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Google wave invites going for ~$100 on ebay
- rlm 17y ago12 bids, $100: http://cgi.ebay.com/Google-Wave-Invite_W0QQitemZ320430457658QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUS_Software?hash=item4a9b24c33a&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14 http://cgi.ebay.com/Google-Wave-Invite_W0QQitemZ320430457658... 9 bids, $102,50: http://cgi.ebay.com/Google-Wave-Invite_W0QQitemZ280403832589QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUS_Software?hash=item41495eef0d&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14 http://cgi.ebay.com/Google-Wave-Invite_W0QQitemZ280403832589... Also, this: Startup idea: an eBay system to sell invites you get from Google Beta programs. - http://twitter.com/migueldeicaza/status/4506427752 http://twitter.com/migueldeicaza/status/4506427752
- davidw 17y agoPeople were bidding crazy money for gmail invites a while back, too.
- KClough 17y agoBuy it now 75$ ! http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300352956461&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=30035...
- ryandvm 17y agoHmm. Glad I didn't pay for mine. I'm sitting here playing with myself in a solitary Wave... Who wants an invite to my Wave? You've got to already have an Apps account @ googlewave.com.
- dhughes 17y agoSure, just send me one of your invites ;)
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- peregrine 17y agoWhats your wave account? Ive got a wave also..
- brapse 17y agobrapse at googlewave
- spydez 17y agoI wouldn't mind getting on your wave. It'd be nice to have something to do besides talk at myself... :P [username]42 at googlewave
- xabier 17y agoI'm stupid, I had 8 this morning! Now I only have 8 happy friends ... ;)
- acangiano 17y ago8 happy friends are far more valuable than 800 bucks (assuming you didn't need the money). :)
- wmf 17y agoDid your friends actually get into Wave or are they just on the (very very long) list? There's a huge amount of invite begging going on but it's not clear that these "invites" are worth anything.
- xabi 17y agoAs far as I know, all are on the long list.
- shimonamit 17y agoHuman herd behaviour at it's best.
- electromagnetic 17y agoI can moo better than anyone, just try me!
- quizbiz 17y agoEveryone wants to be one of the first.
- hackernews 17y agoIt's not even an immediate either. They are paying to stand in line.
- acangiano 17y agoLike Amazon pre-orders.
- bcl 17y agoThis is silly! How many degrees of separation are there from someone with wave invites...
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- markessien 17y agoHmm, I've had google wave for some months now, and I somehow don't see much a use for it at the moment.
- bhousel 17y agoThey're a waste of money at any price. I hear from a friend who activated his wave account this morning, that you can't create a wave account that has the same name as a gmail account. So it seems very likely that all gmail accounts will eventually be wave accounts someday anyway.
- pohl 17y agoIf the wave invitation is sent to one's existing gmail account, that shouldn't be a problem. Still, people are crazy with their money!
- bmelton 17y agoJust today I went through the process of associating my gmail account to my wave account. As for whether or not it's a waste, if you were a developer looking to leverage the Wave platform, and have not already gotten an invite, I'd guess $100 is a very small price to pay for access.
- bhousel 17y agoIf you're a developer, what you really want is sandbox access (already free), not an public beta invite... http://code.google.com/apis/wave/guide.html http://code.google.com/apis/wave/guide.html
- bkbleikamp 17y agoWhen I got access to Wave a few months ago, it was not possible to associate Gmail accounts with Wave at the time. I am guessing that with the new rollout, they have made it possible.
- jraines 17y agoMy Wave username is the same as my Gmail one.
- ajju 17y agoThese are Sandbox invites. In all likelihood your gmail account will become your wave account and the sandbox accounts may or may not stay alive as developer accounts. Spending money on invites is pointless.
- jeremyawon 17y agoso these are for the wavesandbox.com dev server? i got in on the first (uh..) wave of invites ages ago, but haven't received any codes today.
- ajju 17y agoYes (as far as I know). My wife got one yesterday and it was for wavesandbox.com. Edit: I was wrong. The new invites are for the production server.
- philfreo 17y agoNo. I've had a wavesandbox.com account since late May or early June. Yesterday in my wavesandbox.com account there was a Wave with a one-time-use link to create a normal Wave account. These normal wave accounts (@gmail.com) are what everyone is getting now, and are totally separate from the previous @wavesandbox.com accounts. (Yes, one day, probably every Gmail account will be a Wave account - but not for a while).
- pkrumins 17y agoCan anyone send me an invite please? My email is peteris.krumins---gmail.com. Thanks! (replace --- with @) Edit: I wonder why this is getting downvoted. This seems a completely ok comment to me. Edit2: A good person just notified me that he has sent me an invite! Thanks dan!
- sahaj 17y agocan you get me an invite? i'd really appreciate it. drkrool--gmail--com
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