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klinglerware	2014-05-21 , 23:22
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Originally Posted by joerg_rw

I didn't know about kickstarter now allows European projects. Anyway the concept seems incompatible with our approach to donate to a development that has a (however small) risk to fail and not result in a product.
We may consider kickstarter et al for 2nd batch, when we actually got a product and thus are certain about its feasibility, properties/specs and price.

/j

I am glad that you are not considering Kickstarter. Based on the iControlPad 2 fiasco (do a search for "icp2 kickstarter" for the background), I can only conclude 3 things:

1. Kickstarter and Amazon Payments skim a lot off the top
2. Kickstarter is risky for developers, since their TOS requires that the end result is tangible product returned to the backers (or full refunds, presumably)
3. Kickstarter is risky for backers, since Kickstarter doesn't appear to enforce their TOS as mentioned above

Kickstarter is good for a lot of things, but electronic hardware development and production is probably not one of them.

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