[amarpatel]

> Kickstarter backers who have not received their rewards will receive a full refund within 4-8 weeks as a chargeback to their credit cards. No further action is needed.

[Leszek]

No, I know that I'll be getting a refund, I just wonder why the kickstarter money wasn't enough to fulfill the kickstarter rewards.

[detaro]

Kickstarter probably mostly covers production of the rewards, not the product development.

[gerryk]

It's business 101 that the retail price should cover all production costs, including R&D, otherwise you are in shortfall from day 0.

[detaro]

Retail price over the full sales run. Kickstarter was just the preorder phase of it and thus likely doesn't cover the full R&D, especially not if the estimates were off in some way.