Online shop with Kickstarter products: A curated import without the new-product risk
UK shoppers struggle to get hold of interesting Kickstarter gadgets. A specialist shop imports validated products and ships them locally.
An online shop with Kickstarter products is a curated reseller model that imports successful and community-validated products from large Kickstarter and Indiegogo campaigns and sells them on the local UK market. The main challenge for a beginner is selecting products that have demand outside the original backer community, negotiating distribution terms with campaign creators and managing logistics from the US or Asia.
A UK shopper sees an interesting gadget from a Kickstarter campaign on YouTube or social media โ a smart lamp, a designer backpack, a board game, an EDC tool โ but after clicking the link finds the campaign ended a year ago and the product only ships from the US with expensive postage and customs risk. Most people give up the moment they see the EU shipping cost.
๐Global wave of Kickstarter campaigns without local distribution
Creators of successful campaigns focus on delivering to the original backers and address EU distribution later, often never. The gap for a local partner taking over distribution in one country is permanent and grows with every new successful campaign.
