GMail invites used to be hard to acquire. I remember people selling GMail invites for $100+ on eBay and people were happily buying.
Well now GMail is a public service, no invitation necessary. So now what are people buying?
Pre-registered GMail addresses!
Yep. People are paying for "hot" "rare" "supercool" GMail addresses on eBay.
Check this one out. $50+ for a free GMail address?
That one is for wii.will.wii.will.rock.ya@gmail.com. GMail ignores periods in addresses, so somebody went and registered wiiwillwiiwillrockya as a GMail address and someone actually wants to buy it from them!
That's just weird.
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That's pretty crazy, but the winning bidder is a little suspicious:
Member since: Dec-29-01
Feedback score: 0
Maybe they really want to have the longest, most obnoxious, highly-dotted email address in the webosphere?
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