You apparently can have too much of a good thing.

Ed Carter only wanted to raise $21,000 through Kickstarter to finance a deluxe edition of "Glory to Rome," a board game produced by his company, Cambridge Games Factory. He ended up raising more than $73,000, with pledges from more than 1,600 people.

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After that, things started to go downhill for Carter. His Kickstarter campaign had promised supporters they would receive free shipping on their games if they agreed to pick up the games from specific retailers. Carter hoped to develop business relations with these retailers as well as provide an incentive for his supporters. However, shipping the game to 1,600 people isn't exactly cheap, especially when you've received a significant number of orders from Brazil and Australia.

But it doesn't stop there. Since Carter, a former retail consultant, had worked in China, he figured he could conduct business directly with Chinese producers. However, in a seemingly wicked twist of fate, his Chinese-speaking head of operations quit, and his relationship with a Chinese woman ended. He was left with no one close to him who could speak Chinese.

All the mistakes and mishaps started adding up: Carter eventually lost more than $100,000 of his personal savings. He also lost his job at Staples, where he was working as a contractor. Ultimately, Carter couldn't pay the mortgage on the house he owned in Boston, and he eventually lost the house.

via Quartz

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