ICOs are too expensive

[xOdiumNostrumx]

I mean the token price is kinda irrelevant, their hard cap/total supply has much higher significance. But I agree with this sentiment, they should take into account the current market conditions and lower their funding goals.

[Hoenya]

Here is something I have observed as regard ICOs raising funds and why many are trading at below ICO price soon after listing on exchanges. The reason could well be the fact that project teams are making ICO tokens too expensive, almost at same level with what we had at the bullish market.Meanwhile,the market is now 25% of its usually market.
Project teams implement better funds management strategies, avoid wastages and unnecessary  expense and thus have a cheaper ICO, I personally believe that they can reduce their expense by at least 50 percent and thus ask for less, cheaper tokens as such, that way, investors will be better make returns on their investments.

icos are what they are i think that in our worls everything is expensive and we should live with that right now

[expekto]

Here is something I have observed as regard ICOs raising funds and why many are trading at below ICO price soon after listing on exchanges. The reason could well be the fact that project teams are making ICO tokens too expensive, almost at same level with what we had at the bullish market.Meanwhile,the market is now 25% of its usually market.
Project teams implement better funds management strategies, avoid wastages and unnecessary  expense and thus have a cheaper ICO, I personally believe that they can reduce their expense by at least 50 percent and thus ask for less, cheaper tokens as such, that way, investors will be better make returns on their investments.

not all of them are unbearably expensive but some ofnthem are of course i think that the prices will only rise in the future

[criptoman83]

The price of a token on ICO must be conditioned by something, it isn't just assigned based on the current market realities. The price is formed out of the token functionality.Another factor that affects the price − the uniqueness. The more interesting the project will be and depending on how urgent the problem it intends to solve — the more popularity from investor side will be. The project, which doesn't offer anything new, will simply die out and the price of the token even in 1 Satoshi will hardly save it.

[nitin8263]

Definately ICOs are too expensive in crypto because when the ICO does not complete and you don't get success till then you can nothing, you have to wait the ICO success and and listed for coin in a market which could you invest and earn profit.

[bitkanu]

Here is something I have observed as regard ICOs raising funds and why many are trading at below ICO price soon after listing on exchanges. The reason could well be the fact that project teams are making ICO tokens too expensive, almost at same level with what we had at the bullish market.Meanwhile,the market is now 25% of its usually market.
Project teams implement better funds management strategies, avoid wastages and unnecessary  expense and thus have a cheaper ICO, I personally believe that they can reduce their expense by at least 50 percent and thus ask for less, cheaper tokens as such, that way, investors will be better make returns on their investments.

not all of them are unbearably expensive but some ofnthem are of course i think that the prices will only rise in the future

Rather than starting from the cheap price and it doesn't make sense to see there was a lot of icos are putting expensive price for each of coin just like token pay and another ico. they have been putting more than $1 for each token and does it make sense to you? for me that's not. Rise or not depend on the result of their development progress.

[dumplingsandsushi]

I think one of the reasons why ICOs are pretty expensive lately is a direct reaction to the bearish market.
Since there isn't that much volume and ICO investment going on, ICOs are worried they won't get as many investors.
So, to make up the money, they mark up their token.

Yeah, that is a terrible business move that doom the ICO before it even becomes official.
Last year, ICO prices were almost always around one cent to 5 cents.
Rarely, you will see one over that but the supply of coins would be much lower.

Now, it is common to see one dollar coins even at presale prices.
There's a reason why the ICO market has crashed and a lot of it has to do with startups making horrible decisions regarding their fundraising.

But, in the long run, I want the ICO craze to stabalize so a good crash will weed out a lot of the terrible ICOs so in the long run, we win.

[bayu7adi]

what makes ICO expensive is because after listing on the market, the price drops
so investors feel sorry when they invest in certain ICOs
but within the next few weeks there are even cheaper prices

[Kunlejoe0]

The point here is not the cost of purchasing an ICO but the underline condition of cryptocurrency market. The negative sentiment in the market is affecting everything. People just sell to prevailing sentiments!

