate an investigation. We need all
  24790. backers to make complaints via all avenues.
  24791.  
  24792.  
  24793.  
  24794.  
  24795. Glen
  24796.  
  24797. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/635969> 1 year ago
  24798.  
  24799. The creator is a fraud. He never intended to create the product. He
  24800. should be criminally prosecuted for fraud and go to jail. It’s not a
  24801. failure to deliver by the creator as Indiegogo claim. It is a
  24802. failure of Indiegogo to vet real creators from frauds. We should
  24803. take a class action against the creator and or Indiegogo.
  24804.  
  24805.  
  24806.  
  24807.  
  24808. jrogers31
  24809.  
  24810. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> 1 year ago
  24811.  
  24812. I wonder whether backers of WEDG will read an article like this
  24813. about WEDG in the future. It appears that on occasions scampaign
  24814. owners on crowdfunding sites are successfully prosecuted in the UK
  24815. “The boss of a vodka business defrauded crowdfunding investors out
  24816. of thousands of pounds in a case that raises fresh questions about
  24817. standards of due diligence in the industry.”
  24818. http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/fraudster-abused-crowdfund-investors-38p02zptn
  24819.  
  24820.  
  24821.  
  24822.  
  24823. Bryan Walker
  24824.  
  24825. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/14264443> 1 year ago
  24826.  
  24827. I’ve sent notes off to TechCrunch, MMU (again,) WEDG (again,) and
  24828. Indiegogo (again.)
  24829.  
  24830. Only was the canned “We’re sorry, but sometimes projects don’t
  24831. deliver as promised” BS from IGG. Interestingly, however, IGG states
  24832. that “While we can’t force them to post an update, if they continue
  24833. to remain unresponsive, you can use our Terms of Use to take legal
  24834. action against the campaigner.”
  24835.  
  24836. Yah, right. Imma gon go laugh some more, brb.
  24837.  
  24838.  
  24839.  
  24840.  
  24841. jrogers31
  24842.  
  24843. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> 1 year ago
  24844.  
  24845. @Scott McQueen -a good effort on your part. If more backers bring
  24846. the matter to the attention of the media it may help progress
  24847. matters. As for WEDG’s saying the “project is still alive” –
  24848. it must be in the sense of medical acronyms such as FUBAR BUNDY. I
  24849. am surprised the update is late they can use
  24850. http://www.plainenglish.co.uk/gobbledygook-generator.html – One
  24851. click got “We need a more contemporary reimagining of our
  24852. facilitating organisational resources.” very WEDG like don’t you think!
  24853.  
  24854.  
  24855.  
  24856.  
  24857. Scott McQueen
  24858.  
  24859. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8443500> 1 year ago
  24860.  
  24861. I actually sent out quite a few all with @shehbaz_afzal in the title
  24862. along with the twitter address of the mag/website that did a initial
  24863. review of WEDG. Shortly after this I received an email from wedg
  24864. apologising for their late to my last email and informing me
  24865. that the project is still alive and they will be sending were going
  24866. to write and an update on Tuesday and would be releasing it this
  24867. week. Well it’s now Friday and still no update, yet!
  24868.  
  24869.  
  24870.  
  24871.  
  24872. jrogers31
  24873.  
  24874. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> 1 year ago
  24875.  
  24876. @Scott McQueen – good news if TechCrunch are going to do a follow up
  24877. story – they will find rich pickings in the comment section if they
  24878. choose to look. The last update appears to suggest that emails to
  24879. MMU are making Mr Afzal a little uncomfortable and more emails may
  24880. make him feel even more uncomfortable to the point when he comes
  24881. clean and tells the backers the truth about what is going on and
  24882. backs it up with hard independently verifiable evidence. More emails
  24883. to MMU please backers.
  24884.  
  24885.  
  24886.  
  24887.  
  24888. Scott McQueen
  24889.  
  24890. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8443500> 1 year ago
  24891.  
  24892. Just because @shehbaz_afzal has made his twitter account private
  24893. doesn’t mean you cannot include it in tweets along with a few news
  24894. articles, colleges uni’s etc. I don’t know about you guys but we
  24895. need answers or refunds!
  24896.  
  24897. See 1 more ...
  24898. <https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/wedg-the-personal-cloud-you-ve-been-waiting-for>
  24899.  
  24900. Scott McQueen
  24901.  
  24902. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8443500> 1 year ago
  24903. In fact I will post everyone I do here as well starting with:
  24904. @ManMetUni how about doing a follow up story @shehbaz_afzal and Wedg
  24905. Questions about where has all the crowdfunding cash gone need answers?
  24906. Scott McQueen
  24907.  
  24908. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8443500> 1 year ago
  24909. @TechCrunch how about doing a follow up story @shehbaz_afzal and
  24910. Wedg Questions about where has all the crowdfunding cash gone need
  24911. answers?
  24912.  
  24913.  
  24914.  
  24915. t.munari
  24916.  
  24917. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/7463940> 1 year ago
  24918.  
  24919. On the 4th of may I wrote an email to the address published in the
  24920. update asking for some clarifications and…. surprise!
  24921. No answer.
  24922.  
  24923.  
  24924.  
  24925.  
  24926. Scott McQueen
  24927.  
  24928. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8443500> 1 year ago
  24929.  
  24930. Come on Wedg… you’re having a laugh now, and at our expense might I
  24931. add. No information, no sign of Shehbaz. WTF is happening with this
  24932. project and more so our investment. If the only way we can get a
  24933. rise out of you is to contact the office space vendors then that
  24934. seems the way to go.
  24935.  
  24936. We just want information as it just seems these updates are just to
  24937. string us along to make it more difficult to claim back our
  24938. investment or maybe you’re hoping we get bored and just forget about
  24939. it ?
  24940.  
  24941.  
  24942.  
  24943.  
  24944. Gordon Keys
  24945.  
  24946. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8335278> 1 year ago
  24947.  
  24948. The problem with all of this is whether the new partners/investors
  24949. will actually honour the past backers. I for one have utterly lost
  24950. faith in the project and don’t expect to see a product delivered nor
  24951. my £300 ever again.
  24952.  
  24953. I shall be putting this down to experience and shall probably never
  24954. use Indiegogo again.
  24955.  
  24956.  
  24957.  
  24958.  
  24959. scott.henderson
  24960.  
  24961. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3201718> 1 year ago
  24962.  
  24963. Thanks for the update.
  24964.  
  24965. We all look forward to getting some detailed updates once everything
  24966. is signed and finalized with the new investor and mentors.
  24967.  
  24968. We need to actually SEE that the project is moving forward again.
  24969. That will hopefully alleviate some of this wasted time and energy
  24970. being spend by some backers in trying to get a refund from a
  24971. crowdfunding campaign. Everyone spent hard earned money to support
  24972. Wedg, but they should have done so knowing the risks involved in
  24973. these ventures.
  24974.  
  24975.  
  24976.  
  24977.  
  24978. David Aldred
  24979.  
  24980. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> 1 year ago
  24981.  
  24982. Given your new partnership, I think it’s time to restore some
  24983. credibility with your backers and provide more details (like the
  24984. name!) of this elusive ‘3rd party’ company which is being blamed
  24985. (along with the developer) for the project being in the current
  24986. position.
  24987.  
  24988.  
  24989.  
  24990.  
  24991. dbrissenden
  24992.  
  24993. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8114757> 1 year ago
  24994.  
  24995. If anyone wants to try to get their money back they could try the
  24996. small claims court???
  24997.  
  24998. Interesting wording under the Indiegogo T&Cs:
  24999. https://www.indiegogo.com/about/terms
  25000. under the arbitration section.
  25001.  
  25002. Article here about small claims court:
  25003. http://venturebeat.com/2013/01/22/why-this-jilted-kickstarter-backer-decided-to-sue-why-he-was-right/
  25004.  
  25005.  
  25006.  
  25007.  
  25008. jrogers31
  25009.  
  25010. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> 1 year ago
  25011.  
  25012. Nikolai Tesla - apologies for some reason the naff Indiegogo website
  25013. shows 'the at sign' on my computer when I type '’ but not when you
  25014. read the comments VC-PA@mmu.ac.uk (now its working!)
  25015. I guess it is screened by his PA but please check on his link here
  25016. http://www2.mmu.ac.uk/about/governance/vice-chancellor/
  25017.  
  25018.  
  25019.  
  25020.  
  25021. Nikolai Tesla
  25022.  
  25023. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> 1 year ago
  25024.  
  25025. jrogers31: Is MMU Professor Press EMail address VC-Pmmu.ac.uk
  25026. correct? Thank you in advance.
  25027.  
  25028.  
  25029.  
  25030.  
  25031. jrogers31
  25032.  
  25033. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> 1 year ago
  25034.  
  25035. Nikolai Tesla and @ALL Vice chancellor of MMU Professor Malcolm
  25036. Press: VC-PAmmu.ac.uk
  25037. Louise Kenworthy-Taylor is an Incubation Services Manager at
  25038. Innospace: innospace@mmu.ac.uk
  25039. Manchester evening news: helen.johnson@menmedia.co.uk
  25040. BBC watchdog: watchdog@bbc.co.uk Use “watchdog army” in title of
  25041. email to BBC Watchdog
  25042.  
  25043.  
  25044.  
  25045.  
  25046. Nikolai Tesla
  25047.  
  25048. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> 1 year ago
  25049.  
  25050. @jrogers31: I do agree, we need all backers to Email these
  25051. institutions in order to set pressure to Mr. Afzal/WEDG. Please
  25052. provide, again, the Email addresses of each institution that we all
  25053. need to write in order to submit our
  25054. complaints/concerns/disappointments about Mr. Afzal/WEDG. Thank you.
  25055.  
  25056.  
  25057.  
  25058.  
  25059. jrogers31
  25060.  
  25061. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> 1 year ago
  25062.  
  25063. @Bryan Walker – nice research – presumably because on kickstarter
  25064. WEDG failed to reach its funding target of £90,000.00. Solution? –
  25065. go to Indiegogo with a lower funding target (£71,000.00) and then
  25066. get MMU and MEN to publicise the “achievment” of reaching the target
  25067. to draw in even more backers by associating the project with a
  25068. university. MMU and MEN were effectively acting as “shills” to
  25069. attract more funding from backers. They have to be in the frame. The
  25070. truth will out eventually.
  25071.  
  25072.  
  25073.  
  25074.  
  25075. jrogers31
  25076.  
  25077. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> 1 year ago
  25078.  
  25079. @Marc Solondz and @ALL – yes it may go the way of Zano but Mr
  25080. Afzal’s reputation and location is intimately tied to MMU who are in
  25081. part responsible http://www.mmu.ac.uk/news/news-items/2946/ – this
  25082. gave confidence to all backers. If any backer has the time to write
  25083. a comment here about their concens then they have the time to email
  25084. – the VC of MMU, – BBC watchdog, the Manchester Evening News, etc.
  25085. 968 individual complaints have a chance of getting the matter
  25086. properly investigated.
  25087.  
  25088.  
  25089.  
  25090.  
  25091. Marc Solondz
  25092.  
  25093. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8716841> 1 year ago
  25094.  
  25095. This is the same cock and bull story we were told about the previous
  25096. backers. All I see is zero progress and empty promises. This is just
  25097. like the Zano debacle that occurred on Kickstarter.
  25098.  
  25099.  
  25100.  
  25101.  
  25102. jrogers31
  25103.  
  25104. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> 1 year ago
  25105.  
  25106. @Nikolai Tesla – exactly – if only @ALL would each email their
  25107. concerns to the VC of MMU – about Mr Afzal that would help Team WEDG
  25108. get real.
  25109.  
  25110.  
  25111.  
  25112.  
  25113. Nikolai Tesla
  25114.  
  25115. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> 1 year ago
  25116.  
  25117. @jrogers31: That is a great website. It is not too far off from what
  25118. WEDG updates are like.
  25119.  
  25120. @ALL: I do agree with the recent comments. Most if not all of the
  25121. WEDG updates are providing us with no tangible facts. WEDG needs to
  25122. provide specifics (i.e. names, dates, schedules, quantities,
  25123. designs, pictures, videos, budgets, etc.). Until then it is all just
  25124. fluff. What intrigues me is why does WEDG post at all? Are they
  25125. trying to reach a statute of limitations with UK and/or Indiegogo law?
  25126.  
  25127.  
  25128.  
  25129.  
  25130. jrogers31
  25131.  
  25132. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> 1 year ago
  25133.  
  25134. When I look at this and other updates it occurred to me that they
  25135. may have been written with the help of this robot
  25136. http://www.plainenglish.co.uk/gobbledygook-generator.html – the
  25137. similarities are quite striking.
  25138.  
  25139.  
  25140.  
  25141.  
  25142. dbrissenden
  25143.  
  25144. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8114757> 1 year ago
  25145.  
  25146. Whilst I value the update, it really told us nothing.
  25147. Who are the new backers? I trust they are maintaining all the perks
  25148. everyone signed up to?
  25149. Importantly, what is the new timescale? Given the amount of time
  25150. lapse, are there any impacts on hardware?
  25151.  
  25152.  
  25153.  
  25154.  
  25155. scott.henderson
  25156.  
  25157. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3201718> 1 year ago
  25158.  
  25159. Thank you for the brief update today!
  25160.  
  25161. This is the type of information this group of supporters needs on a
  25162. regular basis. Short and to the point on what’s been going on. 5
  25163. minutes out of your busy schedules each week just to let us know the
  25164. project is creeping forward.
  25165.  
  25166. Looking forward to hearing everything is signed off and development
  25167. work is beginning anew.
  25168.  
  25169.  
  25170.  
  25171.  
  25172. Jeremy Lai
  25173.  
  25174. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8879281> 1 year ago
  25175.  
  25176. @Bryan Walker – looks like it’s going to be a tough one… if you do
  25177. make any grounds with them… you have a supporter here.
  25178.  
  25179.  
  25180.  
  25181.  
  25182. jrogers31
  25183.  
  25184. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> 1 year ago
  25185.  
  25186. @Bryan Walker – I note the part in their where they say “we
  25187. don’t intestinally observe radio silence…” did you cut and paste
  25188. their or was it a typo on your part? If the former then
  25189. intestinal seams appropriate when the is taken in the round –
  25190. their is a product of the intestines.
  25191.  
  25192.  
  25193.  
  25194.  
  25195. jrogers31
  25196.  
  25197. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> 1 year ago
  25198.  
  25199. @Bryan Walker – yes – no is what I received when I brought it
  25200. to their attention. If one wants to stimulate the interest of
  25201. journalists or a TV consumer program such as BBC watchdog – then
  25202. many hundreds of emails from disgruntled consumers need to be
  25203. received – as said before emails from 968 backers would fill an
  25204. inbox and may stimulate interest.
  25205.  
  25206.  
  25207.  
  25208.  
  25209. Nikolai Tesla
  25210.  
  25211. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> 1 year ago
  25212.  
  25213. Is there anyone local to Manchester, UK that could pay a visit to
  25214. Mr. Afzal in order to provide a face to face update? At the worst a
  25215. private investigator could provide more information about his
  25216. whereabouts in regards to WEDG.
  25217.  
  25218.  
  25219.  
  25220.  
  25221. jrogers31
  25222.  
  25223. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> 1 year ago
  25224.  
  25225. @Bryan Walker – and don’t forget this one either
  25226. http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/business/butt-firm-wedg-smashes-crowdfunding-7898382
  25227. Isn’t it amazing how poor journalism is in the UK and in Manchester
  25228. in particular as the newspaper have not done a follow up story! It
  25229. would make a good headline when one considers that ‘Wedge" is slang
  25230. for “cash”. Manchester Evening News investigates: “What happend to
  25231. your WEDG?” or "Afzal’s WEDG" Works on lots of levels. ?Try to bring
  25232. to their attention?
  25233.  
  25234.  
  25235.  
  25236.  
  25237. jrogers31
  25238.  
  25239. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> 1 year ago
  25240.  
  25241. @bryan walker – if you go back far enough you will find a copy of
  25242. their response to my enquiries – it definitely touched a nerve. I
  25243. also copied my email enquiries to the VC of MMU. The problem is that
  25244. batting away one or two disappointed backers sending an email is not
  25245. a problem but its harder when there are in the region of 968 to fend
  25246. off. I mean this http://www.mmu.ac.uk/news/news-items/2946/ gave
  25247. confidence to all backers. I printed a copy so if they take it down
  25248. they are still in the frame.
  25249.  
  25250.  
  25251.  
  25252.  
  25253. jrogers31
  25254.  
  25255. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> 1 year ago
  25256.  
  25257. If Mr Afzal still has any “currency” and by that I mean a reputation
  25258. worth maintaining (not our cash – he certainly has all of that!) it
  25259. will be how he is viewed at his Alma Mater, which helped promote and
  25260. give authority to his campaign. Backers may wish to express their
  25261. feelings on the matter to the vice-chancellor of MMU as they may be
  25262. able to bring some pressure to bear as their reputation is tarnished
  25263. by association. There are 968 backers – more than enough to fill an
  25264. Inbox!
  25265.  
  25266.  
  25267.  
  25268.  
  25269. Jason Myatt
  25270.  
  25271. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/1967690> 1 year ago
  25272.  
  25273. I’d like to agree with @Bryan… Please WEDG; just talk to us ! Simple :)
  25274.  
  25275.  
  25276.  
  25277.  
  25278. Jeremy Lai
  25279.  
  25280. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8879281> 1 year ago
  25281.  
  25282. @bryan any luck with getting the money back?
  25283.  
  25284.  
  25285.  
  25286.  
  25287. Gaston Cardey
  25288.  
  25289. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8821945> 1 year ago
  25290.  
  25291. Hi, Bryan,
  25292. I’ve uploaded the file to:
  25293. https://www.docdroid.net/Fp4dgYo/statement-12-04-15.pdf.html
  25294.  
  25295.  
  25296.  
  25297.  
  25298. Gaston Cardey
  25299.  
  25300. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8821945> 1 year ago
  25301.  
  25302. I don’t support you and don’t send you encouraging words. I don’t
  25303. want the product (like this will ever exist). I want my money
  25304. back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  25305. I don’t know why you need “some investors”. We all give you money
  25306. for this proyect and “theorically”, was enough.
  25307. Give me my money. You’re helding me against my will in this “thing”.
  25308. Cut me loose. Give me my money.
  25309.  
  25310.  
  25311.  
  25312.  
  25313. t.munari
  25314.  
  25315. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/7463940> 1 year ago
  25316.  
  25317. well, well… strange update has not been posted april 1st.
  25318. why not try to build, first, confidence in your creditors?
  25319.  
  25320.  
  25321.  
  25322.  
  25323. Lex Drury
  25324.  
  25325. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3907235> 1 year ago
  25326.  
  25327. The weekend and start of the week have past and moving into the
  25328. following weekend. Where is that update you mentioned?
  25329.  
  25330.  
  25331.  
  25332.  
  25333. Gordon Keys
  25334.  
  25335. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8335278> 1 year ago
  25336.  
  25337. “Please accept our sincerest apologies for the radio silence…”
  25338.  
  25339. We shall not accept your apology, as it is to be expected, the norm,
  25340. how things are with all things Wedg like. It is mostly silence……
  25341. then a bit of white noise……. then some fluff…… and……. phzzzt…….
  25342. silence! Carry on. Now where do I buy my DJ216? Or maybe the DJ215?
  25343. Or a TS-212P? Any ideas?
  25344.  
  25345.  
  25346.  
  25347.  
  25348. Gordon Keys
  25349.  
  25350. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8335278> over 1 year ago
  25351.  
  25352. Wish I could add a picture to this site!
  25353.  
  25354. http://s1268.photobucket.com/user/Gordon_Keys/media/wedg%20pic_zpszjjry1vu.jpg.html
  25355.  
  25356. :D
  25357.  
  25358.  
  25359.  
  25360.  
  25361. Gordon Keys
  25362.  
  25363. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8335278> over 1 year ago
  25364.  
  25365. Ooh, ooh, there’s an update? Oh no, wait. It was an update to tell
  25366. us there will be an update about an update. Cool. Glad to hear it. I
  25367. love a Wedgy update!
  25368.  
  25369.  
  25370.  
  25371.  
  25372. dbrissenden
  25373.  
  25374. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8114757> over 1 year ago
  25375.  
  25376. @Brian Walker
  25377. Please try again ;)
  25378.  
  25379.  
  25380.  
  25381.  
  25382. Funs
  25383.  
  25384. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8707331> over 1 year ago
  25385.  
  25386. Just a thought. As many of us have been disappointed in many
  25387. campaigns on IGG an KS as well, I would fund a campaign that tracks
  25388. these kind of crooks. Anybody else? At least funding a campaign that
  25389. tracks these guys is more satisfying than reading these updates…
  25390.  
  25391.  
  25392.  
  25393.  
  25394. Ron Ko
  25395.  
  25396. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8444779> over 1 year ago
  25397.  
  25398. I almost forgot this campaign but was awaken by that silly update.
  25399. The update is no update.
  25400. Anyway, the 6 months you asked for is over. Keep this campaign as
  25401. lesson learnt for your next success but please return money to us.
  25402.  
  25403.  
  25404.  
  25405.  
  25406. t.munari
  25407.  
  25408. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/7463940> over 1 year ago
  25409.  
  25410. Probably someone has been abducted by aliens wanting to steal their
  25411. NAS technology?
  25412.  
  25413.  
  25414.  
  25415.  
  25416. Brad Magri-Olson
  25417.  
  25418. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8709187> over 1 year ago
  25419.  
  25420. Seriously? Did you just post an update telling us that the update
  25421. will be coming shortly? What a joke… How about you just refund us
  25422. all… Absolutely pathetic, how can anybody trust you to deliver the
  25423. product you promised, which is now extremely outdated.
  25424.  
  25425.  
  25426.  
  25427.  
  25428. Peter Dalmaris
  25429.  
  25430. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/7104926> over 1 year ago
  25431.  
  25432. The suspense is killing me! I can’t wait for the new dramatic news!
  25433. Maybe we’ll get an update in the next six months.
  25434.  
  25435.  
  25436.  
  25437.  
  25438. John Raffin
  25439.  
  25440. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4406292> over 1 year ago
  25441.  
  25442. Wow, I’ve had many Indiegogo / Kickstarter updates before but none
  25443. as unintentionally hilarious as this one! Very Monty Python.
  25444.  
  25445.  
  25446.  
  25447.  
  25448. dbrissenden
  25449.  
  25450. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8114757> over 1 year ago
  25451.  
  25452. @Brian Walker
  25453. http://pastebin.com/rQWAZq7c as requested.
  25454.  
  25455.  
  25456.  
  25457.  
  25458. dbrissenden
  25459.  
  25460. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8114757> over 1 year ago
  25461.  
  25462. I have been in contact with Manchester trading standards and they
  25463. have indicated that there is a case of breach of contract and that
  25464. it is possible to pursue for the item or damages. Quite a long
  25465. detailed response from them.
  25466. You can lodge a complaint here via CAB:
  25467. https://ssl.datamotion.com/form.aspx?co=3438&frm=citacomplainform&to=flare.fromforms
  25468.  
  25469.  
  25470.  
  25471.  
  25472. Gaston Cardey
  25473.  
  25474. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8821945> over 1 year ago
  25475.  
  25476. Hi, @Rich Willars,
  25477. I’ve bought a QNAP NAS (TS453 PRO) that works great. Even lets me
  25478. install a program called ownButt that works exactly like Dropbox
  25479. (has an app that can be installed on Windows, iOS, MacOS and
  25480. Android). It also came with a LOT of software bundled and at no
  25481. cost. It even can work as an iTunes server.
  25482. Has 4 HDD bays, but there’s other model (TS253 PRO) that came with 2
  25483. bays and it’s cheaper. It also can create RAID 0 and 1.
  25484. The initial start up is really simple.
  25485. Hope it helps.
  25486.  
  25487.  
  25488.  
  25489.  
  25490. Rich Willars
  25491.  
  25492. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8442821> over 1 year ago
  25493.  
  25494. Seeing as it looks like this isn’t going to happen, has anyone had
  25495. any thoughts about alternative off the shelf products, or already
  25496. invested in one?
  25497.  
  25498.  
  25499.  
  25500.  
  25501. Danilo Montesi
  25502.  
  25503. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/2102128> over 1 year ago
  25504.  
  25505. I agree
  25506.  
  25507.  
  25508.  
  25509.  
  25510. Gaston Cardey
  25511.  
  25512. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8821945> over 1 year ago
  25513.  
  25514. Hi everyone,
  25515. It’s terrible to say, but I really think that there will be no more
  25516. updates. Of course, “hasta la vista, money”. I’m convinced that this
  25517. was a scam from the beginning. And no one will convince me
  25518. otherwise. Team WEDG alone is giving me all the arguments so I can
  25519. say this (almost a year has gone from the delivery date).
  25520. For me was a very bad experience. This money (315 pounds) is a lot
  25521. in my country.
  25522. Never again will contribute in IndieGoGo and will sure to spread.
  25523. Good luck to all.
  25524.  
  25525.  
  25526.  
  25527.  
  25528. Joerg Erdmann
  25529.  
  25530. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4151450> over 1 year ago
  25531.  
  25532. just let me know if t’s worth spending my time on waitin’!!!
  25533.  
  25534.  
  25535.  
  25536.  
  25537. Jaypaul Barrow
  25538.  
  25539. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4145374> over 1 year ago
  25540.  
  25541. Update! Update! Update! Duck me it’s not hard to say. Still working
  25542. guys. Bear with us.
  25543.  
  25544.  
  25545.  
  25546.  
  25547. MARC-ANDRE RUNCIE-UNGER
  25548.  
  25549. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/5105783> over 1 year ago
  25550.  
  25551. So what’s happened to the promised ongoing updates???
  25552.  
  25553. Come on guys tell us what’s happening! :(
  25554.  
  25555.  
  25556.  
  25557.  
  25558. snaug9
  25559.  
  25560. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3216651> over 1 year ago
  25561.  
  25562. any news?
  25563.  
  25564.  
  25565.  
  25566.  
  25567. Scott McQueen
  25568.  
  25569. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8443500> over 1 year ago
  25570.  
  25571. For all those UK based, I believe we can take this to the ‘Small
  25572. Claims’ court in order to get a refund, I’ve been patient but I
  25573. think Mr Afzal has cut and run… with our cash!
  25574.  
  25575.  
  25576.  
  25577.  
  25578. jrogers31
  25579.  
  25580. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> over 1 year ago
  25581.  
  25582. @dbrissenden 1 to 5 all good points. One avenue which should also be
  25583. considered is for all dissatisfied backers to individually bring the
  25584. matter to the attention of vice chancellor of MMU – the university
  25585. who took pride lauding Mr Afzal’s success in raising funds for WEDG
  25586. and who provided his company with the office space. Mr Afzal’s
  25587. behaviour should once again be brought to the attention of the
  25588. university for at the very least “behaviour unbecoming of a
  25589. post-graduate student of MMU”
  25590.  
  25591.  
  25592.  
  25593.  
  25594. daves
  25595.  
  25596. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8713835> over 1 year ago
  25597.  
  25598. Come on guys, give us an update! You are pushing even the most
  25599. patient of backers to frustration.
  25600.  
  25601.  
  25602.  
  25603.  
  25604. dbrissenden
  25605.  
  25606. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8114757> over 1 year ago
  25607.  
  25608. 5/5
  25609. It is a regrettable situation to be in and I know I’m not along in
  25610. being put off backing future projects here or anywhere else and this
  25611. kind of behaviour is ultimately damaging to crowd funding
  25612.  
  25613.  
  25614.  
  25615.  
  25616. dbrissenden
  25617.  
  25618. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8114757> over 1 year ago
  25619.  
  25620. 4/5
  25621. In order to try and recover finds, it might be more useful for
  25622. people to try Group Litigation from someone such as
  25623. http://www.edwincoe.com/collapse-of-crowdfunder-torquing-group-draws-backers-to-class-action-specialist-lawyers-edwin-coe/
  25624. It appears they have experience in this field with this kind of
  25625. thing and they are based in the UK. Further information can be found
  25626. here:
  25627. http://www.edwincoe.com/our-expertise/group-action-litigation/
  25628.  
  25629.  
  25630.  
  25631.  
  25632. dbrissenden
  25633.  
  25634. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8114757> over 1 year ago
  25635.  
  25636. 3/5
  25637. Whilst I agree it is the right thing to alert trading standards and
  25638. the Serious Fraud Office, I doubt whether this will get any funds
  25639. back the backers. It might however prevent Wedg or any of its
  25640. employees, the only one appears to be Shebaz anyway, cropping up
  25641. again and trying this with other unsuspecting people.
  25642.  
  25643.  
  25644.  
  25645.  
  25646. dbrissenden
  25647.  
  25648. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8114757> over 1 year ago
  25649.  
  25650. 2/5
  25651. I was willing to wait and continue backing the project but being
  25652. cynical, I’m now even starting to wonder whether there was even a
  25653. situation in the first place; did any of litigation with an unknown
  25654. technology provider exist or has the fact that Wedg has disappeared
  25655. off the face of the earth actually an indication of an elaborate scam?
  25656.  
  25657.  
  25658.  
  25659.  
  25660. dbrissenden
  25661.  
  25662. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8114757> over 1 year ago
  25663.  
  25664. 1/4
  25665. The lack of updates is clearly worrying people and rightly so. There
  25666. is nowhere I know of in Manchester where you cannot get on the
  25667. internet and it only takes 5 minutes to send backers an email saying
  25668. whats going on, so I’m even starting to lose sympathy on this one.
  25669.  
  25670.  
  25671.  
  25672.  
  25673. snaug9
  25674.  
  25675. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3216651> over 1 year ago
  25676.  
  25677. Any News?
  25678.  
  25679.  
  25680.  
  25681.  
  25682. t.munari
  25683.  
  25684. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/7463940> over 1 year ago
  25685.  
  25686. What I can say:
  25687. Website is down since forever;
  25688. I tried to contact him here and in twitter
  25689. (https://twitter.com/shehbaz_afzal) which has since the gone
  25690. “private”, no .
  25691. No apologies, no information apart some scarce and vague info
  25692. sometimes here.
  25693. Mr. Shehbaz Afzal, a real scumbag…. with no excuse.
  25694.  
  25695.  
  25696.  
  25697.  
  25698. jrogers31
  25699.  
  25700. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> over 1 year ago
  25701.  
  25702. 2/2 and in the local newspaper
  25703. http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/business/butt-firm-wedg-smashes-crowdfunding-7898382
  25704. This gave the project authority and the backers confidence. I cannot
  25705. understand what circumstances could exist to prevent Mr Afzal from
  25706. giving backers regular and honest updates unless the intent of the
  25707. fundraising was for a different purpose.
  25708.  
  25709.  
  25710.  
  25711.  
  25712. jrogers31
  25713.  
  25714. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> over 1 year ago
  25715.  
  25716. 1/2 Recent comments from backers are appropriate -the need for
  25717. regular updates and -the risks associated with such projects. My
  25718. concern is that this start up was heavily promoted and lauded by Mr
  25719. Afzal’s Alma Mater http://www.mmu.ac.uk/news/news-items/2946/
  25720.  
  25721.  
  25722.  
  25723.  
  25724. Michel Castan
  25725.  
  25726. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8203603> over 1 year ago
  25727.  
  25728. I propose instead to send regularly on any new project on Indiegogo
  25729. the following comment (possibly add other projects on the list):
  25730. Warning !!
  25731. Before financing a project on Indiegogo, remember that it may be
  25732. wasted as seems to be the case for the following projects that no
  25733. longer gives signs of life (at least so far):
  25734. . https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/3d-pocketcopter-the-flying-camera
  25735. .
  25736. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/wedg-the-personal-butt-you-ve-been-waiting-for
  25737.  
  25738.  
  25739.  
  25740.  
  25741. Nikolai Tesla
  25742.  
  25743. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> over 1 year ago
  25744.  
  25745. @James Taylor: I understand the hardships that new business and
  25746. “new” concepts bring. I did warn them about these perils and even
  25747. suggested them, early on, to study a documentary on how 3-D printer
  25748. start ups faced similar issues. The conflict here is the lack of
  25749. transparency and more frequent detailed communication with the
  25750. backers. Reaching out honestly and regularly to the backers does not
  25751. cost $$$, it just costs time and dedication to those who backed MR.
  25752. SHEHBAZ AFZAL’s idea.
  25753.  
  25754.  
  25755.  
  25756.  
  25757. James Taylor
  25758.  
  25759. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/5657565> over 1 year ago
  25760.  
  25761. I am not ready to throw in the towel on this just yet. I have run a
  25762. company before and I understand the challenges that brings –
  25763. creating something new is unbelievably difficult. The story of the
  25764. OS developer is crazy enough that I believe it is true. Please
  25765. remember: you did not buy anything. You donated to a project and –
  25766. if and when the project succeeds – you will be “given” a perk. The
  25767. language is very clear on this. Any of these crowdfunded projects
  25768. are inherently risky.
  25769.  
  25770.  
  25771.  
  25772.  
  25773. Carlos Garcia Conde
  25774.  
  25775. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4819372> over 1 year ago
  25776.  
  25777. WEDG = SCAM = INDIEGOGO
  25778.  
  25779.  
  25780.  
  25781.  
  25782. Anthony Reid
  25783.  
  25784. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8691990> over 1 year ago
  25785.  
  25786. well im asuming by now this was a scam as iv not herd anything back
  25787. think its time to start looking into the legal avenue on this.. has
  25788. anyone els herd anything from them…?
  25789.  
  25790.  
  25791.  
  25792.  
  25793. Ron Ko
  25794.  
  25795. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8444779> over 1 year ago
  25796.  
  25797. 1 month left
  25798.  
  25799.  
  25800.  
  25801.  
  25802. Ruanth Chrisley Thyssen
  25803.  
  25804. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/485007> over 1 year ago
  25805.  
  25806. I want my money back, anyone else? Can’t figure out if this was a
  25807. scam from the start or just ended that way. Seriously this is
  25808. ridiculous, last indiegogo “funding” for me. We better get a
  25809. soon or some answers at least, people should have their credit card
  25810. details when they want to start a project; that way they don’t just
  25811. run away
  25812.  
  25813.  
  25814.  
  25815.  
  25816. tom.attree
  25817.  
  25818. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8491782> over 1 year ago
  25819.  
  25820. It’s probably about time for an update now…
  25821.  
  25822.  
  25823.  
  25824.  
  25825. Nikolai Tesla
  25826.  
  25827. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> over 1 year ago
  25828.  
  25829. @Bryan Walker, sattler, Patrik Jones, Carlos Garcia Conde: My
  25830. recommendation to you all is to report WEDG/MR.SHEHBAZ AFZAL, to the
  25831. already stated authorities, if you have not done so at this moment.
  25832. The alternative is the begging for a proper response from
  25833. WEDG/MR.SHEHBAZ AFZAL in a vicious cycle of nonsense. The technology
  25834. has been eclipsed by multiple competitors in 2015 and the only
  25835. option is find proper answers in this matter by the local authorities.
  25836.  
  25837.  
  25838.  
  25839.  
  25840. sattler
  25841.  
  25842. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8272012> over 1 year ago
  25843.  
  25844. This is seriously bothering me now. I can understand the problems
  25845. you have faced, but I would at least expect you to inform us on the
  25846. progress, as little as that may be.
  25847.  
  25848.  
  25849.  
  25850.  
  25851. Patrick Jones
  25852.  
  25853. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/5225415> over 1 year ago
  25854.  
  25855. @WEDG…please can you give us an update?
  25856. Thank you.
  25857.  
  25858.  
  25859.  
  25860.  
  25861. Carlos Garcia Conde
  25862.  
  25863. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4819372> over 1 year ago
  25864.  
  25865. I want a refund
  25866. This scam was my last time at Indiegogo
  25867.  
  25868.  
  25869.  
  25870.  
  25871. Rémi
  25872.  
  25873. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/9463606> over 1 year ago
  25874.  
  25875. I just got an answer from Team Wedg to my email. They apparently
  25876. wrote an update but it does not appear on the page. They are
  25877. checking with IGG to fix this issue
  25878.  
  25879.  
  25880.  
  25881.  
  25882. Pierre Lang
  25883.  
  25884. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4161016> over 1 year ago
  25885.  
  25886. #Team Wedg: 7 month ago, you answered to my question about coding
  25887. anew like this:“@Pierre Lang[..]. Ditching his work and starting
  25888. again isn’t possible yet as we’d have to prove a number of factors
  25889. regarding the authenticity of the ’new’code – that in actual fact
  25890. would be a legal procedure within itself. ^Chris”
  25891. So what makes recoding possible now, considering you don’t even have
  25892. legal support anymore?
  25893.  
  25894.  
  25895.  
  25896.  
  25897. Nikolai Tesla
  25898.  
  25899. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> over 1 year ago
  25900.  
  25901. Hello Bryan Walker,
  25902.  
  25903. Many of us already have gone that route with Indiegogo and at least
  25904. they provided you with a more elaborate response with the same
  25905. statement (Indiegogo does not care). I still much suggest that you
  25906. report it to the UK authorities as outlined on my previous posts.
  25907. This is one of the few options that we all have in order to bring
  25908. this issue to an end, justice will prevail against WEDG/MR.SHEHBAZ
  25909. AFZAL if wrong doing is found.
  25910.  
  25911.  
  25912.  
  25913.  
  25914. Carlos Garcia Conde
  25915.  
  25916. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4819372> over 1 year ago
  25917.  
  25918. I’m not a fool, I reported the scam to Police yesterday
  25919. No more games, I want my money back
  25920.  
  25921.  
  25922.  
  25923.  
  25924. Ruanth Chrisley Thyssen
  25925.  
  25926. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/485007> over 1 year ago
  25927.  
  25928. I want my money back, anyone else? Can’t figure out if this was a
  25929. scam from the start or just ended that way. Seriously this is
  25930. ridiculous, last indiegogo “funding” for me. We better get a
  25931. soon or some answers at least, people should have their credit card
  25932. details when they want to start a project; that way they don’t just
  25933. run away
  25934.  
  25935.  
  25936.  
  25937.  
  25938. tom.attree
  25939.  
  25940. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8491782> over 1 year ago
  25941.  
  25942. It’s probably about time for an update now…
  25943.  
  25944.  
  25945.  
  25946.  
  25947. Nikolai Tesla
  25948.  
  25949. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> over 1 year ago
  25950.  
  25951. @Bryan Walker, sattler, Patrik Jones, Carlos Garcia Conde: My
  25952. recommendation to you all is to report WEDG/MR.SHEHBAZ AFZAL, to the
  25953. already stated authorities, if you have not done so at this moment.
  25954. The alternative is the begging for a proper response from
  25955. WEDG/MR.SHEHBAZ AFZAL in a vicious cycle of nonsense. The technology
  25956. has been eclipsed by multiple competitors in 2015 and the only
  25957. option is find proper answers in this matter by the local authorities.
  25958.  
  25959.  
  25960.  
  25961.  
  25962. sattler
  25963.  
  25964. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8272012> over 1 year ago
  25965.  
  25966. This is seriously bothering me now. I can understand the problems
  25967. you have faced, but I would at least expect you to inform us on the
  25968. progress, as little as that may be.
  25969.  
  25970.  
  25971.  
  25972.  
  25973. Patrick Jones
  25974.  
  25975. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/5225415> over 1 year ago
  25976.  
  25977. @WEDG…please can you give us an update?
  25978. Thank you.
  25979.  
  25980.  
  25981.  
  25982.  
  25983. Carlos Garcia Conde
  25984.  
  25985. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4819372> over 1 year ago
  25986.  
  25987. I want a refund
  25988. This scam was my last time at Indiegogo
  25989.  
  25990.  
  25991.  
  25992.  
  25993. Rémi
  25994.  
  25995. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/9463606> over 1 year ago
  25996.  
  25997. I just got an answer from Team Wedg to my email. They apparently
  25998. wrote an update but it does not appear on the page. They are
  25999. checking with IGG to fix this issue
  26000.  
  26001.  
  26002.  
  26003.  
  26004. Pierre Lang
  26005.  
  26006. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4161016> over 1 year ago
  26007.  
  26008. #Team Wedg: 7 month ago, you answered to my question about coding
  26009. anew like this:“@Pierre Lang[..]. Ditching his work and starting
  26010. again isn’t possible yet as we’d have to prove a number of factors
  26011. regarding the authenticity of the ’new’code – that in actual fact
  26012. would be a legal procedure within itself. ^Chris”
  26013. So what makes recoding possible now, considering you don’t even have
  26014. legal support anymore?
  26015.  
  26016.  
  26017.  
  26018.  
  26019. Nikolai Tesla
  26020.  
  26021. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> over 1 year ago
  26022.  
  26023. Hello Bryan Walker,
  26024.  
  26025. Many of us already have gone that route with Indiegogo and at least
  26026. they provided you with a more elaborate response with the same
  26027. statement (Indiegogo does not care). I still much suggest that you
  26028. report it to the UK authorities as outlined on my previous posts.
  26029. This is one of the few options that we all have in order to bring
  26030. this issue to an end, justice will prevail against WEDG/MR.SHEHBAZ
  26031. AFZAL if wrong doing is found.
  26032.  
  26033.  
  26034.  
  26035.  
  26036. Carlos Garcia Conde
  26037.  
  26038. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4819372> over 1 year ago
  26039.  
  26040. I’m not a fool, I reported the scam to Police yesterday
  26041. No more games, I want my money back
  26042.  
  26043.  
  26044.  
  26045.  
  26046. Nikolai Tesla
  26047.  
  26048. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> over 1 year ago
  26049.  
  26050. @Bryan Walker, niki.baev, Gordon Keys, t.munari, spencer robinson
  26051. and any other backer that is upset with the state of affairs with
  26052. WEDG LTD. Being a UK citizen or resident is NOT required in order to
  26053. report this issue to UK authorities. You are all welcome to do so. I
  26054. have already outlined (multiple times) the methods you all can use
  26055. to bring a legal investigation against WEDG LTD and MR. SHEHBAZ
  26056. AFZAL. Please use them, it is the few tools that you have.
  26057.  
  26058.  
  26059.  
  26060.  
  26061. spencer robinson
  26062.  
  26063. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/9152571> over 1 year ago
  26064.  
  26065. Merry Christmas Shehbaz Afzal. I hope you get what you want, because
  26066. none of you backers look to be getting anything.!
  26067.  
  26068.  
  26069.  
  26070.  
  26071. Ron Ko
  26072.  
  26073. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8444779> over 1 year ago
  26074.  
  26075. As stated 6 full months to deliver the promise, there are 2 months
  26076. left. I don’t mind to count down that for u.
  26077.  
  26078.  
  26079.  
  26080.  
  26081. t.munari
  26082.  
  26083. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/7463940> over 1 year ago
  26084.  
  26085. Please,
  26086. anyone in Uk that could try to understand what our Entrepreneur is
  26087. doing?
  26088. I tried do contact him through twitter but (surprise) he has not
  26089. replied.
  26090. I believe the only possibility we have is, someone in UK, filing a
  26091. request for a fraud prosecution.
  26092.  
  26093.  
  26094.  
  26095.  
  26096. nnik
  26097.  
  26098. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8709296> over 1 year ago
  26099.  
  26100. Hi. I want my money back. I want a full refund. Thanks!
  26101.  
  26102.  
  26103.  
  26104.  
  26105. Gordon Keys
  26106.  
  26107. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8335278> over 1 year ago
  26108.  
  26109. 1 month ago! Lol
  26110.  
  26111. “Dear backers
  26112.  
  26113. It gives us great joy to (finally) announce some very exciting news!!
  26114.  
  26115. Some months back we were approached by a small group of sympathising
  26116. programmers looking to further understand the difficulties our
  26117. project was experiencing and we’ve kept in touch since. At the time
  26118. they we’re planning to launch a crowdfunded project of their own…"
  26119.  
  26120. Why would other start-ups want to get involved in this atrocity?
  26121. Another month of radio silence. Why treat us like this?
  26122.  
  26123.  
  26124.  
  26125.  
  26126. nnik
  26127.  
  26128. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8709296> over 1 year ago
  26129.  
  26130. Hi. I want my money back. I want a full refund. Thanks!
  26131.  
  26132.  
  26133.  
  26134.  
  26135. Steven Newman
  26136.  
  26137. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/925661> over 1 year ago
  26138.  
  26139. @Carlos, I’ll also point out that whether we like it or not, this is
  26140. essentially venture capitalism in action and as such you have no
  26141. standing to report anything to the police. Kickstarter and Indiegogo
  26142. make no guarantees. You would need to prove actual malfeasance in
  26143. court. It is certainly frustrating what has happened, I agree.
  26144. Updates could be far more forthcoming and regular and should be.
  26145. Even if there wasn’t much if anything new to report.
  26146.  
  26147.  
  26148.  
  26149.  
  26150. Nikolai Tesla
  26151.  
  26152. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> over 1 year ago
  26153.  
  26154. 3 of 3
  26155. The more complaints submitted the more pressure will be introduced
  26156. to resolve this issue.
  26157.  
  26158. Company information:
  26159. WEDG LTD (NEW)
  26160. C/O Taxassist Accountants
  26161. 23 Flixton Road
  26162. Urmston
  26163. Manchester
  26164. M41 5AW
  26165.  
  26166. Company#08824160
  26167. Director ID: 917334076
  26168. Director: MR SHEHBAZ AFZAL
  26169.  
  26170. Write to the Manchester Evening News (newsdesk@men-news.co.uk) who
  26171. wrote about WEDG on 9 Oct 2014
  26172. (http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/business/butt-firm-wedg-smashes-crowdfunding-7898382),
  26173. Express your concerns about WEDG.
  26174.  
  26175.  
  26176.  
  26177.  
  26178. Nikolai Tesla
  26179.  
  26180. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> over 1 year ago
  26181.  
  26182. 2 of 3
  26183.  
  26184. @WEDG FUNDERS (that is you Carlos): You have the right to report
  26185. this situation to the corresponding authorities in the UK so they
  26186. can investigate:
  26187.  
  26188. The Insolvency Service, Companies House or the Serious Fraud Office.
  26189. More information at:
  26190.  
  26191. https://www.gov.uk/complain-about-a-limited-company
  26192.  
  26193. You can also submit a complaint to the Manchester Trading Standards at:
  26194.  
  26195. https://ssl.datamotion.com/form.aspx?co=3438&frm=citacomplainform&to=flare.fromforms
  26196.  
  26197.  
  26198.  
  26199.  
  26200. Nikolai Tesla
  26201.  
  26202. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> over 1 year ago
  26203.  
  26204. 1 of 3
  26205.  
  26206. Hello Carlos,
  26207.  
  26208. There is no need to contact the police but instead do the following
  26209. which is more effective on getting a solution to this situation with
  26210. WEDG / MR SHEHBAZ AFZAL. I have posted the following multiple times
  26211. but it is imperative that you do this if you require a solution this
  26212. problem:
  26213.  
  26214.  
  26215.  
  26216.  
  26217. Carlos Garcia Conde
  26218.  
  26219. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4819372> over 1 year ago
  26220.  
  26221. SCAM, I WANT MY MONEY BACK NOW OR I’LL GO DIRECTLY TO POLICE
  26222. NO MORE TIME
  26223.  
  26224.  
  26225.  
  26226.  
  26227. Andrea Pietroboni
  26228.  
  26229. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/1106976> over 1 year ago
  26230.  
  26231. we want money no words
  26232.  
  26233.  
  26234.  
  26235.  
  26236. jrogers31
  26237.  
  26238. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> over 1 year ago
  26239.  
  26240. A letter on headed paper from WEDG’s insurance company stating that
  26241. it supported WEDG’s legal team in their dispute with a third party
  26242. and providing a letter from the lawyers stating that they were
  26243. representing WEDG in their dispute would have been sufficient
  26244. evidence that the updates from WEDG were truthful. These were never
  26245. forthcoming casting doubt on the veracity of the updates which
  26246. contain many other inconsistencies. WEDG’s updates contain no
  26247. verifiable facts which is a major problem
  26248.  
  26249.  
  26250.  
  26251.  
  26252. jrogers31
  26253.  
  26254. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> over 1 year ago
  26255.  
  26256. @Peter Dalmaris – it was alleged months ago that the software
  26257. engineer subsequently found to be on gardening leave from the third
  26258. party company, which began the dispute may have been a plant but it
  26259. appears that WEDG’s legal team were incapable of investigating or
  26260. taking legal action in this direction. The latter casts into doubt
  26261. whether WEDG had insurance to pay for a legal team as no proof of
  26262. insurance or the existance of a legal team was provided to backers
  26263. despite many requests for such proof
  26264.  
  26265.  
  26266.  
  26267.  
  26268. Peter Dalmaris
  26269.  
  26270. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/7104926> over 1 year ago
  26271.  
  26272. I found this story on Arstechnica: “Autodesk competitor that stole
  26273. AutoCAD source code blames rogue engineer”.
  26274.  
  26275. I wonder if it is similar case to what WEDG is dealing with.
  26276.  
  26277. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/11/autodesk-competitor-that-stole-autocad-source-code-blames-rogue-engineer/
  26278.  
  26279.  
  26280.  
  26281.  
  26282. Lewis Tsalis
  26283.  
  26284. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706426> over 1 year ago
  26285.  
  26286. That is good news, Shehbaz. Keep the updates coming, no matter how
  26287. insignificant. Hoping for more good news to come.
  26288.  
  26289.  
  26290.  
  26291.  
  26292. Nikolai Tesla
  26293.  
  26294. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> over 1 year ago
  26295.  
  26296. @TigerBus – “3 people” is not correct, last survey made by WEDG LTD,
  26297. over 4 months ago, was 199 of concerned backers that requested a
  26298. refund (~50% whom replied the survey). By this time I could provide
  26299. you an educated guess that this number is beyond 199. The opinions
  26300. of all WEDG backers need to be respected. As of this date no one
  26301. here has lost respect to anyone; let us keep it that way.
  26302.  
  26303.  
  26304.  
  26305.  
  26306. Brad Magri-Olson
  26307.  
  26308. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8709187> over 1 year ago
  26309.  
  26310. @TigerBus -Once again you are missing the point here. Nobody is
  26311. undermining the efforts of a campaign. WEDG have not done the right
  26312. thing by their backers and they deserve to be investigated. Yes,
  26313. stuff does happen, but the communication is key and has been
  26314. severely lacking. Their business decisions have undermined their
  26315. backers and put their project at risk as well as putting their
  26316. backers off side. Everybody is entitled to their opinion without
  26317. having keyboard warriors personally abusing them.
  26318.  
  26319.  
  26320.  
  26321.  
  26322. Tiger Bus
  26323.  
  26324. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706731> over 1 year ago
  26325.  
  26326. s/No/Not/
  26327.  
  26328.  
  26329.  
  26330.  
  26331. Tiger Bus
  26332.  
  26333. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706731> over 1 year ago
  26334.  
  26335. Hmm… nope. I don’t think undermining the efforts of a campaign with
  26336. actions like this needs to be tolerated, sorry. I also invested
  26337. money and I see stupid stuff like this as sabotage. We’re all in the
  26338. same boat here, some seem to forget that every once on a while. 3
  26339. people act up like little kiddies who have not understood the rules
  26340. of the game and mess it up for 300 others. No. My. Game.
  26341.  
  26342.  
  26343.  
  26344.  
  26345. jrogers31
  26346.  
  26347. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> over 1 year ago
  26348.  
  26349. @Tiger Bus – although your opinion about WEDG may differ from that
  26350. of other contributors I do not think you have any right to make a
  26351. disparaging comment towards @Carlos Garcia Conde or any other
  26352. contributor who has a different opinion to yours. You do not know
  26353. the circumstances of other contributors or the details of the
  26354. contribution they made to WEDG, which may be to them a considerable
  26355. sum of money – an apology to CGC would be appropriate
  26356.  
  26357.  
  26358.  
  26359.  
  26360. Tiger Bus
  26361.  
  26362. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706731> over 1 year ago
  26363.  
  26364. Carlos: You are making a complete fool out of yourself. Better go
  26365. tell mommy, might be less embarrassing.
  26366.  
  26367.  
  26368.  
  26369.  
  26370. Carlos Garcia Conde
  26371.  
  26372. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4819372> over 1 year ago
  26373.  
  26374. Ok, after TEN emails and a lot of comments, and NO ANSWER I will
  26375. denounce to Wedg to police for Scam.
  26376. No more chances.
  26377.  
  26378.  
  26379.  
  26380.  
  26381. Steven Newman
  26382.  
  26383. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/925661> over 1 year ago
  26384.  
  26385. I couldn’t agree more with Scott Henderson. Crowd funding a project
  26386. brings inherent risk and no guarantees. This is almost a form of
  26387. venture capitalism. I appreciate that frustration that we’ve all
  26388. felt with a product that shows so much promise, but the ongoing
  26389. bashing isn’t going to accomplish anything. As far as we can tell,
  26390. WEDG acted in good faith before getting punched in the mouth by a
  26391. Giant. It’s nice to see updates starting to flow again and I’m glad
  26392. to see things moving forward.
  26393.  
  26394.  
  26395.  
  26396.  
  26397. jrogers31
  26398.  
  26399. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> over 1 year ago
  26400.  
  26401. @Nikolai Tesla – I agree dissatisfied backers should continue to
  26402. report the activities of WEDG and Mr Afzal to the relevant
  26403. authorities and media. Doing so will ensure that their activities
  26404. will come under scrutiny in the public interest. Because we cannot
  26405. independently verify the content of updates we should be circumspect
  26406. about their content.
  26407.  
  26408.  
  26409.  
  26410.  
  26411. Nikolai Tesla
  26412.  
  26413. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> over 1 year ago
  26414.  
  26415. @Bryan Walker,
  26416.  
  26417. Thank you for the correction. The “new” address for WEDG LTD is:
  26418.  
  26419. C/O Taxassist Accountants
  26420. 23 Flixton Road
  26421. Urmston
  26422. Manchester
  26423. M41 5AW
  26424.  
  26425. I urge all concerned backers to go ahead and submit your complaints
  26426. as outlined on previous posts in regardless to what update WEDG
  26427. LTD/Mr. Shehbaz Afzal continues to post. Submitting a complaint will
  26428. provide an unbiased investigation into this matter by a government
  26429. and/or NEWS agency.
  26430.  
  26431.  
  26432.  
  26433.  
  26434. jrogers31
  26435.  
  26436. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> over 1 year ago
  26437.  
  26438. While backers may welcome the encouraging update with
  26439. circumspection, can we have more information – are the named
  26440. programmers graduates or undergraduates of MMU? When due diligence
  26441. is done can we have specific details of the objectives and
  26442. milestones that WEDG will achieve going forward. If with the help of
  26443. the named programmers you are confident that you will complete the
  26444. project without using any disputed code will you name and shame the
  26445. third party who allegedly held up the project?
  26446.  
  26447.  
  26448.  
  26449.  
  26450. Brad Magri-Olson
  26451.  
  26452. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8709187> over 1 year ago
  26453.  
  26454. Too much time has passed for me and I now have an alternate
  26455. solution. Once again, i politely ask for a refund.
  26456.  
  26457.  
  26458.  
  26459.  
  26460. scott.henderson
  26461.  
  26462. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3201718> over 1 year ago
  26463.  
  26464. [1 of 3] It was great to read some promising news about the WEDG
  26465. today. I hope that everything can come together smoothly, in order
  26466. to get this project moving in the right direction again.
  26467.  
  26468. All of the loathing in the comments section has been discouraging
  26469. I’m sure for both the WEDG Team and definitely for those of us that
  26470. still believe in the concept. We all wholeheartedly believed at one
  26471. point, otherwise we would not have donated our hard-earned money.
  26472.  
  26473.  
  26474.  
  26475.  
  26476. scott.henderson
  26477.  
  26478. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3201718> over 1 year ago
  26479.  
  26480. [2 of 3 ] I’ve crowdfunded anthology graphics novels and other books
  26481. that were delayed a year and a half, so although I’m disappointed,
  26482. I’ve held back my frustration and haven’t vented here. Doing is
  26483. simply counter productive and a waste of time. I’ve been laid off
  26484. work since the end of June and a refund would definitely come in
  26485. handy over the holiday season, but I put my money towards a
  26486. crowdfunded project I believe in, instead of going out and
  26487. purchasing an existing solution.
  26488.  
  26489.  
  26490.  
  26491.  
  26492. scott.henderson
  26493.  
  26494. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3201718> over 1 year ago
  26495.  
  26496. [3 of 3] Crowdfunding projects have inherent setbacks and delays.
  26497. Yes there are even some that never come to fruition. I’ve never
  26498. heard of one coming with a refund. Will I be disappointed if I don’t
  26499. eventually get my two WEDG Pro RAID devices, definitely. Will I be
  26500. impressed and happy when I do receive them, most certainly.
  26501.  
  26502. We seem to be on the cusp of moving forward, hopefully the worst is
  26503. now behind us.
  26504.  
  26505.  
  26506.  
  26507.  
  26508. Charles Collins
  26509.  
  26510. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/1658162> over 1 year ago
  26511.  
  26512. Sorry folks, but so much time elapsed from the original date that I
  26513. have lost interest in acquiring a Wedg. It seems that while the
  26514. “developers” dithered, technology remained in motion. The time has
  26515. come for the refund option. Please remit.
  26516.  
  26517.  
  26518.  
  26519.  
  26520. Jason Bayton
  26521.  
  26522. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/2720005> over 1 year ago
  26523.  
  26524. Has 6 months passed yet? I’ve just popped online to see if I can get
  26525. my refund.
  26526.  
  26527.  
  26528.  
  26529.  
  26530. Jacob Ovard
  26531.  
  26532. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8671772> over 1 year ago
  26533.  
  26534. I have given you my time and money in exchange for an awesome
  26535. product. You have not produced any hard evidence of this product
  26536. even existing. I demand my money back!
  26537.  
  26538.  
  26539.  
  26540.  
  26541. jrogers31
  26542.  
  26543. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> over 1 year ago
  26544.  
  26545. @Nikolai Tesla – thank you for re-posting these links in the hope
  26546. that the other backers will follow suit with the action we have
  26547. already taken. If we are to get a satisfactory resolution then it is
  26548. important that all dissatisfied backers take the time to file
  26549. complaints so that the relevant authorities and media investigate Mr
  26550. Afzal and WEDG in the public interest.
  26551.  
  26552.  
  26553.  
  26554.  
  26555. Nikolai Tesla
  26556.  
  26557. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> over 1 year ago
  26558.  
  26559. Additionally you can write to the Manchester Evening News
  26560. (newsdesk@men-news.co.uk), who did an article about WEDG on 9 Oct
  26561. 2014
  26562. (http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/business/butt-firm-wedg-smashes-crowdfunding-7898382),
  26563. and express your concerns about WEDG and MR. AFZAL.
  26564.  
  26565.  
  26566.  
  26567.  
  26568. Nikolai Tesla
  26569.  
  26570. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> over 1 year ago
  26571.  
  26572. You can also submit a complaint to the Manchester Trading Standards at:
  26573.  
  26574. https://ssl.datamotion.com/form.aspx?co=3438&frm=citacomplainform&to=flare.fromforms
  26575.  
  26576. The more complaints submitted the more pressure will be introduced
  26577. to resolve this issue.
  26578.  
  26579. Here is the required WEDG company information:
  26580.  
  26581. WEDG LTD
  26582. 47 Chorlton Street
  26583. Manchester
  26584. Greater Manchester
  26585. M1 3FY
  26586.  
  26587. Company#08824160
  26588. Director ID: 917334076
  26589. Director: MR SHEHBAZ AFZAL
  26590.  
  26591.  
  26592.  
  26593.  
  26594. Nikolai Tesla
  26595.  
  26596. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> over 1 year ago
  26597.  
  26598. 2 of 2
  26599. @WEDG FUNDERS: You have the right to report this situation to the
  26600. corresponding authorities in the UK so they can investigate:
  26601.  
  26602. The Insolvency Service, Companies House or the Serious Fraud Office.
  26603. More information at:
  26604.  
  26605. https://www.gov.uk/complain-about-a-limited-company
  26606.  
  26607.  
  26608.  
  26609. Nikolai Tesla
  26610.  
  26611. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> over 1 year ago
  26612.  
  26613. So for those whom missed it:
  26614.  
  26615. 1 of 2
  26616. @WEDG FUNDERS: A way you can help WEDG is by reporting them to the
  26617. authorities in the UK. Here is how it works, if WEDG is legit the
  26618. authorities will confirm that it so and if they are not, then they
  26619. will be held liable for their actions. Both outcomes will bring the
  26620. long delayed resolution to this fiasco to all of us no matter if you
  26621. support them or not.
  26622.  
  26623.  
  26624.  
  26625.  
  26626. Nikolai Tesla
  26627.  
  26628. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> over 1 year ago
  26629.  
  26630. Be aware that WEDG/Mr. Afzal and/or Indiegogo are not taking into
  26631. consideration to any comments posted here. Our recourse is to
  26632. continue to request an investigation by local authorities and/or
  26633. news media in order to receive the facts which in turn could provide
  26634. a solution to this ongoing non sense. We need for all of the backers
  26635. that are not satisfied with this situation to request the
  26636. investigation, posting here will not help.
  26637.  
  26638.  
  26639.  
  26640.  
  26641. jrogers31
  26642.  
  26643. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> over 1 year ago
  26644.  
  26645. The problem with the recent update in common with all the updates is
  26646. that nothing stated in the updates can be verified independently.
  26647. Consequently, backers cannot rely on anything that is said by Mr
  26648. Afzal or the WEDG team. Mr Afzal and WEDG need to come clean and
  26649. tell the truth about what has been going on and whereabouts of the
  26650. funds. They can be made to do so if dissatisfied backers make
  26651. complaints to the agencies highlighted in previous messages. WEDG
  26652. must be investigated by the authorities.
  26653.  
  26654.  
  26655.  
  26656.  
  26657. Brad Magri-Olson
  26658.  
  26659. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8709187> over 1 year ago
  26660.  
  26661. Why send a survey out asking who wants a refund when you have no
  26662. intention of doing it? And why spend our money on a court case when
  26663. we clearly paid for a product that was already meant to be
  26664. delivered… Man up and refund the people that have asked!
  26665.  
  26666.  
  26667.  
  26668.  
  26669. rabeaumont
  26670.  
  26671. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8708749> over 1 year ago
  26672.  
  26673. Consider another possibiility, Could the WEDG team actually be
  26674. battling against a large organisation that has some incentive to
  26675. prevent the product coming to market.
  26676.  
  26677.  
  26678.  
  26679.  
  26680. MARC-ANDRE RUNCIE-UNGER
  26681.  
  26682. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/5105783> over 1 year ago
  26683.  
  26684. So if you lost legal support around a month ago why did you claim a
  26685. month ago “there will be an update in a few days once the legal team
  26686. and shebaz approve it” this all doesn’t add up and it’s about time
  26687. this project gets investigated by an outside body….
  26688.  
  26689.  
  26690.  
  26691.  
  26692. t.munari
  26693.  
  26694. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/7463940> over 1 year ago
  26695.  
  26696. (continued)
  26697. A) all the software mess happened when the “gardener” was working
  26698. (updates tell us he worked from 10th of february to 30th march) on
  26699. an almost finished system.
  26700. B) No proof of any real hardware apart from that 3d printed awfully
  26701. painted part (no it doesn’t look aluminium to me).
  26702. I am convinced Mr Shehbaz was not telling the truth on the real
  26703. advancement of the project (it was much behind schedule) and is not
  26704. telling the truth now.
  26705. OR
  26706. The project was vapor from the start.
  26707.  
  26708.  
  26709.  
  26710.  
  26711. t.munari
  26712.  
  26713. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/7463940> over 1 year ago
  26714.  
  26715. (continues)
  26716. 4) on the 12th of april we were told that 30th of march (when the
  26717. hardware should have already been procured and software ready to be
  26718. flashed) the big black hats hit base.
  26719. 5) in april-may we are shown a marginal part of the WEDG, stating
  26720. it’s not production grade (shouldn’t already been if not built at
  26721. least secured form suppliers?)
  26722. I am the only one noticing big incoherences?
  26723. (continues)
  26724.  
  26725.  
  26726.  
  26727.  
  26728. t.munari
  26729.  
  26730. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/7463940> over 1 year ago
  26731.  
  26732. Just a short recap picked up from the updates:
  26733. 1) Head linux developer left by the end of january (family tragedy)
  26734. 2) 9-10 February, new “gardener” programmer joined the team
  26735. 3) late february we were told production run and flashing (therefore
  26736. finished software) will be 30th of march and shipping will start
  26737. following week…
  26738. THEN…
  26739. (continues)
  26740.  
  26741.  
  26742.  
  26743.  
  26744. t.munari
  26745.  
  26746. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/7463940> over 1 year ago
  26747.  
  26748. So…
  26749. at this point recoding the contested part is feasible but you have
  26750. no money to pay coders?
  26751. Six months ago, it wasn’t possible but you had money…
  26752. I am not believing anything at all about a “beauty contest” to
  26753. select Prince Charming to save the Wedging Beauty…
  26754. I foresee it will just be the “theme” of the next few
  26755. empty-as-vacuum updates…
  26756. but don’t hold your breath for it….
  26757. Could you guess? No patience and no words of support from me.
  26758.  
  26759.  
  26760.  
  26761.  
  26762. Chris Horsfield
  26763.  
  26764. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4115733> over 1 year ago
  26765.  
  26766. I suspect the money has been spent. The chance of a full refund
  26767. seems remote. Maybe we should just divide up what is left.
  26768.  
  26769. Chris
  26770.  
  26771.  
  26772.  
  26773.  
  26774. paul.kulhavy
  26775.  
  26776. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8709012> over 1 year ago
  26777.  
  26778. Another backtrack and more delay – the head of the operation is on
  26779. stress leave – there are now only 2 other team members FFS!
  26780.  
  26781. Can’t even keep a website updated (wedg.co) it doesn’t look good for
  26782. delivery anytime soon.
  26783.  
  26784.  
  26785.  
  26786.  
  26787. Gaston Cardey
  26788.  
  26789. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8821945> over 1 year ago
  26790.  
  26791. Hi,
  26792. Four things: 1. Don’t thank me for “patience and support” because I
  26793. don’t have them anymore and long ago I don’t read any of the “words
  26794. of support”.
  26795. 2: No more legal support so all this months facing the lawsuit was
  26796. for nothing.
  26797. 3: Start the code all over will take at least 6 months. As some of
  26798. the backers, I’ve replaced the WEDG with another solution and I’m
  26799. finally convinced that was an excelent idea.
  26800. Come on!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  26801. 4. GIVE ME MY MONEY BACK. Clear, no mistakes. I only want my money.
  26802.  
  26803.  
  26804.  
  26805.  
  26806. MARC-ANDRE RUNCIE-UNGER
  26807.  
  26808. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/5105783> over 1 year ago
  26809.  
  26810. You are lucky Bryan. My ticket was closed down as solved without as
  26811. much as an answer….
  26812.  
  26813.  
  26814.  
  26815.  
  26816. MARC-ANDRE RUNCIE-UNGER
  26817.  
  26818. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/5105783> over 1 year ago
  26819.  
  26820. I’ve had no joy with indiegogo either. LIKE everyone else I have
  26821. lost faith in this project and actually ended up building my own
  26822. solution using a server setup. :(
  26823.  
  26824.  
  26825.  
  26826.  
  26827. Peter Dalmaris
  26828.  
  26829. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/7104926> over 1 year ago
  26830.  
  26831. I’ve contacted Indiegogo as well, twice, same generic answer. They
  26832. don’t seem to be doing even a curiosity check on one of their very
  26833. successful campaigns.
  26834.  
  26835.  
  26836.  
  26837.  
  26838. aaddiikk
  26839.  
  26840. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8707168> over 1 year ago
  26841.  
  26842. 131K pounds and no sign of any activity for more than a month
  26843. (actually for 8 months except few updates filled with empty words
  26844. without any content)… I want a refund but I have a bad feeling that
  26845. I will never see my money back… INDIEGOGO… PLEASE HELP YOUR USERS OR
  26846. THEY WILL NEVER COME BACK!
  26847.  
  26848.  
  26849.  
  26850.  
  26851. Carlos Garcia Conde
  26852.  
  26853. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4819372> over 1 year ago
  26854.  
  26855. I WANT A REFUND
  26856. NEVER AT INDIEGOGO NEVER!
  26857. 4 PROJECTS AND 2 SCAMS!
  26858. NEVER
  26859.  
  26860.  
  26861.  
  26862.  
  26863. Philipp Stäheli
  26864.  
  26865. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8723017> over 1 year ago
  26866.  
  26867. I am angry with Indiegogo. Please contact the magazine the wired
  26868. (submit@wired.com) and pitch them how bad Indiegogo treats its users.
  26869.  
  26870.  
  26871.  
  26872.  
  26873. Philipp Stäheli
  26874.  
  26875. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8723017> over 1 year ago
  26876.  
  26877. Look ppl, Indiegogo does not answer really. Just the usual bla bla.
  26878. Then they mark the support ticket as “solved”, even if you have
  26879. follow up questions and nothing is solved. I came here from
  26880. Kickstarter, definitely will not back anymore on Indiegogo. They
  26881. really do no care about their users.
  26882.  
  26883.  
  26884.  
  26885.  
  26886. t.munari
  26887.  
  26888. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/7463940> over 1 year ago
  26889.  
  26890. I think there will be no refunds, or bare metal shipping, since – by
  26891. now – I do believe this project is a scam.
  26892. I tried to contact the owner to have some info but, like many
  26893. others, I had no .
  26894. I even contacted Indiegogo asking to investigate on this project
  26895. but, apart form a generic and patronizing , I had no
  26896. satisfaction at all.
  26897. 2 out of 2 projects on indiegogo I backed are crawling to death or
  26898. are in a coma.
  26899. I will think thrice before supporting anything more through this
  26900. website.
  26901.  
  26902.  
  26903.  
  26904.  
  26905. Gerrit Freise
  26906.  
  26907. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8707250> over 1 year ago
  26908.  
  26909. Refund please! I do not want to wait anymore!
  26910.  
  26911.  
  26912.  
  26913.  
  26914. Scott McQueen
  26915.  
  26916. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8443500> over 1 year ago
  26917.  
  26918. We hope to post an update with more details in the NEXT FEW DAYS,
  26919. just waiting for approval from Shehbaz and the legal team on its
  26920. contents.
  26921.  
  26922. It’s been 26 days now ??
  26923.  
  26924.  
  26925.  
  26926.  
  26927. Veehem
  26928.  
  26929. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4067160> over 1 year ago
  26930.  
  26931. Days, weeks, months are going away. Why not sending us the hardware
  26932. with Freedombox on it ? (http://freedomboxfoundation.org/)
  26933. Have a look at this presentation introduced by Eben Moglen
  26934. https://moglen.law.columbia.edu/sflc2015/04_freedombox.webm
  26935.  
  26936.  
  26937.  
  26938.  
  26939. John Raffin
  26940.  
  26941. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4406292> over 1 year ago
  26942.  
  26943. I don’t understand. If I completed the survey to say I wanted a
  26944. refund, why can’t it be sent now? WHY?
  26945.  
  26946.  
  26947.  
  26948.  
  26949. 1sgmgn
  26950.  
  26951. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4356995> over 1 year ago
  26952.  
  26953. Still waiting
  26954.  
  26955.  
  26956.  
  26957.  
  26958. Jairo
  26959.  
  26960. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8782016> over 1 year ago
  26961.  
  26962. There is the profile of the founder, let’s annoy there!
  26963. https://www.facebook.com/shehbaz.afzal
  26964.  
  26965.  
  26966.  
  26967.  
  26968. Jairo
  26969.  
  26970. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8782016> over 1 year ago
  26971.  
  26972. I want a refund too.
  26973.  
  26974.  
  26975.  
  26976.  
  26977. Gordon Keys
  26978.  
  26979. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8335278> over 1 year ago
  26980.  
  26981. ‘Thank you for your on-going patience and support’
  26982.  
  26983. Really? We have no choice but be patient. When will you actually
  26984. give us an update of proper substance, instead of empty platitudes?
  26985.  
  26986. Pull your finger out now and tell us what is REALLY happening.
  26987.  
  26988.  
  26989.  
  26990.  
