Weird gmail

my invites went from 4 invites to 50 invites. weird

Holy crap me too....

mine went to none. wtf?!

Check and make sure - they moved the invite section of the main page to the far left, in a box below the green box with your message filters list.

Between my three accounts, I now have 59. They must be planning on rolling out the first public release soon.

[quotebb12e7d05d="shifuimam"]Check and make sure - they moved the invite section of the main page to the far left, in a box below the green box with your message filters list.

Between my three accounts, I now have 59. They must be planning on rolling out the first public release soon.[/quotebb12e7d05d]
oic. nevermind my last post... oops

S'okay - i thought the exact same thing when I first logged in.

hahaha. i was gonna post it too. luckily, someone replied and bumped^^ ur topic!! saved me a "this was already posted, dumbass" response from others.

so yeah, i got 50 invites as well... only a selected few got em though.

I still have 4... Oh well. I really don't care. It's not like they're worth anything anymore.

Me too, if they're giving everyone 50 why don't they just make them open to the public. I don't even have anyone to give them to.

I remember when they were going for $300 apiece on eBay. Then as soon as I got my invite through blogger, they started popping up everywhere - eBay prices dropped to like 99 cents overnight.

i was a dumbass who payed for it =P 60cents
lol

i still only have 6 '(

[quote5133df4d96="shifuimam"]I remember when they were going for $300 apiece on eBay. Then as soon as I got my invite through blogger, they started popping up everywhere - eBay prices dropped to like 99 cents overnight.[/quote5133df4d96]

300 a piece?

are u sure???

what yr was that?/when was that?

It was awhile ago. I think I got my Gmail invitation, as a longtime member of Blogger.com, sometime in May or June of 2004. Only a few weeks earlier, Gmal had been very selectively giving out invitations - the rollout of invites to Blogger users was their first big mass-distribution. Before Google decided to do this rollout (they own Blogger), the only way to get an invitation was to know someone who had an account - you can more than likely trace those chains of invites back to Blogger, Google, and Livejournal admins, owners, staff, etc. Because invitations were [b29559dc747]so[/b29559dc747] rare, the demand for them was incredibly high. There was indeed a fair span of time during which invitations would go for anywhere from $50-$350 on eBay. I saw many auctions close at over $250, just for an invitation.

Right after Blogger did their thing, and invites became far easier to come by, people tried to use their invitations to create "high-profile" or "in-demand" email= addresses, like email=ebay@gmail.comebay@gmail.com addresses, like email=ebay@gmail.comebay@gmail.com/email or email==catbreeder@gmail.comcatbreeder@gmail.com=catbreeder@gmail.comcatbreeder@gmail.com/email or equally lame things...those people then tried to sell the email addresses on eBay at ridiculously high prices - between a few hundred dollars up to around $10,000 (I actually saw a few of those). The demand for paid invites dropped to almost nil, though, since Google is making Gmail invites far more common. I have an account I have never yet touched, and I logged in and found I had 5 invites just in that one.

It's like the retarded Disney Vault bullshit Disney pulls with their DVDs - Toy Story now goes for $50-$70 on eBay just because Disney decided to "put it back in the vault" and quit making it available in stores. It's pretty easy - create false demand, which generates illogical amounts of revenue for resellers down the line. Yay for capitalism.

Oh, and...

[quote29559dc747="EatChex89"]i was a dumbass who payed for it =P 60cents
lol

i still only have 6 '([/quote29559dc747]

If you give all those out and need more, I have 59 that will probably never get used. PM me if you want some of them.

eh i just like sayign i have a bunch, i never use them,lol

Both my accounts say "50 invites left." D

Gmail is going public soon, thus they're trying to get even more invites out and test their system under are larger load of email users.

[quote469c95feb9="shifuimam"]It's like the retarded Disney Vault bullshit Disney pulls with their DVDs - Toy Story now goes for $50-$70 on eBay just because Disney decided to "put it back in the vault" and quit making it available in stores. It's pretty easy - create false demand, which generates illogical amounts of revenue for resellers down the line. Yay for capitalism.[/quote469c95feb9]
why pay so much for a real copy when you can get it from some dude in the streets of NYC for $2 -P