I did a bit of digging and on their website their CEO, Brandon Mairs is described as:
Serial entrepreneur with a knack for designing, building and improving products in an array of different industries. Brandon has consulted an array of start-ups with branding packages and PR strategies. He has years of experience in manufacturing with global distribution logistics and is a composite materials expert.
…yet according to his LinkedIn profile he doesn’t seem to have product delivery experience (quote the opposite of building and improving products in an array of different industries).
I am curious to see what is going on with this. Their campaign was a flexible funder, which means all money donated is kept by them (even if they don’t reach their goal). This could bode badly for them if they can’t ship any product and don’t provide refunds.
I have a sneaking suspicion that their page was taken down by IGG because of an abuse report or claim that the product won’t ship. I am not sure if this happens…but IGG seems to be up and running (the XPRIZE campaign is up fine), so it is not a site service, which would suggest that either Arubixs took it down or IGG did. Arubixs are saying they didn’t expect it to be down, which would suggest IGG removed it…and abuse is the only thing I think of why they would do this.
Hello everyone,
Yes, we know the IndieGoGo Campaign has been taken down. This was done per IndieGoGo’s terms and conditions as they were notified of an intellectual property complaint. We have just received a copy of this complaint and our attorney’s and legal team are reviewing the information to determine next steps. We have reached out to IndieGogo to resolve this matter and hope to have the campaign relaunched shortly. For full disclosure and transparency, we have attached the said complaint on this page for our backers to review.
Regards,
The Arubixs Team
This Christian Stroetmann seems a little odd. His entire site is full of existing projects re-labelled as his own trademarked terms. I’m ringing the crackpot bell now.
I hope this is not some patent troll trying to get money or delay real innovation. It always hurts me at my core when I read stories of people (or companies) using the patent system to stop innovation in order to protect their own interests.