A reminder on Kickstarter projects

[Joseph Osborn]

The Kickstarter I backed is months behind now and although there have been machines delivered to a handful of backers, there are extensive design and manufacturing defects. The machine was totally redesigned after the Kickstarter ended, resulting in a product that is substantially not the machine that was sold in the Kickstarter. Virtually no testing was done, so the Backers are having to report the problems back to the manufacturer. To top it all off, the "team" that was shown in the Kickstarter are apparently not the actual people making the machine, and no personal information is available for anyone involved. The backers are literally operating on faith at this point. I am glad that I only have a comparatively small amount of money invested. Kickstarter needs to absolutely change so incompetent people can't exploit their system.