WizardStan
Mega GP Mania
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Oh, don't get me wrong, that is a major selling point of using kickstarter. You need money, you put your product on kickstarter, you get a lot of exposure and enough to make your product and everyone is happy. In theory, anyway.But that's what I mean, it's *A* reason to use Kickstarter. Kickstarter is (or was) intended as a means of raising capital for your idea, that is *the* reason to use kickstarter.I thought the advertising and awareness raising was a big selling point of using Kickstarter. Why would it bother you at all? If Kickstarter was only for collecting money without letting others know about your project there are better options.
If I understand what this article has discovered, they didn't need to raise the capital, and in fact are actually taking a loss on this run just to get the word out: they are using Kickstarter *entirely* for exposure. This is bad because it creates an unfair standard (it doesn't matter what happens after this campaign, if someone else has an idea for a cheap computer it will be compared against the $9 CHIP), and it also takes away exposure from other products that really need the revenue, because believe it or not "interest" is a finite resource.
Buy-it-now, sort by price+shipping, always. Auctions are a joke I don't have time for anymore.Long ago I got caught by that, so now I always check shipping costs for anything I buy online, not just ebay auctions