Alzrius
The EN World kitten
My sources was the combined reading of the "Crowdsourcing industry report of 2014 from the Canada Crowdsourcing magazine, Blog posts from various newspapers and magazines talking about the new phenomenon, and comparing those to article and blog posts about the affects of online retail stores like Amazon on brick and mortar stores in general. From those articles, it said that 98% of kickstarter projects end up being sold in online stores, and the crowdsourcing magazine spoke how every business and sector has been impacted by crowdsourcing as users have less money to spend in retail during the holidays.
Again, this is not a citation. You are making the assertion that a given source supports your point, so you need to provide a link (or at least the exact title of the publication, it's date, and authors) to it, rather than just saying "I read it in some issue of a particular magazine."
It was a single source, so I provided my estimates. I won't hold my breath for you to actually answer any questions posed to you without some sort of odd, debate retort.
You think it's odd that a debate would have the characteristics of a debate? You're the one saying that that Kickstarter hurts retailers; if you can't back that up, you have no right to impugn others for not doing the same.
EDIT: As for your question of "how many successful Kickstarter projects are sold in an FLGS," I'm honestly not sure why you think that number is relevant. That said, none of my points were based around specific units of Kickstarted materials being sold in brick-and-mortar stores.
In other words, you're asking me to cite sources for a claim I never made. Pointing that out isn't dodging the question, it's demonstrating that it's pointless.
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