Do not waste your money on kickstarter!The small discount for being an early backer is not worth the risk of getting scammed over and over.Kickstarter says that they have nothing to do with the projects. Yet when you try to chargeback your money from the scam project, it is Kickstarter who sides with the scammers and tells your bank 'no'.All just to keep their 5% fees.2 recent projects I backed:1. The latest project lied about their team, their factory, the amount of products they create each month and shipping costs (they increased the costs 3 times and blamed covid. even though using the freight rate calculator, it still comes down to $4 per backer, they charge $50-60 now). Apparently this is totally fine with Kickstarter2. The previous scam project was someone who used fake images/videos for the campaign and charged backers $40 for a $2 product from alibaba. There is a button on kickstarter to report for 'reselling existing product'. Yet after using the option provided by kickstarter themselves, they claimed the project had not broken any rules.Kickstarter is one of the worst companies ever and only cares about the 5% fee that they charge. They don't care about you or the legitimate creators. At the end of the day, the scammers who create new projects over and over earn them the most money with the fees.All of this wouldn't be a problem if Kickstarter had not blocked my cc issuer from charging back. I would gladly give 5% to Kickstarter, if I could at least get the rest of the money back. But no, if they did that then scammers would stop using their platform.
