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Re:Kickstarter Project Pebble Leaves Backers Hanging by petercooper on Friday September 07, 2012 @05:48PM (#4491352)
Re 4: In Kickstarter's terms, it says Project Creators are required to fulfill all rewards of their successful fundraising campaigns or refund any Backer whose reward they do not or cannot fulfill.

It would be very hard work to actually enforce this but Kickstarter does at least set the expectation that payment == reward.

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Re:Kickstarter Project Pebble Leaves Backers Hanging by Lerc on Friday September 07, 2012 @06:49PM (#4491572)
They cannot possibly have made that claim in good faith.

The most likely scenario for a project that cannot deliver is that they ran out of funds before that had fulfilled all of the orders. By that time there is no money left to refund.

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Re:Kickstarter Project Pebble Leaves Backers Hanging by dllthomas on Friday September 07, 2012 @07:02PM (#4491611)
Aaand you'd better hope the project formed some kind of entity with limited liability...
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