  26991. Carlos Garcia Conde
  26992.  
  26993. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4819372> over 1 year ago
  26994.  
  26995. 4 emails
  26996. 4 messages
  26997. 4 post
  26998. and NO answer
  26999. SCAM!
  27000. I WANT MY MONEY BACK
  27001.  
  27002.  
  27003.  
  27004.  
  27005. M K
  27006.  
  27007. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8914705> over 1 year ago
  27008.  
  27009. Any progress on the legal issues?
  27010.  
  27011.  
  27012.  
  27013.  
  27014. Gaston Cardey
  27015.  
  27016. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8821945> over 1 year ago
  27017.  
  27018. It will be so nice to have my money back before christmas. I lost
  27019. all my hope that you’ll deliver the WEDG. Final. The end. No more
  27020. excuses from my side to try to believe.
  27021. I remember that before march, you contacted us all the time pushing
  27022. to get the next level for develop of a new feature. After april, all
  27023. that good contact was lost. Truly shame. Don’t you feel some regret?
  27024. Don’t you feel really bad about the people who trusted in this
  27025. proyect? (Sorry, english is not my primary language).
  27026.  
  27027.  
  27028.  
  27029.  
  27030. Andrea Pietroboni
  27031.  
  27032. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/1106976> over 1 year ago
  27033.  
  27034. You seno us an email for know Who want refound the money after?i
  27035. want the money and not only informations about the your legal office
  27036.  
  27037.  
  27038.  
  27039.  
  27040. Ron Ko
  27041.  
  27042. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8444779> over 1 year ago
  27043.  
  27044. @WEDG team, please refund.
  27045.  
  27046.  
  27047.  
  27048.  
  27049. Gaston Cardey
  27050.  
  27051. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8821945> over 1 year ago
  27052.  
  27053. WEDG Team, Shehbaz or anybody who’s reading: give the bakers who
  27054. requested a refund their money. At least end this business
  27055. relationship in good terms. Please.
  27056.  
  27057.  
  27058.  
  27059.  
  27060. Carlos Garcia Conde
  27061.  
  27062. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4819372> over 1 year ago
  27063.  
  27064. @WEDG I want a REFUND
  27065.  
  27066.  
  27067.  
  27068.  
  27069. Brad Magri-Olson
  27070.  
  27071. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8709187> over 1 year ago
  27072.  
  27073. Refund please!
  27074.  
  27075.  
  27076.  
  27077.  
  27078. S Artes
  27079.  
  27080. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3807430> over 1 year ago
  27081.  
  27082. There was a survey a while back asking backers if they wanted a
  27083. refund. I’m one of those that requested my money back. Any chance
  27084. refunds will be provided soon?
  27085.  
  27086.  
  27087.  
  27088.  
  27089. Tiger Bus
  27090.  
  27091. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706731> over 1 year ago
  27092.  
  27093. People complain about the WEDG not getting anywhere and on the other
  27094. hand trying to find every means to keep them from actually getting
  27095. work done by forcing stupid buerocracy onto them just because some
  27096. egos feel like their whining is not being heard these days. Holy
  27097. cow, how can one be so paradoxical? I hope you all stay away from
  27098. crowd funding in the future, because this behaviour exactly what
  27099. makes it so annoying. It even beats lack of communication.
  27100.  
  27101.  
  27102.  
  27103.  
  27104. jrogers31
  27105.  
  27106. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> over 1 year ago
  27107.  
  27108. @t.munari I would suggest that you try Manchester trading standards
  27109. first which you can do by completing the online form here
  27110. https://ssl.datamotion.com/form.aspx?co=3438&frm=citacomplainform&to=flare.fromforms
  27111. then if you have time you could also report to BBC Watchdog
  27112. https://ssl.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05vx18b/contact – I think it will
  27113. help to complain as it will put pressure on WEDG to do the right thing.
  27114.  
  27115.  
  27116.  
  27117.  
  27118. t.munari
  27119.  
  27120. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/7463940> over 1 year ago
  27121.  
  27122. @jrogers31 Since I am not in the Uk, I have some problems
  27123. understanding who or how (an email: which address? or some other
  27124. way?) I should contact to pressure Mr.Afzal (as an example: why I
  27125. should contact Manchester University?), please elaborate a bit more.
  27126. Thank you
  27127.  
  27128.  
  27129.  
  27130.  
  27131. Ron Ko
  27132.  
  27133. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8444779> over 1 year ago
  27134.  
  27135. @WEDG team, you begged for 6 months from us and now it’s almost the
  27136. half of such 6 months. Are you still confident to what you planned ?
  27137.  
  27138.  
  27139.  
  27140.  
  27141. bpicard
  27142.  
  27143. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/946042> over 1 year ago
  27144.  
  27145. I get it but I am not willing to invest more time. That’s what I
  27146. ment with acceptance. I had a simmilar experience on kickstarter and
  27147. there too are people who are invested in making them pay and I
  27148. appriciate it and hope they are successful in the end. I backed over
  27149. 20 great projects over the years and there had to be a few
  27150. drawbacks. Crowdfunding is risky. What I really hope for is that
  27151. crowdfunding platforms take responsibility. At least we pay them
  27152. enough to do so through our contributions.
  27153.  
  27154.  
  27155.  
  27156.  
  27157. jrogers31
  27158.  
  27159. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> over 1 year ago
  27160.  
  27161. @t.munari and @ bpicard – you should not accept this – help increase
  27162. the pressure and contact – The Insolvency Service, Manchester
  27163. Trading Standards, Manchester Evening News, BBC Watchdog, Innospace
  27164. at Manchester Metropolitan University. It is only when a large
  27165. number of complaints are received will the matter of Mr Afzal and
  27166. WEDG’s shabby behaviour be held to account
  27167.  
  27168.  
  27169.  
  27170.  
  27171. bpicard
  27172.  
  27173. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/946042> over 1 year ago
  27174.  
  27175. I have to admid I’m utterly frustrated by know and lost faith. You
  27176. can say I crossed through the denail stage (“they are just really,
  27177. really bad at communication, but hey they are programmers”), anger
  27178. (“how hard can it be to drop a few lines every couple of weeks”)
  27179. bargaining (“there is no way this is a scam”) and am knee deep in
  27180. depression (“so much money down the drain, and did you realy have to
  27181. order the raid upgrade too?”) I hope I reach acceptance soon…
  27182.  
  27183.  
  27184.  
  27185.  
  27186. t.munari
  27187.  
  27188. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/7463940> over 1 year ago
  27189.  
  27190. By now it looks like a bad joke.
  27191. With this “obscure legal affair” they are not giving us any
  27192. information at all.
  27193. Since the Wedg is hardware AND software, they should at least try to
  27194. pretend they are using the delay in production updating the
  27195. specifications for the same price we already shelled out.
  27196. By now, if we ever see the “Wedg” delivered for real, specifications
  27197. will be so dated that we could possibly receive something like that
  27198. with a “happy meal”.
  27199. Over all, pretty embarassing….
  27200.  
  27201.  
  27202.  
  27203.  
  27204. jrogers31
  27205.  
  27206. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> over 1 year ago
  27207.  
  27208. @David Aldred – I would agree with you that a further approach to
  27209. Blazon PR may be appropriate but as mentioned before it would have
  27210. to come from a large number of dissatisfied backers and they would
  27211. have to also contact – The Insolvency Service, Manchester Trading
  27212. Standards, Manchester Evening News, BBC Watchdog, Innospace at
  27213. Manchester Metropolitan University. It is only when a large number
  27214. of complaints are received will the matter of Mr Afzal and WEDG’s
  27215. shabby behaviour be held to account
  27216.  
  27217.  
  27218.  
  27219.  
  27220. jrogers31
  27221.  
  27222. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> over 1 year ago
  27223.  
  27224. @David Aldred – Yes, I contacted Mr Michael Raven (CEO) of Blazon PR
  27225. on 26 June 2015 pointing out that the updates from WEDG were
  27226. inconsistent with Indiegogo’s statement on their website that “We
  27227. believe in open, honest and transparent communications.” I asked if
  27228. he would arrange for me to receive a full refund. He said in his
  27229. he would try but I heard nothing more. I find todays update as
  27230. opaque as ever. As for “working on ongoing issues” the words
  27231. ‘tracks, cover and trying’ come to mind
  27232.  
  27233.  
  27234.  
  27235.  
  27236. Pierre Lang
  27237.  
  27238. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4161016> over 1 year ago
  27239.  
  27240. Oh, be nice people. They told you from the start. It’s “the personal
  27241. butt you’ve been WAITING for”.
  27242. We can’t very well complain to be kept waiting… :D
  27243.  
  27244.  
  27245.  
  27246.  
  27247. David Aldred
  27248.  
  27249. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> over 1 year ago
  27250.  
  27251. Has anyone tried approaching Blazon PR (see ‘IN PARTNERSHIP WITH’
  27252. section to the right)?
  27253. Looks like they’re a tech PR firm, and list Wedg under their case
  27254. studies. Probably don’t know much themselves, but can perhaps put
  27255. some pressure on them?
  27256. If there are no other takers, I’ll try dropping them a note during
  27257. the week.
  27258.  
  27259.  
  27260.  
  27261.  
  27262. jrogers31
  27263.  
  27264. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> over 1 year ago
  27265.  
  27266. @Nikolai Tesla – I learned yesterday that for some backers the
  27267. contributions they have made to WEDG, which may appear modest to
  27268. some, are large sums of money in their regions of the world. When
  27269. one considers the behaviour and actions of WEDG and the effect it is
  27270. having on these and other backers – all of whom acted in good faith
  27271. – suggests to me that this matter must be pursued until the funds
  27272. are recovered and / or until an investigation leading to punitive
  27273. action is taken by the authorities
  27274.  
  27275.  
  27276.  
  27277.  
  27278. jrogers31
  27279.  
  27280. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> over 1 year ago
  27281.  
  27282. @Nikolai Tesla – I agree, all backers stand more of a chance of
  27283. getting redress if all dissatisfied backers raise their concerns
  27284. with Manchester Trading Standards, Manchester Evening News and the
  27285. Insolvancy Service. In addition, I think all dissatisfied backers
  27286. should notify BBC Watchdog
  27287. (https://ssl.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05vx18b/contact) – they are a
  27288. powerful consumer program in the UK who may consider alleged
  27289. internet scams topical. I think the BBC would be interested in the
  27290. links with MMU.
  27291.  
  27292.  
  27293.  
  27294.  
  27295. Nikolai Tesla
  27296.  
  27297. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> over 1 year ago
  27298.  
  27299. @jrodgers31 – Thank you for the additional information in regards to
  27300. News Desk and the Manchester Trading Standards. I will pursue both
  27301. in order to submit complaints against MR. SHEHBAZ AFZAL. I have
  27302. already submitted a investigation request with The Insolvency
  27303. Service. They have responded with acknowledgment of receiving my
  27304. request. Moving forward in order to bring light into this issue. I
  27305. recommend all other backers to do the same.
  27306.  
  27307.  
  27308.  
  27309.  
  27310. Gaston Cardey
  27311.  
  27312. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8821945> over 1 year ago
  27313.  
  27314. Carlos Garcia Conde (hope you speak spanish): Hola, he leido sus
  27315. comentarios y estoy totalmente de acuerdo. Estoy harto de estos
  27316. tipos que a todas luces nos están estafando. No se qué camino tomar
  27317. con esta gente. Tienen 315 libras mías y estoy casi convencido de
  27318. que no las voy a ver de nuevo. Le dejo mi dirección de correo por si
  27319. quiere escribirme e intercambiar ideas gaston.cardeygmail.com.
  27320. To the non-english speaking guys the keywords: scam-lost money-agree
  27321. with Carlos. To WEDG: shame.
  27322.  
  27323.  
  27324.  
  27325.  
  27326. Carlos Garcia Conde
  27327.  
  27328. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4819372> over 1 year ago
  27329.  
  27330. I want a refund, BE SERIOUS
  27331.  
  27332.  
  27333.  
  27334.  
  27335. jrogers31
  27336.  
  27337. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> over 1 year ago
  27338.  
  27339. @ Nikolai Tesla – Another avenue is to write to express your
  27340. concerns to the news desk (newsdesk@men-news.co.uk) of the
  27341. Manchester Evening News who did an article about WEDG on 9 Oct 2014
  27342. (http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/business/butt-firm-wedg-smashes-crowdfunding-7898382),
  27343. which may have prompted people to contribute. Dissatisfied
  27344. contributors could highlight their concerns and perhaps prompt the
  27345. newspaper to do a follow up story and investigate matters in the
  27346. public interest
  27347.  
  27348.  
  27349.  
  27350.  
  27351. jrogers31
  27352.  
  27353. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> over 1 year ago
  27354.  
  27355. @Nikolai Tesla – I think one contributor has already reported to
  27356. companies house – I am not sure if they had any response. I have
  27357. been advised that a complaint to Manchester trading standards would
  27358. also be appropriate
  27359. https://ssl.datamotion.com/form.aspx?co=3438&frm=citacomplainform&to=flare.fromforms
  27360. – A number of dissatisfied contributors would each have to complete
  27361. a form to raise the matter to a priority level with trading standards.
  27362.  
  27363.  
  27364.  
  27365.  
  27366. Francisco Alvarez
  27367.  
  27368. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8814221> over 1 year ago
  27369.  
  27370. Almost one month from the last update… We should be near to the end
  27371. of the conflict, shouldn’t we? PLEASE, UPDATE!
  27372.  
  27373.  
  27374.  
  27375.  
  27376. Nikolai Tesla
  27377.  
  27378. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> over 1 year ago
  27379.  
  27380. @WEDG FUNDERS: You have the right to report this situation to the
  27381. corresponding authorities in the UK so they can investigate:
  27382.  
  27383. The Insolvency Service, Companies House or the Serious Fraud Office.
  27384. More information at:
  27385.  
  27386. https://www.gov.uk/complain-about-a-limited-company
  27387.  
  27388. Here is the required WEDG company information:
  27389.  
  27390. WEDG LTD
  27391. 47 Chorlton Street
  27392. Manchester
  27393. Greater Manchester
  27394. M1 3FY
  27395.  
  27396. Company#08824160
  27397. Director ID: 917334076
  27398. Director: MR SHEHBAZ AFZAL
  27399.  
  27400.  
  27401.  
  27402.  
  27403. jrogers31
  27404.  
  27405. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> over 1 year ago
  27406.  
  27407. @Bryan Walker – Yes you are right an update with some facts would be
  27408. welcome, but isn’t that part of the problem? – updates are
  27409. infrequent and lack verifiable facts, which raise concerns about
  27410. probity. Mr Afzal must be very busy doing something as it has been
  27411. three weeks since the last update. I wonder what he has been doing?
  27412. – perhaps he will tell us sometime soon.
  27413.  
  27414.  
  27415.  
  27416.  
  27417. jrogers31
  27418.  
  27419. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> over 1 year ago
  27420.  
  27421. @Bryan Walker – No, change of address was required due to a rule
  27422. infringement at Innospace “Licensees of Innospace are entitled to
  27423. use the Innospace address as a trading address only.” Note: that the
  27424. new registered address is now at an accountant’s office and accounts
  27425. recently submitted to Companies House for 2014 show: – Total current
  27426. liabilities £61,304.00; Total Current Assets £61,611.00; Net Worth
  27427. £1,187.00; Cash £61,610.00 – ?interesting and ?worrying in equal
  27428. measure. What do you think?
  27429.  
  27430.  
  27431.  
  27432.  
  27433. jrogers31
  27434.  
  27435. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> over 1 year ago
  27436.  
  27437. Registered office address changed from C/O Shehbaz Afzal 47 Chorlton
  27438. Street Manchester M1 3FY to C/O Taxassist Accountants 281 Palatine
  27439. Road Manchester M22 4ET on 21 September 2015
  27440.  
  27441.  
  27442.  
  27443.  
  27444. jrogers31
  27445.  
  27446. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> over 1 year ago
  27447.  
  27448. It appears that recent enquiries to MMU have stimulated recent
  27449. action from Mr Afzal! There have been two changes in registered
  27450. office address on 21 and 29 Sept 2015 and for the first time there
  27451. appears to be evidence of company accounts having been prepared,
  27452. although the latter gives further cause for concern. It will have to
  27453. be examined in more detail but the words ‘tracks’, ‘cover’ and
  27454. ‘trying’ come to mind. See more
  27455. https://companycheck.co.uk/company/08824160/WEDG-LTD/companies-house-docs
  27456.  
  27457.  
  27458.  
  27459.  
  27460. Justin Walton
  27461.  
  27462. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8707801> over 1 year ago
  27463.  
  27464. Almost three weeks since the last update, there must be something
  27465. @Team WEDG could say it they wanted to. Even if it’s just “we’re
  27466. still here, and still discussing the terms of rewriting the code”.
  27467. Almost all my faith in the ability of @Team WEDG to actually produce
  27468. this system has gone. Yes, I have some faith left, if you’ve got a
  27469. high powered microscope, you can just make it out.
  27470.  
  27471. UPDATE PLEASE – NOW
  27472.  
  27473.  
  27474.  
  27475.  
  27476. Carlos Garcia Conde
  27477.  
  27478. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4819372> over 1 year ago
  27479.  
  27480. You told about a refund
  27481. I wrote you FIVE emails and I’m waiting for the refund
  27482. I don’t want the item, I want my money back
  27483. And PLEASE answer my emails, you are and uneducated seller…
  27484.  
  27485.  
  27486.  
  27487.  
  27488. Steven Newman
  27489.  
  27490. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/925661> over 1 year ago
  27491.  
  27492. As I have looked about and found magazine and news site after site
  27493. that had interviewed WEDG, the more convinced I am that this is not
  27494. a scam and although not communicating as often as I would like, that
  27495. they are just doing their best to deal with the legal situation so
  27496. they can move forward and get back to developing WEDG. I’m choosing
  27497. to keep the faith and hope for the best.
  27498.  
  27499.  
  27500.  
  27501.  
  27502. Steven Newman
  27503.  
  27504. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/925661> over 1 year ago
  27505.  
  27506. Communication has always been a bit sporadic with WEDG. Certainly
  27507. there appears to be a camp forming that believe malfeasance may be
  27508. involved. I am not of that mind, but I also don’t have anything
  27509. beyond hope keeping me in the supporter category. I truly believe in
  27510. their vision. There are plenty of remote storage boxes out there.
  27511. I’ve already got a Transporter, etc. What set WEDG aside was
  27512. WEDGnet, and the focus on actual security. I really hope this comes
  27513. through.
  27514.  
  27515.  
  27516.  
  27517.  
  27518. jrogers31
  27519.  
  27520. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> over 1 year ago
  27521.  
  27522. @Bryan Walker – you may be right – unfortunately MMU will not
  27523. disclose any further information and appear to be trying to distance
  27524. themselves from the activities of WEDG. MMU asked Mr Afzal to
  27525. contact me directly as a matter of urgency but I assume that he is
  27526. running scared as MMU say he intends to contact me via Indiegogo!
  27527. With no further updates or communication from WEDG I believe that
  27528. the matter requires further investigation into the whereabouts of
  27529. the £131,537 – these will continue.
  27530.  
  27531.  
  27532.  
  27533.  
  27534. R Kapoor
  27535.  
  27536. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/2078088> over 1 year ago
  27537.  
  27538. Like all others, I too wish we can get this and put this behind us.
  27539. However, I don’t think this is a scam. The collection, GBP 131K, is
  27540. not a huge amount for a professional to earn. It cannot be about
  27541. money. A little pressure can’t hurt though. So yes, an update can help.
  27542.  
  27543.  
  27544.  
  27545.  
  27546. jrogers31
  27547.  
  27548. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  27549.  
  27550. 5/5 I would be grateful if you can confirm that MMU’s Innospace have
  27551. already satisfied themselves that Mr Afzal behaviour and actions to
  27552. date as the Director of WEDG Ltd and as a licensee of Innospace are
  27553. consistent with wording and spirit of the Innospace licence
  27554. agreement and conditions.
  27555.  
  27556. I would also be grateful if you can confirm that none of the funds
  27557. contributed by the backers of WEDG reside in any MMU accounts –
  27558. research or otherwise.
  27559.  
  27560. Many thanks for your help.
  27561.  
  27562. Kind regards
  27563.  
  27564. JR
  27565.  
  27566.  
  27567.  
  27568.  
  27569. jrogers31
  27570.  
  27571. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  27572.  
  27573. 4/5 Although I searched these WebPages I could not find the details
  27574. relating to the Innospace Licence Agreement or the details of the
  27575. Innospace Conditions, to which Mr Afzal must adhere. I would be
  27576. grateful if you can share with me the details relating to the
  27577. Innospace Licence Agreement and Innospace Conditions so that I can
  27578. be better informed.
  27579.  
  27580.  
  27581.  
  27582.  
  27583. jrogers31
  27584.  
  27585. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  27586.  
  27587. 3/5 With regard to the latter I note from the information on this
  27588. link http://www.innospace.co.uk that licensees of Innospace are
  27589. expected to “Adhere to the Innospace licence agreement” “Engage with
  27590. MMU and support available” and “Adhere to the Innospace Conditions”.
  27591.  
  27592.  
  27593.  
  27594.  
  27595. jrogers31
  27596.  
  27597. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  27598.  
  27599. 2/5 I note the contents of your email which defines the relationship
  27600. between MMU and Mr Afzal, in particular -that WEDG Ltd is not
  27601. affiliated with MMU, -that Mr Afzal is an MMU graduate and -that Mr
  27602. Afzal is a licensee of your business incubator, Innospace.
  27603.  
  27604.  
  27605.  
  27606.  
  27607. jrogers31
  27608.  
  27609. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  27610.  
  27611. 1/5 Email sent today -
  27612.  
  27613. Dear Ms Kenworthy
  27614.  
  27615. Thank you for your message. I apologise for the delay in my .
  27616.  
  27617. It is one week since you sent your message and I am sorry to inform
  27618. you that Mr Afzal has not made any attempt to contact me even though
  27619. you asked him to do so “as a matter of urgency”.
  27620.  
  27621.  
  27622.  
  27623.  
  27624. Carlos Garcia Conde
  27625.  
  27626. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4819372> almost 2 years ago
  27627.  
  27628. WEDG = SCAM
  27629. INDIEGOGO = SCAM
  27630. I’ve wrote a LOT of emails and no answer
  27631.  
  27632. I WANT A REFUND NOW
  27633.  
  27634.  
  27635.  
  27636.  
  27637. MARC-ANDRE RUNCIE-UNGER
  27638.  
  27639. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/5105783> almost 2 years ago
  27640.  
  27641. taking to indiegogo doesn’t work at all either. they told me it has
  27642. nothing to do with them and blocked me from further messaging them
  27643. on facebook…
  27644.  
  27645.  
  27646.  
  27647.  
  27648. Ron Ko
  27649.  
  27650. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8444779> almost 2 years ago
  27651.  
  27652. Indiegogo is definitely a crowdfunding platform without
  27653. corresponding due diligent control. The campaign can sell pirate
  27654. product. It’s amazing that IGG is willing to manage complaint from
  27655. the campaign but no response for any pirate product report.
  27656.  
  27657. For WEDG, I am not surprised of IGG zero response even if it’s
  27658. reported. It’s appreciated so much for you guys effort to fight for
  27659. what we deserve, from backers perspective.
  27660.  
  27661.  
  27662.  
  27663.  
  27664. Scott McQueen
  27665.  
  27666. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8443500> almost 2 years ago
  27667.  
  27668. I’m actually quite disappointed that there has been no involvement
  27669. from Indiegogo, surely they must be aware of the situation due to
  27670. the comments made here. Maybe they just take their cut and be done
  27671. with it!
  27672.  
  27673. This was my first venture into crowdfunding, will definitely be my last!
  27674.  
  27675.  
  27676.  
  27677.  
  27678. M K
  27679.  
  27680. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8914705> almost 2 years ago
  27681.  
  27682. The complete absence of ANY from WEDG, does not feel any good.
  27683.  
  27684. Are we getting scammed here?
  27685.  
  27686.  
  27687.  
  27688.  
  27689. Ron Ko
  27690.  
  27691. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8444779> almost 2 years ago
  27692.  
  27693. Thanks jrogers31 for this amazing update.
  27694.  
  27695.  
  27696.  
  27697.  
  27698. jrogers31
  27699.  
  27700. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  27701.  
  27702. 3/3
  27703. According to Companies House records, WEDG Limited’s current
  27704. registered office address is detailed as being at the old MMU
  27705. Innospace premises. Licensees of Innospace are entitled to use the
  27706. Innospace address as a trading address only.
  27707.  
  27708. I hope you resolve any issues you may have with WEDG Ltd as soon as
  27709. possible.
  27710.  
  27711. Thank you.
  27712. Kind regards,
  27713. Louise"
  27714.  
  27715. I am still awaiting a direct response from Mr Afzal as outlined in
  27716. the message above and I will update you further as enquiries
  27717. continue. JR
  27718.  
  27719.  
  27720.  
  27721.  
  27722. jrogers31
  27723.  
  27724. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  27725.  
  27726. 2/3
  27727.  
  27728. MMU does not endorse any of the businesses in the incubator and none
  27729. of the businesses are affiliated with the university. They are all
  27730. private businesses and Innospace provides a supportive space for
  27731. pre-start and early stage businesses to help them to grow and develop.
  27732.  
  27733.  
  27734.  
  27735.  
  27736. jrogers31
  27737.  
  27738. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  27739.  
  27740. 1/3 Here is the I received from MMU today 21 Sept 2015 -
  27741.  
  27742. “Dear Mr Rogers,
  27743.  
  27744. Further to my email on Friday, thank you for your email and for
  27745. bringing this issue to my attention. I have contacted Mr Shehbaz
  27746. Afzal and have asked him to contact you as a matter of urgency. WEDG
  27747. is not affiliated to The Manchester Metropolitan University (“MMU”);
  27748. Shehbaz Afzal is an MMU graduate and a licensee of our business
  27749. incubator, Innospace.
  27750.  
  27751.  
  27752.  
  27753.  
  27754. Peter Dalmaris
  27755.  
  27756. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/7104926> almost 2 years ago
  27757.  
  27758. @jrogers31 and @Nikolai Tesla, thumbs up for your efforts.
  27759.  
  27760.  
  27761.  
  27762.  
  27763. Carlos Garcia Conde
  27764.  
  27765. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4819372> almost 2 years ago
  27766.  
  27767. I’m still waiting for refund and for the answer about my 5 or 6 emails…
  27768. You’re not a serious person
  27769. REFUND NOW!
  27770.  
  27771.  
  27772.  
  27773.  
  27774. M K
  27775.  
  27776. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8914705> almost 2 years ago
  27777.  
  27778. i’m still waiting for a full refund.
  27779.  
  27780.  
  27781.  
  27782.  
  27783. jrogers31
  27784.  
  27785. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  27786.  
  27787. Thank you – I will share more information when I get it. If you do
  27788. not hear from me then it will be safe for you to assume that I have
  27789. been blocked from posting (2 times already!). In which case contact
  27790. me at www.gordcentre.org so that the information can be shared with
  27791. those backers that want to know what is going on.
  27792.  
  27793.  
  27794.  
  27795.  
  27796. Nikolai Tesla
  27797.  
  27798. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> almost 2 years ago
  27799.  
  27800. @jrogers31: Thank you for checking with management at Mr. Afzal’s
  27801. place of “work” and/or “study”. It has been one of the best
  27802. encouragement information we have all received for a very long time.
  27803. Hopefully they will shed light into this nonsense.
  27804.  
  27805.  
  27806.  
  27807.  
  27808. spencer robinson
  27809.  
  27810. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/9152571> almost 2 years ago
  27811.  
  27812. @jrogers31 Good work, cant wait the hear the response
  27813.  
  27814.  
  27815.  
  27816.  
  27817. Justin Walton
  27818.  
  27819. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8707801> almost 2 years ago
  27820.  
  27821. @jrogers31 – Thank-you! On behalf of all the backers who have been
  27822. wanting some concise information on where this project is going,
  27823. thank-you.
  27824. I look forward to reading an update with tangible detail in due
  27825. course. It’s a shame this will probably not be from @Team WEDG
  27826. itself, but from you.
  27827.  
  27828.  
  27829.  
  27830.  
  27831. jrogers31
  27832.  
  27833. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  27834.  
  27835. 8/8 And here is their : -
  27836.  
  27837. Dear Mr Rogers,
  27838.  
  27839. Thank your email and apologies for the email sent last night, that
  27840. was meant for a colleague.
  27841. I am due to meet with Shehbaz Afzal today and have sent this matter
  27842. to our Legal Team.
  27843. I will send a more detailed response once I know more shortly.
  27844.  
  27845. Thank you.
  27846. Kind regards,
  27847.  
  27848. Louise
  27849.  
  27850.  
  27851.  
  27852.  
  27853. jrogers31
  27854.  
  27855. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  27856.  
  27857. 7/8 I am also copying this email to your colleagues at Innospace and
  27858. Mr Rod Humphreys Head of the Department of Marketing, Operations and
  27859. Digital Business.
  27860.  
  27861. Thank you for your help with my enquiries.
  27862.  
  27863. JR
  27864.  
  27865.  
  27866.  
  27867.  
  27868. jrogers31
  27869.  
  27870. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  27871.  
  27872. 6/8 I would be grateful if you can confirm that Mr Afzal’s business
  27873. is still active at the 47 Chorlton Street address and I would be
  27874. further grateful if you can confirm that he still frequents the
  27875. building.
  27876.  
  27877. Some backers are concerned to learn the whereabouts of their funds
  27878. and preparation is being made to inform the appropriate authorities
  27879. to look into the activities of this company (WEDG) and its director
  27880. (Mr Shehbaz Afzal).
  27881.  
  27882.  
  27883.  
  27884.  
  27885. jrogers31
  27886.  
  27887. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  27888.  
  27889. 5/8 If you wish to gauge the sentiments of the backers in Mr Afzal’s
  27890. business (WEDG) to which Innospace is associated by providing office
  27891. space then all you need to do is to click on this link
  27892. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/wedg-the-personal-butt-you-ve-been-waiting-for/x/8764397#/comments,
  27893. which provides you with the necessary information.
  27894.  
  27895.  
  27896.  
  27897.  
  27898. jrogers31
  27899.  
  27900. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  27901.  
  27902. 4/8 Indeed there is a link on the Manchester Metropolitan University
  27903. indicating Mr Afzal’s close association with the MMU Business &
  27904. Information Technology department.
  27905. http://www.mmu.ac.uk/news/news-items/2946/
  27906.  
  27907.  
  27908.  
  27909.  
  27910. jrogers31
  27911.  
  27912. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  27913.  
  27914. 3/8
  27915.  
  27916. I presume that Mr Afzal must have some connection with the
  27917. Manchester Metropolitan University to be able to set up his business
  27918. at your address, in which case I am very concerned. One would expect
  27919. the highest standards of behaviour and probity from a member of a
  27920. University and particularly one located in a major provincial city
  27921. such as Manchester.
  27922.  
  27923.  
  27924.  
  27925.  
  27926. jrogers31
  27927.  
  27928. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  27929.  
  27930. 2/8 The reason for my investigation is as a result of unsatisfactory
  27931. responses to very reasonable enquiries from backers of this business
  27932. as to the whereabouts of the funds contributed by backers totalling
  27933. £131,537.00. Backers are also unhappy with the unsatisfactory
  27934. updates and progress reports from Mr Afzal which are completely
  27935. lacking in transparency.
  27936.  
  27937.  
  27938.  
  27939.  
  27940. jrogers31
  27941.  
  27942. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  27943.  
  27944. 1/8 OK – here goes!
  27945.  
  27946. Dear Ms Kenworthy,
  27947.  
  27948. I spoke to Sandra today as part of my investigation into the
  27949. activities of Mr Shehbaz Afzal who is running a start up business
  27950. WEDG Ltd within your (Innospace) premises on 47 Chorlton Street
  27951. Manchester. Sandra suggested I email you for further information.
  27952.  
  27953.  
  27954.  
  27955.  
  27956. jrogers31
  27957.  
  27958. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  27959.  
  27960. This is a test comment – Indiegogo have been blocking me from
  27961. sharing information with other backers.
  27962.  
  27963.  
  27964.  
  27965.  
  27966. M K
  27967.  
  27968. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8914705> almost 2 years ago
  27969.  
  27970. I still hope the WEDG is real and not like this scam:
  27971. http://kickscammed.com/project/storm-brewing/
  27972.  
  27973. The John Atherton will never get a job anywhere in the world, other
  27974. than cleaning toilets.
  27975.  
  27976.  
  27977.  
  27978.  
  27979. Nikolai Tesla
  27980.  
  27981. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> almost 2 years ago
  27982.  
  27983. 2 of 2: To report a complaint in the United States -
  27984.  
  27985. http://oag.ca.gov/contact/consumer-complaint-against-business-or-company
  27986. https://www.dca.ca.gov/webapps/cru/gencomplaint.php
  27987. https://www.usa.gov/consumer-complaints#item-35997
  27988. http://www.bbb.org/
  27989. https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov
  27990. http://www.econsumer.gov/english/ (if your transaction was with a
  27991. foreign retailer as WEDG LTD)
  27992.  
  27993. WEDG LTD/Mr. Shehbaz Afzal need to resolve this situation promptly
  27994. without any further delays.
  27995.  
  27996.  
  27997.  
  27998.  
  27999. Nikolai Tesla
  28000.  
  28001. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> almost 2 years ago
  28002.  
  28003. 1 of 2: From jrogers31 last post it surely appears that he has been
  28004. blocked from posting once again. We are touching a nerve here and
  28005. WEDG LTD/Mr. Shehbaz Afzal does not like it. I highly suggest to all
  28006. WEDG backers to submit a “policy violation report” with Indiegogo,
  28007. UK authorities (The Insolvency Service, Companies House or the
  28008. Serious Fraud Office), and/or to the following authorities in the
  28009. U.S.A. before I get silenced, for the second time, again:
  28010.  
  28011.  
  28012.  
  28013.  
  28014. M K
  28015.  
  28016. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8914705> almost 2 years ago
  28017.  
  28018. I think it better for WEDG to just give most backers a refund
  28019. immediately in order to prevent severe legal issues.
  28020.  
  28021.  
  28022.  
  28023.  
  28024. jrogers31
  28025.  
  28026. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  28027.  
  28028. @Nikolai Tesla above – Yes I have been blocked by Indiegogo – I have
  28029. some important information to share following my investigations here
  28030. in the UK. Indiegogo have no right to prevent me from informing the
  28031. backers – If backers would like me to post the information here then
  28032. please complain to Indiegogo.
  28033.  
  28034. Alternatively you can find my contact details at www.gordcentre.org
  28035.  
  28036. For US based backers US government is really hot on wire fraud and
  28037. Indiegogo have exposed themselves by blocking comments JR
  28038.  
  28039.  
  28040.  
  28041.  
  28042. jrogers31
  28043.  
  28044. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  28045.  
  28046. 1/6 Email to Innospace MMU – I spoke to Sandra today as part of my
  28047. investigation into the activities of Mr Shehbaz Afzal who is running
  28048. a start up business WEDG Ltd within your (Innospace) premises on 47
  28049. Chorlton Street Manchester. Sandra suggested I email you for further
  28050. information. The reason for my investigation is as a result of
  28051. unsatisfactory responses to very reasonable enquiries from backers
  28052. of this business as to the whereabouts of the funds contributed by
  28053. backers totalling £131,537.00.
  28054.  
  28055.  
  28056.  
  28057.  
  28058. jrogers31
  28059.  
  28060. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  28061.  
  28062. 4/4 There is no reason legal or otherwise why you cannot disclose
  28063. the name of -your business insurer, -the firm of lawyers your
  28064. business insurer has hired along with a statement from the lawyer on
  28065. their headed paper confirming that they are dealing with the matter
  28066. of the software contested by a third party. Your lawyers will not
  28067. have to disclose any confidential details of the dispute. If you
  28068. fail to do any or all of the above then the conclusion will be
  28069. obvious to all.
  28070.  
  28071.  
  28072.  
  28073.  
  28074. jrogers31
  28075.  
  28076. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  28077.  
  28078. 3/4 Unless you come clean now with a completely transparent and
  28079. signed statement from your lawyers indicating the situation
  28080. regarding all the questions raised about your hardware, tooling,
  28081. software and statement of accounts regarding backers funds one can
  28082. only conclude that you are running a scampaign and not a campaign.
  28083.  
  28084.  
  28085.  
  28086.  
  28087. jrogers31
  28088.  
  28089. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  28090.  
  28091. 2/4 Lets assume for the moment that you are genuine, you see this
  28092. project through and fulfil your obligation to deliver functioning
  28093. units and other perks to backers. Can you not appreciate that your
  28094. appalling communication skills, lack of insight and behaviour to
  28095. date is going to render null and void your future chances of a
  28096. successful business.
  28097.  
  28098.  
  28099.  
  28100.  
  28101. jrogers31
  28102.  
  28103. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  28104.  
  28105. 1/4 @Team WEDG – it appears to me that your recent ‘update’ has been
  28106. done only to satisfy Indiegogo that you are communication with the
  28107. backers. As regards the content of the update – my response is “So
  28108. what”. When are you going to answer the very reasonable questions
  28109. from backers like @Gordon Keys for information about the hardware
  28110. and tooling etc or the questions about the whereabouts of the
  28111. backers funds and a statement of accounts?
  28112.  
  28113.  
  28114.  
  28115.  
  28116. Peter Dalmaris
  28117.  
  28118. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/7104926> almost 2 years ago
  28119.  
  28120. @jrogers31 Thank you for all your work – I have submitted my policy
  28121. violation report to Indiegogo.
  28122.  
  28123.  
  28124.  
  28125.  
  28126. spencer robinson
  28127.  
  28128. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/9152571> almost 2 years ago
  28129.  
  28130. Nikolai Tesla – Just submitted “policy violation report” to indiegogo
  28131.  
  28132. I just logged one as well
  28133.  
  28134.  
  28135.  
  28136.  
  28137. Nikolai Tesla
  28138.  
  28139. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> almost 2 years ago
  28140.  
  28141. The links for the state of California would be to report Indiegogo
  28142. if they do not assist on investigating WEDG LTD against being a scam
  28143. or not. The other links could be used to report WEDG LTD in the
  28144. United States.
  28145.  
  28146.  
  28147.  
  28148.  
  28149. Nikolai Tesla
  28150.  
  28151. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> almost 2 years ago
  28152.  
  28153. Did some research and found the following:
  28154.  
  28155. http://oag.ca.gov/contact/consumer-complaint-against-business-or-company
  28156.  
  28157. https://www.dca.ca.gov/webapps/cru/gencomplaint.php
  28158.  
  28159. https://www.usa.gov/consumer-complaints#item-35997
  28160.  
  28161. http://www.bbb.org/
  28162.  
  28163. https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov
  28164.  
  28165. http://www.econsumer.gov/english/ (if your purchase was with a
  28166. foreign retailer.)
  28167.  
  28168.  
  28169.  
  28170.  
  28171. Nikolai Tesla
  28172.  
  28173. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> almost 2 years ago
  28174.  
  28175. Just submitted “policy violation report” to indiegogo. Does anyone
  28176. know to whom we could report this in the United States of America?
  28177. More pressure could be obtained if we also report it in the U.S.A.
  28178. since Indiegogo HQ is located in San Francisco, California.
  28179.  
  28180.  
  28181.  
  28182.  
  28183. jrogers31
  28184.  
  28185. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  28186.  
  28187. Just sent this to Indiegogo as ‘policy violation report’
  28188.  
  28189. Alleged scampaign WEDG no activity from campaign owner for 10 months?
  28190.  
  28191. See recent comments regarding this campaign – can you confirm that
  28192. you are in regular contact with the campaign owner? Can you reassure
  28193. backers that the campaign owner has not absconded with the backers
  28194. funds? It is time for you to properly investigate and send a report
  28195. to ALL backers.
  28196.  
  28197. If any other backers support this – please repeat the reporting process.
  28198.  
  28199.  
  28200.  
  28201.  
  28202. jrogers31
  28203.  
  28204. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  28205.  
  28206. Even more amusing is the reassurance from Indiegogo on this page
  28207. https://www.indiegogo.com/trust
  28208.  
  28209. Where you can read more about their
  28210.  
  28211. Fraud Detection Algorithm
  28212. Community Reporting
  28213. Trust & Safety Team
  28214.  
  28215.  
  28216.  
  28217.  
  28218. Gordon Keys
  28219.  
  28220. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8335278> almost 2 years ago
  28221.  
  28222. Amusing. Just took a look at Shehbaz activity page on Indiegogo and
  28223. his last response was 10 months ago! WTF!
  28224.  
  28225. Are you somewhere sunny?
  28226.  
  28227.  
  28228.  
  28229.  
  28230. jrogers31
  28231.  
  28232. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  28233.  
  28234. @Gordon Keys – I will be surprised if you get a sensible answer to
  28235. all your very reasonable points and observations regarding previous
  28236. and current information from WEDG and the inconsistencies in the so
  28237. called facts contained in the updates. Perhaps a large number of
  28238. dissatisfied backers need to make a direct complaint to Indiegogo
  28239. asking for a review of this campaign as it would be sad if more
  28240. unsuspecting backers make contributions to this campaign.
  28241.  
  28242.  
  28243.  
  28244.  
  28245. Gordon Keys
  28246.  
  28247. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8335278> almost 2 years ago
  28248.  
  28249. Shehbaz
  28250.  
  28251. I’ve emailed the below to you so that you don’t miss it, as I
  28252. suspect you’ve stopped looking at the comments page sometime ago!
  28253.  
  28254. Shame
  28255.  
  28256.  
  28257.  
  28258.  
  28259. Gordon Keys
  28260.  
  28261. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8335278> almost 2 years ago
  28262.  
  28263. Shehbaz 3/3
  28264.  
  28265. I’ve asked this before but what has happened to the mediation? Is
  28266. this no longer being used by team WEDG?
  28267. Much of what you’ve updated here is just a rehash of what has gone
  28268. before. What is the plan regarding the refunds? Will you give any?
  28269. Why poll us if you don’t then intend to carry this thru?
  28270. Why aren’t Chris or better still you, signing off on these updates?
  28271. It is Just a faceless Team WEDG at the end of the messages. I find
  28272. that disconcerting!
  28273.  
  28274.  
  28275.  
  28276.  
  28277. Gordon Keys
  28278.  
  28279. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8335278> almost 2 years ago
  28280.  
  28281. Shehbaz 2/3
  28282.  
  28283. I realise that much of the hardware is off the shelf so we don’t
  28284. have to worry about that. It’s just an order away.
  28285.  
  28286. What items are need to be manufactured? I guess the cases would be.
  28287. Has the tooling been manufactured? We’ve seen the picture of part of
  28288. the case. Was this a 3D printed prototype or something produced
  28289. using a completed tool? How long will it take to produce the cases?
  28290. I’ve asked this a couple of times before and no-one has answered
  28291. this BIG question.
  28292.  
  28293.  
  28294.  
  28295.  
  28296. Gordon Keys
  28297.  
  28298. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8335278> almost 2 years ago
  28299.  
  28300. Shehbaz 1/3
  28301.  
  28302. I am pleased to see a new update and it does give a me glimmer of
  28303. hope that things may move forward. Does it answer many of the
  28304. burning questions that have been added here on the comments page? No.
  28305.  
  28306. We know about the code issue. We know you can’t be particularly
  28307. transparent about that due to legal reasons. The section of code to
  28308. be rewritten could take 3-6 months I would guess once a line in the
  28309. sand has been drawn from where to rewrite from.
  28310.  
  28311.  
  28312.  
  28313.  
  28314. jrogers31
  28315.  
  28316. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  28317.  
  28318. 3/3 If Shehbaz and WEDG are genuine then they should be very
  28319. concerned about the comments and sentiments expressed here by
  28320. backers and take them seriously. The responses and updates we
  28321. receive appear to show complete lack of concern about the backers
  28322. and their opinions. If one had taken a sum of £131,537.00 from a
  28323. number of people who contributed in good faith and failed to deliver
  28324. – I imagine that the only way one could feel comfortable was if one
  28325. was a resident outside the E.U. or U.S.A.
  28326.  
  28327.  
  28328.  
  28329.  
  28330. jrogers31
  28331.  
  28332. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  28333.  
  28334. 2/2 In dealing with WEDG in the UK – some or all of the UK backers
  28335. who want a refund could act as a group and issue a statutory demand
  28336. for the funds they contributed. It would help if the total amont of
  28337. the demand was high – this would depend on number of backers and the
  28338. amounts contributed. If payment was not received within 21 days then
  28339. the company can be wound up – this and the reports to the insolvency
  28340. service would trigger an investigation with serious consequences for
  28341. the WEDG director(s)
  28342.  
  28343.  
  28344.  
  28345.  
  28346. jrogers31
  28347.  
  28348. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  28349.  
  28350. 1/2 I have complained on more than one occasion to Indiegogo about
  28351. the WEDG campaign and drawn their attention to the lack of
  28352. transparancy (one of Indiegogo’s requirements of campaign owners)
  28353. and the alleged hallmarks of a scampaign. I have also drawn
  28354. Indiegogo’s attention to the fact that they are at risk under US
  28355. State and Federal laws in assisting in alleged online fraudulent
  28356. activity. The latter would probably require the assistance of a US
  28357. backer to report the matter to US authorities.
  28358.  
  28359.  
  28360.  
  28361.  
  28362. M K
  28363.  
  28364. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8914705> almost 2 years ago
  28365.  
  28366. has anyone contacted Indiegogo regarding the NON-delivery of the
  28367. WEDG and the NON-delivery of real status information?
  28368.  
  28369.  
  28370.  
  28371.  
  28372. Justin Walton
  28373.  
  28374. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8707801> almost 2 years ago
  28375.  
  28376. Does anyone else remember when @Team WEDG used to to comments
  28377. posted? While their legal team reads the proposal (at £250/hour),
  28378. they ought to have time to actually talk to us person to person.
  28379.  
  28380. I suspect the team has shrunk, possibly to one. I think I remember a
  28381. comment that they weren’t drawing salaries. How long would we work
  28382. for nothing on a stalled project?
  28383.  
  28384. @Bryan Walker, OpenProducts OPI Box looks like it could be a worthy
  28385. replacement for the WEDG. Thank-you for that information!
  28386.  
  28387.  
  28388.  
  28389.  
  28390. Peter Dalmaris
  28391.  
  28392. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/7104926> almost 2 years ago
  28393.  
  28394. I have already made a formal request for an investigation by The
  28395. Insolvency Service. They have confirmed receipt of my request.
  28396.  
  28397. I have already made a formal request to WEDG asking for a refunds.
  28398. Radio silence on that.
  28399.  
  28400. The latest update from WEDG offers a glimmer of hope that things
  28401. will go back to normal, but nothing concrete and verifiable. That’s
  28402. a common tactic used by fraudsters.
  28403.  
  28404.  
  28405.  
  28406.  
  28407. Nikolai Tesla
  28408.  
  28409. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> almost 2 years ago
  28410.  
  28411. @Team WEDG: Formally I am requesting my contribution to be refunded
  28412. promptly.
  28413.  
  28414. @WEDG Backers: To help out in this matter you have the option to
  28415. have this situation formally investigated by UK authorities (The
  28416. Insolvency Service, Companies House or the Serious Fraud Office).
  28417. This act will clear things that Team WEDG has not been able to
  28418. comply. There is no harm done if they are legit and it will not
  28419. delay this project more than it actually is at this moment.
  28420.  
  28421.  
  28422.  
  28423.  
  28424. jrogers31
  28425.  
  28426. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  28427.  
  28428. @Team WEDG – yet another update which gives very little further
  28429. information and summarises what you have told us before. Please
  28430. disclose the whereabouts of the funds that backers contributed with
  28431. a statement of accounts. Please confirm that you have spent little
  28432. or none of the backers funds. After all you have bought nothing,
  28433. built nothing and stored nothing so it follows that you have spent
  28434. nothing and your insurance pays the fees for your less than able
  28435. lawyers. It is time to send out refunds.
  28436.  
  28437.  
  28438.  
  28439.  
  28440. Gordon Keys
  28441.  
  28442. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8335278> almost 2 years ago
  28443.  
  28444. @Bryan & @David – Many thanks for your suggestions. I am swaying
  28445. towards the Synology DiskStation DS115j 2 × 1 TB that’ll perhaps
  28446. suit my needs. I hope i’ll the UI on the iPhone, tablet and PC is up
  28447. to scratch and I can pool everything i need onto one location. My
  28448. back-up requirements are mainly photos, video and a bit of music
  28449. back up of some old CDs.
  28450.  
  28451.  
  28452.  
  28453.  
  28454. Gaston Cardey
  28455.  
  28456. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8821945> almost 2 years ago
  28457.  
  28458. Hi, everyone,
  28459. I don’t know what was the point of creating a poll to ask backers
  28460. whether to choose a refund or wait if WEDG won’t do anything with
  28461. the results.
  28462. I you ask me if I want a refund and I say “yes”, then give me my
  28463. money, ok?
  28464. Finish with this torture (both for you and us who want out). I see
  28465. everyday goes by and nothing happend.
  28466. Message to other backers: please respect my opinion as I respect
  28467. yours and please don’t say to me “this is not Amazon”. All of us
  28468. know that. Really.
  28469.  
  28470.  
  28471.  
  28472.  
  28473. jrogers31
  28474.  
  28475. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  28476.  
  28477. It appears that Shehbaz does not want to communicate with some or
  28478. all of the backers of the WEDG project. One way to lance this
  28479. festering carbuncle of a situation would be to issue a statutory
  28480. demand for the refund of our contributions. If not settled within 21
  28481. days then WEDG could be wound up with an investigation into what has
  28482. been done with the funds of £131,537!
  28483.  
  28484. It really is time for Shehbaz to fulfill his responsibilites to the
  28485. backers, tell us the truth and refund the money.
  28486.  
  28487.  
  28488.  
  28489.  
  28490. Nikolai Tesla
  28491.  
  28492. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> almost 2 years ago
  28493.  
  28494. @M K: Thank you for sharing that story but sadly Indiegogo does not
  28495. have that particular policy that KickStarter has. If it did, we
  28496. would have received our refund months ago. Our solution is to use
  28497. legal options in the UK.
  28498.  
  28499. @Bryan Walker: Thank you for sharing the OpenProducts OPI box, that
  28500. is a very nice and almost complete replacement for the WEDG. Why did
  28501. you back WEDG if OpenProducts OPI box existed? I am also looking
  28502. into QNAP TS-453 or Synology DiskStation DS715 along with the OPI box.
  28503.  
  28504.  
  28505.  
  28506.  
  28507. M K
  28508.  
  28509. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8914705> almost 2 years ago
  28510.  
  28511. Please have a look at this news:
  28512.  
  28513. http://www.geekwire.com/2014/attorney-general-asylum-playing-cards-crowdfunded-project/
  28514.  
  28515. http://nwnewsnetwork.org/post/strange-twist-asylum-playing-cards-crowdfunding-case
  28516.  
  28517. http://www.atg.wa.gov/news/news-releases/ag-makes-crowdfunded-company-pay-shady-deal
  28518.  
  28519. These guys got a big penalty for failing to deliver the Kickstarter
  28520. project.
  28521.  
  28522.  
  28523.  
  28524.  
  28525. David Aldred
  28526.  
  28527. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> almost 2 years ago
  28528.  
  28529. @Gordon,
  28530. I’ve just bought a Synology NAS (DS414)
  28531.  
  28532. You get the ‘access anywhere butt sync’, you can configure it as a
  28533. mail server ( I don’t need this particular feature as I have a
  28534. hosted server for this), I also have it setup as a Plex media
  28535. server, I can share links publicly with passwords / expiry dates
  28536. etc, and can handle encrypted volumes
  28537.  
  28538. Possibly not quite as secure as Wedg is/was aiming to be, but I’m
  28539. very pleased with how the management OS has matured in the last 12
  28540. months.
  28541.  
  28542.  
  28543.  
  28544.  
  28545. Nikolai Tesla
  28546.  
  28547. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> almost 2 years ago
  28548.  
  28549. @jrogers31: No, you are not alone on this request. I do request the
  28550. same. Sadly I no longer trust WEDG at all and IF they do pull
  28551. through (major doubt) I would rather sell off (at the same price)
  28552. this item to one of the supporters here. WEDG has no professional
  28553. work ethics and much less willing to provide customer satisfaction
  28554. now and/or in the future (if the case). I just demand a refund and
  28555. have them carry on if they please otherwise I will continue to look
  28556. for more legal solutions.
  28557.  
  28558.  
  28559.  
  28560.  
  28561. jrogers31
  28562.  
  28563. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  28564.  
  28565. Own-mailbox seems to offer part of what WEDG intended but we get no
  28566. assurance or communication from Shehbaz to suggest that WEDG is
  28567. going to progress. Under these circumstances additions to
  28568. Own-mailbox would be a NAS with iTwin (file access) for remote
  28569. access encrypted personal butt storage and Surfeasy or iTwin connect
  28570. for encrypted VPN browsing. Am I the only one who thinks that
  28571. Shehbaz should make a clear and unambiguous statement of his
  28572. intentions with WEDG and the whereabouts of our funds?
  28573.  
  28574.  
  28575.  
  28576.  
  28577. M K
  28578.  
  28579. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8914705> almost 2 years ago
  28580.  
  28581. @Spencer Robinson: thanks for the link to the Own-Mailbox project.
  28582.  
  28583. It looks that the WEDG just became obsolete.
  28584.  
  28585. When will I receive my refund?
  28586.  
  28587.  
  28588.  
  28589.  
  28590. jrogers31
  28591.  
  28592. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  28593.  
  28594. Shehbaz – please make a clear unambiguous statement to backers
  28595. confirming that there are no fundamental hardware, software or other
  28596. issues, which will prevent further progress in the production of
  28597. WEDG. Give us a firm time-line for the rewritting of the disputed
  28598. software and delivery of the finished and fully functioning units.
  28599. Please make a detailed statement about the whereabouts of the funds.
  28600. If you are unable to make such statements then please refund all the
  28601. backers that requested a refund.
  28602.  
  28603.  
  28604.  
  28605.  
  28606. spencer robinson
  28607.  
  28608. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/9152571> almost 2 years ago
  28609.  
  28610. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1547898916/own-mailbox-the-first-100-confidential-mailbox?ref=popular
  28611.  
  28612. and they have actually open sourced their product, something else
  28613. that has gone very quiet with the wedg team
  28614.  
  28615.  
  28616.  
  28617.  
  28618. jrogers31
  28619.  
  28620. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  28621.  
  28622. Backers should not write-off their funds – there are legal remedies
  28623. in the UK to deal with WEDG and legal remedies (State and Federal)
  28624. in the US to deal with Indiegogo. Indiegogo started to focus when
  28625. this was pointed out to them
  28626. https://support.indiegogo.com/hc/en-us/requests/757300
  28627. The updates are evidence as are WEDG’s dealings with the “third
  28628. party” which would have to be disclosed if backers seek a legal
  28629. remedy. If funds have been misused then WEDG and their directors
  28630. would be liable.
  28631.  
  28632.  
  28633.  
  28634.  
  28635. Gordon Keys
  28636.  
  28637. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8335278> almost 2 years ago
  28638.  
  28639. @David Aldred: What was the more established device? I have also
  28640. almost written off the WEDG and my money and need to find something
  28641. else.
  28642.  
  28643.  
  28644.  
  28645.  
  28646. Nikolai Tesla
  28647.  
  28648. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> almost 2 years ago
  28649.  
  28650. Per The Insolvency Service: “One possible outcome of our
  28651. investigations, however, is that the company complained about may be
  28652. wound up by the court on the
  28653. petition of this department. In that event there is quite often some
  28654. publicity surrounding the matter, particularly in the local area.”
  28655.  
  28656.  
  28657.  
  28658.  
  28659. Nikolai Tesla
  28660.  
  28661. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> almost 2 years ago
  28662.  
  28663. @MK: Per T.I.S.: “This requirement for confidentiality at all stages
  28664. extends even to communications with complainants themselves. We
  28665. cannot tell you
  28666. what action, if any, we intend to take in response to your
  28667. complaint. Nor can we provide you with updates at any point.”
  28668.  
  28669.  
  28670.  
  28671.  
  28672. Nikolai Tesla
  28673.  
  28674. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> almost 2 years ago
  28675.  
  28676. 2 of 2
  28677. @WEDG FUNDERS: You have the right to report this situation to the
  28678. corresponding authorities in the UK so they can investigate:
  28679.  
  28680. The Insolvency Service, Companies House or the Serious Fraud Office.
  28681. More information at:
  28682.  
  28683. https://www.gov.uk/complain-about-a-limited-company
  28684.  
  28685. Here is the required WEDG company information:
  28686.  
  28687. WEDG LTD
  28688. 47 Chorlton Street
  28689. Manchester
  28690. Greater Manchester
  28691. M1 3FY
  28692.  
  28693. Company#08824160
  28694. Director ID: 917334076
  28695. Director: MR SHEHBAZ AFZAL
  28696.  
  28697.  
  28698.  
  28699.  
  28700. Nikolai Tesla
  28701.  
  28702. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> almost 2 years ago
  28703.  
  28704. 1 of 2
  28705. @WEDG FUNDERS: A way you can help WEDG by reporting them to the
  28706. authorities in the UK. Here is how it works, if WEDG is legit the
  28707. authorities will confirm that it so and if they are not, then they
  28708. will be held liable for their actions. Both outcomes will bring the
  28709. long delayed resolution to this fiasco to all of us no matter if you
  28710. support them or not.
  28711.  
  28712.  
  28713.  
  28714.  
  28715. Nikolai Tesla
  28716.  
  28717. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> almost 2 years ago
  28718.  
  28719. 09/09/2015: Finally I am able to post again! It is dubious as for
  28720. the timing and specific funders that were unable to post here. It
  28721. definitely gives a bad reputation to both Indiegogo and WEDG.
  28722.  
  28723.  
  28724.  
  28725.  
  28726. M K
  28727.  
  28728. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8914705> almost 2 years ago
  28729.  
  28730. Any update on the Insolvency Office?
  28731.  
  28732.  
  28733.  
  28734.  
  28735. David Aldred
  28736.  
  28737. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> almost 2 years ago
  28738.  
  28739. 2/2
  28740. Sadly, I’ve pretty much ‘written off’ the money I put in. With no
  28741. end date in sight, I had to fill the requirement I had that led me
  28742. to investing in this.
  28743.  
  28744. Tech has moved on in the last 12 months, and what is on the market
  28745. now more than completes with what Wedg was offering, and so have
  28746. gone with a more established device.
  28747.  
  28748. Of course, if Wedg materializes I’ll be giving it a go, but it’ll be
  28749. a ‘bonus’ rather than my expectation :(
  28750.  
  28751.  
  28752.  
  28753.  
  28754. David Aldred
  28755.  
  28756. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> almost 2 years ago
  28757.  
  28758. 1/2
  28759. To tweak an old analogy…
  28760. It rather sounds like this 3rd party have said ‘bend over’ and
  28761. you’ve responded with ‘How far’
  28762.  
  28763. Re-writing the code from scratch, in a process they will outline –
  28764. whilst at least allows you to move on, is hardly cause for celebration.
  28765.  
  28766. Sounds like a pretty bum deal to me.
  28767.  
  28768.  
  28769.  
  28770.  
  28771. jrogers31
  28772.  
  28773. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  28774.  
  28775. Backers should be made aware that over the last 15+ days some of us
  28776. were blocked from making comments in this open forum. Indiegogo said
  28777. “our Tech Team is aware of an issue which affects commenting ability
  28778. for a small subset of users” It appeared that the “subset of users”
  28779. were the ones who were first to raise concerns about WEDG. @Nikolai
  28780. Tesla said in his last message that he was being “frozen out”. This
  28781. is a serious breach of trust and an act of bad faith on behalf of
  28782. Indiegogo and WEDG.
  28783.  
  28784.  
  28785.  
  28786.  
  28787. M K
  28788.  
  28789. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8914705> almost 2 years ago
  28790.  
  28791. Thanks for the update, but I still prefer to receive refund a.s.a.p.
  28792.  
  28793.  
  28794.  
  28795.  
  28796. Justin Walton
  28797.  
  28798. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8707801> almost 2 years ago
  28799.  
  28800. Finally some news, and it sounds good.
  28801. So now we need a timeline, it took 3 months to write the disputed
  28802. software, rewriting under scrutiny will take longer.
  28803. With a way forward open, I now expect @Team WEDG to have time to
  28804. provide regular updates, at least weekly.
  28805. The comments all have one thing in common, us backers want to know
  28806. what’s happening!
  28807. The little information we’ve received recently has all been on the
  28808. dispute, lets hear about a timeline and the hardware (including tee
  28809. shirts)
  28810.  
  28811.  
  28812.  
  28813.  
  28814. Lewis Tsalis
  28815.  
  28816. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706426> almost 2 years ago
  28817.  
  28818. With this new announcement, I’m keen to see what the timeline is now
  28819. going to be.
  28820.  
  28821.  
  28822.  
  28823.  
  28824. Peter Dalmaris
  28825.  
  28826. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/7104926> almost 2 years ago
  28827.  
  28828. I wonder who is “Team WEDG”.
  28829.  
  28830. Why not use a real name?
  28831.  
  28832. In these circumstances, it would be appropriate to see Shehbaz’s
  28833. name signing these “updates”.
  28834.  
  28835.  
  28836.  
  28837.  
  28838. jrogers31
  28839.  
  28840. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  28841.  
  28842. Although the update of 10 mins ago sounds positive I am still
  28843. sceptical. If the update is accurate then there should be no reason
  28844. why Shehbaz cannot give a clear unambiguous statement and assurances
  28845. regarding hardware etc as previously requested.
  28846.  
  28847. As for their thanks to backers “for their patience and unfaltering
  28848. support” one wonders whether Team WEDG understand the recent
  28849. sentiments expressed by backers! Team WEDG need to improve on the
  28850. transparency of their communications.
  28851.  
  28852.  
  28853.  
  28854.  
  28855. jrogers31
  28856.  
  28857. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  28858.  
  28859. http://observer.com/2014/08/indiegogos-scampaign-problem-latest-crowdfunded-smartwatch-is-total-garbage/
  28860.  
  28861. I hope that we don’t find a similar article written about the WEDG
  28862. campaign in the future
  28863.  
  28864.  
  28865.  
  28866.  
  28867. jrogers31
  28868.  
  28869. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  28870.  
  28871. I agree with @Gordon Keys and other dissatisfied backers. 30+ days
  28872. ago I asked that Shehbaz make a clear and unambiguous statement
  28873. “confirming that there are no fundamental hardware, software or
  28874. supply issues from other contractors, which will prevent progress
  28875. when the third party issue is resolved.” Provided of course the
  28876. third party issue is not a charade. If this project is on the level
  28877. do not understand why Shehbaz cannot make such a statement and tell
  28878. us about the whereabouts of the funds.
  28879.  
  28880.  
  28881.  
  28882.  
  28883. Steve Box
  28884.  
  28885. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/7734890> almost 2 years ago
  28886.  
  28887. @snhs06 – just to add, what you’re talking about came after they
  28888. announced the production schedule and told us when to expect our
  28889. WEDGs. It seems like they a) either knew all along that the software
  28890. issue was a show-stopper, which then questions why make the
  28891. production announcement or b) they prematurely announced production,
  28892. which is strange because those things have to be carefully planned.
  28893. Either way it doesn’t look or sound right. I’d be happy to be see
  28894. the WEDG, but we have a right to ask.
  28895.  
  28896.  
  28897.  
  28898.  
  28899. Steve Box
  28900.  
  28901. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/7734890> almost 2 years ago
  28902.  
  28903. @snhs06 – maybe you should pay attention.
  28904.  
  28905. Seven months ago – “We’re holding off from purchasing components and
  28906. materials just yet to avoid warehousing fees.”
  28907.  
  28908. Six months ago – “We will be ordering all hardware components
  28909. including materials WC 23 March 2015. … Thus the WEDG shell will go
  28910. into production on 26 March for a full day to produce 2200 units.”
  28911.  
  28912. So according to what was written all of the hardware should have
  28913. been done. It’s just hardware, why haven’t we seen it? Why no news?
  28914.  
  28915.  
  28916.  
  28917.  
  28918. maskedmarauder
  28919.  
  28920. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8106278> almost 2 years ago
  28921.  
  28922. I have asked for a refund three times already and have not even
  28923. received a response.
  28924.  
  28925. To all those who still believe this is NOT a scam – I can’t make up
  28926. my mind if I admire or pity you. Yes, it is a trust issue by now,
  28927. and I have none anymore.
  28928.  
  28929. Any help in getting a refund would be very much appreciated.
  28930.  
  28931.  
  28932.  
  28933.  
  28934. snhs06
  28935.  
  28936. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/9119033> almost 2 years ago
  28937.  
  28938. 2 of 2
  28939.  
  28940. @Carlos They are being serious – per 27/7/2015 they are seeking
  28941. alternative financing so those of you mistakenly thinking Indiegogo
  28942. is Amazon can get your money back if Wedg is not ready within 6
  28943. months i.e. just under 5 months to go – seriously.
  28944.  
  28945. @Tiger Bus I can only agree with your sentiment. I suspect the
  28946. Insolvency Service will point out that by contributing they accepted
  28947. the T&Cs which Wedg are following. No wonder they have been so quiet
  28948. – must be sick of repeating themselves.
  28949.  
  28950.  
  28951.  
  28952.  
  28953. snhs06
  28954.  
  28955. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/9119033> almost 2 years ago
  28956.  
  28957. 1 of 2
  28958.  
  28959. I am starting to wonder if any of those incessantly complaining have
  28960. been paying attention.
  28961.  
  28962. @Steve Box Wedg said at the time of publicly announcing the legal
  28963. issues that they were not proceeding with manufacture at that time
  28964. because they would then have had to pay storage fees for the
  28965. duration of the dispute – seems reasonable to me. What did you
  28966. expect that they would put them together round a kitchen table –
  28967. factory manufacturing requires a certain volume to be economically
  28968. viable.
  28969.  
  28970.  
  28971.  
  28972.  
  28973. Carlos Garcia Conde
  28974.  
  28975. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4819372> almost 2 years ago
  28976.  
  28977. This is my 4th comment and my 4th email and NO RESPONSE
  28978. I WANT A REFUND NOW
  28979. Be a serious people
  28980.  
  28981.  
  28982.  
  28983.  
  28984. Gordon Keys
  28985.  
  28986. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8335278> almost 2 years ago
  28987.  
  28988. Here, Here, @Steve Box!
  28989.  
  28990.  
  28991.  
  28992.  
  28993. Steve Box
  28994.  
  28995. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/7734890> almost 2 years ago
  28996.  
  28997. @ Tiger Bus – all of us want to believe in WEDG. But look at the
  28998. timeline:
  28999.  
  29000. Mid March 2015 – ordering all materials March 23, going into
  29001. production March 26.
  29002. Early April 2015 – planning on shipping between April 8-13
  29003. Mid April 2015 – an aluminum prototype of the back
  29004.  
  29005. Please note that this has nothing to do with the software. We have
  29006. been told that the product was going to be done in late March, yet
  29007. have only been shown a case. Since then nothing about the hardware.
  29008.  
  29009.  
  29010.  
  29011.  
  29012. Steve Box
  29013.  
  29014. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/7734890> almost 2 years ago
  29015.  
  29016. While I understand the issues with the software developer, it seems
  29017. to me that the hardware should be ready to go. So why have we not
  29018. heard anything about completed hardware? According to the timeline
  29019. the product should have been finished.
  29020.  
  29021. Which leaves me to believe that the problems with the software side
  29022. and legality of releasing the WEDGE were known before they sent the
  29023. announcements out about the hardware. So why lie to use about the
  29024. shipping date in early April?
  29025.  
  29026.  
  29027.  
  29028.  
  29029. Steve Box
  29030.  
  29031. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/7734890> almost 2 years ago
  29032.  
  29033. Ultimately, as others have mentioned, it becomes a trust issue. We
  29034. were all excited about the WEDG, but the way things have been
  29035. handled make supporters question the direction and the leadership.
  29036. It seems to me that the WEDG team could have been talking about the
  29037. hardware side throughout all of these issues, just to allay fears
  29038. that this wasn’t a scam. But the radio silence on everything but the
  29039. supposed negotiations makes it difficult to understand what is
  29040. happening.
  29041.  
  29042.  
  29043.  
  29044.  
  29045. Peter Dalmaris
  29046.  
  29047. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/7104926> almost 2 years ago
  29048.  
  29049. Spencer, look at Nikolai Tesla’s comment further down the list (26
  29050. days ago), it contains the info I used.
  29051.  
  29052. Tiger Bus, as I said in my previous post, Failure is No Problem.
  29053. Crowdfunding has risks, and that’s fine. At this point, I doubt that
  29054. there is a mysterious “third party” that is responsible for this
  29055. mess. WEDG has given us no information we can verify independently,
  29056. and have broken every promise they made. I hope you are right. If
  29057. not maybe the Insolvency Service can shed some light.
  29058.  
  29059.  
  29060.  
  29061.  
  29062. Gordon Keys
  29063.  
  29064. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8335278> almost 2 years ago
  29065.  
  29066. Sorry… I just couldnt resist!
  29067.  
  29068. pic.twitter.com/OYzHMPrhZ1
  29069.  
  29070.  
  29071.  
  29072.  
  29073. spencer robinson
  29074.  
  29075. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/9152571> almost 2 years ago
  29076.  
  29077. how do you go about reporting to the Insolvency Service?
  29078.  
  29079. I feel as backers we now need bring this to an end, No one has
  29080. contacted me with regards to a refund as requested in the survey,
  29081. and no information has been release to confirm the truthfulness of
  29082. the situation wedg are reporting
  29083.  
  29084.  
  29085.  
  29086.  
  29087. Tiger Bus
  29088.  
  29089. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706731> almost 2 years ago
  29090.  
  29091. Oh Peter, thanx for having another f*cked up legal issue for them to
  29092. fight off and delay it for all other backers yet again. This is not
  29093. amazon and your case will result in paperwork and further mess only.
  29094. Thanks again on behalf of everyone who actually unterstands the
  29095. meaning of “funding a startup”. Damn.
  29096.  
  29097.  
  29098.  
  29099.  
  29100. Ron Ko
  29101.  
  29102. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8444779> almost 2 years ago
  29103.  
  29104. @Peter, agree and support you!
  29105.  
  29106.  
  29107.  
  29108.  
  29109. Peter Dalmaris
  29110.  
  29111. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/7104926> almost 2 years ago
  29112.  
  29113. With reluctance, I have reported WEDG to The Insolvency Service.
  29114.  
  29115. I have received acknowledgement of my submission and will update you
  29116. of the progress.
  29117.  
  29118. I did this with reluctance because I truly believed in WEDG. I hope
  29119. they will get through it and deliver OR come out to speak about what
  29120. is happening with honesty and transparency.
  29121.  
  29122. Failure is no problem. Treating your supporters like WEDG has for so
  29123. long is very disturbing.
  29124.  
  29125.  
  29126.  
  29127.  
  29128. Carlos Garcia Conde
  29129.  
  29130. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4819372> almost 2 years ago
  29131.  
  29132. No answer about my refund…
  29133. PLEASE be a serious person, refund now
  29134.  
  29135.  
  29136.  
  29137.  
  29138. Peter Dalmaris
  29139.  
  29140. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/7104926> almost 2 years ago
  29141.  
  29142. Has anyone reported this to The Insolvency Service, Companies House
  29143. or the Serious Fraud Office?
  29144.  
  29145.  
  29146.  
  29147.  
  29148. M K
  29149.  
  29150. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8914705> almost 2 years ago
  29151.  
  29152. By the time the dispute is resolved, the hardware and software are
  29153. both rendered obsolete.
  29154.  
  29155.  
  29156.  
  29157.  
  29158. Ruanth Chrisley Thyssen
  29159.  
  29160. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/485007> almost 2 years ago
  29161.  
  29162. I have only ever funded few, carefully hand picked campaigns on
  29163. indiegogo – WEDG seemed like one such campaign. However after
  29164. reading some of the other comments below, I am seriously concerned.
