Re:Rejected by Kickstarter; Lumawake opts to Selfstart
by scott_roehrick on Tuesday November 13, 2012 @10:12PM
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Hardware and Product Design account for just 4.2% of KS projects and 21% revenue. With 75% not hitting projected ship dates it's easy to see they applied the 80/20 rule and cracked down. KS simply wasn't made for pre-orders and they don't have a system in place to track projects after funding / enforce refunds. It's just not the business they want to be in. We can understand that. We just wish they would have handled this differently but, at this point, it's water under the bridge. We believe in our product and are up for the challenge!
Re:Rejected by Kickstarter; Lumawake opts to Selfstart
by mcphilip on Tuesday November 13, 2012 @08:36PM
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My theory is that Kickstarter expects there to be a high profile (e.g. $million+ light bulb pre order[1]) failure to deliver in the near future and is being especially hard on any new hardware campaigns. Some legitimate campaigns will be denied as a result of this, but Kickstarter is trying to preempt criticism.
[1] http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/limemouse/lifx-the-light...
I'm not sure there's much of anything they can do that would be worse for their business than to start applying secretive, arbitrary rules that even smart people can't figure out how to abide by and then following that up with a clear demonstration that said smart people aren't even worth a phone call.