Gmail account are sold for $50 to $150 - Crazy

[steveteva]

People who want's to get a Gmail Account because all good names will be soon taken are ready to pay for it $50 to $150, so some Gmail account owners can send an invitation to anyone and they sale it on Ebay (This invitation is limited in time and numbers as Google want to have a 2nd wave of beta testers)

See link on ebay :
http://search.ebay.com/search/search...rt&query=gmail

It's a bit crazy since it will be free, but sure you'll get email like (Yahoo or Hotmail) 012233yourname@gmail.com

[steveteva]

I haven't seen any Gmail account sold for less than $50.00 on Ebay
So if Google ask for $25.00 fee for a 1gig of Email account I m sure people will still subscribe it. And if they will have over Million of subscribers .... they miss huge money income by giving it free.

[Andilinks]

they miss huge money income by giving it free.

1) By charging they would also weed out the low-income users, not a good demographic for their ads.

2) On the other hand, by not charging they would gather a much larger base upon which to sell ads, and would get more good will from the public.

I think Google will choose option two. In the past they have shown great restraint when it comes to choosing long-term gains over a quick buck. We shall see.

Andi

[pedstersplanet]

Well, I wont be signing up, what with all this fiasco with "privacy" invasion...

Besides, most ppl sign-up to ''free'' email servers just to send spam - I have my own mail server and all I saw was masses of same messages to different email addresses in my out-queue/bounced logs. So I closed access to the public now.

Theres my 5p's worth of input.

[AussieWebmaster]

So I should sell my gmail account?

I have AussieWebmaster@gmail.com

any offers... lol