[Black Coffee]

indeed fund management is an important thing in an ico, if the developer is not smart in planning, their project will not develop. but the developer must be able to anticipate the price of the token that falls when the token is listed on the exchange, because of the large dump that occurs.

[Tejas05]

In this bear market ICOs are having a tough time to raise funds for their projects. This is why no sooner it lists on the exchange people exchange it for Bitcoin or Ethereum and then the token price dives down. Many ICOs have paused their token sales due to this reason.

[thanhhoian2016]

That's not true. ICO is extremely cheap if it succeeds, because when you buy the ICO's price and when it succeeds, its price is x10 or x100, so great is not it. If you think the ICO price is too expensive then you can refer to Buddy's project and consider its ICO price.

[louie69]

I know the price usually matter for an investor but considering if such ICO is a legitimate one and can assure to give good return of investment, then I would say go for it. The bottom line is that you had not invested on a scam ICO where most of the other investor's had been a victim for such scam projects. Nowadays, legit ICO's are hard to find if you never do your thing to make some background check if such ICO has a potential to hit in the crypto market in terms of pre token sale. It would be great that after the token sale, the ICO token will be seen in the exchange sites such as DDEX, IDEX and other great sites like CMC.

[judeafante]

This is one of the reasons why I and other investors prefer to buy their token when they hit the exchange, they are 50% much lower than their ICO price, you are going to lose your portfolio, bounty hunters are also dumping their bounty making the price very low and people losing trust on the project.

[beleyeleazar]

Here is something I have observed as regard ICOs raising funds and why many are trading at below ICO price soon after listing on exchanges. The reason could well be the fact that project teams are making ICO tokens too expensive, almost at same level with what we had at the bullish market.Meanwhile,the market is now 25% of its usually market.
Project teams implement better funds management strategies, avoid wastages and unnecessary  expense and thus have a cheaper ICO, I personally believe that they can reduce their expense by at least 50 percent and thus ask for less, cheaper tokens as such, that way, investors will be better make returns on their investments.

I think the word you are looking for is not expensive but rarther, overrated or overvalued in comparison to its actual or intrinsict value. Especially that there are some coins out there which are really worthless.

[ssuman86]

I am agree with you now days every ICO goes down after listing. I also invested in some of ICO but prices goes down dramatically and I stuck and waiting for market recovery.

[Saugani]

and in my opinion, ICO prices too high because well where a developer to listing token I think they exist certain price which could be a major early investors opportunities to sell back (but, subject to the holder investor types exist long term) and the timing side there are certain price and lock it up all well enough for investors to sell back over 1 month after the release will be seen at point of token value

But if the communities no support a project, no active users, plan developer in the future and too slow realization I think their project nothing see new an investor

[Gandam23]

Well, most of the concern for many projects is how they're going to grow their user, client or investor base. The blockchain industry is definitely an advertising heavy industry, I think that it's quite necessary to have a reasonable marketing budget otherwise client onboarding with be quite difficult. That being said, a lot of these projects are requesting unbelievable soft caps, typically requiring up to $10m to build often relatively simple products.... Very poor money management going on, as VERY few softwares cost $10m to build.

ICO today is not actually expensive its just that the price of bitcoin and ethereum is dumped meaning the lower price of these coins the higher target of some ICOs want to reach. Theyre raising their target because the price is not that good today. Its a good thing because if that investment come along and the prices rises up. Your money will be double up

[JeffreyElvis]

Here is something I have observed as regard ICOs raising funds and why many are trading at below ICO price soon after listing on exchanges. The reason could well be the fact that project teams are making ICO tokens too expensive, almost at same level with what we had at the bullish market.Meanwhile,the market is now 25% of its usually market.
Project teams implement better funds management strategies, avoid wastages and unnecessary  expense and thus have a cheaper ICO, I personally believe that they can reduce their expense by at least 50 percent and thus ask for less, cheaper tokens as such, that way, investors will be better make returns on their investments.

This is pretty true everything that you have stated, but trust me if you go for altcoins, this shall not happen at all. You just have to be sure that the coins are safe. Go for XRP, EOS, PRG etc.

[Luckyinvestment]

I think ICO will change soon. Because ICO can not live in this form like now