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1) Put up pre-order page. 2) Collect money. 3) Fail to deliver, intentionally or not. 4) Paypal eats all the losses.

That's what they don't like about pre-orders; you are putting off your business risk on them. Credit card companies disallow pre-charging cards when goods have not yet shipped for the exact same reason.



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