Comments on: LVL, the first hydration tracking wearable delayed till summer 2018

By: Ricky

Ricky — Fri, 10 Nov 2017 18:41:20 +0000

Sign this petition if you backed lvl bsx and want a refund

https://www.ipetitions.com/petition/bsx-lvl-refund-request-due-to-fraudulent-activity

By: DRVN

DRVN — Sat, 04 Nov 2017 23:07:51 +0000

Yasmeen has it right. This was fraud, no doubt. The ‘pre-production’ devices and successful test experiments were a sham. The tech they are claiming to use has been shown to have fundamental incompatibilities with the stated purpose. For a more in-depth disassembly of their fraud: https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2017/10/bsx-insight-lvl-hydration-sensor.html

By: yasmeen

yasmeen — Sun, 20 Aug 2017 05:09:00 +0000

Total fraud, they lied about everything in their campaign. They said they only needed 50k to go to production, since they had a fully working and validated prototype. $1.2 million dollars and a year later they want another year and backers are most likely not going to see anything since Samsung got into the picture and might use the tech for their own devices. It’s a total scam since they had the pre-orders open on their website until July with an August 2017 promise of delivery, only to change that to 2018 a week later, it’s not like the delay suddenly happened, they were just trying to scam as much cash as they could from unaware buyers before releasing the delay news.

By: Nicole

Nicole — Tue, 15 Aug 2017 15:42:25 +0000

I think part of the challenge is that the creators specifically mentioned in the campaign that they had working prototypes, and that the Kickstarter money would be to help bring this to mass production. Were the prototypes not real? The claim now is that they need more money to bring it to life – but there is no indication why the earlier prototype couldn’t be used, or exactly what the $1.2 million dollars has been used for.

People invested in this campaign because BSX had a previous (successful) campaign under their belts, and they checked off a lot of the boxes about finding a trusted company to invest in. The lack of earlier transparency (they clearly knew about issues for months) and the recent Aug 11 update (mic-drop) to backers, with very little empathy for the people that have already been waiting a year – is the primary problem.

I’ve seen in the comments that some people purchased 5 or more devices – and will now be waiting over 2 years for delivery, that is – if it happens at all.

The creators are being very odd here. Since the update last week, they’ve again gone silent on backers, and have not publicly addressed any of the feedback and questions on the Kickstarter platform – which is where communications are supposed to take place.