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Mitch Patterson
Patrolman (advertised as police) Watch

Sadly, I can't give lower than 1* otherwise I would. Purchased a police patrolman watch. However, i'm sure i'm not the only one caught out by the companies clever advertising. These watches are cheap, nasty and probably not worth more than £10. This was 5yrs ago, but only allowed to review within 12 month period. P.S:- If the battery needs changing, good luck trying to adjust to cotrect time/date.....Garbage.

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Date of experience: Dec 02, 2024
RamiroElTrolazo80
Scam

Scam. Signed up for one of the project... Got a few updates but seems to be all fake... Received nothing

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Date of experience: Dec 01, 2024
Jason Fisher
Basically platform for scammers

Basically platform for scammers. They don't help you in anyway to get your money back when it's obvious you have been scammed so they're as bad as the scammers me thinks

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Date of experience: Nov 27, 2024
Kristin Bell
Awful feedback from Kickstarter about…

Awful feedback from Kickstarter about delays and shipping.They obviously don't care about customers once the money is in the bank.Some nice ideas on there but a huge risk.

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Date of experience: Nov 27, 2024
Primrose Long
Absolutely do not use kickstarter!

Turns out the kickstarted I supported was a scam. Kickstarter does nothing to help you recover your money. Their conditions make them not liable. They are part of the scam collecting their portion of the funds. There is nothing you can do to follow up as no contacts for the company and kickstarter do nothing. Bank won’t refund either as you agree to kickstarter terms which they provide to the bank. Do not use kickstarter unless you have no intention of getting your money back or the product.

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Date of experience: Nov 21, 2024
Brad_Lyx23
Beyond Bad

Beyond Bad - they are as useful as a chocolate teapot.No delivery from a creator?Tough, you are on your own.

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Date of experience: Nov 19, 2024
posigaming
Kickstarter promoted a ponzi scheme and failed to act when presented evidence

Supported a project to develop a game. I personally sent about $500 through PayPal to purchase the software then helped the project by buying the largest support package of about $400. Ive given countless other donations to this sake rotten individual who always drummed up some fake controversy about how his money was getting stolen from him to draw sympathy from his supporters and gain more money. Claimed he was getting hit with charge-backs, claimed his house that he was moving into was damaged, claimed his landlord was shady, claimed he was getting pulled over by cops looking for some other person always made tons of claims. Every few months I report this to Kickstarter waiting for them to investigate fraud as they policy states a project can fail and thats the risk but a creater asking for support on a project they never intend to finish is not allowed. They must make a good faith effort. The person did the most minimal effort required to produce the game and then radio silence and no further communication. He has now gone 1 year without an update which father's my theory that it was a ponzi scheme and Kickstarter is now liable for the crime via proxy for facilitating it and failing to enforce their rules. I encourage everyone to start up and join in a class-action against this fraud of a company for failing to act where legally required to do so. I'm not going to blast the creators name here (even though id be legally correct to do so as nothing I've claimed is false) but Kickstarter you have my monthly report for the past 1 year so you know who to investigate and remember WE DO NOT FORGIVE. WE DO NOT FORGET!Edit: actual date of incident is 21 April 2024 system won't let me go back any further.

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Date of experience: Nov 16, 2024
Gladys Clark
Scams and no support

Kickstarter should be avoided. They enable and profit from scams without any support for their customers. £100's spent on a product I'll never receive. Kickstarter do remind you it's 'not a store' but it is in fact a scam.

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Date of experience: Nov 09, 2024
Nelho42
Creator disappeared. Asked KS for help. They gave me the finger.

$200,000 invested from thousands of backers in the Tempo-Flow clock. Creator disappears without a trace. not a single updates.Asked Kickstarter for help. They made no attempt to do so. Ask if they were working with the authorities. They gave me the finger.

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Date of experience: Nov 09, 2024
Dylan Cooper
Scammers breeding ground.

Kickstarter started with a noble purpose: to bring innovative ideas to life. However, it’s become a breeding ground for scams, leaving backers unprotected when creators disappear—something that happens far too often. Kickstarter offers no recourse for backers if a project creator disappears and the project falls through. KS puts all responsibility on us to vet project creators. Despite my best efforts, three out of my last seven backed projects turned out to be scams. Where does my money go? Some to Kickstarter, some to the project creators, and nothing back to me.It would be a huge step forward if Kickstarter offered some kind of insurance policy to protect backers from these scams. Until there’s a change to help those who are defrauded, I’m done with Kickstarter. To the legitimate creators out there, I’m sorry—it’s only going to get tougher for you on this platform.

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Date of experience: Oct 30, 2024

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