  29165. While there are some who say this is a scam, I still have hope that
  29166. this project pulls through. My only real concern is delivery time.
  29167. Technology is constantly evolving and advancing, and what may seem
  29168. as a harmless few months seriously concerns me regarding WEDG tech.
  29169. Please give us a real update!
  29170.  
  29171.  
  29172.  
  29173.  
  29174. michiel pauwels
  29175.  
  29176. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3426891> almost 2 years ago
  29177.  
  29178. As everyone else i’m also still waiting for my refund
  29179.  
  29180.  
  29181.  
  29182.  
  29183. Gordon Keys
  29184.  
  29185. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8335278> almost 2 years ago
  29186.  
  29187. Part 2/2
  29188. I’d like to know where we are with the tooling for the chassis for
  29189. the WEDG. If this had been still on schedule, there should be some
  29190. moulds made to produce the WEDG cases? We’ve seen some sort of
  29191. picture in a dingy shed. Is that it? REALLY?
  29192.  
  29193.  
  29194.  
  29195.  
  29196. Gordon Keys
  29197.  
  29198. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8335278> almost 2 years ago
  29199.  
  29200. Part 1/2
  29201. The last two updates tell us little as WEDG cannot tell us anything
  29202. much regarding this legal dispute.
  29203.  
  29204. I still find it hard to take you guys seriously because these
  29205. updates are passed via your legal eagles and the typos and poor
  29206. grammar are shocking! Surely they would have done something about
  29207. them? What has happened regarding the mediation service you were
  29208. using? There’s been little about them for some time. Are they still
  29209. working on this and in what capacity?
  29210.  
  29211.  
  29212.  
  29213.  
  29214. Peter Dalmaris
  29215.  
  29216. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/7104926> almost 2 years ago
  29217.  
  29218. Hi all,
  29219.  
  29220. I have emailed WEDG asking for a refund. I had ordered 2xIntel
  29221. WEDGs. After total radio silence from WEDG for so long in this
  29222. thread, I have little confidence that I will ever see a product. I
  29223. also have little confidence that I will ever see my money.
  29224.  
  29225. If anyone here has actually received a refund, please let me know.
  29226.  
  29227. I will look at making a formal complaint at The Insolvency Service
  29228. in the next few days. Just wish to give WEDG one more chance to get
  29229. back to us.
  29230.  
  29231.  
  29232.  
  29233.  
  29234. M K
  29235.  
  29236. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8914705> almost 2 years ago
  29237.  
  29238. Reminder #1:
  29239. We need evidence of development of the product and proof that the
  29240. WEDG is there directly after the legal issue is resolved.
  29241.  
  29242.  
  29243.  
  29244.  
  29245. Andrea Pietroboni
  29246.  
  29247. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/1106976> almost 2 years ago
  29248.  
  29249. Hi all
  29250. If i remember they ask e refound of money with Paypal …. You rechi
  29251. ed The money?
  29252.  
  29253.  
  29254.  
  29255.  
  29256. M K
  29257.  
  29258. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8914705> almost 2 years ago
  29259.  
  29260. We need evidence of development of the product and proof that the
  29261. WEDG is there directly after the legal issue is resolved.
  29262.  
  29263.  
  29264.  
  29265.  
  29266. Peter Dalmaris
  29267.  
  29268. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/7104926> almost 2 years ago
  29269.  
  29270. … continuing from previous post …
  29271.  
  29272. Also, reading at all the comments from other backers about WEDG
  29273. being a scam, can you provide any information to help clear the air?
  29274.  
  29275.  
  29276.  
  29277.  
  29278. Peter Dalmaris
  29279.  
  29280. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/7104926> almost 2 years ago
  29281.  
  29282. Hello @TeamWEDG,
  29283.  
  29284. I’ve been a supporter of your project for over two years now
  29285. (contributed at your Kickstarter campaign). I still am. I find it
  29286. hard to believe that we have been stuck in this legal issue for so
  29287. long. Still, my patience is not exhausted, I want you to come
  29288. through it.
  29289.  
  29290. All the updates we have received in the last few months have been
  29291. about legal stuff.
  29292.  
  29293. Has any progress been made in the technology front? Can you tell us
  29294. how the technology is doing after years in development?
  29295.  
  29296.  
  29297.  
  29298.  
  29299. Justin Walton
  29300.  
  29301. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8707801> almost 2 years ago
  29302.  
  29303. @ Chris – thanks’ for the update. Pity it wasn’t more positive news,
  29304. but at least it’s news.
  29305.  
  29306.  
  29307.  
  29308.  
  29309. MARC-ANDRE RUNCIE-UNGER
  29310.  
  29311. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/5105783> almost 2 years ago
  29312.  
  29313. Hi there,
  29314.  
  29315. Could we please get a proper update on what’s going on???
  29316.  
  29317. Thanks,
  29318.  
  29319. Marc
  29320.  
  29321.  
  29322.  
  29323.  
  29324. Carlos Garcia Conde
  29325.  
  29326. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4819372> almost 2 years ago
  29327.  
  29328. Please refund me the money NOW or I’ll report you
  29329. At least, anwser my emails, comments…
  29330. You are NOT serious
  29331.  
  29332.  
  29333.  
  29334.  
  29335. Nikolai Tesla
  29336.  
  29337. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> almost 2 years ago
  29338.  
  29339. @WEDG FUNDERS: If WEDG is a scam, you can report it to the
  29340. corresponding authorities in the UK so they can investigate:
  29341.  
  29342. The Insolvency Service, Companies House or the Serious Fraud Office.
  29343. More information at:
  29344.  
  29345. https://www.gov.uk/complain-about-a-limited-company
  29346.  
  29347. Here is the required WEDG company information:
  29348.  
  29349. WEDG LTD
  29350. 47 Chorlton Street
  29351. Manchester
  29352. Greater Manchester
  29353. M1 3FY
  29354.  
  29355. Company#08824160
  29356. Director ID: 917334076
  29357. Director: MR SHEHBAZ AFZAL
  29358.  
  29359.  
  29360.  
  29361.  
  29362. M K
  29363.  
  29364. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8914705> almost 2 years ago
  29365.  
  29366. i’m really fed up with this project…. No replies, no information,
  29367. nothing it all.
  29368.  
  29369. We’ve sent reminders out for 5 times… but still no response…. I’m
  29370. getting the feeling we are getting scammed here.
  29371.  
  29372. Just send out refund to the 199 kickstarters, so we can get on with
  29373. our true lives.
  29374.  
  29375.  
  29376.  
  29377.  
  29378. Ron Ko
  29379.  
  29380. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8444779> almost 2 years ago
  29381.  
  29382. @Gaston, I totally agree with you.
  29383.  
  29384. In the beginning, this product target aimed to get around £72,000
  29385. funding and now it’s beyond that value. There are 199 people voted
  29386. to refund. Why the team didn’t let them go and your supporters can
  29387. keep going with you & the product?
  29388.  
  29389.  
  29390.  
  29391.  
  29392. Gaston Cardey
  29393.  
  29394. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8821945> almost 2 years ago
  29395.  
  29396. Hi everyone,
  29397. “Divide and conquer”. Reading the comments, I find out that some
  29398. backers have take a position on favor of WEDG and some others (like
  29399. me), against.
  29400. Guys, won’t it be great that Team WEDG respond to some of the
  29401. questions here, instead that some backers defend their case?
  29402. Only what I ask is respect to the next guy position.
  29403. I really trusted in this proyect, but not anymore. I even talked to
  29404. two of my clients into this and at last minute they had some
  29405. emergency so the got out.
  29406. Thanks
  29407.  
  29408.  
  29409.  
  29410.  
  29411. Justin Walton
  29412.  
  29413. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8707801> almost 2 years ago
  29414.  
  29415. I am very disappointed by the communications we have received from
  29416. Team WEDG. Ever since the issue with the software IP arose, we have
  29417. heard too little, too late.
  29418. I understand that there are details that can’t be released, due to
  29419. the ongoing discussions, and there have been recent holidays and
  29420. illnesses slowing things down. But what happened to the weekly
  29421. updates? Come on, throw us a bone here. Any news would be welcome
  29422. news. I’m so upset I can’t even bring myself to ask about tee shirts
  29423. anymore
  29424.  
  29425.  
  29426.  
  29427.  
  29428. snhs06
  29429.  
  29430. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/9119033> almost 2 years ago
  29431.  
  29432. 2 of 2
  29433.  
  29434. In this they seem to be following a well thought out & systematic
  29435. approach, which is commendable especially in a new business. All
  29436. mudslinging and repeated demands in comments do is reflect poorly on
  29437. those making them.
  29438.  
  29439. There is no one here who would not far rather it was over, but this
  29440. is the real world – delays happen, legal matters take time and
  29441. respecting confidentiality greases the wheels. In the meantime
  29442. crowdfunding is not shopping, sure the SFO etc will tell you the
  29443. same thing.
  29444.  
  29445.  
  29446.  
  29447.  
  29448. snhs06
  29449.  
  29450. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/9119033> almost 2 years ago
  29451.  
  29452. 1 of 2
  29453.  
  29454. I have to agree with Tiger Bus. As per the Indiegogo T&Cs Wedg are
  29455. not obligated to give refunds. The delayed is due to factors outwith
  29456. their control, they are doing their best to resolve it. Moreover
  29457. they have consulted backers, reached a decision which has been
  29458. communicated on how they intend to proceed and placed a clear time
  29459. limit on when they will issue refunds to those who wish them while
  29460. protecting the interests of other backers and the company by
  29461. arranging alternative financing.
  29462.  
  29463.  
  29464.  
  29465.  
  29466. Carlos Garcia Conde
  29467.  
  29468. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4819372> almost 2 years ago
  29469.  
  29470. I’ve asked you for a refund and I had no answer…
  29471. No information, no refund…
  29472. I WANT a refund
  29473. What are you waiting for?
  29474.  
  29475.  
  29476.  
  29477.  
  29478. Ron Ko
  29479.  
  29480. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8444779> almost 2 years ago
  29481.  
  29482. There’s a key word missed in previous comment: I am NOT saying this
  29483. campaign following the same route but ….
  29484.  
  29485.  
  29486.  
  29487.  
  29488. Ron Ko
  29489.  
  29490. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8444779> almost 2 years ago
  29491.  
  29492. If the product can’t be delivered to market at the right time, why
  29493. should I still support it?
  29494. This is not a charity campaign. Some people who raise a scam
  29495. campaign to resell pirate electronic stuffs which were manufactured
  29496. from China. Should we still keep silent and let them cheat money on
  29497. that way? I am saying this campaign following the same route but the
  29498. campaign team has to admit – they can’t fulfil what they expected.
  29499. “EXIT” plan is what they need to do but not talking a dream.(2/2)
  29500.  
  29501.  
  29502.  
  29503.  
  29504. Ron Ko
  29505.  
  29506. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8444779> almost 2 years ago
  29507.  
  29508. @M K, it’s you but not me asking for real info. I am one of 199
  29509. backers who looks for refund in the survey.
  29510.  
  29511. In day one, as I said, this project was good to support and the
  29512. campaign team can rely on IGG to get funding. However, it’s not run
  29513. properly and so even can’s deliver any stuff. As a backer, I fully
  29514. understood the risk but it doesn’t mean that we can let the campaign
  29515. team to free run. I supported the campaign and the only reason is
  29516. not able to find the right product in the market. (1/2)
  29517.  
  29518.  
  29519.  
  29520.  
  29521. M K
  29522.  
  29523. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8914705> almost 2 years ago
  29524.  
  29525. @ Ron Ko and @ Tiger Bus: we only want to be informed periodically
  29526. with real information and this has not happened in the past 3 months.
  29527.  
  29528.  
  29529.  
  29530.  
  29531. Ron Ko
  29532.  
  29533. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8444779> almost 2 years ago
  29534.  
  29535. For those who still fully support this campaign, you can consider to
  29536. take over the order ownership from those want to refund. It would
  29537. then eliminate negative noise in this page. Good deal?
  29538.  
  29539.  
  29540.  
  29541.  
  29542. Tiger Bus
  29543.  
  29544. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706731> almost 2 years ago
  29545.  
  29546. As I see it: there are like 5 backers needing personal comforting,
  29547. as they only now seem to realize the difference between amazon and
  29548. indiegogo. Sorry sight.
  29549.  
  29550.  
  29551.  
  29552.  
  29553. jrogers31
  29554.  
  29555. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  29556.  
  29557. 2 of 2 – The results of the poll seem clear – this project is a dead
  29558. duck. The only apparent reason WEDG can have to continue this
  29559. putative charade is to try and keep some or all of the backer’s
  29560. funds – without delivering on the product. As stated many times
  29561. before – it is time for Shehbaz to come clean and tell us the TRUTH.
  29562.  
  29563.  
  29564.  
  29565.  
  29566. jrogers31
  29567.  
  29568. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  29569.  
  29570. 1 of 2 – The comments from the backers over the last 9 days are
  29571. interesting as it appears that more backers are now happy to express
  29572. their concerns, in addition to the one or two original dissenting
  29573. voices. The update from WEDG 5 days ago gives no real information
  29574. and adds nothing to previous updates, which also gave no real
  29575. information. I agree with the comments of others pointing out the
  29576. inconsistencies in the updates.
  29577.  
  29578.  
  29579.  
  29580.  
  29581. Nikolai Tesla
  29582.  
  29583. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> almost 2 years ago
  29584.  
  29585. @WEDG Funders:
  29586.  
  29587. You can send a complain to The Insolvency Service, Companies House
  29588. or the Serious Fraud Office so they can investigate. More
  29589. information at:
  29590.  
  29591. https://www.gov.uk/complain-about-a-limited-company
  29592.  
  29593. Here is the required WEDG company information:
  29594.  
  29595. WEDG LTD
  29596. 47 Chorlton Street
  29597. Manchester
  29598. Greater Manchester
  29599. M1 3FY
  29600.  
  29601. Company#08824160
  29602. Director ID: 917334076
  29603. Director: MR SHEHBAZ AFZAL
  29604.  
  29605.  
  29606.  
  29607.  
  29608. Ron Ko
  29609.  
  29610. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8444779> almost 2 years ago
  29611.  
  29612. @WEDG team, some of your supporters have lost confidence to you
  29613. guys…..Acknowledge to show your respect to them…..Even if you had
  29614. excellent product, you would still get failure as you are not
  29615. willing to have interactive communication …..
  29616.  
  29617.  
  29618.  
  29619.  
  29620. M K
  29621.  
  29622. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8914705> almost 2 years ago
  29623.  
  29624. Based on the last update, I’ve lost completely my confidence in the
  29625. WEDG still coming into production in 2015.
  29626.  
  29627. I get annoyed especially by this phrase:
  29628. “We have on numerous occasions expressed our feelings but little has
  29629. been done to address the concerns raised.”
  29630.  
  29631. This gives me the feeling that the WEDG team is not fighting the
  29632. battle hard enough with the (still undisclosed) 3rd party, but
  29633. instead is preaching love and hoping the issue will be resolved in a
  29634. peaceful matter.
  29635.  
  29636. Refund please…
  29637.  
  29638.  
  29639.  
  29640.  
  29641. Carlos Garcia Conde
  29642.  
  29643. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4819372> almost 2 years ago
  29644.  
  29645. Dear friends, I want a refund.
  29646. I told you for email… but not response…
  29647.  
  29648.  
  29649.  
  29650.  
  29651. James Taylor
  29652.  
  29653. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/5657565> almost 2 years ago
  29654.  
  29655. I would agree with Richard Alter: this does not mesh at all with
  29656. having an Arbitrator. If your update is true, then you have grounds
  29657. for a lawsuit seeking compensation for damages – they have not even
  29658. complied with their own standards and have cost you significant
  29659. damage financially and in terms of reputation, through no fault of
  29660. your own.
  29661.  
  29662. This really should have been handled via an Arbitrator – what
  29663. happened to them?
  29664.  
  29665.  
  29666.  
  29667.  
  29668. richard alter
  29669.  
  29670. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/1968091> almost 2 years ago
  29671.  
  29672. I was under the impression that the legal problems were being
  29673. handled by an arbitrator. None of what you describe would be
  29674. happening if that is the case. The definition of an arbitrated case
  29675. is that an independent 3rd party would make the decisions on the
  29676. course of action. None of that is happening here. I’m having a hard
  29677. time believing the story line.
  29678.  
  29679.  
  29680.  
  29681.  
  29682. Ron Ko
  29683.  
  29684. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8444779> almost 2 years ago
  29685.  
  29686. @WEDG, I am happy with update from you and we know at least this
  29687. campaign still alive. It’s nice that you have process improvement
  29688. change internally. However, could you please read our comments and
  29689. then respond us accordingly?
  29690.  
  29691.  
  29692.  
  29693.  
  29694. MARC-ANDRE RUNCIE-UNGER
  29695.  
  29696. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/5105783> almost 2 years ago
  29697.  
  29698. While I have been very much in support of yourselves and the project
  29699. I am getting worried as there has been no update despite the promise
  29700. “We will post an update as promised on Thursday or earlier if there
  29701. are any developments.” 10 days ago?
  29702.  
  29703. What’s happening? :(
  29704.  
  29705. Thanks,
  29706.  
  29707. Marc
  29708.  
  29709.  
  29710.  
  29711.  
  29712. Nikolai Tesla
  29713.  
  29714. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> almost 2 years ago
  29715.  
  29716. 2 of 2
  29717.  
  29718. https://www.gov.uk/complain-about-a-limited-company
  29719.  
  29720. WEDG LTD
  29721. 47 Chorlton Street
  29722. Manchester
  29723. Greater Manchester
  29724. M1 3FY
  29725.  
  29726. Company#08824160 Director ID: 917334076
  29727. Director: MR SHEHBAZ AFZAL
  29728.  
  29729.  
  29730.  
  29731.  
  29732. Nikolai Tesla
  29733.  
  29734. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> almost 2 years ago
  29735.  
  29736. 1 of 2
  29737. @WEDG Funders: It is sad and obvious that Team WEDG has major
  29738. problems (real or not) and that there is no clear indication of a
  29739. concrete solution even in their set six month timeline. The lack of
  29740. any recent updates and the repetitive legal issue reporting is not
  29741. helping the already 49%, and counting, of concerned funders. You can
  29742. send a complain to The Insolvency Service, Companies House or the
  29743. Serious Fraud Office so they can investigate.
  29744.  
  29745.  
  29746.  
  29747.  
  29748. Gaston Cardey
  29749.  
  29750. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8821945> almost 2 years ago
  29751.  
  29752. Hello backers! This one is for you, since I had to go many days (26)
  29753. to find out the last response from WEDG. I’m feeling that we’ve been
  29754. abandoned.
  29755. Meanwile, we can use this thead to share experiences. Last night, my
  29756. cat jumped over me at 3:30 am. Almost die from a heart atack. Her
  29757. explanaition was that she was having an argument with the male cat
  29758. about the food bowl.
  29759. By the way, I’ve buyed a replacement for the WEDG (yes, more
  29760. expensive). QNap TP-453 PRO.
  29761. Good bye for now.
  29762.  
  29763.  
  29764.  
  29765.  
  29766. Ron Ko
  29767.  
  29768. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8444779> almost 2 years ago
  29769.  
  29770. According to the survey result, why don’t let that 200 people off
  29771. from the ship and they can still move on with the rest (those
  29772. support or even no response)? Now, they blend all guys to move on
  29773. but it is unlikely ready in this year…..
  29774.  
  29775.  
  29776.  
  29777.  
  29778. Andrea Pietroboni
  29779.  
  29780. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/1106976> almost 2 years ago
  29781.  
  29782. hi
  29783. but who want the money back and respond at your email how many time
  29784. we hope to see the money return at us?
  29785.  
  29786.  
  29787.  
  29788.  
  29789. jrogers31
  29790.  
  29791. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  29792.  
  29793. Dear WEDG team
  29794.  
  29795. In an update 6 days ago you said “We will post an update as promised
  29796. on Thursday or earlier”
  29797.  
  29798. Can you give the backers an update please.
  29799.  
  29800.  
  29801.  
  29802.  
  29803. M K
  29804.  
  29805. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8914705> almost 2 years ago
  29806.  
  29807. Reminder #6:
  29808.  
  29809. Can you please share an update with real substance in it?
  29810.  
  29811. It’s good to share updates, but till now, it only has been updates
  29812. from the process side of the issue.
  29813.  
  29814. Based on all the updates, I still can not make up my mind regarding
  29815. supporting the WEDG. It’s a great product and I surely want it… but
  29816. only if it is there in 2015…..
  29817.  
  29818.  
  29819.  
  29820.  
  29821. Ken Taylor
  29822.  
  29823. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6123904> almost 2 years ago
  29824.  
  29825. @jrogers31 my details of hardware are from following the project
  29826. from Kickstarter through to Indiegogo, reading the project briefs,
  29827. writing to Shahbaz individually and reading all the updates and
  29828. comments here. and following the hardware specific forums and G+ page
  29829. Yes Im taking it on trust that we are being told the truth about the
  29830. state of the project. I supported them in the survey. otherwise i
  29831. would just buy the hardware or a VM and run Linux, Kolab, a backup
  29832. program & possibly Kodi (XBMC)
  29833.  
  29834.  
  29835.  
  29836.  
  29837. jrogers31
  29838.  
  29839. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  29840.  
  29841. 2 of 2 – It is time for Shahbaz to make a clear and unambiguous
  29842. statement confirming that there are no fundamental hardware,
  29843. software or supply issues from other contractors, which will prevent
  29844. progress when the third party issue is resolved. Assuming that is
  29845. that the third party software issue is not a smokescreen as
  29846. suggested by @t.munari
  29847.  
  29848. Shahbaz – the truth will set you free
  29849.  
  29850.  
  29851.  
  29852.  
  29853. jrogers31
  29854.  
  29855. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  29856.  
  29857. 1 of 2 – @t.munari – you are not the only backer to suspect that
  29858. there is something fishy going on.
  29859.  
  29860. @ken taylor – in your response to @t.munari it appears that you have
  29861. detailed knowledge about hardware, suppliers etc but is this based
  29862. on hard facts or your interpretation of what you see in the WEDG
  29863. pages and a belief that the backers are being told the truth?
  29864.  
  29865. @ MK I admire your patience but agree with @ken Taylor if you have
  29866. not had a response after 5 requests – you are unlikely to get one
  29867.  
  29868.  
  29869.  
  29870.  
  29871. Ken Taylor
  29872.  
  29873. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6123904> almost 2 years ago
  29874.  
  29875. @MK
  29876. yes we get it you are frustrated and can copy and paste your comment
  29877. to the top every day.
  29878. its getting old already !
  29879.  
  29880.  
  29881.  
  29882.  
  29883. Ken Taylor
  29884.  
  29885. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6123904> almost 2 years ago
  29886.  
  29887. @ t.munari if you read the pages you will see the boards are
  29888. production devices the arm is a cubieboard and intel is a minnowbord
  29889. max so it is just a case of ordering from the suppliers. the OS is
  29890. in dispute so they cant talk about it. the case will need
  29891. specifically manufacturing. they have been working on office and
  29892. messaging suites. they said they were ready for production before
  29893. the legal issues.they have given a 9 month maximum to delivery.
  29894. Indiegogo is not amazon with next day delivery
  29895.  
  29896.  
  29897.  
  29898.  
  29899. M K
  29900.  
  29901. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8914705> almost 2 years ago
  29902.  
  29903. Reminder #5:
  29904.  
  29905. Can you please share an update with real substance in it?
  29906.  
  29907. It’s good to share updates, but till now, it only has been updates
  29908. from the process side of the issue.
  29909.  
  29910. Based on all the updates, I still can not make up my mind regarding
  29911. supporting the WEDG. It’s a great product and I surely want it… but
  29912. only if it is there in 2015…..
  29913.  
  29914.  
  29915.  
  29916.  
  29917. t.munari
  29918.  
  29919. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/7463940> almost 2 years ago
  29920.  
  29921. Please, be considerate, could you give us some real info on the
  29922. project status?
  29923. Like
  29924. Hardware %:
  29925. Product finalization,
  29926. Expected production time,
  29927. Software %:
  29928. Main os,
  29929. Primary Services,
  29930. Plugins or whatever…
  29931. This info have nothing to do with the legal dispute and will help
  29932. remove the bitter taste last 30 updates deliver: They look like a
  29933. smokescreen to cover something fishy going on.
  29934. BTW: consider to appoint someone with basic PR skills to handle the
  29935. campaign updates.
  29936. Thank you
  29937.  
  29938.  
  29939.  
  29940.  
  29941. M K
  29942.  
  29943. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8914705> almost 2 years ago
  29944.  
  29945. Reminder #4:
  29946.  
  29947. Can you please share an update with real substance in it?
  29948.  
  29949. It’s good to share updates, but till now, it only has been updates
  29950. from the process side of the issue.
  29951.  
  29952. Based on all the updates, I still can not make up my mind regarding
  29953. supporting the WEDG. It’s a great product and I surely want it… but
  29954. only if it is there in 2015…..
  29955.  
  29956.  
  29957.  
  29958.  
  29959. Rémi
  29960.  
  29961. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/9463606> almost 2 years ago
  29962.  
  29963. @Shehbaz Could we have some update on the ongoing development of the
  29964. project. Do update on the legal issue is good, but it would be
  29965. better with some news on the evolution of the project and it may
  29966. help the pessimistic backers.
  29967.  
  29968.  
  29969.  
  29970.  
  29971. Nikolai Tesla
  29972.  
  29973. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> almost 2 years ago
  29974.  
  29975. Take note, this is how any “Crowd Source Campaign” should be run:
  29976.  
  29977. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/sondors-electric-bike/x/8695962#/story
  29978.  
  29979.  
  29980.  
  29981.  
  29982. Nikolai Tesla
  29983.  
  29984. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> almost 2 years ago
  29985.  
  29986. 2 of 2
  29987. What is your “Plan B” if you do not have WEDG ready in six (6)
  29988. months for the other half that still support you? You still lack any
  29989. evidence that the WEDG idea even exist! Either your team is very
  29990. naive or massively lack the skills to run a start up. How do you
  29991. expect anyone to continue to support this idea? less so from
  29992. “trusted private individual investors”.
  29993.  
  29994.  
  29995.  
  29996.  
  29997. Nikolai Tesla
  29998.  
  29999. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> almost 2 years ago
  30000.  
  30001. 1 of 2
  30002. @Shehbaz: Thank you for providing a clear indicator that a
  30003. significant amount of your backers are not pleased with the WEDG
  30004. situation and in turn demand a refund. As Justin Walton mentioned,
  30005. if you have been more transparent and have provided more information
  30006. on the completed process with WEDG things would have been different.
  30007. There are inconsistencies with your recent update. Why are you
  30008. dealing with the “Third Party” directly? What happened with the
  30009. mediator?
  30010.  
  30011.  
  30012.  
  30013.  
  30014. Justin Walton
  30015.  
  30016. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8707801> almost 2 years ago
  30017.  
  30018. Oh wow, those poll results must have been devastating to everyone at
  30019. Team WEDG. It’s nice to see a little more information in the latest
  30020. update, and the teams determination to finish what they’ve started.
  30021. I wonder what the poll results would have looked like if more
  30022. information had been released prior to the poll? I suspect a lot
  30023. fewer backers would have asked for a refund.
  30024.  
  30025.  
  30026.  
  30027.  
  30028. jrogers31
  30029.  
  30030. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  30031.  
  30032. 5 of 5 – It is well overdue for you to be a lot tougher with regard
  30033. to your approach to handling these matters if the remaining backers
  30034. are to continue to have confidence in you, your team and your
  30035. project. You also need to improve your communications with backers
  30036. providing facts and details without further reservation. There is no
  30037. reason why your legal team cannot provide a P&C statement to be sent
  30038. to the private paypal email addresses of the backers.
  30039.  
  30040.  
  30041.  
  30042.  
  30043. jrogers31
  30044.  
  30045. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  30046.  
  30047. 4 of 5 – a) the recruitment firm who found you this engineer and are
  30048. at fault for not checking the individual’s status b) the software
  30049. engineer who did not disclose his employment conditions and c) the
  30050. third party who did not make it clear to their employee that he
  30051. should not make himself available for work while on gardening leave.
  30052. If you have told us the truth in these matters then you should be
  30053. successful on all three counts.
  30054.  
  30055.  
  30056.  
  30057.  
  30058. jrogers31
  30059.  
  30060. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  30061.  
  30062. 3 of 5 – The first is for you to make a clear and unambiguous
  30063. statement confirming that there are no fundamental hardware,
  30064. software or supply issues from other contractors, which will prevent
  30065. progress when the third party issue is resolved. The second is that
  30066. you accept the fact that you are at fault for not carrying out
  30067. appropriate due diligence in hiring the software engineer which
  30068. caused the third party issue and take out legal proceedings against: -
  30069.  
  30070.  
  30071.  
  30072.  
  30073. jrogers31
  30074.  
  30075. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  30076.  
  30077. 2 of 5 – 1) very poor PR in communications with backers, 2) very
  30078. poor risk management skills with regard to HR in hiring staff and 3)
  30079. very poor quality legal advice in regard of the third party dispute.
  30080. If you really have the capability to build the hardware and software
  30081. into a working device as stated in the project outline for which you
  30082. attracted backers – then it is important that you make 2 outstanding
  30083. issues a priority.
  30084.  
  30085.  
  30086.  
  30087.  
  30088. jrogers31
  30089.  
  30090. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  30091.  
  30092. 1 of 5 – Thank you for carrying out the poll that I suggested some
  30093. weeks ago. Although not all backers answered the poll the sample
  30094. size is more than adequate for interpretation. Based on the results
  30095. it appears that around 50% are for continuing and 50% would like to
  30096. walk away. This indicates that project WEDG is teetering on the edge
  30097. of failure to come to fruition. If you have been totally honest with
  30098. us as backers this is for three reasons: -
  30099.  
  30100.  
  30101.  
  30102.  
  30103. Ken Taylor
  30104.  
  30105. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6123904> almost 2 years ago
  30106.  
  30107. Thanks for the Update
  30108. Its unfortunate that less than half of funders completed the survey.
  30109. and that so many people want out after such a short delay
  30110. I have been waiting since 2013 for one crowd funded item apparently
  30111. just shipped 24/07/15 and software still at 0.91 beta
  30112. even if you have to clean rewrite the disputed code you should be
  30113. able to do this within 3 months after the 6 month cut off for legal
  30114. resolution
  30115. due to delay if hardware is upgraded and cost is same can we have an
  30116. upgrade? ;-)
  30117.  
  30118.  
  30119.  
  30120.  
  30121. M K
  30122.  
  30123. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8914705> almost 2 years ago
  30124.  
  30125. Reminder #3:
  30126.  
  30127. Can you please share an update with real substance in it?
  30128.  
  30129. It’s good to share updates, but till now, it only has been updates
  30130. from the process side of the issue.
  30131.  
  30132. Based on all the updates, I still can not make up my mind regarding
  30133. supporting the WEDG. It’s a great product and I surely want it… but
  30134. only if it is there in 2015…..
  30135.  
  30136.  
  30137.  
  30138.  
  30139. aaddiikk
  30140.  
  30141. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8707168> almost 2 years ago
  30142.  
  30143. 2/2 I asked for that many times, but the only thing weve seen so far
  30144. is a part of plastic enclosure painted in someones garage… I want to
  30145. believe but Im tired now reading updates that does not contain any
  30146. details and will look for an alternative. Sorry guys…
  30147.  
  30148.  
  30149.  
  30150.  
  30151. aaddiikk
  30152.  
  30153. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8707168> almost 2 years ago
  30154.  
  30155. 1/2 I havent filled the survey neither as I was patiently waiting
  30156. for an update regarding so called ‘plan B’… Actually, it never
  30157. happened and it ensured me that I want my refund now! Im probably
  30158. sceptic but there must be something else happening behind the stage,
  30159. besides the legal thing, that prevents WEDG team from going forward
  30160. as actually weve never seen any movie that would present working
  30161. interface, WEDGnet and hardware itself.
  30162.  
  30163.  
  30164.  
  30165.  
  30166. Gerrit Freise
  30167.  
  30168. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8707250> almost 2 years ago
  30169.  
  30170. I have decided to get a refund. But anybody has answered me if this
  30171. refund now is guarenteed! I want get back my money to buy an
  30172. alternative.
  30173.  
  30174.  
  30175.  
  30176.  
  30177. MARC-ANDRE RUNCIE-UNGER
  30178.  
  30179. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/5105783> almost 2 years ago
  30180.  
  30181. I haven’t filled out the survey simply because there weren’t enough
  30182. facts to base it on…
  30183.  
  30184. I am happy to support WEDG BUT only if it will be delivered this
  30185. year… As otherwise I’ll need to purchase an alternative :(
  30186.  
  30187. Thanks,
  30188.  
  30189. Marc
  30190.  
  30191.  
  30192.  
  30193.  
  30194. jrogers31
  30195.  
  30196. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  30197.  
  30198. The updates section indicates that the deadline for the responses to
  30199. the poll was Sunday 19 July. Can Team WEDG let us know when we can
  30200. expect to receive the results of the poll?
  30201. With regard to the most recent update, I am not sure that this adds
  30202. much to what we already didn’t know. Indeed it is as opaque as ever.
  30203. I think that it is misguided for Team WEDG to keep its backers in
  30204. the dark. There must be something more fundamental preventing the
  30205. progress of this project than the third party issue.
  30206.  
  30207.  
  30208.  
  30209.  
  30210. Mark Brown
  30211.  
  30212. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3433405> almost 2 years ago
  30213.  
  30214. My email has not been replied to. I too am happy to support WEDG but
  30215. only if I know that WEDG will be fulfilled before end 2015.
  30216. Otherwise I need to look for something as close to WEDG as possible
  30217. for my requirements.
  30218.  
  30219.  
  30220.  
  30221.  
  30222. Scott McQueen
  30223.  
  30224. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8443500> almost 2 years ago
  30225.  
  30226. So I am happy to continue to support WEDG but only on the grounds
  30227. that this product can be fulfilled during 2015. If not I would like
  30228. to be refunded as I will have to source an alternative. Updates are
  30229. becoming few and far between, so any chance of regular updates ?
  30230.  
  30231. 2/2
  30232.  
  30233.  
  30234.  
  30235.  
  30236. Scott McQueen
  30237.  
  30238. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8443500> almost 2 years ago
  30239.  
  30240. I’ve filled out the survey stating that I would like to continue to
  30241. support WEDG but I am already beginning to think this was a bad
  30242. idea. Unless this product can be delivered this year it’s going to
  30243. be pretty useless to me and I’m going to have to invest in something
  30244. else. My mailserver is on its last legs and I have already found an
  30245. alternative home butt server for my images, files etc.
  30246.  
  30247. 1/2
  30248.  
  30249.  
  30250.  
  30251.  
  30252. MyWorks Design
  30253.  
  30254. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8394882> almost 2 years ago
  30255.  
  30256. I’m tending to agree with the below commentors, WEDG. It’s hard to
  30257. send out a survey for them to decide, with no cold hard facts. Even
  30258. if you told us the legal action would continue for a few months, I’m
  30259. sure you’d still retain many backers. However, you really do need to
  30260. provide some cold hard dates, and some firm specific facts. Whether
  30261. these are past or present, they can’t make up their minds without them.
  30262.  
  30263.  
  30264.  
  30265.  
  30266. spencer robinson
  30267.  
  30268. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/9152571> almost 2 years ago
  30269.  
  30270. This just ridiculous
  30271.  
  30272. Come on we need some real information as we are being asked to make
  30273. a decision and with out it this is just a farce
  30274.  
  30275. How do we know the value of the refund or if there is any chance the
  30276. project will be able to continue.
  30277.  
  30278.  
  30279.  
  30280.  
  30281. M K
  30282.  
  30283. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8914705> almost 2 years ago
  30284.  
  30285. Reminder #2:
  30286.  
  30287. Can you please share an update with real substance in it?
  30288.  
  30289. It’s good to share updates, but till now, it only has been updates
  30290. from the process side of the issue.
  30291.  
  30292. Based on all the updates, I still can not make up my mind regarding
  30293. supporting the WEDG. It’s a great product and I surely want it… but
  30294. only if it is there in 2015…..
  30295.  
  30296.  
  30297.  
  30298.  
  30299. Justin Walton
  30300.  
  30301. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8707801> almost 2 years ago
  30302.  
  30303. The survey deadline is approaching, is there any news? I’d like to
  30304. hear how the negotiations are going before making my decision. As
  30305. Jrogers31 said, the time to market is very relevant. I still want to
  30306. believe in Team WEDG and the project. Can you convince me I will get
  30307. mine before man lands on Mars? Please?
  30308.  
  30309.  
  30310.  
  30311.  
  30312. jrogers31
  30313.  
  30314. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  30315.  
  30316. I think it would be wise for all to await the outcome of the poll –
  30317. as some comments notably the last contain inaccuracies, that is, if
  30318. the information given in updates and the comments section by WEDG
  30319. are true.
  30320.  
  30321. The time to market of this device is very relevant – if not very
  30322. soon then it will be what a sony cassette walkman was to an ipod or
  30323. smartphone.
  30324.  
  30325.  
  30326.  
  30327.  
  30328. snhs06
  30329.  
  30330. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/9119033> almost 2 years ago
  30331.  
  30332. 2 of 2
  30333. 2) 3 or 4 people does not come close. Trusting that the majority of
  30334. funders are aware of crowdfunding I think they will understand the
  30335. delay.
  30336.  
  30337. If Wedg were that type of company responses would have stopped
  30338. months ago. Legal options will abide by the T&Cs you agreed to by
  30339. contributing. A pro rata settlement, accounting for liabilities,
  30340. would be likely, and legal fees will take up much of that. Wedg also
  30341. have a duty to the rest of the backers to not increase the risk for
  30342. other funders.
  30343.  
  30344.  
  30345.  
  30346.  
  30347. snhs06
  30348.  
  30349. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/9119033> almost 2 years ago
  30350.  
  30351. 1 of 2
  30352. @Nikolai Tesla Thank you but I think I have a good understanding of
  30353. the facts, from reading both the updates and the T&Cs.
  30354.  
  30355. 1) Any business, even on a shoestring budget, has expenses –
  30356. utilities, insurance, hosting for their website, travel to/hosting
  30357. meetings with suppliers etc. Further there may be commitments to a
  30358. particular volume of orders or deposits. Plus as you should know 4%
  30359. to indiegogo when the campaign reaches its goal.
  30360.  
  30361.  
  30362.  
  30363.  
  30364. M K
  30365.  
  30366. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8914705> almost 2 years ago
  30367.  
  30368. Reminder #1:
  30369.  
  30370. Can you please share an update with real substance in it?
  30371.  
  30372. It’s good to share updates, but till now, it only has been updates
  30373. from the process side of the issue.
  30374.  
  30375. Based on all the update, I still can not make up my mind regarding
  30376. supporting the WEDG. It’s a great product and I surely want it… but
  30377. only if it is there in 2015…..
  30378.  
  30379.  
  30380.  
  30381.  
  30382. Nikolai Tesla
  30383.  
  30384. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> almost 2 years ago
  30385.  
  30386. 2 of 2
  30387. One thing you may have correct, WEDG is under no obligation to
  30388. provide refunds. But again, if they wish to start that way it will
  30389. just create a bad reputation on a startup company. Not only that,
  30390. most of us live in a free society and have the liberty to use legal
  30391. options to receive a refund. If you think that the IP issue is a
  30392. problem just imagine multi-front legal headache. I do not wish this
  30393. and would rather just receive a refund so all of you can continue
  30394. with the WEDG dream.
  30395.  
  30396.  
  30397.  
  30398.  
  30399. Nikolai Tesla
  30400.  
  30401. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> almost 2 years ago
  30402.  
  30403. 1 of 2
  30404. @snhs06 – Perhaps you need to review your “facts”. Here are a few:
  30405.  
  30406. 1- Per Shehbaz one month ago " I will say that none of us, including
  30407. myself have drawn a salary from WEDG, not until we fulfil IGG orders
  30408. and get to market thereafter." So where is the proportion that has
  30409. been used that you mention?
  30410.  
  30411. 2- The refund survey still has a week to go. Are you making
  30412. assumptions that the funders requesting a refund are just a
  30413. minority? or do you work for WEDG?
  30414.  
  30415.  
  30416.  
  30417.  
  30418. snhs06
  30419.  
  30420. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/9119033> almost 2 years ago
  30421.  
  30422. @t.munari I believe they have explained the difficulty previously.
  30423. The code can be rewritten, but because the other company are
  30424. involved Wedg need to be able to show work by the ‘gardening leave’
  30425. developer is not used, which presents a further legal challenge.
  30426. Without an agreed procedure for verification it could create as many
  30427. problems as it solves. That does seem to be one of the options put
  30428. forward by Wedg under the mediation approach, so hopefully it will
  30429. bear fruit.
  30430.  
  30431.  
  30432.  
  30433.  
  30434. snhs06
  30435.  
  30436. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/9119033> almost 2 years ago
  30437.  
  30438. @Shehbaz Thank you for your response, makes perfect sense.
  30439.  
  30440. @Nikolai Tesla Perhaps you ought to have looked in to crowdfunding a
  30441. bit more before committing to backing the project then. The main
  30442. reason I posted previously was to make the point that the refunds to
  30443. the penny demanded by the vocal minority are unrealistic both
  30444. because WEDG is under no obligation to do so while the project is
  30445. ongoing and some proportion of the original stake will have been used.
  30446.  
  30447.  
  30448.  
  30449.  
  30450. t.munari
  30451.  
  30452. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/7463940> almost 2 years ago
  30453.  
  30454. I have some difficulty understanding why it is not possible to
  30455. “sanitize” the code written by the contested developer and go on
  30456. eith the project.
  30457. I can’t believe that there is not another way to write the code….
  30458.  
  30459.  
  30460.  
  30461.  
  30462. Nikolai Tesla
  30463.  
  30464. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> almost 2 years ago
  30465.  
  30466. 3/3
  30467. I do hope that WEDG comes out of this “black hole” but currently
  30468. nothing indicates the contrary at least in the short term. For those
  30469. who still wish to stick my best wishes and please prove me wrong,
  30470. there is no shame in it (just the contrary). Thank you.
  30471.  
  30472.  
  30473.  
  30474.  
  30475. Nikolai Tesla
  30476.  
  30477. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> almost 2 years ago
  30478.  
  30479. 2/3
  30480. IF, and that is a huge IF, they do pull out soon (less than two or
  30481. three months) from these legal issues, able to create a fairly well
  30482. running business along with a great product for public consumption
  30483. then and only then I will support them. I will purchase their retail
  30484. and proven product while spreading the word of how everyone should
  30485. buy one. Until then, I just want my funds returned. Just pay a visit
  30486. to their web page: http://wedg.co/ to see if it can provide you of
  30487. any hope.
  30488.  
  30489.  
  30490.  
  30491.  
  30492. Nikolai Tesla
  30493.  
  30494. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> almost 2 years ago
  30495.  
  30496. 1/3
  30497. @Gatto Fontainäou: Sadly or hopefully you are not alone. There are
  30498. others, including myself, that have asked the same questions to WEDG
  30499. and have similar concerns and have provided ideas on how to solve
  30500. this “legal issue(s)”. Personally I did support WEDG and their great
  30501. idea but with the current “legal issue” and plenty of gaps on how
  30502. WEDG manages their “company” makes me pull out my funds.
  30503.  
  30504.  
  30505.  
  30506.  
  30507. Gatto Fontainäou
  30508.  
  30509. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/604966> almost 2 years ago
  30510.  
  30511. 3/3
  30512. cont:
  30513. Instead of “we’re waiting already 3 months and counting…” I’d prefer
  30514. a countdown: “at most 30 weeks to delivery”. And I can hardly
  30515. imagine I’m alone to think so, or am I?
  30516.  
  30517.  
  30518.  
  30519.  
  30520. Gatto Fontainäou
  30521.  
  30522. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/604966> almost 2 years ago
  30523.  
  30524. 2/3
  30525. cont:
  30526.  
  30527. whereas defining the software licence at the very beginning might
  30528. have or might have not let you avoid the problem, today you’d need a
  30529. plan B stating exactly when and what you do if legal issues are not
  30530. solved or mediation is inefficient (start developing the alternative
  30531. software for instance, choose licence, search for developers, see
  30532. that your contract with new developers protect you against new
  30533. claims, anything constructive). cont…
  30534.  
  30535.  
  30536.  
  30537. Gatto Fontainäou
  30538.  
  30539. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/604966> almost 2 years ago
  30540.  
  30541. 1/3
  30542. @M K +1
  30543. @WEDG
  30544. there is no suitable answer to your survey for me.
  30545. I am still ready to wait (read: support you) if you (* I’ll refer to
  30546. that later) will manage to send out the product to backers in the
  30547. near future. However, if it will end up in settlement in five years
  30548. (temporise, postpone etc. – that’s what lawyers do for living, isn’t
  30549. it?), I want the refund already today.
  30550. cont…
  30551.  
  30552.  
  30553.  
  30554.  
  30555. MyWorks Design
  30556.  
  30557. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8394882> almost 2 years ago
  30558.  
  30559. @Tiger Bus @WEDG – No freaking kidding! Lets give a few backers some
  30560. refunds ASAP so they can move on and get off this comment board. Please.
  30561.  
  30562.  
  30563.  
  30564.  
  30565. Tiger Bus
  30566.  
  30567. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706731> almost 2 years ago
  30568.  
  30569. Seems like 2-3 guys on here really need to get their refund soon.
  30570. Hope they will stop pestering once they got it…
  30571.  
  30572.  
  30573.  
  30574.  
  30575. Hjalte Osborn Frandsen
  30576.  
  30577. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6086866> almost 2 years ago
  30578.  
  30579. @Shehbaz: Thanks for your and for the hard work you guys put
  30580. in – I look very much forward to a great product!
  30581.  
  30582.  
  30583.  
  30584.  
  30585. M K
  30586.  
  30587. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8914705> almost 2 years ago
  30588.  
  30589. Can you please share an update with real substance in it?
  30590.  
  30591. It’s good to share updates, but till now, it only has been updates
  30592. from the process side of the issue.
  30593.  
  30594. Based on all the update, I still can not make up my mind regarding
  30595. supporting the WEDG. It’s a great product and I surely want it… but
  30596. only if it is there in 2015…..
  30597.  
  30598.  
  30599.  
  30600.  
  30601. Justin Walton
  30602.  
  30603. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8707801> almost 2 years ago
  30604.  
  30605. The third party wanting more details on two of your proposals sounds
  30606. like good news, well done Team WEDG. Any idea when they might
  30607. provide feedback? I know you’re all tired, and would prefer just to
  30608. get on with things, but I’ve been holding off on completing my
  30609. survey, waiting for good news!
  30610. I still believe, but I’m worried the lawyers will kill the dream.
  30611.  
  30612.  
  30613.  
  30614.  
  30615. MyWorks Design
  30616.  
  30617. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8394882> almost 2 years ago
  30618.  
  30619. Any update guys?
  30620.  
  30621.  
  30622.  
  30623.  
  30624. Ken Taylor
  30625.  
  30626. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6123904> almost 2 years ago
  30627.  
  30628. Thanks Chris
  30629. with the legal oversight required to show the new code is not
  30630. compromised or influenced by Disputed code. Im sure this will add
  30631. considerable time and cost to any rewrite. at least double :-(
  30632. I know you for insurance reasons need to complete mediation. but at
  30633. some point it must become necessary in parallel to the mediation to
  30634. rewrite the disputed code if mediation takes too long to resolve.
  30635.  
  30636. still supporting, Please keep updates coming.
  30637.  
  30638.  
  30639.  
  30640.  
  30641. rabeaumont
  30642.  
  30643. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8708749> almost 2 years ago
  30644.  
  30645. I’m choosing to keep supporting WEDG.
  30646.  
  30647.  
  30648.  
  30649.  
  30650. jrogers31
  30651.  
  30652. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  30653.  
  30654. @Team WEDG – Thanks Chris for the information -it is so much better
  30655. when WEDG shares information with its backers.
  30656.  
  30657. Its good to know that Shehbaz and the WEDG Team have invented the
  30658. WEDG device for the good of mankind so that individuals can keep
  30659. their personal data secure. It is also good to know that WEDG LTD
  30660. 08824160 Director ID: 917334076 are a not-for-profit organisation.
  30661.  
  30662.  
  30663.  
  30664.  
  30665. Team WEDG
  30666.  
  30667. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner almost 2
  30668. years ago
  30669.  
  30670. @jrogers31 there are no shareholders, we are a start-up.
  30671. ^Chris
  30672.  
  30673.  
  30674.  
  30675.  
  30676. jrogers31
  30677.  
  30678. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  30679.  
  30680. 3 of 3
  30681. 10. “Third party” at fault for not clarifying to gardening-leave
  30682. programmer he should not work.
  30683. 11. Backers who want functioning WEGD units should not need to wait
  30684. longer than necessary for the functioning units.
  30685. 12. Current delays due to “legal issues” are only of interest to the
  30686. shareholders in WEDG Co. who are arguing about their %age of revenue
  30687. going forward with the “third party”
  30688. 13. A deal will have to be done at some stage
  30689. 14. A percentage of nothing is nothing!
  30690.  
  30691.  
  30692.  
  30693.  
  30694. jrogers31
  30695.  
  30696. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  30697.  
  30698. 2 of 3
  30699. 5. Disputed code could have been re-written weeks ago and change the
  30700. nature of the"third party" dispute.
  30701. 6. 100% of nothing is nothing (see points 2 and 3 as dispute drags on).
  30702. 7. 70 or 80 or 90% of something big in revenue terms is better than
  30703. 100% of nothing.
  30704. 8. WEDG and their recruitment company are at fault for not doing due
  30705. diligence in hiring gardening-leave programmer.
  30706. 9. Gardening-leave programmer is at fault for not declaring his
  30707. situation if to WEDG.
  30708.  
  30709.  
  30710.  
  30711.  
  30712. jrogers31
  30713.  
  30714. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  30715.  
  30716. 1 of 3 Answers to @ Ken Taylor reveal that it would take one month
  30717. to rewrite disputed code.
  30718. Here are more facts:
  30719. 1. WEDG is a post-Snowden ?killer device with ?killer applications
  30720. but only if brought to market very very soon or
  30721. 2. WEDG will be overtaken by a rival unit.
  30722. 3. Every day of delay is another nail in the coffin for the WEDG
  30723. project.
  30724. 4. Legal expenses vs. “third party” are paid for by insurance (no
  30725. draw down on funds we are told).
  30726.  
  30727.  
  30728.  
  30729.  
  30730. Team WEDG
  30731.  
  30732. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner almost 2
  30733. years ago
  30734.  
  30735. @Ken Taylor 2/2…on a LibreOffice base; for two reasons really it can
  30736. handle the popular .docx, .xlsx formats and it already works pretty
  30737. well in a browser!
  30738.  
  30739. An update by Shehbaz is in review with our legal team and will be
  30740. posted as sson as its approved.
  30741. ^Chris
  30742.  
  30743.  
  30744.  
  30745.  
  30746. Team WEDG
  30747.  
  30748. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner almost 2
  30749. years ago
  30750.  
  30751. @Ken Taylor 1/2 thanks for support and questions;
  30752. 1) Currently there is not but we are stressing to apply workable
  30753. time frames to the process as quickly as possible.
  30754. 2) It really depends on the speed of the developer and how much code
  30755. we have to strip back; internally here though we take an educated
  30756. guess at four weeks at most with one dedicated developer.
  30757. 3) The Office suite is progressing at a relaxed pace as some of its
  30758. elements tie into the disputed code. We’re currently working…
  30759.  
  30760.  
  30761.  
  30762.  
  30763. Ken Taylor
  30764.  
  30765. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6123904> almost 2 years ago
  30766.  
  30767. 2 of 2
  30768. I have a few questions
  30769. 1)Is there a binding time limit on the mediation Process to stop the
  30770. 3rd party stringing it out?
  30771. 2)How long do you think it would take to rewrite the affected code
  30772. and get it legally signed off as IP free?
  30773. 3)how is the development of the Office server going and has the
  30774. program for this been chosen? open, libre, Kingston(WPS), etc.
  30775.  
  30776. the hardware is all “off the shelf” except the case its the software
  30777. its integration and GUI that make this project.
  30778.  
  30779. Keep the Faith.
  30780.  
  30781.  
  30782.  
  30783.  
  30784. Ken Taylor
  30785.  
  30786. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6123904> almost 2 years ago
  30787.  
  30788. 1 of 2
  30789. I see 3 outcomes.
  30790. 1) win and get ownership of the existing code free of IP – Best outcome.
  30791. 2) loose and have to pay licencing fees to the 3rd party for the
  30792. code – Totally BAD as WEDG then reliant on third party forever.
  30793. 3) loose and have to rewrite the disputed code showing “beyond ALL
  30794. Doubt” that the code is clean and free of IP – costly and time
  30795. consuming so would need continued support of backers and companies
  30796. who have agreed to stock WEDG but keeps the software open and yours.
  30797.  
  30798.  
  30799.  
  30800.  
  30801. Team WEDG
  30802.  
  30803. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner almost 2
  30804. years ago
  30805.  
  30806. @Heiko Zeller thank you for supporting WEDG. As far as we know the
  30807. third party wants to establish the facts of IP ownership and we can
  30808. not speculate on other matters. ^Chris
  30809.  
  30810.  
  30811.  
  30812.  
  30813. Heiko Zeller
  30814.  
  30815. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8715891> almost 2 years ago
  30816.  
  30817. If I decide to continue to support the Project, will I get my Wedg
  30818. after solving the legal issue? How possible is it to solve the legal
  30819. issue without ruining of the wedge Company? I have the feeling that
  30820. the third Party will strangle or slighting your upcoming Company.
  30821.  
  30822. Kind regards
  30823. Heiko
  30824.  
  30825.  
  30826.  
  30827.  
  30828. Team WEDG
  30829.  
  30830. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner almost 2
  30831. years ago
  30832.  
  30833. @M K I think an update is coming this week, Shehbaz has a couple of
  30834. telephone conferences this week.
  30835.  
  30836. We’re not in a position to reveal the third party as doing so will
  30837. jeopardise our position legally. This has been explained in detail
  30838. in pervious updates. ^Shehbaz
  30839.  
  30840.  
  30841.  
  30842.  
  30843. M K
  30844.  
  30845. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8914705> almost 2 years ago
  30846.  
  30847. Any update?
  30848.  
  30849. I still cant believe that a 3rd party would claim property right on
  30850. WEDG….
  30851.  
  30852. Backers have a right to know which 3rd party it is….
  30853.  
  30854.  
  30855.  
  30856.  
  30857. Steve Box
  30858.  
  30859. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/7734890> almost 2 years ago
  30860.  
  30861. I think a lot of people would feel more comfortable staying with the
  30862. project if there was some semblance of a ship date, i.e. we could
  30863. receive our WEDG’s by spring 2016 at the latest. It seems like the
  30864. team could identify a new developer to reengineer the software to
  30865. avoid the IP issues within that timeframe. But since I haven’t seen
  30866. anything to that effect, difficult to justify the waiting game. Sorry.
  30867.  
  30868.  
  30869.  
  30870.  
  30871. Team WEDG
  30872.  
  30873. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner almost 2
  30874. years ago
  30875.  
  30876. @M K we are not being sued, the legal situation is a dispute over
  30877. the intellectual property rights of the software that the developer
  30878. was involved in coding while on the payroll of the third party. ^Chris
  30879.  
  30880.  
  30881.  
  30882.  
  30883. jrogers31
  30884.  
  30885. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  30886.  
  30887. 3 of 3 – When I made the suggestion of the poll – I was in favour of
  30888. sticking with the project. However, the complete lack of
  30889. transparency in updates and the delayed lame responses since that
  30890. time give me a sense that there are other issues, which we are not
  30891. being told about. It is for that reason that I now want out. Why
  30892. can’t Team WEDG instruct its legal team to write a P&C statement of
  30893. the facts of the case to the backers is beyond my comprehension. The
  30894. backers have a right to see the facts.
  30895.  
  30896.  
  30897.  
  30898.  
  30899. jrogers31
  30900.  
  30901. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  30902.  
  30903. 2 of 3 If there were only a few that wanted out it would make sense
  30904. to fully refund them (a sign of good faith) and continue with the
  30905. full support of the remaining backers who were content to wait. If a
  30906. large number of backers wanted out then Team WEDG would have no
  30907. option other than to make an urgent deal with the “third party” to
  30908. get them out of the way so that the units could be built.
  30909.  
  30910.  
  30911.  
  30912.  
  30913. jrogers31
  30914.  
  30915. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  30916.  
  30917. 1 of 3 – 18 days ago I put forward a suggestion of a poll which
  30918. would get some clarity for backers and put urgent pressure on Team
  30919. WEDG to move the project on by solving the “third party” issue,
  30920. which we are told is the only reason why we do not have our WEDG
  30921. units. At the time some backers wanted out as indicated in the comments.
  30922.  
  30923.  
  30924.  
  30925.  
  30926. Gordon Keys
  30927.  
  30928. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8335278> almost 2 years ago
  30929.  
  30930. My problem is that the legal issue became apparent so late in the
  30931. timeline of the project. Okay, these things happen. But I am still
  30932. surprised that there were no repeat no parts made, no tools to make
  30933. those parts and no discussions around that. There was no way a tool
  30934. can be made in a week, is there. There’ll need to be injection
  30935. moulded cases made to fit the chassis into and we saw a rough
  30936. prototype that could have been 3D printed by the looks of it! For
  30937. those reasons I think I’m out!
  30938.  
  30939.  
  30940.  
  30941.  
  30942. Gordon Keys
  30943.  
  30944. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8335278> almost 2 years ago
  30945.  
  30946. @M K – I don’t believe anyone is suing anyone! There is a dispute
  30947. over some code that the third party states contractually belongs to
  30948. them, only because the developer was still under contract to them
  30949. whilst on garden leave. I think if Wedg had been able to discuss who
  30950. the third party were they would have disclosed by now. This is the
  30951. world of legal wrangles and nothing is ever likely to be disclosed
  30952. even IF an agreement can be made.
  30953.  
  30954.  
  30955.  
  30956.  
  30957. M K
  30958.  
  30959. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8914705> almost 2 years ago
  30960.  
  30961. Shehbaz,
  30962.  
  30963. I am currently making up my mind regarding refund or not.
  30964.  
  30965. Can you share the name of the 3rd party that is involved?
  30966.  
  30967. I am quite curious about which company would sue WEDG because of
  30968. hiring a programmer that is on gardening leave. In normal situations
  30969. the 3rd party would sue the programmer himself instead of WEDG.
  30970.  
  30971. The 3rd party is basically destroying the development and creation
  30972. of a good idea & product AND wasting time/money of WEDG and all the
  30973. backers!
  30974.  
  30975.  
  30976.  
  30977.  
  30978. Nikolai Tesla
  30979.  
  30980. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> almost 2 years ago
  30981.  
  30982. @snhs06 @Team WEDG: Please provide the exact “additional expenses”
  30983. that are mentioned. We require exact amounts not just estimates.
  30984. Just because delays are common does not make it something to be
  30985. complacent. If Team WEDG stands to be a “good will” firm then they
  30986. should in turn show it with actions. Funders requiring refunds
  30987. “should” be a minority, if not Team WEDG has a bigger issue to
  30988. attend. They don’t need to have a legal battle on two fronts.
  30989.  
  30990.  
  30991.  
  30992.  
  30993. Team WEDG
  30994.  
  30995. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner almost 2
  30996. years ago
  30997.  
  30998. FYI everyone, Chris won’t be available for the rest of the evening
  30999. and I have some personal commitments myself. I will endeavour to
  31000. respond to your comments here as quickly as possible; please excuse
  31001. the lateness.
  31002.  
  31003. Thank you Chris for your commitment and being awesome this weekend (y).
  31004.  
  31005. ^Shehbaz
  31006.  
  31007.  
  31008.  
  31009.  
  31010. Team WEDG
  31011.  
  31012. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner almost 2
  31013. years ago
  31014.  
  31015. @snhs06 Your points are accurate, the short answer to your question
  31016. right now is simply we have and see what percentage of backers
  31017. request a refund to fully understand the potential deficit.
  31018. ^Shehbaz
  31019.  
  31020.  
  31021.  
  31022.  
  31023. Team WEDG
  31024.  
  31025. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner almost 2
  31026. years ago
  31027.  
  31028. @David Aldred ditto. From our part we are ready to go into
  31029. manufacturing the moment the legal dispute is resolved lifting the
  31030. numerous restrictions.
  31031. ^Shehbaz
  31032.  
  31033.  
  31034.  
  31035.  
  31036. Team WEDG
  31037.  
  31038. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner almost 2
  31039. years ago
  31040.  
  31041. @hjalteworm we are committed to delivering WEDG, as soon as the
  31042. legal dispute is resolved we’re ready to get going, we’ve come a
  31043. long way and made numerous personal sacrifices to give up now.
  31044. ^Shehbaz
  31045.  
  31046.  
  31047.  
  31048.  
  31049. snhs06
  31050.  
  31051. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/9119033> almost 2 years ago
  31052.  
  31053. 2 of 2
  31054.  
  31055. So any full refunds issued will eat into the remaining capital, and
  31056. potentially compromise the success of the project at the expense of
  31057. it and backers who stick with you. If this is correct then I would
  31058. suggest refunds ought to be issued at a reduced rate reflecting
  31059. expenses. This would be in line with the facts that all contributors
  31060. made the same commitment at the outset, such delays are common in
  31061. crowd funding and you are not under any obligation to provide
  31062. refunds at this stage.
  31063.  
  31064.  
  31065.  
  31066.  
  31067. snhs06
  31068.  
  31069. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/9119033> almost 2 years ago
  31070.  
  31071. 1 of 2
  31072.  
  31073. Team WEDG,
  31074. Glad that there seems to be progress recently. I wonder if you may
  31075. be able to clarify a point in relation to the possibility of refunds
  31076. being offered.
  31077.  
  31078. As I understand the terms of indiegogo there is a charge for their
  31079. services levied as a percentage of contributions received, along
  31080. with other costs prior to the legal problems arising. As a result at
  31081. least some portion of the initial funding has been spent.
  31082.  
  31083.  
  31084.  
  31085.  
  31086. David Aldred
  31087.  
  31088. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> almost 2 years ago
  31089.  
  31090. Such a shame it’s come to this point, seemingly through no fault of
  31091. your own.
  31092.  
  31093. I don’t particularly want to pull out – been a keen supporter from
  31094. your original kickstarter campaign.
  31095.  
  31096. What would help though is a more general update on the state of the
  31097. project – what is there left to do and what the possible outcomes
  31098. are. A more informed decision can then be made.
  31099.  
  31100.  
  31101.  
  31102.  
  31103. Team WEDG
  31104.  
  31105. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner almost 2
  31106. years ago
  31107.  
  31108. @Marc-André Runcie-Unger of course, we will continue to post legal
  31109. issue updates as normal.
  31110.  
  31111. At this point I’d like to remind everyone, the costs of the legal
  31112. dispute are handled by our business insurance policy and not by us.
  31113. ^Chris
  31114.  
  31115.  
  31116.  
  31117.  
  31118. Hjalte Osborn Frandsen
  31119.  
  31120. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6086866> almost 2 years ago
  31121.  
  31122. Dear WEDG,
  31123.  
  31124. If we do not take back our contribution – how likely are we to
  31125. receive our WEDGs?
  31126.  
  31127. Best,
  31128. Hjalte
  31129.  
  31130.  
  31131.  
  31132.  
  31133. MARC-ANDRE RUNCIE-UNGER
  31134.  
  31135. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/5105783> almost 2 years ago
  31136.  
  31137. Will we get an update on the legal issue prior to the end of the survey?
  31138.  
  31139.  
  31140.  
  31141.  
  31142. Team WEDG
  31143.  
  31144. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner almost 2
  31145. years ago
  31146.  
  31147. Big thanks @MyWorks Design! :)
  31148.  
  31149.  
  31150.  
  31151.  
  31152. Team WEDG
  31153.  
  31154. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner almost 2
  31155. years ago
  31156.  
  31157. @astron thanks for the questions; frankly right now we just don’t
  31158. know, results from the survey will shed more light on WEDG future
  31159. and how we deal with the impact. Demands from contributors have been
  31160. for a means of refund without cause for what this will mean for the
  31161. overall project. We don’t intend to give up on WEDG and are
  31162. committed to bringing it market. The legal issue is our highest
  31163. priority right now. ^Chris
  31164.  
  31165.  
  31166.  
  31167.  
  31168. MyWorks Design
  31169.  
  31170. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8394882> almost 2 years ago
  31171.  
  31172. Just finished the survey too, heck yea we want our Wedg!
  31173.  
  31174.  
  31175.  
  31176.  
  31177. astron
  31178.  
  31179. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/5182113> almost 2 years ago
  31180.  
  31181. I hope you guys can shed some more light in this. I’m holding back
  31182. my survey until then…
  31183.  
  31184.  
  31185.  
  31186.  
  31187. astron
  31188.  
  31189. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/5182113> almost 2 years ago
  31190.  
  31191. As much as I would like to stay faithful to WEDG I fail to see a
  31192. clear comminucation in this matter. To me as a backer, in order to
  31193. make this decision, there are questions that haven’t been
  31194. sufficiently answered. What are the possible outcomes of this
  31195. situation? Will the work progress in a regular and timely fashion if
  31196. a favorable agreement can be reached? What if they fail to reach an
  31197. agreement in favor of WEDG? Would this put the whole project to an
  31198. end? Would this cause financial issues?
  31199.  
  31200.  
  31201.  
  31202.  
  31203. Team WEDG
  31204.  
  31205. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner almost 2
  31206. years ago
  31207.  
  31208. You rock @Tiger Bus thank you!
  31209. As @Tiger Bus said the survey has been sent. Please check your
  31210. PayPal attached email addresses including the Junk folder.
  31211.  
  31212. Please allow at least 24 hours to inform us if you have not received
  31213. the survey. After 24 hours if you still haven’t received the survey
  31214. please email us at info@wedg.co no other form of communication
  31215. regarding this matter will be responded to.
  31216.  
  31217.  
  31218.  
  31219.  
  31220. Tiger Bus
  31221.  
  31222. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706731> almost 2 years ago
  31223.  
  31224. Survey done, staying on board! Want my
  31225. intel-raid-double-bla-super-butt SOON! ;)
  31226.  
  31227.  
  31228.  
  31229.  
  31230. jrogers31
  31231.  
  31232. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  31233.  
  31234. To Chris @Team WEDG – presumably the UPDATE notifications go to the
  31235. PayPal associated email addresses?
  31236.  
  31237. However, if you are in any doubt about ensuring that all backers
  31238. receive the email with the link to the poll – in addition to
  31239. reconciling email addresses you should also send an UPDATE to
  31240. confirm the email with the poll link has been sent AND post a
  31241. message in the comments section.
  31242.  
  31243.  
  31244.  
  31245.  
  31246. Team WEDG
  31247.  
  31248. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner almost 2
  31249. years ago
  31250.  
  31251. The survey is complete, since the last survey many backers have
  31252. changed their PayPal email address and we are reconciling email
  31253. addresses to ensure nobody is missed and there are zero
  31254. administrative anomalies. ^Chris
  31255.  
  31256.  
  31257.  
  31258.  
  31259. jrogers31
  31260.  
  31261. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  31262.  
  31263. From the delay in sending out the poll to the backers one assumes
  31264. that the poll when it does come will consist of an extensive number
  31265. of complex questions. I would have thought that the poll could be
  31266. simplified to: -
  31267. 1. Do you believe in WEDG and are you prepared to wait for the
  31268. “legal” issues to be settled?
  31269. 2. Do you no longer believe in WEDG and would you like your money back?
  31270. My answer to 1. is NO.
  31271. My answer to 2. is YES
  31272. If the poll does not come soon then responses will appear under comments
  31273.  
  31274.  
  31275.  
  31276.  
  31277. Nikolai Tesla
  31278.  
  31279. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> almost 2 years ago
  31280.  
  31281. @Shehbaz: This weekend is almost over (for some of us) and you
  31282. mentioned the following: “As explained in our last update; this
  31283. weekend Chris will be sending out a survey for you tell us if you
  31284. want a refund to your contribution”. Where is the survey? and please
  31285. don’t wait two weeks to provide the results, there is no need for
  31286. further delays. Thank you.
  31287.  
  31288.  
  31289.  
  31290.  
  31291. Justin Walton
  31292.  
  31293. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8707801> almost 2 years ago
  31294.  
  31295. We have some news on the legal discussions. Good news! But if we
  31296. will only have two weeks to decide if we want a refund, will there
  31297. be more news from the mediation team as well? If I am forced to
  31298. decide based on the current glacial pace the negotiations, I may
  31299. well I might have to make the “wrong” choice. I still believe in the
  31300. dream you all had @ Team WEDG. But do I still believe you can free
  31301. the project from it’s legal shackles in a timely manner? That is the
  31302. question …
  31303.  
  31304.  
  31305.  
  31306.  
  31307. paul.kulhavy
  31308.  
  31309. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8709012> almost 2 years ago
  31310.  
  31311. I’ve backed this project from the start (kickstarter), but its been
  31312. a long story of lengthy delays and excuses – and now it seems
  31313. unlikely to me that the WEDG will ever get done – legal costs may
  31314. sink the project.
  31315.  
  31316. If the WEDG ever comes out as a retail item or finished product
  31317. online then I will happily buy it and pay the bigger retail price
  31318. and congratulate you – but 16 months is a year too long.
  31319.  
  31320. I want a refund – so send that poll out. Return my pledge.
  31321.  
  31322.  
  31323.  
  31324.  
  31325. richard alter
  31326.  
  31327. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/1968091> almost 2 years ago
  31328.  
  31329. This is not how mediation works. Sounds very strange to me
  31330.  
  31331.  
  31332.  
  31333.  
  31334. jrogers31
  31335.  
  31336. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  31337.  
  31338. It’s not in the interest of the legal team to set deadlines for an
  31339. agreement to be reached. I would think that a London firm would bill
  31340. around £350.00 – £500.00 per hour – plus VAT. I don’t understand why
  31341. the “American software company” cannot be named and shamed if it is
  31342. true that they have no interest in this technology other than to
  31343. profit from the happenstance of an employee who was on gardening
  31344. leave who wrote a few lines of code for a company who failed in its
  31345. due diligence in hiring him.
  31346.  
  31347.  
  31348.  
  31349.  
  31350. Team WEDG
  31351.  
  31352. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner almost 2
  31353. years ago
  31354.  
  31355. @MyWorks Design not at this stage, we have pressed for deadlines
  31356. along milestones and hope that they will be implemented. ^Shehbaz
  31357.  
  31358.  
  31359.  
  31360.  
  31361. MyWorks Design
  31362.  
  31363. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8394882> almost 2 years ago
  31364.  
  31365. Is there a deadline any legal team has set on the mediation?
  31366.  
  31367.  
  31368.  
  31369.  
  31370. jrogers31
  31371.  
  31372. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  31373.  
  31374. 2 of 2 Because of the delay in doing a deal with the “third party”,
  31375. I have a sense that the “third-party” issue may be conveniently
  31376. disguising more fundamental problems with the project – hardware,
  31377. software, supply contractors or another issue. I do not accept that
  31378. legal reasons exists for the total lack of transparency in the
  31379. updates. Please poll the backers without any further delay
  31380.  
  31381.  
  31382.  
  31383.  
  31384. jrogers31
  31385.  
  31386. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> almost 2 years ago
  31387.  
  31388. 1 of 2 A poll of the backers as suggested 15 days ago is essential –
  31389. if there are only a small number of backers that want a refund –
  31390. then refund them promptly. If there are a large number of backers
  31391. that want a refund – then team WEDG will have no choice other that
  31392. do a deal with the third party and get the project moving again. I
  31393. do not understand why that has not been done already – after all
  31394. WEDG failed in their due diligence hiring the programmer as he
  31395. failed to be honest with WEDG.
  31396.  
  31397.  
  31398.  
  31399.  
  31400. MyWorks Design
  31401.  
  31402. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8394882> almost 2 years ago
  31403.  
