February 10, 2005

Give it Away George! Gmail invites, does anyone still need them?

I realized today that my Gmail accounts say I have 50 invites to give away... My first reaction was "sure I have 50, nobody needs them any more!" ...but then I decided that, even at the possible cost of looking foolish, I would at least offer them here to anyone that wants one... (a search says this hasn't been done in months and months) If this post is as dumb as I think it is, please, someone save me and delete it... but, if someone wants a gmail account and has been, like, living in a cave and doesn't have one yet, email me at huronbob at gmail dot com. I think if I don't give them away they will begin to spoil and smell up my Gmail page!

posted by HuronBob 19 years ago
  • I've got 50 myself, HuronBob. Can't help you there. ALready appealing to classmates if they'd like any.
  • I only have ten -- what am I doing wrong?
  • At first they'd offer you 6 to give away but now it's 50? Sounds like some evil social experiment, people. Evil social experiment!
  • I can already see an Onion story in the making... Area man can't get rid of his 83 GMail invites
  • apparently there are 1.5 million invites available now. the site that used to host an invite spooler is closed due to too much traffic.
  • Hey... I'll take one! I've been turning them down, so my peeps have stopped asking me, but since all the cool kids have one, I guess I should too!
  • 50!? I only have 4.
  • They just upped me to 50 yesterday, after I'd been hearing about the increase from other "beta-testers" I'm pretty sure it's based on when you joined up, so just wait, eventually you'll have 50. I dare you to give away 6 anyway.
  • I haven't jumped on the bandwagon yet so sure, I'll take one!
  • I just checked. I had 4 the other day and now I too have 50.
  • The invite only aspect was fun when they were hard to get. Now that I have 50 invites as well I am wondering what is holding them back from a regular old sign up page.
  • I have had a gmail account since the first day they were available. I have had 50 invites for a week. When I first had invites, I sold them for $30-50 apiece. Now no one will take them. :(
  • However: I am considering making each of them a 1 GB music storage open space for file downloads. Would anyone be interested in that project?
  • I use two gmail accounts, and now have 100 total invites to give away.
  • holy crap! i got fifty as well! ok.... who wants some?
  • The lack of a signup page would slow down spammers/spoofers and AOL/LJ-type people (like myself) who are the internet's "undesirable element." But mostly spammers/spoofers, I'd think. Yeah? I don't have one because I can't decide on a Perfect Address That Will Fit For the Rest of My Life. It's supposed to be so mind-blowingly awesome that I'll never ever want to use anything else ever again, so it feels like getting a tattoo and not just signing up for an email address.
  • Yeah, I got 50 a few days ago, too.
  • all i got to say is I ASKED FIRST!!!!! Any of you other donkeys ..opps, monkeys... try to give them away and i'll hunt you down!!!!! :)
  • Wurwilf, you could come up with 10 awesome email addresses and change them as your mood suited. I can send out the invites forthwith :)
  • or HuronBob can, I'm not up to being hunted by a rabid gmailer!
  • You can send me one! Thanks.
  • Please send me one. . apparently I am such a loser that I did not make the cut when they were handing them out. I SO wanna be in the incrowd. . . *smile*
  • cosmicray... i would send you one, but the address in your profile seems to be broken...gmail gives me an invalid address response... e/mail me at huronbob at gmail dot com and i'll send one out to you...
  • Thanks HuronBob! *ookity ook*
  • Thank you, Bob!. . .I feel soooooooooo cool now!
  • I don't even think I know 50 people.... So far I've given away two, and neither person even bothered to sign up!
  • Hey, musingmel .. I had that idea a while ago, using gmailfs but I remember there was a limit on the size of the attachment ... my pirate mp3 server didn't pan out, d00d. Maybe things have changed?
  • I'll give 50 invites to anyone who can figure out how to turn then into a 50 gig RAID array. Or something geeky like that, ya know.
  • Thanks, but I seriously can't think of anything I'd want to be married to for the rest of my life. My current email address was a throwaway that I wound up sticking with. I'm commitment-phobic, aren't I. Oh, well.
  • I'm the last person in the world without a gmail address. So what's my prize? Maybe, I dunno, a gmail invite? If so, my yahoo address (I know, I should hang my head in shame. At least it's not hotmail) is in my profile. I'd be ever so grateful.
  • I wouldn't mind one if there's one going.
  • Ya know what's really creepy? I sent out two invites early this week. And the very next day, I still had 50 invites! *shudder*
  • Thanks folks, you've helped me get rid of about 15 of the little buggers! the nice part was being able to help people out a bit...always a good feeling :)
  • Cool, mare, how do you do that? I can post a few more of my own as well.
  • Thanks, Alnedra! Snagged one of those. Let's see how this goes.