3 ms·
I'm surprised none of these break-out Kickstarters have sold their product to an established consumer products company, who would handle the Kickstarter fulfill
by smackfu 12y ago
I'm surprised none of these break-out Kickstarters have sold their product to an established consumer products company, who would handle the Kickstarter fulfillment and then sell the product at retail
Because it's pretty clear that the people who run these products generally have no idea what they are doing when they get 100x the money they wanted.
- giarc 12y agoI'm sure this guy has been approached by Coleman or other camping related companies looking to purchase the product. I imagine the inventors think "I've had success up until now, I can keep going." And I would agree with them. Why not continue to try and go on your own? The nature of Kickstarter is that you have to try, but if you fail, you don't really owe anyone money.
- VLM 12y agoThose product sectors are not known for compensation of inventors, and presumably he would like more revenue than the $1 unit cost Chinese assemblers or the $8/hr walmart shelf stocker. Not a high margin business. I don't think that supply chain has the institutional memory and skills to ship anything other than large quantities of traditional, by the standards of their field, commodities. The primary effect of getting a big company involved would be giving the gray market Chinese a big head start, so people can buy the product for 50% off on dx.com and related sites. These reasons probably are what discourages the megacorps from entering this small field, or rephrased, those are the reasons why he's got something new instead of competing with existing mfgrs.