Jon Witterick stepping down from GOODF

[daveBeeston]

I've never has any dealing with Mr.Witterick and i have only visited the GOODF site via links here to see what was going on so i may be well off with this comment but here goes.

This whole leaving and subsequent fundraising to help the site seems to me to be more of a last dash cash grab of someone getting out before it all comes crashing down,i hope im wrong(for those that are donating) as im sure they have genuinely helped a few people since the sites inception although i am also sure they(and others on the site)have hurt far more people with ridiculous advice and promoting obvious scams.

[rumpelstilzchen]

The inference from John Witterfuck is that GOODF needs the money to pay for a revamp - in order to survive.

It seems a bit ironic that a website that promotes the idea you don't have to pay for any services is approaching its members cap in hand asking for money to pay for services.

[notorial dissent]

I think I'll go with davebeeston's assessment, it makes more sense than any of the other propositions put forth, and certainly would be in keeping with the best footl traditions.

[SteveUK]

An interesting one from Witterick back on the day

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfre ... es-economy

[SoLongCeylon]

The total conned out of the members has shot up to £1475. After getting just over £600 per day for the first two days, yesterdays total was £130.

These 65,000 registered members of GOODF are an ungrateful bunch - I mean, having been given free resources to save £14.5m they so far have only donated back 0.0001%. It's only the giving that makes you what your are.

My Treasury forecast of the final total has been revised down to £3k.

I blame the poor response on their concerns over Brexit.

[PeanutGallery]

I am just wondering how much of the donations have been paid on a credit card? There would be a certain irony in the notion that people might be getting into debt to get out of debt free.

[notorial dissent]

The total conned out of the members has shot up to £1475. After getting just over £600 per day for the first two days, yesterdays total was £130.

These 65,000 registered members of GOODF are an ungrateful bunch - I mean, having been given free resources to save £14.5m they so far have only donated back 0.0001%. It's only the giving that makes you what your are.

My Treasury forecast of the final total has been revised down to £3k.

I blame the poor response on their concerns over Brexit.

Couldn't just be cheap, or broke, or not really that many of them??????

[rumpelstilzchen]

These 65,000 registered members of GOODF are an ungrateful bunch - I mean, having been given free resources to save £14.5m they so far have only donated back 0.0001%. It's only the giving that makes you what your are.

Well, to be fair to them....the website does promise them that they can get out of debt for free.

[notorial dissent]

Somehow, I don't think that losing your home, being made a bankrupt, going to jail quite qualifies as FREE??????

[SoLongCeylon]

Close of play total on Thursday 26th May zooms to £1590. ( days total was £170 ) Total number of people who have donated is 85. This is a crushing lack of support for Goodf from their 65,000 members.

Perhaps many who have tried out some of the nonsense advice given by the goodf have come to learn there is a high price to pay for Getting Out of Debt Free.

[The Observer]

Somehow, I don't think that losing your home, being made a bankrupt, going to jail quite qualifies as FREE??????

Of course it does! They get a free bed and 3 squares a day in jail. What more could a sovrun/FOTL/GOOF need?

[notorial dissent]

Somehow, I don't think that losing your home, being made a bankrupt, going to jail quite qualifies as FREE??????

Of course it does! They get a free bed and 3 squares a day in jail. What more could a sovrun/FOTL/GOOF need?

Which seems to be the usual outcome.

[SoLongCeylon]

£45 came steaming into the crowdfund for 27th May.

Total now £1635.

The changes they can make to the Goodf website with this amount of money will be.....................minimal. ( just like Colon's intellect)

[LordEd]

This is a crushing lack of support for Goodf from their 65,000 members.

Of the 65000 accounts, a large % are probably banned for unapproved thinking or asking the wrong questions. Another large percent have already lost everything.

[Gregg]

This is a crushing lack of support for Goodf from their 65,000 members.

Of the 65000 accounts, a large % are probably banned for unapproved thinking or asking the wrong questions. Another large percent have already lost everything.

Not even to mention the few like me who only log in for a good laugh. Oh, and there are more than a few who are freelance debt collectors who have found sites like that a very good place to get information that eventually leads to commissions.

[SoLongCeylon]

This is a crushing lack of support for Goodf from their 65,000 members.

Of the 65000 accounts, a large % are probably banned for unapproved thinking or asking the wrong questions. Another large percent have already lost everything.

Not even to mention the few like me who only log in for a good laugh. Oh, and there are more than a few who are freelance debt collectors who have found sites like that a very good place to get information that eventually leads to commissions.

Every figure quoted on Goodf is questionable but what is undeniable is the humiliating Crowdfund figure - Saturdays takings was £25 taking the total to £1660.

Come on Witterfuck, do another video ralling the troops, reminding them of what Goodf has done for them and what they could do for Goodf. Set a bold achievment to aim for by the end of the decade. That kind of speach worked for JFK ( until he went on a city break to Dallas.)

[GaryBale]

Probably only 100 or so active accounts at any one time, I'm surprised they've raised that much. I imagine most visitors download the letter templates or ask for advise with a particular issue then leave. Few people would hang around too long, especially if they ventured into "Latest News" where 25% of the current articles are anti-semitic, and two are homophobic.

[notorial dissent]

Maybe they've run out of lies to tell the troops, or more likely the gullible with any ready to share.

FWIW, I think the 100 at any one time may be just a bit enthusiastic, there just seem to be a very very small core and a few hangers on that change over time. I don't believe their numbers any more than I believe any given political poll.

[TheNewSaint]

I'm surprised they've raised that much.

Me too. GOODF's entire user base is people who trying to get out of paying money for things. That they raised any amount above zero from that group is a shock.

I have to believe that the donors are people who believe in the overall cause. The kind of people who say things like "this idea is legitimate but the execution is flawed." They want to keep the main center of discussion going, in hopes that it will someday find the magic incantation that will really work. It is their only source of hope. Sad, really.

[SoLongCeylon]

The fund has had no donations over the past 24 hours.