  31404. 2/2 (Cont.) ,,,daily updates just a paragraph long, outlining the
  31405. most current progress. I bet 99% of us don’t care about T-Shirts, we
  31406. just want to see the latest legal or product progress – both are
  31407. equally important. While we understand you have to run it by your
  31408. legal team, I don’t see it in any way damaging to either side if you
  31409. give us mediation status.
  31410.  
  31411.  
  31412.  
  31413.  
  31414. MyWorks Design
  31415.  
  31416. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8394882> almost 2 years ago
  31417.  
  31418. Nikolai,
  31419.  
  31420. You have valid concerns, and I understand where you’re coming from –
  31421. it’s only fair that some backers get a refund, it’s not like it will
  31422. kill the project if it’s only a few.
  31423.  
  31424. However, I’m sure they’re busy – plus there’s a legal team that I’m
  31425. sure is standing between them and their updates to us. Just a guess
  31426. though, but I agree that’s a weak point of theirs.
  31427.  
  31428. @Wedge – we just want to see progress. I bet you’ll squash all
  31429. refund requests by posting (cont.)
  31430.  
  31431.  
  31432.  
  31433.  
  31434. Nikolai Tesla
  31435.  
  31436. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> almost 2 years ago
  31437.  
  31438. Please provide a choice to the funders in order to receive a full
  31439. refund if they wish. If not, make it clear to all here. This way it
  31440. provides a clear indication on how some funders may resolve this
  31441. situation.
  31442.  
  31443.  
  31444.  
  31445.  
  31446. Nikolai Tesla
  31447.  
  31448. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> almost 2 years ago
  31449.  
  31450. I knew that my funds were to provide support for this project but
  31451. there are other issues at hand that require close attention if they
  31452. wish to succeed. Refunds should be a no issue if there are only “a
  31453. vocal minority that makes a lot of noise” as mentioned previously. I
  31454. want to “believe” in the WEDG but each update makes it a step closer
  31455. not to.
  31456.  
  31457.  
  31458.  
  31459.  
  31460. Nikolai Tesla
  31461.  
  31462. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> almost 2 years ago
  31463.  
  31464. @MyWorks Design, Philipp Stäheli: Understood, since that was the
  31465. main reason I even funded the project to begin with. The issue is at
  31466. the end of the day they are a company (or trying to be). Here is a
  31467. nice example, two days ago Shehbaz posts the following “shortly we
  31468. will be sending out a survey” and two days have passed with no such
  31469. survey. They also post about “positive outcomes from a meeting
  31470. yesterday will also be included in this update” which there is no
  31471. such update as of this post.
  31472.  
  31473.  
  31474.  
  31475.  
  31476. MyWorks Design
  31477.  
  31478. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8394882> almost 2 years ago
  31479.  
  31480. Guys, relax! Like Phillip said, it’s not like there’s something else
  31481. like this even as an idea yet out there! Sure, Transporter, but
  31482. that’s such a far comparison. In a lot of our opinion, it’s worth
  31483. the wait. Hopefully a shorter wait, nevertheless – with frequent
  31484. updates ;)
  31485.  
  31486.  
  31487.  
  31488.  
  31489. Philipp Stäheli
  31490.  
  31491. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8723017> almost 2 years ago
  31492.  
  31493. Common backers, do not dispair! It’s not like there is another
  31494. wedg-kind of thing waiting around the corner. Forget about this
  31495. campain for a while and it might be over sooner than you think and
  31496. all will be good.
  31497.  
  31498.  
  31499.  
  31500.  
  31501. Team WEDG
  31502.  
  31503. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner almost 2
  31504. years ago
  31505.  
  31506. @Peter Dalmaris thank you very much for your support! : ) ^Chris
  31507.  
  31508.  
  31509.  
  31510.  
  31511. Peter Dalmaris
  31512.  
  31513. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/7104926> almost 2 years ago
  31514.  
  31515. I’m sticking with you Team WEDG, thank you for the frequent updates.
  31516.  
  31517.  
  31518.  
  31519.  
  31520. Team WEDG
  31521.  
  31522. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner almost 2
  31523. years ago
  31524.  
  31525. @Ken Taylor thank you for your everlasting supper and understanding
  31526. in this matter. ^Chris
  31527.  
  31528.  
  31529.  
  31530.  
  31531. Ken Taylor
  31532.  
  31533. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6123904> almost 2 years ago
  31534.  
  31535. Wedg have not believe breached any of the T&C, YES there’s a delay
  31536. caused by the legal case but i dont believe WEDG are “unable to
  31537. fulfill any of its commitments to Contributors (including delivering
  31538. any Perks)”
  31539. lm funding an idea not “buying” a product. IMHO Certain backers here
  31540. need to close their crowd funding accounts and wait for products to
  31541. arrive in Best Buy, PC World, ETC,
  31542. Would i like to already have my WEDG – Yes! but I will wait
  31543. Unfortunately a vocal minority make a lot of noise.
  31544.  
  31545.  
  31546.  
  31547.  
  31548. Team WEDG
  31549.  
  31550. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner almost 2
  31551. years ago
  31552.  
  31553. @nikolai we’re preparing things to survey backers on this matter and
  31554. an update will be sent out later this evening. Some positive
  31555. outcomes from a meeting yesterday will also be included in this
  31556. update. ^Chris
  31557.  
  31558.  
  31559.  
  31560.  
  31561. Nikolai Tesla
  31562.  
  31563. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> almost 2 years ago
  31564.  
  31565. @Team WEDG: Thank you for providing the much awaited notice. Sadly
  31566. it still does not provide a timeline or an educated estimate of when
  31567. this legal issue may be resolved. Since this information has not
  31568. been provided I still demand a refund, otherwise I will need to seek
  31569. counsel on how to resolve this very matter.
  31570.  
  31571.  
  31572.  
  31573.  
  31574. James Taylor
  31575.  
  31576. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/5657565> 2 years ago
  31577.  
  31578. @Wedg – I will wait, but I confess my patience is running thin. I
  31579. have been through legal battles and mediation so I understand the
  31580. process, but that also means that I understand how the third party
  31581. can easily mess with you. You have continued to report they are
  31582. empathetic but tied by policy, and I find no support for that. They
  31583. can not empathetically watch your project die on the vine… They are
  31584. a business and can find a business solution to let you move forward.
  31585. Or not.
  31586.  
  31587.  
  31588.  
  31589.  
  31590. jrogers31
  31591.  
  31592. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> 2 years ago
  31593.  
  31594. 2 of 2 Refund them promptly and move on at the pace dictated by the
  31595. legal team and mediation. Only the ‘believers’ will remain waiting
  31596. and only the ‘believers’ will be taking the risk.
  31597.  
  31598. I do not think it is for anyone to judge whether contributors made
  31599. significant or insignificant contribution – for me it is a matter of
  31600. trust and a matter of principle.
  31601.  
  31602.  
  31603.  
  31604.  
  31605. jrogers31
  31606.  
  31607. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> 2 years ago
  31608.  
  31609. 1 of 2 @Dermot Loughnane neatly takes us back to the suggestion I
  31610. made 8 days ago.
  31611.  
  31612. Make available a full refund all the contributors to the campaign
  31613. who have decided that they no longer wish to endure any further
  31614. delays in light of the fact that the promise of fully functioning
  31615. units by March 2015 has not been fulfilled.
  31616.  
  31617.  
  31618.  
  31619.  
  31620. Dermot Loughnane
  31621.  
  31622. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/1839484> 2 years ago
  31623.  
  31624. Thanks for the update, given the small amounts of money individually
  31625. at stake here I’m not sure why people are so cranky about this. Shit
  31626. happens but you seem to be doing your best to resolve unfortunate
  31627. circumstances and I’m happy to wait till you can crank out my WEDG.
  31628. Good luck with the mediation and look forward to hearing how it went.
  31629.  
  31630.  
  31631.  
  31632.  
  31633. jrogers31
  31634.  
  31635. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> 2 years ago
  31636.  
  31637. Thank you for the update, which I read with interest. From my point
  31638. of view it does not add any significant detail to what I thought I
  31639. already knew from previous messages and updates.
  31640.  
  31641. Blazon PR who arranged your crowd funding on Indiegogo state on
  31642. their website that “We believe in open, honest and transparent
  31643. communications.” I find your responses inconsistent with that statement.
  31644.  
  31645. I would be grateful if you would kindly arrange for a full refund of
  31646. the £624.00 I contributed to the campaign.
  31647.  
  31648.  
  31649.  
  31650.  
  31651. Nikolai Tesla
  31652.  
  31653. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> 2 years ago
  31654.  
  31655. Team WEDG, sadly I am in the same camp as the latest posts. I am
  31656. requesting the option for a full refund. Your idea and push to
  31657. provide the Wedg was tremendous but these legal issues has given me
  31658. a lost in confidence with this project.
  31659.  
  31660.  
  31661.  
  31662.  
  31663. spencer robinson
  31664.  
  31665. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/9152571> 2 years ago
  31666.  
  31667. @jrogers31 +1 :-(
  31668.  
  31669.  
  31670.  
  31671.  
  31672. jrogers31
  31673.  
  31674. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> 2 years ago
  31675.  
  31676. 7-days has passed since a comprehensive update was promised
  31677. regarding issues highlighted in the messages below. One wonders when
  31678. the lawyers will approve the release of the update – how much time
  31679. do they need? Is this update a multipage document requiring hours of
  31680. their professional time or is this a thinly veiled attempt by the
  31681. WEDG to continue stalling. From my point of view trust in WEDG is
  31682. rapidly evaporating and as a result I am now with Ron Ko and would
  31683. like to be fully refunded please.
  31684.  
  31685.  
  31686.  
  31687.  
  31688. Team WEDG
  31689.  
  31690. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  31691.  
  31692. @Ken Taylor yes I believe mediation was agreed upon is legally
  31693. binding. Something that Shehbaz’s pending update includes is how
  31694. we’re looking at ways to allow the case run its course and allow us
  31695. to segue way and recode efficiently. Thank you for support Ken. ^Chris
  31696.  
  31697.  
  31698.  
  31699.  
  31700. Team WEDG
  31701.  
  31702. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  31703.  
  31704. @Ron Ko my to you has disappeared as well. No need to
  31705. apologise, we’re all frustrated and hoping things a resolved soon.
  31706. Thanks for clarifying all the same. ^Chris
  31707.  
  31708.  
  31709.  
  31710.  
  31711. Team WEDG
  31712.  
  31713. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  31714.  
  31715. Hi Guys
  31716. I posted a comment here yesterday but it seems to have disappeared.
  31717. I’ve only noticed upon seeing @Ken Taylor’s message come through.
  31718.  
  31719. My comment was to say that Shehbaz is waiting for the legal team to
  31720. approve his update, its comprehensive and covers a great deal and so
  31721. there is a delay as a result. Apologies for the delay ^Chris
  31722.  
  31723.  
  31724.  
  31725.  
  31726. Ken Taylor
  31727.  
  31728. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6123904> 2 years ago
  31729.  
  31730. Hi WEDG Team,
  31731. Is the mediation decision legally binding for both parties?
  31732. I hope that the mediation reaches an amicable solution.
  31733. If Not then the Developer has loads to answer for due to false
  31734. representation. The insurance company may wish to go after him for
  31735. costs.
  31736. Then more lawyers will be needed to make sure a rewrite of the
  31737. compromised code is provable beyond a reasonable doubt to be
  31738. completely fresh, not influenced or tainted in any way. “clean” so
  31739. no IP can be claimed over it.
  31740. Good Luck
  31741.  
  31742.  
  31743.  
  31744.  
  31745. Ron Ko
  31746.  
  31747. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8444779> 2 years ago
  31748.  
  31749. Hi Chris, thanks for your response. Frankly speaking, I have lost
  31750. patience to the products perked via IGG. “Disappointed” is the only
  31751. word to comment. Please accept my apology and wish WEDG with great
  31752. success in future. Please advise me the refund channel, thanks.
  31753.  
  31754.  
  31755.  
  31756.  
  31757. Team WEDG
  31758.  
  31759. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  31760.  
  31761. @Justin Walton my pending update will provide more answers – but as
  31762. you know I have to ensure its content doesn’t infringe on the
  31763. various agreements between WEDG and other parties. Once approved
  31764. it’ll be online. ^Shehbaz
  31765.  
  31766.  
  31767.  
  31768.  
  31769. Justin Walton
  31770.  
  31771. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8707801> 2 years ago
  31772.  
  31773. @jrogers31 – I agree with all your comments about the pace of change
  31774. in the tech. sector. I’ve been backing WEDG since early Kickstarter
  31775. days. We all want to know what’s happening, that’s why I see a
  31776. problem with polling now, we don’t yet know how long we might have
  31777. to wait. Would you vote for a refund this month if WEDG was shipped
  31778. to everyone else a week later? But other devices are now available,
  31779. even from major suppliers, that provide the core functionality. We
  31780. need more input from team WEDG
  31781.  
  31782.  
  31783.  
  31784.  
  31785. Team WEDG
  31786.  
  31787. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  31788.  
  31789. @Ron Ko Shehbaz is preparing an update for all discussed issues
  31790. below and will post as soon as possible, ^Chris
  31791.  
  31792.  
  31793.  
  31794.  
  31795. Ron Ko
  31796.  
  31797. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8444779> 2 years ago
  31798.  
  31799. Hello, any channel for refund?
  31800.  
  31801.  
  31802.  
  31803.  
  31804. jrogers31
  31805.  
  31806. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> 2 years ago
  31807.  
  31808. 2 of 2 @Justin Watson -Things move quickly in the tech sector. Is
  31809. WEDG a pipe dream or is it deliverable? If it is deliverable and if
  31810. it is a game changer, which backers thought it was going to be when
  31811. they made their contributions then the “third party hold up” is a
  31812. trivial matter with a deal to be done to move the project on. If the
  31813. hardware or software can’t be made to deliver the objectives
  31814. reliably – then it’s a dead duck. If you want to find out where this
  31815. project is going–poll the backers
  31816.  
  31817.  
  31818.  
  31819.  
  31820. jrogers31
  31821.  
  31822. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> 2 years ago
  31823.  
  31824. 1 of 2 @Justin Watson – as things stand we only know what we have
  31825. been told, which is very little. Development of the device is on
  31826. hold, a nameless third party has an interest because of the prior
  31827. contractual obligations of an employee hired -?in good faith with
  31828. -?failure of due diligence. Is it possible there are other reasons?
  31829. When backers pitched in some 9 months or so ago the device and
  31830. stretch goals were relevant and desirable within the time frame of a
  31831. Spring delivery.
  31832.  
  31833.  
  31834.  
  31835.  
  31836. Justin Walton
  31837.  
  31838. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8707801> 2 years ago
  31839.  
  31840. @jrogers31 – I see one small problem with polling the backers, while
  31841. some may want a refund now, others will be prepared to wait a bit
  31842. longer. Perhaps a few may wait indefinitely. I’m not in the last
  31843. category, so would need an idea of how long it would take to resolve
  31844. the legal issues. As you rightly point out, lawyers aren’t in any
  31845. rush! So how long is the piece of string? When might everything be
  31846. resolved? I doubt anyone could even give an estimate. My choices in
  31847. such a poll seem limited.
  31848.  
  31849.  
  31850.  
  31851.  
  31852. Team WEDG
  31853.  
  31854. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  31855.  
  31856. @jrogers31 thanks for your comments. I will respond to you and the
  31857. general debate fully in an update as I have been discussing these
  31858. comments with our advisory team (made up of legal, insurance and
  31859. business mentors) this afternoon. Since we are in a sensitive
  31860. position the update as usual will be approved by our legal team
  31861. first. I will stress the point though the purpose of taking on
  31862. mediation is to break free from the pace of the third party and to
  31863. move the case along quickly. Regards, Shehbaz
  31864.  
  31865.  
  31866.  
  31867.  
  31868. jrogers31
  31869.  
  31870. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> 2 years ago
  31871.  
  31872. 3 of 3
  31873. If the WEDG team find that only a small proportion of the
  31874. contributors would wish to be fully refunded – then refund them
  31875. promptly and move on at the pace dictated by the legal team (it is
  31876. in their pecuniary interest to move slowly). Only the ‘believers’
  31877. will remain waiting.
  31878.  
  31879. If the WEDG team find that a large proportion of the contributors
  31880. would wish to be fully refunded – then this will add the urgency and
  31881. focus that I believe is required to get the project back on track.
  31882.  
  31883.  
  31884.  
  31885.  
  31886. jrogers31
  31887.  
  31888. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> 2 years ago
  31889.  
  31890. 2 of 3
  31891. 1. Make available a full refund all the contributors to the campaign
  31892. who have decided that they no longer wish to endure any further
  31893. delays in light of the fact that the promise of fully functioning
  31894. units by March 2015 has not been fulfilled.
  31895.  
  31896. 2. Poll all the contributors to see how many would wish to opt for a
  31897. full refund of the funds they contributed.
  31898.  
  31899.  
  31900.  
  31901.  
  31902. jrogers31
  31903.  
  31904. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> 2 years ago
  31905.  
  31906. 1 of 3
  31907.  
  31908. I have read the recent exchanges and while I have some sympathy for
  31909. the WEDG team and the current “legal” predicament I believe Nikolai
  31910. Tesla has a very valid point and I support his position. As a result
  31911. I suggest the following, which may focus the WEDG team on arriving
  31912. at a solution with the unnamed “third party”.
  31913.  
  31914.  
  31915.  
  31916.  
  31917. Team WEDG
  31918.  
  31919. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  31920.  
  31921. smadyk please send us your new address along with your PayPal email
  31922. address to infowedg.co and I’ll update our records, I’ll contact you
  31923. before we print the post labels to double check. ^Chris
  31924.  
  31925.  
  31926.  
  31927.  
  31928. smadyk
  31929.  
  31930. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/7989688> 2 years ago
  31931.  
  31932. @Team WEDG I’m going to move house in the next month, will you ask
  31933. for the addresses before to send it (when it’d be ready)?
  31934.  
  31935.  
  31936.  
  31937.  
  31938. Team WEDG
  31939.  
  31940. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  31941.  
  31942. @Nikolai Tesla personally I do not want to endure this experience a
  31943. moment longer than I have to. The dream remains to fulfil IGG orders
  31944. and bring WEDG to market, if this seems unlikely post mediation we
  31945. will seek ‘Plan A, Plan B etc’. But I have to stress that we are
  31946. hopeful with the involvement of mediation a successful outcome is
  31947. highly likely – the third party accepting mediation without
  31948. resistance is a very positive sign indeed. Best regards Shehbaz
  31949.  
  31950.  
  31951.  
  31952.  
  31953. Team WEDG
  31954.  
  31955. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  31956.  
  31957. @Nikolai Tesla I don’t believe a conspiracy is at play here. Having
  31958. heard the developer’s testimony we here believe his rationale for
  31959. taking on employment elsewhere and keeping his garden leave a
  31960. secret; we do not justify it and he recognises the harm he has
  31961. caused and is regretful of his actions. But that doesn’t change
  31962. anything.
  31963.  
  31964. For the foreseeable future we must commit to the procedure as we are
  31965. under contract with various parties now. We and more cont…1/2
  31966.  
  31967.  
  31968.  
  31969.  
  31970. Nikolai Tesla
  31971.  
  31972. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> 2 years ago
  31973.  
  31974. @Team WEDG: Sadly the burden is on you, Team WEDG, to provide your
  31975. Funders with a satisfying solution and not just leave it to the
  31976. legal team. It is hard and it is not fair after all the hard work
  31977. you have done as of this date to bring up this superb idea just to
  31978. have a single person bring it to a complete halt. What options are
  31979. there? Shirts and stickers is not the main reason we successfully
  31980. funded this project, it is for the WEDG (your device)!
  31981.  
  31982.  
  31983.  
  31984.  
  31985. Nikolai Tesla
  31986.  
  31987. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> 2 years ago
  31988.  
  31989. @Team WEDG 2 fo 2: The third party legal team could easily drag this
  31990. issue for eternity (unless I am ignorant to some British law) if
  31991. they so wished. It is reasonable to assume that many, if not all, of
  31992. the Funders will not wait indefinitely for this issue to sort out.
  31993. Team WEDG needs to provide a plan A, B or even a C if this legal
  31994. issue drags out for another month.
  31995.  
  31996.  
  31997.  
  31998.  
  31999. Nikolai Tesla
  32000.  
  32001. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> 2 years ago
  32002.  
  32003. @Team WEDG 1 fo 2: My faith for the WEDG project is demonstrated
  32004. with my already provided funds and as agreed the WEDG Team agreed on
  32005. providing the corresponding perk early 2015. It could have been bad
  32006. timing or an intentional sabotage (conspiracy mind here) that the
  32007. contracted developer worked on WEDG code during his “garden leave”
  32008. which in turn completely legally halted this great project.
  32009.  
  32010.  
  32011.  
  32012.  
  32013. Team WEDG
  32014.  
  32015. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  32016.  
  32017. @Ton Sonneveldt i.e. to show we are willing and co-operative and to
  32018. prevent any further charges against us. ^Shehbaz
  32019.  
  32020.  
  32021.  
  32022.  
  32023. Team WEDG
  32024.  
  32025. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  32026.  
  32027. @Ton Sonneveldt i.e. the third party. It is this which is in
  32028. dispute. For many of us it seems clear that WEDG is not at fault –
  32029. however the third party simply don’t see it this way and after
  32030. deliberating with them directly we have chosen the route of
  32031. mediation to which they have agreed. They have refuted clean builds
  32032. claiming that we must prove the developer’s influence won’t in the
  32033. new build.
  32034.  
  32035. The entire situation is disappointing and frustrating but we must
  32036. follow the due process to cont.
  32037.  
  32038.  
  32039.  
  32040.  
  32041. Team WEDG
  32042.  
  32043. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  32044.  
  32045. @Ton Sonneveldt I understand your frustration. Indeed we do have a
  32046. contract with the developer and the agency through whom we hired him
  32047. had references and performed due diligence before bringing him to
  32048. our attention as any professional recruitment agency would. He chose
  32049. not to disclose his employment at the third party where he is on
  32050. garden leave. His contract of employment states that any work
  32051. related to his employment during or outside of working hours is the
  32052. IP of his employer cont…
  32053.  
  32054.  
  32055.  
  32056.  
  32057. Team WEDG
  32058.  
  32059. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  32060.  
  32061. @MyWorks Design as we understand it the mediation team are gathering
  32062. facts and information about the case and reading through meeting
  32063. minutes. Our first meeting/review with the mediation team is
  32064. scheduled for Tuesday 23rd June and Shehbaz will be attending that
  32065. with our legal team. ^Chris
  32066.  
  32067.  
  32068.  
  32069.  
  32070. Ton Sonneveldt
  32071.  
  32072. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/631163> 2 years ago
  32073.  
  32074. part 2:
  32075. As it is taking so many months now to solve that problem it seems
  32076. that you had no good contract with the person you hired for the
  32077. coding. I am getting skeptical about the whole project as there
  32078. seems to be no developments in this case and certainly no new date
  32079. for producing the hardware, solving the software problem (by hiring
  32080. someone else to recode the disputed part) or delivering. How much
  32081. time you think you still need to deliver? Hope to hear from you.
  32082.  
  32083.  
  32084.  
  32085.  
  32086. Ton Sonneveldt
  32087.  
  32088. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/631163> 2 years ago
  32089.  
  32090. part 1:
  32091. I am one of those funders expecting a good piece of hardware and
  32092. software based on your information during the Indiegogo campaign; to
  32093. be delivered early 2015. By that time it became clear that you could
  32094. not deliver the hardware – there was still only a prototype – but
  32095. you explained that lack of realization by bringing up a problem with
  32096. a third party concerning a software developer who worked for you but
  32097. also for them.
  32098.  
  32099.  
  32100.  
  32101.  
  32102. MyWorks Design
  32103.  
  32104. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8394882> 2 years ago
  32105.  
  32106. Hey guys,
  32107.  
  32108. Any update? How’s the mediation?
  32109.  
  32110. Thanks!!
  32111.  
  32112.  
  32113.  
  32114.  
  32115. Team WEDG
  32116.  
  32117. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  32118.  
  32119. @Justin Walton haha! that brought a smile to our faces : ) love to
  32120. see the Mediators sporting WEDG Tshirts in meetings with complete
  32121. nonchalance! I think Tubthumping will be our theme song after all
  32122. this is behind us. Thanks for your support Justin and everyone,
  32123. looking forward to getting the Tees out to you soon! ^Shehbaz
  32124.  
  32125.  
  32126.  
  32127.  
  32128. Justin Walton
  32129.  
  32130. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8707801> 2 years ago
  32131.  
  32132. Tee shirts and stickers! Hurrah! Something to quieten all the
  32133. doubters out there who thought they’d get nothing after the legal
  32134. issues became apparent. One more thing crossed off the long ‘to do’
  32135. list on the road to success. Have you ordered a few some extra for
  32136. the mediation team to wear in negotiations? Let’s hope those
  32137. discussions do only take a short time. I feel the need to play
  32138. Tubthumping by Chumbawamba and thumb my nose at all lawyers in
  32139. general. Keep up the good work Team WEDG.
  32140.  
  32141.  
  32142.  
  32143.  
  32144. Team WEDG
  32145.  
  32146. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  32147.  
  32148. @Justin Walton thank you for your support Justin. We have amazing
  32149. support from our legal team; I know Shehbaz is in talks with them
  32150. often during and outside of normal business hours and yes this was a
  32151. course of action suggested by them. Thanks again : ) ^Chris
  32152.  
  32153.  
  32154.  
  32155.  
  32156. Justin Walton
  32157.  
  32158. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8707801> 2 years ago
  32159.  
  32160. @Shehbaz and Team WEDG. Thank-you for the update, it’s good to have
  32161. these more regular posts from you guys. Whatever you are able to
  32162. tell us is always gratefully received. I am encouraged that the
  32163. legal team have suggested this course of action, and that the
  32164. insurers are supporting it. I hope your selected mediator has a big
  32165. stick! I still believe.
  32166.  
  32167.  
  32168.  
  32169.  
  32170. Team WEDG
  32171.  
  32172. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  32173.  
  32174. Just a quick note to say I have been in intense talks with the third
  32175. party this week, details of which I will share with you as soon as
  32176. approved by our legal support. I suspect however this maybe early
  32177. next week with it being the end of the working week.
  32178. ^Shehbaz
  32179.  
  32180.  
  32181.  
  32182.  
  32183. Team WEDG
  32184.  
  32185. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  32186.  
  32187. @Nikolai Tesla 2/2 while I can’t discuss working terms and
  32188. agreements in place with the individual team members, I will say
  32189. that none of us, including myself have drawn a salary from WEDG, not
  32190. until we fulfil IGG orders and get to market thereafter.
  32191. ^Shehbaz
  32192.  
  32193.  
  32194.  
  32195.  
  32196. Team WEDG
  32197.  
  32198. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  32199.  
  32200. @Nikolai Tesla the medium to long term plan for the project if these
  32201. issues continues is something I am personally restless about and
  32202. seeking seeking counsel from experts who can advise contingency and
  32203. strategically. Furthermore points you raise are stressed to the
  32204. third party on a regular basis so we one way or another we may
  32205. proceed with bringing the project to market.
  32206.  
  32207. The team are committed to WEDG, some are working on other projects
  32208. alongside WEDG till we are able pick up ground again 1/2
  32209.  
  32210.  
  32211.  
  32212.  
  32213. Nikolai Tesla
  32214.  
  32215. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> 2 years ago
  32216.  
  32217. 2 of 2 @Team WEDG: This is not even considering your WEDG team (14
  32218. as of today) is either working for free or not. It is almost two
  32219. months since this product should have shipped. What are your
  32220. contingency plans if the legal issue drags for another four months?
  32221. There is a limit.
  32222.  
  32223.  
  32224.  
  32225.  
  32226. Nikolai Tesla
  32227.  
  32228. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> 2 years ago
  32229.  
  32230. 1 of 2 @Team WEDG, Pierre Lang has a very valid point which brings
  32231. up the following question: how long are you willing this legal
  32232. issue? Definitely you can not do so indefinitely since your
  32233. technology and ideal will be surpassed by someone else making it
  32234. irrelevant in due time. Also, as I have mentioned on an earlier
  32235. posted comment, your manufacturing partners will no longer able to
  32236. honour your agreed prices from almost a year ago which in turn dig
  32237. into your raised funds.
  32238.  
  32239.  
  32240.  
  32241.  
  32242. Team WEDG
  32243.  
  32244. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  32245.  
  32246. @Pierre Lang the legal procedure hasn’t cost us a penny fortunately
  32247. as we have business insurance which is paying for a great legal
  32248. team. Ditching his work and starting again isn’t possible yet as
  32249. we’d have to prove a number of factors regarding the authenticity of
  32250. the ’new’code – that in actual fact would be a legal procedure
  32251. within itself. ^Chris
  32252.  
  32253.  
  32254.  
  32255.  
  32256. Pierre Lang
  32257.  
  32258. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4161016> 2 years ago
  32259.  
  32260. Sorry to add to the (maybe) useless comments, but considering your
  32261. statement here: http://wedg.co/news/statement-12-04-15.pdf the
  32262. developer worked for you from late january to end of march.
  32263. This is, more or less, 2 months worth of work.
  32264. Of course, I’m not aware of what the legal issue exactly is, but did
  32265. you consider simply ditching his work, and have someone else recode
  32266. independently what is in dispute? Anyway, the legal proc.probably
  32267. did cost you more than these 2 months of work already…
  32268.  
  32269.  
  32270.  
  32271.  
  32272. Team WEDG
  32273.  
  32274. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  32275.  
  32276. @George Baily unfortunately we don’t, the updates are the most
  32277. comprehensive details on the issue. ^Chris
  32278.  
  32279.  
  32280.  
  32281.  
  32282. George Baily
  32283.  
  32284. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/5420941> 2 years ago
  32285.  
  32286. As someone who (sorry) is not up to date with your legal issue, do
  32287. you have a blog post or status page where someone can catch up to
  32288. what that is all about, without having to read back through each
  32289. fragmentary status update?
  32290.  
  32291.  
  32292.  
  32293.  
  32294. Team WEDG
  32295.  
  32296. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  32297.  
  32298. @Veehem as @Marc-André Runcie-Unger (thanks for chipping in) said.
  32299. Furthermore, we have promised to deliver a single complete solution
  32300. to IGG backers and retail partners; it would be commercially
  32301. impossible to only produce a handful of units without the WEDG OS.
  32302. Also, the WEDG OS is designed to be flashed on to the hardware, your
  32303. suggestion is untested ground.
  32304.  
  32305.  
  32306.  
  32307.  
  32308. MARC-ANDRE RUNCIE-UNGER
  32309.  
  32310. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/5105783> 2 years ago
  32311.  
  32312. @veehem I am guessing the wedg needs an operating system like
  32313. anything else. If the legal dispute is related to that part of the
  32314. software there is no way to use the hardware without it. So while
  32315. add on apps may be open source unfortunately we will have to wait
  32316. until the legal case is resolved. Fingers crossed they won’t be held
  32317. up much longer. I still believe in them and the project!
  32318.  
  32319.  
  32320.  
  32321.  
  32322. Veehem
  32323.  
  32324. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4067160> 2 years ago
  32325.  
  32326. @ Chris (Team WEDG) I don’t understand why. You always says that the
  32327. software would be opensource. Could you be more explicit about the
  32328. reasons why it’s not feasible for you. Thanks
  32329.  
  32330.  
  32331.  
  32332.  
  32333. Team WEDG
  32334.  
  32335. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  32336.  
  32337. @Veehem you understand correctly, however your suggestion would not
  32338. be feasible for us. ^Chris
  32339.  
  32340.  
  32341.  
  32342.  
  32343. Veehem
  32344.  
  32345. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4067160> 2 years ago
  32346.  
  32347. If I understand correctly, the dispute is about the software. So why
  32348. don’t you send us the hardware? Meanwhile, we may install something
  32349. like Yunohost. And later, the Wedg software
  32350.  
  32351.  
  32352.  
  32353.  
  32354. Team WEDG
  32355.  
  32356. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  32357.  
  32358. @Steven Newman thank you Steven, those are encouraging words. Your
  32359. support and confidence means a great deal to me and the team here.
  32360. ^Shehbaz
  32361.  
  32362.  
  32363.  
  32364.  
  32365. Steven Newman
  32366.  
  32367. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/925661> 2 years ago
  32368.  
  32369. We believe. Stay strong.
  32370.  
  32371. “Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain’t all
  32372. sunshine and rainbows. It’s a very mean and nasty place and I don’t
  32373. care how tough you are, it will beat you to your knees and keep you
  32374. there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as
  32375. hard as life. But it ain’t about how hard ya hit. It’s about how
  32376. hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. How much you can take
  32377. and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done!”
  32378. ― Rocky Balboa
  32379.  
  32380.  
  32381.  
  32382.  
  32383. Team WEDG
  32384.  
  32385. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  32386.  
  32387. @rabeaumont happy to have the discussion but please don’t let the
  32388. legal situation be a cause for concern regarding money in the
  32389. project. That’s all in hand with insurance. .
  32390.  
  32391.  
  32392.  
  32393.  
  32394. Team WEDG
  32395.  
  32396. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  32397.  
  32398. @Justin Walton thanks for the invite Justin, a couple of sample
  32399. freebies were sent in the post today, but if I am ever local I’ll
  32400. certainly be in touch : ) #TeamLewisHamilton (Y) ^Shehbaz
  32401.  
  32402.  
  32403.  
  32404.  
  32405. rabeaumont
  32406.  
  32407. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8708749> 2 years ago
  32408.  
  32409. I don’t know about others but I couldn’t give a monkeys about the
  32410. t-shirt. If it meant more money to the project I’d happily forgo mine.
  32411.  
  32412.  
  32413.  
  32414.  
  32415. Justin Walton
  32416.  
  32417. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8707801> 2 years ago
  32418.  
  32419. @Shehbaz and Team WEDG. Another update. I could get used to these.
  32420. It looks like slow and steady progress on the legal front. Not much
  32421. more could be expected when lawyers charge by the hour. Perhaps
  32422. better news on the tee shirt front. As it happens, I live in
  32423. Leicester, If you’re coming over to collect samples Shehbaz, drop me
  32424. a line, we could meet up for a chat about F1 and WEDG! I still believe.
  32425.  
  32426.  
  32427.  
  32428.  
  32429. Team WEDG
  32430.  
  32431. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  32432.  
  32433. @Alex Stamp I believe Shehbaz is working with another tshirt
  32434. distributor as the original company wouldn’t honour the agreement
  32435. since the time frames had changed. There will be an update on the Ts
  32436. this week I have been told just now.
  32437.  
  32438. We’ll make Friday the update day from this point onwards unless
  32439. there is significant news to report during the week. ^Chris
  32440.  
  32441.  
  32442.  
  32443.  
  32444. Alex Stamp
  32445.  
  32446. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6787108> 2 years ago
  32447.  
  32448. Part 2:
  32449. I believe the last request was about 2 weeks ago. Having arranged
  32450. custom T-Shirts and Hoodies before I would be surprised if you
  32451. didn’t have some update to give us regarding these. Also you said
  32452. your guys were gonna spend the time to work on the chat app any
  32453. progress with that? Yet again there may be no substantial news but
  32454. it would be nice to even just see no news…
  32455. Can I suggest maybe picking one day a week and say every friday just
  32456. give us a state of play even if it just says no news
  32457.  
  32458.  
  32459.  
  32460.  
  32461. Alex Stamp
  32462.  
  32463. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6787108> 2 years ago
  32464.  
  32465. Hi Guys,
  32466.  
  32467. Part 1:
  32468.  
  32469. While I appreciate there maybe no news on the legal front and you do
  32470. have my support I was just wondering a few things. Now I check the
  32471. comments most days for updates so there are a few things I’ve
  32472. noticed. First of all T-Shirts have been mentioned while I am a bit
  32473. indifferent over the T-Shirt personally however a number of backers
  32474. have requested updates on these items over the last couple of and we
  32475. have been told you will contact the suppliers and find out.
  32476.  
  32477.  
  32478.  
  32479.  
  32480. Team WEDG
  32481.  
  32482. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  32483.  
  32484. @Gaston Cardey…the case hypothetically. So we will only report what
  32485. we know and are consented to share as soon as we know it.
  32486.  
  32487. I know this a frustrating and testing time for you; our backers and
  32488. partners, but rest-assured we are doing all that we can come to a
  32489. prompt and amicable outcome and get the WEDG out everyone.
  32490.  
  32491. Best regards
  32492. Chris
  32493.  
  32494.  
  32495.  
  32496.  
  32497. Team WEDG
  32498.  
  32499. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  32500.  
  32501. @Gaston Cardey Hi Gaston, it is our objective to keep our backers
  32502. and partners updated on a regular basis. Sometimes there isn’t
  32503. anything to report as we are waiting to hear news ourselves. Last
  32504. week is a primary example of this; the third party arranged to
  32505. interview the developer last week, we have asked for an update but
  32506. haven’t heard back yet. I know Shehbaz has conf call tomorrow with
  32507. our legal team and might have some feedback then. We are under
  32508. strict instructions not to discuss cont…
  32509.  
  32510.  
  32511.  
  32512.  
  32513. Gaston Cardey
  32514.  
  32515. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8821945> 2 years ago
  32516.  
  32517. Part 2:
  32518. We’re waiting that this huge legal problem solves urgently. And I
  32519. think many of us require this solved in a urgent basis since the
  32520. distribution date has paseed 1 month ago.
  32521. Please help us to end this proyect with the confidence of backing
  32522. new ones.
  32523. I think we all back you in this I do, but we need more of you. You
  32524. can say that is confidential. Ok. But we’re stuck in this
  32525. “confidential” argument.
  32526. Hope you understand.
  32527. Regards,
  32528. Gastón Cardey
  32529.  
  32530.  
  32531.  
  32532.  
  32533. Gaston Cardey
  32534.  
  32535. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8821945> 2 years ago
  32536.  
  32537. Part 1:
  32538. Hi,
  32539. 1 week has passed from the last message from WEDG and I’m thinking
  32540. that I need a status update every week. I wouldn’t ask you this in a
  32541. normal situation, but we passed that 1 mont ago. There are news
  32542. every week in everything.
  32543. Right now, there are some other manufacturers offering products that
  32544. “looks like” the WEDG. Some has a few extra functionalities and some
  32545. lack of many that the WEDG includes. But are available right now at
  32546. a store. (continue …)
  32547.  
  32548.  
  32549.  
  32550.  
  32551. Team WEDG
  32552.  
  32553. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  32554.  
  32555. @Justin Walton thank you for the support and your enthusiasm Justin
  32556. (Y). ^Chris
  32557.  
  32558.  
  32559.  
  32560.  
  32561. Justin Walton
  32562.  
  32563. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8707801> 2 years ago
  32564.  
  32565. @ Shehbaz and Team WEDG. Thank-you for the update, this seems like
  32566. positive news.
  32567.  
  32568. @ Chris. The production times are also good news.
  32569.  
  32570. I’m sure I’m not the only one who sees these two points as positive.
  32571. Well done everyone at Team WEDG, please keep up the good work
  32572. (especially the frequent updates, however sparse they have to be for
  32573. legal reasons). In fact, I’m so happy about all of this, I won’t
  32574. even ask about tee shirts. I still believe.
  32575.  
  32576.  
  32577.  
  32578.  
  32579. Team WEDG
  32580.  
  32581. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  32582.  
  32583. @jrogers31 our manufacturing and supply partners have offered lead
  32584. times of up to 72 hours in a business week to start a production
  32585. run. So we envisage within 7 days we would be in a position to begin
  32586. shipping orders. ^Chris
  32587.  
  32588.  
  32589.  
  32590.  
  32591. jrogers31
  32592.  
  32593. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> 2 years ago
  32594.  
  32595. I think that it would be helpful for the backers to know how long it
  32596. would take you to produce and supply the fully functioning units
  32597. with associated software if the legal issues were to evapourate
  32598. tomorrow?
  32599.  
  32600.  
  32601.  
  32602.  
  32603. Thomas Grundberg
  32604.  
  32605. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/5396919> 2 years ago
  32606.  
  32607. @Philipp Stäheli: +1
  32608.  
  32609.  
  32610.  
  32611.  
  32612. Philipp Stäheli
  32613.  
  32614. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8723017> 2 years ago
  32615.  
  32616. I appreciate the irony of the campains title.
  32617.  
  32618.  
  32619.  
  32620.  
  32621. Team WEDG
  32622.  
  32623. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  32624.  
  32625. @db unfortunately we can’t disclose privately over emails, we are
  32626. sharing all the information that we can and that is deemed relevant
  32627. to backers and other partners involved. Your support and powers ;)
  32628. are very much appreciated! ^Shehbaz
  32629.  
  32630.  
  32631.  
  32632.  
  32633. Team WEDG
  32634.  
  32635. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  32636.  
  32637. @Justin Walton indeed and fortunately we’re in good and very
  32638. experienced hands.
  32639. The t-shirts is on my list of priorities – I haven’t forgotten, I
  32640. will catch up with distributors and get back to everyone. ^Shehbaz
  32641.  
  32642.  
  32643.  
  32644.  
  32645. Team WEDG
  32646.  
  32647. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  32648.  
  32649. @Nikolai Tesla thank you and the respect is mutual. We are aware of
  32650. the environment and pressures against us and are doing all that we
  32651. can to proceed with the project. ^Shehbaz
  32652.  
  32653.  
  32654.  
  32655.  
  32656. db
  32657.  
  32658. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706846> 2 years ago
  32659.  
  32660. It would be also awesome if we can get detailed Information on out
  32661. Email Adresses
  32662. which you should have. Informations only for Backers about the exact
  32663. detailed Status.
  32664.  
  32665. (i think that nobody who backed you will get you in trouble with
  32666. these informations – it will us belive that somthing goes behind the
  32667. lines :-) )
  32668.  
  32669. Still beliving on WEDG and send you super power to solve the issues.
  32670.  
  32671.  
  32672.  
  32673.  
  32674. Justin Walton
  32675.  
  32676. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8707801> 2 years ago
  32677.  
  32678. It seems the legal issue is more complex than it needs to be (no
  32679. real surprise when lawyers get involved!) as there are other parties
  32680. involved. I fear this could take quite a while. I’m rooting for you
  32681. Team WEDG! Wish I could wear my tee shirt to show my support. Which
  32682. sort of reminds me, whatever happened to those?
  32683.  
  32684.  
  32685.  
  32686.  
  32687. Nikolai Tesla
  32688.  
  32689. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> 2 years ago
  32690.  
  32691. 2/2
  32692. @Shehbaz
  32693. We all need a road map/timeline of when we could expect this product
  32694. and services otherwise there is no tangible pressure to have this
  32695. legal issue resolved in a prompt manner. In the meantime the funds
  32696. will dry out and this ideal dream will just evaporate in due time. I
  32697. wish you the utmost strength and spirit to see this through to the
  32698. end successfully but with a tangible timeline.
  32699.  
  32700. Kindest regards,
  32701.  
  32702. Nikolai.
  32703.  
  32704.  
  32705.  
  32706.  
  32707. Nikolai Tesla
  32708.  
  32709. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> 2 years ago
  32710.  
  32711. 1/2
  32712. @Shehbaz, Keep in mind that I have respect for you and your great
  32713. idea to provide the power of privacy and security to those who could
  32714. afford it. Be aware that many of your founders are unable to wait
  32715. indefinitely for many reasons. Also keep in mind that technology
  32716. moves forward a fast pace and that each passing month the technology
  32717. you offered back in 2014 will become irrelevant and/or outdated to
  32718. new standards.
  32719.  
  32720.  
  32721.  
  32722.  
  32723. Team WEDG
  32724.  
  32725. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  32726.  
  32727. 2/2
  32728. @MyWorks Design I deeply regret the delay and the inconvenience this
  32729. is causing to you, Alex and all other backers. ^Shehbaz
  32730.  
  32731.  
  32732.  
  32733.  
  32734. Team WEDG
  32735.  
  32736. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  32737.  
  32738. 1/2
  32739. @MyWorks Design it’s a combination of discussions and investigations
  32740. on their side which lead to more questions and answer sessions with
  32741. us. We are one of many legal cases the third party legal division
  32742. are engaged with.
  32743. We i.e. myself and our legal legal support have and will continue to
  32744. respond quickly, truthfully and with complete transparency in all
  32745. communications – that for now is all we can do. Anything we can
  32746. disclose will be disclosed publicly for the benefit of all backers.
  32747.  
  32748.  
  32749.  
  32750.  
  32751. MyWorks Design
  32752.  
  32753. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8394882> 2 years ago
  32754.  
  32755. 2/2
  32756.  
  32757. What are the issues standing in your way? Just negotiations with
  32758. this company? Many of us, like Alex, are patching together old
  32759. systems in preparation for Wedg, so we’re fairly dependent on the
  32760. timing of the launch.
  32761. Anything you can share privately?
  32762.  
  32763. Thanks!
  32764.  
  32765.  
  32766.  
  32767.  
  32768. MyWorks Design
  32769.  
  32770. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8394882> 2 years ago
  32771.  
  32772. 1/2
  32773. Hey guys,
  32774.  
  32775. Any latest updates? I can definitely realize the restrictions of
  32776. what information you can share with the public, but any specific
  32777. details would help!
  32778.  
  32779. What portion of legal proceedings has been conducted so far? Have
  32780. initial negotiations been completed yet?
  32781.  
  32782.  
  32783.  
  32784.  
  32785. Team WEDG
  32786.  
  32787. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  32788.  
  32789. @Alex Stamp sorry to hear your current system is dying. Right now we
  32790. can’t say because we don’t know ourselves. I know Shehbaz is push
  32791. our legal team and the third party for a roadmap but nothing has
  32792. been forthcoming yet. ^Chris
  32793.  
  32794.  
  32795.  
  32796.  
  32797. Alex Stamp
  32798.  
  32799. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6787108> 2 years ago
  32800.  
  32801. Hi,
  32802.  
  32803. I know you probably can’t give an accurate time estimate but the
  32804. system I’m currently using is dying and I was wondering if it worth
  32805. attempting to prop it back up. Are we looking at weeks or months
  32806. worth of delay. Just a guesstimate would do :)
  32807.  
  32808. Thanks
  32809.  
  32810.  
  32811.  
  32812.  
  32813. Team WEDG
  32814.  
  32815. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  32816.  
  32817. @Steven Newman thank you Steven, I sincerely appreciate your support
  32818. and confidence in us.
  32819. ^Shehbaz
  32820.  
  32821.  
  32822.  
  32823.  
  32824. Team WEDG
  32825.  
  32826. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  32827.  
  32828. @Justin Walton thank you for your on going support Justin, it means
  32829. a great deal to me and the team.
  32830. ^Shehbaz
  32831.  
  32832.  
  32833.  
  32834.  
  32835. Steven Newman
  32836.  
  32837. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/925661> 2 years ago
  32838.  
  32839. I am proud to have supported your efforts from Kickstarter on over
  32840. to Indiegogo. I believe in you and your team and will keep the faith.
  32841.  
  32842. Hang in there!
  32843.  
  32844.  
  32845.  
  32846.  
  32847. Justin Walton
  32848.  
  32849. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8707801> 2 years ago
  32850.  
  32851. @Shehbaz and Team WEDG. Thank-you for the update. As you say, little
  32852. news that you can talk openly about. Legal disputes are often
  32853. lengthy, as well as soul destroying. Here’s hoping it’s all resolved
  32854. satisfactorily, quickly. Wish I could wear my tee shirt to show my
  32855. support. I still believe.
  32856.  
  32857.  
  32858.  
  32859.  
  32860. Team WEDG
  32861.  
  32862. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  32863.  
  32864. @Marc-André Runcie-Unger thank you ^Shehbaz
  32865.  
  32866.  
  32867.  
  32868.  
  32869. MARC-ANDRE RUNCIE-UNGER
  32870.  
  32871. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/5105783> 2 years ago
  32872.  
  32873. Thank you Shebaz! I can imagine it’s a very stressful time for you
  32874. all and I’ll keep my fingers crossed that it can all be worked out
  32875. quickly.
  32876.  
  32877.  
  32878.  
  32879.  
  32880. Team WEDG
  32881.  
  32882. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  32883.  
  32884. @Marc-André Runcie-Unger I have drafted an update and sent it on to
  32885. the legal advisers to review, after their feedback/approval I will
  32886. post an update to the project.
  32887.  
  32888. Thank you everyone for your patience and co-operation.
  32889. ^Shehbaz
  32890.  
  32891.  
  32892.  
  32893.  
  32894. MARC-ANDRE RUNCIE-UNGER
  32895.  
  32896. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/5105783> 2 years ago
  32897.  
  32898. Not wanting to sound pushy but are there any updates from the
  32899. conference? I hope it is good news. :(
  32900.  
  32901.  
  32902.  
  32903.  
  32904. Team WEDG
  32905.  
  32906. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  32907.  
  32908. @MyWorks Design Shehbaz has a telephone conf tonight so will update
  32909. you guys on the outcome thereafter. ^Chris
  32910.  
  32911.  
  32912.  
  32913.  
  32914. MyWorks Design
  32915.  
  32916. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8394882> 2 years ago
  32917.  
  32918. Team, any updates? :)
  32919.  
  32920.  
  32921.  
  32922.  
  32923. Team WEDG
  32924.  
  32925. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  32926.  
  32927. @rabeaumont thank you for your confidence and support. Its an
  32928. overwhelming experience with a steep learning curve. The lack of
  32929. control and minimal influence over the whole siltation only makes
  32930. things more intense and stressful.
  32931.  
  32932.  
  32933.  
  32934.  
  32935. Team WEDG
  32936.  
  32937. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  32938.  
  32939. @Franco we ran behind on the production schedule as our
  32940. manufacturing partners were delayed, furthermore some of our
  32941. components were held by customs at the time too. However, as per the
  32942. terms of our agreement our manufacturing partners would have ramped
  32943. up output to meet agreed deadlines as the delay was on their part
  32944. and not ours.
  32945.  
  32946.  
  32947.  
  32948.  
  32949. rabeaumont
  32950.  
  32951. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8708749> 2 years ago
  32952.  
  32953. Just wanted to say that I have complete faith in Team Wedg. Working
  32954. in software myself, and knowing a bit about intellectual property
  32955. rights in contracts, I know how difficult these issues can be, and
  32956. how long it can take to resolve them.
  32957.  
  32958. I believe you are doing all you can to get my Wedg to me, and am
  32959. prepared to be patient.
  32960.  
  32961.  
  32962.  
  32963.  
  32964. Franco
  32965.  
  32966. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8707014> 2 years ago
  32967.  
  32968. Shehbaz, the letter was received 30 March so can you clear up your
  32969. update from a month ago, “…the WEDG shell will go into production on
  32970. 26 March for a full day to produce 2200 units. On Monday 30 March
  32971. assembly of WEDG will commence! Boards will be flashed during
  32972. assembly before they go into the WEDG. Assembly will run for four
  32973. days. Each completed WEDG will be packaged and addressed as it runs
  32974. off the production line and stored until all units are complete and
  32975. ready for shipment.”
  32976.  
  32977.  
  32978.  
  32979.  
  32980. Team WEDG
  32981.  
  32982. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  32983.  
  32984. @Gordon Keys I hope the update just posted to the project will rest
  32985. your concerns.
  32986. ^Shehbaz
  32987.  
  32988.  
  32989.  
  32990.  
  32991. Gordon Keys
  32992.  
  32993. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8335278> 2 years ago
  32994.  
  32995. I also find the timing of ‘The Statement’ rather ominous. It all
  32996. comes out of the woodwork after the Idiegogo campaign is closed.
  32997.  
  32998. I also feel the legal team would have read ‘The Statement’ and
  32999. corrected the errors in grammar and content before release. It was
  33000. poorly written and not proof read in any way which surprised me with
  33001. regard to the gravity of the issue.
  33002.  
  33003.  
  33004.  
  33005.  
  33006. Gordon Keys
  33007.  
  33008. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8335278> 2 years ago
  33009.  
  33010. I find this situation quiet worrying. I know the legal stuff isn’t
  33011. something you’ll be discussing, but to hear there isn’t even any
  33012. casings produced is shocking! Delivery should have been last month.
  33013. and the IP issue is way after this. You could show shots of the
  33014. tooling you must have paid for. Would a test of the tool produced
  33015. any case parts? Have you tested if they fit together? Do the
  33016. internals fit?
  33017.  
  33018. This just gets worse and worse.
  33019.  
  33020.  
  33021.  
  33022.  
  33023. Justin Walton
  33024.  
  33025. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8707801> 2 years ago
  33026.  
  33027. @Team WEDG. Could you clarify where we got to on production please?
  33028. Your comment about ordering a one off has me confused. The initial
  33029. production run was due to be finished by now. I know you said you
  33030. had some delays. Did these coincide with the software dispute to the
  33031. extent you held off on production? I would have thought just getting
  33032. a finished unit out of the box to photograph would be easier than
  33033. ordering a ‘special’. Any news on the tee shirts and stickers? I
  33034. still want to believe.
  33035.  
  33036.  
  33037.  
  33038.  
  33039. Team WEDG
  33040.  
  33041. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  33042.  
  33043. @Nikolai Tesla this week we ordered a single aluminium back part of
  33044. the WEDG at great cost as it’s an unscheduled one-off production.
  33045. This should help ease concerns over the legitimacy of the production
  33046. plan. The unit will be produced on 23/04 and Shehbaz or I will send
  33047. photos the moment it’s received. Our hands are tied as to how detail
  33048. about the legal dispute can be disclosed without making matters
  33049. worse for ourselves. We are committed to resolving the dispute as
  33050. quickly as possible.
  33051.  
  33052.  
  33053.  
  33054.  
  33055. Nikolai Tesla
  33056.  
  33057. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> 2 years ago
  33058.  
  33059. @Team WEDG, @Chris, @Shehbaz, It has been over two days. Where are
  33060. the photos? Video? Proof? Your team should provide means for its
  33061. funders to receive a full refund if you are bound by the legal
  33062. implication of providing any further proof of such product. It is a
  33063. sad state of affairs if your team is unable to shed any light into
  33064. this ideal project to the people that have provided the funds.
  33065.  
  33066.  
  33067.  
  33068.  
  33069. Team WEDG
  33070.  
  33071. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  33072.  
  33073. @Veehem its just not that clear cut unfortunately, we/our legal
  33074. representation pushed that point. But the issues here are the legal
  33075. right to the works undertaken by the developer in question as per
  33076. his contract of employment with third party.
  33077. ^Chris
  33078.  
  33079.  
  33080.  
  33081.  
  33082. Veehem
  33083.  
  33084. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4067160> 2 years ago
  33085.  
  33086. I’ve make a long comment & question. You don’t anwser anything, just
  33087. “thank you for your support”. :/
  33088. All this stuff is supposed to be opensource. Why it is still not?
  33089. Don’t you think it would avoid the problems?
  33090.  
  33091.  
  33092.  
  33093.  
  33094. Team WEDG
  33095.  
  33096. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  33097.  
  33098. @aaddiikk I understand that the apps and WEDGNET are also within the
  33099. disputed remit of the claims until satisfactorily released. And I
  33100. also understand there to be some promotional reasoning to satisfy
  33101. retail partner Rider agreements.
  33102. ^Chris
  33103.  
  33104.  
  33105.  
  33106.  
  33107. aaddiikk
  33108.  
  33109. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8707168> 2 years ago
  33110.  
  33111. @Chis,
  33112.  
  33113. Thank you. Looking forward to head from you about their decision. In
  33114. the meantime, could you please tell us why apps were not pushed to
  33115. stores yet?
  33116.  
  33117.  
  33118.  
  33119.  
  33120. Team WEDG
  33121.  
  33122. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  33123.  
  33124. @aaddiikk I’ll take your suggestion to the legal team before taking
  33125. photos or screen shots just in case.
  33126. ^Chris
  33127.  
  33128.  
  33129.  
  33130.  
  33131. aaddiikk
  33132.  
  33133. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8707168> 2 years ago
  33134.  
  33135. Team WEDG,
  33136. If you really want to convince us why not provide
  33137. screenshots/screencasts/videos of something that should be already
  33138. in place so WEDGNET web interface, apps (why apps are not yet in
  33139. stores?!?!)? As I understand the legal issue, it is related to linux
  33140. development so wedg internal software but wedgnet and ios/android
  33141. apps are different story and should be already feature complete.
  33142.  
  33143.  
  33144.  
  33145.  
  33146. Team WEDG
  33147.  
  33148. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  33149.  
  33150. @Philipp Stäheli we don’t have a workshop setup here, we work from
  33151. an incubator shared with many other small/startup businesses;
  33152. however Shehbaz has requested some hardware ‘evidence’ from our
  33153. manufacturing partners, He’s waiting for a quote and ETA as he only
  33154. managed to speak to them on late Thursday afternoon.
  33155. ^Chris
  33156.  
  33157.  
  33158.  
  33159.  
  33160. Philipp Stäheli
  33161.  
  33162. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8723017> 2 years ago
  33163.  
  33164. Nobody minds the delay, that’s how crowdfunding always is.
  33165. We have two problems: The legal, and the updates.
  33166. There has not been a single update, which was not exclusively text.
  33167. It has been 4 days since we asked for more proof. How hard can it be
  33168. to walk around the office and snap a few pictures or browse through
  33169. what suppliers have sent you. I can not believe that you are not
  33170. doing this. All you need to take is 30 minutes and you make all
  33171. concerns shut up. That is, if they are not justified.
  33172.  
  33173.  
  33174.  
  33175.  
  33176. Team WEDG
  33177.  
  33178. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  33179.  
  33180. @Ken Taylor thanks for your support
  33181.  
  33182.  
  33183.  
  33184.  
  33185. Ken Taylor
  33186.  
  33187. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6123904> 2 years ago
  33188.  
  33189. Hi WEDG Team
  33190. Its Friday, Get the Team to Grab a Pizza and beer at the end of the
  33191. day take a Photo and post it
  33192. This will hopefully keep some people wanting photos happy others
  33193. wont be happy whatever you do
  33194. we have had an update about every month which is better than some
  33195. projects I have supported, more would be good though ;-)
  33196. enjoy the weekend and come back refreshed on Monday and work on what
  33197. you do have control over like the Office app etc.
  33198. Show Support the delays are not their Fault !!!
  33199.  
  33200.  
  33201.  
  33202.  
  33203. Team WEDG
  33204.  
  33205. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  33206.  
  33207. Hi guys
  33208. I’m Chris, I’m taking over from Shehbaz to respond to comments in a
  33209. timely fashion while he focuses the legal disputes.
  33210.  
  33211. @Franco Shehbaz is working on getting some pics to share with
  33212. everyone of the tooling stuff so will share those when we have them.
  33213. @MyWorks Design yep we’ll share something soon, we’re a bare-bones
  33214. operation here where every penny had to be justified so we don’t
  33215. much to share.
  33216. @Justin Walton good question will get back to you on that.
  33217.  
  33218.  
  33219.  
  33220.  
  33221. Justin Walton
  33222.  
  33223. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8707801> 2 years ago
  33224.  
  33225. “T-shirts and stickers will be sent from a different fulfilment
  33226. partner so expect two shipments from us” … How are we doing on
  33227. those? Yes, I know the WEDG team are all busy trying to sort out the
  33228. legal issues with the software, but these are factored out
  33229. separately. Do we have an ETA? Please? Something positive? We want
  33230. to believe!
  33231.  
  33232.  
  33233.  
  33234.  
  33235. MyWorks Design
  33236.  
  33237. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8394882> 2 years ago
  33238.  
  33239. I agree with Franco. Surely there’s something (app, website,
  33240. packaging, ports, extension cords, anything) that you can snap a
  33241. picture of and post.
  33242.  
  33243. We support you 100% but you don’t want 2 battlefields to deal with
  33244. when you only need one. :)
  33245.  
  33246.  
  33247.  
  33248.  
  33249. Franco
  33250.  
  33251. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8707014> 2 years ago
  33252.  
  33253. I understand and agree with the points made by both @Philipp Stäheli
  33254. @Nikolai Tesla. After receiving the last update, I’ll admit I was
  33255. skeptical. This was the 1st of 13 projects I’ve backed (1st on
  33256. indiegogo) that has gotten away with virtually no legitimate
  33257. updates, and no one complained. I came from the failed kickstarter
  33258. and went on to pay for 3 WEDGs so @Team WEDG certainly at this point
  33259. something as trivial as box art/packaging has been made, why not
  33260. share those pics?
  33261.  
  33262.  
  33263.  
  33264.  
  33265. Team WEDG
  33266.  
  33267. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  33268.  
  33269. @Philipp Stäheli @Nikolai Tesla I understand your concerns, we don’t
  33270. have any pictures because I guess just haven’t taken any. All of our
  33271. prep work was done before the crowd funding stage with a regimented
  33272. process to follow which was supposed to be fool proof and that’s how
  33273. we’ve been working – with a lot of work offloaded to
  33274. partners/suppliers. We are at the very start of dispute and still
  33275. getting our heads around much of this situation, still I will aim to
  33276. gather some resources asap.
  33277.  
  33278.  
  33279.  
  33280.  
  33281. Nikolai Tesla
  33282.  
  33283. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> 2 years ago
  33284.  
  33285. Team WEDG, My apologies if I am being a pest to you, but I am
  33286. posting obvious and common concerns. You have not responded to the
  33287. following: “Providing updated information to your “funders” on a
  33288. regular basis and current pictures, videos of the product would calm
  33289. down nerves in the time being. Also, my professional recommendation,
  33290. is to provide a way to receive a refund if the legal issue drags out
  33291. longer than anticipated for those funders that need this option.”
  33292. Your response is appreciated.
  33293.  
  33294.  
  33295.  
  33296.  
  33297. Philipp Stäheli
  33298.  
  33299. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8723017> 2 years ago
  33300.  
  33301. 2/2 employees having a pizza together. In all the 39 updates you
  33302. have never given any proof on whats going on. Why are you so
  33303. secretive? Obviously you do not want to reveal any secrets but a
  33304. little proof of existence here and there is not too much to ask for
  33305. is it? I already had to a couple of times before you released your
  33306. business adress… there is a little voice in my head growing louder
  33307. that asks:
  33308. “Where’s the poop Robin?”
  33309.  
  33310.  
  33311.  
  33312.  
  33313. Philipp Stäheli
  33314.  
  33315. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8723017> 2 years ago
  33316.  
  33317. 1/2 Hey Team Wedg, I love this project and want it very much to succeed.
  33318. But this time I am the devil’s advocate: I want an update where I
  33319. actually see something of the Wedg. Since the beginning of the
  33320. campain I have not seen any new pictures of anything. From the
  33321. multiple campains I have backed mostly on Kickstarter I am used from
  33322. the updates to see all kinds of things: People working in their
  33323. offices, a pile of parts that just arrived, a 3D or a picture of an
  33324. injection mould or even just the
  33325.  
  33326.  
  33327.  
  33328.  
  33329. Team WEDG
  33330.  
  33331. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  33332.  
  33333. @Justin Walton thank you for your support and compassion, yes it is
  33334. a very testing time personally and professionally too. All parties
  33335. involved are sympathetic to our situation and want to come to an
  33336. amicable resolution as quickly as possible. The business insurance
  33337. support was a huge relief as you can appreciate.
  33338.  
  33339.  
  33340.  
  33341.  
  33342. Team WEDG
  33343.  
  33344. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  33345.  
  33346. @aaddiikk @Nikolai Tesla thank you for your ongoing support; yes
  33347. this is a software issue, we were facing minor delays with shipments
  33348. anyway but knew we could overcome this in production. But when news
  33349. broke of the severity of the claim against us all focus turned
  33350. towards that and we held back on shipments of hardware to avoid
  33351. warehousing costs. Fulfilment is our top priority and we have the
  33352. co-operation of our manufacturing and shipping partners for when we
  33353. start things off again.
  33354.  
  33355.  
  33356.  
  33357.  
  33358. Team WEDG
  33359.  
  33360. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  33361.  
  33362. @fia thanks for your support its really appreciated here
  33363.  
  33364.  
  33365.  
  33366.  
  33367. Nikolai Tesla
  33368.  
  33369. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> 2 years ago
  33370.  
  33371. I do agree with the comments made by both aaddiikk and Justin
  33372. Walton. Providing updated information to your “funders” on a regular
  33373. basis and current pictures, videos of the product would calm down
  33374. nerves in the time being. Also, my professional recommendation, is
  33375. to provide a way to receive a refund if the legal issue drags out
  33376. longer than anticipated for those funders that need this option. I
  33377. am a huge supporter of this project and you have my backing as long
  33378. as things are kept transparent.
  33379.  
  33380.  
  33381.  
  33382.  
  33383. Justin Walton
  33384.  
  33385. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8707801> 2 years ago
  33386.  
  33387. @Shehbaz and Team Wedg. Thank-you for taking time to update us so
  33388. quickly following the disappointing news about the legal position on
  33389. the software. I for one am extremely relieved to hear the legal
  33390. costs will be covered by your business insurance. I think this issue
  33391. has been eating in to your time more than you’re letting on, but
  33392. hope you will be able to continue to provide frequent updates as
  33393. matters develop. It will help stop our nerves fraying!
  33394.  
  33395.  
  33396.  
  33397.  
  33398. aaddiikk
  33399.  
  33400. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8707168> 2 years ago
  33401.  
  33402. Team,
  33403.  
  33404. I’m really sorry about issues that you described in last update and
  33405. you have my full support on that but if I understand the issue
  33406. correctly the showstopper is related to software part. Based on the
  33407. previously published schedule, hardware should be packed and ready
  33408. to be shipped just after the legal issues are resolved. Therefore,
  33409. could you please share some shots from production to ensure us that
  33410. in fact the product is indeed ready and finished?
  33411.  
  33412.  
  33413.  
  33414.  
  33415. blandat
  33416.  
  33417. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6957871> 2 years ago
  33418.  
  33419. Just want to give you my support and think it will all end happily
  33420. for you.
  33421. These things are a pain in the but, and I hope the big company will
  33422. see how absurd this claim of theirs is. Garden leave is a problem.
  33423. They should have sent him/her to some nice tropical island for the
  33424. time suspended…
  33425.  
  33426. But I guess we all can wait for this to solve amicably since we wait
  33427. for something great!
  33428.  
  33429. group hug
  33430.  
  33431.  
  33432.  
  33433.  
  33434. Team WEDG
  33435.  
  33436. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  33437.  
  33438. Many of you have suggested that we start a campaign to cover the
  33439. legal costs of this dispute and that you would support us
  33440. financially there too.
  33441.  
  33442. This is a most generous and kind offer and I thank you all very
  33443. dearly for this immense show of solidarity. Fortunately, we have
  33444. business insurance and on Friday 10th April the insurance company
  33445. agreed to accept our claim and so we don’t have to worry about the
  33446. legal and sundry costs involved.
  33447.  
  33448. A huge thank you again.
  33449.  
  33450.  
  33451.  
  33452.  
  33453. Team WEDG
  33454.  
  33455. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  33456.  
  33457. @M K not right now we can’t, but we hope that when the matter is
  33458. amicably resolved we will be able to say the parties involved are.
  33459.  
  33460.  
  33461.  
  33462.  
  33463. Team WEDG
  33464.  
  33465. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  33466.  
  33467. @Steven Newman yes this is a very stressful time for me and my
  33468. colleagues right now. Your and everyone else’s support is very much
  33469. appreciated, I can’t thank you all enough.
  33470.  
  33471. PS. I’ve been called worse, don’t worry ;)
  33472.  
  33473.  
  33474.  
  33475.  
  33476. Team WEDG
  33477.  
  33478. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  33479.  
  33480. @Bryan Walker yes completely agree, and this is also evidence that
  33481. we have presented to the third party to vindicate our actions.
  33482. Absolutely, I can’t say much, but what I want to say and do say will
  33483. for the time being will be vetted by our legal advisers who by the
  33484. way are fight tooth and nail for WEDG.
  33485.  
  33486.  
  33487.  
  33488.  
  33489. Team WEDG
  33490.  
  33491. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  33492.  
  33493. @jrogers31 thanks for your comments. I can tell you our legal
  33494. representation has made contact with the agency from an
  33495. investigatory aspect and other reasons.
  33496.  
  33497.  
  33498.  
  33499.  
  33500. Team WEDG
  33501.  
  33502. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  33503.  
  33504. @Ken Taylor thank you for your support, much of the code is for WEDG
  33505. core and some of it extends to WEDGNET. I can’t really discuss what
  33506. we can do regarding the developer however re-engineering the project
  33507. is something we have put forward to the third party as a suggested
  33508. resolution to move forward.
  33509.  
  33510.  
  33511.  
  33512.  
  33513. Team WEDG
  33514.  
  33515. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  33516.  
  33517. @Veehem the build is complex and my hands are tied to some extent as
  33518. to what I can say regarding the dispute. Nevertheless we all
  33519. appreciate your ongoing support here.
  33520.  
  33521.  
  33522.  
  33523.  
  33524. Team WEDG
  33525.  
  33526. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  33527.  
  33528. @Justin Walton for the time being we’re going to wait and see what
  33529. the outcome is and consider our position thereafter. From
  33530. yesterday’s meeting and discussions it was plain to see the third
  33531. party are sympathetic to our cause and are working to free us from
  33532. obligation as soon as possible – without contradicting company
  33533. policy at the same time.
  33534.  
  33535.  
  33536.  
  33537.  
  33538. Team WEDG
  33539.  
  33540. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  33541.  
  33542. Dear all
  33543. I’ve just got back online after a day of travelling to London and
  33544. back by car to meet regarding the legal dispute we have. I’m going
  33545. to review the comments, respond to emails from backers and post an
  33546. update shortly after that.
  33547.  
  33548. Thank you for your patience.
  33549. Shehbaz
  33550.  
  33551.  
  33552.  
  33553.  
  33554. M K
  33555.  
  33556. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8914705> 2 years ago
  33557.  
  33558. Hi,
  33559.  
  33560. Can you disclose the name of company that is giving you (and many
  33561. more) headaches?
  33562.  
  33563.  
  33564.  
  33565.  
  33566. Steven Newman
  33567.  
  33568. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/925661> 2 years ago
  33569.  
  33570. Of course, the moment I click POST I realize I’ve misspelled your
  33571. name. My apologies. :)
  33572.  
  33573.  
  33574.  
  33575.  
  33576. Steven Newman
  33577.  
  33578. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/925661> 2 years ago
  33579.  
  33580. Shebaz, I can’t imagine the feeling in the pit of your stomach that
  33581. you all must be feeling right now, on the verge of jumping off with
  33582. the new product.
  33583.  
  33584. I’ve read the comments by Bryan Walker, jrogers31, and Ken Taylor
  33585. below and agree with each of them. I’m sure you’ve considered all of
  33586. these things as well.
  33587.  
  33588. I just want you to know that you have my support. I believe in you
  33589. and your team. I’ll be praying for a speedy resolution that is
  33590. favorable for you guys. Hang in there!
  33591.  
  33592.  
  33593.  
  33594.  
  33595. jrogers31
  33596.  
  33597. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> 2 years ago
  33598.  
  33599. The agency that provided this individual must come under scrutiny
  33600. also as it appears that there was a failure of due diligence in the
  33601. checks carried out by the agency and your company before hiring this
  33602. individual.
  33603.  
  33604.  
  33605.  
  33606.  
  33607. jrogers31
  33608.  
  33609. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> 2 years ago
  33610.  
  33611. I hope you get the matter resolved with no on going issues. Having
  33612. read your statement it occurred to me that the ‘gardening leave’ may
  33613. have been a convenient means by which the other company could take
  33614. the opportunity to deliberately plant this individual into your
  33615. company at a critical time in the development of the product for the
  33616. purpose of disrupting your plans, getting access to your IP and
  33617. access to other confidential information.
  33618.  
  33619.  
  33620.  
  33621.  
  33622. Ken Taylor
  33623.  
  33624. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6123904> 2 years ago
  33625.  
  33626. Hi Shehbaz and Team
  33627. Sorry to hear about the legal issues. I hope they can be quickly
  33628. resolved
  33629. If you cant resolve this I hope you can recover any costs from the
  33630. developer (false representation ?)
