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propworx-email [2016/09/13 10:51] – [Axanar Spokesman: 'Wasn't the Right Way'] adds new Bawden quote Carlos Pedrazapropworx-email [Unknown date] (current) – external edit (Unknown date) 127.0.0.1
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 ====== Donors Complain Company Spammed Using Axanar List ====== ====== Donors Complain Company Spammed Using Axanar List ======
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 +//**__ __**// <wrap lo>**By [[user>cpedraza|Carlos Pedraza]]**</wrap>
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 In a move that may have run afoul of federal and international laws, and the terms of use of other online services, [[Axanar Productions]] appeared to have lent or sold its donor mailing list to another company to advertise an upcoming auction of props and costumes. In a move that may have run afoul of federal and international laws, and the terms of use of other online services, [[Axanar Productions]] appeared to have lent or sold its donor mailing list to another company to advertise an upcoming auction of props and costumes.
  
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 ==== Axanar's Financial Interest  ==== ==== Axanar's Financial Interest  ====
  
-According to Peters, a portion of the proceeds from all Propworx Star Trek-related auctions — "as always" — goes back to Axanar Productions,(({{::propworx-proceeds.jpg?linkonly|Alec Peters post}}, Facebook Axanar Fan Group, 9/10/16.)) indicating the consideration the auction company offered the production in exchange for access to its donors' private information.+According to Peters, a portion of the proceeds from all Propworx Star Trek-related auctions — "as always" — goes back to Axanar Productions,(({{::propworx-proceeds.jpg?linkonly|Alec Peters post}}, Facebook Axanar Fan Group, 9/10/16.)) indicating the consideration the auction company offered the production in exchange for access to its donors' personal information.
  
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 //**__« There are right ways and wrong ways to go about using email solicitations … this wasn't the right way to do it. »__**// — //Axanar spokesman Mike Bawden// //**__« There are right ways and wrong ways to go about using email solicitations … this wasn't the right way to do it. »__**// — //Axanar spokesman Mike Bawden//
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 +=== Auction as Fundraiser ===
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 +<wrap em>UPDATE</wrap> After the auction, Peters contradicted his spokesman, saying he hadn't spammed the Axanar donors list at all:
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 +> For the record, no one gave anyone’s [email] info to a third party. That is a lie. The email about the Propworx Star Trek auction was sent out from the Axanar Productions Constant Contact account as Propworx is my company and the auction was a fundraiser for Axanar. I donated over $35,000 from that auction to Axanar.(([[https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/194429923/star-trek-axanar/comments?cursor=14574696#comment-14574695|Alec Peters post, Star Trek Axanar Kickstarter project]], 10/4/16.))
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 +Further, he claimed the auction [[no_refunds#shifting donation amounts|produced profits]] of $20,000, all of which he said he donated to Axanar. Then he claimed it was $35,000, then $40,000.(([[https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/194429923/star-trek-axanar/comments?cursor=14622373#comment-14622372|Alec Peters post to Star Trek Axanar Kickstarter project]], 10/9/16.))
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 ===== Applicable Laws and Regulations ===== ===== Applicable Laws and Regulations =====