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As a Creator, I cannot urge folks strongly enough to avoid Kickstarter for their funding efforts. They cancelled pledges after my campaign had finished, ending up in an $800 shortfall for my project which I then had to cover. When I attempted to launch a second campaign for a new project, Kickstarter informed me I was deemed "untrustworthy" by their Trust and safety Department, despite zero complaints from my backers and having not even reached the fulfilment deadline for my first project (which was only delayed because of Kickstarter to begin with)/ Customer Support is non-existent. Avoid this company at all costs.
Warning. You will get messages full of nonsense and people trying to get you to hire them to help. I added my website so people could see what we are about and got several inquiries from Kenya and Nigeria asking for personal information. I have since deleted this account, but still get inquiries and requests. Kickstarter is full of scammers.
I posted an invention and was hoping to get it backed for my business to start but all I got was people trying to seek me their services to get backers. Geez if all these people backed instead of trying to sell me services it may have been worth it. I was nervous about putting my invention on this site for people to steal the idea but I did it in hopes people would support it. I did get a whole 4 bucks contributed. It was not worth putting my invention information out there for 4 bucks. I canceled the project early. It just isn’t worth it. I’m starting to think the projects they show as fully funded are just fake.
Kickstarter is simply a passthrough proxy for scammers.Literally collecting a cut of stolen funds and doing absolutely nothing to ensure the project creators are legitimate nor the backers are made whole.Avoid the cesspool that is Kickstarter. They're perpetuating fraud en masse under the guise of "terms of service".
You cannot tell if a new project is fake or real. The problem is not that it is a prototype/beta project and therefore it may fail... it could happen, but according to kickstarter rules, they should give your money back in this case.The problem is that there are fraudsters who take advantage of the "naive" backers... and the saddest, most outrageous thing is that Kickstarter do absolutely NOTHING to prevent it. Kickstarter does NOT help any backers in case of a fraud. Kickstarter keep saying that they do not take money from you, the creator did and you should ask for your money from the creator(scammer). Of course the creator (scammer) won't answer to anybody at that point so that's it... your money is gone. I am not sure what you can do if you live in the USA, but in the EU, you cannot go to your bank to ask the money back that you spent more than a year ago (in most cases, they can convince you for so long that they are still developing it), claiming that you have been deceived.So if you like gambling... go ahead... take your bet. But I'd say you'd be better off gambling your money in the casino... at least you'll get some pleasure out of it.I know what I am talking about because I have been backing projects for at least 8 years now... but the last 3 projects I backed was a fraud (1 out of 3 was shipped at least, but the quality was so bad I'd say it is a fraud. It broke in 1 day for every backer). And I learned my lesson, I won't back any other project on that scammer friendly page. At least not until they take steps in order to stop them and get our money back somehow.
Kickstarter has sadly gone down in quality dramatically over the past decade. As it's become more and more popular, it's attracted far more low-quality and low-effort campaigns.While, of course, KS is not the creator of these bad campaigns, they do absolutely nothing to pressure the creators towards fulfilling their responsibilities towards the backers. If we saw KS trying even a little bit, it would be something, but they literally do nothing at all.
The company has a very poor potential scam alert process. It's very difficult to get them to accept a potential scam email or report. Most of the time you just get stonewalled! If you do get a response it is that you use the in app reporting process, however, that doesn't have a scam option. The project I backed was endorsed by Kickstarter but even that doesn't seem to fill them with any sense of responsibility or obligation... just radio silence or automated / AI responses to emails.
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