mikesherov said:There is a difference between him putting his own links up there, and reserving the prime location for the final sale.
Yes, in fact.
mikesherov said:Everyone here who is talking about what Alex has done "wrong" fails to realize that Alex has to have done at least one "right" thing, otherwise he wouldn't have a self-made million in his pocket.
I said he did many things right, in fact almost everything. Too bad for the bad ending. He disappointed me and I think it was a big (and overall counterproductive) mistake. Just as it was a mistake when towards the beginning he launched a pixel picture contest. I wrote Alex about that, he was thinking the same thing and took it off right away.
mikesherov said:His auctioning off of his own pixels may, and I use "may" lightly (since everything he has done so far has been a "right" move), be a shortsighted move, but in no way constitutes fraud.
I agree it is not fraud, and never thought or said otherwise.
So I guess you are replying to Duncan here.
mikesherov said:Furthermore, he never said in his blog that he just now decided to do something special with the last 1,000 pixels. Instead, he mentions that he now decided what the best way to capitalize on them is.
No, you are wrong here.
In fact Alex wrote: "there are still 1,000 pixels available. However new orders have been suspended due to exceptional demand, so the last 1,000 pixels will be made available tommorrow"
And then the next day: "demand has completely outstripped supply [..] There are still literally hundreds of people e-mailing me wanting pixels on the homepage [...] Therefore, I am doing the most fair and logical thing and auctioning the last 1,000 pixels off on eBay"
mikesherov said:He would be a fool not to have thought about the additional value of the final pixels... but he may only now have decided that ebay was the way to go.
Ok, so you are saying that he had planned to sell those pixels at a premium, but he might have decided just at the very end to do so through ebay rather than in some other way. Well, who knows, but that's not the point. The point is that he had planned of selling them at a premium; it's not important if through ebay or eboy or egirl.
mikesherov said:Either way, congrats to him. I am a part of internet history because of him, and it only cost me a measly $100.
Yes, congrats to him nonetheless, even on my part.
It's that I am a perfectionist and if he had not done this final mistake that transformed it in the "million dollar home page...no more" it would have been perfect.