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

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Can we say ‘people are the worst’ ?
They are the reason kickstarters are ‘forced’ to have stretchgoals, because the #1 complaint for those that don’t have ‘enough’ is that isn’t enough ‘free’ stuff … so everyone tends to follow the CMON model of loads of silly stretchgoals in order to keep the idiots happy. Make a mistake in estimating stretchgoals vs amount of backers buying those extras … and you can kiss your company good bye.

I’m pretty sure that kickstarters would fail to fund if they had (1) realistic targets and (2) zero stretch goals, because people are stupid.

That’s why we get projects with a nearly empty box and 10k as a target and stretchgoals like ‘two more cards’ at intervals that allow for daily updates until it reaches the x times ‘over funded’.
I’m willing to bet that a project with all of the content in the box at the start and a higher target would have more trouble funding … despite promising to deliver exactly the same thing.

All of this nonsense means silly unneeded estimates have to be made (what does printing 2 cards extra cost? does it justify the ‘extra’ money in the stretchgoal ?) …