Saturday, May 29, 2004

Strange delight: I feel a curious sense of satisfaction about an ebay sale I just made. I sold an invitation to join Google's gmail service for $70. It seems interesting that someone is willing to pay money for something that, if you think about it, does not exist: an invitation.

The sales of Gmail invitations on ebay look like a bubble to me: people willing to pay outrageous prices for blatantly overpriced goods. Is 1 Gb of storage really worth $70?

6 Comments:

At 9:51 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

am i cool cos i got one for free? or are these people just deranged?

-a

 
At 6:45 PM, Blogger alex said...

while these people are in fact deranged, i want to tell you angela that of all the vancouver gucci socialist italian poli sci students i know, you are by far the coolest.

 
At 10:20 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

you might as well have told me im not that cool :)

 
At 8:22 AM, Blogger alex said...

angela, you are the coolest

 
At 11:26 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

clearly you are the cool one. linking to andrew coyne would make you cooler :)

 
At 8:20 AM, Blogger alex said...

you win :)

 

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