  33631. In the worst case. If they wont agree to a deal can you get a new
  33632. developer to recode this section with no reference to the disputed
  33633. code (using clean room reverse engineering) or cant it be re engineered
  33634. is the disputed code on the WEDG or on WEDGnet
  33635. Good Luck, please keep us updated
  33636. Thanks Ken
  33637.  
  33638.  
  33639.  
  33640.  
  33641. Veehem
  33642.  
  33643. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4067160> 2 years ago
  33644.  
  33645. PART 4 Now, I hope you will quickly overtake the legal problem, and
  33646. on a opensource base could build a big community (users &
  33647. contributors) around this beautiful product. (End of comment)
  33648.  
  33649.  
  33650.  
  33651.  
  33652. Veehem
  33653.  
  33654. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4067160> 2 years ago
  33655.  
  33656. PART 3 Have a look e.g. the join venture between LaBriqueInter.net
  33657. [FR] (http://labriqueinter.net/) a hardware and Yunohost [EN]
  33658. (https://yunohost.org/#/docs_en) a simple self hosting platform. On
  33659. this project, everyone may buy the whole thing or build it by
  33660. himself (hardware, software are opensource). You probably know some
  33661. other project like that.
  33662. (…)
  33663.  
  33664.  
  33665.  
  33666.  
  33667. Veehem
  33668.  
  33669. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4067160> 2 years ago
  33670.  
  33671. PART 2 (on two ways:
  33672. ) 1/ Many people are concern about privacy and don’t have the time
  33673. or the competences for this purpose. They are ready to pay for a
  33674. “out of the box” hardware & software AND regular updates. Only big
  33675. commercial company can offer that BUT
  33676. 2/ Some people are already able to build this kind of system AND are
  33677. also ready to give a hand to a hardware & software which could
  33678. attend a general public audience. They are already doing that in
  33679. many opensource project
  33680. (…)
  33681.  
  33682.  
  33683.  
  33684.  
  33685. Veehem
  33686.  
  33687. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4067160> 2 years ago
  33688.  
  33689. PART1/ Sorry to hear about the legal issue. But as I said in
  33690. previous comments, the code should be opensource from the firsts
  33691. days. This would probably avoid the legal problem.
  33692. And for the future I insist how it’s important.
  33693. I’m supporting Wedg, not because I need it but because I think this
  33694. kind of product is very important and need to be distributed on two
  33695. ways:
  33696. (…)
  33697.  
  33698.  
  33699.  
  33700.  
  33701. Justin Walton
  33702.  
  33703. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8707801> 2 years ago
  33704.  
  33705. I’m sorry to hear about the IP issues you’re having with the
  33706. software. Will you be re-flashing the stock of WEDG units to a
  33707. pre-production version unaffected by this dispute and shipping them?
  33708. Or are you waiting to see if the dispute can be quickly resolved?
  33709.  
  33710.  
  33711.  
  33712.  
  33713. Team WEDG
  33714.  
  33715. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  33716.  
  33717. rpolan01 please drop us an email at infowedg.co with your PayPal
  33718. email address and we’ll get them out to you.
  33719.  
  33720.  
  33721.  
  33722.  
  33723. rpolan01
  33724.  
  33725. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4475929> 2 years ago
  33726.  
  33727. I also did not receive a survey either…
  33728.  
  33729.  
  33730.  
  33731.  
  33732. Team WEDG
  33733.  
  33734. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  33735.  
  33736. Haitham Gad and @Heiko Zeller please drop us an email at infowedg.co
  33737. with your PayPal email address and we’ll fire the surveys out to you.
  33738.  
  33739.  
  33740.  
  33741.  
  33742. Heiko Zeller
  33743.  
  33744. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8715891> 2 years ago
  33745.  
  33746. Hi Wedg Team, I did not Receiver the Survey also.
  33747.  
  33748.  
  33749.  
  33750.  
  33751. Haitham Gad
  33752.  
  33753. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8733244> 2 years ago
  33754.  
  33755. Hi @TeamWEDGE, I didn’t receive the survey either.
  33756.  
  33757.  
  33758.  
  33759.  
  33760. Team WEDG
  33761.  
  33762. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  33763.  
  33764. @MyWorks Design sorry for the delay, Shehbaz is drafting an update
  33765. right now and will post shortly. Thank you for your patience.
  33766.  
  33767.  
  33768.  
  33769.  
  33770. Team WEDG
  33771.  
  33772. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  33773.  
  33774. Johan Wijngaard apologies you haven't received the survey, you're
  33775. not alone. The survey will come from surveymonkey.com with the
  33776. sender's address as infowedg.co.
  33777.  
  33778. Please send us your PayPal email address at info@wedg.co and we’ll
  33779. get the surveys out to you.
  33780.  
  33781.  
  33782.  
  33783.  
  33784. Team WEDG
  33785.  
  33786. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  33787.  
  33788. @Francisco Alvarez don’t worry about that for now, you’re not alone
  33789. and we will be contacting backers in the same situation in time.
  33790.  
  33791.  
  33792.  
  33793.  
  33794. Team WEDG
  33795.  
  33796. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  33797.  
  33798. @db thanks db, think its because the fund raising has ended, so
  33799. links to the perks are broken. Will fix it.
  33800.  
  33801.  
  33802.  
  33803.  
  33804. MyWorks Design
  33805.  
  33806. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8394882> 2 years ago
  33807.  
  33808. Any update, guys? We’re getting excited!
  33809.  
  33810.  
  33811.  
  33812.  
  33813. Johan Wijngaard
  33814.  
  33815. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/2469755> 2 years ago
  33816.  
  33817. Hi Team off the Wedge,
  33818.  
  33819. I have also not yet received a survey!
  33820.  
  33821. Please try to work on it if you published it in a update. We are all
  33822. waiting on the WEDG so we can install it on the network at home. And
  33823. can use it to storage, mail, backup ect.
  33824.  
  33825. I still believe this the solution for me as home worker ect.
  33826.  
  33827. But you must inform us as we are the people how has believe and
  33828. trust in your story and have made a “Perk” to get a ready product.
  33829.  
  33830. Regards
  33831.  
  33832. Johan
  33833.  
  33834.  
  33835.  
  33836.  
  33837. Francisco Alvarez
  33838.  
  33839. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8814221> 2 years ago
  33840.  
  33841. I forgot the shipping payment! Sorry! How could I pay it?
  33842. Thank you,
  33843.  
  33844.  
  33845.  
  33846.  
  33847. db
  33848.  
  33849. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706846> 2 years ago
  33850.  
  33851. Just 4 your Information – the Links for Preorder on wedg.co does not
  33852. work anymore.
  33853.  
  33854.  
  33855.  
  33856.  
  33857. Team WEDG
  33858.  
  33859. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  33860.  
  33861. @aaddiikk we’re just in the process of putting some details together.
  33862.  
  33863.  
  33864.  
  33865.  
  33866. aaddiikk
  33867.  
  33868. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8707168> 2 years ago
  33869.  
  33870. Hi team,
  33871.  
  33872. Could you please update us, the backers about where we are?
  33873. According to the schedule youve published a month ago, today
  33874. shipping of wedg should start where actually I dont even see the app
  33875. in stores (which also takes some time). Tease us a bit with some
  33876. photos/screenshots, updated schedule etc.
  33877.  
  33878. Cant wait for my wedg! :)
  33879.  
  33880.  
  33881.  
  33882.  
  33883. Team WEDG
  33884.  
  33885. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  33886.  
  33887. @1sgmgn April 2015!
  33888.  
  33889.  
  33890.  
  33891.  
  33892. 1sgmgn
  33893.  
  33894. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4356995> 2 years ago
  33895.  
  33896. When does it Ship?
  33897.  
  33898.  
  33899.  
  33900.  
  33901. Team WEDG
  33902.  
  33903. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  33904.  
  33905. Philipp Stäheli, @ZHUO YANG please email us at infowedg.co quoting
  33906. your PayPal email address and we’ll send the survey out to you again.
  33907.  
  33908.  
  33909.  
  33910.  
  33911. ZHUO YANG
  33912.  
  33913. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8355345> 2 years ago
  33914.  
  33915. Haven’t received a survey either..
  33916.  
  33917.  
  33918.  
  33919.  
  33920. Philipp Stäheli
  33921.  
  33922. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8723017> 2 years ago
  33923.  
  33924. Haven’t received a survey either..
  33925.  
  33926.  
  33927.  
  33928.  
  33929. Patrick Jones
  33930.  
  33931. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/5225415> 2 years ago
  33932.  
  33933. Hello,
  33934. I have not received the survey yet, is there a problem?
  33935. Thanks and Happy Easter?
  33936.  
  33937.  
  33938.  
  33939.  
  33940. James Taylor
  33941.  
  33942. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/5657565> 2 years ago
  33943.  
  33944. Just got (and returned) the survey – thank you! I did not understand
  33945. the “put your email address in the comments section” on the hard
  33946. drive/T-shirt survey (there is no comments section, just a place to
  33947. say what to do with the second shirt, for us literal types…). I
  33948. tried to modify it, but I can’t (“you’ve already taken this
  33949. survey.”). So here is the repeat: I said “chose a hard drive for me”
  33950. and "I want both shirts blue, XL, and “His”). Address is j c t at m
  33951. a c dot c o m.
  33952.  
  33953.  
  33954.  
  33955.  
  33956. Team WEDG
  33957.  
  33958. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  33959.  
  33960. @Steven Newman thank you Steven! Have a good Easter break!
  33961.  
  33962.  
  33963.  
  33964.  
  33965. Steven Newman
  33966.  
  33967. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/925661> 2 years ago
  33968.  
  33969. Happy Easter, guys! So thrilled we are so close to seeing your
  33970. vision made real!
  33971.  
  33972.  
  33973.  
  33974.  
  33975. Team WEDG
  33976.  
  33977. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  33978.  
  33979. Hey guys
  33980. Just an FYI we have a public holiday starting Friday 3rd April in
  33981. the UK and until Tuesday 7th. During this time we’ll be operating on
  33982. skeleton staff at varied times and so responses to emails and
  33983. comments may be subject to delay in .
  33984.  
  33985.  
  33986.  
  33987.  
  33988. Team WEDG
  33989.  
  33990. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  33991.  
  33992. @Steven Newman good question. We currently have a 3 bad passwords
  33993. and 15 minute lock out from that IP address, followed by 2-step auth
  33994. attempts. But all quantities are variable, so you can set for
  33995. example 3 bad password attempts or 10 followed by 15 minute lockout
  33996. or no lockout.
  33997.  
  33998.  
  33999.  
  34000.  
  34001. Team WEDG
  34002.  
  34003. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  34004.  
  34005. @db shortly after we go in to production next week we’ll have a
  34006. better idea of exact date. PR team are hard at work for this working
  34007. with retailers that we’ll be announcing partnerships with.
  34008.  
  34009.  
  34010.  
  34011.  
  34012. Steven Newman
  34013.  
  34014. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/925661> 2 years ago
  34015.  
  34016. Hey, a question just came to mind. I am currently using a Synology
  34017. device to handle my mail. One of the security features I like is
  34018. that I can set how many bad password attempts in a given time frame
  34019. from an IP address will get the IP locked out for a period of time.
  34020.  
  34021. So three bad passwords in fifteen minutes from a given IP get it
  34022. blacklisted for 30 days. Or what have you.
  34023.  
  34024. Will WEDG have anything similar?
  34025.  
  34026. Thanks!
  34027. Steven
  34028.  
  34029.  
  34030.  
  34031.  
  34032. db
  34033.  
  34034. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706846> 2 years ago
  34035.  
  34036. hi, could you tell us when the feature presentation is planned for
  34037. your launch?
  34038.  
  34039.  
  34040.  
  34041.  
  34042. Team WEDG
  34043.  
  34044. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  34045.  
  34046. George G please email us at infowedg.co confirming your PayPal email
  34047. address
  34048.  
  34049.  
  34050.  
  34051.  
  34052. Team WEDG
  34053.  
  34054. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  34055.  
  34056. @David Aldred yep that’s cool
  34057.  
  34058.  
  34059.  
  34060.  
  34061. George G
  34062.  
  34063. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/5941051> 2 years ago
  34064.  
  34065. Hi, i have also not received a survey
  34066.  
  34067.  
  34068.  
  34069.  
  34070. David Aldred
  34071.  
  34072. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> 2 years ago
  34073.  
  34074. I got the emails, but didn’t complete the form, as I’ve got the
  34075. diskless version – assume that’s ok?
  34076.  
  34077.  
  34078.  
  34079.  
  34080. Team WEDG
  34081.  
  34082. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  34083.  
  34084. @Gordon Keys no issue with emails our side, coming in thick and fast
  34085. every minute. Please try again, maybe from another account if you
  34086. have one? We just need you to confirm your PayPal email address as
  34087. thats where we send surveys.
  34088.  
  34089.  
  34090.  
  34091.  
  34092. Gordon Keys
  34093.  
  34094. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8335278> 2 years ago
  34095.  
  34096. email at infowedg.co doesn’t seem to be working. Just got bounced
  34097. twice! I’ve not got my survey yet either. Wondered why it had gone
  34098. quiet!
  34099.  
  34100.  
  34101.  
  34102.  
  34103. Team WEDG
  34104.  
  34105. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner 2 years ago
  34106.  
  34107. M K please drop us an email at infowedg.co verifying your PayPal
  34108. email address and we’ll get it out to you asap.
  34109.  
  34110.  
  34111.  
  34112.  
  34113. M K
  34114.  
  34115. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8914705> 2 years ago
  34116.  
  34117. Hi, i have also not received a survey.
  34118.  
  34119.  
  34120.  
  34121.  
  34122. Team WEDG
  34123.  
  34124. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  34125. years ago
  34126.  
  34127. @Bryan Walker thanks Brian, have just replied to your email this minute.
  34128.  
  34129.  
  34130.  
  34131.  
  34132. Team WEDG
  34133.  
  34134. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  34135. years ago
  34136.  
  34137. smadyk think we have an email from you and have sent the survey. If
  34138. not please email us at infowedg.co
  34139.  
  34140.  
  34141.  
  34142.  
  34143. smadyk
  34144.  
  34145. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/7989688> over 2 years ago
  34146.  
  34147. Hi, I don’t know if I wrote this before. So only to be sure.
  34148. I didn’t receive the survey, could you send me, please?
  34149.  
  34150.  
  34151.  
  34152.  
  34153. Team WEDG
  34154.  
  34155. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  34156. years ago
  34157.  
  34158. @Ken Taylor, @mark saunders apologies you haven’t received the
  34159. survey. I will send you a link by email.
  34160.  
  34161. everyone else - if you haven't received the survey please email your
  34162. PayPal email address (this is the email address we collect via
  34163. Indiegogo) to infowedg.co and I will send you the survey on Sunday
  34164. morning.
  34165.  
  34166. The survey will be sent from info@wedg.co and will contain
  34167. Surveymonkey.com URLs.
  34168.  
  34169.  
  34170.  
  34171.  
  34172. mark saunders
  34173.  
  34174. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8466324> over 2 years ago
  34175.  
  34176. Hi Shehbaz and WEDG team,
  34177. I have checked my emails & my junk folder also I have not received
  34178. any emails about surveys. I believe I found the reason why and i
  34179. sent an email to: info@wedg.co with my PayPal email addresses. As
  34180. far as I know I have not received any surveys but maybe my fault
  34181. with that, and sent email should explain. Can wait to get my WEDG !!!
  34182.  
  34183. Thanks again
  34184. Mark
  34185.  
  34186.  
  34187.  
  34188.  
  34189. Ken Taylor
  34190.  
  34191. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6123904> over 2 years ago
  34192.  
  34193. Hi Shehbaz,
  34194. I have checked my emails & my junk folder & then to double check I
  34195. went and checked the server & I have not received any emails about
  34196. surveys.
  34197. the last email I got was the email saying that you were sending a
  34198. survey later in the week so it looks like I have missed 2 surveys
  34199. the one that closed today & the one that closes on Sunday
  34200. As previously discussed I need to know the HDD choices. & I
  34201. definitely want to choose the colour & anything else that was on the
  34202. form
  34203. Regards
  34204. Ken
  34205.  
  34206.  
  34207.  
  34208.  
  34209. Team WEDG
  34210.  
  34211. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  34212. years ago
  34213.  
  34214. @Gatto Fontainäou the thought hadn’t even crossed my mind. Thank you
  34215. all the same : ) Will get back to you over email.
  34216.  
  34217.  
  34218.  
  34219.  
  34220. Gatto Fontainäou
  34221.  
  34222. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/604966> over 2 years ago
  34223.  
  34224. @Shehbaz, thank for you comment, I sent you an email.
  34225. And btw – as the written text can always be misinterpreted – my last
  34226. comment was meant to be a joke (and by no means a reproach). Cheers
  34227.  
  34228.  
  34229.  
  34230.  
  34231. Team WEDG
  34232.  
  34233. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  34234. years ago
  34235.  
  34236. @Gatto Fontainäou the survey was sent to the email address connected
  34237. to your PayPal account. Can you double check you haven’t received
  34238. it, if you haven’t I’ll send you a link again.
  34239.  
  34240. Please email us at info@wedg.co with your PayPal email address.
  34241.  
  34242.  
  34243.  
  34244.  
  34245. Gatto Fontainäou
  34246.  
  34247. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/604966> over 2 years ago
  34248.  
  34249. @Shehbaz, did I miss something important? 3 days ago (update 38) you
  34250. said: " we’ll be sending out the survey this week" and now you say
  34251. it closed 1.5 hours ago?
  34252. I was waiting impatiently and never received any link to the survey.
  34253. Shall I go to search for an ophthalmologist already?
  34254.  
  34255.  
  34256.  
  34257.  
  34258. Team WEDG
  34259.  
  34260. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  34261. years ago
  34262.  
  34263. Hey guys!
  34264.  
  34265. Just a heads up, because we set the survey out a little late, you
  34266. have till 6PM UK today to complete and submit your HDD choices.
  34267.  
  34268. After which time, you will be sent a WEDG with the most popular hard
  34269. drive and blue, medium his t-shirt where applicable.
  34270.  
  34271. The WEDG colour choices survey is open until Sunday 29 March 9PM.
  34272.  
  34273. Thanks!
  34274.  
  34275.  
  34276.  
  34277.  
  34278. Team WEDG
  34279.  
  34280. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  34281. years ago
  34282.  
  34283. @Gatto Fontainäou just an FYI the survey closes at 6PM UK time, so
  34284. if you haven’t decided yet you still have just over 1 hour to submit
  34285. your choices.
  34286.  
  34287. Yes, two separate hdd models can be used to RAID – even two separate
  34288. capacities but the lowest capacity is volume limit.
  34289.  
  34290. Hope that helps!
  34291.  
  34292.  
  34293.  
  34294.  
  34295. Gatto Fontainäou
  34296.  
  34297. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/604966> over 2 years ago
  34298.  
  34299. So, we will be able to configure RAID1 or not use RAID at all –
  34300. that’s awesome, but after reading some statistics about HDD failures
  34301. I wonder if it would be possible to use two different HDDs in the
  34302. RAID1 configuration? I mean same capacity, but from different
  34303. manufacturers? If yes, will we be able to choose that in the survey?
  34304. (sorry, if it’s been answered earlier).
  34305. I’m still hesitating to upgrade for 2tb, but wouldn’t like to use
  34306. RAID mirroring if the benefits are statistically negligible ;)
  34307.  
  34308.  
  34309.  
  34310.  
  34311. Team WEDG
  34312.  
  34313. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  34314. years ago
  34315.  
  34316. @Brian, Hi! Yes that Amazon would be fine location to send your
  34317. backup archives to, as the archive is encrypted – its a password
  34318. protected .zip file.
  34319.  
  34320. With regards to selective backup, yes it is possible as the backup
  34321. solution allows you to select files and folders to capture in the
  34322. back, but that selection is not made by encrypted/not encrypted I’m
  34323. afraid.
  34324.  
  34325.  
  34326.  
  34327.  
  34328. Brian
  34329.  
  34330. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4535871> over 2 years ago
  34331.  
  34332. https://www.amazon.com/buttdrive/home/
  34333.  
  34334. With Amazon offering unlimited butt storage, is that a viable way to
  34335. backup the WEDG? Can we set it up to only backup “public”
  34336. information on the server to my butt, and leave the encrypted,
  34337. private things local only?
  34338.  
  34339.  
  34340.  
  34341.  
  34342. Team WEDG
  34343.  
  34344. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  34345. years ago
  34346.  
  34347. fia yes you can, you'll need to pay the difference between your
  34348. chosen Perk and WEDG Pro with Intel +1TB +£56. Please drop us an
  34349. email at infowedg.co when you have done this so we can make a note
  34350. on our side for the change to your order.
  34351.  
  34352.  
  34353.  
  34354.  
  34355. blandat
  34356.  
  34357. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6957871> over 2 years ago
  34358.  
  34359. I selected a wedg withour HDD since I wanted 2TB, now that you can
  34360. offer that, can I add it now? Is it an option in the upcoming survety?
  34361.  
  34362.  
  34363.  
  34364.  
  34365. Team WEDG
  34366.  
  34367. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  34368. years ago
  34369.  
  34370. @David Aldred watch this space! ;)
  34371.  
  34372. RE HDD, there is enough space to stack two 15mm HDDs with approx.
  34373. 2.5mm amount of space between them after the guides/rails.
  34374.  
  34375.  
  34376.  
  34377.  
  34378. David Aldred
  34379.  
  34380. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> over 2 years ago
  34381.  
  34382. Sorry, another HDD question.
  34383.  
  34384. Will it take 15mm HDD, 9mm or either?
  34385.  
  34386.  
  34387.  
  34388.  
  34389. David Aldred
  34390.  
  34391. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> over 2 years ago
  34392.  
  34393. What might be a really good way to showcase the hardware & software,
  34394. is a bit of a dropbox v OneDrive v Google Drive v OwnButt v Wedg
  34395. comparison, pointing out cost / storage / security as well as
  34396. specific features (apps, auto-upload, offline etc).
  34397.  
  34398. Would really help those who are hooked to dropbox et al make the
  34399. plunge if they knew they’d get the same functionality, plus other
  34400. stuff on top.
  34401.  
  34402. ps – getting excited now!
  34403.  
  34404.  
  34405.  
  34406.  
  34407. Team WEDG
  34408.  
  34409. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  34410. years ago
  34411.  
  34412. @spencer robinson sorry for the late . I went away for the
  34413. weekend and I’m catching up on public and private comments. I’d love
  34414. to show you something right now but we have a feature presentation
  34415. planned for our launch so coincide with social media and PR
  34416. activities and really want to make an impact with that.
  34417.  
  34418. The wait is worth it I assure you and we appreciate your patience
  34419. and excitement :)
  34420.  
  34421.  
  34422.  
  34423.  
  34424. spencer robinson
  34425.  
  34426. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/9152571> over 2 years ago
  34427.  
  34428. Show me some eye candy!! (No im not posting on the wrong site)
  34429.  
  34430. I know the actual release date will soon be here but i cant wait!
  34431.  
  34432. Can you not give us some screen shots of the software as it stands
  34433. (it most be nearly there, though i do understand not 100% finalized)
  34434.  
  34435. Come on tease us all a bit
  34436.  
  34437.  
  34438.  
  34439.  
  34440. David Aldred
  34441.  
  34442. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> over 2 years ago
  34443.  
  34444. excellent, thanks – best get myself some drives then!
  34445.  
  34446.  
  34447.  
  34448.  
  34449. Team WEDG
  34450.  
  34451. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  34452. years ago
  34453.  
  34454. @David Aldred yes there is an ‘offline’ mode as such as described,
  34455. we’re actually reviewing our user manual document and on that very
  34456. topic right now! Spooky!
  34457.  
  34458. HDDs are 2.5" not 3.5" and are standard SATA drives. Yes even with
  34459. the RAID component installed you can operate two independent drives
  34460. of different storage capability.
  34461.  
  34462. Hope that helps!
  34463.  
  34464.  
  34465.  
  34466.  
  34467. David Aldred
  34468.  
  34469. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> over 2 years ago
  34470.  
  34471. Can you remind me… is there an offline-files mode? ie, a folder or
  34472. flag I can assign to files that I want to be saved locally and
  34473. synced as required? Will come in handy for larger spreadsheets etc
  34474. than having to pull from the the network each time. (Similar to
  34475. OwnButt if you’re familiar?)
  34476.  
  34477. And I know I keep asking about HDD’s – but they’re standard 3.5"
  34478. right? And for those getting the raid option, I can configure in
  34479. raid 0 or no raid at all, with different disk capacities?
  34480.  
  34481.  
  34482.  
  34483.  
  34484. Team WEDG
  34485.  
  34486. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  34487. years ago
  34488.  
  34489. @Ken Taylor 5400rpm drives are not included in our discussions with
  34490. suppliers, so rest assured no on will get a 5400rpm drive. If when
  34491. the survey is sent funding has ended, we could always take payment
  34492. via alternative means – but lets see what drives we bring to the
  34493. table ;)
  34494.  
  34495. Thank you for your support Ken (Y)
  34496.  
  34497.  
  34498.  
  34499.  
  34500. Ken Taylor
  34501.  
  34502. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6123904> over 2 years ago
  34503.  
  34504. @Team Wedg
  34505. Thanks that helps I hope the survey comes out before funding
  34506. finishes as depending on drive specs i may need to up funding to 2x
  34507. 2TB drives (but not for Toshiba MQ @5400rpm drives)
  34508. Great to know the office suite will make it , (My pref Libra office)
  34509. I hope “Active sync” will also make it at some point (revisit
  34510. option). As i guess we cant just app get install Z-push / O-Push /
  34511. Syncroton on the server
  34512. Great Project cant wait to get my hand on my WEDG .. Next month
  34513. Thanks Ken
  34514.  
  34515.  
  34516.  
  34517.  
  34518. Team WEDG
  34519.  
  34520. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  34521. years ago
  34522.  
  34523. @Ken Taylor we are currently negotiating hard drive brands and
  34524. models so that you the backers can pick the drives you want in your
  34525. WEDG, This applies for 1TB and 2TB drives. We plan to send out a
  34526. survey which will collect this information from you as well as
  34527. identify which hard drive brands and models we have access to. Hope
  34528. that helps!
  34529.  
  34530.  
  34531.  
  34532.  
  34533. Ken Taylor
  34534.  
  34535. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6123904> over 2 years ago
  34536.  
  34537. Hi Shehbaz,
  34538. In a to @David Aldred you recommend drives over 72000rpm but
  34539. in the update “2TERABYTE TO BE OR NOT 2TERABYTE TO BE” you say the
  34540. drives available for 2TB are Toshiba MQ series @5400RPM can you let
  34541. us know which drives will be used for the 2TB raid version as this
  34542. may make a difference to my funding level,
  34543. Thanks Ken
  34544.  
  34545.  
  34546.  
  34547.  
  34548. Team WEDG
  34549.  
  34550. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  34551. years ago
  34552.  
  34553. @Ken Taylor continued funding does count towards the stretch goals
  34554. and that’s why we left the graphic on the project. But it doesn’t
  34555. look like it’ll happen as we’ll be closing the project here on the
  34556. day we start manufacturing.
  34557.  
  34558. The good news is we are committed to producing the Office suite and
  34559. so will take this on after Indiegogo fulfilment (and a short break!).
  34560.  
  34561.  
  34562.  
  34563.  
  34564. Ken Taylor
  34565.  
  34566. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6123904> over 2 years ago
  34567.  
  34568. £4,957 to go until the Office suite stretch goal is unlocked if the
  34569. continued funding counts towards the stretch goals?
  34570. If this does not count or is not reached is it still something that
  34571. will be developed for the Wedg as time permits after launch?
  34572.  
  34573.  
  34574.  
  34575.  
  34576. Alex Stamp
  34577.  
  34578. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6787108> over 2 years ago
  34579.  
  34580. Hey Guys,
  34581.  
  34582. Looking forward to getting my Wedg, just a thought for the feature
  34583. wishlist. Onedrive currently allows you to use “smart files” on
  34584. windows 8.1. This just allows you to designate certain files and
  34585. folders in the onedrive folder as online only, so it just pulls
  34586. those files across when you want them. I appreciate it wouldn’t be
  34587. at launch and probably fairly difficult to implement period but it
  34588. would be a cool feature to have as a possibility for the future.
  34589.  
  34590. Thanks,
  34591.  
  34592. Alex
  34593.  
  34594.  
  34595.  
  34596.  
  34597. Team WEDG
  34598.  
  34599. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  34600. years ago
  34601.  
  34602. Bryan Walker apologies for the late , I didn’t receive an alert
  34603. to the new comments. Do you mind me asking what the similar device
  34604. was? :) In response to your question, we collected shipping
  34605. addresses at checkout but if you've moved since then pretty much as
  34606. @Pierre Lang said - just drop us an email at infowedg.co and we’ll
  34607. confirm or update your address.
  34608.  
  34609.  
  34610.  
  34611.  
  34612. Team WEDG
  34613.  
  34614. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  34615. years ago
  34616.  
  34617. @David Aldred apologies for the late , I didn’t receive an
  34618. alert to the new comments. To answer your question; those with
  34619. drive-less WEDG we would recommend drives over 72,000RPM – we didn’t
  34620. find any advantages between cache sizes.
  34621.  
  34622. Those with referral commissions will be contacted directly by email
  34623. post-shipping.
  34624.  
  34625.  
  34626.  
  34627.  
  34628. Pierre Lang
  34629.  
  34630. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4161016> over 2 years ago
  34631.  
  34632. @Bryan Walker: see update from 25 days ago:
  34633. “Going somewhere?
  34634.  
  34635. Many of you have contacted us to say you’ve relocated and need to
  34636. change your shipping address. If you are relocating or when you do,
  34637. please email us at info@wedg.co with your PayPal email address, new
  34638. shipping address and current or the shipping address you had when
  34639. you first Contributed and we’ll make the changes our side."
  34640.  
  34641.  
  34642.  
  34643.  
  34644. David Aldred
  34645.  
  34646. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> over 2 years ago
  34647.  
  34648. Great update – shipping early April is a great result vs target of
  34649. March.
  34650.  
  34651. couple of questions…
  34652.  
  34653. - Sure it’s been covered in the past, but what are the recommended
  34654. specs for HDD’s for those of us buying diskless?
  34655.  
  34656. - Again, this may have been discussed, but what happens to our
  34657. referrals commission (from the 1st affiliate program that was ran)?
  34658.  
  34659.  
  34660.  
  34661.  
  34662. scott.henderson
  34663.  
  34664. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3201718> over 2 years ago
  34665.  
  34666. Thank you for the detailed update!
  34667.  
  34668.  
  34669.  
  34670.  
  34671. scott.henderson
  34672.  
  34673. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3201718> over 2 years ago
  34674.  
  34675. Great to hear the project is still on target.
  34676.  
  34677.  
  34678.  
  34679.  
  34680. Team WEDG
  34681.  
  34682. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  34683. years ago
  34684.  
  34685. @scott.henderson love your excitement! I have an update all drafted
  34686. out and ready post, it just needs the specifics from suppliers and
  34687. others partners regarding dates for example so I can share those
  34688. with everyone. I haven’t had all the details through yet but have
  34689. been promised results for the weekend.
  34690.  
  34691. I assure you’re not behind on schedule, things might be occurring in
  34692. a different order compared to how originally planned but
  34693. nevertheless we are on target.
  34694.  
  34695.  
  34696.  
  34697.  
  34698. scott.henderson
  34699.  
  34700. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3201718> over 2 years ago
  34701.  
  34702. I’m another Scott looking for an update! :) Based on the past one,
  34703. it appears things are running about 2-3 months behind schedule.
  34704. Hopefully the update promised for the end of this week (today or
  34705. tomorrow) shines a better light on the progress.
  34706.  
  34707. January to Early February
  34708. Mass Production
  34709. Flash Firmware to Boards with QA
  34710.  
  34711. February to Early March
  34712. Assembly and Packaging
  34713. Ship to WEDG
  34714.  
  34715. A supporter simply excited and busting at the seams to get a hold of
  34716. his two WEDGgies. :P
  34717.  
  34718.  
  34719.  
  34720.  
  34721. Team WEDG
  34722.  
  34723. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  34724. years ago
  34725.  
  34726. @Scott McQueen hi Scott, I’m waiting back from others so I have
  34727. something worthwhile to report back on updates with rather than
  34728. ’we’re hard at work’ responses. Having said that though we are hard
  34729. at work! I hope to have an update mid-end of this week.
  34730.  
  34731.  
  34732.  
  34733.  
  34734. Scott McQueen
  34735.  
  34736. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8443500> over 2 years ago
  34737.  
  34738. Any more updates due, it’s been a bit quiet in here lately ?
  34739.  
  34740.  
  34741.  
  34742.  
  34743. Team WEDG
  34744.  
  34745. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  34746. years ago
  34747.  
  34748. @M K yep you can add a signature in the web interface and via your
  34749. mail client
  34750.  
  34751.  
  34752.  
  34753.  
  34754. M K
  34755.  
  34756. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8914705> over 2 years ago
  34757.  
  34758. I’m interested in stickers!
  34759.  
  34760. Are you planning to add a WEDG email signature for users?
  34761.  
  34762.  
  34763.  
  34764.  
  34765. Team WEDG
  34766.  
  34767. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  34768. years ago
  34769.  
  34770. Gaston Cardey drop us an email at infowedg.co with details of your
  34771. contribution and we can look into that for you ;)
  34772.  
  34773.  
  34774.  
  34775.  
  34776. Gaston Cardey
  34777.  
  34778. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8821945> over 2 years ago
  34779.  
  34780. Hi!
  34781. I think that the T shirts are no included in my pledge. Is it
  34782. possible to include a couple at some cost?
  34783. Hope you get well in no time!
  34784. Wishing that time go faster so I can get the WEDG.
  34785. Thanks!
  34786.  
  34787.  
  34788.  
  34789.  
  34790. Team WEDG
  34791.  
  34792. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  34793. years ago
  34794.  
  34795. @aaddiikk thank you :)
  34796.  
  34797.  
  34798.  
  34799.  
  34800. aaddiikk
  34801.  
  34802. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8707168> over 2 years ago
  34803.  
  34804. Thanks for almost instant and I wish you a speedy recovery!
  34805.  
  34806.  
  34807.  
  34808.  
  34809. Team WEDG
  34810.  
  34811. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  34812. years ago
  34813.  
  34814. @aaddiikk yes I am in the process of compiling an update with
  34815. feedback from the team. I’ve been very ill since late last year with
  34816. a virus but well on the road to recovery now so comms will be more
  34817. frequent from now on.
  34818.  
  34819. The team have been hard at work according to the plan nevertheless.
  34820.  
  34821. Hope to post a complete update tomorrow!
  34822.  
  34823.  
  34824.  
  34825.  
  34826. aaddiikk
  34827.  
  34828. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8707168> over 2 years ago
  34829.  
  34830. WEDG,
  34831.  
  34832. Don’t you think that it would be a good idea to post an update to
  34833. all backers about what is happening behind the stage? Just to ensure
  34834. us that you are still alive and ‘on track’ with the schedule? I’m
  34835. really curious whats happening there… :)
  34836.  
  34837.  
  34838.  
  34839.  
  34840. Team WEDG
  34841.  
  34842. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  34843. years ago
  34844.  
  34845. @slimchan thank you for your support! We are hard at work and
  34846. committed to the late March/early April shipping date. We will have
  34847. a more accurate idea of dates closer to manufacture.
  34848.  
  34849. If anything changes, of course we will alert and update our backers
  34850. accordingly.
  34851.  
  34852.  
  34853.  
  34854.  
  34855. CHAN SZE LIM
  34856.  
  34857. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6990832> over 2 years ago
  34858.  
  34859. Sorry WEDG,
  34860.  
  34861. I pledged both your KS and indiegogo campigns. Do you have any
  34862. update regarding the shipping date? Thanks.
  34863.  
  34864.  
  34865.  
  34866.  
  34867. Team WEDG
  34868.  
  34869. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  34870. years ago
  34871.  
  34872. @Philip Stäheli of course WEDGNET will be free while we’re
  34873. campaigning on Indiegogo. And yes to regarding forwarding messages
  34874. to one another, you can set this up in the WEDGNET control panel :)
  34875.  
  34876.  
  34877.  
  34878.  
  34879. Philipp Stäheli
  34880.  
  34881. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8723017> over 2 years ago
  34882.  
  34883. Hello Team Wedg,
  34884.  
  34885. I got a friend of mine very interested in the Wedg.
  34886. I he pledges now, will he still profit from lifelong WEDGNET
  34887. for free, eventhough funding is technically over?
  34888.  
  34889. Can two WEDG forward each other’s emails when one wedg is down?
  34890. Similar as to how WEDGNET would do, but basicly over selected WEDG?
  34891.  
  34892.  
  34893.  
  34894.  
  34895. Team WEDG
  34896.  
  34897. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  34898. years ago
  34899.  
  34900. @M K got it thanks. Interesting read
  34901.  
  34902.  
  34903.  
  34904.  
  34905. M K
  34906.  
  34907. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8914705> over 2 years ago
  34908.  
  34909. This link works for sure with me:
  34910.  
  34911. http://www.tomsguide.com/us/dime-secure-email-defcon,news-19296.html
  34912.  
  34913. On IOS in Safari.
  34914.  
  34915.  
  34916.  
  34917.  
  34918. Team WEDG
  34919.  
  34920. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  34921. years ago
  34922.  
  34923. @M K the link you sent leads to a 404 page. However, there are no
  34924. plans to support DIME until launch. Post launch we can certainly
  34925. consider other support for other protocols.
  34926.  
  34927.  
  34928.  
  34929.  
  34930. M K
  34931.  
  34932. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8914705> over 2 years ago
  34933.  
  34934. @Team WEDG: are you planning to include support for DIME secure
  34935. email protocol?
  34936. (http://www.tomsguide.com/us/dime-secure-email-defcon,news-19296.html)
  34937.  
  34938. It was featured at the CCC in Berlin last december.
  34939.  
  34940.  
  34941.  
  34942.  
  34943. Team WEDG
  34944.  
  34945. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  34946. years ago
  34947.  
  34948. @John Raffin happy new year! Apologies for the late . Thank you
  34949. for your feedback, we are looking at TOR possibilities for WEDG and
  34950. will update everyone on any progress when we have something to report.
  34951.  
  34952.  
  34953.  
  34954.  
  34955. Team WEDG
  34956.  
  34957. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  34958. years ago
  34959.  
  34960. @Jacob Ovard happy new year! Apologies for the late , Currently
  34961. you can’t, but I believe Indiegogo are looking at changing the site
  34962. to reflect the FF amount.
  34963.  
  34964.  
  34965.  
  34966.  
  34967. John Raffin
  34968.  
  34969. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4406292> over 2 years ago
  34970.  
  34971. The TOR capability interests me.
  34972.  
  34973. Currently on Indiegogo there is a campaign for a TOR hardware device.
  34974.  
  34975. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/anonabox-the-tor-hardware-router/x/4406292
  34976.  
  34977. This sits between router and computer. One of the things it mentions
  34978. is that latency increases so you wouldn’t use it for speed-critical
  34979. applications like gaming.
  34980.  
  34981. Is the proposal for WEDG similar in concept? And could you turn TOR
  34982. off-and-on?
  34983.  
  34984.  
  34985.  
  34986.  
  34987. Jacob Ovard
  34988.  
  34989. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8671772> over 2 years ago
  34990.  
  34991. The Campaign no longer shows how much has been raised past the
  34992. funded date amount. Where can I see the current amount of how much
  34993. has been raised along so I can see where we are in comparison to our
  34994. stretch goals?
  34995.  
  34996.  
  34997.  
  34998.  
  34999. Team WEDG
  35000.  
  35001. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  35002. years ago
  35003.  
  35004. Alex Stamp yes you can! Drop us a note when you have at infowedg.co :)
  35005.  
  35006.  
  35007.  
  35008.  
  35009. Alex Stamp
  35010.  
  35011. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6787108> over 2 years ago
  35012.  
  35013. Hi,
  35014.  
  35015. Just wondering even though all the perks are now labeled for the pro
  35016. wedge can i still buy the 2tb upgrade for my ARM wedge (I’ve already
  35017. bought it for my PRO wedge)
  35018.  
  35019.  
  35020.  
  35021.  
  35022. Team WEDG
  35023.  
  35024. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  35025. years ago
  35026.  
  35027. @1sgmgn around mid to late March or early April. We know for sure by
  35028. early February ;)
  35029.  
  35030.  
  35031.  
  35032.  
  35033. 1sgmgn
  35034.  
  35035. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4356995> over 2 years ago
  35036.  
  35037. Shipping when?
  35038.  
  35039.  
  35040.  
  35041.  
  35042. Team WEDG
  35043.  
  35044. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  35045. years ago
  35046.  
  35047. @Ken Taylor, @William Grouch correct!
  35048.  
  35049.  
  35050.  
  35051.  
  35052. Team WEDG
  35053.  
  35054. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  35055. years ago
  35056.  
  35057. @AVN6293 my pleasure and thank you for your feedback, we appreciate
  35058. your thoughts.
  35059.  
  35060.  
  35061.  
  35062.  
  35063. Team WEDG
  35064.  
  35065. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  35066. years ago
  35067.  
  35068. @Ken Taylor i don’t know :( but I have reported this concern to the
  35069. Indiegogo support team and I think they’re going to change it to
  35070. reflect the increasing contributions.
  35071.  
  35072. As of yet we haven’t received a great deal of more funding, if
  35073. nothing changes as we progress over the coming weeks then we will
  35074. keep a manual record of new contributions on the top of the project
  35075. page.
  35076.  
  35077.  
  35078.  
  35079.  
  35080. Team WEDG
  35081.  
  35082. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  35083. years ago
  35084.  
  35085. @William Groh no need to apologise, we love to hear from our
  35086. supports and backers. We appreciate you feedback and input ;)
  35087.  
  35088.  
  35089.  
  35090.  
  35091. Ken Taylor
  35092.  
  35093. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6123904> over 2 years ago
  35094.  
  35095. @William Grouch. If you have a WEDG Pro pay the £40 for Raid upgrade
  35096. you will then have a Raid capable WEDG (with HDD config your pledge
  35097. had). With a standard WEDG Pro you are limited to 1 HDD as there is
  35098. additional hardware in the Raid version, so for future user upgrade
  35099. options + £40 Raid upgrade now. I believe the Hardware is
  35100. essentially as it will be launched no big changes. just software
  35101. work still being done for stretch goals & new features.
  35102.  
  35103.  
  35104.  
  35105.  
  35106. Andrea V.
  35107.  
  35108. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/9040474> over 2 years ago
  35109.  
  35110. @WEDG Thank you for the about my concern! I greatly appreciate it.
  35111. I’m just terrified that the overall saturation of T0R by
  35112. conservative groups could have had the potential to turn the service
  35113. into a honeypot. Now of course this is all hypothetical but if even
  35114. the slightest chance remains i would want more research to be done
  35115. on possible “sinkholes” in the service, where they could be+how we
  35116. could use T0R to the best of our abilities so that the fundamentals
  35117. are a help + not a hinder
  35118.  
  35119.  
  35120.  
  35121.  
  35122. Ken Taylor
  35123.  
  35124. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6123904> over 2 years ago
  35125.  
  35126. How do we know what the current pledged amount is with regards to
  35127. getting to the stretch goals. the indiegogo page i am looking at no
  35128. longer shows the infinity sign to signify forever funding it just
  35129. says “This campaign has ended, and is still offering perks.” and
  35130. does not show the amount raised increasing. even though there have
  35131. been recent pledges.
  35132.  
  35133.  
  35134.  
  35135.  
  35136. William Groh
  35137.  
  35138. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6101735> over 2 years ago
  35139.  
  35140. @Team WEDG, I will wait for them launch all they said they will then
  35141. I will buy which one suits best my needs hence my initial question
  35142. about future upgrades because I don’t want buy perks and more perks
  35143. as things progress, I rather wait for your final notice on what is
  35144. going to be launched and when and how then I will do a top purchase
  35145. you can count on me for that. Sorry for the long messages and all
  35146. the best going forward!
  35147.  
  35148.  
  35149.  
  35150.  
  35151. William Groh
  35152.  
  35153. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6101735> over 2 years ago
  35154.  
  35155. @Team WEDG, make it real, so as you guys get more and more orders
  35156. allowing you guys to deliver more and more, it’s fair to say you
  35157. have to ask more for the early birds but it’s also fair to say that
  35158. a reasonable amount could be take into the consideration.
  35159. Anyway, all this speech was to say congrats for the hard work and
  35160. please consider “One of Fee Upgrade” for those who initially got one
  35161. perk but now want to get the most of, in the way I can see you guys
  35162. launching all I keep thinking is ..
  35163.  
  35164.  
  35165.  
  35166.  
  35167. William Groh
  35168.  
  35169. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6101735> over 2 years ago
  35170.  
  35171. @Team WEDG, for those who want the max of the product without have
  35172. to pay such a premium price if you add every single perk upgrade, in
  35173. other words, doesn’t feel the early birds would get real discounts
  35174. at the end of the project comparing to the ones that bought after
  35175. you guys are fully funded, not sure if I’m being so sentimental here
  35176. but you guys are here for second time as I reckon so I’m sure
  35177. initially you guys had the concern of might not go through again and
  35178. people like me helped … cont.
  35179.  
  35180.  
  35181.  
  35182.  
  35183. William Groh
  35184.  
  35185. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6101735> over 2 years ago
  35186.  
  35187. @Team WEDG, is does answer as well it does confirm what I was
  35188. afraid, have to keep paying single upgrades prices, so here a
  35189. suggestion, why don’t you guys work perks to ugprade from whatever
  35190. you are to whatever you want to go ? Not sure if this would end up
  35191. making you guys have to create ton’s of perks but I think it’s a
  35192. good idea to simple offer a one off fee for all the upgrade the
  35193. customer want so as much upgrades you want in once a small incentive
  35194. would work perfect as a nudge … cont…
  35195.  
  35196.  
  35197.  
  35198.  
  35199. Team WEDG
  35200.  
  35201. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  35202. years ago
  35203.  
  35204. @AVN6293 thanks for your input. If/when we do enable TOR support for
  35205. WEDG it will be very much a user choice to install and use.
  35206. Naturally closer to the time a debate may very well be required
  35207. amongst this community.
  35208.  
  35209.  
  35210.  
  35211.  
  35212. Andrea V.
  35213.  
  35214. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/9040474> over 2 years ago
  35215.  
  35216. @Devs @All and @Wedg staff
  35217.  
  35218. After two major p-2-p markets overtaken by poIitics, both using T0R
  35219. im deathIy concerned about the use of T0R “baked into” the wedg by
  35220. default.
  35221. I think this is a issue that at the very least needs painstaking
  35222. discussion!
  35223.  
  35224.  
  35225.  
  35226.  
  35227. Team WEDG
  35228.  
  35229. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  35230. years ago
  35231.  
  35232. @William Groh 2/2 …
  35233. Perk 1 will take you to RAID1 with a 1TB HDD so you now have 2 × 1TB
  35234. HDD, Perk 2 will then upgrade your 1TB HDDs to 2TB HDDs totalling 2
  35235. × 2TB HDDs.
  35236.  
  35237. I hope that helps!
  35238.  
  35239.  
  35240.  
  35241.  
  35242. Team WEDG
  35243.  
  35244. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  35245. years ago
  35246.  
  35247. @William Groh thanks for reaching out. For now we don’t have any
  35248. further upgrade options unless you want the Carbon Fibre WEDG :D
  35249.  
  35250. In order for you to max out your options you’ll need the following
  35251. Perks:
  35252.  
  35253. 1.
  35254. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/wedg-the-personal-butt-you-ve-been-waiting-for/contributions/new?perk_amt=90&perk_id=2359747
  35255.  
  35256. 2.
  35257. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/wedg-the-personal-butt-you-ve-been-waiting-for/contributions/new?perk_amt=112&perk_id=2491609
  35258.  
  35259. Cont…
  35260.  
  35261.  
  35262.  
  35263.  
  35264. William Groh
  35265.  
  35266. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6101735> over 2 years ago
  35267.  
  35268. Also, will more updates coming requiring me to buy new perks ? I
  35269. mean, once I already invested £225 I will invest as much as I can
  35270. afford to have your top spec device at the launch time, I don’t want
  35271. be an early contributor and not have the latest device just because
  35272. I sponsor at the time you guys needed the fund so any guidance and
  35273. early indication of future perks will be much appreciated.
  35274.  
  35275.  
  35276.  
  35277.  
  35278. William Groh
  35279.  
  35280. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6101735> over 2 years ago
  35281.  
  35282. Hi, I cannot wait to play with my WEDG but I’ve a concern.
  35283. I appreciate the effort in make available as many things as you can
  35284. specially when they’re ready but now I’m feeling a bit confused to
  35285. what I can do to upgrade my perk.
  35286. I have initially bought WEDG Pro with Intel + 1TB for £225 and now I
  35287. would like to have RAID + 2TB storage, so I would assume I need a
  35288. perk that gives me 3x 1TB storage or 2 × 2TB and replace my 1TB
  35289. originally bought ? I can’t see this as a perk so how should I do ?
  35290.  
  35291.  
  35292.  
  35293.  
  35294. Andrea Pietroboni
  35295.  
  35296. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/1106976> over 2 years ago
  35297.  
  35298. Hi i can’t complete
  35299. http://email.indiegogo.com/wf/click?upn=fQzVZ7ERXduzUTS-2FtYMbUfK2N2xQlUNbtMKfszn4SLjZWRIBWJBGAMCmT0-2FV-2BG0r_apDWgKE-2FO-2Fs1Dr9mDAF-2FnjKALX8rOt3sjyt12voND7L9FEs8ujgOsUi8jcsq3wXnTUP7RwVWYVbRBKtPzHhCOzB-2FxXgJIyB-2FKPdFmBPv5wTxd-2FcJIFD0MxP30MMhP7yw5TYdcSPP0imgAJdFKMvbgiuZ9fLnkWLFYU4Tar5DUCeQQitOnw5THLyFcOzsqG5h4oEET5aSG1xm5UJ-2F2xHiUmG2PWH7w3iYzqtK1-2FOcMVzN9u6zc-2FL2lkPji52KYku0
  35300.  
  35301.  
  35302.  
  35303.  
  35304. Team WEDG
  35305.  
  35306. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  35307. years ago
  35308.  
  35309. @Ken Taylor welcome back! That’s a good idea, yes we’ll publish
  35310. those details with the survey results. Thank you for completing the
  35311. survey, we appreciate your feedback and time :)
  35312.  
  35313.  
  35314.  
  35315.  
  35316. Ken Taylor
  35317.  
  35318. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6123904> over 2 years ago
  35319.  
  35320. Hi Shebaz, Congratulations, I go away for a few weeks and everything
  35321. changes, from other campaigns i know there is lots of info that you
  35322. get from Indiegogo, Any chance on letting us know where
  35323. geographically the funding came from, how may ARM how many INTEL and
  35324. how many upgrades to Raid there were. ETC. Good luck on Forever
  35325. funding, I hope the team can keep the campaign in the media to get
  35326. to the 135k stretch goal and further yet to be announced Goals.
  35327. Active Sync? I have completed the survey
  35328.  
  35329.  
  35330.  
  35331.  
  35332. Team WEDG
  35333.  
  35334. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  35335. years ago
  35336.  
  35337. @Bryan Walker thanks for your feedback. I think the closest we can
  35338. do is give the user the option to set the app to sit idle when not
  35339. in the foreground. I’ll relay back to the dev guys anyway.
  35340.  
  35341. Thank you for your support enthusiasm! :D
  35342.  
  35343.  
  35344.  
  35345.  
  35346. Team WEDG
  35347.  
  35348. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  35349. years ago
  35350.  
  35351. @M K I think some of your suggestions could make it through gradual
  35352. updates.
  35353.  
  35354.  
  35355.  
  35356.  
  35357. M K
  35358.  
  35359. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8914705> over 2 years ago
  35360.  
  35361. Stretchgoal idea #33: support for S/MIME in the mail client. It’s a
  35362. complimentary to PGP.
  35363.  
  35364.  
  35365.  
  35366.  
  35367. M K
  35368.  
  35369. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8914705> over 2 years ago
  35370.  
  35371. Stretchgoal idea #32: support for a 3G USB dongle.
  35372.  
  35373.  
  35374.  
  35375.  
  35376. M K
  35377.  
  35378. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8914705> over 2 years ago
  35379.  
  35380. Stretchgoal idea #30: TOR support
  35381. Stretchgoal idea #31: support for VMware
  35382.  
  35383.  
  35384.  
  35385.  
  35386. Team WEDG
  35387.  
  35388. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  35389. years ago
  35390.  
  35391. @M K loving it MK…some great suggestions! Hoping to launch the
  35392. survey tomorrow so we can collect some suggestions from everyone.
  35393.  
  35394.  
  35395.  
  35396.  
  35397. Team WEDG
  35398.  
  35399. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  35400. years ago
  35401.  
  35402. @david.j.aldred thanks for letting me know, we have a small but
  35403. great group of testers here. Right now the software is optimised for
  35404. for our chosen hardware but in time we will expand that range.
  35405.  
  35406. Yes absolutely, we will launch the forum after FF mostly likely if
  35407. not sooner, we want to be able to engage with discussions by both
  35408. communities and right now we’re not in a position to do that
  35409. effectively either.
  35410.  
  35411.  
  35412.  
  35413.  
  35414. M K
  35415.  
  35416. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8914705> over 2 years ago
  35417.  
  35418. Stretchgoal idea #29: a jumbo WEDG with multiple 3.5 inch HDD’s and
  35419. raid 5 support.
  35420.  
  35421.  
  35422.  
  35423.  
  35424. M K
  35425.  
  35426. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8914705> over 2 years ago
  35427.  
  35428. Stretchgoal idea #25: reiserFS or BTRFS filesystem for ultimate
  35429. snapshotting
  35430. Stretchgoal idea #26: app suggestion: SABNZBd
  35431. Stretchgoal idea #27: app suggestion: itunes server
  35432. Stretchgoal idea #28: support for SMTP over TLS (STARTTLS)
  35433.  
  35434. @Shehbaz: i’m still figuring out more stretchgoals!
  35435.  
  35436.  
  35437.  
  35438.  
  35439. David Aldred
  35440.  
  35441. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> over 2 years ago
  35442.  
  35443. Thanks for the latest updates – been a great campaign.
  35444.  
  35445. I know you’ve stated your preference for keeping discussion on here
  35446. vs forum, esp in light of forever funding, but dont discount a
  35447. forum, worked really well for a very similar campaign im backing.
  35448.  
  35449. Seperate question… Will the software run on other platforms? Just in
  35450. case you need a few software beta testers before the hardware is
  35451. really – I have a pi lying around and happy to do some uat, if you
  35452. need it, of course :-)
  35453.  
  35454.  
  35455.  
  35456.  
  35457. Team WEDG
  35458.  
  35459. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  35460. years ago
  35461.  
  35462. @M K thanks for the feedback MK! :)
  35463.  
  35464.  
  35465.  
  35466.  
  35467. M K
  35468.  
  35469. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8914705> over 2 years ago
  35470.  
  35471. @Team WEDG: cctv centric solution would be a real killer app on the
  35472. WEDG IMHO!
  35473.  
  35474.  
  35475.  
  35476.  
  35477. Team WEDG
  35478.  
  35479. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  35480. years ago
  35481.  
  35482. @Tiger Bus hahaha!! that was a good night!
  35483.  
  35484.  
  35485.  
  35486.  
  35487. Team WEDG
  35488.  
  35489. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  35490. years ago
  35491.  
  35492. @M K we don’t know too much ourselves at this point, but one of
  35493. developers who has expressed an interest in developing apps for WEDG
  35494. has an idea for CCTV centric solution. We will be contacting
  35495. developers in the coming weeks and hope to be able to bring some of
  35496. their ideas for WEDG to you guys.
  35497.  
  35498.  
  35499.  
  35500.  
  35501. Tiger Bus
  35502.  
  35503. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706731> over 2 years ago
  35504.  
  35505. Shebaz: Remember, you lost yours that one night somewhere… ;)
  35506.  
  35507.  
  35508.  
  35509.  
  35510. M K
  35511.  
  35512. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8914705> over 2 years ago
  35513.  
  35514. @ Team WEDG: could you elaborate on the independent dev?
  35515.  
  35516.  
  35517.  
  35518.  
  35519. Team WEDG
  35520.  
  35521. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  35522. years ago
  35523.  
  35524. @Tiger Bus invitation only, or you can have mine ;)
  35525.  
  35526.  
  35527.  
  35528.  
  35529. Team WEDG
  35530.  
  35531. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  35532. years ago
  35533.  
  35534. @M K that’s on its way as an independent dev is building this feature.
  35535.  
  35536.  
  35537.  
  35538.  
  35539. Tiger Bus
  35540.  
  35541. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706731> over 2 years ago
  35542.  
  35543. MK: We definitely need WEDG string tangas, don’t you think? :P
  35544.  
  35545.  
  35546.  
  35547.  
  35548. M K
  35549.  
  35550. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8914705> over 2 years ago
  35551.  
  35552. Stretchgoal suggestion:
  35553. -surveillance camera storage mode, so it can store IP camera streams
  35554. on the WEDG (killer app)
  35555.  
  35556.  
  35557.  
  35558.  
  35559. Team WEDG
  35560.  
  35561. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  35562. years ago
  35563.  
  35564. @M K ;)
  35565.  
  35566.  
  35567.  
  35568.  
  35569. M K
  35570.  
  35571. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8914705> over 2 years ago
  35572.  
  35573. Stretchgoal idea: at 140k every contributer gets a NTHSTP sticker set.
  35574.  
  35575.  
  35576.  
  35577.  
  35578. Team WEDG
  35579.  
  35580. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  35581. years ago
  35582.  
  35583. @Scott McQueen for the time being we’d like to keep the conversation
  35584. going here until we’ve planned our strategy on how to maximise the
  35585. Forever Funding opportunity – as this was unexpected for us. It
  35586. helps us keep on top of the conversation too while we’re full
  35587. throttle with WEDG Phase 2 as well.
  35588.  
  35589. I’ll be in touch very shortly regarding VAT invoices.
  35590.  
  35591.  
  35592.  
  35593.  
  35594. Scott McQueen
  35595.  
  35596. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8443500> over 2 years ago
  35597.  
  35598. Team WEDG, are you considering setting up a forum on your web site?
  35599. I’m pretty sure a load of good ideas would come out of it and it
  35600. would also give you a chance to set up a FAQ/User Manual section to
  35601. save you answering questions over and over again. Also now this has
  35602. gone through Indiegogo, where can I get a VAT invoice from?
  35603.  
  35604. Scott
  35605.  
  35606.  
  35607.  
  35608.  
  35609. Tiger Bus
  35610.  
  35611. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706731> over 2 years ago
  35612.  
  35613. Shebaz: Remember, you lost yours that one night somewhere… ;)
  35614.  
  35615.  
  35616.  
  35617.  
  35618. M K
  35619.  
  35620. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8914705> over 2 years ago
  35621.  
  35622. @ Team WEDG: could you elaborate on the independent dev?
  35623.  
  35624.  
  35625.  
  35626.  
  35627. Team WEDG
  35628.  
  35629. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  35630. years ago
  35631.  
  35632. @Tiger Bus invitation only, or you can have mine ;)
  35633.  
  35634.  
  35635.  
  35636.  
  35637. Team WEDG
  35638.  
  35639. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  35640. years ago
  35641.  
  35642. @M K that’s on its way as an independent dev is building this feature.
  35643.  
  35644.  
  35645.  
  35646.  
  35647. Tiger Bus
  35648.  
  35649. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706731> over 2 years ago
  35650.  
  35651. MK: We definitely need WEDG string tangas, don’t you think? :P
  35652.  
  35653.  
  35654.  
  35655.  
  35656. M K
  35657.  
  35658. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8914705> over 2 years ago
  35659.  
  35660. Stretchgoal suggestion:
  35661. -surveillance camera storage mode, so it can store IP camera streams
  35662. on the WEDG (killer app)
  35663.  
  35664.  
  35665.  
  35666.  
  35667. Team WEDG
  35668.  
  35669. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  35670. years ago
  35671.  
  35672. @M K ;)
  35673.  
  35674.  
  35675.  
  35676.  
  35677. M K
  35678.  
  35679. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8914705> over 2 years ago
  35680.  
  35681. Stretchgoal idea: at 140k every contributer gets a NTHSTP sticker set.
  35682.  
  35683.  
  35684.  
  35685.  
  35686. Team WEDG
  35687.  
  35688. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  35689. years ago
  35690.  
  35691. @Scott McQueen for the time being we’d like to keep the conversation
  35692. going here until we’ve planned our strategy on how to maximise the
  35693. Forever Funding opportunity – as this was unexpected for us. It
  35694. helps us keep on top of the conversation too while we’re full
  35695. throttle with WEDG Phase 2 as well.
  35696.  
  35697. I’ll be in touch very shortly regarding VAT invoices.
  35698.  
  35699.  
  35700.  
  35701.  
  35702. Scott McQueen
  35703.  
  35704. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8443500> over 2 years ago
  35705.  
  35706. Team WEDG, are you considering setting up a forum on your web site?
  35707. I’m pretty sure a load of good ideas would come out of it and it
  35708. would also give you a chance to set up a FAQ/User Manual section to
  35709. save you answering questions over and over again. Also now this has
  35710. gone through Indiegogo, where can I get a VAT invoice from?
  35711.  
  35712. Scott
  35713.  
  35714.  
  35715.  
  35716.  
  35717. Team WEDG
  35718.  
  35719. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  35720. years ago
  35721.  
  35722. @Mikhail Granin I’m sorry you didnt receive a , we don’t
  35723. actually see a message from you. Nevertheless to upgrade to the
  35724. Driveless WEDG Pro is £50 for early supporters and £40 for RAID, so
  35725. £90 please. You select RAID Perk and manually increase the amount to
  35726. enter the amount on the right and we’ll do the rest our side.
  35727.  
  35728.  
  35729.  
  35730.  
  35731. Mikhail Granin
  35732.  
  35733. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8719646> over 2 years ago
  35734.  
  35735. I already asked in private comment and didn’t find a , please
  35736. soon. I was backer on kickstarted and one of 1st backers here
  35737. for ARM driveless, how much to pay for upgrade to intel driverless
  35738. with raid? Hope for discount for 1st backers :)
  35739.  
  35740.  
  35741.  
  35742.  
  35743. Tiger Bus
  35744.  
  35745. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706731> over 2 years ago
  35746.  
  35747. ports should be freely configurable, the name for the wedgenet
  35748. subdomain aswell i guess… plus the option to quickly find out the IP
  35749. where it is pointing to, in case everything *.WEDG get’s blocked –
  35750. which is very likely.
  35751.  
  35752.  
  35753.  
  35754.  
  35755. Tiger Bus
  35756.  
  35757. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706731> over 2 years ago
  35758.  
  35759. As I understand right now you basically habe payload encryption,
  35760. maybe SSL for the rest. That doesn’t help much for accessing data in
  35761. firewalled countries, as you first problem is: gaining open access
  35762. to the internet at all. since this should be pretty easy software
  35763. solution on the WEDG, it could be easy to add – especially given the
  35764. fact, that you have wedgenet dynDNS service.
  35765.  
  35766.  
  35767.  
  35768.  
  35769. Team WEDG
  35770.  
  35771. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  35772. years ago
  35773.  
  35774. @M K yes but we could make the interface a little easier some what
  35775. for novice users
  35776.  
  35777.  
  35778.  
  35779.  
  35780. M K
  35781.  
  35782. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8914705> over 2 years ago
  35783.  
  35784. Dont the remote apps already use encryption to get access to the
  35785. WEDG butt device?
  35786.  
  35787.  
  35788.  
  35789.  
  35790. Team WEDG
  35791.  
  35792. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  35793. years ago
  35794.  
  35795. @tiger bus good idea and an easy one piggybacking on the back of
  35796. WEDGNET.
  35797.  
  35798. Appreciate all the ideas guys!
  35799.  
  35800.  
  35801.  
  35802.  
  35803. Tiger Bus
  35804.  
  35805. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706731> over 2 years ago
  35806.  
  35807. stretchgoal idea: EASYly configurable VPN server for local and
  35808. remote use. Wouldn’t want to access my data over some crazy chinese
  35809. internet café network plus I might need to circumnavigate local
  35810. firewalls and gain full internet access via my own line at home.
  35811. #china #iran #whatnot
  35812.  
  35813.  
  35814.  
  35815.  
  35816. Team WEDG
  35817.  
  35818. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  35819. years ago
  35820.  
  35821. @richard alter the difference between a 24 HRS SPECIAL 1 WEDG ARM
  35822. and 24 HRS SPECIAL 2 WEDG INTEL is £70. You can make a manual
  35823. contribution on the right and send us a private message to
  35824. infowedg.co if you prefer.
  35825.  
  35826.  
  35827.  
  35828.  
  35829. richard alter
  35830.  
  35831. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/1968091> over 2 years ago
  35832.  
  35833. I will try for an answer again. I purchased the 24 HRS SPECIAL 1
  35834. WEDG ARM and wanted to take you up on the offer to upgrade to the
  35835. intel. As best as I can figure, the price difference is 20 pounds
  35836. but I cannot contribute that amount and write a comment about what
  35837. it is for. Please advise on how to pay for the upgrade and make sure
  35838. it is credited properly. The previous answers were vague and gave me
  35839. no confidence that anyone on your end would know what the payment
  35840. was for.
  35841.  
  35842.  
  35843.  
  35844.  
  35845. M K
  35846.  
  35847. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8914705> over 2 years ago
  35848.  
  35849. Stretchgoal idea: Dual ethernet
  35850.  
  35851.  
  35852.  
  35853.  
  35854. Team WEDG
  35855.  
  35856. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  35857. years ago
  35858.  
  35859. @spencer robinson we’re getting that a lot on emails too
  35860.  
  35861. We plan to send out a survey early next week so we can collect real
  35862. data and opinions from you guys.
  35863.  
  35864.  
  35865.  
  35866.  
  35867. spencer robinson
  35868.  
  35869. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/9152571> over 2 years ago
  35870.  
  35871. Definitely +1 for a Tor router feature.
  35872.  
  35873.  
  35874.  
  35875.  
  35876. Team WEDG
  35877.  
  35878. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  35879. years ago
  35880.  
  35881. @Alex Stamp no, we are committed to fulfilling our Q1 shipping date.
  35882. FF will allow us to raise more funding so we can increase component
  35883. qualities and reduce overall costs by buying in bulk.
  35884.  
  35885.  
  35886.  
  35887.  
  35888. Alex Stamp
  35889.  
  35890. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6787108> over 2 years ago
  35891.  
  35892. Hi can i just double check this forever funding wont push back the
  35893. expected arrival time of our devices will it?
  35894.  
  35895.  
  35896.  
  35897.  
  35898. Team WEDG
  35899.  
  35900. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  35901. years ago
  35902.  
  35903. @M K hmm…i’ll add that to the list to consider
  35904.  
  35905.  
  35906.  
  35907.  
  35908. Team WEDG
  35909.  
  35910. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  35911. years ago
  35912.  
  35913. @Pierre Lang two good ideas, the VOIP is on our list here for sure
  35914. but I also know there are developers also looking to create VOIP
  35915. solutions for WEDG.
  35916.  
  35917.  
  35918.  
  35919.  
  35920. M K
  35921.  
  35922. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8914705> over 2 years ago
  35923.  
  35924. WEDG as a internet proxy for outgoing internet traffic?
  35925. WEDG as a reverse proxy for incoming internet traffic?
  35926.  
  35927.  
  35928.  
  35929.  
  35930. Pierre Lang
  35931.  
  35932. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4161016> over 2 years ago
  35933.  
  35934. VOIP between two wedges maybe too?
  35935.  
  35936.  
  35937.  
  35938.  
  35939. Pierre Lang
  35940.  
  35941. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4161016> over 2 years ago
  35942.  
  35943. Stretch goal idea: WEDG as a Tor Proxy
  35944.  
  35945.  
  35946.  
  35947.  
  35948. Team WEDG
  35949.  
  35950. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  35951. years ago
  35952.  
  35953. @M K yes a little. Keep scratching! ;)
  35954.  
  35955.  
  35956.  
  35957.  
  35958. M K
  35959.  
  35960. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8914705> over 2 years ago
  35961.  
  35962. Stretchgoal idea: WEDG mesh networking: group several WEDG’s in a
  35963. group (mesh) and distribute encrypted parity backups over the mesh.
  35964.  
  35965. Sounds complex?
  35966.  
  35967.  
  35968.  
  35969.  
  35970. Team WEDG
  35971.  
  35972. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  35973. years ago
  35974.  
  35975. @david.j.aldred thats sort of already available in different forms.
  35976. But we’re not ruling it out here.
  35977.  
  35978. I think we’ll invite everyone to a survey soon asking our loyal
  35979. backers and supports for ideas which we can then review and pick the
  35980. hot ones!
  35981.  
  35982.  
  35983.  
  35984.  
  35985. David Aldred
  35986.  
  35987. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> over 2 years ago
  35988.  
  35989. @team wedg -what about a remote control add-on for those wishing to
  35990. use the xbmc feature?
  35991.  
  35992.  
  35993.  
  35994.  
  35995. Team WEDG
  35996.  
  35997. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  35998. years ago
  35999.  
  36000. @M K plenty of head scratching here – let us know if you have any ideas
  36001.  
  36002.  
  36003.  
  36004.  
  36005. Team WEDG
  36006.  
  36007. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  36008. years ago
  36009.  
  36010. @Andrew Cook by no means is the WEDG with ARM obsolete. We’ve
  36011. decided to streamline our Perks here as one of the complaints from
  36012. many was that the range of perks was confusing.
  36013.  
  36014. The WEDG with ARM will still be available directly from our online
  36015. store (coming soon) during this current campaign and post Indiegogo
  36016. order fulfilment.
  36017.  
  36018.  
  36019.  
  36020.  
  36021. Andrew Cook
  36022.  
  36023. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706115> over 2 years ago
  36024.  
  36025. So the ARM WEDG is obsolete before delivery… I would not be happy if
  36026. that were the model I’d bought. I must admit though that the
  36027. dropping of ARM this quickly makes me concerned about the likely
  36028. support I can expect in future on the device I paid for.
  36029.  
  36030.  
  36031.  
  36032.  
  36033. M K
  36034.  
  36035. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8914705> over 2 years ago
  36036.  
  36037. Forever funding means new stretchgoals IMHO.
  36038.  
  36039. ;)
  36040.  
  36041.  
  36042.  
  36043.  
  36044. Team WEDG
  36045.  
  36046. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  36047. years ago
  36048.  
  36049. @tetardbleu thank you so much for your kindness :)
  36050.  
  36051.  
  36052.  
  36053.  
  36054. tetardbleu
  36055.  
  36056. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3829087> over 2 years ago
  36057.  
  36058. what a wonderful surprise to discover the forever funding!
  36059. Completely deserved in my opinion !
  36060.  
  36061.  
  36062.  
  36063.  
  36064. Team WEDG
  36065.  
  36066. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  36067. years ago
  36068.  
  36069. @michiel pauwels thank you, we really really hope so!
  36070.  
  36071.  
  36072.  
  36073.  
  36074. michiel pauwels
  36075.  
  36076. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3426891> over 2 years ago
  36077.  
  36078. congrats on the forever funding, does this also mean that the last
  36079. stretch goal will be realized as well?
  36080.  
  36081.  
  36082.  
  36083.  
  36084. Team WEDG
  36085.  
  36086. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  36087. years ago
  36088.  
  36089. @Pierre Lang thank you!!
  36090.  
  36091.  
  36092.  
  36093.  
  36094. Pierre Lang
  36095.  
  36096. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4161016> over 2 years ago
  36097.  
  36098. Congrats! This is a great success!
  36099.  
  36100.  
  36101.  
  36102.  
  36103. Team WEDG
  36104.  
  36105. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  36106. years ago
  36107.  
  36108. @Antoine C thank you! Same here! :D
  36109.  
  36110.  
  36111.  
  36112.  
  36113. Antoine C
  36114.  
  36115. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4041109> over 2 years ago
  36116.  
