Replies to post #76155 on Red Giant Entertainment, Inc. (fka REDG)

[Tlsmd]

Yes, SP it seems to be a trait that runs in the Company. Not too long ago David Campiti had a Kickstarter for about 800 odd $'s for a book of comical comments by Obama and Biden about the Trump-Clinton Campaign. He also put it on Amazon. It did not seem like it took him that much time when you consider how long for Benny to get a Digital out on JNH and as far as the nearly 300 page Hard Copy, who knows? The only copies I/we saw were held by Stan Lee and David Campiti in a Publicity Photo. I have not heard of anyone saying they received a Hard Copy. And then Markiplier does a lot of Campaigns to sell whatever and then donates a small percentage to Charity. I imagine he does actually donate the money. Benny is suppose to do the same thing but up to now he has never named the Charity. It is a good gimmick even if they actually do make the donation.
They keep 95% of the profits give 5% to Charity. Then at the end of the year they can combine all the 5% Donations and use it as a Tax Deduction. What surprised me about David is the small amount of his Kickstarter. I thought he was well heeled. I do not know how these Kickstarters work. I never even bothered to check them out. I do not know if the donors make a donation and expect something back or is it just a good will donation. Whatever there are many ways to fleece the unwary of their hard earned cash as unfortunately has happened in our own ZwagBox fiasco. Our best hope there is that somehow Benny et al realize the extenuating negative circumstances here and they make restitution with their OWN FUNDS Because where did that money disappear to. Only a rhetorical question. Take care SP. Tlsmd

[duke2742]

I'm glad you brought that up, insiders making money. Here are the numbers from the invoices the David Campiti and Chris Crosby provided to the courts from the last lawsuit.

Glasshouse Graphics submitted invoices totaling $253,295.70[, broken down as follows:

$72,346.24 - ZWAGBOX Box and poster fulfillment through MEDALLION FULFILLMENT &LOGISTICS.
$8,000 Giant Size Line Publishing Production Services
$15,949.46 ZWAGBOX Container printing, shipping and assembly through CorrBox, Inc.(On this invoice it lists a quantity of 19,632 boxes. I don't believe this is the number that was sold, but that is the number that Dave billed for.)
$80,000. Contractual FEES due to creators for stories appearing in ad-supported GIANT-SIZE #1 comic book(2015)
$77,000 Artwork, script, lettering, color, painting, edition all and design/production services for Red Giant comic books, posters, prints.

Keenspot Entertainment submitted invoices totaling $240,835.60broken down as follows:

$25,745.48 48 months of upkeep for Comicgensis.
$43,183.00. ZWAGBOX paper products, printing, posters, and manufacturing.
$20,385.12. ZWAGBOX T-shirt manufacturing for Civilization and Skyrim licensed products.
$34,522 ZWAGBOX Logistics and International shipping concerns.
$117,000.00 ZWAGBOX merchandise.

So if my calculator is correct, 1 ZWAGBOX cost $303,385. There does seem to be some double billing though.