eBay Takes, Gives

November 24th, 2008 omo Posted in Gadgets, Social | No Comments »

The Fatwallet thread is probably the most authoratitive thread to follow on this holiday’s eBay $1 “doorbusters.” Starting today, for the next 14 days, eBay will randomly pop out $1 Buy-it-now auctions of various goods NOT worth $1 over the course of the day. You just have to look at what’s on sale that day at their holiday site portal and be refresh monkey about it.

While it is no way a “deal” as much as a sweepstake (and note that you do have to pay income taxes on their “ultimate items”–which at some point can be a 2009 Corvette. Today it was a $5000+ plasma TV–do the math how much taxes that is for you), it’s a fun way to kill time and if being a refresh monkey is something you do normally. Everyday there will be 3 items for sale, 2 items are cheap things (today was also Wall-E SE DVD set and Jawbone 2) that have 50 BIN auctions that will pop up over the day. The expensive, “ultimate item” is a one-shot thing.

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