Comment · Wed, March 2, 2016
Announcement! /r/CBD will be doing a GoFundMe project to get every CBD product on the market tested. We need your help!
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jonathanappleweed · 41 points
Here's what we have so far. $1303 for ordering the samples. SC labs will test them at 70$ a sample (10$ off their normal price). Total for that comes to $1820. We also need to factor in a landing page for this project, which will be about $200 unless we can find someone willing to do it for free. GoFundMe's cut of the funds is 5% and their payment system takes 3% as well as 30cents of every donation.
Has anyone had success with funding a GoFundMe project? Also we are looking for ways to market this project, on Facebook and Reddit, so we need to factor in a cost for this as well. Anyone with any experience doing this please comment or send me a PM.
I feel this is a necessary step in bringing transparency to the industry. If there's any other CBD companies you would like to add feel free to do so in this spreadsheet:https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WODK8OB7f7FDjNYM-Ur4Lxns03GQErqTqqZBgI0WE0M/edit#gid=0
~~If you would like to donate I should have the GoFundMe project set up by tomorrow.~~
We may set up a paypal account instead. More word on this after I discuss with the other moderators.
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jonathanappleweed · 2 points
Thats a great idea. Besides GoFundMe is tricky because you need to set up a picture, a zip code, and make a facebook post, as well as give GoFundMe and their payment services a cut. Sounds like I'll be setting up a Paypal account instead. So I assume you do testing services at your lab? We are interested in getting them tested by two different labs, which would help with consistency.
u/MisterYouAreSoDumb
Yeah, we have our own in-house lab, and do most of our own testing. We contract out to other labs for things like NMR and mass spec, though. The price that lab gave you is very good. I doubt you'll be able to find much better than $70 per test.