What I like about this is that it doesn't leave the buyer -- here, explicitly a buyer -- in the twilight zone that Kickstarter does. Kickstarter calls you a "backer", and a bearer of risk to some extent, and for this some people in the Oculus case have come to feel like investors and felt seriously cheated. Seriously, search HN.
Actually pricing what a Kickstarter "backing" offer should cost like is a lot like pricing financial derivatives. By offering to back a project, you're swapping a call option for something like a CDO - there are tranches, there are levels of haircuts, etc. etc.
Tindie is just Etsy for Arduino hackers. Congratulations for cutting that Gordian knot!
Actually pricing what a Kickstarter "backing" offer should cost like is a lot like pricing financial derivatives. By offering to back a project, you're swapping a call option for something like a CDO - there are tranches, there are levels of haircuts, etc. etc.
Tindie is just Etsy for Arduino hackers. Congratulations for cutting that Gordian knot!