I wonder, do you see this changing now that the strategy of growth-at-all-costs is, at least for now, receiving more scrutiny?
Even if the fractions are so small that it only amounts to cents, early supporters now have every incentive to tell ALL their friends about it and root for you however they can
As a customer you also get the piece of mind that later price changes won't be unfair to you. You know that you were somehow compensated for your early commitments. In fact you even stand to benefit from all the new customers price drops could be bringing in
Thank you, I knew it was an energy hog, but had never looked at it this way.
That's enough electricity to melt 2 tons of aluminum, or about half an hour of peak production from an average size US wind turbine.
Why don't Kickstarter campaigns have this problem? AFAIK it's because they are just presales, there's no notion of ownership so they aren't treated as securities. A poorly-designed kickstarter that looked like micro stocks would probably get shot down.