[Cuechick]

I just took a look out of curiosity and I saw a few bid up over 500.00! This one sold today, a buy it now for 599.00!

http://cgi.ebay.com/Brand-New-Amazon-Kindle-Reader-Unopened-Unregistered_W0QQitemZ280288130214QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item280288130214&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=66%3A2%7C65%3A13%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1308

Now I am really wishing I bought a few extras! I bet they will be selling for around 700+ just before Christmas.

 

[Vegas_Asian]

Wow that is double in comparison in what my family paid for my kindle. I guess some people are determined to get it to give out on Christmas day....

 

[luvmy4brats]

There's one right now at $610. Yikes!!!

 

[Atunah]

Shades of the Wii debacle.

 

[Michael R. Hicks]

Good grief! Well, I guess that's a sign of the level of demand for the Kindle: if you're willing to pay almost twice retail to get one...

 

[Dori]

Think I better sell mine and order a new one.

 

[luvmy4brats]

It's $660 now...

My mom really doesn't need one for Christmas does she? I should have that one next week.....

 

[Cuechick]

well you could sell it, order another one for her and then just give her an IOU on Christmas day... think of all the books you could buy with the profits!

 

[Cuechick]

I also noticed another auction where they guy says he has 25 or so books included. Won't those all disappear when the new owner registers it?
Also I noticed he has a black charger? Mine is white... seems kind of fishy?

 

[marianneg]

I also noticed another auction where they guy says he has 25 or so books included. Won't those all disappear when the new owner registers it?
Also I noticed he has a black charger? Mine is white... seems kind of fishy?

He probably loaded it with some Gutenberg stuff. That charger is fishy, though. Does he say it's a new Kindle or used? Maybe he lost or broke the original charger. And why is the whole picture tinted pink?

 

[Ann in Arlington]

And why is the whole picture tinted pink?

... seems kind of fishy?

Clearly Salmon.

Ann

 

[Guest]

And why is the whole picture tinted pink?

Sexual. Deeply so.

 

[Xia]

Clearly Salmon.

Ann

HaHaHaHahahahaha!!!!!!!!!

 

[Cuechick]

I just saw these two listed on eBay, I do not think they will sell (especially with quite a few listed with bids still under 400.00) but it is a sign
of peoples greed and a sign of what is too come in the next few weeks... the 2nd guy must be smoking some really strong crack!

 

[Atunah]

Someone has one up on Amazon for 1200 $. Have people gone insane?

 

[Eclectic Reader]

Someone has one up on Amazon for 1200 $. Have people gone insane?

I guess there are people out there who have not been affected by the economic crisis.

Or....the wives of the Big 3 Automakers are bidding on the ebay Kindles for their husbands to go with their private jets.

 

[Cuechick]

Just because they are listed at this price, does not mean they will sell, none I have seen at these prices have any bids.
I do think these sellers may hope to drive the prices up though... maybe as other sellers see those prices it will happen.
It is all about supply and demand.

 

[luvmy4brats]

This is crazy. Used ones are going for over $500. A New one sold for $799 this morning.

If this keeps up, I CAN see people paying those higher prices. They're nuts.

 

[Gertie Kindle]

Someone has one up on Amazon for 1200 $. Have people gone insane?

Remember when Mattel first came out with the Cabbage Patch dolls and you couldn't get them anywhere? A DJ at a Chicago radio station said that if you went to Wrigley Field with a catcher's mitt and your credit card, you could get one. You had to hold up your credit card so the plane flying by could take a picture of it, and the mitt was to catch the doll when the pilot threw it out of the plane (presumably with a tiny parachute). People actually showed up.

Yes, people go insane. Especially around Christmas.

 

[sjc]

That's why my gifts are bought and wrapped...I avoid the craziness.