Corran Addison SUP Kickstarter in Trouble

[Ichabod Spoonbill]

You're probably right, Bill. The more and more I hear about Corran, a man I used to respect, the more of a narcissist he seems.

[Ichabod Spoonbill]

Well this finally got resolved, sort of.

The purchasing company of Corran's company, Kayak Distribution, is agreeing to give everybody their boards. Of course, me getting this board will mean I have to send said company $125 for shipping this board. This price seems like highway robbery, but there's not much else I can do. REI is selling it for about $60 more than the Kickstarter paying, which sucks too.

I told Corran that, now that this is over, he should do something for all the people who had faith in him. Pay the shipping or something like that. (This was initially included in the Kickstarter price.) Of course he balked, and balked for doing anything extra for the people getting their boards a year and a half late. I honestly didn't expect him to do anything, but I finally told Corran how disgusted I was in how he handled this whole thing. For someone who puts in a lot of effort to stoke his online reputation, he's pretty careless about ruining it. Honestly, a little extra effort on his part to make people happy would have gone a long way. Maybe I'm being too lah-lah and moralistic about the whole thing, but his lack of self-awareness as to how he created this whole situation in the first place is pretty pathetic.

Put CorranSUP and his new company Soul on my list of companies I avoid. At least my son will get a new board. He's hitting a growth spurt and that one I got him last year is a little small.

Anyway, sorry I haven't been around guys, BTW. School and other stuff just got ahold of me. I haven't even been on my board in about a month. I'm back now!

[eastbound]

hey icky--thought youd been paying the price for assigning too much homework!

[Ichabod Spoonbill]

I'm sure you're right, east. I'm such an evil teacher it's hard to measure the levels of my depravity. All that reading, and writing, and homework! Bad karma is sure to catch up to me.


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[eastbound]

my friend who teaches hs history here in nyc said he wished he'd become a math teacher. He teaches 4 classes of thirty, and assigns 10 page papers a few times a year, along with much other written work. He faces a punishing amount of reading that must be done carefully, and requires decent commentary. 1200 pp every paper assigned, all of which must be read on his "own" time!

i was less worried that you are evil, icky, more worried that you'd assigned so much work that you had no life beyond reading and grading.

[PonoBill]

I can't imagine reading ten pages of highschooler drivel, much less 1200. I'd read the first three lines, then the last three, make sure the middle was in english and call it good.

D minus--conclusion disconnected from premise.

A plus. Nice use of the phrase "pop a cap in dat techer", though I respectfully submit that teacher has an a, and dat is not really a definite article.

[blueplanetsurf]

Well this finally got resolved, sort of.

The purchasing company of Corran's company, Kayak Distribution, is agreeing to give everybody their boards. Of course, me getting this board will mean I have to send said company $125 for shipping this board. This price seems like highway robbery, but there's not much else I can do. REI is selling it for about $60 more than the Kickstarter paying, which sucks too.

I told Corran that, now that this is over, he should do something for all the people who had faith in him. Pay the shipping or something like that. (This was initially included in the Kickstarter price.) Of course he balked, and balked for doing anything extra for the people getting their boards a year and a half late. I honestly didn't expect him to do anything, but I finally told Corran how disgusted I was in how he handled this whole thing. For someone who puts in a lot of effort to stoke his online reputation, he's pretty careless about ruining it. Honestly, a little extra effort on his part to make people happy would have gone a long way. Maybe I'm being too lah-lah and moralistic about the whole thing, but his lack of self-awareness as to how he created this whole situation in the first place is pretty pathetic.

Put CorranSUP and his new company Soul on my list of companies I avoid. At least my son will get a new board. He's hitting a growth spurt and that one I got him last year is a little small.

Anyway, sorry I haven't been around guys, BTW. School and other stuff just got ahold of me. I haven't even been on my board in about a month. I'm back now!

It's a shame it took so long for you to get this resolved, we launched a Kickstarter campaign a bit after this one and shipped our boards a year and a half ago.

I agree that Corran should do something to help out the backers that had faith in him but in his defense, the shipping for boards was not included in the backer prices, this is from the FAQ of the campaign, he estimates shipping charges of $50 per board.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1747259538/take-appart-paddleboard/description

FAQ:

Is shipping included for the rewards?

For the smaller rewards it is included, within the USA. For the paddles, and boards, the shipping is additional. Within the USA it's around $50 (based on quotes we have in November 2013 - but these can and do change). International it's most likely about double that.

Last updated: Fri, Nov 22 2013 11:41 AM HST

[Ichabod Spoonbill]

Fair enough, blue, but the difference in the shipping is still pretty jarring.

Maybe I'm not in business for a reason, because I always feel a loyalty towards those that help me or stick their neck out for me. Just my nature. I tried to make the point with Corran, but he started arguing with me. I'm sure if I went back to the Kickstarter page, he's left some choice words to me, words that I'm not going to bother reading. Those online spats never end up well, something I've learned the hard way.

[Ichabod Spoonbill]

Anyway, at least the thing's over. I've learned a few things, especially when situations don't go your way. You guys had some very intelligent things to say, which I appreciate.