Topic: Worlds biggest game collection attempt.

Hi my names Adrian Ehmke and for the past few with the help of friends and family I have been collecting video game (manly Nintendo games and consoles) recently the world’s largest game collection belonging to Michael Thomas sold for $750,000 it included 11,000 games. So I stared a fund anything campaign to go for the world record and beat the record seeing that people could raise money to make a potato salad or chocolate bacon anything could be possible. I believe with good budgeting I can buy enough games and consoles for around $100,000 to $200,000 (including arcade units and rare retro games). To show generosity to contributors I have promised even if I do not reach the goal or get the record that I will give away a majority of the collection for free (80-85%), I don’t need all these games and there better off with people that will take good care of them ( I will have to raise a certain amount to make a collection though) . the Nintendo side of the collection is going well just with the help of friends, family and my own money. I'm more so asking for help to not just contribute to the fund but spread the word as I’m not very tech savvy at social media, and Nintendo fans seem way easier to get on with as they enjoy games a bit more than most of the other groups of fans (Sony , Microsoft).Thank you for your help if you decide to contribute to the fund or at least spread it thorough form or discussion boards on other websites it would be great help for me. Just an average Joe attempting a world record.
https://fundanything.com/en/campaigns/world-record-attempt-wo... this is the link to the campaign
You may email questions to [email protected] trolling and abuse is welcome lol.

I just deleted my previous post because I was a bit misinformed on the fundraiser. I claimed it looked like a get rich scheme, but I didn't read the fundanything page properly before commenting.

It's a bit of an odd campaign to run. It just seems too risky for me to want to participate, and if not, just too much hassle. It looks like this site is different to Kickstarter (but like indiegogo), where a campaign can close below the goal. If I donated $100 today, and the campaign goes on to raise something like $2,000, you wouldn't be able to fulfill those rewards, and I'd be out of pocket.

( I will have to raise a certain amount to make a collection though)

One line at the bottom of the page is a bit concerning:

As I have said above I only want the record, 80% to 90% of the collection will be given back to the contributors.

If you struck lucky, and reached your goal, you'll get to keep the remaining 10% - you'd be making a net profit. That doesn't really seem to be in the spirit of this world record. I dug up a HuffPo article about this Michael Thomas[son], and he seems like a nice person. What's your story? Why should we help you achieve this World Record?

I don't want to make any judgements here, but you kind of have to be aware of how this sounds. You're just asking people to fund a personal collection of video games worth tens of thousands of dollars (10-20% of $100-200k) and make you a world record holder.

As for keeping 10% of the collection that would be the part I already own, For my story, I;m a college student from Melbourne Australia, fathers an engineer, mothers a nurse collecting video games is a hobby Australia doesn't have kick starter there's nothing much to it. I have no interest actually making profit or robbing people im just here to make a huge game collection and give it back to the people that built it in a fast time period. and for making judgements I did say I would give the collection away to contributes even if it doesn't get the record and allow contributes to choose what they want. Also I have seen campaigns of people making chocolate bacon, spaghetti, paper hats and they had raised thousands I doubt they gave much back or anything to there contributors at all. So judge if you want you, but sometimes you have to think outside the box.

Sorry but if I'm giving my hard earned dollar away it is to actually help people who need the help. Too many people going hungry or homeless for me to give it to someone to help them get the world's largest game collection.

So giving the collection away for free to random people isn't good enough? you people seem to ignore that I'm giving it away in the end isn't that charity.

I think they're more saying that in the grand scheme of things, there's a lot more important things to spend that kind of money on then video games.

Doesn't matter when I can see money I'm donating to actually going to help people.

So you want people to give you money so you can become a record holder? Last time i checked, most record holding collectors payed for their stuff themselves. And with all do respect... Why should we trust you? There is just so much wrgon with this...

What happens if I put in a clause of money back guaranteed? if it doesn't reach the goal. If you're trying to talk in circles maybe you should look on some these funding sites and see some the ridiculous campaigns getting money there are literally people just asking for money for nothing and giving nothing back .And most the biggest collectors did pay for part of there collections but a lot of games were donated. As i said before I'd always give it back to the people there is no reason at all to hang on to 12.000 video games.

This is just too funny.

I'm giving away the entire collection which is funded and only keeping what I already have, seems pretty fair. Fair point in giving it back but they do have a choice in what they want(some of the games or consoles are worth way more than what someone would contribute). what do you want? games and money to convince you. What if i said the top 50 contributors could pick 20 games each and get $1000 each. is that enough charity to prove the money doesn't matter.

I'm dying😂😂😂 dude you don't just ask people for money. I have always been taught that you should earn your money. I don't want to donate to you because it isn't benefiting anything. Like @RancidVomit86 said, I'd rather donate money to people who NEED it. Not some dude wanting a video game collection...

But in every crowfunding campaign someone is asking for money?

You really don't get it do you?

Well to me, they're asking for money for the right reasons. By what I said, I meant, you shouldn't just ask people for money for something like a video game collection, or a new car...

Or at least thats my opinion, everyone's entitled to one.

explain? I get that people like to make excuses to talk around things. for example I could say all the money goes to charity then someone would say I'm not giving to charity its a waste, so its always a lose lose situation.

Crowdfunding works two ways. It works for creators and it works for consumers. Creators assume that consumers want the product they're pitching, and receive money pretty much in advance to carry out the work.

What you're doing, is asking for money purely for personal gain. Nobody would pay $100 to only get one game in return. It's ridiculous to assume people would want to contribute to this. Sure, people have funded strange things before. A man got money to make potato salad. Why? It was interesting, and most people only contributed one or two dollars, and I believe he used that money to give food to homeless shelters.

And you're essentially a middleman. You're asking people to give you money, for something that won't get them anything, while you also make a profit.

Doesn't work like that honey.

yer going to be the talk of youtube. thats all yer gonna get out of this.
this is lame