Happens all the time. Indiegogo is IMHO even worse than Kickstarter at policing obvious bad cases. Don't think about it as buying.
Things like books/art prints/music releases are typically quite safe, tech products are not (my one failed KS: new iteration of a tech product from a company with previous successes, which now is saying "sorry, corona, didn't work out, we'll send you one of the old ones instead" instead of offering a refund....)
The one I came to comment was an obvious bad actor on Indiegogo who had done multiple Raspberry Pi electronics kits... not clear if the person was a fraudster or just very bad at actually finishing projects, but much weeping and gnashing of teeth by contributors who dug into the guy's history and found a pattern of taking funding and never shipping final products to most backers.
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Happens all the time. Indiegogo is IMHO even worse than Kickstarter at policing obvious bad cases. Don't think about it as buying.
Things like books/art prints/music releases are typically quite safe, tech products are not (my one failed KS: new iteration of a tech product from a company with previous successes, which now is saying "sorry, corona, didn't work out, we'll send you one of the old ones instead" instead of offering a refund....)
The one I came to comment was an obvious bad actor on Indiegogo who had done multiple Raspberry Pi electronics kits... not clear if the person was a fraudster or just very bad at actually finishing projects, but much weeping and gnashing of teeth by contributors who dug into the guy's history and found a pattern of taking funding and never shipping final products to most backers.