Is pre-sale the best way of getting early listen token?

[Philinfa]

For a while now, I've had a growing interest in pre-sales since after participating in $RED and $NIL pre-sales, which was successful.

That curiosity has led my search to Babylon ($BABY), a project focused on Bitcoin staking and securing decentralized networks through self-custodial methods and scalable staking solutions to power Web3 by leveraging Bitcoin's security for decentralized networks.

Bitcoin has been indecisive lately, I've been exploring ways to be engaged since one can't trade in such an uncertain market(DYOR). In what ways have you been engaged in the crypto market?

[Agbe]

It is a marketing strategy to gather more population to the project. Pre-sale is also to know the inflow of the market and if the purchasing power is not enough then they can extend the real sale time to gather more people in the mining app. And we can see that from some of the airdrops which they have listed at the pre-sale stage while mining is still going on. And some have listed in the real market yet still mining, and I see those ones are scamming projects such as PI.

[CPalmer]

It is a marketing strategy to gather more population to the project. Pre-sale is also to know the inflow of the market and if the purchasing power is not enough then they can extend the real sale time to gather more people in the mining app. And we can see that from some of the airdrops which they have listed at the pre-sale stage while mining is still going on. And some have listed in the real market yet still mining, and I see those ones are scamming projects such as PI.

You may be right but i kinda disagree. Personally, i don’t think the essence of pre-sale is to determine the the purchasing power. I’ve realized it one of the ways these projects give early investors a chance to make gains from buying early before the actual listing. For instance, if you check out $BABY, which the OP mentioned. It was listed some hours ago, and the price has been great in my own view. [nofollow]
Now, look at it from this angle: if someone had bought it in the pre-market price, they would see a significant gain.