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Gmail Addresses For Sale

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the employment-at-will dept.

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?"

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  1. It pains me. by centralizati0n · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It pains me that I have a Google gmail account. And no invitions to sell. (I got it through blogger, who offers the accounts to those who have a certain post rate... if you have an even higher post rate than myself, you get two invitations... which my friend has, but refuses to give to me to sell.)

  2. Registering several addresses in the beta? by hkmwbz · · Score: 5, Interesting
    How does this beta work? Do beta testers get to register as many addresses as they want, or are they limited to just one or a few?

    I can imagine that there will be a rush of registration when it goes out of beta. Unless the beta testers have already taken all the "cool" addresses, and only the "hotstudabc666" ones are left...

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  3. Re:Smart by jesser · · Score: 4, Interesting

    You're paying for a good chance of getting your favorite username before it's taken.

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  4. Gmail isn't bad by kojiko · · Score: 5, Interesting

    gmail is brilliant. i have an account (free, thank you) and the advertisement are off to the side and are as easy to ignore as the google ads on millions of other web pages.

  5. Re:Post rate? by Blue+Stone · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I made one post, logged in to make a second and was offered an account. It can't have anything to do with post rate.

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  6. Gmail beggers by MilenCent · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I've gotten not one but two messages to my Blogger-acquired Gmail account claiming to be astoundingly well-spoken, prodigy, under-15 "kids" who also claim to be starting web businesses. One of them says he's starting a web hosting business, and says he would be "honored" to have a Gmail account.

    I'm not kidding!

    Why the hell is everyone so hyped up to get one? Are these people who honestly want a cool web mail service earlt? Is it a status symbol? Are these people mostly spammers trying to get accounts in order to run experiments on their filters, so as to better be able to defeat them later? Are they spammers trying to get as many accounts as possible so they can automate the process of marking spam as not-junk to try to break Google's distributed Bayesian filter system?

  7. Re:gmail beta testing by NETHED · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I can't agree that Gmail is fast. I don't particularly like how it "loads" for seemingly ever. I havn't tried it in IE, but its slow on Firebird (or as it is called now Mozilla Spacesquid)

    I do have to say that the little one button keyboard shortcuts are amazing. If only Gmail had the ability to download from another postbox.

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