As part of a new and ongoing effort to expand the transparency within our community as to how decisions are made & how influence/cash is rewarded, we’ve added this super cool page in your profile so you can track how much influence you have earned in each products’ various phases of development. If you go to your porfolio and click any of the products listed under your picture, you will be able to see how much influnence you have earned for all products inproduction, in presales, and in development. Click to expand/explore for a deeper dive into the breakdown. So now you can see where your (and other peoples) influence is coming from.
Remember, influence means earning potential.
Let us know if you have questions or feedback on this page. We will be adding many more features in the coming weeks which will allow the entire community to see & track sales both direct on our site and at wholesale/retail… We understand there is some question as to how things are all happening, and we intend to explain everything by constantly unveiling new tools such as this one today.
5 Comments
Mark | 10/23/2009 11:04 AM
Oh WOW! That’s great. Transparency! Influence does mean earning POTENTIAL, but don’t forget that:
“… there can be no guarantee that you will ever receive any payments or actual compensation in connection with participating on the Site or providing Content even if you participate or provide Content. Quirky makes no representations or warranties regarding any actual monetary compensation that may be earned in connection with use of the Site or the Service…”
Mark | 10/23/2009 11:21 AM
I just have one simple question for you, man to man. If I do work for you, are you going to pay me?
ben kaufman | 10/23/2009 12:21 PM
Right, mark- Our Terms & Conditions makes no guarantees of monetary compensation.
But, we are all in this together, so…. Can i tell you that a few inventors are due to be paid thousands of dollars once their invention ships in a few weeks, yes.
i can not tell you that YOU are going to earn money because I, nor my terms and conditions, know who you are or if you have influenced any of our products to date.
I can tell you, man to man, that if you do hold influence in a successful product like the powercurl or digidude, etc you are set to cash in– along with all your fellow influencers.
Mark | 10/23/2009 6:03 PM
Here’s the personal promise you made to namehthis members in your Klusterfck blog post of July 24th.
“You can continue working on namethis, and continue accumulating money into your account… know that card loads will work again soon, and your money will be waiting for you.”
The proof of your word to quirky members will be in your actions towards namethis members. If you are really interested in building a collaborative community of intelligent and creative people, you might consider some redesign of your “legal stuff.” Communities are built on trust and if the legal framework of quirky is designed to only protect you, there can’t be much trust.
dtfgator | 11/05/2009 4:54 PM
Ben–
My balance is somehow -108… How is this even possible? I am not committed to anything. And yes, I have emailed tiny dino twice — both times with response, but no result.
I think I may have earned close to $75 so I want to get my money… with a balance in the negatives for no apparent reason.. This isn’t going to happen.