You mean "home shopping", like on TV where you call "right now" and you get useless stuff... Kickstarter is purely a marketing business, many backers still don'

You mean "home shopping", like on TV where you call "right now" and you get useless stuff... Kickstarter is purely a marketing business, many backers still don't understand it. The client is the project creator, not the backers. Since Kickstarter makes money on successful marketing campaigns. Apparently, they are still doing well https://www.kickstarter.com/help/stats https://www.kickstarter.com/help/stats Good for them. I will never back anything on that platform because I find it exploitative. Kickstarter claims they can't do any due diligence and it's up to the backers. But how can a backer assess the viability of a project if Kickstarter themselves can't? How many bakers know anything about industrial production, supply chain, ... The project creator can lie to the face of backers for half a decade, of course most of them are completely ignorant of what producing goods entails, for instance: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/stillalive/polygons-the-flat-4-in-1-measuring-spoon/comments https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/stillalive/polygons-the... 4 years to produce a basic measuring spoon, and counting...