Re:Kicktrolling
by johncampbelljr on Wednesday December 04, 2013 @07:18AM
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This is an interesting idea. And if the fee to back-out is proportional to the pledge even better.
I don't see why not, you see it all the time in the real world. e.g., book a vacation with a X% non-refundable deposit.
Good idea, but even the back-up fee is reversible on a credit card.
Require people to pay some amount to Kickstarter itself to buy a "large funding credit" (a virtual currency.) That credit must be spent, along with whatever actual donation you make, if you want to contribute over, say, $2000. The credits also don't "activate" until, say, six months after they're purchased--well outside of the (legitimate-vendor) chargeback window.
>The credits also don't "activate" until, say, six months after they're purchased--well outside of the (legitimate-vendor) chargeback window.
Who'd buy kickstarter credit just to hope that in 6 months there would be an interesting project to support?
The thing that wins kickstarter buyers over is the ease of supporting it. This would kill it.
This works in the economic sense, not necessarily in the regulatory.