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Pop! Goes the Business!
Kaylee Bakes has an amazing offer, just for you! For the low, low price of $10, you can have one inexpertly frosted Halloween cake pop. Estimated delivery: November 2013! BUT WAIT! Order now, and you can have CHRISTMAS CAKE POPS TOO!! (Just don't ask for more than one, or you'll be getting them next year.)

Kickfailure is understandably amused.

But hark! What light through yonder Kaylee Bakes? It is the feast! And Kaylee Bakes is the sun!

"This better be removed. I have your address ANDY."

"You all can stop hating because I am a certified chef. Also, I’m not selling I’m advertising. And I’ve been running my business for over a year making hundreds of dollars so you can stop talking about someone you don’t know."

Also, it's pointed out that she needs a license to sell food products outside of her state and a Health Department-certified kitchen to bake them in. BUT KAYLEE BAKES HAS A PLAN!

"I’m not SELLING, I’m SENDING complimentary cake pops to those who funded me. SO THERE."

Sounds legit.

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	jat_sapphire 2013-10-19 06:09 pm UTC (link)
	This is my puzzlement with Kickstarter generally. This is not how I understand "investment" to work. But, you know, maybe I can set one up so people will give me money to write my NaNo novel? Oh, wait, I am not Cassie Clare. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	freezer 2013-10-20 12:24 am UTC (link)
	As I understand it, Kickstarter is part tip jar, part pre-order w/perks: Donate X amount, get the promised product + Y bonus. Donate less, you're saying "I support what you're doing, here's what I can spare." (Reply to this)(Parent)

	ekaterinv 2013-10-20 06:09 am UTC (link)
	I see it as good old-fashioned patronage, just sourced by many people instead of one rich Medici. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	hopsandbarley 2013-10-20 08:51 am UTC (link)
	Any day in which I can see someone give their opinion on Kickstarter in a way that references Italian art history is a good day. (Reply to this)(Parent)

beccastareyes
2013-10-21 04:33 pm UTC (link)

Or a combination of that and a way to run pre-orders, depending on the project. I think that KS usually encourages a fixed goal, even if that goal isn't going out to all donators, rather than serving as a tip jar. (Like, for instance, 'fund me to take my band on a European tour' or even 'fund me to work part time in 2014 so I can update my webcomic daily'.)

But I think the artist should be upfront about how much is just 'you donate money, and get things' and how much is 'you donate money and I continue to do art, that may or may not be available for free or be donor-exclusive', or the combination of the two*. (I'm generally in favor of transparent accounting, especially so that future Kickstarter projects know how to budget.)

* I know Rick Burlew ran a KS to get his comic re-printed, but one of the stretch goals was 'update the free webcomic daily for a week X times this year'. Given (IIRC) he is a freelance writer, in one sense that is paying him to work on the comic rather than other paying projects, rather than have the comic be a free thing he can do when his paid work is done. He's also been upfront when things like an injured hand meant that he had to delay any updates because it didn't matter how much he was paid, he can't draw when injured.

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