It raised £44,643 and according to her first update that would mean over £1,500 to GoFundMe in fees. So let’s say £43,000. Being FORENSIC, I calculated it at 12,285.7143 copies at £3.50
Even if she waived the “laughably piteous 7-10% of RRP” she receives in royalties to sell at cost (and that’s IF) flogging over 12,000 copies of your book can’t hurt its sales figures, right?
But wait! She didn’t actually close that fundraiser until September 2020, almost two years after it opened and a year and four months after she’d posted the update about all the books going out at £3.50 a copy; in May 2019 she’d raised just under £24,000, that minus the admin fee was all going on books.
BUT in September 2020s update when she finally closes it with over £44,000 raised, she says all the money’s been donated and the TT got “books, cans of food, and monetary donations”. The cans were free from Heinz but no word ever how many books and how much in “monetary donations” they actually got.
Link to more detailed post on the £10.99 scam v the GoFundMe for anyone who hasn’t seen
Out of all the damning information in Molly's article, I think the 77 lipsticks will do the most damage. They are something tangible that people (especially those that blindly support Jack) can actually get their heads around, rather than PayPal, Patreon etc. That photo SCREAMS cash, lots of...
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Link from
@Yel to the GoFundMe with the year 1 update where she confirms it eventually went for £3.50 a book and the year 2 update where she says the TT got books, cans and casho. Click updates to see those
PLEASE SEE UPDATE SECTION FOR IMPORTANT UPDATE - IT'S VERY GOOD NEWS! :) I'm Jack Monroe… Jack Monroe needs your support for Donate Tin Can Cook to foodbanks
www.gofundme.com
Never ever any word on what happened to all those sweet sweet £10.99s grifted directly into her personal PayPal for the same fundraiser. Not a word.
As a reminder, she has done two
completely different book fundraisers. The GoFundMe and amorphous PayPal £10.99s for a book that ultimately cost £3.50 total for the book/shipping cost was for Tin Can Cook to foodbanks via TT.
The earlier Kickstarter debacle (which is a whole different sorry tale) where people could pay to buy an extra copy that she would then donate to a ‘school or library’ (WTF?!) was for Cooking on a Bootstrap. That one got her £68,761 in 46 days. All to her. Link here just tap on the pic, it’s posted weirdly.
If you look at the menu at the top, you can check out the ‘Rewards’ and tiers (and see how many people paid at each level- 567 paid for a book to go to a library or school, 13 people gave her £140 for ONE book and some shite, 30 people gave her £200, and 1 person gave her £2,000!), you can also click to her feeble updates, and scathingly, the 1,000+ comments.
And her raising £68,761 from just 3,603 people on Kickstarter, and those people paying those higher amounts on Kickstarter for not much more than getting to bask in her reflected light, (and the fact she was able to bring in £87,484 from just 2,800 donors for the TT -an average of £31.24 per donor- in a still open separate fundraiser below) are why I think she’s coining it in on Patreon and PayPal way, way beyond what we suspect. Especially post-Nigella and post-Hopkins.
WE ARE IN THE MIDST OF A GLOBAL PANDEMIC. SUPERMARKET SHELVES ARE EMPTY. BUS… JACK MONROE needs your support for HELP FOODBANKS FEED PEOPLE DURING CORONAVIRUS
www.gofundme.com
). Plus, oh jeez, I said it at the time but...that voice...
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But it's true that monkfish is a bit FANCY for poverty Jack. Aren't they also endangered or overfished? Sure there's some kind of monkfish shortage...
