Some Indiegogo campaigns are fraudulently using the EEVblog logo (among others) as "Featured In" in order to trick consumers into believing the project is popular and has been mentioned/endorsed by these companies.
The V-White 360 Automatic Toothbrush
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/v-white-teeth-whitening-360-automatic-toothbrush--2/x/3963035 #/
You can just buy this crap on Aliexpress already, even with the V-white branding!
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/2018-New-Sonic-Adult-Electric-Toothbrush-Wireless-Charging-360-Degree-Oral-Teeth-Whitening-Automatic-tooth-Brushing/32855364956.html
Indiegogo supposedly take Copyright & Trademark infringement "seriously", but they have done nothing to remove the EEVblog logo
https://support.indiegogo.com/hc/en-us/articles/217205168-Copyright-Trademark-and-Patents
Forum: http://www.eevblog.com/forum/eevblab/eevblab-46-indiegogo-campaign-logo-fraud/'>http://www.eevblog.com/forum/eevblab/eevblab-46-indiegogo-campaign-logo-fraud/
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The V-White 360 Automatic Toothbrush
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/v-white-teeth-whitening-360-automatic-toothbrush--2/x/3963035 #/
You can just buy this crap on Aliexpress already, even with the V-white branding!
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/2018-New-Sonic-Adult-Electric-Toothbrush-Wireless-Charging-360-Degree-Oral-Teeth-Whitening-Automatic-tooth-Brushing/32855364956.html
Indiegogo supposedly take Copyright & Trademark infringement "seriously", but they have done nothing to remove the EEVblog logo
https://support.indiegogo.com/hc/en-us/articles/217205168-Copyright-Trademark-and-Patents
Forum: http://www.eevblog.com/forum/eevblab/eevblab-46-indiegogo-campaign-logo-fraud/'>http://www.eevblog.com/forum/eevblab/eevblab-46-indiegogo-campaign-logo-fraud/
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Hi No! I'm not in the lab or all the office. so I'm shooting this on the road. so please forgive any crap audio or video here. We're going to take a look at IndieGoGo very quickly.
yet again, somebody pointed this one out to me. thank you very much the V white teeth whitening and 360 automatic toothbrush. But we're not really here to talk about the product itself. although these things are all the rage at the moment apparently.
Just stick them in your gob and they auto magically team clean your teeth. Yeah, right, sure. Anyway, IndieGoGo is the Scammers crowdfunding platform of choice, especially when it uses flexible funding down here. Anyway, they've raised three hundred thirty one thousand of their ten thousand dollar goal.
As if they were ever going to manufacture this with a ten thousand dollar flexible funding goal. If you don't know, flexible funding means that they get the money, however much money they raise, they get the money regardless of whether or not they meet their target or not. So anyway, only IndieGoGo Do this like you don't get this on. Kickstarter It's all-or-nothing You have to reach your goal or you don't get it.
Anyway, somebody pointed this out. thank you very much. We're not here to talk about the product. What we're here to talk about is something that all why I Grown every time.
I See these. It's like the staple of every crowdfunding thing. Look at all these photos, blah blah. marketing, wank, blah blah blah and the goals and tasks blah blah.
The mouthpiece. what's this is featured in the EEV blog. Well, ironically, I guess it is now. Anyway, look at this and the Applied Science Channel that's the Applied Science logo.
If this thing was featuring an appliance, science I'm a monkey's uncle HPC The Hydraulic Press Channel DP Review: Digital Photography review like Digital Trends lash gear or I have no idea what the other ones are. But anyway, they've obviously ripping off my logo among others and fortunately, using that and this as featured in in no way has this ever been mentioned by me on any platform until now. like rotten Italy and I'm sure it hasn't been featured on these other ones as well. And the reason we know this is because if you do a Google reverse image search, you can find other ones.
Look at this is that familiar look at that. Ah, this is the mini. K Let's have a look at this crap mini. K wireless portable karaoke system and this one.
How many reach Four Seven hundred forty bucks Good failed bloody scammers yet fraud and and this one here as well. Look, does that ring a bell? This one is an iPhone case thing. Once again, they only good. They only reached 1,700 bucks.
they didn't reach there, but they would have got that 1,700 bucks that's in their pocket anyway. Would it cost them more in time to develop all this? But hey, they ripped off you know, my logo and everyone else's So what they're doing is they're obviously just ripping off this featured in segments I I Find this grown worthy Anyway, you know, feature it in its there are all these platforms that they're featured in because they mention on some blogs somewhere as if it. but hey, it sucks. People in it gives the error. you know, authenticity and all that sort of stuff. Anyway, look, they're into production apparently. I don't know. What are they just buying on? Aliexpress or something? A repackaging I mean you go I don't know.
