@gregmag - When following the link you provided the browser suggests the site is insecure - something you may want to look at if you want to get more miners on board. Passing that sort of verification within Google/Edge etc will probably lend more credibility to your project

Having said that, can you provide more information about your pool the fee structure?

We currently use Nanopool - and while it's good, we are looking for alternatives to test out!

Cheers.

From what I've been reading about Pre-Sales, they are primarily designed to get a financial influx ahead of an ICO - to cover costs like hiring additional staff, covering the costs of getting the ICO ready. Some ICO's with Pre-Sales have been run really well, while others have had their challenges. One of the big problems that some projects faced when running a Pre-Sale prior to the ICO, is the Pre-sale price of tokens is often significantly cheaper - and a lot of projects don't enforce any restrictions on when those initial tokens can be sold.

So what has happened with some of these situations, is the early investors who got in at a discount, then sold their tokens when the tokens initially list - generally at a price higher than they paid. This is seen as a safe and guaranteed return on their money without really risking market volatility. This is a reward for early investors, but can have a negative effect on the price of the token once it hits exchanges in the early stages. It's never a good look for the price of something to tank once it's available to the public.

It's an interesting topic and there's so far been a lot of different variants attempted, with varying levels of success. ICO's like Canya and INS have been run intelligently to prevent this kind of dump of tokens early, in that they offer significant rewards for those who buy early, and hold, by using periodic airdrops to those wallets found to still contain coins from the ICO or Pre-Sale phase. Free tokens for hodling is a fairly lucrative incentive to hold after all.

I have been reading up on this recently - and found Civic was certainly successful, with around $33 million in funds raised in the Pre-Sale - however (again from what I have read) they ended up over-selling tokens, and actually had to recall some - so definitely a successful pre-sale, but perhaps not super smart, as having to recall anything is not a desirable outcome in most cases.

We got ours a few months ago - purchased with Litecoin from the official store. Very fast transaction and there was a clear trail of evidence showing the purchase. The wallets arrived well ahead of schedule and in perfect working order. I hope that helps!