Pre-ICO bonuses

[ahmadakbari]

Hi

In most of ICOs, investors can get some bonuses, if they invest sooner. In my opinion these bonuses not only don't cause the ICO to be successful, but also cause the ICO to fail. In some ICOs there is up to 100% bonus.

If I see that there are some people have gotten 100% bonus in pre-ICO, I don't invest in that ICO, Because they will dump their coins after crowdsale and cause the price to fall.
 Do you agree with me? What are your opinions?

[trademark]

Bonuses for early investors aren't necessarily a bad thing if the percentage is reasonable.  I usually avoid any project that offer 50% bonus or more during the ICO or Pre-ICO.  I feel 20% to 30% is the perfect amount for early investors which is the standard for many projects.

[defined]

The bonus is a way of increasing the price during the ICO.
After the ICO the price is supposed to go up more. Lowering the bonuses starts this process even before the ICO is over.

[izumaki]

I think bonuses are not bad for ICO, for me i would be concerned about the use cases of the project, if the project is not good, there is no amount of bonus that would raise the price, for instance i bought one ICO called STARTA, it's over 50% loss from ICO price of $1, but I believe that it would grow. Because it has usecase

[d-trix]

The bonus doesn't  matter, as long as you conduct thorough due diligence before buying on a particular project you're all good. Don't buy on those crap ICO's no matter how big or small their bonuses.

[phoenixdowndee]

The bonus doesn't  matter, as long as you conduct thorough due diligence before buying on a particular project you're all good. Don't buy on those crap ICO's no matter how big or small their bonuses.

I agree, I think looking into the business, the ideology and the team are more important. Although having a very large bonus can make the buyer worry a little as it can devalue it in his / her's eyes.

I think anything up to 40% is acceptable. 100% seems a little too much of a great deal.

[Sir Cross]

I think that the increased bonuses is a marketing trick which makes the ICO pleasing to the eye and are given to attract more investors, but the success of the ICO does not solely rely on it. Perhaps yes it may be detrimental to the ICO success but there are a lot more factors to it. But I agree with you that giving too high percentage of bonus is too much, a 100% pre-ICO is even crazy.

[jbajde]

I also think that pre-ICO bonuses over 40% are too high and raise a red flag, but sometimes even an ICO that is 2x the pre-ICO price can be a very good investment. Sure buying at pre-ICO price would be better, but if it is a solid project with a good use case, a great team, a working prototype and a reasonable market cap it can be worth it.

Looking back, there are plenty of tokens out there that would be amazing investments if bought at 2x ICO price

[qiman]

I always try now to look for a good project with a nice PRE ICO bonus. I invested in one nice project because it has a functioning business and TAAS invested 250k USD there so i took the chance to invest in the PRE ICO and collect a 43% discount on normal rate which will be in the ICO.

[KenM]

If a presale was given to big investors and you weren't part of it, theres a chance that you could get burned, their presale price is probably way better than yours, they could dump and make a profit and still sell under your buy in price.

[electronicash]

prices usually dip when a token is listed on the exchanges no matter how much bonus an early investors got. what better thing to do is not to invest but just buy on the exchanges when its price dip. this is when its going to be cheaper and at the same time you avoided getting scammed by a team who won't even try getting their token listed.

[defined]

I always try now to look for a good project with a nice PRE ICO bonus. I invested in one nice project because it has a functioning business and TAAS invested 250k USD there so i took the chance to invest in the PRE ICO and collect a 43% discount on normal rate which will be in the ICO.

Can you tell me what project that was?
Do you know similar projects that have a PRE ICO soon?

[starpsy]

I just got the following from https://bitindia.co/. Any thoughts? (good investment, be cautious, etc.)

_______________________________________________________________________________ ____

ICO 2017 Dates

Pre ICO = 11th September (12:00 pm IST) - 11th October (12:00pm IST)
ICO       = 11th October (12:01 pm IST) – 11th November (12:00 pm IST)

IST = Indian Standard Time

Type of offer

Initial Coin Offering

Tokens Available

134,400,000

Token Price

$ 0.1 per token

Platform

ERC20

Minimum Purchase Per Person

1 Token

Maximum Purchase Per Person

40,320,000

Bonus Structure

50% = 11th September (12:00 pm IST) - 25th September (12:00 pm IST)
30% = 25th September (12:01 pm IST) – 11th October (12:00 pm IST)
15% = 11th October (12:01 pm IST) – 25th October (12:00 pm IST)
10% = 25th October (12:01 pm IST) – 4th November (12:00 pm IST)
05% = 4th November (12:01 pm IST) – 11th November (12:00 pm IST)

Accepted Crytocurrencies

BTC & ETH

[Compradora]

Hi

In most of ICOs, investors can get some bonuses, if they invest sooner. In my opinion these bonuses not only don't cause the ICO to be successful, but also cause the ICO to fail. In some ICOs there is up to 100% bonus.

If I see that there are some people have gotten 100% bonus in pre-ICO, I don't invest in that ICO, Because they will dump their coins after crowdsale and cause the price to fall.
 Do you agree with me? What are your opinions?

This is not right. Early birds should be rewarded and this causes more people to get into the action. Without bonuses, the promotin of the project would be failed and this actually would cause a real FAIL.

[chesatochi]

I think the bonus is a good way to give an incentive to invest on an ICO. Also, is a marketing technique to have attention and attract more potential investors!

Always good to double check, a high percentage is always too good to be true . So better to check twice and do some due diligence before investing your hard earned money!

[makishart]

Hi

In most of ICOs, investors can get some bonuses, if they invest sooner. In my opinion these bonuses not only don't cause the ICO to be successful, but also cause the ICO to fail. In some ICOs there is up to 100% bonus.

If I see that there are some people have gotten 100% bonus in pre-ICO, I don't invest in that ICO, Because they will dump their coins after crowdsale and cause the price to fall.
 Do you agree with me? What are your opinions?

100% pre-sale bonuse and that was obviously a scam project. I can say not all of the ico that already offered the pre-sale bonus was including in the dump project. But you must remember to not buy bitscam india. Just like another scam (ethplus scam project).

You can see some project that already offered ability to buy in the pre-sale and their investors still get a decent profit.

[kchulani]

foodcoin.io had a great multiplier bonus of 1.35 and 1.7 . Does anyone know of any others coming up in the short term?

[DAVETUN]

what to look at is not the ICO bonuses, that is important thou,but the core is the whitepaper and the team of professionals executing the project, checked out there  track record ,there success story, and don't be eager to invest when the  ICO bonuses is over 60%,that  is definately a red flag to failure.

[Rozita]

I think in some ICOs, they give participants big bonuses because there is no any other feature which attracts investors. Such ICOs with big bonuses fail.

[mace15]

I think in some ICOs, they give participants big bonuses because there is no any other feature which attracts investors. Such ICOs with big bonuses fail.

For those ICO offering bonuses is not a bad idea at all. This a marketing strategy to attract more investors in their ICO project. Maybe an investors should make some research before investing their hard earned money.