Kickstarter Risks and Expectations
Comments focus on the risks of Kickstarter projects failing to deliver, emphasizing that backing is philanthropy or funding rather than guaranteed product purchase, with debates on platform responsibilities and backer misconceptions.
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That is the nature of kickstarter. You are not buying a product, you are funding the development of a product that may or may not ever succeed.
Kickstarter money is not same as investment money. Most/all of it gets used up in fulfilling the orders
Being rejected by Kickstarter doesn't make Kickstarter the problem.
Kickstarter is philanthropy, not investment. Didn't you realise?
Because Kickstarter wouldn't make as much money ...
A kickstarter is not a store. You could well lose your money.
how is that different from some kickstarters?
Not effective then - the guys at Kickstarter are not dumb.
Why is Kickstarter unable to return the money?
I’ve heard that a significant proportion of kickstarter projects do exactly this