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I have invested in a pre stage ICO that a good friend told me about, as it was only 100$ to join with coins at 8 cents, the company is called masscryp, not much info about them to the public until end of month, but there not exagerating or making ridiculous claims so i thought for 100$ why not, how do you guys feel about investing in these this early?

In more detail, you need to analyze projects, so as not to ask questions later. For you came up with dozens of rating sites, where you can get information about the best ICO projects.

I have invested in pre-ICO before. If you do not mind a long wait before you can trade and if you can absolutely trust the project then you should go ahead. Remember there will be an ICO phase and after that market/exchange phase. So depends on how far those are.

Also you mentioned that not much info is available for them publicly so unless your friend is one of the insiders you should invest.

Thanks for the replies guys, yeah i understand it may take sometime before i can start trading, looking at early 2018, they have a networking scheme in place which is really good in the mean time.
Yes DeepCrypto i am lucky in that sense i am kept in the loop via my friend, and i completely agree with you medved, thanks to you both for sharing your advice and experience.

I have a 100$ too and I wish to invest in a Pre-ICO of Miralab project. I already asked for advices is it a good choice. Thats not a great sum of money and its like a gambling for me. But, on the other hand, its an experience - positive or negative... 

The difference between the previous ICO and the official round is that the number of TOKENs obtained is more and the cost is lower. But the downside is also obvious: the risks are so great that they do not even have a white paper, they're probably just a good idea, not even in the implementation phase. The risk is very large, probably more than the risk of gambling are much larger.

Pre ICO is usually come with good bonuses. So you can get more tokens with the same amount of money others put in during crowd sale.

Like right now, appcoins is having pre ico. With a 30% discount, by calculation, you can actually have 1/0.7 = 1.42857. That means with the same amount of money, pre ico can get 42.857% more.

And the pre ico is over soon. Faster get it now.

I dont think yours investment is smarts, but that's gamble, you may get more or have no thing.

You have invested in something which haven't published whitepaper till  now  :o :o Looks like you got into some scam projects.

Investing during pre-ICO stage can give you cheap tokens but in the meantime you might have to wait for months to be able to cashout those tokens back to bitcoin.

Dude, read the whitepaper first and see who are the people behind it. Also verify the mission and vision of the coin and analyze if it is feasible. On the other hand, why don't you try this ICO called Angel Token. I read the whitepaper and it seems good for me. They claim to be the most almost risk free ICO in the world.

if your friend not invest and he told you to invest, so you must blame him if your invest no success, but preico give a lot of bonus so you no need ICO price if it launch in market to get back your capital.

Pre ICO of pre ICO of the Pre ICO of ICO is even better.

It does not matter when you give them money. What matters is what they do with it. From first look at their website they will not do much. Probably market their website bullshit.

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Another unconcealed advertisement. "A good friend" - and is either a sponsor or a member of the team. I do not want to say anything bad about the project itself, but I feel a rough job as an advertiser here. I think that you do not have to lie, but it's better to talk directly about the project. The trust will be greater. I do not like it when they lie.

If you believe in the project, I think you should invest as soon as possible because you can get the best from bonus programs.

You should do your own research before investing any amount of money, even $100.

I've just taken a quick look at this ICO you invested into, and I'm pretty sure you can forget about those hundred dollars. Their site looks like it was made by me during the informatics class in 4th grade of elementary school, their whitepaper is full of logical and gramatical mistakes, and they are not even close to sticking to their timeline.

I wish you good luck with this, do a more thorough research if you choose to participate in some other upcoming ICOs.

If your friend is a really good investor and has previous knowledges about icos and preicos, then i dont see anything bad from investing in there.
I have never heard about that ico, can you explain it a little bit more? maybe you invested in a weird project and dont even know that.
But there are some icos that are not even in this forum and they are being succesfull, try to make good research about that one, and see about in which exchanges it is going to be tradeable.
good luck with that mate.

 Pre ICO is good time to invest,but it depends on how much you know about the project.
Investing becouse friend told you is not a good thing to do in me opinion. Get in to idea and if
you like and understand it then go for it.

You should get a great bonus from it but don't let that sway your decision. It is still an investment and so you should look at the quality of the company and the team and not focus on the potential returns.

