The premise behind crowdfunding via the public is a fantastic idea. There are many ideas out there worthy of funding, and indeed there have been many successful products released through this platform.However, the platform is rife with fraudulent "companies" asking for and receiving funds, promising items in exchange for a person to spend a certain amount of money to get their service or product developed.Now that said, some companies go in fully wishing to fulfil their promise once they receive funding, but sadly they underestimated the costs or just weren't prepared enough for the burden of running a company. While sad, they at least explain the situation and take responsibility. Those I am writing about though, deliberately choose to ignore those they have wronged, getting off clean with their ill gotten gains.In this sense, you would think that kickstarter would also be liable, and should have implemented better practices or been shutdown. This is not the case. They are no better than those they let scam, and in this vein should also be labelled criminals. The defense that they are a third party does not hold up, they let the fraudulent activity happen without consequence.0 stars, people that run this company should be in prison.
