Google Wave Invite Pulled From eBay After Bids Skyrocket

by admin October 1, 2009 at 6:12 pm

The Google Wave invitation posted for sale on eBay has been removed — but not before it received numerous bids and skyrocketed in price to $5,000.

The Wall Street Journal describes the frenzy that erupted after Hagan Blount, a food blogger, put the invitation up for sale:

Mr. Blount commenced the auction on Tuesday night, and by the time he had woken up at 6 a.m. Wednesday, the day that Google would be releasing Wave invites, his auction had already received 12,000 hits.

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