Kickstarter: Projects You Love

then go for kickstarter.. I’ve been scammed with multiple projects I backed. Money gone and no response, not from the campaign owners but also not from Kickstarter. In my opinion kickstarter has become a lawless marketplace where rules do not apply. In the past I also successfully backed some projects, but currently about 50% of the projects I backed was a scam in some way. Looking at the campaign comments, many people share my opinion. Too bad because I love the crowdfunding idea for sincere initiatives.

And kickstarter do nothing about it (for example next Nova and the tornado. People keep investing over years)

KS allows and does not act on the increasing amount of scammers present on this platform!
There are easy ways to avoid this but KS prefers to collect the fees instead of helping backers! And does not act and react on complaints!

Backed 2 projects back in 2017, both projects got funded successfully but they never provided the reward. Nothing Kickstarter does about it. Lost $654 in total by using this scamming platform.
The two projects I backed where called: Love Turntable & Cubibot 3D Printer

You know the idea is good, the execution is crappy. In the app there is an overview page with “successful” that should be “successful delivery”. Now people think that everything is ok, but it’s not. You should take some responsibility instead of money.

Can’t filter in app, but you can filter when using the website. I want to check for upcoming projects, but it’s just not possible in app. No reason to have it then

ever since using kickstarter, i’m getting massive amounts of spam because they sell your data

Not able to complain when your money is paid and there is no product send to you so watch out don’t pay to much

Kickstarter systematically doesn’t take any responsibility for creators that don’t deliver anything and don’t return the pledge money. This means that a scam is quite easily organised, and pledgers lose their money. Not good, and bad business.

Kickstarter used to be an open organization helping creative projects to get off the ground. In the last year however it has turned in a greedy money sucking machine. They can even silence the voice of a backer by blocking his account from posting, BUT NEVER REFUND HIS CONTRIBUTION.
My advice - never trust these con artists and the projects they are supporting !

Scam alert. Stay away from KS. It is not worth it anymore unfortunately. No support and no products after you pay for them in 50% of the cases.

The app keeps closing and can’t get it to work properly
Been on kickstarter for years and I am not able to join projects any more

Can’t see anything for some weeks now, can’t see the projects I backed nor enter.

Because I didn’t receive shipping information of different projects, but only for payment of rewards, other receiving their rewards to their own address, but there are more of us via kickstarter that still and even after that their project is ended never receive ours

1. When browsing trough campaigns there is NO option to zoom in on images, so all i can do is rotate my phone to see an image that is a bit bigger. 2. Every time i switch from landscape to portrait or vise versa, the app loses all control of the list of projects, it always scrolls me to a random place in the list but never near the project i was looking at! Since there is problem 1 and almost all videos are in landscape mode, there are many reasons for switching to landscape mode, every time this is quite frustrating. 3. All administrations are linked to my backer number, that makes sense, what does not make sense is that it’s very hard to find my backer number! Make it obvious! 4. When a project finishes there is always a survey to confirm adres and add-ons, all external companies like Backerkit can do this, but if the project decides to use the Kickstarter survey all things go wrong. They don’t even know my backer number? Making problem 3 even worse! Now i have to leave the survey within the kickstarter app and go look for my number, then fill out the entire survey again (of course you refuse to save anything without my number, and you ask for my number at the bottom of the form) so finally i can complete the survey. Never seen an app that is so unfriendly to use!

If you think you opted-out everything in your account (yes, spam settings are on by default), it turns out there are still some other settings around the corner left that you forgot. Dark patterns alert…

Kickstarter does absolutely nothing to protect backers, when obviously scammed.
Please be aware of this when backing a project!

Nu bij 3 projecten niets ontvangen of een geheel ander product dan aangegeven. Gemeld bij Kickstarter, maar zij doen er niets mee.