[preinheimer]

He precisely estimated the cost of printing: "Printing was precisely what I estimated it would be: $9,500 "

The cost of re-printing, and re-shipping the posters came out to $7,073, or 9% of the total amount raised. I think we all make these large screw-ups occasionally, but rarely enough that they're not in budgets. I think I cost my last job 20k in an afternoon once.

I don't think this at all indicates people should be wary about funding projects: everything was delivered.

[DatBear]

He would have been able to print the posters, but had he only raised 10,000, he would still be in the hole for:

Less shipping supplies ($5,811)

Less storage lease for 5 months ($690)

Less postage ($4,701)

Less temporary help ($741)

Less charity: water contribution ($2,000)

$13,943 in addition to his $15,000 loan, as well as Kickstarter taking 5% and the 5% merchant fee, which would have come out to ~$1000. I don't think people would have received the poster.

[egypturnash]

He also probably would have done a smaller print run, and spent less on shipping and postage. Might not have needed help shipping either.

[cameronmoll]

Most likely, yes. This is what I've done with my two previous posters (smaller run).

[simonk]

All those numbers would of been much smaller if he had only raised $10k though. Still about $2k, which ruins his original budget as well.