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Pixels! $1! Get em while they're hot!

Discussion in 'General' started by logan, 29 Sep 2005.

  1. logan

    logan flashback!

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    Yet another "I wish I'd thought of that first" website:

    News Story

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  2. herbs

    herbs Nobody but us chickens

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    If someone tried to sell me that I would have lauged my arse off, but he has made it work but really why would anyone want to goto a website with icons that goto sites that are trying to sell you something (well most are trying to sell)? maybe I'm missing the point.
     
  3. keir

    keir S p i t F i r e

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    strange idea that is acctualy working for him?
     
  4. P2D

    P2D 99.999% Pure Spam!

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    *idea*

    BUY A BRICK! On my front wall, Garunteed at least 200 "views" per day!

    Only £1 per brick.
     
  5. logan

    logan flashback!

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    click-a-brick! (TM) (copyright me 2005)
     
  6. Herbicide

    Herbicide Lurktacular

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    Why am I not surprised to see that golden palace has an ad on there?

    - H.
     
  7. woof82

    woof82 What's a Dremel?

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    Hey that brick idea is genius! I wanna brick!
     
  8. orb

    orb satisfying.

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    Why diden't i think of this :(
     
  9. John Cena

    John Cena What's a Dremel?

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    You are probably looking at the worlds greatest master mind. What fing genuis!!
     
  10. Dad

    Dad You talkin to me?

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    Actually, that was done not too far from me. The city of Auburn wanted to build a park in downtown but couldn't figure out how to pay for it, so they sold bricks. Essentially you bought a brick for $100 and your name or business would be carved into the brick. All the bricks were then used to build a retaining wall. Worked out great and they got enough money for the entire park within a year.
     
  11. tetleyex

    tetleyex What's a Dremel?

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    Minimum sale $100! :sigh:
     
  12. c.cam108

    c.cam108 Minimodder

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    That's cos each box is 10x10, or 100 pixels.

    Doesn't seem so cheap now.:sigh:

    _C
     
  13. TekMonkey

    TekMonkey I enjoy cheese.

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    This pisses me off. The owner of the website has made $200K for doing absolutely nothing.
     
  14. webbyman

    webbyman Hax.

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    who votes we make another?!
     
  15. Constructacon

    Constructacon Constructing since 1978

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    Anyone's minimum spend would be waaaaaaaay more than $100. If you think about it, in it's most basic form isn't an ascii character (letter) something like an 8x8 (I know I'm wrong but it's close) pixel block? That's just 1 letter in simple form. No one's going to even look at that.

    Agreed I wish I'd thought of it first. On the flip side, I try to avoid any page that has so much advertising on it. I'm surfing the interweb for content - not to be advertised to in massive quantities. I'll never even visit his site (and I'm sure many others won't either) so what's the advantage to companies spending their money and advertising with him?
     
  16. tetleyex

    tetleyex What's a Dremel?

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    He diddnt do nothing, he just did very little. :duh:

    Besides, if you come up with an idea that millions of gullable people will pay for a slice of, go ahead with it.


    EDIT: Oh and remember who told you that, for future reference :naughty:
     
  17. M_D_K

    M_D_K Modder

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    All the best too him, genius idea :). Don't be bitter just cause you didn't think of it :).

    *bow*

    morgan.
     
  18. relix

    relix Minimodder

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    Besides, it's not like he's an already very rich man, he's a student who needs to pay university debts, so I wish him well :).

    Of course, he could have just gone studying here in Belgium, where 1 year of university is maximum €500, all-in.
     
  19. uwannabigmak

    uwannabigmak What's a Dremel?

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    its really a pretty clever idea. Anybody who knows about this tells their friends because its simply so rediculious. they tell their friends, and so on, and everybody wants to visit it to see how rediculous it is. The more news articles, forum threads etc are written about it, the more he makes...
     
  20. [Tom]

    [Tom] Minimodder

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    And the site appears to be down......
     

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