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DO NOT USE THIS PLATFORM!!!! I wish I would have read reviews before I backed a project. Only after realizing that the project I backed was a scam, did I research to discover that KICKSTATER does not offer any protections of your investment. I assumed the basic level of protection exists. I was VERY wrong. I can paraphrase the extent of their ability to support you should a scam occur. They advise you to take legal action against the responsible parties. That's it. They don't even offer to refund you the portion of the money that they make off your investment. Be sure you know your credit cards policies and be ready to use them, should you be daft enough as I was and contribute any money to any projects.
I bought in @ $99 to purchase first run for a sun shade to keep my home's air conditioner cooler. I never received the shade, never received updates after the first one, and Kickstarter won't help - their excuse is they can't find any information on the company. Kickstarter got 99$$ from my VISA so they aren't they helping scammers take advantage of consumers.
You put your money in somethisng that had been nicely advertized, but with high risk of loosing it.The worst experience, when I decided to stop backing any project, was, when the respective start company had spent all our money so they couldn't go to production, but they are selling it on the market. Nothing forces them to deliver to us even though they have go a working product. In such a situation we should have had the support from Kickstarter but we don't.
I would have to say that 99% of the "projects" on kickstarter are scams. I've made charge backs to my payment card company for "projects" where the product never shipped despite being funded and some "creators" of these projects go months with no updates.
Reported a project for a blatantly dishonest claim / scam.The project ("Planto") claims to be a lamp "powered entirely by water (...) no batteries".Whereas in fact it has a battery in the base.Kickstarter have "reviewed" the report and tell me it doesn't violate their rules.. which include "Projects can’t mislead people or misrepresent facts".
Too many projects I've supported as a back and to see the projects fund but then they don't deliver the product to us. I'm done using kickstarter. Since we don't get the products its actually cheaper to wait for the product to go to full market and not use Kickstarter. Also seems like Kickstarter doesn't even care if the backers receive the product. For example, this project funded but the creators have ghosted all the backers with no updates whatsoever on when the flashlight will ship out. Tunenge-t7-your-essential-in-car-emergency-companion project has not provided any shipping updates and has ghosted the backers..
They're making money off your back without doing anything for it (except host a website that barely needs any upkeep).They do nothing about scammers. Since they're in the middle they could perfectly provide some insurances between you and the Creators. A project may fail, sure and that's a risk that's part of investing in something new. But when there are scammers, Kickstarters won't do anything about them either.Not sure why people are still investing using Kickstarters. But it's really not safe.
Kickstarter backing has been a reasonably positive experience overall. My golden rule has been not to put more money into a project than I am prepared to write-off - Most projects are genuine and offered by decent folks trying to fund a decent product but there are enough that are the opposite that I always assume I'll never see the end product and am happily surprised ifI actually do.
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