Gmail invite auction

[mole]

1 original Gmail Invite up for grabs, Google just posted the invite in two of my gmail accounts, but I will only be auctioning one here and the other will be given to the person who wins my previous auction for domainer@gmail.com since the other invite comes with newsletters@gmail.com.

Auction starts now, in increments of 5 $DNF only i.e. you can only post your bid by 5 DNFs more over the last bidder, then wait for the next 5 bid bid before you can bid again, but only by 5 DNF. This is not pool.com!

Auction ends Sunday 23:59:00 sharp GMT. Nearest clock-in wins.

If you are lucky and nobody participates, you may get this Invite for $5 DNF, compared to the $25+ you will have to pay at eBay.


This is how the invite will look:

I've been using Gmail and thought you might like to try it out. Here's an invitation to create an account.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

mole has invited you to open a free Google Gmail account. The
invitation will expire in three weeks and can only be used to set up one
account.

To accept this invitation and register for your account, visit
[ invite link ]

Once you create your account, mole will be notified with
your new @gmail.com address so you can stay in touch with Gmail!

If you haven't already heard about Gmail, it's a new search-based webmail
service that offers:

- 1,000 megabytes (one gigabyte) of free storage
- Built-in Google search that instantly finds any message you want
- Automatic arrangement of messages and related replies into
"conversations"
- Text ads and related pages that are relevant to the content of your
messages

Gmail is still in an early stage of development. If you set up an
account, you'll be able to keep it even after we make Gmail more
widely available and as one of the system's early testers, you will
be helping us improve the service through your feedback. We might ask
for your comments and suggestions periodically and we appreciate your
help in making Gmail even better.

Thanks,

The Gmail Team

To learn more about Gmail before registering, visit:
http://gmail.google.com/gmail/help/benefits.html

(If clicking the URLs in this message does not work, copy and paste them
into the address bar of your browser).

[GT Web]

5 Dnf$

[MediaHound]

20 dnbucks

[theparrot]

25

[Bender]

31

[theparrot]

35

[Bender]

35

41 :-D

[theparrot]

45

[Bender]

90

[theparrot]

you were not following the rules of this auction before, now you really are not following them

[Bender]

I apologize for that- since there is no buy now price, and I have to leave for a few hours, I thought I can put a higher bid.
100

[Bender]

I have a nasty announcement on my yahoo mail account saying on half of the page "Get a Bigger Mailbox!
Get up to 100 MB of storage for your mailbox, starting at just $9.95/year!"
Well, I finally take this advice: Looking for a Gmail account!!!

[theparrot]

Well, I will wait till mole makes a call on how he wants to handle it, I just pretended your +6 bid was a +5 bid before. I could just bid 105, but will wait a bit.

FYI, yahoo has announced they will increase the size of their email offereing this summer.

[MediaHound]

200 dnf

[Bender]

205
to be honest, I was waiting for a reply from yahoo...4Mb compared to 1000MB ?hmmmm...and with Gmail you can choose a simple, easier to remember not daniel2297353 but maybe daniel?:-D

[skylight]

$dnf 300

[Bender]

305

[mole]

Hey, you guys after GTWeb broke the rules! 5 goes to 10 goes to 15 goes to 20... I need to cancel all bids after GTWeb. To be fair to anyone, any one who breaks the rules will be automatically disqualified from further participation.

Okay, back to square one..

Auction starts at :

GTWeb $5 DNF

[Bender]

Mole, can you add a "Buy Now" price, please?
And I don't think GTWeb broke the rules!
If I'm not banned, I add 5 $DNF to the highest bid on the expiration term

[mole]

Sorry, ITWEB, this is a do-or-die sniping skills game for domainers. If you need a BIN price, ebay has lots of them.

GTWeb didn't break the rules, the next guy did, so we have to start back with GTWeb who is the first bid. Anyone who breaks the rules henceforth by offering more than 5 DNF from the last bid will be instantly disqualified, so if you see a bid more than 5 DNFs from the previous, just ignore it and bid exactly 5 more, not 6, not 4, exactly 5 DNF. Nobody who broke the rules has been "banned" prior to this post.

The idea here is for DNFers to try to get this Gmail invite cheap. If you need expensive, eBay has tons. Or you can bid at my other domainer@gmail.com auction :-D

The current time as of this post is Sunday, May 23, 2004, at 10:28:18

Auction ends 23.59.00 sharp.

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