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-orde

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.