I want to know about this too, there is no explanation about this on the whitepaper.

Yes, they already have some investments outside of the ICO, and already a working app that soon will be in a closed beta release, that means that there will be only a hard cap, but even if the hard cap is not reached, the project will continue anyway, so is a win-win for all investors , or it is what I understood.

If they do not want to burn the token can not sell in crowdsale, they need to have some ways to solve this issue. They can not keep those tokens and own it. Example: Exscudo and COSS token, these projects had a decision is increase rate price and distribution the remaining amount of coin to all holders.

Well the Soma ICO is already live since the 26th September but I get what you mean. The release of an working beta could boost the number of investors.

If Soma was operational with many users it will easily be the best platform to sell items. With Soma we will be rewarded in Soma coin to do what we usually do on this kind of platform (sell and buy) but we will also be rewarded to share with the community. With all the ideas Soma team have i just wondered what will be the design of this website and how they gonna be able to put all these functionnalities. 

From whitepaper: "Soma Secure Payment is an integrated escrow service
which facilitates the payment process by holding the
payment in a secured escrow account until the buyer
has confirmed that a certain priorly agreed event
has occurred (i.e receipt of item). As a decentralized
platform, Soma will be able to minimize the transaction
costs and provide a feasible way to engage even in
high-value transactions in a safe manner"

Will this also be able to be used to trading different crypto currencies between 2 parties?

hello dev, i still confused about this project, especially about the token iformation. There is no info about token distribution, token allocation

I found the team quite Active on slack. Might try to ask them there if you dont get response here within reasonable timeframe.

Very good thing to have the objective to create a platform that could reduce the intermediaries because as you say many people don't win a lot because they only have the possibility to sell low comparated to the final product price in case of the different intermediaries. I hope as you said that your platform will help these people to sell directly to the consumers to have a more decent revenue.