Kickstarter can claim to be whatever it wants, but if I say if you give me $2,000 I'll do my best to delivermagical super shoes...

And I end up taking all the money and spending it a 2-month trip to Canada,I've sort of done something wrong. No matter what Kickstarter says, you can definitely be sued if you take someone's money and don't deliver what you promised.

I absolutely loved Kickstarter when it came out, but I don't think I've donated any money to any Kickstarter just because it's more stressful to try and keep track of whenever the hell I'm supposed to get my product.

Amazon and eBay are full of useless things I can get delivered tomorrow, why go on Kickstarter and wait 3 months or even a year?

I think Kickstarter just wasn’t ever for you. It’s for folks like me who have no need to keep track of this stuff. I just want the thing to exist.

I backed a few Kickstarters where the creator just ran off with money and quit.

Their is a ton of pressure to over promise, take Code Hero.

I checked out the free demo and loved it enough to back it. Then the creator promised a bunch of infeasible things, like teaching you how to make an online game. The original goal , show off basic programming, was solid.

Right after the campaign ended, the project disappeared.

I'm working on my own game now. And while I might let people pay what they want for a demo of it, I'm not going to promise a bunch of stuff I can't realistically do in order to fundraise.

Not quite the same. Kickstarter does require projects to commit to delivering whatever they promised to backers at the time of the contribution as long as the project is fully funded. They themselves aren't going to process refunds, but you do have a legal avenue if you really want your money back, which isn't the case for any random donation.

Generally when things are not nearly as well developed as the original Kickstarter text promised.