Post #734823 by wizzard419 on Fri, Jan 9, 2015 8:02 PM

On 2015-01-08 13:20, Atomic Tiki Punk wrote:
I am not saying these guys are not legit, but the whole kickstarter thing
leaves a bad taste in my mouth for various reasons, especially for increasing fraud
and the high percentages of failed projects that after getting funded
the people responsible for the kickstarter project, fail to get their shit together
and follow thru with a funded project.

The odds are better in Vegas or the stock market
and that it smells of basically kids asking for free money to fund vanity projects
(I mean in general & not attacking this mug project)
that no right minded adult would agree too, in the first place.

But that's just my two cents.

Has there been a surge in them? The big problem with kickstarters is that the company has policy that states the project owner has to provide the items to the donors but if that person goes "Nope!" there is zero recourse.

Though it does get worse, gofundme has various donor requests for things like getting a tattoo, sending someone on vacation, etc.