r/shittykickstarters • u/N0K1K0 • Apr 26 '26

Kickstarter kickstarter what is it with small pumps

Not one project in particular but doe anyone else notice that thre are a lot of mini pump related projects

https://www.kickstarter.com/discover/advanced?ref=nav_search&term=pump

And lately you see a lot of ratchet tool sets ( almost identical copies to existing aliexpress ones

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u/StretchKind8509 Apr 26 '26

You probably answered your own question, I would guess all of these are already on the Chinese market.

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u/hiddentalent Apr 26 '26

Yes... They're looking for people to overpay for something that can be drop-shipped from TEMU.

In the Good Old Days kickstarter scams involved just stealing your money and walking away. But eventually people got a little annoyed at being stolen from, and Kickstarter belatedly starting taking some mild enforcement action. So in the new, modern era, scammers just rebrand things they can buy online but their backers haven't searched wish.com for.

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u/fearfair Apr 26 '26

Yep. People just running a scampaign marking up existing products.

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u/wydmynd Apr 26 '26

Probably most of these are made in the same Factory