Kickstarter

Better way to assure our money with those crowdfunding company's is 25% upfront
And wen the project is ready then it will be time to give the rest of 75% of the money
And with the need of a tracking number for the item.
Made a review on Better business bureau to.
Lost 525.00$ Cad money with this phoney project

There is no delete button. If not successful, it will be on the internet permanently as a failed fund raising effort, so I recommend keeping your donation amount low. We received a private donor shortly after we put our Kickstarter site and did not pursue or advertise Kickstarter because we no longer needed to raise funds, but we could not delete the Kickstarter page. Now it is a permanent search engine find when Googling our name showing that we only raised $1 for our Kickstarter Fund Raiser effort. That $1 was from a solicitor wanting services. I would not recommend the site.

I have always been hesitant to just "donate" my hard earned money to help fund a startup project, and Kolstom eyewear helped me to confirm that hesitation. This was my first and last contribution ever to ANY Kickstarter program. After a $200 "investment", the program not only ran out of money, it was also "forced to abandon the project". So after waiting 2 years, I received nothing except an email from the company stating that there was no money left and the project would not be completed. Save your hard earned $$$$ people... Biggest waste of money EVER!

I like the idea of Kickstarter. I participated in many projects since 2017 (47 projects). 6 projects turned out to be a scam and never materialized. I didn't calculate the money I lost because of this and for me it weren't the most expensive ones that didn't get through. Nevertheless I think Kickstarter should find a system to keep more control over the money they collect and distribute to the producers. It seems too easy to create a scam product, collect the money and run. (I only added 4 photo's)

I hate kickstarter. I see them turn down great ideas all the time but promote dumb ideas like a facebook clone. Come on, isn't one facebook enough? They helped these guys make $250,000 to make a copy of facebook when there's already dozens of open source social networking websites. That was 4 months ago, and there's still nothing to show for it. These guys took the money and ran, we'll see nothing of Diaspora, no one is going to leave Facebook. What a waste!

If kickstarter is going to support ideas at least support NEW ideas not old ones!

UPDATE 2013: Like I said 3 years ago, we saw nothing of Disapora. Kickstarter is a scam, they take the money and say "we'll give you something in 6 months!" and when you get nothing and try to complain to Visa they say "Sorry, that was 6 months ago!"

When people hear the word "crowdfunding", the first thing they think of is Kickstarter. They do a good job screening the submissions in making sure the quality of project on their platform at a higher standard. While there has been users who’s projects are often rejected, they have been very effective overall as they are the clear leader in both artistic and tech projects. They helped my Raytoons project get off the ground.

Used to be a decent platform but whoever runs quality control has no clue. They allow scammers to scam and don't care about backers. I guess they don't realize that the more backers that leave, the less chance Kickstarter has to survive. I'm done with a company that truly doesn't care about customers. Kickstarter supports scammers in order to make money. So they are scammers themselves.

One project I backed has taken more than a year plus to start mailing out the rewards for backing a project. They say the mailing process has begun. It took much longer than was projected. Ok... I'd wait. But we decided to move to a different state. I looked for a place to notify the project. Couldn't find any method. Went to Kickstarter help. I came across help docs for project creators. It says that creators don't have to offer backers a way of notifying them or shipping address changes. So my project didn't. I'll never back another Kickstarter project.

I guess the site has done good things but my experience was pretty negative. I was setting up a photo studio which was going to use a vintage method of photography. In my presentation I included that the kickstarter would help to rent the space. Seems like a studio would need a space to work out of.

Three days after submitting I got a denial email saying that my project went against their policies due to the funds being used "to acquire real estate".

I emailed back twice explaining that the space was essential to the project and that I'd already paid for it out of pocket but would definitely reimburse myself if the project was successful and sent in an appeal letter which they suggested.

I never heard anything back from them so went with indiegogo and got my project financed with only 4% fees instead of the 12% that KS charges.

$#*!ty service.

Kickstarter is a good fundraising platform. However it offers no protection and no guarantees that projects will be finished and delivered. This created a good opportunity for Kickstarter scams, when people raise money for projects that were never planned to be completed, or projects that lie about the quality and basically resell low quality Chinese stuff 40 times the bulk price.
Thus if you really want to get what you back for, you need to be sure in the project you back in and in the person/people behind this project. But if you know the people already why share with amazon/kickstarter 10% of all pledges? Why not have all the money go directly to project creators, who need them.