Reply To: [unofficial weekender] rise and fall of kickstarter

[limburger 21707xp 0]

1) When backing a miniatures only project: do you break down the pledge levels to “costs per mini”?
Nope.
The problem is that it assumes the value of the mini remains the same after the project hits retail.
They tend to claim that “save on RRP” … but we all know that the recommended retail price is never what you pay in shops anyway.
I also tend to prefer projects that have either easy pre-picked selections or an ‘all in’ option, because I usually go for ‘all in’ anyway. The 1$ option is for people who don’t understand that you should only use money you could afford to burn on a kickstarter …

My choice to back boils down to :
(a) does the project offer something unique to the hobby ?
(b) do I want to use it myself and would it fit within any of the games I (want to) play

2) How to you “value” a miniature only project? What has the most value in it for you?
the same as any project : total cost vs postage/shipping costs …
The ‘all in’ tiers tend to offer most value …

3) Have you ever stepped back from a crowd funding project because it just went over a certain threshold? Be that “in total” or “per mini”

The only thing that ever stops me is when shipping costs are higher than the (assumed) value of the product itself, unless I really really really ‘need’ the thing.
I never drop out once committed.
If I’m not sure I simply ‘save’ the project and check when it is about to end.
If I still ‘want’ it then I will back it.
Any other result means I’m not backing it.
Net result is that I never back out once I have comitted myself.

Pledge :
Reorganising and sorting my pile of opportunity … it’s a lot of work and I’m soo easily distracted.
I also need to find a good storage solution once done. Probably will pick based on potential storage capacity as opposed to how ‘good’ it looks. The “really useful boxes” are really cool, if a bit expensive.