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?
Pre-ICO is usually used to collect funds for marketing purposes and for general ICO advertising. If Pre-ICO is over by hard cap that will be a positive signal for future ICO investors. If the project is not too well known, bonuses become one of the major part of early investors engaging strategy. They give some advantages for early participants for their trust so everyone in this game receive their own profits. From this point of view there is nothing bad in bonuses. But as for the size of a bonus I would say that 40-50% is a max level and everything above is a signal that team doesn't believe in their project and their ideas enough so they need to use cheap advertising methods and engage investors by huge bonuses. If the project, team and ICO they're running are quite good and trustful they won't be needed to use 100% bonuses to engage investors. They will come themselves.