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Maybe Kickstarter and such platforms need to put up a system where the consumer only pays 10%-50% of the final retail price until the product is completed.
by mtgx 7y ago
Maybe Kickstarter and such platforms need to put up a system where the consumer only pays 10%-50% of the final retail price until the product is completed.
- yifanl 7y agoBut that isn't their model. Their model is to let the seller set up "reward tiers", and usually the tier that corresponds with "get the final product early!" comes at a bit of a discount off the "final retail price". But even in your case, it's extremely flawed, how can you know the final retail price before they set a final retail price?
- pjc50 7y agoThe original intent of these systems was to crowdfund printing costs for small-run art projects and the like, where the money would need to be actually spent to produce the items. Not paying the creator upfront would destroy that use case.