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I curious what kind of positive experience you guys have had. What is your favorite reward you received as a backer?

I'll start with mine. It's a split decision between "bolstr - The Ultimate EDC Bag" and "John K's 'Cans Without Labels'".

The bolstr reward was the bag itself for $75.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ja ... escription

And the John K reward was a doodle by cartoon artist John K as well as a storyboard page from the cartoon he was trying to fund through the campaign ($71).
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/10 ... escription

I think I've gotten too many to keep track of. LOL

Favorite books
Women Destroy Science Fiction
Long Hidden
Kitchen Overlord Illustrated Geek Cookbook
Blade's Edge
Not Our Kind
The Book of Dragons edited by A. c. Brown - comic book adaptation published by Bronco Ink Publishing
Nelvana of the Northern Lights (Adrian Dingle) edited by Hope Nicholson
Storyteller's Thesaurus put out by Chenault & Gray Publishing (looking forward to getting the Storyteller's Dictionary which I recently pledged for

Favorite Cards:
1. The Writer Emergency Pack has been fun to give as gifts as well as use myself

2. Notable Women in Computing - love playing with cards with Womens faces on them and reading about women who've been "forgotten" or written out of history. They are also fun to give out at cons and to friends with daughters

Favorite kitchen item: GIR Lids - saves so much cling wrap, works better, looks good too

Just for fun: Espionage Cosmetics - don't remember the campaign name - will look it up - nail wraps for geeks

Interesting question....

According to Kickstarter, I've backed 100 projects. But that includes projects that were unsuccessful and ones that are still running, but doesn't include 2 where I had CC payment problems and ended up backing outside of KS.

Of that 100, 34 has successfully funded. On those, 1 failed after the fact and issued partial refunds. Of the remaining 33 projects, I've received only 10 rewards. (12 of 35 if you include the 2 I ended up paying four outside of KS.)

The first successful project I backed, funded 10x over back in May of 2014. I promptly received my Beta invite, but in 11 months, I've never logged into the Beta. The final version is late, but it's still in active development.

The most "overdue" Reward is only that hit double it's funding goal back in September. According to the Rewards, access to the Beta was supposed to be available that same month, but still isn't. Communication from the Creator's has also been lacking, by and large.

The one I count as being the most overdue, though, funded a month earlier, in August, with an expected December delivery of rewards. This project had a goal of only $1, but reached 5 main Stretch Goals from $2,500 - $12,500. This project was a victim of it's own success. Stretch Goals took it from a 60 page to a 200 page rule book. But editing is -finally- finishing up. In the meantime, the Creator ran a second, related campaign that I also supported. That secondary project has a delivery estimate of next month, but at last word the rewards were still in a container out at sea someplace, let alone customs and fulfillment. But I fully expect to receive all my rewards from both campaigns sometime this fall.

But as to my favorite, it's too close to call between my "Dawn of the Furries" standee of *me* wielding my computer keyboard in self-defense and my "C is for Cthulhu" board book for my inner child to learn the ABCs of horror.

My favorite reward has to be my coin ring. The craftsmanship is professionally done, and I wear my ring every day!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/16 ... -treasures

While I have received some great games from projects on kickstarter my favorite reward is my Pebble smartwatch. Soon to be replaced by a Pebble Time smartwatch.

This is really difficult to answer.

I have some great games and game related products. Also some good tech related products.

Right now one of my favourites is https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/15 ... m3-machin3 as it makes the best brown rice ever and allows me to have hot oatmeal waiting in the morning if I plan the night before. I have also enjoyed steaming with it and look forward to using some of the other functions soon.

This one: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/km ... -practical receives a special mention as it just arrived at my doorstep (while writing this) and they included a bunch of extras as a surprise and I think as an apology for being late (and not that late even).

I like the product that of course were pre-ordered (VAAVUD Sleipnir, MIPOW Playbulb color, MIPOW Playbulb rainbow) I even had no smartphone by then. I first got the products then bought a smartphone.

What I'm more interested in (and I bet creators too) are the side-products goodies that you like? and of course at what price do you value this
* intangibles : shout-out, credit in a site or app...
* tangibles : calendar, t-shirt (I hate t-shirt i've too many, I'd say max 25 USD for a nice t-shirt),
* personalized tangibles: written postcard, drawing, ...
* contribution power : power to choose a color or design (by voting of all backers), choose between 2 stretch goals, being able to participate in the creative process
* uniqueness & limited perks : like something only given ONCE or 5 - 10 times : receive the matrix or mold, part of a film...

What makes you put dollars on the project ? (more than 100 USD for a non-tech/design/game project/tangible good to receive)

LouPhi wrote:I like the product that of course were pre-ordered (VAAVUD Sleipnir, MIPOW Playbulb color, MIPOW Playbulb rainbow) I even had no smartphone by then. I first got the products then bought a smartphone.

What I'm more interested in (and I bet creators too) are the side-products goodies that you like? and of course at what price do you value this
* intangibles : shout-out, credit in a site or app...
* tangibles : calendar, t-shirt (I hate t-shirt i've too many, I'd say max 25 USD for a nice t-shirt),
* personalized tangibles: written postcard, drawing, ...
* contribution power : power to choose a color or design (by voting of all backers), choose between 2 stretch goals, being able to participate in the creative process
* uniqueness & limited perks : like something only given ONCE or 5 - 10 times : receive the matrix or mold, part of a film...

What makes you put dollars on the project ? (more than 100 USD for a non-tech/design/game project/tangible good to receive)

Frequently I don't care much about the side-products & have been known to ask creators NOT to send them but instead donate them to a local charity. I prefer perks which do donations of product to help needy/stem/minorities.

I like to see lower level options which won't cost creator much (digital, name on wall/in book/etc., postcard).

Things that get me to pledge more - double rewards so I can gift to several people, music soundtrack if it's a game, art schetchbooks for games & comics.

But I'm not your typical backer. LOL

I am in concert with Tasha, as the rewards matter, but not necessarily to me, and I often defer or just give them away.

I am weary of backing a project that asks for dozens, or hundreds or thousands of bucks without a reasonable reward structure tho, because I want to see the creator's value stream. Where the reward seems to equal (or surpass) the ask, I always give more, then I defer or not, depending on my confidence in the creator.

My favorite rewards were the PadPivot tablet stand (2011) and the SwatchMate (2014).

No reward is a disappointment, per se.The One to One Hundred was not made up the standards I expected, but, hey, if the creator thinks that's good enough, then I will just never back him again.

I am disappointed to be still waiting for the Cool Fat Burner and the AKO dice, but the longest and most disappointing wait has got to be for the Memobottle, the Thumb Track and the LightMan (all 2014): come on!

I never received the Snooperscope, though they claim it was sent. That's too bad, as I had high hopes for it.

I have backed several children's books for my granchildren and some have been beautiful with really well-done illustrations.
The newest one that I really like is Augie and the Green Knight. This project went way over its goal and came with lots of extras.The thing I like best is that most of the extras were improvements to the book (ribbon bookmark, better paper, etc)

The reward I use the most is The Public Radio. It is a one-station radio in a small mason jar. They set it to my NPR station. I have it by the bed at night and carry it with me around the house for times that the TV is not on. This is am amazing idea and so far, it is working perfectly.
RKBookman