Tepid Xbox 360 GMail Address Sells for £300

World continues to be rather strange.

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Tepid  Xbox 360 GMail Address Sells for £300
It’s a weird world when average Xbox 360 addresses sell for what are comparatively bog bananas, with this auction on headline-generator Ebay catching our eye this morning.

As you can see, the auction is for the.xbox360.discount.store@gmail.co.uk, a Gmail address of barely average proportions, which sold minutes ago for a staggering £300; that’s $514.65 to those in the US.

Having been viewed around 1,000 times at point of going to press, the auction reads, “Demand now is HUGE and there is going to be a lot of money made from trading around the XB360 (sic). A simple, professional, catchy e-mail address will help you a great deal! This address is perfect for anyone starting an XB360 (sic again) related business.”

Do we beg to differ? Can a four component UK GMail address really be worth £300? We have emailed the address in question, so hopefully we’ll get a business progress report on the emerging empire.

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DoctorDee 28 Nov 2005 13:36
2/21
Rod Todd wrote:
The really cool thing about this is that both:

thexbox360discountstore.com
AND
thexbox360discountstore.co.uk


OK. Let's see if anyone is interested. All proceeds will go to the SPOnG christmas drinks fund.
soanso 28 Nov 2005 16:54
3/21
All proceeds going to good causes!
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mrFloppy 28 Nov 2005 17:03
4/21
and just when you thought things couldn't get stupider, ANOTHER ebay auction, for a very similar email address:

xbox360discountstore@gmail.com

it went for US$275

throw them to the christians, or give me the money; I could think of far more inane things to spend it on.
TigerUppercut 28 Nov 2005 17:08
5/21
We're up up two pints of stella already!
Contact the buyer of the Gmail accounts. He'll probably be interested. This is great!
(Do we have to share with eleventeenthers?)
;-)
mrFloppy 28 Nov 2005 17:14
6/21
from on high the decree has been spake:

spong gets the left overs after administration costs, including my hourly rate for domains transfer etc which goes up exponentially based on:
1) the amount the domains go for
2) the amount of beer we need for xmas drinkies
Ditto 28 Nov 2005 18:29
7/21
This really should go to charity or Todd.
mrFloppy 29 Nov 2005 08:51
8/21
but....but.... beer for a thirsty proletariat is charity.

Anyhoo, we're up to £38.01 now - the beer margin is now beginning to grow!
TigerUppercut 29 Nov 2005 11:32
9/21
mrFloppy wrote:
but....but.... beer for a thirsty proletariat is charity.

Anyhoo, we're up to £38.01 now - the beer margin is now beginning to grow!

YES!
We are in beer.
This is excellent news.
TigerUppercut 29 Nov 2005 14:59
10/21
Adam M wrote:
This really should go to charity or Todd.

I emailed Todd and pledged him a few goodies and he's more than happy. He loves TEH GAMEZ!!11!eleven!1!
Also, we need beer more than some charity fat cat chugger organiser needs money for a new Porsche Cayenne (sp)
mrFloppy 2 Dec 2005 06:26
11/21
we are so out of beer money range and well into cheap 2nd hand cars now.

hold you breath, sit down....

£205.00

really
TigerUppercut 2 Dec 2005 09:45
12/21
mrFloppy wrote:
we are so out of beer money range and well into cheap 2nd hand cars now.

hold you breath, sit down....

£205.00

really

Justice!
LOL! Zero feedback though = potential shame.
mrFloppy 3 Dec 2005 00:40
13/21
why... won't ... they ... stop ... bidding?

£340!!!

get in quick kids, all the excitement ends at 13:25:42 GMT tomorrow/today (3/12/05) - it may be your last chance to snap up these domains for large amounts of money.


mmmmm.....beer
mrFloppy 3 Dec 2005 01:05
14/21
oohh...I forgot to gloat.

we are soooooooo beating those dumb arse gmail addresses

LUPOS 3 Dec 2005 04:24
15/21
mrFloppy wrote:
we are soooooooo beating those dumb arse gmail addresses


i have a funny feeling carol will be the one who actually pays out

_______
TigerUppercut 3 Dec 2005 12:55
16/21
LUPOS wrote:
mrFloppy wrote:
we are soooooooo beating those dumb arse gmail addresses


i have a funny feeling carol will be the one who actually pays out

_______

Half an hour...
Come on proper bidder!
Then we can kick the s**t out of out livers!
mrFloppy 3 Dec 2005 19:58
17/21
so... they went for £340


the next question/s, DoctorDee, is/are; have they paid, have they contacted etc etc etc

*baited breath*
*beery breath?*

DoctorDee 5 Dec 2005 00:12
18/21
mrFloppy wrote:
so... they went for £340


No, they went to a f**kwit:

"Hi Sorry but I thought this was an actual Xbox that I was bidding for not just a domain and obviously I am not interested in this

Sorry to have wasted your time.

Thanks"

DillKerr05@aol.com. Maybe the AOL should have given it away.
TigerUppercut 5 Dec 2005 13:38
19/21
S**tbags.
Relist!
LUPOS 5 Dec 2005 15:03
20/21
email carol and tell her the top bidder flaked and see if she is interested...
TigerUppercut 5 Dec 2005 17:29
21/21
I hope lots of SPAMbots don't pick up on

DillKerr05@aol.com
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