This past week or so, I got a followup call from the District Attorney's consumer fraud department to check up on if I'd been reimbursed in full. I confirmed this and they followed up in writing with Indiegogo's response attached. IGG really didn't explain anything in the letter and just described their business instead. (Although their claim that backers and entrepreneurs can communicate directly during the project isn't quite true if the project owner disappears from the site -- backers don't get the owners' emails or phone numbers or addresses).

But at least I got my money back and I can throw it at an Fx phone or Cosmo communicator or purism phone or something . . . Maybe I'll get lucky this time or maybe I'll never learn