/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

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I know I'm late to the discussion here, but honestly I don't see a problem with it. If you're already going to be making money off of these IPs that aren't yours, why not crowdfund it to at least make sure you get back what you put into it? The best thing about a KS is that it makes it clear whether people want a product or not (running polls on Twitter doesn't give concrete results imo). There's also pin collectors that specifically hang out on crowdfunding websites to find new artists/pin-makers, and that is a group that can only be tapped into by crowdfunding. Why not take advantage of that?

At the end of the day, you're still getting the same product, and it's still just as morally grey. Consumers aren't really going to care about how you got the funds either. I don't understand how that process is more "obnoxious" than just funding it yourself. Not everyone has a ton of money laying around to slam down on merch that may or may not sell well (regardless of quality).

KS with super low goals are pointless though, I think. I don't get these campaigns with $150-$300 goals. Funding a project that's going to cost $800-$1000+ is one thing, but you can easily take time to save up a couple hundred dollars to fund one pin design. At that point you're just throwing a part of your profits away to cover the KS fees, and that's wasteful.