So most of you have probably heard of the http://www.themilliondollarhomepage.com and how this British college kid has now made over $1,000,000 selling 1,000,000 pixel links on his website (if not it is explained in detail on his site) But the big news is that he's selling the last 1,000 pixels (usually sold on his site for $1,000) on Ebay. http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5652179487&ssPageName=ADME:L:LCA:UK:31 The auction started a couple of days ago and as of this post the bid is up to $38,200. My questions for the group are as follows: A. With 6 days left in the bidding, how much do you think these pixels will sell for? B. How much do you think they are worth? This should be interesting.
This kid is hilarious.... now other punks are trying to copy the idea... I dont think they will get the same $
I was just watching this auction at my work and it was at $38000, came back home, had my dinner, watched TV and logged on again just to check where it was and i was amazed to see it US $133,433.33. I also wonder is there any kinda proxy bidding war going on ebay for these 1000 pixels, cause i think people are just going very strangely insane about these last 1000 pixels. The price is too much.. With still around 6 days to go, i wont be amazed if he gets a million from the last 1000 pixels. GOD, i missed those pixel when they were for $1 each, was planning on buying some boxes but just got occupied and missed.
I don't know why people think he's a genius? I guess it depends on your definition, but in my eyes; he's simply had a 'unique' mediocre idea, and he's gone to successful US marketing firm who took it from there. We don't know about the site because how good the idea is, we know about it because it's a 21 year old with no money wishing to save for uni. It's A-Z marketing, nobody is a genius. Let me ask you this, if it was created by the average middleaged man who had no special story to tell, would its success be reciprocated? Oh, and a 21 year old 'without the money to go to university'? Well, in UK, the poorer you are, the less you pay, and the easier it is to pay back what you owe, I don't think it's an excuse.
If he was stuck there with no pixels sold and no press coverage, people would look at his page and call him a dumbass with a carp idea. -edit- WOHOOO post 1337
It is now US $699,100.00 ! Like I said before, I wonder why the 1000 pixels where reserved from september 26 tot when the auction started. Also wonder why there are still huge amount of reserved on the site and why the affiliation bloks are now beeing resold. Guess time will tell...
And it looks like a real bid increase!!!! The dude who made it increase like that has... Feedback Score: 354 Positive Feedback: 98.9%
It seems that the bids where fake! Yes even the bidder with a feedbackscore of 354. So now its back to 150K
If you are stupid, then one or two typos... I can understand! But 7x by 2 differen users.... that I don't understand!
I have a strong feeling that some of these are false bids just to increase hype in market. After all he has got nothing to loose. And boy that was soem TYPO. Anyways, right now at US $152,100.00
Now, is this guy out of bidding (onlinepokerandcasinos)? He was bidding very aggressively earlier, but now i dont see any of his bids, seems like his earlier bids were deleted as well !!!