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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alzrius" data-source="post: 6759086" data-attributes="member: 8461">Insisting that an apple is an orange does not make it an orange, even if you say "it's sweet and juicy and good for you; for all that matters it's an orange."Leaving aside the made-up statistic, why they do it doesn't matter. Personal motivations or intent don't change a fund-raising platform into a retail outlet.No, it's not. Personal perception, even if popularized, does not change the nature of how a particular model functions; it just means that the perception is wrong.Actually, your Problem (capital "P," apparently) is that it can only be used for funding, and never for pre-orders. There's no "supposed to" about it. You literally cannot make a pre-order on Kickstarter; you can only choose to receive an optional reward for helping to fund something's creation.This is supposition that you have absolutely no basis for making. You don't know that most of those products would exist otherwise. Likewise, you don't know that if they did they'd have found their way into stores. Not to mention that you're overlooking the fact that some Kickstarted products do then find their way into stores, which wouldn't have happened if they hadn't been financed via crowd-funding.Presenting personal opinions as facts does not make them facts; this gets back into that whole "there's a difference between perception and reality" thing I mentioned earlier.</blockquote>