Thanks for all the replies, its always good to hear different views, positive or negative, seems some of you guys know your stuff so i appreiciate it, it was 100$, ill do that down the pub easy and all i get from that is a bad head  :D, with this i atleast have a chance to make something, i agree with what some of you were saying about the website and yeah it could be a scam in the long run but as of now i know it isnt.
As regards to the concealed advert, i can see why you would think that as im new here and saying "good friend" obviously sets off alarm bells, as its been used to help con people countless times, truthfuly he is a good friend and was stating that to give more info as to how i was introduced to the project.
Regardless of what happens with this im going to continue on in this crypto world, its very interesting and i hope to make friends/contacts, also thanks for the heads up about angel tokens, this has been mentioned a few times to me and i see it popping up quite alot so cheers, thanks for all info and replies everyone  ;)

I am all about it, but it just depends on the ico. For ex. I recently went into cybermiles. they're currently in their pre-registration (KYC) and then they have their token sale starting tomorrow I believe. Very different from your traditional ico sale, but since their idea and partnership (with 5miles app that kickstarts them 12 million users) are so strong, I was more than willing

If that ICO will succeed you will also succeed, that's the game of an any investment it is can called gambling also
because you don't know in the first place if that ICO is a success and in pre-ico stage they offer discount for the price of their token..

In my case, I tend to participate during the initial stage and not on Pre ICO. Although at most cases that a project will refund the investment of their investors if the target is not reached during Pre ICO, it's still way comfortable to me I will just wait for the result of Pre ICO since we can see here if their project looks like a good long term investment for their investor.

Risky after all that's why investing whether on Pre ICO or Initial Stage isn't an assurance that we can make profit out of it.

Pre-stage ICO is very vital for investors like you because this is the point where all you can trust is your research regarding them since there is no assurance that many people will put their pocket's money in their funds, better to trust your instinct and learn how they will operate after the ICO.

I don’t invest in ICO at the early stages. There is always high level of risk to lose money in unknown abyss because of information deficit. It is better to wait for some time as the project make first steps and produce some results.

I think that if you invested in the ICO  you supposed to have more info about it then we have.

if you invested at the pre ICO stage it means that you get a higher value for your bitcoins, usually 20% more then investing at the ICO stage.


ICOs now days are very risky, and most of them end up at not working on the product at all, and just stop working after the ICO.

More then that, some ICOs are trying to represent an idea which is technically not possible to do( requires some technology that is yet to be developed.)
I would take all the caution while investing at ICOs.

Well PRE-ICO's can be good, due to the fact that Token prices are cheaper than ICO stage or later stage. $100 investment is not a big investment and if you can afford to lose that amount, then no big deal.
As regards the ICO you invested in, i don't know it, but i hope you did you research before you invested in them!

Everyone knows the pattern that the greater the risk the greater the likely profit. It's up to you, but there are times when it's better to buy with a big bonus.

If you afraid to invest and loose money, work on bounty campaign - easy way to get new tokens and know about this ico. Soon coming pre-ico MIRA which suggest a bounty campaign here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2367768.0 Learn more and try!

Yea i would suggest bounty work for ICOs for now.
You can participate in trade.io bounty program, easy tokens!
https://account.trade.io/en/signup?ref=chrisgellere&mtype=i
sign up above

I recommend trade.io or gladius, both strong ICO's and doing well too!
I'm currently participating in bounty program for trade.io and im quite confident that they will do fine and reach success!

One of the best ICO to date imo would be trade.io. It is a new blockchain trading platform and it is going well so far, raising close to $9million during PRE-ICO.
if you Sign Up here https://account.trade.io/en/signup?ref=chrisgellere&mtype=i you will find more information and be able to participate in purchasing TradeTokens.

I think the purpose of pre-ICO is to raise an initial amount of money in order to start a larger scale ICO campaign and pay for advertising. Usually they give a neat bonus to early investors, which is also the case for the pre-ICO token in my signature :-)

I'm not sure about the project in which Op has made an investment at the pre ico stage. Not every project open this pre ico opportunity to the community. Investing in the pre ico needs to be done after perfect analysis about the project as well the team behind it. Here while investing at the pre ico people get more that what they get in the ICO.

I think that investing in this early stage is the riskiest part to put money into a project because one cannot assess team yet just from performance but only from their reputation. What if the team is unknown? Somehow it is also the best point in a coin to enter and buy because when it is released to the market, there is a high probability of it not going down it's pre ICO price if it succeed and is useful to the community. For this reason, investing on these stages requires thorough research.

I do not want. Maybe this is my mistake, but then tell me about what your $ 100 turned into and we'll probably envy you.