  36117. Congrats for the ∞ funding ! Can’t wait to receive my WEDG :D
  36118.  
  36119.  
  36120.  
  36121.  
  36122. Team WEDG
  36123.  
  36124. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  36125. years ago
  36126.  
  36127. @Tiger Bus thank you! Its non stop for us now we’re powering ahead!
  36128.  
  36129.  
  36130.  
  36131.  
  36132. Tiger Bus
  36133.  
  36134. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706731> over 2 years ago
  36135.  
  36136. Well…. done! Now 4 months to turn everything into reality! ;) Congrats…
  36137.  
  36138.  
  36139.  
  36140.  
  36141. mark saunders
  36142.  
  36143. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8466324> over 2 years ago
  36144.  
  36145. Hello TEAM WEDG.
  36146. I had to place 2 different orders for the options i wanted. £249GBP
  36147. WEDG Pro with Intel + 1TB in first order. Second order £90GBP WEDG
  36148. Pro RAID +1TB Upgrade #2;
  36149. £112GBP 1TB to 2TB HDD Upgrade both drives to 2TB; and £6GBP
  36150. Worldwide Shipping. Hope its not a problem ,,, Thanks again keep up
  36151. the great work.
  36152.  
  36153.  
  36154.  
  36155.  
  36156. Team WEDG
  36157.  
  36158. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  36159. years ago
  36160.  
  36161. @Neil Campbell thats awesome! thank you very much and thank you for
  36162. the compliments :)
  36163.  
  36164.  
  36165.  
  36166.  
  36167. Neil Campbell
  36168.  
  36169. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/5713479> over 2 years ago
  36170.  
  36171. Just added a second WEDG Pro with RAID. Hope my multiple pledges all
  36172. make sense and congratulations on the successful campaign!
  36173.  
  36174.  
  36175.  
  36176.  
  36177. Team WEDG
  36178.  
  36179. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  36180. years ago
  36181.  
  36182. @fia10 ;)
  36183.  
  36184.  
  36185.  
  36186.  
  36187. blandat
  36188.  
  36189. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6957871> over 2 years ago
  36190.  
  36191. I could use a time machine ;)
  36192.  
  36193.  
  36194.  
  36195.  
  36196. Team WEDG
  36197.  
  36198. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  36199. years ago
  36200.  
  36201. @fia10 thank you! Its been a lot of fun with you guys, we’ve made
  36202. some friends a long the way which is ace :)
  36203.  
  36204. Did you wish for online privacy and all the conveniences of my butt?
  36205. because we have a surprise for you ;)
  36206.  
  36207.  
  36208.  
  36209.  
  36210. blandat
  36211.  
  36212. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6957871> over 2 years ago
  36213.  
  36214. Congrats to you all! It’s been really fun following you for these
  36215. past months. So happy to see how many got it and supported the startup.
  36216. 4 month left til’ my birthday, guess what I wish for? ;)
  36217.  
  36218.  
  36219.  
  36220.  
  36221. Team WEDG
  36222.  
  36223. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  36224. years ago
  36225.  
  36226. @tetardbleu woohoo! that’s awesome! Thank you for bringing it to our
  36227. attention!
  36228.  
  36229. Thank you to every for the support and voting for WEDG! YOU GUYS ROCK!
  36230.  
  36231.  
  36232.  
  36233.  
  36234. tetardbleu
  36235.  
  36236. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3829087> over 2 years ago
  36237.  
  36238. http://www.cnbc.com/id/102207824
  36239.  
  36240.  
  36241.  
  36242.  
  36243. Team WEDG
  36244.  
  36245. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  36246. years ago
  36247.  
  36248. @tetardbleu :-O how do you know?!
  36249.  
  36250.  
  36251.  
  36252.  
  36253. tetardbleu
  36254.  
  36255. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3829087> over 2 years ago
  36256.  
  36257. We won the CNBC contest !
  36258.  
  36259.  
  36260.  
  36261.  
  36262. Team WEDG
  36263.  
  36264. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  36265. years ago
  36266.  
  36267. @M K ahh!! you’ll just have to wait and see MK ;) as and when that
  36268. time comes, our Indiegogo backers will be the first to know.
  36269.  
  36270.  
  36271.  
  36272.  
  36273. M K
  36274.  
  36275. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8914705> over 2 years ago
  36276.  
  36277. OK. Was interested in finding out what your plans are after the
  36278. release of WEDG? Are you planning hardware upgrades or other types
  36279. of WEDG-es after 2015 and beyond?
  36280.  
  36281.  
  36282.  
  36283.  
  36284. Team WEDG
  36285.  
  36286. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  36287. years ago
  36288.  
  36289. @M K could you elaborate on that MK?
  36290.  
  36291.  
  36292.  
  36293.  
  36294. M K
  36295.  
  36296. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8914705> over 2 years ago
  36297.  
  36298. @Team WEDG: was curious about whether you a development roadmap for
  36299. the WEDG (hardware, software etc.).
  36300.  
  36301. Can you share us that information (if any)?
  36302.  
  36303.  
  36304.  
  36305.  
  36306. Team WEDG
  36307.  
  36308. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  36309. years ago
  36310.  
  36311. @aaddiikk LDAP support is something we are working along with SSO.
  36312. It’s not something we expect to include in our initial launch, but
  36313. we do plan to include it in future software updates, maybe 2nd or
  36314. 3rd major software update.
  36315.  
  36316.  
  36317.  
  36318.  
  36319. aaddiikk
  36320.  
  36321. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8707168> over 2 years ago
  36322.  
  36323. @Team WEDG As some of us are going to use WEDG in our business
  36324. environments, I’m wondering if WEDG is going to support external
  36325. authentication databases like LDAP or Active Directory? If yes, do
  36326. you plan to include single-sign-on (SSO) also?
  36327.  
  36328.  
  36329.  
  36330.  
  36331. Team WEDG
  36332.  
  36333. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  36334. years ago
  36335.  
  36336. @M K yes Advanced Format drives are compatible with WEDG.
  36337.  
  36338.  
  36339.  
  36340.  
  36341. M K
  36342.  
  36343. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8914705> over 2 years ago
  36344.  
  36345. @ Team WEDG: does WEDG support advanced format drives?
  36346.  
  36347. (http://www.hgst.com/hard-drives/advanced-format-drives)
  36348.  
  36349.  
  36350.  
  36351.  
  36352. Team WEDG
  36353.  
  36354. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  36355. years ago
  36356.  
  36357. @M K we haven’t tested hybrid SSDs but we see no reason for them not
  36358. to be compatible with WEDG.
  36359.  
  36360.  
  36361.  
  36362.  
  36363. M K
  36364.  
  36365. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8914705> over 2 years ago
  36366.  
  36367. @ Team WEDG: does WEDG support hybrid SSD harddisks like the seaget
  36368. SSHD?:
  36369.  
  36370. http://www.seagate.com/internal-hard-drives/solid-state-hybrid/laptop-solid-state-hybrid-drive/
  36371.  
  36372.  
  36373.  
  36374.  
  36375. Team WEDG
  36376.  
  36377. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  36378. years ago
  36379.  
  36380. Gordon Keys please drop us an email at infowedg.co so we can find
  36381. your contributions and double check for you.
  36382.  
  36383.  
  36384.  
  36385.  
  36386. Gordon Keys
  36387.  
  36388. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8335278> over 2 years ago
  36389.  
  36390. I added a new contribution the other day. Did it make sence that I
  36391. wanted a complete upgrade of the ARM perk and not just 1 x perk and
  36392. a contribution?
  36393.  
  36394.  
  36395.  
  36396.  
  36397. Team WEDG
  36398.  
  36399. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  36400. years ago
  36401.  
  36402. @M K as david.j.aldred and we are enabling the USB port on WEDG for
  36403. wireless keyboards so that third party remotes can be used to
  36404. control media and search for titles and use the features XBMC offers.
  36405.  
  36406.  
  36407.  
  36408.  
  36409. David Aldred
  36410.  
  36411. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> over 2 years ago
  36412.  
  36413. @M K – on the remote control, you can use a remote control, but
  36414. you’d need an IR receiver for this to work, and unsure if WEDG will
  36415. be compatible with this. All else fails, you plug in a keyboard (I
  36416. have a small wireless keyboard I use in emergencies to control XBMC,
  36417. but do most of it from my phone)
  36418.  
  36419.  
  36420.  
  36421.  
  36422. David Aldred
  36423.  
  36424. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> over 2 years ago
  36425.  
  36426. @M K – yes – there are some great apps for XBMC!
  36427.  
  36428. For iOS, the official XBMC / Kodi (as it’s now to be called) is very
  36429. good. For android, the official app is functional, but pretty basic.
  36430. I use an app called ’ XBMC Music Pump’. Been using it since it was
  36431. first released a couple of years ago, and is years ahead of the
  36432. official app – looks amazing, both on phone and tablet.
  36433.  
  36434.  
  36435.  
  36436.  
  36437. M K
  36438.  
  36439. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8914705> over 2 years ago
  36440.  
  36441. @Team WEDG:
  36442. another question: how do I use the XBMC player, can I control it via
  36443. an app? (or maybe a remote control?)
  36444.  
  36445.  
  36446.  
  36447.  
  36448. Team WEDG
  36449.  
  36450. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  36451. years ago
  36452.  
  36453. @M K yes, it’ll be a multi platform app which includes desktop OSs too
  36454.  
  36455.  
  36456.  
  36457.  
  36458. M K
  36459.  
  36460. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8914705> over 2 years ago
  36461.  
  36462. @Team WEDG: will the IM app run on IOS?
  36463.  
  36464.  
  36465.  
  36466.  
  36467. Team WEDG
  36468.  
  36469. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  36470. years ago
  36471.  
  36472. @Scott McQueen thank you Scott. I know exactly how you feel, I have
  36473. clients from my previous job who used Lotus Notes and its built-in
  36474. messaging function…still gives me nightmares!
  36475.  
  36476. Privacy is key for WEDG and users and so that focus will be
  36477. reflected in the IM app, along with other cool features of course ;)
  36478.  
  36479.  
  36480.  
  36481.  
  36482. Scott McQueen
  36483.  
  36484. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8443500> over 2 years ago
  36485.  
  36486. Great News and well done Team WEDG. Looking forward to the IM app to
  36487. replace the ageing corporate icq (loved by many here but definitely
  36488. not me) we still use, especially if it has an independent user db to
  36489. the email side and the ability to broadcast to groups and ‘all’.
  36490.  
  36491.  
  36492.  
  36493.  
  36494. Team WEDG
  36495.  
  36496. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  36497. years ago
  36498.  
  36499. @James Taylor I don’t think we know how to do anything else any more
  36500. :-| ;p
  36501.  
  36502.  
  36503.  
  36504.  
  36505. James Taylor
  36506.  
  36507. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/5657565> over 2 years ago
  36508.  
  36509. Congrats!
  36510. (Now get back to work! I want my Wedg…. ;) )
  36511.  
  36512.  
  36513.  
  36514.  
  36515. Team WEDG
  36516.  
  36517. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  36518. years ago
  36519.  
  36520. @Haitham Gad thank you! The feeling is the same here :)
  36521.  
  36522.  
  36523.  
  36524.  
  36525. Haitham Gad
  36526.  
  36527. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8733244> over 2 years ago
  36528.  
  36529. Congratulations for unlocking the third stretch goal! Now I can’t
  36530. wait to get it :)
  36531.  
  36532.  
  36533.  
  36534.  
  36535. Team WEDG
  36536.  
  36537. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  36538. years ago
  36539.  
  36540. @adrenalineslut thank you! Yes it does, its a user level option ;)
  36541.  
  36542.  
  36543.  
  36544.  
  36545. adrenalineslut
  36546.  
  36547. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/1998190> over 2 years ago
  36548.  
  36549. Congrats on the success of the campaign!
  36550.  
  36551. I was wondering if the Exif data will be removed from files when
  36552. stored in the WEDG? Hope so!
  36553.  
  36554.  
  36555.  
  36556.  
  36557. Team WEDG
  36558.  
  36559. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  36560. years ago
  36561.  
  36562. @scott.henderson1 thank you and thank you for your support too!
  36563. haha! he doesn’t mind ;) we’re trying to figure out right now where
  36564. to cram all this info in! He’s pretty awesome though, I’m sure we’ll
  36565. figure it out.
  36566.  
  36567.  
  36568.  
  36569.  
  36570. scott.henderson
  36571.  
  36572. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3201718> over 2 years ago
  36573.  
  36574. Congratulations Team WEDG and supporters. I feel for the poor soul
  36575. having to update the Stretch Goal graphics every couple of days! :)
  36576. Can’t wait to see Multiplatform IM App UNLOCKED a new splash on the
  36577. video launch graphic!
  36578.  
  36579.  
  36580.  
  36581.  
  36582. Team WEDG
  36583.  
  36584. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  36585. years ago
  36586.  
  36587. @tetardbleu fingers crossed!…after the performance this week, I am
  36588. quietly confident ;)
  36589.  
  36590.  
  36591.  
  36592.  
  36593. tetardbleu
  36594.  
  36595. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3829087> over 2 years ago
  36596.  
  36597. if we win the poll and with the project being among firsts in the
  36598. “Ending soon” category, we could indeed…
  36599.  
  36600.  
  36601.  
  36602.  
  36603. Team WEDG
  36604.  
  36605. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  36606. years ago
  36607.  
  36608. @david.j.aldred ditto! dare i say it, 2 days to go…£135,000 lets do it!!
  36609.  
  36610.  
  36611.  
  36612.  
  36613. David Aldred
  36614.  
  36615. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> over 2 years ago
  36616.  
  36617. Wow! What a few days – a week ago we were all fingers crossed we’d
  36618. just manage to get WiFi, and a few days later we’re hitting the next
  36619. stretch after it – awesome!
  36620.  
  36621.  
  36622.  
  36623.  
  36624. Team WEDG
  36625.  
  36626. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  36627. years ago
  36628.  
  36629. @M K BINGO! Thank you for your contribution!
  36630.  
  36631.  
  36632.  
  36633.  
  36634. Team WEDG
  36635.  
  36636. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  36637. years ago
  36638.  
  36639. @tetardbleu we’re proud of you guys who have made this happen! The
  36640. best backers EVER!
  36641.  
  36642.  
  36643.  
  36644.  
  36645. Team WEDG
  36646.  
  36647. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  36648. years ago
  36649.  
  36650. @Tiger Bus I know! :-o
  36651.  
  36652.  
  36653.  
  36654.  
  36655. Team WEDG
  36656.  
  36657. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  36658. years ago
  36659.  
  36660. @loesljrg thank you! High5!
  36661.  
  36662.  
  36663.  
  36664.  
  36665. Team WEDG
  36666.  
  36667. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  36668. years ago
  36669.  
  36670. @david.j.aldred will respond to you on a private threat shortly.
  36671.  
  36672.  
  36673.  
  36674.  
  36675. Team WEDG
  36676.  
  36677. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  36678. years ago
  36679.  
  36680. @M K haha! youuu! Thank you! :D
  36681.  
  36682.  
  36683.  
  36684.  
  36685. Team WEDG
  36686.  
  36687. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  36688. years ago
  36689.  
  36690. O.M.G!!!
  36691.  
  36692.  
  36693.  
  36694.  
  36695. M K
  36696.  
  36697. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8914705> over 2 years ago
  36698.  
  36699. @Team WEDG:
  36700.  
  36701. I pledged for an WEDG intel pro + raid + shipping.
  36702.  
  36703. Did I had to do 3 separate pledges (179+6+40)?
  36704.  
  36705. I pledged 225GBP at once, so hope that is going to get OK?
  36706.  
  36707. Shehbaz. can you help me out?
  36708.  
  36709.  
  36710.  
  36711.  
  36712. tetardbleu
  36713.  
  36714. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3829087> over 2 years ago
  36715.  
  36716. congrats @teamwedg, you can be proud!
  36717.  
  36718.  
  36719.  
  36720.  
  36721. Tiger Bus
  36722.  
  36723. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706731> over 2 years ago
  36724.  
  36725. un-be-lie-va-ble
  36726.  
  36727.  
  36728.  
  36729.  
  36730. loesljrg
  36731.  
  36732. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4049843> over 2 years ago
  36733.  
  36734. Well done!! 117K+ !!
  36735.  
  36736.  
  36737.  
  36738.  
  36739. David Aldred
  36740.  
  36741. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> over 2 years ago
  36742.  
  36743. @Team Wedg- could you remind me what it would cost to upgrade from
  36744. the early special pro to the aluminium version? Will I be able to
  36745. put my referrals credit towards this? (Does that all take place
  36746. post-campaign?). Not 100% decided- I always liked the grey
  36747. backlighting of the aluminium, just can’t decide if it’ll fit in.
  36748. Tell a lie- I know it won’t, trying to decide if I care ;-)
  36749.  
  36750.  
  36751.  
  36752.  
  36753. M K
  36754.  
  36755. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8914705> over 2 years ago
  36756.  
  36757. YEAH!
  36758.  
  36759. I just pushed it through 117k barrier! (been holding my pledge for
  36760. weeks to do just that)….
  36761.  
  36762.  
  36763.  
  36764.  
  36765. Tiger Bus
  36766.  
  36767. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706731> over 2 years ago
  36768.  
  36769. I don’t even know what I pledged for anymore, time for the campaign
  36770. to end!! ;))
  36771.  
  36772.  
  36773.  
  36774.  
  36775. Team WEDG
  36776.  
  36777. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  36778. years ago
  36779.  
  36780. We’re one Aluminium WEDG away from Stretch Goal THREE!!
  36781.  
  36782.  
  36783.  
  36784.  
  36785. Team WEDG
  36786.  
  36787. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  36788. years ago
  36789.  
  36790. @tetardbleu you’re a WEDGster now nothing else matters! Thank you
  36791. for your vote! :)
  36792.  
  36793.  
  36794.  
  36795.  
  36796. Team WEDG
  36797.  
  36798. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  36799. years ago
  36800.  
  36801. @Tiger Bus glad we made it, thanks for the effort!
  36802.  
  36803.  
  36804.  
  36805.  
  36806. Tiger Bus
  36807.  
  36808. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706731> over 2 years ago
  36809.  
  36810. Yeah… adblock wasn’t the key, though, had to disable this to vote:
  36811. https://disconnect.me/ So I voted and turned it back on… incredible
  36812. how much $hit this page is trying to load…. Thanx a bunch ;)
  36813.  
  36814.  
  36815.  
  36816.  
  36817. Team WEDG
  36818.  
  36819. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  36820. years ago
  36821.  
  36822. @Tiger Bus how odd…oh wait. Are you running an add blocker? I can
  36823. see ads are missing in places where I have ads so maybe its related?
  36824.  
  36825.  
  36826.  
  36827.  
  36828. Tiger Bus
  36829.  
  36830. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706731> over 2 years ago
  36831.  
  36832. I’m obviously too stupid….. http://up.picr.de/20165061tz.jpg
  36833.  
  36834.  
  36835.  
  36836.  
  36837. Team WEDG
  36838.  
  36839. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  36840. years ago
  36841.  
  36842. @Antoine C thank you! high5!
  36843.  
  36844.  
  36845.  
  36846.  
  36847. Team WEDG
  36848.  
  36849. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  36850. years ago
  36851.  
  36852. @Tiger Bus scroll down a touch its defo there!
  36853. http://www.cnbc.com/id/102194832
  36854.  
  36855.  
  36856.  
  36857.  
  36858. Antoine C
  36859.  
  36860. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4041109> over 2 years ago
  36861.  
  36862. Voted. Let’s go for the next stretch goal!
  36863.  
  36864.  
  36865.  
  36866.  
  36867. Tiger Bus
  36868.  
  36869. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706731> over 2 years ago
  36870.  
  36871. I actually don’t see where on the CNBC page I could vote?! I see a
  36872. video…
  36873.  
  36874.  
  36875.  
  36876.  
  36877. Team WEDG
  36878.  
  36879. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  36880. years ago
  36881.  
  36882. @Gordon Keys ah! well let me clarify all the same. £50 difference
  36883. for the driveless WEDG Pro with Intel and £70 for the 24 Hour WEDG
  36884. Pro with Intel +1TB ;)
  36885.  
  36886.  
  36887.  
  36888.  
  36889. Gordon Keys
  36890.  
  36891. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8335278> over 2 years ago
  36892.  
  36893. My question wasn’t rhetorical BTW ;)
  36894.  
  36895. “I didn’t think the difference between the 24 HRS SPECIAL 1 WEDG ARM
  36896. and INTEL was £70. Wasn’t it £50?”
  36897.  
  36898.  
  36899.  
  36900.  
  36901. Team WEDG
  36902.  
  36903. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  36904. years ago
  36905.  
  36906. @david.j.aldred that’s why you rock David! Thank you!
  36907.  
  36908.  
  36909.  
  36910.  
  36911. David Aldred
  36912.  
  36913. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> over 2 years ago
  36914.  
  36915. Voted – did look at mooltipass the other day – interesting project!
  36916. (not sure if it was intentional, but mooltipass just reminds me of
  36917. the film The Fifth Element – ‘Lilu Dallas Multipass’)
  36918.  
  36919.  
  36920.  
  36921.  
  36922. Team WEDG
  36923.  
  36924. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  36925. years ago
  36926.  
  36927. Hey guys we’re featured on CNBC News this week. This is a huge
  36928. profile boost for us and we can make it go further!
  36929.  
  36930. Please vote for WEDG on their online poll
  36931. http://www.cnbc.com/id/102194832 and show the world how much we all
  36932. love WEDG!
  36933.  
  36934. Thank you! :D
  36935.  
  36936.  
  36937.  
  36938.  
  36939. Team WEDG
  36940.  
  36941. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  36942. years ago
  36943.  
  36944. @david.j.aldred great minds ;) I was just putting an update together
  36945. about the possibility of hitting the next stretch goal!
  36946.  
  36947. We’re also whipping up a flow chart here! :)
  36948.  
  36949.  
  36950.  
  36951.  
  36952. Gordon Keys
  36953.  
  36954. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8335278> over 2 years ago
  36955.  
  36956. I didn’t think the difference between the 24 HRS SPECIAL 1 WEDG ARM
  36957. and INTEL was £70. Wasn’t it £50?
  36958.  
  36959.  
  36960.  
  36961.  
  36962. David Aldred
  36963.  
  36964. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> over 2 years ago
  36965.  
  36966. Anyone else thinking next stretch goal is a real possibility?
  36967.  
  36968. @Team Wedg – there have been quite a few people asking / getting
  36969. confused about upgrades paths – worth knocking together a quick
  36970. ‘flow chart’ or similar showing what people can upgrade to, what it
  36971. would cost / how they should do it?
  36972.  
  36973. (but like the ‘pro v arm’ one you did on the main page, I guess)
  36974.  
  36975. Might get a few more people upgrading who are unsure of their options
  36976.  
  36977.  
  36978.  
  36979.  
  36980. Team WEDG
  36981.  
  36982. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  36983. years ago
  36984.  
  36985. @Gordon Keys RAID came along due to consumer demand! a little later
  36986. on. Thank you for your support at the start of our campaign. For you
  36987. to upgrade to WEDG Pro with Intel +RAID is £70 + RAID £40 or £90
  36988. depending on your RAID Upgrade and £6 for shipping please and we’ll
  36989. do the rest on our side :)
  36990.  
  36991.  
  36992.  
  36993.  
  36994. Gordon Keys
  36995.  
  36996. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8335278> over 2 years ago
  36997.  
  36998. Hi, clearly I missed the fact I owe £6 too! Thought that was for
  36999. overseas delivery charge.
  37000.  
  37001. I would also lile to know how much it’ll be for me to upgrade to
  37002. Intel + Raid + 1TB (+ delivery)? I’ve got the 24 HRS SPECIAL 1 WEDG
  37003. ARM. Had I known RAID was an option on the INTEL version that would
  37004. have tipped the balance with me!
  37005.  
  37006. Good work guys!
  37007.  
  37008.  
  37009.  
  37010.  
  37011. Team WEDG
  37012.  
  37013. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  37014. years ago
  37015.  
  37016. @Paul Nichols sure, we had two 24 hour perks back then, the WEDG
  37017. with ARM and the WEDG Pro with Intel. Both came with 1 × 1TB HDD. So
  37018. pretty much all of the upgrades are available to you…lucky you! ;)
  37019.  
  37020.  
  37021.  
  37022.  
  37023. Paul Nichols
  37024.  
  37025. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/5748211> over 2 years ago
  37026.  
  37027. Hi, I backed the 24hr special (kickstarter) at the start of the
  37028. campaign, but I can’t remember what was included. Could you please
  37029. remind me so I can purchase suitable upgrades. Cheers, Paul.
  37030.  
  37031.  
  37032.  
  37033.  
  37034. Team WEDG
  37035.  
  37036. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  37037. years ago
  37038.  
  37039. @Alexander Blaauwgeers OK, lets go back to the beginning just so I
  37040. fully understand.
  37041.  
  37042. I can see that you have backed WEDG with ARM @£129 + £6 for the
  37043. pre-launch ‘24 HRS SPECIAL 1 WEDG ARM’.
  37044.  
  37045. Are you looking to upgrade to the WEDG Pro with Intel?
  37046.  
  37047. If you find it easier to email us please feel free to do so
  37048. info@wedg.co where there is no character limit.
  37049.  
  37050.  
  37051.  
  37052.  
  37053. Alexander Blaauwgeers
  37054.  
  37055. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8674531> over 2 years ago
  37056.  
  37057. @Team WEDG @scott.henderson1 Relates how this related to the upgrade
  37058. of @Antoine C at the same time just between my question and answer
  37059. with just 90£ and I have to pay almost double £160
  37060.  
  37061. Team WEDG
  37062. @Antoine C yep! we’ll handle the rest on our side :)
  37063.  
  37064. Antoine C
  37065. Hi all. Just to be sure : i’ve pledged for an ARM version (129£+6£
  37066. shipping). I want to change this for the Intel Version + RAID
  37067. solution (179+40+6£ shipping). So I do just need to pay 90£ and
  37068. you’ll know what I want, that’s it ?
  37069.  
  37070.  
  37071.  
  37072.  
  37073. Team WEDG
  37074.  
  37075. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  37076. years ago
  37077.  
  37078. @Alexander Blaauwgeers, @scott.henderson1 is correct. Does that help
  37079. you make your decision? Happy to help you further either way.
  37080.  
  37081. @@scott.henderson1 thanks for chipping in there, had a conf call
  37082. with suppliers and partners this morning that went waaay over!
  37083.  
  37084.  
  37085.  
  37086.  
  37087. scott.henderson
  37088.  
  37089. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3201718> over 2 years ago
  37090.  
  37091. @ Alexander Blaauwgeers, I believe if you were a Kickstarter backer
  37092. and purchased WEDG with ARM + 1TB @ £129 prelaunch, then you’d first
  37093. have to upgrade to the Intel version which was £70 more during that
  37094. period, then add the £90 for the WEDG Pro Raid + 1TB Upgrade #2.
  37095.  
  37096. So you’d need to contribute an additional £160 to get WEDG Pro with
  37097. Intel + 1TB plus WEDG Pro Raid + 1 TB Upgrade #2, from your current
  37098. WEDG with ARM + 1TB. You would owe nothing more for shipping.
  37099.  
  37100.  
  37101.  
  37102.  
  37103. Alexander Blaauwgeers
  37104.  
  37105. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8674531> over 2 years ago
  37106.  
  37107. Hi , 3 days ago you replied on my comment
  37108. " @Alexander Blaauwgeers Sure you can upgrade, ju … rest. "
  37109.  
  37110. I am not quite sure about the amount of money. Before I am making a
  37111. decision need to know the right price. I pledged £129 (+ £6 ) for "
  37112. 24 HRS SPECIAL 1 WEDG ARM ( Kickstarter) "
  37113.  
  37114. Below I see the message " @Antoine C 16 hours ago " ;
  37115.  
  37116. So if I add the upgrade perk £40 with an additional Gift of £50 = £90
  37117. Then you’ll change my perk to WEDG INTEL with RAID ?
  37118.  
  37119.  
  37120.  
  37121.  
  37122. Team WEDG
  37123.  
  37124. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  37125. years ago
  37126.  
  37127. @Tiger Bus on the rear? No no, the BNC connector this goes on the
  37128. front for pride of place! :D
  37129.  
  37130.  
  37131.  
  37132.  
  37133. Tiger Bus
  37134.  
  37135. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706731> over 2 years ago
  37136.  
  37137. 200000 GBP: BNC connector in the rear! yay ;)
  37138.  
  37139.  
  37140.  
  37141.  
  37142. Team WEDG
  37143.  
  37144. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  37145. years ago
  37146.  
  37147. @Tiger Bus please see stretch goal :P
  37148.  
  37149.  
  37150.  
  37151.  
  37152. Tiger Bus
  37153.  
  37154. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706731> over 2 years ago
  37155.  
  37156. How do I connect my Koax network to this?! :P
  37157.  
  37158.  
  37159.  
  37160.  
  37161. Team WEDG
  37162.  
  37163. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  37164. years ago
  37165.  
  37166. @Tiger Bus yep, and with the WEDG Pro with Intel that’s gigabit
  37167. ethernet ;)
  37168.  
  37169.  
  37170.  
  37171.  
  37172. Tiger Bus
  37173.  
  37174. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706731> over 2 years ago
  37175.  
  37176. If I wanted to hardwire the WEDG behind a firewall with just a few
  37177. dedicated ports forwarded to it, I could always completely disable
  37178. the WiFi, right? ;)
  37179.  
  37180.  
  37181.  
  37182.  
  37183. Team WEDG
  37184.  
  37185. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  37186. years ago
  37187.  
  37188. @david.j.aldred thanks David :)
  37189.  
  37190.  
  37191.  
  37192.  
  37193. David Aldred
  37194.  
  37195. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> over 2 years ago
  37196.  
  37197. Great to see the impact the WiFi stretch has had. Been a great few
  37198. days for the campaign – great work @team wedg!
  37199.  
  37200.  
  37201.  
  37202.  
  37203. Team WEDG
  37204.  
  37205. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  37206. years ago
  37207.  
  37208. @Alex Stamp for sure.
  37209.  
  37210.  
  37211.  
  37212.  
  37213. Team WEDG
  37214.  
  37215. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  37216. years ago
  37217.  
  37218. @Pif loads! You can upgrade to RAID support with or with out a 1TB
  37219. HDD, you can also upgrade your 1TB HDDs for 2TB HDDs. If you really
  37220. feel like pushing the boat out why upgrade to an Aluminium WEDG…or
  37221. go nuts like one of our valuable backers and go for a Carbon Fibre WEDG!
  37222.  
  37223.  
  37224.  
  37225.  
  37226. Alex Stamp
  37227.  
  37228. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6787108> over 2 years ago
  37229.  
  37230. Shipping should now be correct, seems that wifi has pulled in a few
  37231. people already
  37232.  
  37233.  
  37234.  
  37235.  
  37236. Pif
  37237.  
  37238. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8709078> over 2 years ago
  37239.  
  37240. I have pledged the perk 24 HRS SPECIAL 2 WEDG INTEL for £199+6
  37241. (shipping) = £205 back in September. What upgrade options do I have?
  37242. I cannot find the original perk and I am sure about the specs I
  37243. signed for. Thanks in advance.
  37244.  
  37245.  
  37246.  
  37247.  
  37248. Team WEDG
  37249.  
  37250. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  37251. years ago
  37252.  
  37253. @temp32 correct and thank you! :) woohoo WiFi!! :D
  37254.  
  37255.  
  37256.  
  37257.  
  37258. Pierre Lang
  37259.  
  37260. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4161016> over 2 years ago
  37261.  
  37262. Congratulations to reaching the WiFi goal and thus allowing me to
  37263. contribute :)
  37264.  
  37265.  
  37266.  
  37267.  
  37268. Pierre Lang
  37269.  
  37270. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4161016> over 2 years ago
  37271.  
  37272. Contributed for WEDG Pro with Intel + 1TB + Radi Upgrade 1TB +
  37273. Shipping in one payment. I hope it’s ok
  37274.  
  37275.  
  37276.  
  37277.  
  37278. Team WEDG
  37279.  
  37280. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  37281. years ago
  37282.  
  37283. @Alex Stamp if you paid the Perk listed price then you will need to
  37284. add shipping please. Thats £6 per WEDG.
  37285.  
  37286.  
  37287.  
  37288.  
  37289. Alex Stamp
  37290.  
  37291. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6787108> over 2 years ago
  37292.  
  37293. Hi can I just double check I have got both the 24hr arm and 24 hr
  37294. wedge pro did these include UK shipping or do I need to add it?
  37295.  
  37296.  
  37297.  
  37298.  
  37299. Team WEDG
  37300.  
  37301. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  37302. years ago
  37303.  
  37304. Antoine C awesome thank you! Just to make sure there is no
  37305. confusion, could you email us your old and new email address please
  37306. infowedg.co.
  37307.  
  37308.  
  37309.  
  37310.  
  37311. Antoine C
  37312.  
  37313. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4041109> over 2 years ago
  37314.  
  37315. Thanks ! It’s done (by the way, i’ve change my email address, I hope
  37316. there will not be any problem)
  37317.  
  37318.  
  37319.  
  37320.  
  37321. Team WEDG
  37322.  
  37323. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  37324. years ago
  37325.  
  37326. @Antoine C yep! we’ll handle the rest on our side :)
  37327.  
  37328.  
  37329.  
  37330.  
  37331. Team WEDG
  37332.  
  37333. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  37334. years ago
  37335.  
  37336. @Heiko Zeller thank you! hi5!!
  37337.  
  37338.  
  37339.  
  37340.  
  37341. Team WEDG
  37342.  
  37343. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  37344. years ago
  37345.  
  37346. @david.j.aldred I did!! Wake up!!
  37347.  
  37348.  
  37349.  
  37350.  
  37351. Heiko Zeller
  37352.  
  37353. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8715891> over 2 years ago
  37354.  
  37355. Congrat’s guys to reach the wifi goal
  37356.  
  37357.  
  37358.  
  37359.  
  37360. Antoine C
  37361.  
  37362. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4041109> over 2 years ago
  37363.  
  37364. Hi all. Just to be sure : i’ve pledged for an ARM version (129£+6£
  37365. shipping). I want to change this for the Intel Version + RAID
  37366. solution (179+40+6£ shipping). So I do just need to pay 90£ and
  37367. you’ll know what I want, that’s it ?
  37368.  
  37369.  
  37370.  
  37371.  
  37372. David Aldred
  37373.  
  37374. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> over 2 years ago
  37375.  
  37376. Will I be waking up to WiFi?! Exciting!
  37377.  
  37378.  
  37379.  
  37380.  
  37381. Team WEDG
  37382.  
  37383. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  37384. years ago
  37385.  
  37386. @paul.kulhavy yes you have paid for shipping. Thank you for your
  37387. contribution and early support.
  37388.  
  37389.  
  37390.  
  37391.  
  37392. paul.kulhavy
  37393.  
  37394. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8709012> over 2 years ago
  37395.  
  37396. Also receiving your prompts for postage – and frankly I’ve got no
  37397. idea what I’ve paid for now. You have so many options – yet the
  37398. “perk” title I have is not there.
  37399.  
  37400. Perk: 24 HRS SPECIAL 2 WEDG INTEL – Contribution Amount: £205
  37401.  
  37402. Have I paid for shipping charges? No idea – as I can’t find the
  37403. perk/price listed here at all.
  37404.  
  37405.  
  37406.  
  37407.  
  37408. Team WEDG
  37409.  
  37410. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  37411. years ago
  37412.  
  37413. @Tiger Bus :D hahaha!!
  37414.  
  37415.  
  37416.  
  37417.  
  37418. Tiger Bus
  37419.  
  37420. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706731> over 2 years ago
  37421.  
  37422. I can almost SMELL those wifi giga-hertz frequencies…
  37423.  
  37424.  
  37425.  
  37426.  
  37427. Team WEDG
  37428.  
  37429. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  37430. years ago
  37431.  
  37432. @Paul Targett thank you for your support at the early stages of our
  37433. campaign, it means a lot to us Sure, to upgrade the WEDG Pro with
  37434. Intel +1TB Early Bird price (£219) and RAID (£40/£90)…
  37435.  
  37436. £90 + £40 or £90 depending on the RAID upgrade you prefer plus
  37437. shipping if you haven’t already please. Just hit the CONTRIBUTE NOW
  37438. button on the right and we’ll handle the rest our side.
  37439.  
  37440. Thanks Paul :)
  37441.  
  37442.  
  37443.  
  37444.  
  37445. Paul Targett
  37446.  
  37447. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706793> over 2 years ago
  37448.  
  37449. I put £129 for the early bird ARM version (coming from Kickstarter).
  37450. At the time if I could have afforded it, I would have paid for the
  37451. Intel version. To help towards £110k, could I pay extra to upgrade
  37452. to the early bird Intel version price and also include raid? If so,
  37453. how much should I put.
  37454.  
  37455.  
  37456.  
  37457.  
  37458. Team WEDG
  37459.  
  37460. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  37461. years ago
  37462.  
  37463. @moelliott the shipping charges are for UK and International. The
  37464. shipping fees were originally £6 for UK and ~£20 for International
  37465. but with support from business advisers we managed to negotiate a
  37466. flat fee for worldwide shipping and it stuck at £6.
  37467.  
  37468.  
  37469.  
  37470.  
  37471. moelliott
  37472.  
  37473. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8707340> over 2 years ago
  37474.  
  37475. Hello, just to echo Andrews’ comment regarding the shipping, is the
  37476. £6.00 shipping charge also applicable for UK orders? Or just
  37477. international?
  37478.  
  37479.  
  37480.  
  37481.  
  37482. Team WEDG
  37483.  
  37484. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  37485. years ago
  37486.  
  37487. @Andrew Cook we wanted to show a clear distinction between unit
  37488. price and shipping as well as show that prices from our campaign
  37489. attempt on Kickstarter hadn’t changed.
  37490.  
  37491.  
  37492.  
  37493.  
  37494. Andrew Cook
  37495.  
  37496. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706115> over 2 years ago
  37497.  
  37498. I’m a little confused about continual reminders to pay for shipping.
  37499.  
  37500. Is that a flat rate of £6 that needs to be paid for anywhere in the
  37501. world, including the UK? and if so why wasn’t it included in the
  37502. base price?
  37503.  
  37504.  
  37505.  
  37506.  
  37507. Team WEDG
  37508.  
  37509. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  37510. years ago
  37511.  
  37512. @Alex Stamp you can add the additional drive later and the RAID
  37513. management will start the replication process. Thanks, we’re really
  37514. excited and relieved too :)
  37515.  
  37516.  
  37517.  
  37518.  
  37519. Team WEDG
  37520.  
  37521. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  37522. years ago
  37523.  
  37524. @john34754 hi5 fellow Manc! Absolutely just contribute the
  37525. difference and leave the rest to us! Sure we can arrange local pick
  37526. up closer the time :)
  37527.  
  37528.  
  37529.  
  37530.  
  37531. Alex Stamp
  37532.  
  37533. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6787108> over 2 years ago
  37534.  
  37535. Another little question guys, if we start off with one drive then
  37536. add our raid drive at a later date will the system just ask if we
  37537. want to set up raid and start copying files or will it wipe
  37538. everything and have to start from scratch? So glad this has came to
  37539. fruition been a long time waiting since kickstarter haha.
  37540.  
  37541.  
  37542.  
  37543.  
  37544. john34754
  37545.  
  37546. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8707691> over 2 years ago
  37547.  
  37548. Hello
  37549. I backed the 24hr special ARM. Can I upgrade to 2TB by clicking the
  37550. relevant perk? Also I live in Manchester, can I pick up? I’ll buy
  37551. the beer!
  37552. Cheers
  37553. John
  37554.  
  37555.  
  37556.  
  37557.  
  37558. Team WEDG
  37559.  
  37560. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  37561. years ago
  37562.  
  37563. @Gaston Cardey yes, default build is stored in ROM for first boot
  37564. and system recovery purposes and then OS is stored on a MicroSD card.
  37565.  
  37566. Getting there slowly but surely! :)
  37567.  
  37568.  
  37569.  
  37570.  
  37571. Team WEDG
  37572.  
  37573. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  37574. years ago
  37575.  
  37576. @Gaston Cardey yes, default build is stored in ROM for first boot
  37577. and system recovery purposes and then OS is stored on a MicroSD card.
  37578.  
  37579. Getting there slowly but surely! :)
  37580.  
  37581.  
  37582.  
  37583.  
  37584. Team WEDG
  37585.  
  37586. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  37587. years ago
  37588.  
  37589. @Patrick Jones yeh! We’re edging closer every few mins right now.
  37590. Come on WiFi!!
  37591.  
  37592.  
  37593.  
  37594.  
  37595. Gaston Cardey
  37596.  
  37597. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8821945> over 2 years ago
  37598.  
  37599. Hi!
  37600. I wonder where it will be saved the WEDG software, since we can
  37601. replace both HDD. Is it in a non volatile flash memory or a ROM?
  37602.  
  37603. Almos there! Only £ 1.701 to go!!!!
  37604. Thanks!
  37605.  
  37606.  
  37607.  
  37608.  
  37609. Patrick Jones
  37610.  
  37611. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/5225415> over 2 years ago
  37612.  
  37613. Looks like lots of us forgot to add postage!
  37614. Good luck with getting to £110K…and beyond…we all want Wi-Fi…!
  37615.  
  37616.  
  37617.  
  37618.  
  37619. Team WEDG
  37620.  
  37621. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  37622. years ago
  37623.  
  37624. @tiger bus haha! you should get it check out :p I’ll dig it out and
  37625. send again.
  37626.  
  37627.  
  37628.  
  37629.  
  37630. Tiger Bus
  37631.  
  37632. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706731> over 2 years ago
  37633.  
  37634. Oops you did?! Never received anything so I’ve been coughing quite a
  37635. lot lately! ;)
  37636.  
  37637.  
  37638.  
  37639.  
  37640. Team WEDG
  37641.  
  37642. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  37643. years ago
  37644.  
  37645. @tiger bus I replied to your email with the revised calca weeks ago.
  37646. You should get that cough looked at :p
  37647.  
  37648.  
  37649.  
  37650.  
  37651. Tiger Bus
  37652.  
  37653. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706731> over 2 years ago
  37654.  
  37655. Ah spreadsheets… I think it got lost together with the power
  37656. consumption calculations cough ;))
  37657.  
  37658.  
  37659.  
  37660.  
  37661. tetardbleu
  37662.  
  37663. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3829087> over 2 years ago
  37664.  
  37665. @david.j.aldred of course, you’re right… I was so happy with myself
  37666. :(. I should have known, i have a t-shirt who says: “Dear math,
  37667. solve your own problem.”
  37668.  
  37669.  
  37670.  
  37671.  
  37672. Team WEDG
  37673.  
  37674. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  37675. years ago
  37676.  
  37677. @david.j.aldred we did have a spreadsheet that did some sums for us
  37678. to compare our forecasts against real results up until £43,000ish –
  37679. it wasn’t accurate and we failed to keep it up to date due to other
  37680. tasks taking priority. The with various update options we didn’t
  37681. consider reviving it. Could fire it up again may take a day two to
  37682. get the formula right.
  37683.  
  37684. Shipping nudge goes out tomorrow.
  37685.  
  37686.  
  37687.  
  37688.  
  37689. David Aldred
  37690.  
  37691. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> over 2 years ago
  37692.  
  37693. … although does show that just a little last push will get us wiFi,
  37694. so the delivery reminder should be a big help!
  37695.  
  37696.  
  37697.  
  37698.  
  37699. David Aldred
  37700.  
  37701. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> over 2 years ago
  37702.  
  37703. @tetardbleu – just because it’s Friday and I’ve not got anything
  37704. better to do… but I’m not sure that’s necessarily correct ;o)
  37705. I might be wrong, but believe the ‘backers’ count is actually the
  37706. sum of single contributions, not unique backers – so, I did £1 to
  37707. start (to ask couple of questions), my Wedg, RAID upgrade, + £5 as I
  37708. realised I’d not done shipping – but it counts that as 4 funders.
  37709.  
  37710. Wonder if @Team Wedg know how many unique backers there are – or how
  37711. many WEDG have now been funded?
  37712.  
  37713.  
  37714.  
  37715.  
  37716. Team WEDG
  37717.  
  37718. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  37719. years ago
  37720.  
  37721. @tetarbkeu haha! thanks! :)
  37722.  
  37723.  
  37724.  
  37725.  
  37726. tetardbleu
  37727.  
  37728. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3829087> over 2 years ago
  37729.  
  37730. If everyone who contributed so far was adding £4 we could make it.
  37731. Just saying :)
  37732.  
  37733.  
  37734.  
  37735.  
  37736. Team WEDG
  37737.  
  37738. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  37739. years ago
  37740.  
  37741. @wj.van.duin we’ll be posting a Polite Reminder update shortly for
  37742. those backers who might not have selected the shipping perk. Thanks
  37743. for caring :)
  37744.  
  37745.  
  37746.  
  37747.  
  37748. Team WEDG
  37749.  
  37750. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  37751. years ago
  37752.  
  37753. @richard alter simply hit the ‘CONTRIBUTE NOW’ button on the right
  37754. and enter a ‘custom’ amount to the Perk difference value.
  37755.  
  37756.  
  37757.  
  37758.  
  37759. Team WEDG
  37760.  
  37761. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  37762. years ago
  37763.  
  37764. @sbensley2 we can’t confirm which HDD we’ll be installing in the
  37765. WEDG at this moment, however drives engineered for NAS use are our
  37766. preferred from our suppliers.
  37767.  
  37768.  
  37769.  
  37770.  
  37771. richard alter
  37772.  
  37773. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/1968091> over 2 years ago
  37774.  
  37775. I would like to upgrade from Arm to Intel Pro and I believe that
  37776. would be a 20 pound difference. How do I make that payment? There is
  37777. no contribution choice for that amount. Please advise
  37778. Richard Alter at richardalter@yahoo.com
  37779.  
  37780.  
  37781.  
  37782.  
  37783. wj.van.duin
  37784.  
  37785. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8267955> over 2 years ago
  37786.  
  37787. Hope these additional contributions will be rightfully understood as
  37788. for the additonal upgrade to 2 × 2 Tb and for the worldwide shipping
  37789. fee that has not been contributed before.
  37790.  
  37791. Wouter J.
  37792.  
  37793.  
  37794.  
  37795.  
  37796. sbensley2
  37797.  
  37798. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/7967712> over 2 years ago
  37799.  
  37800. Hi,
  37801.  
  37802. I have ordered the Wedg driveless with Raid upgrade and I assume
  37803. that it might be better to use Nas hard drives with this device. Can
  37804. you please confirm?
  37805.  
  37806. Thanks,
  37807.  
  37808.  
  37809.  
  37810.  
  37811. Team WEDG
  37812.  
  37813. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  37814. years ago
  37815.  
  37816. @Alexander Blaauwgeers Wi-Fi will be supported on BOTH models of
  37817. WEDG :-)
  37818.  
  37819. Sure you can upgrade, just hit the ‘CONTRIBUTE NOW’ button on the
  37820. right and manually enter the difference between your current Perk
  37821. and the one you want – and we’ll do the rest.
  37822.  
  37823.  
  37824.  
  37825.  
  37826. Alexander Blaauwgeers
  37827.  
  37828. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8674531> over 2 years ago
  37829.  
  37830. 1. I really hope that my WEDGE also gets Wi-Fi support and that it
  37831. is not only for the Intel version like RAID
  37832.  
  37833. 2. At the moment of backing I didn’t know about the RAID future… is
  37834. there any possibility to upgrade from ARM to Intel ?
  37835. ( because it might push the project over the 110.000 line )
  37836.  
  37837.  
  37838.  
  37839.  
  37840. Team WEDG
  37841.  
  37842. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  37843. years ago
  37844.  
  37845. @Nikolai Tesla thank you for your valuable words of encouragement
  37846. and support Nikolai and for contributing again. I’ll looking into
  37847. ‘Print the Legend’, we’re always open to learn from others’ experiences.
  37848.  
  37849.  
  37850.  
  37851.  
  37852. Nikolai Tesla
  37853.  
  37854. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> over 2 years ago
  37855.  
  37856. @Shehbaz (2 of 2), Stay focused, don’t lose sight on what makes WEDG
  37857. important to your contributors. Continue with your enthusiasm, it is
  37858. contagious. Thank you.
  37859.  
  37860.  
  37861.  
  37862.  
  37863. Nikolai Tesla
  37864.  
  37865. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> over 2 years ago
  37866.  
  37867. @Shehbaz (1 of 2), I have contributed again to support your
  37868. project/philosophy in order to get back control of our data. Either
  37869. way, I recommend that you and your team take the time to study the
  37870. “recent” documentary called “Print the Legend”. It is about the home
  37871. 3D printing movement and the obstacles that “start-ups” (similar to
  37872. WEDG) went thru in order to develop a technology that works, a brand
  37873. name that can sell and create an effective company.
  37874.  
  37875.  
  37876.  
  37877.  
  37878. Team WEDG
  37879.  
  37880. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  37881. years ago
  37882.  
  37883. @Veehem we hear you and all supports who want to know more about how
  37884. and when we will be releasing our code. You must understand this is
  37885. something that needs to be done properly. We have no experience in
  37886. managing an open community and we don’t want to get it wrong. We
  37887. have started working with an advisor who will help us plan a
  37888. strategy for the process to ensure its don’t competently and that a
  37889. support structure is in place. This isn’t something we are prepared
  37890. to rush into.
  37891.  
  37892.  
  37893.  
  37894.  
  37895. Philipp Stäheli
  37896.  
  37897. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8723017> over 2 years ago
  37898.  
  37899. I agree with Veehem.
  37900.  
  37901.  
  37902.  
  37903.  
  37904. Veehem
  37905.  
  37906. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4067160> over 2 years ago
  37907.  
  37908. Hardware, hardware again. 2 TB? 10TB ? Carbon fire ?Aluminium ? A
  37909. gold special serie? A underwear? A string? For secure actions, a
  37910. carbon fire condom with Wedg logo ?
  37911. Please stop all those gadgets. Now it’s necessary to talk about the
  37912. software.
  37913. Not any update information about the software.
  37914. Please explain how and when, you’re going to liberate the software?
  37915. How it looks like? How do you intend to build a real community?
  37916. Yes, you promise to do so “in due course” Don’t you think its time now?
  37917.  
  37918.  
  37919.  
  37920.  
  37921. Team WEDG
  37922.  
  37923. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  37924. years ago
  37925.  
  37926. @jrogers31 awesome! Thank YOU!
  37927.  
  37928.  
  37929.  
  37930.  
  37931. jrogers31
  37932.  
  37933. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> over 2 years ago
  37934.  
  37935. Thanks for the update – I have doubled up – I hope you make all the
  37936. stretch goals. JR
  37937.  
  37938.  
  37939.  
  37940.  
  37941. Team WEDG
  37942.  
  37943. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  37944. years ago
  37945.  
  37946. @scott.henderson1 complete oversight on our part, will resolve that
  37947. asap. Thanks for the heads-up!
  37948.  
  37949. And thanks for the feedback too ;)
  37950.  
  37951.  
  37952.  
  37953.  
  37954. scott.henderson
  37955.  
  37956. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3201718> over 2 years ago
  37957.  
  37958. Team WEDG,
  37959.  
  37960. With ENDING SOON upon us, you may want to reinstate, modify or
  37961. remove all of the BUY NOW – £179 LIMITED TIME ONLY! links listed
  37962. under the Story page, as they currently take people to a WHERE DID
  37963. IT GO? page, which is kind of off-putting.
  37964.  
  37965. If there is anyway to bring back the Driver-less WEDG Pro with
  37966. Intel, I’m sure that would help in reaching the next Stretch Goal.
  37967.  
  37968.  
  37969.  
  37970.  
  37971. tetardbleu
  37972.  
  37973. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3829087> over 2 years ago
  37974.  
  37975. @scott.henderson1 Well, Team Wedg was very convincing!
  37976. @ david.j.aldred and @Team Wedg Maybe someone from IG can change the
  37977. count manually (Not for me, it doesn’t matter and i trust you but
  37978. for other people to give them the necessary impulse)?
  37979.  
  37980.  
  37981.  
  37982.  
  37983. Team WEDG
  37984.  
  37985. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  37986. years ago
  37987.  
  37988. @david.j.aldred i know :-s we’re actually thinking of creating a
  37989. banner to add to the top of the campaign page to mark the occasion
  37990. and give kudos to @ tetardbleu
  37991.  
  37992.  
  37993.  
  37994.  
  37995. David Aldred
  37996.  
  37997. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> over 2 years ago
  37998.  
  37999. Shame you can’t ‘count’ the CB model from @tetardbleu – it’s a
  38000. massive vote of confidence in the product for anyone new / undecided!
  38001.  
  38002.  
  38003.  
  38004.  
  38005. scott.henderson
  38006.  
  38007. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3201718> over 2 years ago
  38008.  
  38009. @ tetardbleu, congrats on purchasing the Carbon Fibre WEDG!
  38010.  
  38011.  
  38012.  
  38013.  
  38014. Team WEDG
  38015.  
  38016. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  38017. years ago
  38018.  
  38019. @tetardbleu done! A Carbon Fibre WEDG has your name all over it!
  38020. (but we can’t change the count on the back end)
  38021.  
  38022.  
  38023.  
  38024.  
  38025. tetardbleu
  38026.  
  38027. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3829087> over 2 years ago
  38028.  
  38029. don’t forget to reserve me one of the five precious! :) Go wifi!
  38030.  
  38031.  
  38032.  
  38033.  
  38034. Team WEDG
  38035.  
  38036. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  38037. years ago
  38038.  
  38039. @Ken Taylor that’s a good question, there were a few reasons but one
  38040. of the main reasons we decided to dump ActiveSync was due to its
  38041. instability and it was also very resource hungry. But we do have
  38042. ActiveSync under the ‘Revisit’ column on our feature list so ‘never
  38043. say never’ right?
  38044.  
  38045. PS. Thank you for the accurate calculations for the next Stretchgoal
  38046. I think we might do it you know!!
  38047.  
  38048.  
  38049.  
  38050.  
  38051. Team WEDG
  38052.  
  38053. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  38054. years ago
  38055.  
  38056. @Ken Taylor your calculations are correct £162 will take you up to 2
  38057. × 2TB drives capability.
  38058.  
  38059.  
  38060.  
  38061.  
  38062. Ken Taylor
  38063.  
  38064. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6123904> over 2 years ago
  38065.  
  38066. Hi Team WEDG,
  38067. is there a reason that Active sync (or freeware alternative) is not
  38068. supported.
  38069. I know caldav, and carddav are supported as well as IMAP and POP3.
  38070. for user setup with sync of mail. contacts and other features Active
  38071. sync with the one server settings for a user its the easiest rather
  38072. than configuring each protocol.
  38073. Is Active sync support a possibility or are there technical reasons
  38074. that this cannot be supported?
  38075. thanks
  38076.  
  38077.  
  38078.  
  38079.  
  38080. Ken Taylor
  38081.  
  38082. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6123904> over 2 years ago
  38083.  
  38084. @ Team WEDG, are my calculations right,
  38085. I have a WEDG pro + 1TB plus shipping + Upgrade to Raid (£40)
  38086. so to get 2×2TB…..
  38087. I would need to pay £50 to make the raid 2×1TB then pay £112 to
  38088. upgrade the drives to 2×2TB drives so….. £162.00 total? is this correct.
  38089.  
  38090. need 154.92958% funding to reach £110,00 and the next stretch goal.
  38091. Good Luck.
  38092.  
  38093.  
  38094.  
  38095.  
  38096. tetardbleu
  38097.  
  38098. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3829087> over 2 years ago
  38099.  
  38100. i juste emailed you via your website’s mail, because i didn’t
  38101. receive anything…
  38102.  
  38103.  
  38104.  
  38105.  
  38106. Team WEDG
  38107.  
  38108. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  38109. years ago
  38110.  
  38111. @tetardbleu i just sent it
  38112.  
  38113.  
  38114.  
  38115.  
  38116. tetardbleu
  38117.  
  38118. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3829087> over 2 years ago
  38119.  
  38120. ok, just tell me here when you did, just in case, as it seems that
  38121. pm sometimes does not work well…
  38122.  
  38123.  
  38124.  
  38125.  
  38126. Team WEDG
  38127.  
  38128. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  38129. years ago
  38130.  
  38131. @tetardbleu welcome to the darkside! I’ll message you privately as I
  38132. need some details from you.
  38133.  
  38134.  
  38135.  
  38136.  
  38137. tetardbleu
  38138.  
  38139. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3829087> over 2 years ago
  38140.  
  38141. Thank you, thank you thank you!I now have to ask if it would be
  38142. possible to have my config (2* 2TB HDDs) And the carbon fibre. I
  38143. would completely understand if it wasn’t, but if You can make this
  38144. happen (ssds replaced by hdds) and tell me how much it would cost
  38145. me, as i imagine standard hard drives are less expensive, my crazy
  38146. side is ready! Again i know it’s a lot to ask and i would completely
  38147. understand a no.
  38148.  
  38149.  
  38150.  
  38151.  
  38152. Team WEDG
  38153.  
  38154. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  38155. years ago
  38156.  
  38157. @James Cowell yes, that’s correct
  38158.  
  38159.  
  38160.  
  38161.  
  38162. James Cowell
  38163.  
  38164. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4283722> over 2 years ago
  38165.  
  38166. My contribution was for the “24 HRS SPECIAL 2 WEDG INTEL” but as
  38167. it’s not listed anymore as a perk I can’t find the specifics of what
  38168. it was. I believe it is equivalent specs to the “WEDG Pro with Intel
  38169. + 1Tb”. Is that correct?
  38170.  
  38171.  
  38172.  
  38173.  
  38174. Team WEDG
  38175.  
  38176. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  38177. years ago
  38178.  
  38179. @Seth Barribeau you can upgrade your drive in your WEDG as and when
  38180. you like. The WEDG takes a standard 2.5" SATA hard drive.
  38181.  
  38182.  
  38183.  
  38184.  
  38185. Seth Barribeau
  38186.  
  38187. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8723584> over 2 years ago
  38188.  
  38189. Regarding the 2Tb upgrade. Is this something where we could replace
  38190. the HDs ourselves to improve space as needed, or do you need to
  38191. upgrade additional hardware first?
  38192.  
  38193.  
  38194.  
  38195.  
  38196. Team WEDG
  38197.  
  38198. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  38199. years ago
  38200.  
  38201. @jrogers31 I understand and have taken your feedback on-board ;-)
  38202.  
  38203.  
  38204.  
  38205.  
  38206. Team WEDG
  38207.  
  38208. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  38209. years ago
  38210.  
  38211. @Law Cheung spot on, that is the correct way to do it, thank you for
  38212. your support and contribution!
  38213.  
  38214.  
  38215.  
  38216.  
  38217. Team WEDG
  38218.  
  38219. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  38220. years ago
  38221.  
  38222. @wj.van.duin you may certainly postpone your decision up until the
  38223. end of the campaign only I’m afraid as the prices we have negotiated
  38224. are only available to us until the end of 21st November. I’m sorry
  38225. if this applies undue pressure upon you right now.
  38226.  
  38227.  
  38228.  
  38229.  
  38230. jrogers31
  38231.  
  38232. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> over 2 years ago
  38233.  
  38234. Sorry to repeat my suggestion to help reach the stretch goals but I
  38235. would like the option to “double up” on my current perks at the same
  38236. rate as my first contribution, which was WEDG Pro with Intel + 1TB
  38237. (£219) plus WEDG Pro RAID + 1TB (£90). This may get you closer to
  38238. the stretch goal targets – particularly if existing contributors
  38239. want to double or treble up. JR
  38240.  
  38241.  
  38242.  
  38243.  
  38244. Law Cheung
  38245.  
  38246. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/2929772> over 2 years ago
  38247.  
  38248. Hi Shehbaz,
  38249.  
  38250. That’s a good idea of you to allow an upgrade to a 2TB drive. I have
  38251. added an extra £56 to make £112 to have two of them for a raid
  38252. setup. I hope this is the correct way of doing it.
  38253.  
  38254. Kind Regards,
  38255.  
  38256. Law Cheung (Mr)
  38257.  
  38258.  
  38259.  
  38260.  
  38261. wj.van.duin
  38262.  
  38263. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8267955> over 2 years ago
  38264.  
  38265. I would like you to let me know if it will be possible to postpone
  38266. the decision for the change of configuration from 1 × 1 Tb to 1 × 2
  38267. Tb or even 2 × 2Tb until a later moment just prior to production and
  38268. delivery.
  38269.  
  38270. Wouter J. van Duin
  38271.  
  38272.  
  38273.  
  38274.  
  38275. Team WEDG
  38276.  
  38277. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  38278. years ago
  38279.  
  38280. @Scott McQueen I think I follow you now. WEDG does support POP3 and
  38281. so you could add any POP3 accounts to your WEDG collecting mail on
  38282. the fly. Aliases is also fully supported and you can setup a
  38283. one-to-many email account like ’salesexample.com’ for example where
  38284. the messages are forwarded on to designated users.
  38285.  
  38286. Thank you for the compliments and of course your ongoing support! :)
  38287.  
  38288.  
  38289.  
  38290.  
  38291. Team WEDG
  38292.  
  38293. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  38294. years ago
  38295.  
  38296. @Veehem thank you for your feedback, we have every intention on
  38297. providing more information in due course. Currently we have a tight
  38298. schedule we’ve planned for and are working hard to commit to that.
  38299.  
  38300.  
  38301.  
  38302.  
  38303. Veehem
  38304.  
  38305. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4067160> over 2 years ago
  38306.  
  38307. An update message explaining how and when you’re going to liberate
  38308. the code is necessary. Wedg is going to be a long time success if
  38309. there is a real community. Without an open source code, people will
  38310. go to Ownbutt, Yunohost, …
  38311. Please, be more clear about that
  38312.  
  38313.  
  38314.  
  38315.  
  38316. Scott McQueen
  38317.  
  38318. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8443500> over 2 years ago
  38319.  
  38320. Team WEDG – Sorry was not clearer, By scheduled pop3 collection I
  38321. mean, use pop3 to collect mail from a third party account, strip of
  38322. everything after the ‘at symbol’ and distribute to the users of the
  38323. mailserver every say ten minutes. This way I can include an existing
  38324. pop3 mail address. Also will the WEDG support aliases and group
  38325. forwarding?
  38326.  
  38327. BTW Congrats on the 100K, well done to all involved!
  38328.  
  38329.  
  38330.  
  38331.  
  38332. Team WEDG
  38333.  
  38334. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  38335. years ago
  38336.  
  38337. @tetardbleu thanks for feedback! :)
  38338.  
  38339.  
  38340.  
  38341.  
  38342. tetardbleu
  38343.  
  38344. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3829087> over 2 years ago
  38345.  
  38346. I’ll probably succumb if the offer stays the same… Still, if your
  38347. meeting monday works out, i must say i prefer bigger hdds than
  38348. faster ssds. particularly for mid-long term storage. SSDs are great
  38349. but in case of failure it’s pretty definitive and unannounced, when
  38350. HDDs can show preventive warnings and let us recover some data. Well
  38351. its just a personal opinion of course. Good night and good luck today!
  38352.  
  38353.  
  38354.  
  38355.  
  38356. Team WEDG
  38357.  
  38358. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  38359. years ago
  38360.  
  38361. @tetardbleu agghh! dashed are my hopes of a Carbon Fibre WEDG backer
  38362. today! ;-)
  38363.  
  38364.  
  38365.  
  38366.  
  38367. tetardbleu
  38368.  
  38369. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3829087> over 2 years ago
  38370.  
  38371. Ok so i’ll wait your monday’s report before letting go out my crazy
  38372. side :)
  38373.  
  38374.  
  38375.  
  38376.  
  38377. Team WEDG
  38378.  
  38379. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  38380. years ago
  38381.  
  38382. @Ken Taylor this is a discussion we need to have again with our
  38383. suppliers on Monday morning, as you stated cost is a factor and
  38384. having discussed this topic previous with our suppliers 2TB disks
  38385. weren’t cheap and didn’t even come under any price breaks at that
  38386. time. But time has passed so worth revisiting. Either way I will
  38387. report back on Monday.
  38388.  
  38389.  
  38390.  
  38391.  
  38392. Ken Taylor
  38393.  
  38394. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6123904> over 2 years ago
  38395.  
  38396. if you can meet minimum purchase requirements for 1tb and 2tb drives
  38397. to keep prices good. i also vote for @ aaddiikk’s suggestion and it
  38398. has been suggested before. as i will just be looking at possibly
  38399. putting 2Tb drives in mine. but cost is a factor. also now featuring
  38400. the 3k option puts the Wedg pro way down the list for funding
  38401. choices. make the funding option look very expensive for someone new
  38402. looking at the project.
  38403.  
  38404.  
  38405.  
  38406.  
  38407. Team WEDG
  38408.  
  38409. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  38410. years ago
  38411.  
  38412. Congratulations you guys we’ve hit a major milestone at £100,000! A
  38413. little overwhelmed if I’m honest and very grateful to everyone for
  38414. their everlasting and so valuable support. THANK YOU!!
  38415.  
  38416.  
  38417.  
  38418.  
  38419. Team WEDG
  38420.  
  38421. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  38422. years ago
  38423.  
  38424. @tetardbleu listen to your crazy side ;-) yes @aaddiikk’s suggestion
  38425. is pulling weight this side too.
  38426.  
  38427. If you do decide to upgrade to the Carbon Fibre WEDG then please
  38428. contribute the difference only and we’ll do the rest. The Carbon
  38429. Fibre sample material is of a high standard to ensure its rigidity
  38430. and the WEDG will be hand assembled start to finish. I should also
  38431. emphasise that Carbon Fibre WEDG is only available on Indiegogo and
  38432. won’t be available after the campaign ends.
  38433.  
  38434.  
  38435.  
  38436.  
  38437. tetardbleu
  38438.  
  38439. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3829087> over 2 years ago
  38440.  
  38441. As you can guess by my previous comments here, i strongly support
  38442. @aaddiikk suggestion.I’m also considering the carbon fibre perk. A
  38443. bit pricey but seems to be a really cool design. Which perk should i
  38444. choose if i want an upgrade? Just an arbitrary payment with the
  38445. difference? Not sure i’ll do it but sometimes i have crazy expensive
  38446. ideas!
  38447.  
  38448.  
  38449.  
  38450.  
  38451. Team WEDG
  38452.  
  38453. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  38454. years ago
  38455.  
  38456. @jrogers31 thank you for your suggestion, certainly worth
  38457. considering along with other ideas too. Will report back.
  38458.  
  38459.  
  38460.  
  38461.  
  38462. Team WEDG
  38463.  
  38464. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  38465. years ago
  38466.  
  38467. @aaddiikk thanks for your feedback, we’ll certainly consider your
  38468. suggestion and report back.
  38469.  
  38470.  
  38471.  
  38472.  
  38473. jrogers31
  38474.  
  38475. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> over 2 years ago
  38476.  
  38477. I think one option you may consider to enable you to reach your
  38478. stretch goal targets is to release a further time limited perk for
  38479. the WEDG Pro with Intel + 1TB at £219 like you did for Tech Crunch –
  38480. after all the campaign ends on 21 Nov 2014.
  38481.  
  38482. Alternatively allow existing contributors to double up (or treble
  38483. up) on their orginial contribution and perks at the same discounted
  38484. rate. JR
  38485.  
  38486.  
  38487.  
  38488.  
  38489. aaddiikk
  38490.  
  38491. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8707168> over 2 years ago
  38492.  
  38493. Guys,
  38494.  
  38495. How about extending storage options and allow people to pay extra
  38496. for it? I mean extra options to double the storage (so from 1TB to
  38497. 2TB in case of ARM, from 1TB to 2TB in case of Intel and from 1TB to
  38498. 2TB so 2×2TB drives in case of Intel/RAID)? I’m pretty sure that
  38499. many backers would go this way and get us closer to WiFi… What do
  38500. you think?
  38501.  
  38502.  
  38503.  
  38504.  
  38505. Team WEDG
  38506.  
  38507. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  38508. years ago
  38509.  
  38510. @scott.henderson1 that’s a good idea. I’ll ask all registered
  38511. developers to share their potential ideas.
  38512.  
  38513.  
  38514.  
  38515.  
  38516. scott.henderson
  38517.  
  38518. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3201718> over 2 years ago
  38519.  
  38520. Hey Team!
  38521.  
  38522. Any chance of having the 7 campaign backing Developers mention what
  38523. they are hoping to develop for the WEDG? Their potential ideas and
  38524. solutions might help expand interest.
  38525.  
  38526. Cheers!
  38527.  
  38528.  
  38529.  
  38530.  
  38531. Team WEDG
  38532.  
  38533. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  38534. years ago
  38535.  
  38536. @Ken Taylor thanks for the precise maths :) we’re working on a
  38537. couple of promos – can’t say too much now but we have high hopes for
  38538. those alongside some press pushing too.
  38539. Yes, a good few backers have missed the shipping perk but ultimately
  38540. not enough to push us very far, nevertheless we will politely remind
  38541. them.
  38542.  
  38543.  
  38544.  
  38545.  
  38546. Team WEDG
  38547.  
  38548. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  38549. years ago
  38550.  
  38551. @scott.henderson1 thanks for the support, it means a great deal to
  38552. us all here. Regarding perks…watch this space! :-o I’ve said too much!
  38553.  
  38554.  
  38555.  
  38556.  
  38557. Ken Taylor
  38558.  
  38559. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6123904> over 2 years ago
  38560.  
  38561. I think there are LOTS of people who have not paid the £6 postage
  38562. just looking through the Funders page but Shebaz should be able to
  38563. see more so maybe a nudge to get them to pay but dont think it will
  38564. get us any where near £110k but it all helps. we need 2.671 Wedg
  38565. Pro’s to be funded per day with postage to make the next stretch
  38566. goal by the end of the campaign.
  38567.  
  38568.  
  38569.  
  38570.  
  38571. scott.henderson
  38572.  
  38573. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3201718> over 2 years ago
  38574.  
  38575. 2/2
  38576. Are there any last minute perks that could be added to the project
  38577. that would add £15-20 value to end product?
  38578.  
  38579. While only needing just £10,500 to achieve Wi-Fi, if every existing
  38580. funder paid an additional £16 / $25US towards the project right now,
  38581. we’d meet it.
  38582.  
  38583. Good luck on the home stretch! I hope we can hit that mark, once the
  38584. “Ending Soon” promotion begins.
  38585.  
  38586.  
  38587.  
  38588.  
  38589. scott.henderson
  38590.  
  38591. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3201718> over 2 years ago
  38592.  
  38593. 1/2
  38594. With the initial Goal met and surpassed, is there any chance of
  38595. making more Drive-less WEDG with Intel perks available again for the
  38596. last two weeks of the campaign? It might help out.
  38597. I somehow totally mis-read the Wi-Fi stretch goal at the beginning
  38598. of the campaign, thinking it was an upgrade to an existing Wi-Fi
  38599. feature, not an addition of Wi-Fi to the board. Wi-Fi is definitely
  38600. a must have capability. I agree that not having this might actually
  38601. be holding some people back.
  38602.  
  38603.  
  38604.  
  38605.  
  38606. Team WEDG
  38607.  
  38608. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  38609. years ago
  38610.  
  38611. @Scott McQueen WEDG Pro with Intel can support ~68 users while WEDG
  38612. with ARM can support ~38 users. Yes Spam filter and attachment rules
  38613. can be configured as you prefer. POP3 is support by WEDG, can you
  38614. elaborate on ’ scheduled collection from another server’?
  38615.  
  38616.  
  38617.  
  38618.  
  38619. Scott McQueen
  38620.  
  38621. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8443500> over 2 years ago
  38622.  
  38623. How many users will the mailserver side of it support on the device,
  38624. will it have sorting, spam and attachment rules and will it be
  38625. capable of pop3 scheduled collection from another server?
  38626.  
  38627.  
  38628.  
  38629.  
  38630. Team WEDG
  38631.  
  38632. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  38633. years ago
  38634.  
  38635. @tetardbleu (y) Like! :)
  38636.  
  38637.  
  38638.  
  38639.  
  38640. tetardbleu
  38641.  
