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Re:Kickstarter is coming to Australia and New Zealand by soemarko on Tuesday August 27, 2013 @05:52AM (#6282453)
> The whole crowdfunding space seems to operate pretty illogically.

It's logical to me. I won't be happy if I'm charged upfront, and the project is only half funded. There won't be any incentive to back a project early on, and there will be more unsuccessful projects.

It seems that Indiegogo now also has the "Kickstarter way" of backing as an option. And I'm seeing more and more projects use that.

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Re:Kickstarter is coming to Australia and New Zealand by wmboy on Thursday August 29, 2013 @09:00PM (#6299620)
> I won't be happy if I'm charged upfront, and the project is only half funded.

...so just set it up the same way as Amazon payments. Do an Auth on the card to check it's valid and active, then bill the card when the project is successful.

I guess from their perspective they want to build upon Amazon's payment infrastructure so they don't have to worry about payments and can grow other parts of their business. Which makes sense.

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