You can’t call it the Million Dollar Homepage anymore. The college student who created this many times now duplicated phenomenom has sold 999,000 of his pixels at a dollar a pop but he wasn’t satisfied with that and is auctioning off the last 1,000 pixels. Highest bid to date is $153,000. This looks to be a good bid – there was one higher that was captured on the Rocketboom segment where I was reminded of this guy, but that was taken down.
I love the pure greediness to eek out extra cash. I would have predicted maybe another $10,000. Shows what I know about internet marketing. I can’t imagine that little square generating that kind of cash (I suppose there is also traffic from articles that will be written about it too, but still…).
I still can’t believe the whole concept worked. The bastard.
bq(update). [UPDATE] – The Washington Post “wrote”:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/10/AR2006011001703_pf.html about this today too.
bq(update). [UPDATE 2] – A number of bids were retracted but the auction did close at $38,100. Still not bad. However, the “Million Dollar Homepage”:http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/ is currently down. Hopefully it’s just a coincidence and not because he just got all of his money.
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Well, it’s kind of fraudulent because he said he was selling a million pixels at $1 a pop, got enough back-orders to cover it, and *then* decided to auction off the last few.
It’s a total bait-and-switch and he might get more publicity when he gets sued. It’s not worth the extra 15% to risk that.
Greed, indeed.
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