OPINION10 September 2009
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Mark Herron
15 years ago
Part of what Quirky does is pay community members for submitting the winning product idea and for influencing. or voting for, the winning product. The folks behind Quirky are also behind Kluster(www.kluster.com) and namethis(www.namethis.com). Namethis was a site that allowed users to submit products or companies that needed naming. Community members submitted names and voted on them. Winning namers and those that voted were to be paid for their effort. Namethis shut down several weeks ago owing many community members a lot of money. Namethis continued for months accepting money from clients that waned an item named, but never shared this money with community members. Finally, they announced they were having financial problems and closed up shop with some vague promises of starting back up at some time in the future and vague promises to pay us. Ben Kaufman is the founder of all of these endeavors and I just want to caution people about him. While this Quirky idea sounds very interesting, be very careful with your dealings with Ben Kaufman and Quirky.
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