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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Treebore" data-source="post: 5998434" data-attributes="member: 10177">A lot of people really don't seem to get what Kickstarters really are. Rather than have to go look to banks or other "investment" groups, KS's allow fans to be the investors.So right now Reaper has 1.6 MILLION and growing in investments. Interest free, with no investors to answer to unless they fail to deliver what they promise us. All they have to do is pay us back with a bunch of mini's that I am sure will actually cost them less than $.50 each to actually make, and that difference, that "profit" is what will help them pay for all the molds they need to make. All without having to go into debt to some "investment group", a bank, or otherwise. I have no doubt the people at Reaper are absolutely giddy over all this.Will this hurt sales for the short term? Maybe. But the long term return on this is still going to be much higher. In my case, I know Reaper still has a lot more mini's I want to buy even after this Kickstarter is over, and in fact, I think the excitement these mini's will generate when I hold them in my hands will encourage me to buy the others much faster than I have been over the last couple of years. So if that happens, for me and a significant number of the other 8000 "investors", Reaper will still profit off of us and our new enthusiasm from this. After all, I have had dozens of mini's wait years to be painted, what do I care if that number goes up to 200+? If anything I'll look at all that undone work and make myself get busy.</blockquote>

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