Need opinions on a summer project.

[Perfectlap]

I would not do this.

Crowd funding is either to advance something that will benefit others (eventually) or to help someone who is some dire circumstance.
Although the millenialls and whatever they call the generation after them would probably think that getting a kid with a Porsche some more money to buy a beater car would be something that should be higher up the pecking order of donations than helping stray dogs and cats, helping astoundingly poor kids who need a Raspberry Pi in India to learn code, getting clean drinking water to village in Ghana, etc.


That being said I would urge you to put some time into starting your own website where you can provide some information about the Volvo to other prospective teen drivers and ahem... ask for donations. Randall Neighbor did this with his Boxster, he provided a great deal of useful information and after all that I believe received two donations and a gift card to Shake N' Steak.

P.S.
I have been continuously employed since age 14.
High school jobs:
paper route. did the math, well below the minimum wage but still it was earned cash.
dish washer. Not the job I was hired for but other job (shopping kart guy at supermarket) went to another kid. Kept washing dishes.
burger flipper. Never eat the chili at fast food places.
record store clerk. Yes they actually sold vinyl records.
Tele marketing. This job paid 3x's the minimum wage (moving up in the world fast).

Even then, I'd would have a VERY HARD TIME asking strangers for money towards something I could fund with the labor of my own two hands and feets.

[BIGJake111]

Originally Posted by Perfectlap

I would not do this.

Crowd funding is either to advance something that will benefit others (eventually) or to help someone who is some dire circumstance.

That being said I would urge you to put some time into starting your own website where you can provide some information about the Volvo to other prospective teen drivers and ahem... ask for donations. Randall Neighbor did this with his Boxster, he provided a great deal of useful information and after all that I believe received two donations and a gift card to Shake N' Steak.

I do feel bad about the idea of putting this in the community section and am thinking about putting it in the art section instead, at the end of the day it isn't just a beater for me, the whole thing is an experience and then the car has a story. Hopes would be to contact petrolicious and see if they would like to write and article if it works out.

[Perfectlap]

Originally Posted by BIGJake111

I do feel bad about the idea of putting this in the community section and am thinking about putting it in the art section instead, at the end of the day it isn't just a beater for me, the whole thing is an experience and then the car has a story. Hopes would be to contact petrolicious and see if they would like to write and article if it works out.

It's neither art nor community from a crowd funding perspective.
Let's not conflate the very worthwhile project of documenting your experience of buying an old car for that car's enthusiast segment.... with asking for the funds. Those are two things that should not be "commingled".

[BIGJake111]

Originally Posted by Perfectlap

It's neither art nor community from a crowd funding perspective.
Let's not conflate the very worthwhile project of documenting your experience of buying an old car for that car's enthusiast segment.... with asking for the funds. Those are two things that should not be "commingled".

The crowd funding is the story of the car, otherwise it is simply a junky Volvo and I wouldn't find it worth documenting at all.

[kk2002s]

I thought this was a Boxster enthusiast forum?
I think this reality TV thread surpasses 'What oil should I use'
Maybe include a free bottle of your toilet water with each donation

Hears a novel idea - TAKE the BUS to School

Oh Dear - I got sucked in - Who do I make the check to

[cfos]

Originally Posted by Perfectlap

... whatever they call the generation after them ...

I like "Tee-Ball Generation."

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