[toast76]

Personally, I think it's up to the individual (or in this case, collective) investor to perform due diligence before handing over your cash. I've only chipped into 3 kickstarter projects, but in each instance I'd done the appropriate due diligence before signing up.

As the saying goes, a fool and their money are soon parted!

[FrankBooth]

Making a Kickstarter pledge is no more investing than ordering a pizza.

[Dylanlacey]

When you pay for a pizza you get a damn pizza or you get your money back. Kickstarter projects aren't anywhere near as certain. They are much closer to an investment, except your return is fixed at either 1 unit of project product OR nothing.

[homosaur]

PREordering pizza...