Pre-Ordering: Is it Worth it?

We live in a world where we like to get everything as fast as possible, and as the newest and most hyped-up products come out, it can be hard to get your hands on say, the iPhone 13, before every model is sold and you have to wait for production to catch up with the ever-hungry consumers. But what if there was a way to get ahead of the curve? An increasingly common practice in a lot of industries is pre-ordering, which allows you to buy a product before it’s even been released! But that begs the question, should you buy an unreleased product?