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khrath
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 Posted: 12/30/05 - 09:21 Post subject: Self made millionaire by selling pixels
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http://slashdot.org/articles/05/12/30/0327258.shtml?tid=98&tid=95
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"Alex Tew, a 21-year-old student from a small town in England, earned a cool million dollars in four months on the Internet. Selling porn? Dealing prescription drugs? Nope. All he sells are pixels. The idea: turn his home page into a billboard made up of a million dots, and sell them for a dollar a dot to anyone who wants to put up their logo. A 10 by 10 dot square, roughly the size of a letter of type, costs $100. He sold a few to his brothers and some friends, and when he had made $1,000, he issued a press release. That was picked up by the news media, spread around the Internet, and soon advertisers for everything from dating sites to casinos to real estate agents to The Times of London were putting up real cash for pixels, with links to their own sites."
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I know you were all expecting to read something about eq, but this guy wins.
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Silvermouse
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Posted: 12/30/05 - 17:37 Post subject:
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I made over a million dollars selling the looting rights to Lodizal back in the day/
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atarom
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Plat4PoP
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Location: USA
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Posted: 12/31/05 - 02:55 Post subject:
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| Silvermouse wrote: | | I made over a million dollars selling the looting rights to Lodizal back in the day/ |
memories....
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kbarr
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Joined: 05 Oct 2004
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Location: New York, now go fuck off...
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Posted: 12/31/05 - 04:49 Post subject:
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| Plat4PoP wrote: | | Silvermouse wrote: | | I made over a million dollars selling the looting rights to Lodizal back in the day/ |
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Of being a scumbag?
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Jakanden
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Joined: 11 Nov 2003
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Location: Fuck if I know - I am always lost
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Posted: 12/31/05 - 05:04 Post subject:
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Ownage
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Nictathan
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Location: here... where I am... not with you
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Posted: 12/31/05 - 20:08 Post subject:
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Ownage |
Colin Mochrey (sp?) is grand
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Plat4PoP
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Location: USA
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Posted: 01/01/06 - 23:57 Post subject:
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| kbarr wrote: | | Plat4PoP wrote: | | Silvermouse wrote: | | I made over a million dollars selling the looting rights to Lodizal back in the day/ |
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Being an idiot republican I figured you would know the value of supply vs demand.
While I never farmed any mobs for $$ in game I have bought from those farmers as regular suppliers. So in this case I would not be the scumbag, I am the scumbags money man.
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kbarr
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Location: New York, now go fuck off...
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Posted: 01/02/06 - 03:19 Post subject:
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| Plat4PoP wrote: | | kbarr wrote: | | Plat4PoP wrote: | | Silvermouse wrote: | | I made over a million dollars selling the looting rights to Lodizal back in the day/ |
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Of being a scumbag? |
Being an idiot republican I figured you would know the value of supply vs demand.
While I never farmed any mobs for $$ in game I have bought from those farmers as regular suppliers. So in this case I would not be the scumbag, I am the scumbags money man. |
Hey, don't get me wrong. You made money, good for you.
Just don't pretend you weren't a scumbag.
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