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by rvz 1456 days ago
Klarna is absolutely over-hyped, overvalued and a glorified bank and a complete scam. It also seems that an investor unloaded their shares worth $7.6m a year ago [0][1][2] at a $48B valuation to get retail sucked in and investing at that valuation on a crowdfunding platform.

Fast forward today, those 6,971 new investors have lost money as Klarna is on a series of downrounds; now at $6.5B.

Now that is what I call a magnificent exit scam that Crowdcube has done, which retail once again loses and becomes the bag holders.

[0] https://www.crowdcube.com/cubex/klarna

[1] https://milled.com/navia/klarna-pitch-is-launching-tomorrow-...

[2] https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/online-investment-platfor...

3 comments

Something tells me you're confusing an actual business (Klarna) with someone offloading shares through Crowdcube.
Nope. They are both scams. One being a platform for larger investors facilitating and dumping on retail and a debt collector masquerading as a 'friendly' interest-free and financing platform for consumers with soft credit checks.

So yes, both are scams.

I tried getting into the Crowdcube investment round, but after they got the allocations, the whole deal fell through and I was refunded.

Needless to say I’m pretty happy they didn’t take my money in the end.

Hopefully, the investment round in Crowdcube was cancelled as they had "issues issuing the share in a timely manner". So Crowdcube users were saved by chance!