Kickstarter Reviews 1,212

I’m a creator and the experience is horrible absolutely horrible. They have no customer service to help me when setting up the account. My campaign went live as soon as I started getting paid they fro... See more

4 years since our substantial startup payment to Phantom Chess & still nothing delivered... They lead you along the garden path releasing updates occasionally saying they're improving this & that, the... See more

So you can get some good ideas on there but where the tech ones are concerned, don't bother. If anything you may get repackaged aliexpress items that are not unique but now it seems you are just fun... See more

Not only does kickstarter not protect investors but also they do nothing against fraudulent companies who create campaigns over and over. I’ve lost a lot of money on a few campaigns and that’s really... See more

I have never (yet) not received an item however shipping costs have become ridiculous. I am finding that generally the shipping doubles the cost. I purchased trekking poles for $80 and had to spend th... See more

Kickstarter has turned into a place of legalized piracy. Over the last year, I’ve lost money and received zero rewards from three different companies, including some “big name” ones. It’s absurd tha... See more

Generally I'm supportive of entrepreneurs and smart ideas. I'm a commercial scuba diver and backed the SeeAir project. It's a floating compressor. The Hong Kong company went radio silent to the 2003... See more

Reported a project for a blatantly dishonest claim / scam. The project ("Planto") claims to be a lamp "powered entirely by water (...) no batteries". Whereas in fact it has a battery in the ba... See more

In recent years, Kickstarter has turned into a safe haven for scammers. It is becoming increasingly rare for projects to actually follow through or offer refunds when things go wrong. It feels like... See more

I have attempted at least 4 different products on this legalized thievery platform. Only once did I actually receive a finished product. This is over several years of participation. Just hundreds of d... See more

Unfortunately Kickstarter are the biggest cowboys of them all on their own platform. They’re clearly aiding in people being robbed of their hard earned cash by happily taking their commission or for... See more

Sadly, I can't give lower than 1* otherwise I would. Purchased a police patrolman watch. However, i'm sure i'm not the only one caught out by the companies clever advertising. These watches are cheap,... See more

They're making money off your back without doing anything for it (except host a website that barely needs any upkeep). They do nothing about scammers. Since they're in the middle they could per... See more

I have had a couple of successful experiences with Kickstarter. However my last backing of a project with this company resulted in the creator disappearing with everybody's money. Kickstarter is holdi... See more

I have backed about 5 projects. Literally only 1 was successful and I received it. The rest shut down, failed, or disappeared without a trace. I'm not talking small projects. I'm talking projects that... See more

Please heed this warning…after good experiences with products received a few years ago, on the last 6 months I have not received two products…essentially scam artists taking money and not providing p... See more

Backed a board game called Fluffy Dragons, which went completely silent - even though the organiser has been actively backing other projects, they've just run off with our money. I understand that... See more

I love participating in new research and being able to have new things on the market. But I do not like being scammed. These creators make prototypes and give a short window of delivery. They take our... See more

A pirates nest of scammers and fraudsters. And Kickstarter loves it. They get lots of free money without lifting a finger! What's even better you ask? The scammers don't have to do anything to be paid... See more

I have backed a few projects on Kickstarter and had great experiences. That goodwill is now complete destroyed. Rue & Vervain's "Tigger Too" Pooh project is a complete scam. Months of delays and lam... See more

kickstarter has one mission and one mission only: to discourage and frustrate you as much as possible: it took me 10h to create a project there, after replying to a billion standard message... See more

Stay Clear of Kickstarter absolute scam. signed up and paid for a product. and ultimately lost all the money paid as the Kickstarter decided not to fulfil and customer service basically said tough luc... See more

Kickstarter has recently been lovingly referred to as Scamstarter. Why is this correct? NiteEase: Your Greatest Smart Bedside Partner for Living: scam. Tornado - Heat and perfume your home wit... See more

Centre for unfulfilled promises, absolutely no support for backers and mostly excuses and blame shifting. I have backed a few project in the spirit of early KS days, but few delivered, and contacting... See more

Worst company ever! They support scammers on their platform!! After 5 times informing a maker is scamming customers with real proof, they don’t take any action! Never by anything at them!!!

I was one of 989 backers in 2024 who supported a campaign and made a pledge of $199 + $30 postage on Kickstarter. Needless to say, the creator has ceased communication and no product was sent... See more

Do not trust this so called business KICKBOOSTER. There is no address, no UK phone number and no email address. If you raise a concerns via the website they wil not answer or address the issued rais... See more

Do not back anything on Kickstarter. They are a haven for liars, scammers and fraudsters. Kickstarter will not do a thing about it, just cookie-cutter emails that mean nothing, advising to 'contact... See more

I have now 6 backed projects in 2025 (4 HKD & 2 USD) that looks like is clearly fraud/scam. The only projects that wasn't fraud was respectable companies with existing products for sale on internet.... See more

Back in the day Kickstarter was a great place to support some real innovation and get yourself some nce tech. Recently it has become somewhere for scammers to promise what they want and take the mon... See more

You put your money in somethisng that had been nicely advertized, but with high risk of loosing it. The worst experience, when I decided to stop backing any project, was, when the respective start co... See more

Paid for something and now I wait and wait.. they said the delivery will be december and now suddenly it‘s „I don‘t know the date when the manufacturer is delivering it as he didn‘t respond but I... See more

Project made a clear promise of $30 shipping. Immediately after project completion, they took my $200 and said shipping would be $129. Also the product would be completely different from what was a... See more

I backed many project over the years, but I'm considering leaving Kickstarter. Scams are increasing and we backers have 0 support!! 2 weaks ago I tried to stop a creator to launch a new project becau... See more

Absolutely no due diligence on projects, no support for backers and they continue to support projects where the creators failed to fulfil previous campaigns. I backed a campaign seven years ago whi... See more

I backed a project for an egpu which was fully funded. It was not a cheap pledge, however shortly after collecting the money they reached out with an upgrade offer and to pay for postage. Having s... See more

Kickstarter is a total scam. I have supported a bunch of campaigns. At least 4 have been corrupt! Most recently the campaigned raised over 1000x their goal and what happened? Crickets. Messages t... See more

This has become a scammers platform, KS facilitates and protects scammers because they get a fee. They do not protect us backers at all, do not react to complaints, only comp. generated standard... See more

Not only do they ignore when the Creators break Kickstarters rules, Kickstarter even help them doing it, kickstarter even breaks their own rules. they didn't even bother to read the report abou... See more

I funded $1,000 for a computer monitor project by a company called JGF from Hong Kong. A total of $135,000 was funded by others like me. The so-called developer has not responded to any email. No... See more

It used to be good to support original ideas. My most recent support project took money for the project, and quite a large amount for shipping yet I am yet to receive anything. I raised concerns with... See more

joke of a company should not be allowed to operate. I lost £200 and they will not help you try and get it back. They just mess you around asking for more information they don’t investigate or look at... See more

I've never backed a project until this year. My husband has many times and has always loved it however, it seems that they do not care anymore about their rules and guidlines for sellers. I backed the... See more

I bought in @ $99 to purchase first run for a sun shade to keep my home's air conditioner cooler. I never received the shade, never received updates after the first one, and Kickstarter won't help - t... See more

Will never back another Kickstarter project again. They leave the Late Pledge button for Stellaris Infinite Legacy active even though the project is a scam with no rulebook and it's been 6 years since... See more

Wow! This Kickstarter thing is so rubbish I thought there will be some kind of minimum protection for the money we pay. I backed up the project for Elara robot and its been years but didn’t rec... See more