  38642. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3829087> over 2 years ago
  38643.  
  38644. Well, if i want to enjoy HDMI and network access, i will need wifi…
  38645. Or to rewire my entire appartment to bring an ethernet cable next to
  38646. my tv screen! I’ll keep praying for wifi :)
  38647.  
  38648.  
  38649.  
  38650.  
  38651. Team WEDG
  38652.  
  38653. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  38654. years ago
  38655.  
  38656. @david.j.aldred we imagine the same, as the campaign enters the
  38657. ‘Ending Soon’ category on Indiegogo that might be enough to push us
  38658. through the £110,000 mark. We’re working hard on our side try and
  38659. hit some of the major publications and news channels too which might
  38660. help increase exposure. Fingers crossed!
  38661.  
  38662.  
  38663.  
  38664.  
  38665. David Aldred
  38666.  
  38667. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> over 2 years ago
  38668.  
  38669. ref WiFi stetch goal – it’ll be tight, but it can still be done –
  38670. we’ve been on pretty much the same trajectory for a couple of weeks
  38671. now, which should just about see us hit it. If there is the ‘ending
  38672. soon rush’ that should certainly tip it in favour.
  38673.  
  38674. Personally, not too fussed, but can certainly see its appeal to
  38675. people. Slightly frustratingly, there are probably a good few
  38676. holding off until WiFi is unlocked – I think the same was true with
  38677. HDMI – but hey, that’s the nature of it all!
  38678.  
  38679.  
  38680.  
  38681.  
  38682. Team WEDG
  38683.  
  38684. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  38685. years ago
  38686.  
  38687. @tetardbleu :) we’d love to! But right now its just not feasible. If
  38688. anything changes prior to shipping we’ll let our backers know.
  38689.  
  38690.  
  38691.  
  38692.  
  38693. tetardbleu
  38694.  
  38695. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3829087> over 2 years ago
  38696.  
  38697. Any hope to obtain wifi embedded under 110 k’ :) ?
  38698.  
  38699.  
  38700.  
  38701.  
  38702. Team WEDG
  38703.  
  38704. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  38705. years ago
  38706.  
  38707. @Alex Stamp No, see the WiFi stretch goal enables us to build a
  38708. Wireless Connection and Network Management interface for WEDG. So we
  38709. must hit the £110,000!!
  38710.  
  38711.  
  38712.  
  38713.  
  38714. Alex Stamp
  38715.  
  38716. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6787108> over 2 years ago
  38717.  
  38718. In the event we don’t get to the wifi stretch goal will a usb wifi
  38719. dongle work with the wedge?
  38720.  
  38721.  
  38722.  
  38723.  
  38724. Team WEDG
  38725.  
  38726. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  38727. years ago
  38728.  
  38729. @Danilo Montesi yes, we don’t have a road map to detail this yet,
  38730. but sometime soon after shipping WEDG we aim to release the s/w.
  38731.  
  38732.  
  38733.  
  38734.  
  38735. Danilo Montesi
  38736.  
  38737. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/2102128> over 2 years ago
  38738.  
  38739. will the software running on WEDG be available freely to be used on
  38740. a linux box?
  38741.  
  38742.  
  38743.  
  38744.  
  38745. Antoine C
  38746.  
  38747. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4041109> over 2 years ago
  38748.  
  38749. Not a pb for me (I’ve several HDD copy if necessary, I’ll C/C all
  38750. this). Thanks anyway :)
  38751.  
  38752.  
  38753.  
  38754.  
  38755. Team WEDG
  38756.  
  38757. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  38758. years ago
  38759.  
  38760. @Antoine C great! welcome on-board! Unfortunately RAID support isn’t
  38761. physically possible for WEDG with ARM :s
  38762.  
  38763.  
  38764.  
  38765.  
  38766. Antoine C
  38767.  
  38768. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4041109> over 2 years ago
  38769.  
  38770. That’s a WEDG ARM for me, cleary enough for what I need (NAS/Mail).
  38771. Can’t wait, I’ve been using a Synology for years so I’ll see what
  38772. WEDG can do for me. Any possibility for a RAID with the ARM version ?
  38773.  
  38774.  
  38775.  
  38776.  
  38777. Team WEDG
  38778.  
  38779. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  38780. years ago
  38781.  
  38782. @Philipp Stäheli ;) as many as you want but we expect users to
  38783. respect a fair usage policy to prevent email address hogging.
  38784.  
  38785.  
  38786.  
  38787.  
  38788. Philipp Stäheli
  38789.  
  38790. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8723017> over 2 years ago
  38791.  
  38792. Yes it does, and very fast as always too. :)
  38793.  
  38794. So how many WEDGMail email adresses are included?
  38795.  
  38796.  
  38797.  
  38798.  
  38799. Team WEDG
  38800.  
  38801. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  38802. years ago
  38803.  
  38804. @Philipp Stäheli 2/2, The cost associated with WEDGNET at that point
  38805. with be in the region of £2 a month and will allow 2 x WEDG devices
  38806. but this is not for anyone who has backed WEDG on Indiegogo.
  38807.  
  38808. We/WEDGNET is not a domain registrar so you’ll have to buy a domain
  38809. from another party like GoDaddy, One&One, FastHosts, etc and then
  38810. point your DNS to your WEDG.
  38811.  
  38812. Does that clear things up?
  38813.  
  38814.  
  38815.  
  38816.  
  38817. Team WEDG
  38818.  
  38819. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  38820. years ago
  38821.  
  38822. @Philipp Stäheli 1/2 Sure, with WEDG there are no monthly fees for
  38823. using the our WEDGMail (our domains), your own domain on you own
  38824. WEDG, WEDGNET or any other service WEDG is capable of providing – no
  38825. monthly fees at all. This is strictly true for Indiegogo backers.
  38826.  
  38827. Post Indiegogo, a WEDG bought from a shop or online store will again
  38828. have no monthly fees, except for WEDGNET only for those customers
  38829. who buy a WEDG from a store.
  38830.  
  38831.  
  38832.  
  38833.  
  38834. Philipp Stäheli
  38835.  
  38836. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8723017> over 2 years ago
  38837.  
  38838. In ‘Story’ it says:
  38839. “Alternatively, you can use the WEDG Mail web interface (webmail),
  38840. compatible across all browsers and is mobile friendly too.”
  38841. Can you clarify what services fall under the monthly fee and mark
  38842. them in the discription?
  38843.  
  38844. Can you also elaborate on the lifetime wedgenet membership? What
  38845. does it give me, and how is it connected to the monthly fee?
  38846.  
  38847. If I want to run my own email on WEDG I will have to get my own
  38848. domain as well? Or do I use wedgnet and then pay monthly?
  38849.  
  38850.  
  38851.  
  38852.  
  38853. Team WEDG
  38854.  
  38855. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  38856. years ago
  38857.  
  38858. @john34754 thanks for your support at the start of our campaign!
  38859. Yes!! The 24 Hour Perks included a 1TB drive – how awesome is that?!
  38860.  
  38861.  
  38862.  
  38863.  
  38864. john34754
  38865.  
  38866. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8707691> over 2 years ago
  38867.  
  38868. Hi guys, I backed the 24 HRS SPECIAL 1 WEDG ARM in the first few
  38869. hours of your launch from the email you sent to Kickstarter backers.
  38870. Does that include a drive?
  38871. Thanks
  38872. John
  38873.  
  38874.  
  38875.  
  38876.  
  38877. Team WEDG
  38878.  
  38879. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  38880. years ago
  38881.  
  38882. @Bryan Walker love your enthusiasm! We’re focused on Sync and that’s
  38883. what we intend on delivering :)
  38884.  
  38885.  
  38886.  
  38887.  
  38888. Team WEDG
  38889.  
  38890. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  38891. years ago
  38892.  
  38893. @m562522 thanks for the feedback! I’ll add both suggestions to our
  38894. wishlist and discuss them the dev team. If we are able to include
  38895. such features they’ll either be available in our first release or in
  38896. software updates post shipping.
  38897.  
  38898.  
  38899.  
  38900.  
  38901. Mikhail Granin
  38902.  
  38903. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8719646> over 2 years ago
  38904.  
  38905. Suggestions on couple of killer features\apps:
  38906.  
  38907. 1 Will WEDG allow comments to photos and common albums? This way you
  38908. are getting a great value for all those who are ready to pay for
  38909. butt storage to Google+, Apple iButt photos (just released) and
  38910. Dropbox Carousel users a much better option.
  38911.  
  38912. 2 Will WEDG have it’s own web\mobile media player with
  38913. 1) playlists\smart playlists
  38914. 2) play counts
  38915. 3) rating
  38916. to replace iTunes Match, (I use it but I store mostly my own audio
  38917. that is not matched)
  38918.  
  38919.  
  38920.  
  38921.  
  38922. Team WEDG
  38923.  
  38924. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  38925. years ago
  38926.  
  38927. @Gaston Cardey unfortunately implementing a Kensington lock is not
  38928. something we can currently build into the WEDG due to the cost of
  38929. tooling and components. However, we realise how valuable this
  38930. feature would be and if its something we can strategically implement
  38931. without compromise during the manufacturing process we will
  38932. certainly try.
  38933.  
  38934.  
  38935.  
  38936.  
  38937. Gaston Cardey
  38938.  
  38939. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8821945> over 2 years ago
  38940.  
  38941. Hi!
  38942. I wonder if you plan to add some sort of kensington lock so we can
  38943. secure the unit to a desk or some.
  38944. Thanks and keep up with the good work!
  38945.  
  38946.  
  38947.  
  38948.  
  38949. Team WEDG
  38950.  
  38951. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  38952. years ago
  38953.  
  38954. @smadyk by upgrading to the ’WEDG Pro RAID +1TB Upgrade #2 perk you
  38955. will receive another 1TB HDD giving you potentially 2 × 1TB drives,
  38956. not 1 × 2TB drive.
  38957.  
  38958.  
  38959.  
  38960.  
  38961. Team WEDG
  38962.  
  38963. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  38964. years ago
  38965.  
  38966. @Rich Willars awesome! Thanks! :D
  38967.  
  38968.  
  38969.  
  38970.  
  38971. Rich Willars
  38972.  
  38973. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8442821> over 2 years ago
  38974.  
  38975. @Team WEDG Incredible, thanks! Going to share the news with the Lima
  38976. investors over on Kickstarter, this looks like a viable alternative
  38977.  
  38978.  
  38979.  
  38980.  
  38981. Team WEDG
  38982.  
  38983. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  38984. years ago
  38985.  
  38986. @Rich Willars loving your enthusiasm! Yes, you can plug in an
  38987. external unencrypted USB drive and access the files and watch the
  38988. movies on it via XMBC!
  38989.  
  38990. The backup process can capture external USB drives as well and…WEDG
  38991. is a full sync and share solution, you can access your files via a
  38992. desktop client, mobile app and web browser which is responsive for
  38993. mobile devices too! There you go full marks 10/10!
  38994.  
  38995.  
  38996.  
  38997.  
  38998. Rich Willars
  38999.  
  39000. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8442821> over 2 years ago
  39001.  
  39002. 2/2
  39003.  
  39004. What’d be really nice if the WEDG could then backup those external
  39005. drives onto the NAS server as well. It’d be acting as a full backup
  39006. solution for encrypted and unencrypted data, with potentially
  39007. unlimited storage limits.
  39008.  
  39009. Other question is surrounding file access. How sophisticated is the
  39010. solution for accessing files remotely (from say mobile phones over
  39011. the internet). Does this work similar to Lima on Kickstarter in that
  39012. it syncs files or is it just a simple file browser app?
  39013.  
  39014.  
  39015.  
  39016.  
  39017. Rich Willars
  39018.  
  39019. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8442821> over 2 years ago
  39020.  
  39021. 1/2
  39022.  
  39023. Can’t wait for this.. March seems so far away!
  39024.  
  39025. I’m planning to run the 1TB internal drive and then use the backup
  39026. features on the WEDG to back everything up to a NAS drive. However,
  39027. I don’t want to eat into that precious 1TB with media such as films,
  39028. which don’t really need to be encrypted anyway. Does it support
  39029. plugging external USB drives into the WEDG and being as fully
  39030. featured as accessing files on the internal drive? For example,
  39031. using an unencrypted external drive for XBMC.
  39032.  
  39033.  
  39034.  
  39035. Team WEDG
  39036.  
  39037. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  39038. years ago
  39039.  
  39040. @Seth Barribeau yes we did this just before we launched on Indiegogo
  39041. and ran GIT (sudo apt-get install git-core) on WEDG with ARM and
  39042. WEDG Pro with Intel. But we didn’t build it into the WEDG as we want
  39043. to allow independent developers build solutions like this for WEDG –
  39044. or allow owners to install their own existing solution.
  39045.  
  39046.  
  39047.  
  39048.  
  39049. Seth Barribeau
  39050.  
  39051. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8723584> over 2 years ago
  39052.  
  39053. Have you tried to set up a private Git repository on the wedg?
  39054.  
  39055.  
  39056.  
  39057.  
  39058. Team WEDG
  39059.  
  39060. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  39061. years ago
  39062.  
  39063. @jrodgers31 apologies *jrodgers31
  39064.  
  39065.  
  39066.  
  39067.  
  39068. Team WEDG
  39069.  
  39070. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  39071. years ago
  39072.  
  39073. @jridger31 that’s all we’re thinking about and are internally
  39074. preparing for the manufacturing phase of the project.
  39075.  
  39076.  
  39077.  
  39078.  
  39079. jrogers31
  39080.  
  39081. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8764397> over 2 years ago
  39082.  
  39083. All these stretch goals are great and when you have reached them can
  39084. you get on and build the thing to exacting standards, make sure it
  39085. works properly and supply it please. Many thanks.
  39086.  
  39087.  
  39088.  
  39089.  
  39090. Team WEDG
  39091.  
  39092. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  39093. years ago
  39094.  
  39095. @david.j.aldred WOOHOO!! Thank you David, and THANK YOU EVERYONE who
  39096. has helped us reached this stage.
  39097.  
  39098.  
  39099.  
  39100.  
  39101. David Aldred
  39102.  
  39103. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> over 2 years ago
  39104.  
  39105. 90k guys – congrats on hitting a significant milestone :o)
  39106.  
  39107.  
  39108.  
  39109.  
  39110. Team WEDG
  39111.  
  39112. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  39113. years ago
  39114.  
  39115. @Alex Stamp, apologies *Alex
  39116.  
  39117.  
  39118.  
  39119.  
  39120. Team WEDG
  39121.  
  39122. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  39123. years ago
  39124.  
  39125. @Alan Stamp multiple! We’ve managed to test up to 6, there
  39126. restriction would be at the WEDGNET side of things and we haven’t
  39127. set a limit.
  39128.  
  39129.  
  39130.  
  39131.  
  39132. Alex Stamp
  39133.  
  39134. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6787108> over 2 years ago
  39135.  
  39136. Hi quick question how many wedg’s can you have in a master slave
  39137. config? Is it just one master and one slave or can you have 1 master
  39138. and multiple slaves?
  39139.  
  39140.  
  39141.  
  39142.  
  39143. smadyk
  39144.  
  39145. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/7989688> over 2 years ago
  39146.  
  39147. Hi,
  39148. I contributed to get a “Wedg Pro with Intel + 1TB”.
  39149. Now, I would like to contribute to get “Wedg PRO RAID”. However, I’m
  39150. not really sure if I can contribute to get “Wedg PRO RAID + 1TB”
  39151. getting 2TB to the end.
  39152.  
  39153. Thank you!
  39154.  
  39155.  
  39156.  
  39157.  
  39158. Team WEDG
  39159.  
  39160. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  39161. years ago
  39162.  
  39163. @Nickolas Not right now, but just had a quick word of confirmation
  39164. of from the developers and yes its something we can and will
  39165. implement for shipping target. Thanks for the tip! ;)
  39166.  
  39167.  
  39168.  
  39169.  
  39170. Nickolas
  39171.  
  39172. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8474340> over 2 years ago
  39173.  
  39174. Will WEDG include an option to be able to limit the number of times
  39175. a shared link can be used? Like Dropbox?
  39176.  
  39177.  
  39178.  
  39179.  
  39180. Team WEDG
  39181.  
  39182. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  39183. years ago
  39184.  
  39185. @Dan USB 3.0 hub yes RAID’d no as performance all round is severely
  39186. hindered.
  39187.  
  39188.  
  39189.  
  39190.  
  39191. Dan
  39192.  
  39193. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8707396> over 2 years ago
  39194.  
  39195. Not sure if it’s been answered, but will Wedg allow a USB 3.0 hub
  39196. and multiple external drives to be RAID’ed?
  39197.  
  39198.  
  39199.  
  39200.  
  39201. Team WEDG
  39202.  
  39203. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  39204. years ago
  39205.  
  39206. @Michael Right-Lawson :D thank you for the support! Means a lot to
  39207. us here.
  39208.  
  39209.  
  39210.  
  39211.  
  39212. Michael Right-Lawson
  39213.  
  39214. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8741582> over 2 years ago
  39215.  
  39216. ps. good luck at #TCDISRUPT see you on BBClick or something!
  39217.  
  39218.  
  39219.  
  39220.  
  39221. Michael Right-Lawson
  39222.  
  39223. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8741582> over 2 years ago
  39224.  
  39225. Love what you guys are doing here. Frankly I can’t understand why
  39226. you werent funded at kickstarter but every butt huh…and now you are
  39227. back better which is awesome! Shows you have determination and
  39228. courage and we respect you hugely for that. Its so important in
  39229. today’s connected world to have a product like this, the giants
  39230. can’t and wont relent on our privacy its what their business models
  39231. are based on. keep it up we’re right behind you and don’t let anyone
  39232. tell you otherwise.
  39233.  
  39234.  
  39235.  
  39236.  
  39237. Team WEDG
  39238.  
  39239. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  39240. years ago
  39241.  
  39242. @Philipp Stäheli the website guys are actually waiting for me to
  39243. provide company and contact details I just haven’t had a moment to
  39244. respond. Anyway, here is our company number 08824160, search for
  39245. that number here
  39246. http://wck2.companieshouse.gov.uk//wcframe?name=accessCompanyInfo
  39247. and you’ll get these results http://wedg.co/company-details.jpg
  39248.  
  39249.  
  39250.  
  39251.  
  39252. Philipp Stäheli
  39253.  
  39254. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8723017> over 2 years ago
  39255.  
  39256. On all your websites there is no company listed, no adress. Unless I
  39257. have not seen it. What is the name of your company? Companies House
  39258. has no search result for ‘Wedg’. Can you post the link to your company?
  39259. It is not that I don’t trust you, but since we are all about
  39260. security I though I’d ask.
  39261.  
  39262.  
  39263.  
  39264.  
  39265. Team WEDG
  39266.  
  39267. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  39268. years ago
  39269.  
  39270. @Philipp Stäheli 2/2 have over 300 happy supporters. Sure some will
  39271. have their doubts and we respect that; but if and when they do
  39272. decide WEDG is for them, we’ll be here to warmly welcome them into
  39273. our community.
  39274.  
  39275.  
  39276.  
  39277.  
  39278. Team WEDG
  39279.  
  39280. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  39281. years ago
  39282.  
  39283. @Philipp Stäheli 1/2 Hi! So we simply can’t see your data, your data
  39284. is encrypted and you retain the encryption keys not us. Your WEDG is
  39285. in your home/office not our data centre (we don’t have one). We have
  39286. no interest in your data. We are in Manchester UK, our company was
  39287. incorporated 23/12/2013 and you can search for us on Companies House
  39288. http://www.companieshouse.gov.uk.
  39289. Ultimately, I guess it boils down to trust, we have done what we can
  39290. express our product is secure and private and
  39291.  
  39292.  
  39293.  
  39294.  
  39295. Philipp Stäheli
  39296.  
  39297. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8723017> over 2 years ago
  39298.  
  39299. Dear Wedg,
  39300.  
  39301. I know that my google email is red and analysed by a robot and
  39302. potentially visible on demand by governments. But the chance this
  39303. would effect me is minimal. That google themselves will be
  39304. criminally active on my account is near impossible.
  39305. With Wedg I have no risk of being analysed, but who tells me your
  39306. team is not after my data? Can you see my data? Who watches over
  39307. you? Who are you? Where’s your company located? Is there a company?
  39308.  
  39309.  
  39310.  
  39311.  
  39312. Team WEDG
  39313.  
  39314. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  39315. years ago
  39316.  
  39317. @loesljrg Thanks! Really want that £90k, so many of you voted for it
  39318. in the Post Kickstarter survey and we want to deliver it to you!
  39319.  
  39320.  
  39321.  
  39322.  
  39323. loesljrg
  39324.  
  39325. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4049843> over 2 years ago
  39326.  
  39327. We’re creeping up on that 90K goal … and Wedg have just reinstated
  39328. some of the better perks!! [Smart move, guys!] Come on, folks …
  39329.  
  39330.  
  39331.  
  39332.  
  39333. Team WEDG
  39334.  
  39335. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  39336. years ago
  39337.  
  39338. @Nickolas
  39339. 1. Post Indiegogo WEDGNET will be offered to customers at a monthly
  39340. fee of around £2 a month for up to 2 WEDG connections
  39341.  
  39342. 2. Unlimited yes, however each WEDG will able to pair with another
  39343. WEDG – like to 2 for the price of 1.
  39344.  
  39345. 3. Yes, we can put something together, won’t be immediate as we are
  39346. attending an even next week and will be showing casing WEDG
  39347. there…details soon!
  39348.  
  39349.  
  39350.  
  39351.  
  39352. Nickolas
  39353.  
  39354. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8474340> over 2 years ago
  39355.  
  39356. I just have a few questions.
  39357.  
  39358. 1. How much do you plan on making your WEDGNET service available for
  39359. after the campaign?
  39360. 2. Will a WEDGNET membership cover an unlimited number of WEDG’s?
  39361. 3. Can you make a video demonstration on how easy it actually is to
  39362. setup a WEDG for the first time?
  39363. 4. Can you make a video showing off the WEDG control panel and WEDG
  39364. apps?
  39365.  
  39366. Thanks
  39367.  
  39368.  
  39369.  
  39370.  
  39371. Team WEDG
  39372.  
  39373. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  39374. years ago
  39375.  
  39376. @bensonlow78 just sent you a direct message for company details.
  39377. Thanks for the compliments!! :)
  39378.  
  39379.  
  39380.  
  39381.  
  39382. Benson Low
  39383.  
  39384. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/5581723> over 2 years ago
  39385.  
  39386. hi, i need an invoice for my company claims. Can i have one? thanks!
  39387.  
  39388. By the way, it is a great product especially recent news on Dropbox
  39389. security on stolen pasword. Keep up the good work!!!
  39390.  
  39391.  
  39392.  
  39393.  
  39394. Team WEDG
  39395.  
  39396. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  39397. years ago
  39398.  
  39399. @Igi Lama I recall reaching out to them some months back when we
  39400. were on Kickstarter. I’ll reach out again. Thanks for feedback.
  39401.  
  39402.  
  39403.  
  39404.  
  39405. Igi Lama
  39406.  
  39407. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/5887739> over 2 years ago
  39408.  
  39409. Also a suggestion – have you tried to cooperate with FreedomBox
  39410. Foundation? They have exactly something like this in mind, maybe
  39411. there is some common ground you could work with them on. They’re
  39412. also very focused on open-source and well known in Free Software
  39413. world so if you’re going the open-source way, cooperation with them
  39414. could raise your profile in those circles and maybe provide some
  39415. guidance…
  39416.  
  39417.  
  39418.  
  39419.  
  39420. Igi Lama
  39421.  
  39422. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/5887739> over 2 years ago
  39423.  
  39424. “Soon after the campaign ends we will plan our road map for
  39425. releasing the code and providing support to the community too.” –
  39426. Well, I hope for the best but after the campaign is a little too
  39427. late, I’d like to know what exactly I’d be pledging for – finding
  39428. out after I pledged is really not acceptable for such a critical
  39429. issue affecting security of the whole product, wouldn’t you say?
  39430. Guess I’ll just wait and see … Thanks
  39431.  
  39432.  
  39433.  
  39434.  
  39435. Tiger Bus
  39436.  
  39437. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706731> over 2 years ago
  39438.  
  39439. Stevan Newman: 1 ;) Been using Dyndns.org for 10 years until they
  39440. pricing got ridiculous.
  39441.  
  39442.  
  39443.  
  39444.  
  39445. Team WEDG
  39446.  
  39447. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  39448. years ago
  39449.  
  39450. @Steven Newman Like! :)
  39451.  
  39452.  
  39453.  
  39454.  
  39455. Steven Newman
  39456.  
  39457. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/925661> over 2 years ago
  39458.  
  39459. @Marek459 – DynDNS prices have continued to climb dramatically over
  39460. the last few years. WEDGNET being FREE FOR LIFE definitely helped
  39461. bring me into the fold. :) Well, that an the security conscious,
  39462. fantastic approach that these guys are taking.
  39463.  
  39464.  
  39465.  
  39466.  
  39467. Team WEDG
  39468.  
  39469. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  39470. years ago
  39471.  
  39472. @marek459 my pleasure. Have fun! :)
  39473.  
  39474.  
  39475.  
  39476.  
  39477. marek
  39478.  
  39479. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8728643> over 2 years ago
  39480.  
  39481. Excellent (and interesting – I hadn’t come across DynDNS before).
  39482. Thanks!
  39483.  
  39484.  
  39485.  
  39486.  
  39487. Team WEDG
  39488.  
  39489. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  39490. years ago
  39491.  
  39492. @marek459 WEDGNET is nothing like bitsync or wuala. Its more like
  39493. DynDNS. WEDGNET provides a dynamic DNS service so your WEDG can be
  39494. located on the internet. It also provides a Relay Server for SMTP.
  39495. Encrypted data from other WEDG devices would only appear on your
  39496. WEDG if you have agreed with a friend to act as their remote backup
  39497. and vice versa.
  39498. WEDGNET is an optional service, so you could chose other Dynamic DNS
  39499. and Relay providers. WEDGNET is also FREE FOR LIFE for Indiegogo
  39500. backers :)
  39501.  
  39502.  
  39503.  
  39504.  
  39505. marek
  39506.  
  39507. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8728643> over 2 years ago
  39508.  
  39509. Could you provide a little bit more detail on the technology behind
  39510. WEDGNet? It seems to share some features with services like btsync
  39511. or Wuala, is it at all similar in the way it operates? (And would
  39512. this mean, for instance, that some encrypted information from other
  39513. WEDGs would spend some time on my WEDG?)
  39514.  
  39515.  
  39516.  
  39517.  
  39518. Team WEDG
  39519.  
  39520. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  39521. years ago
  39522.  
  39523. @Steve Ng good questions;
  39524. 1. Yes, scheduled replication to secondary drive is possible
  39525. 2. This is something we are looking at as its on our wishlist, with
  39526. particular attention on separating media such a movie and music file.
  39527. 3. Yes, you can add a new HDD for RAID1 any time without the primary
  39528. drive having to do anything
  39529. Yes, the built in recovery tool asks you to authorise the backup
  39530. archive with password or by uploading the encryption key.
  39531. Thank you!
  39532.  
  39533.  
  39534.  
  39535.  
  39536. Steve Ng
  39537.  
  39538. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/2113279> over 2 years ago
  39539.  
  39540. With dual-drive support, would it be possible to
  39541. 1. configure a scheduled replication from master drive to secondary
  39542. drive?
  39543. 2. Separate different content (doc, email, media) onto separate drives?
  39544. 3. upgrade single-drive (with data) to RAID-1 later without data loss?
  39545.  
  39546. Also, for backup to local USB, would it be possible to configure
  39547. both encrypted and unencrypted backup? If encrypted, how can the
  39548. data on the USB drive be restored with a WEDG?
  39549.  
  39550. Thanks.
  39551.  
  39552.  
  39553.  
  39554.  
  39555. Team WEDG
  39556.  
  39557. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  39558. years ago
  39559.  
  39560. @Igi Lama 2/2 Soon after the campaign ends we will plan our road map
  39561. for releasing the code and providing support to the community too.
  39562. This has to be done properly and that’s how we want to do it.
  39563.  
  39564. Personally, we’ve all used open source software in our personal and
  39565. professional lives and collectively we’re excited about the
  39566. opportunity to give something back to the open community.
  39567.  
  39568.  
  39569.  
  39570.  
  39571. Team WEDG
  39572.  
  39573. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  39574. years ago
  39575.  
  39576. @Igi Lama 1/2 glad you love our project :) there is no intentional
  39577. obscurity and we have every intention to release our code. Since
  39578. 06/13 we have been focused on building the solution, soon after we
  39579. focused on getting our crowd-funding campaign up and ready, the
  39580. first attempt failed so we tried again. Now our focus as part of the
  39581. plan on is pushing and promoting the campaign as well responding
  39582. backer queries.
  39583.  
  39584. We want to do things properly; fail to prepare, prepare to fail right?
  39585.  
  39586.  
  39587.  
  39588.  
  39589. Igi Lama
  39590.  
  39591. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/5887739> over 2 years ago
  39592.  
  39593. I love this project but there is no security through obscurity –
  39594. unless it’s completely open-source, it can not be considered secure.
  39595. You’re very vague about open-sourcing it … AGPLv3 would be ideal for
  39596. this kind of project, I hope you’ll make clear your intentions as if
  39597. there would end up being closed blobs, that would be very disapointing …
  39598.  
  39599.  
  39600.  
  39601.  
  39602. Team WEDG
  39603.  
  39604. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  39605. years ago
  39606.  
  39607. @Tiger Bus thanks for your input as always. I guess the choice is
  39608. there for individuals, if/when the IM app is developed and made
  39609. available. We see our future in privacy and security.
  39610.  
  39611. Ultimately its you guys to tell us what you want by voting with your
  39612. fingers on the survey; so if you haven’t already please compete the
  39613. survey today – https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/QK36QSR – you have
  39614. till Friday midnight GMT.
  39615.  
  39616. We’ve had 158 responses so far!
  39617.  
  39618.  
  39619.  
  39620.  
  39621. Team WEDG
  39622.  
  39623. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  39624. years ago
  39625.  
  39626. @Nikolai Tesla thank you for your feedback and of course we very
  39627. much value your and everyone’s ‘hard earned funds’ very much.
  39628.  
  39629.  
  39630.  
  39631.  
  39632. Tiger Bus
  39633.  
  39634. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706731> over 2 years ago
  39635.  
  39636. Oh yes, security all the way! But a messenger?! I Do you seriously
  39637. want YET ANOTHER messenger on your phone? I have only two, one of
  39638. them being fully encrypted, and I already have the problem with
  39639. different friend groups using different services. Awful! Maybe we
  39640. can find a different goal in the security/privacy ecosystem? I
  39641. completely agree on all the media streaming blabla stuff. No need to
  39642. build a mini dreambox here ;)
  39643.  
  39644.  
  39645.  
  39646.  
  39647. Nikolai Tesla
  39648.  
  39649. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> over 2 years ago
  39650.  
  39651. I agree completely with contributor Steven Newman remarks about Wedg
  39652. being a security centric product and everything else should take a
  39653. back seat. That is what attracted me to this idea and product while
  39654. providing my hard earned funds to see it into a fully functional
  39655. device. All other options are bells & whistles since I rather have
  39656. the security and privacy aspects of Wedg. My advice to Team WEDG is
  39657. to FOCUS on security and privacy in order to create an ironclad device.
  39658.  
  39659.  
  39660.  
  39661.  
  39662. Team WEDG
  39663.  
  39664. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  39665. years ago
  39666.  
  39667. @Steven Newman thank you for your input Steven :)
  39668.  
  39669.  
  39670.  
  39671.  
  39672. Steven Newman
  39673.  
  39674. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/925661> over 2 years ago
  39675.  
  39676. I disagree regarding the Messenger feature. It’s expanding your goal
  39677. of security. Because it wasn’t HDMI or streaming video that brought
  39678. us to your product. There are oodles of devices out there that do
  39679. that, and do it well. What brought us here was a company taking
  39680. security seriously for a change, and offering that to folks.
  39681.  
  39682. So for me? I’d rather have the secure Messenger feature before
  39683. either the Wi-Fi or the HDMI goal. I know that’s just me, but please
  39684. keep focused on the security.
  39685.  
  39686.  
  39687.  
  39688.  
  39689. Team WEDG
  39690.  
  39691. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  39692. years ago
  39693.  
  39694. @Philipp Stäheli the bandwidth monitor allows you to see how much
  39695. data is passing through your WEDG. You can limit the bandwidth if
  39696. you wish to yes.
  39697.  
  39698.  
  39699.  
  39700.  
  39701. Philipp Stäheli
  39702.  
  39703. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8723017> over 2 years ago
  39704.  
  39705. In the features list it says: Bandwith and Data transfer monitor.
  39706. Does that mean I also have control over it, can I limit bandwith?
  39707.  
  39708.  
  39709.  
  39710.  
  39711. Tiger Bus
  39712.  
  39713. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706731> over 2 years ago
  39714.  
  39715. I’d fully support Philipp’s view in terms of features, stretch goals
  39716. and the IM ;) Just keep it real and make the key features perfect
  39717. for now… will be hard enough ;)
  39718.  
  39719.  
  39720.  
  39721.  
  39722. Team WEDG
  39723.  
  39724. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  39725. years ago
  39726.  
  39727. @Philipp Staheli :) thank you so much we’re touched by your compliment!
  39728.  
  39729.  
  39730.  
  39731.  
  39732. Philipp Stäheli
  39733.  
  39734. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8723017> over 2 years ago
  39735.  
  39736. Team Wedg, it is nice to see how professionally you keep doing this.
  39737. Ever since I started following this campain on KS it’s become my
  39738. standart in terms of PR/user contact and now I am frequently
  39739. dissapointed by other campains not being as professional about it as
  39740. you are. :)
  39741.  
  39742.  
  39743.  
  39744.  
  39745. Team WEDG
  39746.  
  39747. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  39748. years ago
  39749.  
  39750. @Philipp Stäheli thanks for your feedback.
  39751.  
  39752.  
  39753.  
  39754.  
  39755. Philipp Stäheli
  39756.  
  39757. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8723017> over 2 years ago
  39758.  
  39759. the answers are too limited for me to take the survey.
  39760.  
  39761. the question should be which other strech goal should move forward.
  39762. This LED is just kids stuff and you want to burn money on it. This
  39763. messanger is an idea, but it is too far off your concept of secure
  39764. data storage and transmission. Stay true to your concept and expand
  39765. as you go. Don’t overload WEDG with things you do not know if there
  39766. is a demand for it. People want HDMI, they want WIFI, why suddenly
  39767. introduce this messanger thing?
  39768.  
  39769.  
  39770.  
  39771.  
  39772. Team WEDG
  39773.  
  39774. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  39775. years ago
  39776.  
  39777. @fia10 great minds! ;)
  39778.  
  39779.  
  39780.  
  39781.  
  39782. Team WEDG
  39783.  
  39784. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  39785. years ago
  39786.  
  39787. @Steve Ng no, the Upgrade RAID perks enables the standard WEDG Pro
  39788. with Intel to support RAID1 or two independent drives.
  39789.  
  39790.  
  39791.  
  39792.  
  39793. blandat
  39794.  
  39795. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6957871> over 2 years ago
  39796.  
  39797. @Ken Taylor, that’s understandable, let me rephrase it. (English is
  39798. not my native language…)
  39799.  
  39800. I would prefer to bump up the development of the office suit , so
  39801. the strechgoals would be something like
  39802.  
  39803. HDMI
  39804. wi-fi
  39805. web-based office suit
  39806. led/IM (don’t care what order)
  39807.  
  39808. That’s my opinion and wish, I can see it might not be possible, but
  39809. I rather have the office suit up and running before IM or the
  39810. possibility to change the led.
  39811.  
  39812. @wedge, glad you chose a suit I use already :)
  39813.  
  39814.  
  39815.  
  39816.  
  39817. Steve Ng
  39818.  
  39819. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/2113279> over 2 years ago
  39820.  
  39821. The Storage page states “Due to popular demand WEDG Pro with Intel
  39822. now supports RAID1 or two independent drives. To enable RAID support
  39823. for your WEDG Pro with Intel please select an Upgrade Perk on the
  39824. right.”
  39825.  
  39826. Does this imply that the standard WEDG Pro with Intel supports two
  39827. independent drives and does not need the Upgrade Perk?
  39828.  
  39829. Thanks.
  39830.  
  39831.  
  39832.  
  39833.  
  39834. Team WEDG
  39835.  
  39836. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  39837. years ago
  39838.  
  39839. @fia10 @Ken Taylor we have short listed LibreOffice and OpenOffice
  39840. as the suites we will consider for development to make our own web
  39841. based office suite with WPS Office as a possibility to consider too.
  39842.  
  39843.  
  39844.  
  39845.  
  39846. Ken Taylor
  39847.  
  39848. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6123904> over 2 years ago
  39849.  
  39850. @fia10 – any mega corp butt solution be it google docs or web office
  39851. docs is what the WEDG is going to replace so we can have total
  39852. control over our own email and files, changing from one mega corp to
  39853. another is not the goal
  39854. We don’t know yet what office suite the WEDG will use yet but
  39855. LibreOffice can be made to work as a web app, Its still in beta and
  39856. under development. It would be easier to use an existing suite that
  39857. users already know than learning and creating yet another office suite
  39858.  
  39859.  
  39860.  
  39861.  
  39862. blandat
  39863.  
  39864. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6957871> over 2 years ago
  39865.  
  39866. or jump right to the web office docs apps? a perfect replacement for
  39867. google docs
  39868.  
  39869.  
  39870.  
  39871.  
  39872. Scott McQueen
  39873.  
  39874. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8443500> over 2 years ago
  39875.  
  39876. I haven’t decided yet if I’m keeping the first device for myself or
  39877. installing it in the main office (Will probably end up with four of
  39878. them). For home use the hdmi, xbmc, plex etc I could use quite
  39879. easily alongside the secure features of the device but for work
  39880. these are not needed, The secure IM, emails, and data storage are of
  39881. much greater use. We use an old version of ICQcorp IM still to this
  39882. day but a version integrated into the WEDG would be very useful
  39883. alongside the WEDG’s other features
  39884.  
  39885.  
  39886.  
  39887.  
  39888. Neil Campbell
  39889.  
  39890. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/5713479> over 2 years ago
  39891.  
  39892. I agree with the IM naysayers, I’m sorry to say. I’d rather have
  39893. something like Crashplan support or richer functionality within the
  39894. planned apps please.
  39895.  
  39896.  
  39897.  
  39898.  
  39899. Team WEDG
  39900.  
  39901. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  39902. years ago
  39903.  
  39904. Thanks for the feedback guys. The point really is to expand on the
  39905. privacy factor; email is a form of communication as is IM so why not
  39906. secure them both off; was our thinking. Indeed it would be handled
  39907. as a project in itself and introduced overtime – not at the same
  39908. time as shipping the WEDG.
  39909.  
  39910.  
  39911.  
  39912.  
  39913. Team WEDG
  39914.  
  39915. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  39916. years ago
  39917.  
  39918. @Mikko Värri if I understood you correctly; if you wanted to
  39919. ‘format’ your WEDG and install your own software you may do so its
  39920. your hardware; however by doing so none of the WEDG offerings will
  39921. be available to you. If you wanted to run WEDG and other software
  39922. side by side – we couldn’t be sure that other software won’t
  39923. introduce performance and reliability issues so you’d need to aware
  39924. of these possibilities.
  39925.  
  39926.  
  39927.  
  39928.  
  39929. Ken Taylor
  39930.  
  39931. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6123904> over 2 years ago
  39932.  
  39933. Just to promote a discussion what are we looking for next after we
  39934. reach the stretch goals – RAID5 ? – (only joking) ;-)
  39935. HDMI, XBMC, WIFI, LEDs, WEB Office suite, are already on the list.
  39936. so what else do we want from WEDG or external developers
  39937. 2TB HDDs (upgrade perk?), USB Hub, Card Reader, messenger, SABNZB,
  39938. BTorrent, Crashplan, VLC, antivirus, Airtame compatible, password
  39939. manager (keepass?), OPTware, Asterisk
  39940. what does everyone else want to see? is there a list of most
  39941. requested APPs?
  39942.  
  39943.  
  39944.  
  39945.  
  39946. Ken Taylor
  39947.  
  39948. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6123904> over 2 years ago
  39949.  
  39950. Dont think the messenger is a priority, think lots more coding
  39951. required for the messenger over coloured LEDs, Getting people using
  39952. yet another messenger is a Hard. OK for internal office but not home
  39953. user, Interested in more INFO about the office App and getting to
  39954. this stretch goal (Modifying something like Libra Office online
  39955. would be good), Put messenger after existing stretch goals or let an
  39956. external Dev create it. there are LOADS of good uses for the WEDG.
  39957. but have them optional Apps.
  39958.  
  39959.  
  39960.  
  39961.  
  39962. Ken Taylor
  39963.  
  39964. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6123904> over 2 years ago
  39965.  
  39966. @Mikko Varri, looks pretty open the board for the Pro can run Debian
  39967. GNU/Linux, Windows 8.1, Yocto Project Compatible, Android 4.4 System
  39968. and seen posts of other Linux versions and BSD being installed.
  39969. http://www.elinux.org/Minnowboard:MinnowMax#Layout_2 details of the
  39970. board
  39971.  
  39972.  
  39973.  
  39974.  
  39975. Tiger Bus
  39976.  
  39977. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706731> over 2 years ago
  39978.  
  39979. A messenger built onto the WEDG platform doesn’t really sound like a
  39980. neccessity to me, especially the connection to the WEDG is rather
  39981. “weak” if not… useless? Starting a secure messaging system is a
  39982. whole new project, whether that’d be in times of numerous other
  39983. working messengers (e.g. Threema…) a good idea, is not clear to me.
  39984. If you can clearly define the selling point how the WEDG itself as a
  39985. system would benefit from having a messenger…. why not ;) “Hey Fred,
  39986. I have a file for you.”?
  39987.  
  39988.  
  39989.  
  39990.  
  39991. Mikko Värri
  39992.  
  39993. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8212665> over 2 years ago
  39994.  
  39995. Thanks team wedg. On many mobile phones the telephony side is
  39996. running its own sw that isn’t as open as the app side (hw specs
  39997. aren’t released). Another example: on many Linux PCs the BIOS is
  39998. still closed source. On WEDG, will it be possible to replace all the
  39999. software with Free Software, or will there be some hardware for
  40000. which proprietary software is required?
  40001.  
  40002.  
  40003.  
  40004.  
  40005. Team WEDG
  40006.  
  40007. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  40008. years ago
  40009.  
  40010. @Mikko Värri
  40011. As individuals we consciously want give back to the open community
  40012. by releasing our software so we are very serious; we just don’t have
  40013. a road map yet.
  40014. Could you elaborate on the hardware question?
  40015.  
  40016.  
  40017.  
  40018.  
  40019. Mikko Värri
  40020.  
  40021. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8212665> over 2 years ago
  40022.  
  40023. Hi, how serious are you guys about open sourcing the software? How
  40024. about the hardware, will it be “Free Software friendly” or will
  40025. there always be some closed source components? Thanks.
  40026.  
  40027.  
  40028.  
  40029.  
  40030. Team WEDG
  40031.  
  40032. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  40033. years ago
  40034.  
  40035. @david.j.aldred good question. It would be invitation based. So
  40036. Person A would invite Person B to click on a link (download the app
  40037. if needed) and join a list of contacts and start conversing.
  40038.  
  40039.  
  40040.  
  40041.  
  40042. David Aldred
  40043.  
  40044. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> over 2 years ago
  40045.  
  40046. Interesting update guys. On the face of it – I think it’s a fab idea.
  40047. How would it work with regards to who can/can’t contact you via the
  40048. system?
  40049. Would it be only other WEDG owners, or is anyone you ‘give access
  40050. to’ – like running your own whatsapp server, so to speak?
  40051.  
  40052.  
  40053.  
  40054.  
  40055. Team WEDG
  40056.  
  40057. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  40058. years ago
  40059.  
  40060. @Tiger Bus let me catch up with our electronics guy and get back you
  40061. and response to your emails too.
  40062.  
  40063.  
  40064.  
  40065.  
  40066. Tiger Bus
  40067.  
  40068. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706731> over 2 years ago
  40069.  
  40070. 3/3
  40071.  
  40072. The amperage on the 5V side would of course be much higher, like
  40073. 1.275A – which fits into reality given that you will probably need
  40074. to supply a 2.5A@5V DC supply just like a raspi.
  40075.  
  40076. As expected, the maximum ratings for borad and processor are in no
  40077. way close to real life usage in THIS case. In fact, we’ll probably
  40078. end up as less than half. Yay.
  40079.  
  40080. Thanx!
  40081.  
  40082.  
  40083.  
  40084.  
  40085. Tiger Bus
  40086.  
  40087. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706731> over 2 years ago
  40088.  
  40089. 2/3
  40090.  
  40091. So If I calculate back “in time” for the Intel variant I take
  40092. 918whrs divided by 144 (?) hours and get am average wattage of
  40093. 6.375W of board AND a single HD. Which is really ok, especially
  40094. given the fact, that no power saving has been used. You state about
  40095. 0.051A, which is most certainly AC side @110volts (not 5V!), as
  40096. 6.375W/110V=0.057A indicates.
  40097.  
  40098.  
  40099.  
  40100.  
  40101. Tiger Bus
  40102.  
  40103. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706731> over 2 years ago
  40104.  
  40105. 1/3
  40106.  
  40107. Hmm….. I don’t understand the power consumption
  40108. calculation/measurements. Over a time period, you measured WHAT? kWh
  40109. I guess? Then on the other hand you multiply amperage (this is what?
  40110. average over the time period?) that is most certainly AC with the 5V
  40111. DC side to show wattage……. which is most certainly wrong.
  40112.  
  40113. I guess you did not manually integrate over time, so you probably
  40114. had some devoce to measure kWh on the AC side, right?
  40115.  
  40116.  
  40117.  
  40118.  
  40119. Team WEDG
  40120.  
  40121. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  40122. years ago
  40123.  
  40124. @david.j.aldred yes it does and at the same time thanks to you and
  40125. everyone who has supported us on Indiegogo we look forward to a new
  40126. phase in the WEDG journey one we can embark on together.
  40127.  
  40128.  
  40129.  
  40130.  
  40131. David Aldred
  40132.  
  40133. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> over 2 years ago
  40134.  
  40135. Inching closer towards the 90k mark – which I’m sure holds
  40136. physiological significance for the team as well as unlocking that
  40137. first stretch goal! The Wedg message is spreading!
  40138.  
  40139.  
  40140.  
  40141.  
  40142. Tiger Bus
  40143.  
  40144. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706731> over 2 years ago
  40145.  
  40146. @Philipp: I think you can limit mobile data to wifi-only in Android…
  40147. with specials apps you can probably to that even per-app, but I
  40148. haven’t tried personally… dig through Google and the Playstore,
  40149. there is so much out there…….
  40150.  
  40151.  
  40152.  
  40153.  
  40154. Team WEDG
  40155.  
  40156. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  40157. years ago
  40158.  
  40159. @Philipp Staheli it’s not something we’ve built into our app. But
  40160. it’s a good suggestion, and I’ll add it to our features wish list :)
  40161.  
  40162.  
  40163.  
  40164.  
  40165. Philipp Stäheli
  40166.  
  40167. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8723017> over 2 years ago
  40168.  
  40169. With the wedg app on my adroid phone, can I set it so it only
  40170. synchronizes when connected to a wifi to save on my data
  40171. limitations? (or is that something I need to set in adroid?)
  40172.  
  40173.  
  40174.  
  40175.  
  40176. Team WEDG
  40177.  
  40178. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  40179. years ago
  40180.  
  40181. @scott.henderson1 hmm…thanks for the heads up, I changed it to ‘WEDG
  40182. Pro with Intel @ £249’ almost immediately when the last Perk sold
  40183. out. I’ve removed it and re-added it just in case – cleared my cache
  40184. and its definitely set now.
  40185.  
  40186.  
  40187.  
  40188.  
  40189. scott.henderson
  40190.  
  40191. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3201718> over 2 years ago
  40192.  
  40193. Hey Team WEDG!
  40194.  
  40195. With the £219 WEDG Pro with Intel + 1 TB now sold out, you may want
  40196. to Feature the £249 version or the £149 WEDG with ARM + 1TB, as new
  40197. supporters need to scroll down quite a ways to get to the actual
  40198. hardware.
  40199.  
  40200. Cheers!
  40201.  
  40202.  
  40203.  
  40204.  
  40205. Team WEDG
  40206.  
  40207. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  40208. years ago
  40209.  
  40210. @Tiger Bus agreed.
  40211.  
  40212.  
  40213.  
  40214.  
  40215. Tiger Bus
  40216.  
  40217. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706731> over 2 years ago
  40218.  
  40219. Nice, that all of the recent press coverage seems to emphasize the
  40220. privacy aspect. Good call these days!
  40221.  
  40222.  
  40223.  
  40224.  
  40225. Team WEDG
  40226.  
  40227. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  40228. years ago
  40229.  
  40230. @Peter Dalmaris no need to apologise, we’re here to help :) Yes,
  40231. file versioning is available per user on WEDG.
  40232.  
  40233.  
  40234.  
  40235.  
  40236. Peter Dalmaris
  40237.  
  40238. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/7104926> over 2 years ago
  40239.  
  40240. Hi Team Wedg, sorry if this is mentioned before. Will it be possible
  40241. to restore a previous version of a file, like it is possible to do
  40242. on Dropbox? If not now, maybe in the future?
  40243.  
  40244.  
  40245.  
  40246.  
  40247. Team WEDG
  40248.  
  40249. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  40250. years ago
  40251.  
  40252. @Ken Taylor thanks for chipping in there Ken, @jon.gagne exactly as
  40253. @Ken Taylor said :)
  40254.  
  40255.  
  40256.  
  40257.  
  40258. Ken Taylor
  40259.  
  40260. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6123904> over 2 years ago
  40261.  
  40262. @jon,gagne : @loesljrg asked a similar question 3 days ago.
  40263. Backups can be made To a USB drive or a NAS so if you have backups
  40264. on a remote Drive then the standalone mini version of the WEDG
  40265. Backup Recovery tool under development will facilitate this process
  40266. allowing you to gain access to files which might not already be in
  40267. your WEDG Sync folder. This should sort your problems out and allow
  40268. you to access your files without a second WEDG
  40269.  
  40270.  
  40271.  
  40272.  
  40273. jon.gagne
  40274.  
  40275. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/7870344> over 2 years ago
  40276.  
  40277. Hey Guys! Product looks great!
  40278.  
  40279. Quick question. In a similar scenario as James Taylor below. In a
  40280. situation where I do not have a WEDG device at a separate location
  40281. that would be connected to my WEDG. What would happen if a natural
  40282. disaster would destroy my WEDG? Is there a way to get those
  40283. files/backups back? In other words, is a secondary WEDG necessary to
  40284. ensure that I can reclaim my files if ever an unfortunate scenario
  40285. were to happen to my WEDG.
  40286.  
  40287. Thanks!
  40288.  
  40289.  
  40290.  
  40291.  
  40292. Scott McQueen
  40293.  
  40294. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8443500> over 2 years ago
  40295.  
  40296. Cheers, missed that one completely :s
  40297.  
  40298.  
  40299.  
  40300.  
  40301. Team WEDG
  40302.  
  40303. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8778164> Campaigner over 2
  40304. years ago
  40305.  
  40306. @Scott McQueen @david.j.aldred pretty much covered it, thanks for
  40307. chipping there ;)
  40308.  
  40309.  
  40310.  
  40311.  
  40312. David Aldred
  40313.  
  40314. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> over 2 years ago
  40315.  
  40316. Here is the vid….
  40317. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/wedg-the-personal-butt-you-ve-been-waiting-for/x/8470844#designanddev
  40318.  
  40319.  
  40320.  
  40321.  
  40322. David Aldred
  40323.  
  40324. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> over 2 years ago
  40325.  
  40326. @Scott – Yes, all the LED’s can be turned off! There is a video
  40327. about 2 thirds of the way down showing the different LED options
  40328. available.
  40329.  
  40330.  
  40331.  
  40332.  
  40333. Scott McQueen
  40334.  
  40335. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8443500> over 2 years ago
  40336.  
  40337. I know the WedG is designed to be ‘pretty’ but is there an option to
  40338. disable all led’s/warnings as I intend to store my device somewhere
  40339. out of sight and secure. Not much point to me having secure storage
  40340. and leaving it in plain sight ;)
  40341.  
  40342.  
  40343.  
  40344.  
  40345. Carol Bohm-Scott
  40346.  
  40347. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner over 2
  40348. years ago
  40349.  
  40350. @Brian sure you can, just click the Contribute Now button and
  40351. manually enter £40 or £90 and we’ll do the rest here.
  40352.  
  40353.  
  40354.  
  40355.  
  40356. Brian
  40357.  
  40358. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4535871> over 2 years ago
  40359.  
  40360. Can we add the RAID ready perk to the driveless Intel WEDG? How do
  40361. we update our contribution to add it?
  40362.  
  40363.  
  40364.  
  40365.  
  40366. Carol Bohm-Scott
  40367.  
  40368. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner over 2
  40369. years ago
  40370.  
  40371. @vasvi.cakir :)
  40372.  
  40373.  
  40374.  
  40375.  
  40376. vasvi.cakir
  40377.  
  40378. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8713392> over 2 years ago
  40379.  
  40380. Great!
  40381.  
  40382.  
  40383.  
  40384.  
  40385. Carol Bohm-Scott
  40386.  
  40387. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner over 2
  40388. years ago
  40389.  
  40390. @Anders Stangeland yes that was my typing error, apologies. I mean
  40391. to type 35mm
  40392.  
  40393.  
  40394.  
  40395.  
  40396. Anders Stangeland
  40397.  
  40398. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8673957> over 2 years ago
  40399.  
  40400. Standard 2,5" HDD size is 9,5mm, so 3,5mm look wrong.
  40401.  
  40402.  
  40403.  
  40404.  
  40405. Carol Bohm-Scott
  40406.  
  40407. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner over 2
  40408. years ago
  40409.  
  40410. @Ken Taylor the current bay is 3.5mm tall as it was designed to
  40411. house the operating and spare HDD. We may adjust the bay dimensions
  40412. when building in additional support racks for RAID supported WEDG
  40413. devices and and this will take the 15mm thick HDDs into
  40414. consideration too.
  40415.  
  40416.  
  40417.  
  40418.  
  40419. Ken Taylor
  40420.  
  40421. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6123904> over 2 years ago
  40422.  
  40423. How big will the bays for the HDDs be as many of the 2TB drives are
  40424. up to 15mm thick? will we be able to fit this thickness of drive.
  40425. thanks
  40426.  
  40427.  
  40428.  
  40429.  
  40430. Carol Bohm-Scott
  40431.  
  40432. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner over 2
  40433. years ago
  40434.  
  40435. @James Taylor sorry to hear about your house fire. As
  40436. @david.j.aldred (thank you!) kindly pointed out, yes you can off-set
  40437. backups between two or more WEDG devices and that’s just one of the
  40438. backup types WEDG is able to provide.
  40439.  
  40440.  
  40441.  
  40442.  
  40443. David Aldred
  40444.  
  40445. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> over 2 years ago
  40446.  
  40447. @James
  40448. Yes absolutely you can!
  40449. Take a look at the ‘Backups’ section..
  40450. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/wedg-the-personal-butt-you-ve-been-waiting-for/x/8470844#backups
  40451.  
  40452. 2 of the (several) options include: ‘Master & Slave’ config which I
  40453. think keeps your WEDG fully sync’d (probably not quite what you’re
  40454. after in this case) and ‘Backup to Another WEDG’, which sends
  40455. periodic encrypted backups to someone else’s WEDG (assuming they’ve
  40456. allowed it, of course).
  40457.  
  40458.  
  40459.  
  40460.  
  40461. James Taylor
  40462.  
  40463. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/5657565> over 2 years ago
  40464.  
  40465. If I have a WEDG and my parents have one as well, can we both use
  40466. our own WEDG’s but also back up each others? That is, we would both
  40467. be an offsite backup for each other.
  40468.  
  40469. We lost a house years ago, and it was amazing (in a bad way) to
  40470. realize just how much you lose when the house goes up in flames. We
  40471. had backups of many things, but nearly all of them where in the same
  40472. house together. This would be a great incentive for them to buy one
  40473. (and be my back up…).
  40474.  
  40475. Thanks
  40476.  
  40477.  
  40478.  
  40479.  
  40480. Carol Bohm-Scott
  40481.  
  40482. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner over 2
  40483. years ago
  40484.  
  40485. tetardbleu sorry I didn't get your message, I have reported it to
  40486. supportindiegogo.com. Well just to say, you could still use 2×2TB,
  40487. we currently aren’t in a position to offer it.
  40488.  
  40489. PING! Your Upgrade just came through! Thank you for your on going
  40490. support, good night!
  40491.  
  40492.  
  40493.  
  40494.  
  40495. tetardbleu
  40496.  
  40497. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3829087> over 2 years ago
  40498.  
  40499. Just to say after the @tigerbus comment, that i had sent you a
  40500. private message via indiegogo too. i figured that you would answer
  40501. when you could, but maybe you didn’t receive it after all? Anyway,
  40502. it was about the 2TB or more drive, before the raid option was
  40503. suggested. I’m happy with this option. except in my dream, it would
  40504. have been : 2X 2TB drive. (I have a lot of multimedia files :) ).
  40505. Good night and good luck for the stretch goals. I’m going for the
  40506. updated perk right now.
  40507.  
  40508.  
  40509.  
  40510.  
  40511. Carol Bohm-Scott
  40512.  
  40513. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner over 2
  40514. years ago
  40515.  
  40516. @Ken Taylor sl-eeep? :-| Thank you for the support and best wishes!
  40517.  
  40518.  
  40519.  
  40520.  
  40521. Ken Taylor
  40522.  
  40523. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6123904> over 2 years ago
  40524.  
  40525. @Tiger bus: Shehbas is normally right on top of emails, I dont think
  40526. he leaves the office or sleeps
  40527. I think there shouldn’t be more driveless WEDG (devices, appliances,
  40528. servers?) offered but when the team have sufficient volume to Exceed
  40529. MOQ’s they could offer another upgrade perk for 2TB drives but would
  40530. need to calculate (may be by a survey?) if they will still meet
  40531. MOQ’s or not. I have +1.5TB on USB HDD so need at least this space.
  40532. Congratulations WEDG team roll on Easter.
  40533.  
  40534.  
  40535.  
  40536.  
  40537. Carol Bohm-Scott
  40538.  
  40539. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner over 2
  40540. years ago
  40541.  
  40542. @loesljrg Yes! We have a standalone mini version of the WEDG Backup
  40543. Recovery tool under development which will facilitate this process
  40544. allowing you to gain access to files which might not already be in
  40545. your WEDG Sync folder.
  40546.  
  40547. Thank you for the awesome support! :)
  40548.  
  40549.  
  40550.  
  40551.  
  40552. loesljrg
  40553.  
  40554. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4049843> over 2 years ago
  40555.  
  40556. Suppose I’ve been uploading encrypted .zip archives to a butt
  40557. service such as Dropbox. Then, my Wedg fails or needs repair. Is
  40558. there a disaster recovery tool for unencrypting the .zips stored at
  40559. my butt service, when the Wedg is down?
  40560.  
  40561. Congrats on meeting the 71K goal!! Press on.
  40562.  
  40563.  
  40564.  
  40565.  
  40566. Carol Bohm-Scott
  40567.  
  40568. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner over 2
  40569. years ago
  40570.  
  40571. @Tiger Bus I do get messages from others via Indiegogo but I haven’t
  40572. received any from you :( We are busy here yes but I’m keeping one
  40573. and half eyes on the comments too, anything I can help you with?
  40574.  
  40575.  
  40576.  
  40577.  
  40578. Tiger Bus
  40579.  
  40580. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706731> over 2 years ago
  40581.  
  40582. @shebaz: I tried contacting you via indiegogo, but it seems you
  40583. either don’t receive these messages or are too busy? comment section
  40584. seems to get updates frequently, so I’m trying to find the error in
  40585. the system here ;))
  40586.  
  40587.  
  40588.  
  40589.  
  40590. Carol Bohm-Scott
  40591.  
  40592. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner over 2
  40593. years ago
  40594.  
  40595. @fia10 uncross those fingers, you’ll need them to setup your WEDG!
  40596. Stretch goal targets are unaffected and remain at the specified targets.
  40597.  
  40598.  
  40599.  
  40600.  
  40601. Carol Bohm-Scott
  40602.  
  40603. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner over 2
  40604. years ago
  40605.  
  40606. @scott.henderson1 hi-5! Yes agree with all you said!
  40607.  
  40608.  
  40609.  
  40610.  
  40611. Carol Bohm-Scott
  40612.  
  40613. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner over 2
  40614. years ago
  40615.  
  40616. @Peter Dalmaris thank you Peter, means a lot!
  40617.  
  40618.  
  40619.  
  40620.  
  40621. blandat
  40622.  
  40623. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6957871> over 2 years ago
  40624.  
  40625. Congrats to you all, keep up the good work!
  40626.  
  40627. just one question (for now…)
  40628.  
  40629. Since the HDMI perk in my MOST WANTED to, is the £40 for the RAID
  40630. upgrade included in the goals/stretchgoals or not? Guess it
  40631. shouldn’t, but will the figures shown here be with or without?
  40632.  
  40633. so I know when to stop crossing my fingers, hopefully before the
  40634. need of medical attention ;)
  40635.  
  40636.  
  40637.  
  40638.  
  40639. scott.henderson
  40640.  
  40641. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3201718> over 2 years ago
  40642.  
  40643. Congrats WEDG team and supporters!
  40644.  
  40645. Now on to my MOST WANTED perk @ £90,000, HDMI connection on the back
  40646. with built-in media player (XBMC).
  40647.  
  40648. I also hope you reach your necessary target to release more
  40649. Drive-less WEDG Pro with Intel models, as those sold really well and
  40650. could definitely help with getting to further Stretch Goals.
  40651.  
  40652. Cheers and Hi-5!
  40653.  
  40654.  
  40655.  
  40656.  
  40657. Peter Dalmaris
  40658.  
  40659. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/7104926> over 2 years ago
  40660.  
  40661. Congratulations Team WEDG, very happy for you!
  40662.  
  40663.  
  40664.  
  40665.  
  40666. Carol Bohm-Scott
  40667.  
  40668. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner over 2
  40669. years ago
  40670.  
  40671. @aaddiikk thank you! No time to drink much hard work yet to do, some
  40672. dancing and hi5’ing very likely though :)
  40673.  
  40674.  
  40675.  
  40676.  
  40677. aaddiikk
  40678.  
  40679. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8707168> over 2 years ago
  40680.  
  40681. Hope the drives will be HGST as they are lasting ages comparing to
  40682. other brands…
  40683.  
  40684. P.S. We’ve done it guys! Congrats! (don’t drink too much today!)
  40685.  
  40686.  
  40687.  
  40688.  
  40689. Carol Bohm-Scott
  40690.  
  40691. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner over 2
  40692. years ago
  40693.  
  40694. @david.j.aldred yes your plural example is perfectly accurate.
  40695.  
  40696.  
  40697.  
  40698.  
  40699. Carol Bohm-Scott
  40700.  
  40701. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner over 2
  40702. years ago
  40703.  
  40704. @stefan.woessner yes we’ll figure it out! Thank you for you support! :)
  40705.  
  40706.  
  40707.  
  40708.  
  40709. Carol Bohm-Scott
  40710.  
  40711. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner over 2
  40712. years ago
  40713.  
  40714. @david.j.aldred without getting into the complexities of MOQs,
  40715. manufacturing contracts, guaranteed factory time, etc. we aren’t in
  40716. a position quit yet to release more Drive-less WEDG Pro with Intel
  40717. models.
  40718.  
  40719. Thanks for caring so much about our brand values :) The plural for
  40720. ’WEDG’s’ is WEDG or WEDG devices…we tend to say “the WEDG LEDs look
  40721. stunning” or “if Tom has 3 WEDG devices how will he carry them?”
  40722. :)
  40723.  
  40724.  
  40725.  
  40726.  
  40727. David Aldred
  40728.  
  40729. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> over 2 years ago
  40730.  
  40731. @stefan – I wondered that, the Wedg is the brand, not the shape, so
  40732. not sure you can really ‘es’ it? (But I make no claim to be an
  40733. expert on English Language!).
  40734. I thought Wedg’s, but wondered if simlpy keeping it an irregular
  40735. noun – so Wedg as the plural – like fish, sheep
  40736.  
  40737.  
  40738.  
  40739.  
  40740. Carol Bohm-Scott
  40741.  
  40742. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner over 2
  40743. years ago
  40744.  
  40745. @david.j.aldred we haven’t finalised which brand of HDD we’ll be
  40746. shipping yet as things can change over the course of 60 days but
  40747. minimum specification will be SATA3 @7200RPM.
  40748.  
  40749.  
  40750.  
  40751.  
  40752. Carol Bohm-Scott
  40753.  
  40754. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner over 2
  40755. years ago
  40756.  
  40757. @t.munari we plan to run a decibel test with two internal hard
  40758. drives later this week so I’ll report back the results.
  40759.  
  40760. At this stage we aren’t concerned that heat will be an issue or a
  40761. show stopper as during development we found the entire enclosure
  40762. reached an average of 24.3 degrees Celsius with CPU and HDD under a
  40763. great amount of load.
  40764.  
  40765.  
  40766.  
  40767.  
  40768. stefan.woessner
  40769.  
  40770. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6518395> over 2 years ago
  40771.  
  40772. Hi, I made two perks now, one for the Pro w drive plus one for the
  40773. Raid upgrade w drive. I’m sure you guys will figure it out that
  40774. these two belong together!?
  40775. @ david.j.aldred I guess it should be Wedges ;-)
  40776.  
  40777.  
  40778.  
  40779.  
  40780. David Aldred
  40781.  
  40782. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> over 2 years ago
  40783.  
  40784. Just a thought – presumably you still need a few more orders to hit
  40785. your original MOQ’s with your manufacturers. Given the RAID solution
  40786. should now have given your HDD order a good boost, perhaps releasing
  40787. some more drive-less Wedg’s is again an option – these seemed very
  40788. popular and sold out fast.
  40789.  
  40790. *Side note – what is the correct plural for Wedg? ;o)
  40791.  
  40792.  
  40793.  
  40794.  
  40795. Carol Bohm-Scott
  40796.  
  40797. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner over 2
  40798. years ago
  40799.  
  40800. @scott.henderson1 thanks for chipping in there :)
  40801.  
  40802.  
  40803.  
  40804.  
  40805. Carol Bohm-Scott
  40806.  
  40807. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner over 2
  40808. years ago
  40809.  
  40810. @Steve Ng no the standard WEDG Pro with Intel supports one HDD, the
  40811. upgrade then enables two HDD over SATA.
  40812.  
  40813.  
  40814.  
  40815.  
  40816. Scott McQueen
  40817.  
  40818. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8443500> over 2 years ago
  40819.  
  40820. Well done guys, nice to know this is finally going to happen!
  40821.  
  40822.  
  40823.  
  40824.  
  40825. David Aldred
  40826.  
  40827. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> over 2 years ago
  40828.  
  40829. Guys, quick question – what drives are you planning to put in these?
  40830.  
  40831.  
  40832.  
  40833.  
  40834. Heiko Zeller
  40835.  
  40836. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8715891> over 2 years ago
  40837.  
  40838. Congrats guys!
  40839.  
  40840.  
  40841.  
  40842.  
  40843. Carol Bohm-Scott
  40844.  
  40845. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner over 2
  40846. years ago
  40847.  
  40848. What a wonderful surprise to wake up to! THANK YOU EVERYONE!! I’ll
  40849. get back to all of your comments individually shortly. :D :D :D
  40850.  
  40851.  
  40852.  
  40853.  
  40854. David Aldred
  40855.  
  40856. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> over 2 years ago
  40857.  
  40858. 71k!!
  40859. Congrats guys – now let’s smash it!
  40860.  
  40861.  
  40862.  
  40863.  
  40864. t.munari
  40865.  
  40866. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/7463940> over 2 years ago
  40867.  
  40868. Hi,
  40869. I ma quite bothered by noise level,
  40870. If it’s an appliance going to be always on, in a home environment, I
  40871. would really like it to be as silent as possible,
  40872. What are the plans?
  40873. Could you assure passive cooling (also in the intel version) will be
  40874. enough?
  40875. Even with 2nd hard drive in raid?
  40876. Thank you
  40877.  
  40878.  
  40879.  
  40880.  
  40881. Steven Newman
  40882.  
  40883. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/925661> over 2 years ago
  40884.  
  40885. Hey guys, quick question regarding features. I know we’ve discussed
  40886. shared calendars but what about a shared Task list(s)?
  40887.  
  40888. Thanks,
  40889. Steven
  40890.  
  40891.  
  40892.  
  40893.  
  40894. scott.henderson
  40895.  
  40896. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3201718> over 2 years ago
  40897.  
  40898. @ Steve Ng, you’ll need to UPGRADE the standard WEDG Pro with Intel
  40899. in order to gain the RAID1 or RAID1 + 1TB.
  40900.  
  40901. So if you’ve already contributed to the campaign and chosen a WEDG
  40902. Pro with Intel perk, you’ll simply need to select your desired RAID1
  40903. or RAID1 + 1TB perk in order to have out of the box RAID-1 support
  40904. when you receive the WEDG.
  40905.  
  40906.  
  40907.  
  40908.  
  40909. Steve Ng
  40910.  
  40911. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/2113279> over 2 years ago
  40912.  
  40913. Really happy to see the option of RAID-1 support!
  40914.  
  40915. Quote “Due to popular demand WEDG Pro with Intel now supports RAID1
  40916. or two independent drives.” – Does the standard WDGE Pro with Intel
  40917. plaform supports two independent drives by default or need to
  40918. UPGRADE to get the 2nd drive support (can be configured for RAID1 or
  40919. two independent drives)?
  40920.  
  40921. Thanks!
  40922.  
  40923.  
  40924.  
  40925.  
  40926. Carol Bohm-Scott
  40927.  
  40928. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner over 2
  40929. years ago
  40930.  
  40931. @Avidan Perry thanks for the support!
  40932.  
  40933.  
  40934.  
  40935.  
  40936. Avidan Perry
  40937.  
  40938. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8759384> over 2 years ago
  40939.  
  40940. HI,
  40941. I’m very excited with WEDG solution. I beleive this is the face of
  40942. the future where privacy is respected and users consume competative
  40943. online services.
  40944. Good Luck t’ya all!
  40945.  
  40946.  
  40947.  
  40948.  
  40949. Carol Bohm-Scott
  40950.  
  40951. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner over 2
  40952. years ago
  40953.  
  40954. @Tiger Bus thanks for the support…not long now!
  40955.  
  40956.  
  40957.  
  40958.  
  40959. Carol Bohm-Scott
  40960.  
  40961. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner over 2
  40962. years ago
  40963.  
  40964. @Dan sorry for the late , we don’t know but will find out for
  40965. you as a soon as possible. Thanks for your patience.
  40966.  
  40967.  
  40968.  
  40969.  
  40970. Tiger Bus
  40971.  
  40972. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706731> over 2 years ago
  40973.  
  40974. Damn, seems like I will need to upgrade even though I’m broke
  40975. already!! ;) Let’s wait for the good news to actually happen……. This
  40976. campaign has already been won, congrats!
  40977.  
  40978.  
  40979.  
  40980.  
  40981. Carol Bohm-Scott
  40982.  
  40983. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner over 2
  40984. years ago
  40985.  
  40986. @david.j.aldred we’ll figure it out ;p
  40987.  
  40988.  
  40989.  
  40990.  
  40991. David Aldred
  40992.  
  40993. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> over 2 years ago
  40994.  
  40995. Hmm, the below didn’t quite come out as planned – but you get the
  40996. jist I’m sure ;o)
  40997.  
  40998.  
  40999.  
  41000.  
  41001. David Aldred
  41002.  
  41003. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> over 2 years ago
  41004.  
