Is there a Regretsy equivalent for Kickstarter?
There should be.
Crowd-funding broker Kickstarter has surpassed the $1bn mark for funding on its projects, which include a RoboCop which just stands there in the cash-strapped Michigan city of Detroit and a calendar featuring cats dressed up as magical creatures. The company on Monday said that its projects have amassed more than billion …
Those figures don't really reflect the national enthusiasms for Kickstarter, lets see what the average donation per backer is -
U.K. $170.6
U.S. $176.5
Canada $207.8
Germany $221.4
Australia $290.31
Admittedly Antarctica wins at $337 per backer, but maybe there's not much else to spend their wages on.
That's news, when you tell people something new instead of just parroting a web page.
And yes, there could be places with even higher figures, I haven't looked at places not singled out for their 'high donations'.
It is interesting as the two things on kickstarter I backed with my cash, got delayed and delayed and delayed so long that after several big deadline movements, I withdrew my support/got my money back.
I wonder if the figures for people backing out are included in the above, I suspect not. Kickstarter has a lot of chancers. I'd like to see how many kickstarters actually delivered what they promised.
Then again, I backed Australian projects and didn't suffer non-delivery or high shipping fees.
I can readily believe that both high shipping costs and non-delivery (probably due to more enthusiasm and optimism than business sense) are fairly regular occurrences.
I'm a bit too lazy, but I did also wonder how the number of backers per country worked out as a percentage of population.