pre-orders
Buy before release
Pre-orders are purchases made before a product is officially released or available.
Retailers and publishers use pre-orders to gauge demand and secure early sales: Pre-orders for the new console crashed the website.
The verb pre-order means to place such an advance purchase: I pre-ordered the album so it downloads on release day.
Place for safekeeping
- paymentFulfilling a financial obligation
- checkoutPayment completion process
- transactionExchange of goods/money
- purchaseGoods obtained for payment
ecommerce · retail · fulfillment · shipping · inventory · availability · stock · supply
State of eager enthusiasm
- eagernessIntense willingness to act
- countdownBackward enumeration to zero
- hypeExaggerated promotional fanfare
- waitingRemaining in expectation
expectation · impatience · reveal · announcement · buildup · suspense · thrill · teaser
Limited to one group
- VIPNotable, for short
- premiumAdded cost for better
- deluxeSuperior in quality
- numberedAssigned figures for order
scarce · sold-out · rare · bundle · incentive · reward · guaranteed
Comfort in distress
- titleFormal honorific or name
- DLCSupplemental game content
- SteamDigital game distribution service
- PlayStationSony's gaming hardware brand
deposit
Place for safekeeping
- paymentFulfilling a financial obligation
- checkoutPayment completion process
- transactionExchange of goods/money
purchase · ecommerce · retail · fulfillment · shipping · inventory · availability · stock · supply · demand
excitement
State of eager enthusiasm
- eagernessIntense willingness to act
- countdownBackward enumeration to zero
- hypeExaggerated promotional fanfare
waiting · expectation · impatience · reveal · announcement · buildup · suspense · thrill · teaser · trailer
exclusive
Limited to one group
numbered · scarce · sold-out · rare · bundle · incentive · reward · guaranteed
console
Comfort in distress
PlayStation · Xbox · Nintendo · publisher · developer
book
Bound written work
author · signed · hardcover · bestseller · audiobook · manga · edition · pressing
- music storesrecord store, music shop, guitar shop, vinyl shop, Tower Records
- frontlistdebuts, debut novels, preorders
- retailretail sales, Amazon, marketplace, clearance, sale
- shoppingbuying, shopping cart, shop, purchases, sale
- promotionssale, discount, promos, coupon, deals
- game marketingtrailers, trailer, gameplay footage, teaser, teasers
pre-ordersbackorders
Requests for unavailable items
clearance sales · closeout sales · liquidation sales · fire sales · remainders
order, ordered, disorder, orders, ordering, disorderly, reorder, reordering, reordered