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challahc writes "For the low, low price of $199, you too can be one of the lucky testers of Googles new Gmail service. Just Ebay It! This CNet News story has the details." Bill Walsh adds "The account for hackers@gmail.com is asking 200 dollars! Is it a good idea to buy anything that's in beta? Couldn't Google just wipe out all of the beta accounts when the service starts up?"
the news is always so fresh
This CNN [http://news.com.com] story?
We all know the editors don't read the articles, but do they even read the submissions?
hackers@hotmail.com is now for sale! asking only 400 USD. Goes to highest bidder!
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Its not like people buy weird stuff off Ebay anyway... aaaaaaaaaye?
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Couldn't Google just wipe out all of the beta accounts when the service starts up?"
Um... yeah.... that's why they are selling it NOW, hello.
NEWSFLASH: CNN does not stand for "C|Net News"!
I have a G-mail account. I know many people who are interested in getting one, so I'll just make sure I'll g-mail them content which contains the words 'e-bay' 'beta' and '$199' and the advertisement on e-bay should come up pronto at the end.
challahc writes "For the low, low price of $199, you too can be one of the lucky testers of Googles new Gmail service. Just Ebay It! This CNN story has the details." Bill Walsh adds "The account for hackers@gmail.com is asking 200 dollars! Is it a good idea to buy anything that's in beta? Couldn't Google just wipe out all of the beta accounts when the service starts up?"
Hackers? Bill? eBay? CNN? Cnet? Google? GMail? Beta?? $199 (cost of Linux Walmart PC?) After seeing every one of those keywords appear in their own slashdot story each day, seeing them in ONE story at once just boggles the mind.
Cover your eyes and click this link!
I hope hackers@gmail.com has good spam filters.
hackers@gmail.com: It was $200, then a story about it was posted on Slashdot, and it is now $800.
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These are the same people who'll buy the google IPO at $50/share only to watch it drop down to $10.75 the next day. It's called Dotcomism, the Natural Distribution of Money.
...or cmdrtaco@gmail.com? ...or how about: google@gmail.com? ...or how about: gmail@gmail.com? ...or how about: test@gmail.com? ...or how about: gmale@gmail.com? ...or how about: microsoft@gmail.com?
[YAWN]
Nothing to see here folks. please move on.
Don't think that a small group of dedicated individuals can't change the world. It's the only thing that ever has.
yes, but that's a 1GB! spam account ;)
Actio personalis moritur cum persona. (Dead men don't sue)
well, atleast they give you free shipping...
thanks to some lax programming in redmond, it's mine now, and i didn't have to pay a cent!
vodka, straight up, thank you!
I've always found this to be counter-intuitive when it comes to free e-mail accounts. After all, the most common account names are the ones that get the most spam, so I'd rather pick something like "2inchjohnson@hotmail.com" and get no junk mail... insert penis-extension jokes here.
Condemnant quod non intellegunt.
Seems to be a regular at Slashdot, posting something about e-bay and some *interesting* item being sold. Could this be the way /. is funding itself? I can see it now...
Editor 1: "We seem to be running low on funds, quick, point at something!"
Editor 2: *points at old mac in corner*
Editor 1: "Quick, put it up on e-bay, we'll run a story on vintage macs on e-bay!"
Editor 2: *Violently laughs, coughing up blood*
Editor 1: "Oooo, does e-bay have a policy on bodily fluids, I can feel another story coming on..."
...gspot@gmail.com. Anyone found it?
+1 Insightful, -1 Troll. What can I say, I'm an Insightful Troll.
I myself an using Mozilla Waterphoenix. Let's open a new window. Hey, they changed names again. Now it's Spaceant!
My other car is first.
Real hacker snoop the password and take hacker@gmail.com for free.
Don't waste your vote! Vote for whoever you want, unless you live in a swing state it won't matter anyways
I never would have believed it but "hwsquaredcubed" isn't available at Yahoo. I didn't think it was that popular of a name...
You desperate moron.
well adding a few blog entries is hardly as desperate as bidding for it on ebay, but i guess you've got a point :)
I'd love to have abuse@gmail.com
every day http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
@gmail.com - $50
hackers@gmail.com - $200
CowboyNeal@gmail.com - priceless
There are some things money just can't buy... For everything else, there's eBay.
ivgottoomuchmoney@gmail.coml .com
victimofthehype@gmai
I can't remember - is Google good or bad today?
Slashdot needs one of those weather maps with all the love/hate relationships with companies...
"Slightly heated discussion will take place today about the Google IPO, SCO still firmly in the outhouse, and there's a 30% chance that IBM will be favored with positive comments..."
-Adam
I'll stick with my @abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvw xyzabcdefghijk.com mail account, thank you.
If you purchased a Gmail account invitation through an online auction site, such as eBay, we suggest filing a complaint against the seller
yeah right! so I spend 200 bucks on an ebay gmail account and then file a complaint so that the sale gets anulled. Genius!
Step One: Create free, really expensive-to-run public email server. Step Two: Make lots of media hype, and then sell all the "good" account names on eBay to /. nerds for large sums of money.
Step Three: Profit!!!
You seem to be a bit confused as to how eBay works.
What about stevejobs@gmail.com? or billgates, tacobell, applesucks, gnu, etc @gmail.com?
But as soon as @gmail.com becomes a household-term (sorta like how @hotmail.com is with most teenagers), that problem will be fairly rare.
:P
I would've liked to see @goomail.com though
Is when the story is accepted and then immediately shows up in the "two days ago" column, with the timestamp exactly 48 hours wrong.
You cannot apply a technological solution to a sociological problem. (Edwards' Law)
set up one that is
microsoft@gmail.com
should be worth a few million
LOL
Hey at least these accounts come with free shipping!
I had a problem with my AOL account once. It'd been canceled for a few months when I noticed they were still billing my credit card. I called them up and they basically told me to go fsss myself. I tried to email Steve Case, but he walks like a wraith in the mist among the living, and cannot be contacted by those without the second sight. So I moved to Russia and changed my name to Vladimir. That didn't fix the problem immediately, but the money I get threatening liquor store owners in St. Petersberg for Time-Warner pays for the $20 on my Visa every month.
How can
CAn'T CompreHend SARcaSm?
it a good idea to buy anything that's in beta?
Anyway, is it a good idea to buy something that's free ?
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nico
Nico-Live
I bet no one would want one enough to buy it on ebay.