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Gmail Addresses For Sale
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?"
I've got one extra invite. First reply to this post gets it.
The question about couldn't Google wipe out the Gmail accounts when it's out of beta is ridiculous. The first people they gave Gmail accounts to were Google employees and "friends of the company." Why would they piss those people off by canceling the beta accounts and making them then compete for usernames with the rest of the unwashed masses?
Uhhh, I hate to break this to you, but.... Is the address you bought still in use by a "friend of the company"? Right, no, it isn't because you bought it. So, if Google turns the account off, they won't be pissing off any "friends" will they?
Oh, but wait. Google doesn't know that you bought a beta account and that it no longer belongs to one of their friends.
I got mine about 5 minutes after that CNET story first hit on Friday. I immediately went to Ebay and searched for "gmail."
Except- SHIT! Do you think there is even the slightest chance that Google's corporate offices might have Internet access? SHIT! This means they have access to E-bay too! Holy crap, lets hope Google doesn't also hire software engineers. Someone might be ordered to write a perl script to disable all beta accounts that were UP FOR SALE!
Not to mention, if the email address was up for grabs on E-Bay, it won't be long until it is on every spam list out there. By my count dude, that $20 would have just about bought two 12 packs of Corona (if you can get them on sale.) Probably woulda been money better spent.
anyone who buys this is a big blubbering idiotic vagina. seiously.
who wants to pay for a gig of email storage you can get for free (spymac.com) RIGHT NOW. If you're bitching about how great google's search technology is...why not use an intelligent mail client (mutt). then you wouldn't have to worry about going over your quota and you would have "amazing" searching capabilities. don't think it's remote? use ssh. think it's a pain in the ass? so is realizing you're paying 199 for a service that recapitulates long-established email technology.
also,
don't forget to pay your $699 licensing fee you cock-smoking teabaggers
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