Spirit Of Giving – $1 PS3 Follow Up

That was very gracious of On to donate the advertising...I wonder what he's planning on doing with the site?

I've actually heard of some people starting to return PS3s to the stores, because they failed to resell them. Ouch.

Everyone jumped on the make a buck with a PS3 bandwagon, overflooding the market. It wasn't like the first time around with the PS2 when very few thought of re-selling.

this is a great story !! good people are rare today

I went out this weekend to a local mall and everyone had PS3's for sale but no one had Wii's...

Many were even sold out of Wii controllers!

The biggest indicator of the PS3 being a flop is that they sold more consoles than games. The Wii sold more games than consoles.

i.e. PS3 was purchased to be re-sold while Wii was purchased to play!

I agree with HMTKSteve, here they are basically begging people to buy a PS3. It's crazy how the hype just died and now Sony expects to sell 6 million over the next year? They need some new games and a much better marketing team for that to happen.

-Nick

You mean he was able to find someone willing to buy the PS3 for a dollar? No one wants them where I live... Now, if the auction was for a Wii!!!! I'd be all over that.

He's going to sell the domain! Make money! Live the "American Dream"!

Oh noes.

Though what would he do with this website now that the story is over? Just keep it parked?

thats lots of backlinks and advertisement for his website...

Man this was really a great gesture. I did read the original posting when you posted and it and must have 'passed' on the story to atleast a dozen people.

Great to know on an update on that story.

I must say it's a wonderful style to do it like this, though I would find it hard to give away that amount of money, especially when you're a student, who usually don't have that much spare...

It seems so far the guy likes his 15 minutes of fame. But the fact that he is donating everything to charity seems good enough.

What about Alex Tew? That poor guy, I thought his site would be sold out in a few days but I guess it takes longer than expected the 2nd time around.

Nobody wants to sell to you anyways John, you've got no feedback! Just kidding. :)

I've been on eBay since I was a toddler :P

Cheers
Stew

Looks like someone outbidded me! :(

Wow...props to this guy. Seriously, that's giving quite a bit.

I've followed this since the beginning. He seems like a good guy, but its clear hes in it to make a buck. If not now, down the road, he'll have something profitable cooking up.

Sell your Acura on eBay and then post about the experience! I've always wanted to know how tell the vehicles on ebay do.

Ebay is so competitive its not even worth it.

Yes it's true. I have a zero on eBay. Why? Because up until a few hours ago, I never had an eBay. Shocking, I know.

A zero on ebay? Crazy!

As for the PS3 for $1 that's pretty cool, though to sell it off on eBay, that's not so cool, but since it's procedes are being donating to a charity, that's double cool. So it all evens out eh?

why wouldn't he just keep the dollar and call it a day?

I have to agree with Tony here. It's a good sentiment and all, but it seems like one crazy chain reaction. Perhaps even more interesting is that John has a feedback of 0 on eBay.

Kudos for his efforts...not everybody is always so willing to give.

Great story, we need more people like On Ounchs in the world.

FT
http://www.milliondollarjourney.com

Man Ebay has something for everyone right?!

Thanks for the update on the story, I had looked at it when originally posted here but had forgotten to keep current on how it went.

Auctioning off the proceeds from an auction? I realize all of this is for a good cause, but this chain in kind of crazy.