Well, that didn't take very long. eBay has taken down a listing form a seller that claimed that he had been given the opportunity to purchase Google Glass as part of the search company's #ifihadglass competition, but not before the item was bid up to $15,900 (according to a cached version of the page). That's ten times the price that Google said it would charge competition winners, but, more to the point, the entire sale was a scam. Google's website for the competition, which is opening up early access to the Explorer Edition of the headset to "creative individuals," says that winners won't be notified until mid-to-late March. The deadline for applications is today. As PCMag points out, Google's terms and conditions for the competition...
via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2013/2/27/4035920/fake-google-glass-ebay-listing-bid-up-to-15900-before-being-pulled
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