Reply To: Large Kickstarters should be more open about shipping costs

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Without knowing the weight of each product and having a limited number of KS stretch goals this would be difficult to accurately estimate. For experienced companies, maybe they could provide an estimated weight for each pledge level based on their previous products but as most KS are still in the early stages of design and production when going live those without much experience wouldn’t have a past product to use as a guide.

With weights, people could estimate the postage costs for their part of the world and the company could estimate the packaging cost. But without a final product to weigh and package and the fact that international postage often sees cost changes at smaller weight increment increases this will always be tough to do.