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With Kickstarter we started shipping with 2000 existing customers 1200 on kickstarter, and another 800 in pre-sales before we shipped a single unit.
Steve Rosenbaum: The Future of Video: Eyes In The Back Of Your Head Steve Rosenbaum 2011
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KIWIS HAVE MIDNIGHT MADNESS www. news.au.com: And Queenslanders have fallen for the vampire-based Twilight love story harder than the rest of the nation, according to cinema pre-sales.
TWILIGHT SAGA NEWS FOR NOVEMBER 11TH | Open Society Book Club Discussions and Reviews 2009
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To build a nearly two billion yuan $308 million building, he has raised one billion yuan through pre-sales of apartments, but he is still short about 800 million yuan to complete construction.
How China's Banks Break the Rules Andrew Collier 2011
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He was looking to raise $20,000 - and instead brought in a staggering $120,000 in pre-sales.
Steve Rosenbaum: The Future of Video: Eyes In The Back Of Your Head Steve Rosenbaum 2011
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The ones that will agree to cutting a check before you start shooting will only do so in pre-sales.
Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat 2010
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As tenacious as she is talented, Jennifer has learned, during more than 30 years of independent filmmaking, that it’s “change or die.” After exhausting every familiar fundraising route from grants to pre-sales for My Reincarnation, she tried crowdfunding as a last resort.
Tribeca Film: Future of Film: Maximizing Distribution Through Crowdfunding Tribeca Film 2011
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The $370 million Escala has only sold six of its 269 units since starting pre-sales as far back as 2007.
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MovieWatcher has a post on their site that pre-sales for Eclipse will go on sale May 14th.
Twilight Lexicon » How to Get Tickets For the Eclipse Premiere 2010
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To build a nearly two billion yuan $308 million building, he has raised one billion yuan through pre-sales of apartments, but he is still short about 800 million yuan to complete construction.
How China's Banks Break the Rules Andrew Collier 2011
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Mr. Michael, who was drawn to the phone because of its upgraded camera, said he began attempting to order the new device when pre-sales began shortly after midnight from his home in California, but experienced problems on the Apple and AT&T Inc.'s websites but ended up placing an order.
Early Orders Test iPhone 4S Appeal Geoffrey A. Fowler 2011
alexz commented on the word pre-sales
I've been typing pre-sales instead of presales, only because presales looks like a Mexican word like "tamales"
Googlefight seems to favour 'presales' by a factor of 1.58 to 1 , but the Google N-Gram Viewer seems to back me up.
http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=presales+%2C+pre-sales&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=
July 19, 2013