<story><title>Kickstarter project raised $196K and stopped responding</title><url>http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/crypteks/crypteks-usbtm-encrypted-and-lockable-usb-solution/comments</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>hop</author><text>Im a backer and they offered refunds twice to anyone that wanted it so I don&apos;t know why anyone is complaining.&lt;p&gt;This project was before Kickstarter disallowed renderings (for good reason) and they would probably never have gotten to this shitty position if they had to actually prototype it and find out how insanely expensive it would be to manufacture.</text></comment>
<story><title>Kickstarter project raised $196K and stopped responding</title><url>http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/crypteks/crypteks-usbtm-encrypted-and-lockable-usb-solution/comments</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Udo</author><text>The expectations some people have about crowdfunding are unrealistic. It has to be clear from the start that when you donate money to those projects the money will be spent and the project might fail anyway. People have been using Kickstarter as a pre-order site which I think is not ideal in many cases. The option to preorder should be different from supporting a project in general, but Kickstarter sadly doesn&apos;t offer that kind of separation.</text></comment>