https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1664227147/woo-bee-wooden-creativity

It is really to give some publicity to (Kokoon EEG team https://kokoon.io/) and kickstarter.com attitude to that project so rant mode on :)

It is a saga really. A project got almost $2mil in backer's money back in 2016. Kokoon EEG, a fancy noise cancelling headphones. Since inception in 2016 they removed some functionality and now... 2019... they still haven't delivered it to backers. Nothing fancy you say, plenty of kickstarter.com stuff goes sour? Right? Nope, there is a twist.

Kokoon EEG team now has a web site https://kokoon.io/. And this site says "Final few spaces in the current shipment available! Order today to secure your pair, delivery from April 2019". Fancy that!

There are 8,489 backers gave them $1,936,825 out of 100k they asked back then. Should've been a solid success? At least after 3 years of development. I suppose.. Yet the project page on kickstarter.com full of backers from first 600 out of 8489 who didn't receive anything yet. I wonder how many did ever got anything, and wasn't all these reviews up there are fake?

So, basically people took the money to spin off a business, and now backers left out in the cold fleeced. kickstarter.com won't do anything. Kokoon EEG's Tim surfaces on the kickstarter.com community once in two months posting pictures of palettes filled with some orders. And still backers with numbers in first 500-th are responding they got nothing.

I am one of these first backers. I almost forgot about it really, but when I do remember it just sound so surreal. I suppose the idea of kickstarter was good and I backed a few fancy hitech projects that did delivered after a long while. And if they didn't - I understand that a project can fail, that's fine with me. But when you take people money ($2 mil aint a small amount) and then deliver nothing, but keep running a business and take orders - this really sounds like a scam. It is a plain breach of promise and I wonder was it all done in bad faith from start?

To me this clearly shaped a decision that I would never ever put a single $ into anything on kickstarter from now. All projects I'd backed delivered with years of delay. I'd rather wait and then buy it when it's done (if its done). Especially knowing that kickstarter.com is not going to protect backers unless there is a legal action. So kickstarter is just you giving money away to strangers. Unfortunately.... But how good was the idea, huh?