Self Made vs Service Provider: Crowdfunding Sites
We, my wife Arleta and myself James, are running a campaign to raise the money for the down payment on our new home. While we appreciate the efforts of the many that are doing all that they can, I James, felt it necessary I explain why we chose to attempt to run the campaign ourselves with our own website instead of using any of the established service providers such as GoFundMe or the like. The primary reason was that after a “lot” and I mean a lot of research into the website service providers that exist out there, I could not rationalize the wealth the owners of such sites have, all through the process of “helping other people”. Yes there is expense in the process, but looking into it, and also having run businesses of my own, especially mostly online businesses, I knew that their cost were far lower than the cost they were charging for their services. I am not trying to say that I do not believe they should not make a profit, but as with all such things I look at t...