Kickstarter ? Experiences ?

[CameraQuest]

If you have actually used Kickstarter (or similar sites) for your project or product, please share your experience and thoughts.

Were they good to work with ?

Advantages and disadvantages ?

Was it a simple process, or complicated legally due to whatever laws might affect the pledges both in your home country, and the home countries of your benefactors ?

Thanks,
Stephen

 

[mllanos1111]

Not personally but my friend did launch a titanium pen that raised about 60k or so.
He said he would not do it again because of the way Amazon kept raising the percentage they took since he did not have a history with them.
When it was all said and done and he had shipped the product he almost broke even.

 

[CameraQuest]

Not personally but my friend did launch a titanium pen that raised about 60k or so.
He said he would not do it again because of the way Amazon kept raising the percentage they took since he did not have a history with them.
When it was all said and done and he had shipped the product he almost broke even.

??

What is the relationship between Kickstarter and Amazon ?

Stephen

 

[pdexposures]

Amazon is the payment processor for Kickstarter.

 

[Pioneer]

The banker always gets his piece of the pie. 🙂

 

[aeturnum]

The kickstarters I've backed that have delivered are, so far, all book-based kickstarters. The books I got were high quality and as described. I'm eagerly awaiting my travelwide to ship, so I can give feedback on that once I have it in hand.

 

[jwc57]

Does Amazon raise the percentages as the dollar amount increases? And what are the percentages and the increments?