Look like they got a timeline. Who gives a anyway look at this. Here's the: CDO What's a CDO Chief Design Officer? Is it some Z Lee I graduate from Mass Oh god I can't even pronounce that University His was honored with AI bachelor degree. Since then, he has developed many revolutionary devices and which has been praised as one of the greatest modern pioneer engineers.
Oh yeah, and the chief. the CCO Yi Tayo has graduated from Hong Kong Hong Kong School of Design with a branding Master degree. This person has a master's degree in branding presumably like marketing kind of thing and they have to rip off my fraud. We use mine and other logos on their stupid IndieGoGo campaign.
Unbelievable. Anyway, this has been talked about in private on the EEV blog form in the supporters section for I don't know last week or two or whatever Because we didn't want to give him publicity, we didn't want to have a link in there. But now that it's almost over, Yeah. Anyway, Bastard.
So um, and I've been I actually and so did other people tried to contact IndieGoGo but of course you know they said back this standard can respond. So yes, we'll investigate our fraud divisional investigator Sun and they haven't done a thing and they've actually got IndieGoGo actually have a specific thing for taking down copyrighted material, copyright, and trademark material. Of course, because my name and logo are trademarks of course. So I even filled in, they actually have information.
sorry I don't have a link here, but they have this information on how to actually contact them. they have a specific email address for this, you know, copyright trade infringement kind of thing in a project like this. and I email them, follow the template, everything else and you know, took down a tape you know, asked like implied for a takedown request on my particular logo. And of course, they've done absolutely nothing in a couple of weeks and they don't intend to Anyway, it's completely not A and I am aware that yes, ironically, they can now probably legally use this featured in because it's on the eevblog.
Anyway, bastards, Sick of these bloody campaigns and IndieGoGo it's just. ah man, it's so bad. Unbelievable. Anyway, if you know of any other campaigns that have used fraudulently use mine or other logos, link them in.
leave them in down the comments, please. And if you can actually report this to IndieGoGo is they get flooded with that reports? Maybe they'll do something, but yeah, won't hold my breath anyway. Bastards catch you next time.
Indiegogdoesnt demand a working prototype,thats why its a playground for scammers.
Thanks for sharing,man.
Wait, so that was a fraud?! Glad I didnโt fund it!
Im surprised to hear you use the word "gob". I thought that was only used in the North of England
ddns attack them
Poor choice on their part – because anyone who recognizes the eevBlog log should know Dave wouldn't endorse something like that.
Has not been featured in HPC, i've been with them from the start.
No, they still can't legally use it, even if it was technically 'featured' here. You still hold the copyright and the trademark and they are at least infringing on the copyright.
If they hadn't used the logo and instead just used text, it wouldn't be so clear-cut, but as it is, what they are doing is not legal.
I think you should raise a lawsuit against Indiegogo. I'm not a lawyer but it seems you should have some standing and a reasonable chance of getting at least a stop to this nonsense.
The audio in this is actually better than many of your "normal" videos. Your laptop must have an impressive microphone.
You can file a DMCA toward Indiegogo and they will be obligated by law to put down the page. It's basically what happens to us on youtube when we use copyrighted material that's not (allegedly) fair use. Of course they will file a counter notification, which basically means either you sue them, or the page gets back up. But it takes time… 10 US business days. At least it's something.
"Hong Skong" ๐
After your video, it's no fraud anymore, because you featured it in this episode ๐
Start an Indiegogo campaign for a 'Scammer Detector' device which you just point at your screen and it beeps when it smells bullshit ๐
If fraud is a crime, why do these things continue?
HPC is not even a good channel to be featured in
That is why I always have backed stuff on Kickstarter and neverr Indigogo.
There are scams on Kickstarter as well but not as many since it is all or nothing.
I should see if my logo has shown up or not in these scam campaigns. ๐
Until Now
Someone should make a website debunking/warning about potential scam campaigns like these. So that you can look up/google whatever you are interested in before supporting it. Idk if that would be legal tho. Perhaps if it was just a comment-posting platform (like youtube comments for example) that would be good too.
GoGoScammers
i guess indigogo need a shitload of people to spam them to death about the issue.. alrighty then