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WEDG: the personal cloud you're still waiting for.

WEDG: the personal cloud you're still waiting for.

WEDG: the personal cloud you're still waiting for.

WEDG: the personal cloud you're still waiting for.

WEDG: the personal cloud you're still waiting for.

I had to put something here, so this is a very bad description of a big fat donkey.

I had to put something here, so this is a very bad description of a big fat donkey.

I had to put something here, so this is a very bad description of a big fat donkey.

I had to put something here, so this is a very bad description of a big fat donkey.

Carol Bohm-Scott
Carol Bohm-Scott
Carol Bohm-Scott
Carol Bohm-Scott
0 Campaigns |
Manchester, United Kingdom
£131,537 GBP 905 backers
173% of £71,000 Fixed Goal Fixed Goal
Overview
This project has failed to complete. You should contact Indiegogo and tell them that the campaign owner appears to have abandoned their domain, twitter account, and this campaign page sometime in 2017. If you've sent an email to Carol Bohm-Scott, either direct or through the campaign page within the last year or so, it bounced.

This project failed to complete. We have questions and would like them answered.

 

1: Who was the legal challenger? What exactly happened here?

2: Who is Carol Bohm-Scott? Why is this person seemingly non-existent online?

3: Where did the money go?

4: Campaign creator, why did you suddenly leave without warning?

5: Indiegogo, why are you so reluctant to do anything to help? 

 

 

Please see the following information:

Wedg Limited, Company #08824160, Dissolved February 2018.

https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/0882...

Montrose Innovations Limited, Company #10344848, Dissolved January 2018.

https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/1034...

The "Official" webpage, abandoned by Wedg Limited on or around May 2017.

http://wedg.co/ (redirects to a carrd page.)

The "Official" twitter, abandoned by Wedg Limited on or around May 2017.

https://twitter.com/wearewedg

 

We all understand that new technology is a risk. What we don't understand is why you decided to walk away without so much as a "I'm sorry, it didn't work."

 

If you are a backer, please contact Indiegogo and express your displeasure.

 

(I was originally going to post this as an update, but do not want to bother other backers with junk email.)

Hello all.

If you want the TL;DR, read the first few lines, or skip down for the long version.

1: I'm a backer that was able to get control of the campaign page.
2: This is the only thing you'll ever get from me. 
3: The Wedg campaign appears to have been abandoned since 2017.
4: There's no money in the accounts.
5: If you've sent emails to Carol Bohm-Scott in the last year, they bounced.
6: I have no idea where the money went. I wish I could get mine back.


The long story:

FIrst of all, I'm a backer like you. I lost almost $US200 on this project, which is probably less than some of you did. While I understand that technology doesn't always work, I'm a bit miffed that the campaign creator just walked away from the whole thing without so much as an "I'm sorry."

Second, I promise you, this is the First, Last, and ONLY update that I will send to you. While someone else may take over this page in the future, or Indiegogo may revoke my right to edit this page, I won't be sending anything else to you.

This is what I know, and you probably do as well: Wedg never completed. There was some sort of "legal trouble" with a developer, the creator turned the project over to someone else, and the whole thing just kind of faded into the ether.

What you may not know: If you've sent an email to Carol Bohm-Scott any time in the last year, it probably bounced. To the best of my knowledge, no one has looked at this campaign page for the better part of a year and a half - that is, since the last "Official" update in January 2017. As the domain was abandoned in 2017, the email associated with it was cancelled as well.

In May 2017, I noticed that the domain wedg.co and the twitter account https://www.twitter.com/wearewedg were now available for purchase/use, meaning that Wedg had released them and not renewed the service. I purchased the domain, re-opened the twitter as a rant account, and waited. Nothing happened other than some people on twitter complaining that I shouldn't be crowdfunding, but that's another story.

After a year, I tried to log into the campaign page as I now had control of wedg.co. I was able to do so and poked around.

I immediately noticed some things that were odd: The campaign was listed as "not a hardware product," as a "health and fitness" item, and had NO financial primary (aka the person who gets the money) listed. I was able to figure out how to view the actual financials, and I'm sorry to say there is no money left in this project - it's all been disbursed - I have no idea where. (Just as a note, according to Indiegogo there should be NO way to change the financial primary once the campaign has taken funds. I have to assume that the project was closed with Shehbaz and re-opened as new with Carol.)

I'm sorry to say that it appears this project is 100% dead, and that the money has gone - where, I do not know. I know that the original creator is still out there, as he's blocked wearewedg on twitter. I have no idea if Carol is real, as there isn't anything other than a mobile number listed for her (him?) in the campaign pages.

I'm as ticked off as you, but Indiegogo has been less than receptive about investigating problems with this campaign, only referring it to their trust and safety team, people who should have immediately noticed that the emails all bounced. People that should have seen that the domain and twitter were suspiciously harsh in their ire towards Wedg Limited. People who should have recognized that something was wrong simply by the comments section and lack of updates for a year and a half.

So, fellow backers, I'm sorry to say that my investigations proved fruitless. There's nothing in this campaign page save more questions, and I can't answer them. 

You'll notice I've changed the campaign page a bit, and I plan on leaving it (save spelling/grammar corrections) as it is. Please feel free to tell Indiegogo how upset you are, and please feel free to rant on https://twitter.com/wearewedg - no comments are censored there.


I did want to mention one last thing - all of your personal information (no financial stuff) is still present in the campaign. I'm going to see if I can get Indiegogo to delete this, as it doesn't need to be there anymore. Otherwise, when I log out for the last time, I'll simply create a one-time email for the campaign, verify, and then let that email expire so no one else should be able to  log in again, ever.

Farewell, God bless, and Amen. It is done.

 

(edited June 19 2018, spelling and more information added about finances.)

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