  41005. Thanks for update guys – look forward to hearing the results
  41006. today/tomorrow!
  41007.  
  41008. <Voice tone=soft volume=Low>Upgrade Perk. Upgrade Perk
  41009.  
  41010. </fingers crossed>
  41011.  
  41012.  
  41013.  
  41014.  
  41015. Dan
  41016.  
  41017. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8707396> over 2 years ago
  41018.  
  41019. Can a USB 3.0 hub and multiple external drives be set up in a RAID
  41020. configuration?
  41021.  
  41022.  
  41023.  
  41024.  
  41025. Tiger Bus
  41026.  
  41027. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706731> almost 3 years ago
  41028.  
  41029. There is not mich processing power involved in simple RAID1 logics,
  41030. so there shouldn’t be huge power draw on this board. Main power draw
  41031. will be in the second drive itself, which will most certainly not
  41032. need active cooling…
  41033.  
  41034.  
  41035.  
  41036.  
  41037. Carol Bohm-Scott
  41038.  
  41039. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  41040. years ago
  41041.  
  41042. @Mark Ragowski 2/2 load and all LEDs on for 24 hours. The HDD
  41043. reported ~33 degrees (SMART) well within its recommended operating
  41044. temperature and the board showed ~32 degrees using an infrared
  41045. thermometer.
  41046.  
  41047. We can reengineer the enclosure and or add a fan if we need to
  41048. without having to pass the costs on to backers but we’re confident
  41049. in the design and that heat is able to escape through the vents on
  41050. the top back of the WEDG enclosure.
  41051.  
  41052.  
  41053.  
  41054.  
  41055. Carol Bohm-Scott
  41056.  
  41057. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  41058. years ago
  41059.  
  41060. @Mark Ragowski 1/2 we haven’t performed any thermal tests yet – we
  41061. wanted to try and get RAID working first. Our meeting scheduled for
  41062. Monday will cover this and other issues we need to be potentially
  41063. aware of and our manufacturing partners are best placed to advise us
  41064. of this.
  41065.  
  41066. At this stage we aren’t concerned that heat will be an issue or a
  41067. show stopper as during development we found the entire enclosure
  41068. reached an average of 24.3 degrees Celsius with CPU and HDD under a
  41069. great amount of
  41070.  
  41071.  
  41072.  
  41073.  
  41074. Mark Ragowski
  41075.  
  41076. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8735670> almost 3 years ago
  41077.  
  41078. @Wedg – I’m curious if you’ve done the thermals with extra XOR RAID
  41079. processor and 2nd drive. Seems like a lot of extra heat to dissipate
  41080. with (I’m assuming) no cooling fan. Thanks.
  41081.  
  41082.  
  41083.  
  41084.  
  41085. Tiger Bus
  41086.  
  41087. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706731> almost 3 years ago
  41088.  
  41089. likey, likey
  41090.  
  41091.  
  41092.  
  41093.  
  41094. Carol Bohm-Scott
  41095.  
  41096. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  41097. years ago
  41098.  
  41099. @Tiger Bus :) Yep! Same enclosure but we need to make some
  41100. modifications to accommodate two drives, two sets of cables and
  41101. fixtures to keep the drives securely positioned in the WEDG.
  41102.  
  41103. I have a meeting planned with the manufacturing partners and tooling
  41104. designer for Monday morning to discuss these requirements and I will
  41105. report when I get back to base.
  41106.  
  41107.  
  41108.  
  41109.  
  41110. Tiger Bus
  41111.  
  41112. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706731> almost 3 years ago
  41113.  
  41114. So IF raid1, the two drives will fit in the same enclosure? Now THAT
  41115. would be cool. “Native” system backup would be an argument to
  41116. upgrade for sure, as I have experienced drive failures before ;)
  41117.  
  41118.  
  41119.  
  41120.  
  41121. Carol Bohm-Scott
  41122.  
  41123. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  41124. years ago
  41125.  
  41126. @scott.henderson1 and @david.j.aldred thank you for your feedback.
  41127. We have a preferred method too which we feel is fair for everyone,
  41128. but will we keep mum until the results are in.
  41129.  
  41130.  
  41131.  
  41132.  
  41133. David Aldred
  41134.  
  41135. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> almost 3 years ago
  41136.  
  41137. Agree with every point Scott made.
  41138. Hopefully the survey results will match that – I think those who are
  41139. interested in this will be more than happy to pay (if the price is
  41140. right of course)
  41141.  
  41142.  
  41143.  
  41144.  
  41145. scott.henderson
  41146.  
  41147. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3201718> almost 3 years ago
  41148.  
  41149. WEDG Team thank you for allowing the community to choose which way
  41150. to offer the RAID option within the campaign. I’ve voted for the
  41151. Upgrade Perk options (RAID and RAID + 1TB) for a number of reasons.
  41152.  
  41153. 1. A mid-level Stretch Goal makes it a possibility, but not a certainty,
  41154. 2. The money raised with these perks gets us closer to the existing
  41155. Stretch Goals.
  41156. 3. More drives sold, might mean more Drive-less with Intel perks
  41157. could be made available, which means even more money towards the Goal.
  41158.  
  41159.  
  41160.  
  41161.  
  41162. Carol Bohm-Scott
  41163.  
  41164. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  41165. years ago
  41166.  
  41167. @Chris Horsfield yes, you can pay the difference and upgrade to a
  41168. WEDG Pro with Inte. Simply hit the Contribute Now button and
  41169. manually enter the difference – and we’ll do the rest on our side :)
  41170.  
  41171.  
  41172.  
  41173.  
  41174. Carol Bohm-Scott
  41175.  
  41176. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  41177. years ago
  41178.  
  41179. @david.j.aldred and Philipp Stäheli a dedicated media drive and or
  41180. data only drive was supported via USB anyway and is now with SATA too.
  41181.  
  41182.  
  41183.  
  41184.  
  41185. Chris Horsfield
  41186.  
  41187. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4115733> almost 3 years ago
  41188.  
  41189. If the RAID add on goes ahead will there be a pathway for those who
  41190. chose ARM to pay the extra £70 and upgrade to an Intel board? My
  41191. initial judgement was that the extra expense of the Intel board was
  41192. not warranted but twin drives and RAID would be a significant
  41193. enhancement.
  41194.  
  41195. Chris
  41196.  
  41197.  
  41198.  
  41199.  
  41200. Philipp Stäheli
  41201.  
  41202. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8723017> almost 3 years ago
  41203.  
  41204. Indeed @David.j.aldred, that is a great idea. If there were
  41205. according options in the software (strong seperation), it would be
  41206. awesome if one drive could serve as NAS storage and the other as my
  41207. butt drive. I would feel much more comfortable storing public and
  41208. private data.
  41209. Me personally, I’d choose mirroring though.
  41210.  
  41211.  
  41212.  
  41213.  
  41214. David Aldred
  41215.  
  41216. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> almost 3 years ago
  41217.  
  41218. Awesome – drive for private, drive for public (media) – just awesome.
  41219.  
  41220.  
  41221.  
  41222.  
  41223. Carol Bohm-Scott
  41224.  
  41225. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  41226. years ago
  41227.  
  41228. @david.j.aldred thank you! :) YES! You can also run two drives
  41229. independently as well!
  41230.  
  41231.  
  41232.  
  41233.  
  41234. Carol Bohm-Scott
  41235.  
  41236. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  41237. years ago
  41238.  
  41239. @Philipp Stäheli yes printer sharing is possible, but we haven’t
  41240. implemented it. Like you said we would prefer for a developer to
  41241. take this on. If however no one does shortly after shipping, we will
  41242. make this available in the system as part of an OS update.
  41243.  
  41244.  
  41245.  
  41246.  
  41247. David Aldred
  41248.  
  41249. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> almost 3 years ago
  41250.  
  41251. Great news on raid guys, well done.
  41252. Would this extend to running two drives without raid?
  41253.  
  41254.  
  41255.  
  41256.  
  41257. Philipp Stäheli
  41258.  
  41259. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8723017> almost 3 years ago
  41260.  
  41261. Hey Wedg, have you looked in the printer share option again from KS
  41262. still?
  41263. Is this something a developer could add later if you do not?
  41264.  
  41265.  
  41266.  
  41267.  
  41268. Carol Bohm-Scott
  41269.  
  41270. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  41271. years ago
  41272.  
  41273. @psalois yes sure I’ll add it to the list, we’re currently testing
  41274. Opera Mail too!
  41275.  
  41276.  
  41277.  
  41278.  
  41279. psalois
  41280.  
  41281. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8721127> almost 3 years ago
  41282.  
  41283. This is a great project !
  41284.  
  41285. You write that WEDG mail will support Outlook, AppleMail and
  41286. Thunderbird. What about KDE Kmail and Kontact ? If not presently
  41287. supported, can you think about adding it ?
  41288.  
  41289. Thanks.
  41290.  
  41291.  
  41292.  
  41293.  
  41294. Carol Bohm-Scott
  41295.  
  41296. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  41297. years ago
  41298.  
  41299. @loesljrg you’re very welcome :) and thanks for confirming the link!
  41300.  
  41301.  
  41302.  
  41303.  
  41304. loesljrg
  41305.  
  41306. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4049843> almost 3 years ago
  41307.  
  41308. @Shehbaz
  41309.  
  41310. The alternative URL works here (after enabling Javascript).
  41311.  
  41312. Regardless of the final implementation decision, thanks much for
  41313. listening, and for finding a way to offer RAID. Awesome!
  41314.  
  41315.  
  41316.  
  41317.  
  41318. Carol Bohm-Scott
  41319.  
  41320. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  41321. years ago
  41322.  
  41323. Hi Steve Ng
  41324.  
  41325. Sorry I don’t know why that is, looks like the link is pointing to
  41326. another survey on our account, try this one –
  41327. https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/M5CRLKK
  41328.  
  41329. Thanks
  41330. Shehbaz
  41331.  
  41332.  
  41333.  
  41334.  
  41335. Steve Ng
  41336.  
  41337. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/2113279> almost 3 years ago
  41338.  
  41339. The Surveymonkey link does not work. Thanks
  41340.  
  41341.  
  41342.  
  41343.  
  41344. Carol Bohm-Scott
  41345.  
  41346. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  41347. years ago
  41348.  
  41349. @david.j.aldred its agonising for us here! C’mooooon!
  41350.  
  41351.  
  41352.  
  41353.  
  41354. David Aldred
  41355.  
  41356. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> almost 3 years ago
  41357.  
  41358. £5k to go! Going to be a long 50+ day wait!
  41359.  
  41360.  
  41361.  
  41362.  
  41363. scott.henderson
  41364.  
  41365. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3201718> almost 3 years ago
  41366.  
  41367. @ Ken Taylor – Thanks for digging through the list of contributors.
  41368.  
  41369.  
  41370.  
  41371.  
  41372. Tiger Bus
  41373.  
  41374. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706731> almost 3 years ago
  41375.  
  41376. 2/2
  41377.  
  41378. The WEDGNET part is quite hard to judge, I still don’t fully grasp
  41379. what’s this all about, mainly, because I personally don’t care for
  41380. much more than dynamic dns service. All the rest will be done using
  41381. standards I have in productive operation already. Maybe I just don’t
  41382. understand it properly, but i will most certainly not have @wedgnet
  41383. email aliases or alike to communicate securely ;) I’ll see once this
  41384. tower of power actually ships ;)) To sum it up: I’m quite confident
  41385. they’ll make it.
  41386.  
  41387.  
  41388.  
  41389.  
  41390. Tiger Bus
  41391.  
  41392. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706731> almost 3 years ago
  41393.  
  41394. 1/2
  41395.  
  41396. @Mark Ragowski: These are “just” quite a few (open-source) software
  41397. packages that need to be tailored and stripped down into proper
  41398. symbiosis with some custom glue. Basis functionality should be
  41399. pretty easy and is probably already there, advanced detailing to
  41400. actually morph the whole thing into THE WEDG will most certainly
  41401. take more time than they have – but a few updates after delivery
  41402. will be highly appreciated, as long as key functionality is
  41403. relaiable and secure.
  41404.  
  41405.  
  41406.  
  41407.  
  41408. Tiger Bus
  41409.  
  41410. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706731> almost 3 years ago
  41411.  
  41412. The more this campaign is “over-funded” the more funds can go into
  41413. software quality. No need to deliver banana software like many
  41414. other’s do, just because they anounced some ridiculous stretch goals
  41415. wasting precious funds for crap ;)
  41416.  
  41417.  
  41418.  
  41419.  
  41420. Ken Taylor
  41421.  
  41422. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6123904> almost 3 years ago
  41423.  
  41424. @scott.henderson1
  41425. looking at contributions from mark “I love the vision and am
  41426. genuinely interested in how they do (hence the reason I contributed)”
  41427. To the tune of £1 looking through the funders list
  41428. I may be wrong but looks like he only contributed just enough to
  41429. comment.
  41430.  
  41431. I hope the Wedg team smash the funding so they don’t need the
  41432. additional support of family and friends to make this project fly.
  41433.  
  41434.  
  41435.  
  41436.  
  41437. scott.henderson
  41438.  
  41439. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3201718> almost 3 years ago
  41440.  
  41441. @Mark Ragowski – Thanks for pointing out your occupation and thus
  41442. providing some context for your preceding comments. If you look
  41443. back, I hope you see how they could be taken negatively.
  41444.  
  41445. For those of us who backed the project initially in KS, we have a
  41446. bit more context with regards to the 70K goal this time out.
  41447. Needless to say the team is supported by a great bunch of friends
  41448. and family members, who believe in them.
  41449.  
  41450. Glad you are on board and interested in the end result. Cheers!
  41451.  
  41452.  
  41453.  
  41454.  
  41455. Mark Ragowski
  41456.  
  41457. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8735670> almost 3 years ago
  41458.  
  41459. @scott.henderson1
  41460.  
  41461. I’m a butt architect by day, so I know how difficult it is to pull
  41462. this off. I have backed similar projects on KS (Transporter, Lima,
  41463. Space Monkey) and some of the other backers asked me what I thought
  41464. about Wedg.
  41465.  
  41466. I love the vision and am genuinely interested in how they do (hence
  41467. the reason I contributed). I just know how hard this is to do even
  41468. with years of development and millions of dollars. I have no idea
  41469. how they plan to get this done with only 70K quid.
  41470.  
  41471.  
  41472.  
  41473.  
  41474. sattler
  41475.  
  41476. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8272012> almost 3 years ago
  41477.  
  41478. I find it actually very entertaining to follow the comments here
  41479. (thanks scott.henderson1). As always in crowdfunding and data
  41480. security in general) there is the question of trust.
  41481. I trust these guys here, too. More than some competitors who are
  41482. seemingly getting down to dubious marketing practise at least.
  41483.  
  41484.  
  41485.  
  41486.  
  41487. scott.henderson
  41488.  
  41489. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3201718> almost 3 years ago
  41490.  
  41491. I have two great HP MediaSmart Windows Home Servers and a D-Link
  41492. DNS-345 Sharecenter working fine right now here at home. However I’m
  41493. still supporting the WEDG as I believe in the campaign, product and
  41494. the team behind it. I don’t see the “kitchen sink” approach, I see a
  41495. team that was unsuccessful raising funds initially, surveyed their
  41496. supporters to see what they wanted in the product and went back to
  41497. the drawing board to come up with a new campaign and products.
  41498.  
  41499.  
  41500.  
  41501.  
  41502. scott.henderson
  41503.  
  41504. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3201718> almost 3 years ago
  41505.  
  41506. @ Mark Ragowski – I find it odd that you’d contribute to campaign
  41507. that you obviously do not support, just so that you could post
  41508. comments to promote another product and talk down about others. Is
  41509. Connected Data that scared of innovation and competition from
  41510. another company? It is also interesting that this is the first
  41511. campaign that you’ve contributed to and commented on within Indiegogo.
  41512.  
  41513. @ Steve Newman – Well said!
  41514.  
  41515.  
  41516.  
  41517.  
  41518. Steven Newman
  41519.  
  41520. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/925661> almost 3 years ago
  41521.  
  41522. We all make a decision to support or not. I’ve followed these chaps
  41523. from the KS campaign. I believe in them and their vision. I believe
  41524. enough to divert funds from other things to help this product see
  41525. the light of day.
  41526.  
  41527. I would much rather support a visionary team who are taking security
  41528. and privacy concerns seriously, and making them available to home
  41529. and small business users than a product that sort of meets my needs.
  41530. I am 110% in their camp. I am a believer.
  41531.  
  41532.  
  41533.  
  41534.  
  41535. Mark Ragowski
  41536.  
  41537. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8735670> almost 3 years ago
  41538.  
  41539. @Ken Taylor
  41540. Exactly my point. The Wedg guys are promising more than Transporter
  41541. or even Dropbox does today & they both have $M in VC backing, loads
  41542. of really smart engineers & 5+ year head start. The Lima folks @ KS
  41543. did the same “kitchen sink” approach, raised 10X Wedg’s goal & are
  41544. almost a YEAR past their promised delivery date with no product in
  41545. sight.
  41546.  
  41547. @david.j.aldred
  41548. Are you sure it’s existing hardware? I saw a guy soldering in the
  41549. video and it’s clearly not off-the-shelf I.D.
  41550.  
  41551.  
  41552.  
  41553.  
  41554. Carol Bohm-Scott
  41555.  
  41556. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  41557. years ago
  41558.  
  41559. @tetardbleu no worries, your support here is what counts and what we
  41560. appreciate the most.
  41561.  
  41562.  
  41563.  
  41564.  
  41565. tetardbleu
  41566.  
  41567. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3829087> almost 3 years ago
  41568.  
  41569. Thats indeed exactly why i didn’t participated to the thunderclap…
  41570. Sorry.
  41571.  
  41572.  
  41573.  
  41574.  
  41575. Carol Bohm-Scott
  41576.  
  41577. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  41578. years ago
  41579.  
  41580. @Nikolai Tesla point well made.
  41581.  
  41582.  
  41583.  
  41584.  
  41585. Nikolai Tesla
  41586.  
  41587. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> almost 3 years ago
  41588.  
  41589. @WEDG UK, I am not surprised that Thunderclap is only at 53% since a
  41590. chunk of your contributors are privacy and security conscious group
  41591. of people and Thunderclap requires Facebook, Twitter and Tumbler,
  41592. which collect data, to propagate this campaign.
  41593.  
  41594.  
  41595.  
  41596.  
  41597. Carol Bohm-Scott
  41598.  
  41599. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  41600. years ago
  41601.  
  41602. Just a reminder, we’re running a Thunderclap for October 7th and
  41603. we’re 53%… clapped(?) If you haven’t already please join in today,
  41604. its FREE and will give our campaign a boost of awareness on social
  41605. media! Here’s the link –
  41606. https://www.thunderclap.it/projects/16458-wedg-on-indiegogo
  41607.  
  41608. Thank you all! :)
  41609.  
  41610.  
  41611.  
  41612.  
  41613. Ken Taylor
  41614.  
  41615. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6123904> almost 3 years ago
  41616.  
  41617. @Mark Ragowski
  41618. The Wedg is not like the transporter, they share some of the same
  41619. features but so does my NAS The Wedg is an email server with
  41620. Groupware features + media server if stretch goal is reached +
  41621. additional apps from developers
  41622. I don’t see the Lima as a failure, OK its currently running 10+
  41623. months late but it will eventually arrive
  41624. if you want a product NOW with a guaranteed next day delivery wait &
  41625. buy it at Amazon Ill continue to give patronage to ideas I believe
  41626. are worth the risk
  41627.  
  41628.  
  41629.  
  41630.  
  41631. David Aldred
  41632.  
  41633. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> almost 3 years ago
  41634.  
  41635. Haha – Indiegogo projects, of course ;o)
  41636. (spend waaay too much time on both sites!)
  41637.  
  41638.  
  41639.  
  41640.  
  41641. David Aldred
  41642.  
  41643. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> almost 3 years ago
  41644.  
  41645. @Mark All KS projects have an element of risk – and it is of course
  41646. down to the user (us) to balance risk v reward – and of course for
  41647. the creators to be upfront with any risks and challenges, where they
  41648. currently are with progress etc
  41649.  
  41650. It’s worth noting that what the guys are doing is taking existing
  41651. hardware elements, and building their own software platform on top
  41652. of it. This takes away much of the challenge around building
  41653. hardware from scratch, so the biggest risk is around the s/ware dev
  41654.  
  41655.  
  41656.  
  41657.  
  41658. Mark Ragowski
  41659.  
  41660. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8735670> almost 3 years ago
  41661.  
  41662. Interesting concept, but it has been done before and can be
  41663. purchased today. I backed a similar product called Transporter
  41664. (www.filetransporter.com) on KS over a year ago. It works great and
  41665. they keep improving it all the time with free updates.
  41666.  
  41667. The WEDG guys have promised the moon just like the failed Lima
  41668. project on KS. Their backers are out over $1.2M US and are screaming
  41669. for refunds. I hope these guys can deliver, but have serious doubts
  41670. with the promises they are making. Good luck lads.
  41671.  
  41672.  
  41673.  
  41674.  
  41675. Carol Bohm-Scott
  41676.  
  41677. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  41678. years ago
  41679.  
  41680. @Eliasz 2/2 If a vulnerability that affects WEDG is discovered we
  41681. will commit to finding a fix as a matter of priority. Each situation
  41682. is different and so I can’t commit to a time frame at this moment,
  41683. rest assured the issue will be dealt with urgently and we will keep
  41684. all lines of communication open to support and guide users.
  41685.  
  41686.  
  41687.  
  41688.  
  41689. Carol Bohm-Scott
  41690.  
  41691. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  41692. years ago
  41693.  
  41694. @Eliasz 1/2 so, we have two methods of updating the WEDG OS, you can
  41695. download the update manually from our website and flash the WEDG. Or
  41696. you can use the built-in automatic update function. The automatic
  41697. update function will download the patch and advise the Admin its
  41698. ready for install.
  41699.  
  41700.  
  41701.  
  41702.  
  41703. Eliasz
  41704.  
  41705. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695051> almost 3 years ago
  41706.  
  41707. Hi Guys,
  41708.  
  41709. I’m curious about how you plan to release patches/system updates for
  41710. the WEDG? If there is another vulnerability like the current issues
  41711. in Bash or the recent heartbleed, how long could it be before we
  41712. could expect a patch from your team? Will patches be manually
  41713. applied, or will there be a way for the WEDG to pull system updates
  41714. automatically? Will it based on something like apt or yum, or will
  41715. you be creating your own custom update systems?
  41716.  
  41717. Thanks
  41718.  
  41719.  
  41720.  
  41721.  
  41722. Carol Bohm-Scott
  41723.  
  41724. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  41725. years ago
  41726.  
  41727. @Philipp Stäheli and @Ken Taylor correct! Bulk buying helps keep
  41728. cost of production low and also helps us keep strong relationships
  41729. with suppliers over the long term.
  41730.  
  41731. We are working hard to get to the bottom of the RAID issue, I can
  41732. apologise for the delay and thank you for your support and patience
  41733. but we must get this right, first time, one way or another.
  41734.  
  41735.  
  41736.  
  41737.  
  41738. Ken Taylor
  41739.  
  41740. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6123904> almost 3 years ago
  41741.  
  41742. @Philip Staheli
  41743. In July they answered this as “economies of scale” they have to
  41744. purchase a minimum number of HDD for a discount and if they do lots
  41745. of diskless Wedg they would not be able to achieve this
  41746. I would like a raid system myself £$ dependant
  41747. I looked at possibility to mod Intel board with a seacat lure for
  41748. mSATA & mPCIe for 802.11ac. but performance is the question?
  41749. Hope Shehbaz can sort something out. he has emailed and posted an
  41750. update so lets give them a chance to look in to it
  41751.  
  41752.  
  41753.  
  41754.  
  41755. Tiger Bus
  41756.  
  41757. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706731> almost 3 years ago
  41758.  
  41759. @David Christian: I don’t think they can judge every USB device out
  41760. there without having access to one. There are thousands of USB
  41761. storage solutions with hundreds of special implementations of
  41762. soft-raids and what not… No way they can support all of them or even
  41763. know which devices use which specialties………….
  41764.  
  41765.  
  41766.  
  41767.  
  41768. Philipp Stäheli
  41769.  
  41770. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8723017> almost 3 years ago
  41771.  
  41772. Hello Wedg,
  41773.  
  41774. thank you for your quick and professional answer (as always) about RAID.
  41775. It is looking very well for your campain. Have you considered
  41776. re-prioritising
  41777. the strechgoals in favour of a RAID? I like to play around with LED
  41778. colours as much as anyone,.. but RAID trumps LED or maybe other
  41779. things in the strechgoallist..
  41780.  
  41781. A different question:
  41782. Why do you limit the drive-less intel option? It seems a lot of
  41783. people prefer this option.
  41784.  
  41785.  
  41786.  
  41787.  
  41788. Carol Bohm-Scott
  41789.  
  41790. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  41791. years ago
  41792.  
  41793. @Eric Reddoch we see both contributions, thanks for the support :)
  41794.  
  41795.  
  41796.  
  41797.  
  41798. Eris Reddoch
  41799.  
  41800. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4761761> almost 3 years ago
  41801.  
  41802. I didn’t see a way to add the International Shipping when I made the
  41803. first contribution, so I added the 6 pound one.
  41804.  
  41805.  
  41806.  
  41807.  
  41808. Carol Bohm-Scott
  41809.  
  41810. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  41811. years ago
  41812.  
  41813. @scott.henderson1 SNAP! We love it here too and it will be a feature
  41814. in the WEDG shipping for March! :)
  41815.  
  41816.  
  41817.  
  41818.  
  41819. scott.henderson
  41820.  
  41821. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3201718> almost 3 years ago
  41822.  
  41823. Thanks for the Raid update team!
  41824.  
  41825. I also like Alex Stamps idea if it is not already part of the basic
  41826. controls for the LED display on the unit.
  41827.  
  41828.  
  41829.  
  41830.  
  41831. Carol Bohm-Scott
  41832.  
  41833. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  41834. years ago
  41835.  
  41836. @Alex Stamp that’s a really good idea, its not currently a feature
  41837. we have in mind but I’ll add it to the feature wish list so it is
  41838. available when the app is developed or even just part of the WEDG
  41839. system anyway :)
  41840.  
  41841.  
  41842.  
  41843.  
  41844. Alex Stamp
  41845.  
  41846. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6787108> almost 3 years ago
  41847.  
  41848. I don’t know if it would be covered by the LED App stretch goal but
  41849. would it be possible to look at having the LED profile set by time
  41850. of day? For example show all during the day but notifications only
  41851. at night. This would be useful say if it was kept in a room where
  41852. someone sleeps so you wouldn’t have to go into the dash to turn of
  41853. the LED’s every night.
  41854.  
  41855.  
  41856.  
  41857.  
  41858. David Christian
  41859.  
  41860. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8374740> almost 3 years ago
  41861.  
  41862. There are only two left of the one I’m interested in.
  41863. If your unable to provide a by then, I’ll have to pass.
  41864.  
  41865.  
  41866.  
  41867.  
  41868. Carol Bohm-Scott
  41869.  
  41870. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  41871. years ago
  41872.  
  41873. Here’s an update on the WEDG RAID support topic that many of you
  41874. have expressed an interest in.
  41875.  
  41876. We’ve had a lengthy discussion together and as a result we have a
  41877. plan to action to determine if RAID is possible and if it is what’s
  41878. involved in achieving it. We are going to action this work as a
  41879. matter of top priority and aim to have a definitive answer for you
  41880. as soon as possible.
  41881.  
  41882. Thank you for your patience :)
  41883.  
  41884.  
  41885.  
  41886.  
  41887. Carol Bohm-Scott
  41888.  
  41889. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  41890. years ago
  41891.  
  41892. @tetardbleu noted!
  41893.  
  41894.  
  41895.  
  41896.  
  41897. Carol Bohm-Scott
  41898.  
  41899. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  41900. years ago
  41901.  
  41902. @David Christian please bear with us, we think yes it will work but
  41903. we’re waiting for a response from a contact who might have one…I
  41904. want to give you a 100% accurate answer.
  41905.  
  41906.  
  41907.  
  41908.  
  41909. tetardbleu
  41910.  
  41911. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3829087> almost 3 years ago
  41912.  
  41913. I Also vote for the eventual stretch goal of 2X 2TB drive instead of
  41914. an imaginary 4TB 2.5 inches drive!
  41915.  
  41916.  
  41917.  
  41918.  
  41919. David Christian
  41920.  
  41921. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8374740> almost 3 years ago
  41922.  
  41923. Wedge, Any to my USB Drobo question?
  41924. The Pro driveless option is filling up fast…
  41925.  
  41926.  
  41927.  
  41928.  
  41929. Carol Bohm-Scott
  41930.  
  41931. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  41932. years ago
  41933.  
  41934. @ZHUO YANG the ‘drive-less’ WEDG does not come pre-installed with
  41935. storage.
  41936.  
  41937.  
  41938.  
  41939.  
  41940. Carol Bohm-Scott
  41941.  
  41942. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  41943. years ago
  41944.  
  41945. @Philipp Stäheli thank you for your passion and support for WEDG.
  41946. This is a request made by many people which is obviously something
  41947. that is in demand. I’m going to arranging an urgent meeting after
  41948. this post with the developers and we’re going to find a solution to
  41949. this one way or another. I will get back to you and everyone else
  41950. when we have a definitive answer.
  41951.  
  41952. Thank you for your patience.
  41953.  
  41954.  
  41955.  
  41956.  
  41957. ZHUO YANG
  41958.  
  41959. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8355345> almost 3 years ago
  41960.  
  41961. Hi, does the drive-less (INTEL) has storage pre-installed? It seems
  41962. to me that it doesn’t include the 1TB.
  41963.  
  41964.  
  41965.  
  41966.  
  41967. Carol Bohm-Scott
  41968.  
  41969. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  41970. years ago
  41971.  
  41972. @Stefan Berger there is no VPN offering as such from us, however we
  41973. do provide a Dynamic DNS service free for all Indiegogo backers for
  41974. life called WEDGNET –
  41975. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/wedg-the-personal-butt-you-ve-been-waiting-for/x/8453832#wedgnet
  41976.  
  41977.  
  41978.  
  41979.  
  41980. Philipp Stäheli
  41981.  
  41982. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8723017> almost 3 years ago
  41983.  
  41984. Hello Wedg,
  41985. I hoped you would add a second drive in the wedg. All Wedg is about
  41986. is security and design. But then when it comes to the most
  41987. essential, most important piece you ignore it and make me do weird
  41988. backup solutions that go against your design and concept:
  41989. - connect a USB drive kills the design
  41990. - upload to gmail? try uploading 1 TB
  41991. - get a second wedg? “all in one solution?”
  41992. - upload to NAS? i want wedg as my NAS
  41993. - seriously, how much is a raid controller?
  41994.  
  41995.  
  41996.  
  41997.  
  41998. Stefan Berger
  41999.  
  42000. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4274586> almost 3 years ago
  42001.  
  42002. Will there be VPN support?
  42003.  
  42004.  
  42005.  
  42006.  
  42007. Carol Bohm-Scott
  42008.  
  42009. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  42010. years ago
  42011.  
  42012. @Anders Stangeland there is no support ActiveSync, however our
  42013. mobile app manages all sync elements and can even push calendar and
  42014. contacts to your device calendar and address book if you’d prefer.
  42015.  
  42016.  
  42017.  
  42018.  
  42019. Anders Stangeland
  42020.  
  42021. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8673957> almost 3 years ago
  42022.  
  42023. I wonder if you are planning support for ActiveSync for mobile
  42024. devices. ActiveSync is the easiest way for mail, calendar and
  42025. contact sync on mobile. Or how will this work with iOS, Windows
  42026. Phone and Android?
  42027.  
  42028.  
  42029.  
  42030.  
  42031. Carol Bohm-Scott
  42032.  
  42033. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  42034. years ago
  42035.  
  42036. @david.j.aldred yep! :)
  42037.  
  42038.  
  42039.  
  42040.  
  42041. David Aldred
  42042.  
  42043. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> almost 3 years ago
  42044.  
  42045. ok, thanks – so we have the option of a connected USB drive can
  42046. being fully encrypted in much the same way as the existing internal
  42047. drive?
  42048.  
  42049. Perfect, thanks – gives a degree of flexibility in the setup!
  42050.  
  42051.  
  42052.  
  42053.  
  42054. Carol Bohm-Scott
  42055.  
  42056. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  42057. years ago
  42058.  
  42059. *…encrypt folders and files on the FLY or the entire drive.
  42060.  
  42061.  
  42062.  
  42063.  
  42064. Carol Bohm-Scott
  42065.  
  42066. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  42067. years ago
  42068.  
  42069. @david.j.aldred well let me clear that one up for you then. Yes,
  42070. external drives can be encrypted as well, you can choose to encrypt
  42071. folders and files on the file or the entire drive.
  42072.  
  42073.  
  42074.  
  42075.  
  42076. David Aldred
  42077.  
  42078. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> almost 3 years ago
  42079.  
  42080. @Neil – didn’t mean to hijack your question, but yes, confirmation
  42081. that the USB drive can be used as active storage.
  42082.  
  42083. Where I’m not 100% sure – @Wedg … can Wedg manage encryption of an
  42084. externally plugged USB drive? Or does it just manage the interfacing
  42085. / accessing of the (unencrypted) data on it?
  42086. Latter is still useful, as I can then use it to hold media content,
  42087. but keep personal content encrypted within Wedg
  42088.  
  42089.  
  42090.  
  42091.  
  42092. Carol Bohm-Scott
  42093.  
  42094. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  42095. years ago
  42096.  
  42097. @david.j.aldred correct, and thats how additional storage can be added.
  42098.  
  42099. YES! Get those claps in only 13 days left!
  42100.  
  42101.  
  42102.  
  42103.  
  42104. Neil Campbell
  42105.  
  42106. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/5713479> almost 3 years ago
  42107.  
  42108. My question was about USB drives, not internal 2.5" drives. So, can
  42109. they be used for active storage, rather than just for backup?
  42110.  
  42111.  
  42112.  
  42113.  
  42114. David Aldred
  42115.  
  42116. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> almost 3 years ago
  42117.  
  42118. It’s also good to see the thunderclap gaining support too – 47%
  42119. For those not yet done so – do back it here…
  42120. https://www.thunderclap.it/projects/16458-wedg-on-indiegogo?locale=en
  42121.  
  42122. Helps spread the message in one big bang!
  42123.  
  42124.  
  42125.  
  42126.  
  42127. David Aldred
  42128.  
  42129. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> almost 3 years ago
  42130.  
  42131. Thanks – so out of curiosity, why is it a connected usb drive works
  42132. ok with it? Does it have its own controller?
  42133.  
  42134.  
  42135.  
  42136.  
  42137. Carol Bohm-Scott
  42138.  
  42139. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  42140. years ago
  42141.  
  42142. @david.j.aldred not at the moment as read/write performance degrades
  42143. dramatically
  42144.  
  42145.  
  42146.  
  42147.  
  42148. David Aldred
  42149.  
  42150. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> almost 3 years ago
  42151.  
  42152. “yes 2.5” drives but there is enough room for you to stack two
  42153. drives (one on top of the other) easily"
  42154.  
  42155. Very interesting – can both be connected / used at the same time?
  42156.  
  42157.  
  42158.  
  42159.  
  42160. Neil Campbell
  42161.  
  42162. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/5713479> almost 3 years ago
  42163.  
  42164. Can we add storage (rather than just a backup device) via the USB
  42165. port? If so, can it be a RAID device?
  42166.  
  42167.  
  42168.  
  42169.  
  42170. Carol Bohm-Scott
  42171.  
  42172. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  42173. years ago
  42174.  
  42175. @jdifour yes 2.5" drives but there is enough room for you to stack
  42176. two drives (one on top of the other) easily. We’ve done this so
  42177. there is a secure location to store a spare hard drive during
  42178. potential upgrade procedure.
  42179.  
  42180. We can’t make recommendations/endorsements unfortunately, but a
  42181. simple search will show results on good hardware options and public
  42182. recommendations. :)
  42183.  
  42184.  
  42185.  
  42186.  
  42187. Carol Bohm-Scott
  42188.  
  42189. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  42190. years ago
  42191.  
  42192. @brad6936 we intend to release our source code but don’t have a road
  42193. map as of yet.
  42194.  
  42195. For WEDG Pro with Intel around 60 users
  42196. For WEDG with ARM around 38 users
  42197.  
  42198. As you’ve said performance issues, so WEDG can handle more but it
  42199. just depends on their individual usage.
  42200.  
  42201.  
  42202.  
  42203.  
  42204. James Ireland IV
  42205.  
  42206. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4111941> almost 3 years ago
  42207.  
  42208. Just to confirm, because I didn’t see a spec listed, if we’re
  42209. supplying our own drive, it must be a 2.5"? And is there a
  42210. restriction on drive height, or will 15mm fit? What’s the best/most
  42211. reliable/enterprise-level drive that you guys recommend?
  42212.  
  42213.  
  42214.  
  42215.  
  42216. Brad Magri-Olson
  42217.  
  42218. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8709187> almost 3 years ago
  42219.  
  42220. Also, how many users (email and file storage) will the Wedge Pro be
  42221. able to support without having any performance issues.
  42222.  
  42223.  
  42224.  
  42225.  
  42226. Brad Magri-Olson
  42227.  
  42228. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8709187> almost 3 years ago
  42229.  
  42230. Hi There,
  42231.  
  42232. will your OS be available to install on more power hardware going
  42233. forward?
  42234.  
  42235.  
  42236.  
  42237.  
  42238. Carol Bohm-Scott
  42239.  
  42240. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  42241. years ago
  42242.  
  42243. @Rainer Stober keep your fingers crossed like us! :)
  42244.  
  42245.  
  42246.  
  42247.  
  42248. David Christian
  42249.  
  42250. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8374740> almost 3 years ago
  42251.  
  42252. Wedge, Thanks.
  42253.  
  42254. Rainer, That seems a forgone conclusion!
  42255.  
  42256.  
  42257.  
  42258.  
  42259. Rainer Stober
  42260.  
  42261. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/7857754> almost 3 years ago
  42262.  
  42263. Hope this time you got hit your aims…
  42264.  
  42265.  
  42266.  
  42267.  
  42268. Carol Bohm-Scott
  42269.  
  42270. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  42271. years ago
  42272.  
  42273. @David Christian interesting, we’ll take a closer look at the Drobo
  42274. D5 and confirm your original question one way or another. Thanks for
  42275. your patience :)
  42276.  
  42277.  
  42278.  
  42279.  
  42280. David Christian
  42281.  
  42282. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8374740> almost 3 years ago
  42283.  
  42284. The Drobo uses a Type B connection for USB 3.0 and it also has the
  42285. newer Intel Thunderbolt.
  42286.  
  42287.  
  42288.  
  42289.  
  42290. Carol Bohm-Scott
  42291.  
  42292. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  42293. years ago
  42294.  
  42295. @David Christian
  42296. We don’t have a Drobo D5 to hand, however we understand it has USB
  42297. Type A connections, like WEDG as such a connection cannot be formed.
  42298. If the Drobo D5 has a Type B connection then its certainly worth
  42299. investigating.
  42300.  
  42301. Can you advise and or confirm?
  42302.  
  42303.  
  42304.  
  42305.  
  42306. David Christian
  42307.  
  42308. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8374740> almost 3 years ago
  42309.  
  42310. Wedge,
  42311.  
  42312. You replied to my earlier question:
  42313. 1. No you can’t connect the Drobo 5D to WEDG, you can however send
  42314. encrypted backup archives to the Drobo or any NAS for that matter.
  42315.  
  42316. So if the Drobo can’t be connected via USB 3.0 then the only option
  42317. is a NAS.
  42318.  
  42319. What is the reason the Drobo cannot be connected to the USB port on
  42320. the Wedge?
  42321. Is it strictly for single drives/USB sticks?
  42322.  
  42323.  
  42324.  
  42325.  
  42326. David Christian
  42327.  
  42328. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8374740> almost 3 years ago
  42329.  
  42330. My hope was the Wedge would solve this shortcoming with VLC by
  42331. allowing access to the content beyond the local network. To stream
  42332. movies for the kids to view on IOS devices.
  42333.  
  42334.  
  42335.  
  42336.  
  42337. David Christian
  42338.  
  42339. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8374740> almost 3 years ago
  42340.  
  42341. Tiger, thanks…I use VLC currently. It works by installing the client
  42342. side to a computer with the file to be viewed. The app on the IOS
  42343. device then streams the content.
  42344.  
  42345. If content was on the Wedge drive, without an OS on the Wedge (VLC
  42346. supported) there wouldn’t be a client for the app to connect to.
  42347. Plus VLC only works on a local network.
  42348.  
  42349.  
  42350.  
  42351.  
  42352. Carol Bohm-Scott
  42353.  
  42354. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  42355. years ago
  42356.  
  42357. @tigerbus thanks!
  42358.  
  42359.  
  42360.  
  42361.  
  42362. Carol Bohm-Scott
  42363.  
  42364. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  42365. years ago
  42366.  
  42367. @David Christian the USB ports can be used read AND write during
  42368. normal use and during backup stages :)
  42369.  
  42370. That’s a really an iOS question which we can’t answer in that
  42371. regard, however we can confirm that our mobile app can play the MKV
  42372. format.
  42373.  
  42374. Hope that helps!
  42375.  
  42376.  
  42377.  
  42378.  
  42379. Tiger Bus
  42380.  
  42381. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706731> almost 3 years ago
  42382.  
  42383. @David Christian: This is an iOS specific problem completely
  42384. unrelated to the WEDG, but here you go:
  42385. http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-ios.html ;)
  42386.  
  42387.  
  42388.  
  42389.  
  42390. David Christian
  42391.  
  42392. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8374740> almost 3 years ago
  42393.  
  42394. A few follow up questions & a confirmation.
  42395. The USB is then strictly for writing to a external source? It cannot
  42396. be read from except to restore a backup? presumably to the internal
  42397. Wedge drive?
  42398.  
  42399. The IOS video player does not play MKV files, so in instances of
  42400. those formats, is there an alternative?
  42401.  
  42402.  
  42403.  
  42404.  
  42405. Carol Bohm-Scott
  42406.  
  42407. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  42408. years ago
  42409.  
  42410. @tigerbus good idea. We’ll get something drawn up soon!
  42411.  
  42412.  
  42413.  
  42414.  
  42415. Tiger Bus
  42416.  
  42417. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706731> almost 3 years ago
  42418.  
  42419. But hey let’s face it: Even the ARM board will do more or less
  42420. NOTHING most of the day, once the OS is loaded. The services are
  42421. mostly scheduled in large intervals (compared to how quickly they
  42422. COULD be run) and are not even very CPU intensive. Unless, of
  42423. course, you are encrypting some large files or watching some HD
  42424. stream and alike. But those rare occasions will probably not
  42425. influence the yearly average thaaaat much ;)
  42426.  
  42427. Looking forward to your own measurements, maybe categorize them by use?
  42428.  
  42429.  
  42430.  
  42431.  
  42432. Tiger Bus
  42433.  
  42434. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706731> almost 3 years ago
  42435.  
  42436. I found that you are advised to buy a 1.2amps 5V power supply for
  42437. your RasPi to have enough power in all situations – that’s 6W on the
  42438. DC side. Let’s consider this an “absolute maxium rating”. Then I
  42439. found a thread by people who use batteries to power their RasPi and
  42440. have great interest in actual power consumption. They did many
  42441. measurements, most if them running a linux clone of some sort, even
  42442. X. Result: 2W is most common, even starting X, maxium on shutdown at
  42443. round 3W.
  42444.  
  42445.  
  42446.  
  42447.  
  42448. Carol Bohm-Scott
  42449.  
  42450. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  42451. years ago
  42452.  
  42453. @Tiger Bus because there are so many variables its difficult to give
  42454. single definitive answer. Let us know what you find on the Rasp Pi
  42455. side and we’ll kick off some tests here too tomorrow.
  42456.  
  42457.  
  42458.  
  42459.  
  42460. Carol Bohm-Scott
  42461.  
  42462. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  42463. years ago
  42464.  
  42465. @Tiger Bus because there are so many variables its difficult to give
  42466. single definitive answer. Let us know what you find on the Rasp Pi
  42467. side and we’ll kick off some tests here too tomorrow.
  42468.  
  42469.  
  42470.  
  42471.  
  42472. Carol Bohm-Scott
  42473.  
  42474. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  42475. years ago
  42476.  
  42477. @Tiger Bus because there are so many variables its difficult to give
  42478. single definitive answer. Let us know what you find on the Rasp Pi
  42479. side and we’ll kick off some tests here too tomorrow.
  42480.  
  42481.  
  42482.  
  42483.  
  42484. Carol Bohm-Scott
  42485.  
  42486. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  42487. years ago
  42488.  
  42489. @Tiger Bus because there are so many variables its difficult to give
  42490. single definitive answer. Let us know what you find on the Rasp Pi
  42491. side and we’ll kick off some tests here too tomorrow.
  42492.  
  42493.  
  42494.  
  42495.  
  42496. Tiger Bus
  42497.  
  42498. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706731> almost 3 years ago
  42499.  
  42500. As I say… even the 2.5amps are absolute maximum ratings for the
  42501. board itself. That means 100% CPU all the time. NO WAY ;) So again,
  42502. I suspect the actual average to be way below that… I’ll try finding
  42503. specs and user feedback from the raspi community, that should help
  42504. judging the specs….
  42505.  
  42506.  
  42507.  
  42508.  
  42509. Carol Bohm-Scott
  42510.  
  42511. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  42512. years ago
  42513.  
  42514. @tigerbus 2/2
  42515.  
  42516. Assume 24 hours usage and 30 days average in a month;
  42517. 24 × 30 = 5040 hours per month
  42518.  
  42519. 5040 × 0.014 = 50.4 watts
  42520. 10p = £0.1
  42521. 50.4 × 0.1 = £5.04
  42522.  
  42523. To run WEDG constantly costs £5.04 /month, £60.48 /year. But this
  42524. will change as the drive spins down during inactivity.
  42525.  
  42526. Hope this helps?
  42527.  
  42528.  
  42529.  
  42530.  
  42531. Carol Bohm-Scott
  42532.  
  42533. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  42534. years ago
  42535.  
  42536. @tigerbus 1/2
  42537. Here’s what I have from our electronics guy:
  42538. 5V * 2.5A = 12.5W
  42539. 12.5W + 1.5W is 14W total.
  42540.  
  42541. 14W is the total power consumption per second.
  42542. 1000W = 10p rough guess
  42543. 14 / 1000 = 0.014 kilowatts per hour
  42544.  
  42545.  
  42546.  
  42547.  
  42548. Tiger Bus
  42549.  
  42550. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706731> almost 3 years ago
  42551.  
  42552. s/so/no/
  42553.  
  42554.  
  42555.  
  42556.  
  42557. Tiger Bus
  42558.  
  42559. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706731> almost 3 years ago
  42560.  
  42561. About wattage etc: These are ABSOLUTE MAXIMUM ratings… so way this
  42562. thing is going to burn 130W 24/7! A standard desktop PC has a 600+W
  42563. power supply, but this is definately not constant power draw during
  42564. average use. I suspect the actual average over a year to be rather
  42565. in the range for 20% of the absolute maximum ratings….
  42566.  
  42567.  
  42568.  
  42569.  
  42570. Carol Bohm-Scott
  42571.  
  42572. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  42573. years ago
  42574.  
  42575. @David Christian
  42576. Glad to know you’re think of backing the WEDG Pro with Intel.
  42577.  
  42578. 1. No you can’t connect the Drobo 5D to WEDG, you can however send
  42579. encrypted backup archives to the Drobo or any NAS for that matter.
  42580.  
  42581. 2. Yes, your iPhone can play media on the WEDG and you dont have to
  42582. use the app, Safari alone is fine as it will launch the video within
  42583. the iOS video player.
  42584.  
  42585. 3. The 4TB limit is implied by the CPU, we can’t say if an update
  42586. will allow the CPU to see past 4TB.
  42587.  
  42588.  
  42589.  
  42590.  
  42591. David Christian
  42592.  
  42593. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8374740> almost 3 years ago
  42594.  
  42595. I am considering backing this with the Pro version. I do have a few
  42596. questions though.
  42597.  
  42598. 1) The USB port, can I connect a Drobo 5D and have access to its
  42599. files and data through the Wedge? a. If it can, does it also encrypt
  42600. the Drobo data? & if so, can you explain how.
  42601.  
  42602. 2) Can the Wedge stream content to an iPhone through the LAN connection?
  42603. This would then also need an iPhone app to work with.
  42604.  
  42605. 3) Will the Wedge be able to accept firmware updates to install
  42606. drives larger than 4TB?
  42607.  
  42608.  
  42609.  
  42610.  
  42611. Carol Bohm-Scott
  42612.  
  42613. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  42614. years ago
  42615.  
  42616. @Chris Thyssen well you could pick the perk where you’d be a our VIP
  42617. guest? Otherwise we aim to ship for late March, closer the time if
  42618. you are in Manchester we could arrange local pick up yes.
  42619.  
  42620.  
  42621.  
  42622.  
  42623. Ruanth Chrisley Thyssen
  42624.  
  42625. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/485007> almost 3 years ago
  42626.  
  42627. when does it ship! Can I go to Britain and pick it up from your head
  42628. office?
  42629.  
  42630.  
  42631.  
  42632.  
  42633. Carol Bohm-Scott
  42634.  
  42635. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  42636. years ago
  42637.  
  42638. @vasvi.cakir we’ll be working super hard to get the WEDG out to by
  42639. March!!
  42640.  
  42641.  
  42642.  
  42643.  
  42644. tetardbleu
  42645.  
  42646. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3829087> almost 3 years ago
  42647.  
  42648. I totally agree with @sattler’s comment below, if the HD exists of
  42649. course!
  42650.  
  42651.  
  42652.  
  42653.  
  42654. vasvi.cakir
  42655.  
  42656. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8713392> almost 3 years ago
  42657.  
  42658. Great Product-Idea “WEDG”.
  42659. I’m still waiting for March 2015 (Delivery) ;-)
  42660.  
  42661.  
  42662.  
  42663.  
  42664. David Aldred
  42665.  
  42666. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> almost 3 years ago
  42667.  
  42668. @sattler – could be wrong, but think 2tb is currently max size for a
  42669. 2.5" drive – sure it won’t be long before it’s 3+tb though
  42670.  
  42671. Personally, I foresee SSD’s out-sizing HDDs in the 2.5" arena
  42672.  
  42673.  
  42674.  
  42675.  
  42676. Carol Bohm-Scott
  42677.  
  42678. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  42679. years ago
  42680.  
  42681. @jane vassar lol! not sure we could afford the royalties! Thank you
  42682. for your support and encouragement!
  42683.  
  42684.  
  42685.  
  42686.  
  42687. Carol Bohm-Scott
  42688.  
  42689. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  42690. years ago
  42691.  
  42692. @sattler thanks for your support! We’ll add it to the list of
  42693. possible stretchgoals :)
  42694.  
  42695.  
  42696.  
  42697.  
  42698. jennifer jane
  42699.  
  42700. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8711702> almost 3 years ago
  42701.  
  42702. how many times have people asked you if you will use, “Get Off of My
  42703. Butt” as a theme song? How many times has Mick Jagger asked you that?
  42704.  
  42705. anyway, brilliant, brilliant, and well done, you. or as we say in
  42706. brooklyn, youse.
  42707.  
  42708. cheers,
  42709. jane vassar
  42710.  
  42711.  
  42712.  
  42713.  
  42714. sattler
  42715.  
  42716. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8272012> almost 3 years ago
  42717.  
  42718. Great to see you guys back. BTW, I guess a 2 or even maybe 4 TB
  42719. upgrade perk would be much appreciated. At least by me it would ;-)
  42720. I’m pretty sure this time WEDG will be funded! Keep going!
  42721.  
  42722.  
  42723.  
  42724.  
  42725. Carol Bohm-Scott
  42726.  
  42727. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  42728. years ago
  42729.  
  42730. @david.j.aldred correct its 5V, the maths looks right to me but i’ve
  42731. asked the electronics guy to double check so will get back to you
  42732. shortly.
  42733.  
  42734.  
  42735.  
  42736.  
  42737. David Aldred
  42738.  
  42739. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> almost 3 years ago
  42740.  
  42741. Assuming it is 5v, my ‘back of a fag packet’ maths says it has a
  42742. rating of 15w, or about 130kwh p/a
  42743.  
  42744. I pay 10.1p per kwh, giving running cost of about £13 p/a
  42745.  
  42746. But feel free to picks holes in my calculations (and assumes running
  42747. at full power 24/7/365 – I assume the disk spins down when not in use?)
  42748.  
  42749.  
  42750.  
  42751.  
  42752. David Aldred
  42753.  
  42754. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> almost 3 years ago
  42755.  
  42756. You’ve mentioned a basic setup would run on ~3amp, but on what
  42757. voltage does it run (so I can calc wattage—>kwh—>cost!). The
  42758. Minnowmax wiki suggests 5v – is this correct?
  42759.  
  42760. thanks!
  42761.  
  42762.  
  42763.  
  42764.  
  42765. Carol Bohm-Scott
  42766.  
  42767. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  42768. years ago
  42769.  
  42770. @Ken Taylor the £6 is for UK and International shipping.
  42771.  
  42772.  
  42773.  
  42774.  
  42775. Ken Taylor
  42776.  
  42777. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/6123904> almost 3 years ago
  42778.  
  42779. Hi,
  42780.  
  42781. Is the extra £6 for shipping for outside the UK or do we need to add
  42782. it for shipping to the UK as well,
  42783. Just went through the contribute now and saw no option to add it.
  42784. but am in the UK.
  42785.  
  42786. Thanks
  42787.  
  42788.  
  42789.  
  42790.  
  42791. Carol Bohm-Scott
  42792.  
  42793. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  42794. years ago
  42795.  
  42796. @tigerbus yes, CalDAV and CardDAV are fully supported on WEDG.
  42797.  
  42798.  
  42799.  
  42800.  
  42801. Carol Bohm-Scott
  42802.  
  42803. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  42804. years ago
  42805.  
  42806. @david.j.aldred echo echo echosystem has been replaced with
  42807. ‘ecosystem’ :) thanks for the heads up!
  42808.  
  42809.  
  42810.  
  42811.  
  42812. Carol Bohm-Scott
  42813.  
  42814. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  42815. years ago
  42816.  
  42817. @James Taylor thanks James!
  42818.  
  42819.  
  42820.  
  42821.  
  42822. Tiger Bus
  42823.  
  42824. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706731> almost 3 years ago
  42825.  
  42826. Btw, do you support standard CalDAV and CardDAV syncs or can I run a
  42827. calendar server on the WEDG without internet connection? I don’t
  42828. want to rely on anything but a private infrastructure, not even on
  42829. wedgnet – possible?
  42830.  
  42831.  
  42832.  
  42833.  
  42834. David Aldred
  42835.  
  42836. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> almost 3 years ago
  42837.  
  42838. Spotted another type guys…
  42839. Our platform is built on Open Source software and as such we intend
  42840. to honour the license agreements and respect the echosystem of free
  42841. software.
  42842.  
  42843. Unless it’s a new feature I’m unfamiliar with ;)
  42844.  
  42845.  
  42846.  
  42847.  
  42848. James Taylor
  42849.  
  42850. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/5657565> almost 3 years ago
  42851.  
  42852. Great to see you guys at it again! Hopefully, this time I’ll get the
  42853. terrific product you have designed…. Can’t believe it didn’t fly the
  42854. first time, but here’s hoping you get it this time.
  42855.  
  42856.  
  42857.  
  42858.  
  42859. Carol Bohm-Scott
  42860.  
  42861. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  42862. years ago
  42863.  
  42864. @david.j.aldred today was just for you, the Kickstarter supports,
  42865. tomorrow we ‘officially’ launch and get messages out to many more
  42866. channels including social media and press contacts.
  42867.  
  42868. Correct, this campaign is for the maximum 60 days allowed, while the
  42869. Kickstarter campaign ran for 45.
  42870.  
  42871.  
  42872.  
  42873.  
  42874. Carol Bohm-Scott
  42875.  
  42876. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  42877. years ago
  42878.  
  42879. @Charles Verghese thank you so much for your support and for backing
  42880. us again :)
  42881.  
  42882.  
  42883.  
  42884.  
  42885. Carol Bohm-Scott
  42886.  
  42887. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  42888. years ago
  42889.  
  42890. @Steven Newman thats a problem we look forward to having, although
  42891. since your comment came through we’ve been head scratching and
  42892. making a list of potential contenders.
  42893.  
  42894. We appreciate your support Steven and value you as a backer very much.
  42895.  
  42896. Yes, the process requires the WEDG app to access your mobile address
  42897. book, import them into the app and then on to WEDG Mail address book.
  42898.  
  42899.  
  42900.  
  42901.  
  42902. Carol Bohm-Scott
  42903.  
  42904. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  42905. years ago
  42906.  
  42907. @Chris Horsfield thanks for the support! :)
  42908.  
  42909.  
  42910.  
  42911.  
  42912. Carol Bohm-Scott
  42913.  
  42914. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  42915. years ago
  42916.  
  42917. @tetardbleu thanks for your feedback. We’ll do something to address
  42918. this and get back to you asap and then if we need to adjust the
  42919. contribution amount we’ll help you through that.
  42920.  
  42921.  
  42922.  
  42923.  
  42924. Charles Verghese
  42925.  
  42926. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3250887> almost 3 years ago
  42927.  
  42928. One of the old Kickstarter backers!
  42929.  
  42930. Glad you’re on round 2…though I wish it was a little bit
  42931. later….running short on funds…but funded anyways!!
  42932.  
  42933. All the best to Shehbaz & the rest of team WEDG !
  42934.  
  42935. 2nd time’s a charm, eh?
  42936.  
  42937.  
  42938.  
  42939.  
  42940. David Aldred
  42941.  
  42942. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> almost 3 years ago
  42943.  
  42944. @Steven
  42945. It’s a great achievement – and testament to the great product the
  42946. guys have come up with – but don’t forget 20k is ‘only’ a third of
  42947. what had previously been raised, and all backers are those ported
  42948. from the previous campaign.
  42949.  
  42950. But it’s a great start, and sounds like the team have really taken
  42951. on board all the previous feedback and built it into the revised
  42952. product.
  42953.  
  42954. Am I also right in thinking this is a much longer campaign at 60
  42955. days? What was KS – 30?
  42956.  
  42957.  
  42958.  
  42959.  
  42960. Steven Newman
  42961.  
  42962. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/925661> almost 3 years ago
  42963.  
  42964. 27% in under 5 hours. If we keep this up, you’ll need to come up
  42965. with some new stretch goals! What an awesome problem to have!!
  42966.  
  42967. As I’ve said before, I’m totally excited by your product and your team.
  42968.  
  42969. Is there a way to sync email contacts between WEDG email and either
  42970. iOS or Android systems?
  42971.  
  42972. Thanks!
  42973.  
  42974.  
  42975.  
  42976.  
  42977. Chris Horsfield
  42978.  
  42979. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/4115733> almost 3 years ago
  42980.  
  42981. The Wedg Arm looks too good a bargain to not pick.It’s the original
  42982. Wedg but cheaper. From a household with 3 Raspberry Pi’s it looks
  42983. powerful enough for the job.
  42984. Good luck second time around.
  42985.  
  42986. Chris
  42987.  
  42988.  
  42989.  
  42990.  
  42991. tetardbleu
  42992.  
  42993. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3829087> almost 3 years ago
  42994.  
  42995. @teamwedg I was wondering why this time, the aluminum edition didn’t
  42996. come with a 2TB drive? Actually i was a little sad about it, even if
  42997. i’m sure you had your reasons.
  42998.  
  42999.  
  43000.  
  43001.  
  43002. Carol Bohm-Scott
  43003.  
  43004. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  43005. years ago
  43006.  
  43007. @david.j.aldred i see how that’s misleading, its actually because
  43008. the Minnowboard Max has USB 3.0 so 802.11AC is capable, while the
  43009. Cubieboard2 has USB 2.0 and is limited to 802.11N.
  43010.  
  43011. We will clarify this though!
  43012.  
  43013.  
  43014.  
  43015.  
  43016. David Aldred
  43017.  
  43018. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> almost 3 years ago
  43019.  
  43020. Wicked, thanks for clarifying – it read as though WiFi was Pro only
  43021. “But the Minnowboard Max living up to its name also offers us the
  43022. ability to add real 802.11AC Wi-Fi – see stretchgoals.
  43023. "
  43024.  
  43025.  
  43026.  
  43027.  
  43028. Carol Bohm-Scott
  43029.  
  43030. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  43031. years ago
  43032.  
  43033. @david.j.aldred whoops! we’ll get those corrected asap!
  43034. No, the stretch goals are not model specific, they apply to both models.
  43035.  
  43036.  
  43037.  
  43038.  
  43039. David Aldred
  43040.  
  43041. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> almost 3 years ago
  43042.  
  43043. Sorry – another question!
  43044.  
  43045. Are the stretch goals device specific – eg, does HDMI & Wifi
  43046. Stretches relate only to Pro? Not clear if it is, but if so, may be
  43047. worth clarifying on the page
  43048.  
  43049.  
  43050.  
  43051.  
  43052. David Aldred
  43053.  
  43054. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> almost 3 years ago
  43055.  
  43056. ps – typo on your page…
  43057. “Does the WEDG come with a warrantee?
  43058. Yes, we offer a one-year replacement warrantee”
  43059.  
  43060. Warrant-ee refers to the recipient of a warrant-y ;p
  43061.  
  43062.  
  43063.  
  43064.  
  43065. Carol Bohm-Scott
  43066.  
  43067. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  43068. years ago
  43069.  
  43070. @scott.henderson1 thank you for your support and best wishes Scott! :D
  43071.  
  43072.  
  43073.  
  43074.  
  43075. scott.henderson
  43076.  
  43077. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3201718> almost 3 years ago
  43078.  
  43079. You’re at 20% and the campaign doesn’t officially kick off until
  43080. tomorrow! :)
  43081.  
  43082. Can’t wait for my 2 Wedg Pros to arrive next March/April!
  43083.  
  43084. Good luck Shehbaz and the rest of the WEDG team!
  43085.  
  43086.  
  43087.  
  43088.  
  43089. Carol Bohm-Scott
  43090.  
  43091. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  43092. years ago
  43093.  
  43094. @david.j.aldred thanks for your best wishes. We’ll have a think
  43095. about your comments for sure and see what we can do to help. Yes,
  43096. photo backup is now standard with our mobile app for all mobile
  43097. platforms; Android, iOS, Windows and BlackBerry – we are also
  43098. including Firefox OS on our wishlist for post funding success.
  43099.  
  43100.  
  43101.  
  43102.  
  43103. David Aldred
  43104.  
  43105. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> almost 3 years ago
  43106.  
  43107. 3/3
  43108. Did I read the description right that auto-photo-backup to wedg from
  43109. android phone is now a standard feature? I use this feature within
  43110. ownButt and works superb – better than the built-in Google Plus auto
  43111. backup.
  43112.  
  43113.  
  43114.  
  43115.  
  43116. David Aldred
  43117.  
  43118. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> almost 3 years ago
  43119.  
  43120. 2/3
  43121. Incidentally, I’ve backed a similar project on Kickstarter (Slice,
  43122. hence not fussed re XBMC stretch) that gave 2tb drive as a stretch
  43123. goal (paid) upgrade, and was very popular – worth thinking about :o)
  43124. (in fact, the diskless options were extremely popular there too –
  43125. worth thinking about, as I think you’ve limited diskless options here)
  43126.  
  43127.  
  43128.  
  43129.  
  43130. David Aldred
  43131.  
  43132. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8470844> almost 3 years ago
  43133.  
  43134. 1/3 (silly 500 char limit!)
  43135. Tricky choices guys.
  43136.  
  43137. Like the sound of the pro – though don’t really need the extra power
  43138. (though 4tb ability helps).
  43139. I would go diskless, as I want a 2tb drive, but it’s only a little
  43140. extra for the 1tb option. Shame the 24hr special Pro isn’t as
  43141. heavily discounted as the 24hr ARM
  43142.  
  43143. I’ll likely go pro, but need to figure out if it’s worth the extra
  43144. £70 first. But either way – glad you’re back & hope it succeeds this
  43145. time.
  43146.  
  43147.  
  43148.  
  43149.  
  43150. Carol Bohm-Scott
  43151.  
  43152. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  43153. years ago
  43154.  
  43155. @Eliasz Zurawka we’ve seen your email and have replied regarding
  43156. adjusting your perk.
  43157.  
  43158. For shipping, we now have a new perk just for shipping so you can
  43159. also select that or hit the Contribute Now button and manually enter £6.
  43160.  
  43161.  
  43162.  
  43163.  
  43164. Carol Bohm-Scott
  43165.  
  43166. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  43167. years ago
  43168.  
  43169. What aaddiikk said or you can now add the ‘Worldwide Shipping’ Perk
  43170. if you forget. :)
  43171.  
  43172. Thanks aaddiikk!
  43173.  
  43174.  
  43175.  
  43176.  
  43177. aaddiikk
  43178.  
  43179. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8707168> almost 3 years ago
  43180.  
  43181. Guys, just click on ‘contribute now’ and put shipping cost there if
  43182. you forgot to add it before.
  43183.  
  43184.  
  43185.  
  43186.  
  43187. Eliasz
  43188.  
  43189. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695051> almost 3 years ago
  43190.  
  43191. Also, i forgot to add 6$(pounds) to the order i want for shipping.
  43192. How can i adjust the pledge amount?
  43193.  
  43194.  
  43195.  
  43196.  
  43197. Eliasz
  43198.  
  43199. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695051> almost 3 years ago
  43200.  
  43201. Sorry im new to Indiegogo.
  43202.  
  43203. I picked the 129 level frist, and realized i want the intel box
  43204. instead. So i re-pledge at 199, however it looks like now i have
  43205. ordered both??
  43206.  
  43207. I thought it would just update my pledge. How can i remove the one i
  43208. no longer want?
  43209.  
  43210. Thanks
  43211.  
  43212.  
  43213.  
  43214.  
  43215. Carol Bohm-Scott
  43216.  
  43217. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  43218. years ago
  43219.  
  43220. @Franco the WEDG Pro with Intel is actually capable of seeing drives
  43221. with up to 4TB, while the WEDG with ARM is capable of seeing drives
  43222. with up to 2TB of storage.
  43223.  
  43224.  
  43225.  
  43226.  
  43227. Franco
  43228.  
  43229. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8707014> almost 3 years ago
  43230.  
  43231. For the Intel WEDG it lists max storage 4TB and ARM is 2TB. I
  43232. understand the internal storage for both must be 2TB so what is 4TB
  43233. referring to?
  43234.  
  43235.  
  43236.  
  43237.  
  43238. Carol Bohm-Scott
  43239.  
  43240. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  43241. years ago
  43242.  
  43243. @Steven Newman welcome back and thank you for your support. Yes,
  43244. anyone your send an email to is automatically whitelisted on the
  43245. Spam Filter, unless you manually tag them as ‘Spam’ or ‘Block’ – for
  43246. no future messages.
  43247.  
  43248.  
  43249.  
  43250.  
  43251. Carol Bohm-Scott
  43252.  
  43253. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  43254. years ago
  43255.  
  43256. @Jacob Ovard no worries, just add another contribution £6.
  43257.  
  43258.  
  43259.  
  43260.  
  43261. Carol Bohm-Scott
  43262.  
  43263. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  43264. years ago
  43265.  
  43266. @aaddiikk thank you so much! You’re keeping our fingers crossed
  43267. tightly too!
  43268.  
  43269.  
  43270.  
  43271.  
  43272. Carol Bohm-Scott
  43273.  
  43274. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  43275. years ago
  43276.  
  43277. @tetardbleu thank you for your support! Fingers crossed!
  43278.  
  43279.  
  43280.  
  43281.  
  43282. Steven Newman
  43283.  
  43284. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/925661> almost 3 years ago
  43285.  
  43286. Hey, guys – just a question on the spam protection. Will you offer
  43287. white listing so that automatically whomever we send an email to
  43288. will always get through unless we manually add them to a spam block?
  43289.  
  43290. Thanks and good luck! I completely believe in your product and team
  43291. and am so excited to be a part of it!
  43292.  
  43293. Steven
  43294.  
  43295.  
  43296.  
  43297.  
  43298. Jacob Ovard
  43299.  
  43300. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8671772> almost 3 years ago
  43301.  
  43302. Whoops! I forgot to add $6 for shipping. I can’t figure out how to
  43303. edit the pledge.
  43304.  
  43305.  
  43306.  
  43307.  
  43308. aaddiikk
  43309.  
  43310. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8707168> almost 3 years ago
  43311.  
  43312. Taken both Intel and ARM (for main and backup site). Good luck guys
  43313. and I will keep my fingers crossed till the end of the campaign! :)
  43314.  
  43315.  
  43316.  
  43317.  
  43318. tetardbleu
  43319.  
  43320. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/3829087> almost 3 years ago
  43321.  
  43322. Done! I hope this time it will work for you (and us) guys. Good luck!
  43323.  
  43324.  
  43325.  
  43326.  
  43327. Carol Bohm-Scott
  43328.  
  43329. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  43330. years ago
  43331.  
  43332. @aaddiikk :D you’re pretty awesome too! Please kindly add £12, but
  43333. if you choose the multiple Perk then its just £6 Thanks for you support!
  43334.  
  43335.  
  43336.  
  43337.  
  43338. Carol Bohm-Scott
  43339.  
  43340. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  43341. years ago
  43342.  
  43343. @Brian Somes thanks for you support! Yes, shipping must be added
  43344. manually to the total. You can simply click the big pink ‘CONTRIBUTE
  43345. NOW’ button and pay £6, and we’ll know its for your shipping charges :)
  43346.  
  43347.  
  43348.  
  43349.  
  43350. aaddiikk
  43351.  
  43352. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8707168> almost 3 years ago
  43353.  
  43354. if I buy two, and would like a shipping to Poland, should I add 6 or
  43355. 12 pounds? BTW. you guys roooock! :)
  43356.  
  43357.  
  43358.  
  43359.  
  43360. Brian Somes
  43361.  
  43362. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8705869> almost 3 years ago
  43363.  
  43364. So I noticed this did not add the shipping. How to add?
  43365. I’m in for the Wedge Pro Intel special !
  43366. Good luck guys – very happy to see this going again!
  43367.  
  43368.  
  43369.  
  43370.  
  43371. Carol Bohm-Scott
  43372.  
  43373. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  43374. years ago
  43375.  
  43376. @MyWorks Design thank you so much! Glad you like the WEDG Pro! :D
  43377.  
  43378.  
  43379.  
  43380.  
  43381. Carol Bohm-Scott
  43382.  
  43383. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  43384. years ago
  43385.  
  43386. @Nikolai Tesla thank you very much and thank you for your support!
  43387.  
  43388.  
  43389.  
  43390.  
  43391. MyWorks Design
  43392.  
  43393. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8394882> almost 3 years ago
  43394.  
  43395. Yay, #3 – with the Intel Pro version!
  43396.  
  43397. Looking forward to seeing your progress, and I have no doubt this
  43398. campaign will be successful!
  43399.  
  43400.  
  43401.  
  43402.  
  43403. Nikolai Tesla
  43404.  
  43405. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8695962> almost 3 years ago
  43406.  
  43407. Hope you success and looking forward to the Intel based solution.
  43408.  
  43409.  
  43410.  
  43411.  
  43412. Carol Bohm-Scott
  43413.  
  43414. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8667053> Campaigner almost 3
  43415. years ago
  43416.  
  43417. @Tiger Bus
  43418. :) WOOHOO! Thank you for your support!
  43419.  
  43420.  
  43421.  
  43422.  
  43423. Tiger Bus
  43424.  
  43425. <https://www.indiegogo.com/individuals/8706731> almost 3 years ago
  43426.  
  43427. #1! yay ;)
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  43434.  
  43435. Comments end here.
  43436.  
  43437. If you are a backer, please check the twitter feed and add your experience. If you're in the UK, please investigate requesting a refund under section 75 of the Consumer Credit Act. Other backers in other countries, please complain to Indiegogo and your respective consumer protection agencies.
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