Monday, 5 October 2009

Google Wave Invitations Fetch Up To £55 on eBay

Google Wave is a new Google product that incorporates email, instant messaging and microblogging, and was rolled out to 100,000 pre-release testers last week. Each tester is allowed to invite up to five people to try out the service.

Almost immediately, such invitations began showing up on eBay, with the highest winning bid of £55 while the lowest transacted was £9.44. This craze for invites reminds me of the invites for Gmail some years back. A friend of mine paid handsomely for an invite while the rest of us waited for the service to open to public. Those who waited may not be able to sign up with their real name for the email, that's why Gmail invites could fetch some money.

At Google Wave, which is at http://wave.google.com/, you can see that we could request for an invite but we never know when we will get one, if at all. Anyway, I think that while it is cool to be one of the firsts to try out a new product, I would rather wait a little while and use a bug free product! What do you think?

Posted by CyberPartyGal at 10:57 pm