Things that make you go WTF!!!!!!!!!

Dragon_Cooler · Post by **Dragon_Cooler** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 7:18 pm

Heard on the news today this kid was short of cash for college so on a whim he made a page of a million pixles and sold them for 1 dollar each, i guess for advertising. He sold them in lots of 100 not thinking anything of it and just all the sudden the money started rollin in. Well it got down to the last lot of 100 and there was such a high demand for it, he sold it on e-bay and went for roughly 38,000$
http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com

You know those things that just make you go, NO WAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I gots 3 things to say to that.....

[img]ftp://mulanserving.homeftp.net/OWL/orly71c.jpg[/img]

[img]ftp://mulanserving.homeftp.net/OWL/lol%20wtf%20owl.jpg[/img]

[img]ftp://mulanserving.homeftp.net/OWL/gtfo3tl5c6.jpg[/img]

LOL
I say cudos to the kid for doing that. lucky dude!!

R3N3G4D3 · Post by **R3N3G4D3** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 8:07 pm

The link doesn't work for me

Dragon_Cooler · Post by **Dragon_Cooler** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 8:35 pm

it didnt for me either but i think its because it was flooded, it was just on i think CNN or something. i will keep looking for another alternative.

-mogwai · Post by **-mogwai** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 8:53 pm

AAAAAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

R3N3G4D3 · Post by **R3N3G4D3** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 10:49 pm

Yeah, I found the CNN article: http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/internet/1 ... n=cnn_tech

The only reason it worked for him is because the media gave it so much attention that the advertisers decided it was worth it since so many people would see it. Proof to this claim: his website exceeded the bandwidth and we can't access it anymore.

BTW are you sure he only made $38,000? He sold 911,800 pixels at a $1 each, where did the rest go?

cre8 · Post by **cre8** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 10:53 pm

Saw this on the news.Crazy mofo's

Post by **Apoptosis** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 11:52 pm

Yeah started the site several months ago and lives over in Europe. He sold off over $900,000 in ads already and it looks like Times Square. Great idea for a one time knock off wonder. If you look close you will see he hired a marketing company and has several other sites that he owns in the "million" dollar site. Great idea and the kid earned a cool $900,000 in the process... props for that!

Dragon_Cooler · Post by **Dragon_Cooler** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 12:13 am

R3N3G4D3 wrote:Yeah, I found the CNN article: http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/internet/1 ... n=cnn_tech

The only reason it worked for him is because the media gave it so much attention that the advertisers decided it was worth it since so many people would see it. Proof to this claim: his website exceeded the bandwidth and we can't access it anymore.

BTW are you sure he only made $38,000? He sold 911,800 pixels at a $1 each, where did the rest go?

he sold the last set for that much where normally it should be like 100 bucks. LOL

wish i can turn back time and do that myself. LOLLOL

-mogwai · Post by **-mogwai** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 12:30 am

that "O RLY?" owl still cracks me the hell up hahahaha

killswitch83 · Post by **killswitch83** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 12:44 am

audiophile wrote:that "O RLY?" owl still cracks me the hell up hahahaha

roflmao, ya that thing reminds me of Special Ed from Crank Yankers for some reason, lol.....whew, just about fell outta my chair on that one

Post by **DMB2000uk** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 5:08 am

Either this has been done before or this has taken a long time for him to finish, i can remember this from months ago!

-mogwai · Post by **-mogwai** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 12:21 pm

audiophile wrote:that "O RLY?" owl still cracks me the hell up hahahaha

it reminds me of a really bad yearbook picture. there was this kid i went to school with and he made that face for his yearbook picture... it was so funny.

Shorty Lickens · Post by **Shorty Lickens** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 2:12 pm

This may be a little off the subject, but it has occured to me that some eBay buyers arent too swift.
I still recall seing one guy sell of a PICTURE of a box of a PSP. Same with the Xbox 360.
Also remember one sneaky bugger selling PSP's one at a time but showing a photo of a STACK of them and starting the bidding at three thousand dollars.

Dont know how any of those worked out. It does support the notion that Americans are obsessed with their toys.

bubba · Post by **bubba** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 2:29 pm

not so much Americans, as Ebayers themselves. I see on a regular basis some stuff selling for more than what a new one at the store would cost. I mainly use the bay as a way to gauge prices for used RC parts.