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The Million Dollar Home Page

Discussion in 'Whatnots' started by Harbourboy, Nov 25, 2005.

  1. Harbourboy

    Harbourboy Take thy form from off my door! Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!)

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    Remove all ads!
    Not sure if this has come up before, but this thing is pure genius.

    www.milliondollarhomepage.com

    This guy sells off the million pixels on his page at $1 each. He's already made about $600,000. Now why didn't I think of that??? I could be rich, for doing pretty much nothing!

    That's the way to make money on the internet, to somehow get tiny bits of money from lots and lots of people.

    This guy is now my hero for the day.
     
    Harbourboy, Nov 25, 2005
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    Barmy Army Simple mind, simple pleasures... Adored Veteran

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    Cheeky little bastard. Clever, but cheeky!
     
    Barmy Army, Nov 25, 2005
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  3. Harbourboy

    Harbourboy Take thy form from off my door! Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!)

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    It's the cleverest thing I've seen today! So simple. He'll probably make to a million as well. Imagine that. A million dollars. Just like that.
     
    Harbourboy, Nov 25, 2005
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    Saber A revolution without dancing is not worth having! Veteran

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    WOW! That is quite clever! A million bucks for some little pixels...
     
    Saber, Nov 26, 2005
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    Well the advertizing works. You can help bit hit on a few when you see it. Curiosity and cats and all that.

    edit: Well I just spent a good 45 minutes surfing the adds. Some interesting stuff. Everything from finding Waldo (he is in there) to buying pot seeds. Brilliant format.

    [ November 26, 2005, 07:15: Message edited by: Dragonfly ]
     
    Dice, Nov 26, 2005
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    There are few such sites in the web. But the ammount of adds on this one makes my head ache.
     
    Undertaker, Nov 26, 2005
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    Second that "wow." It's cheap and if it is easy too, so I should find a site like that myself. Would do it too, if I had a VISA and a PayPal account. Goodbye my million... :sosad:
     
    Wordplay, Nov 26, 2005
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    The only problem with that style of advertizing is that if you go back to the main page for a link it can take a loooong time to find a link you happened upon the night before and wanted to find again.

    Its a good thing that most computers keep a history of the places you went on the net.
     
    Dice, Nov 27, 2005
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  9. Kitrax

    Kitrax Pantaloons are supposed to go where!?!?

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    It's too crowded! I'm just glad that there's no flashing ads...otherwise he'd be paying that million dollars back for causing seizures! :rolleyes:

    It's better than tattooing a companie's name on your forehead! :shake: :rolling:
     
    Kitrax, Nov 27, 2005
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    Susipaisti Maybe if I just sleep... Veteran

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    It looks like city streets do these days.
     
    Susipaisti, Nov 27, 2005
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    Brilliant!
    Man, that's just one of those 'why didn't I come up with this' kinda ideas... Plain brilliant.
    :borg:
     
    Hugo, Nov 27, 2005
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  12. Harbourboy

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    I think some of you might be missing the point of it. It's just a brilliant scheme to earn one person a million dollars for doing nothing. Amazing stuff. Who cares if the page is rubbish?
     
    Harbourboy, Nov 27, 2005
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    and it's easy to copy aswell...


    not the whole page but the idea, and then you could make money aswell
     
    Balle, Nov 27, 2005
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  14. Taluntain

    Taluntain Resident Alpha and Omega Staff Member ★ SPS Account Holder Resourceful Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) New Server Contributor [2012] (for helping Sorcerer's Place lease a new, more powerful server!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) BoM XenForo Migration Contributor [2015] (for helping support the migration to new forum software!)

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    You wouldn't, because he's only made so much money with it due to the fact that the page has been reported about all over the US and the world in a dozen newspapers, TV news and shows and news articles on the Internet, and linked on millions of various sites.

    Stuff like that only works once for a good idea.
     
    Taluntain, Nov 28, 2005
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    And considering the costs for maintaining the site or at least paying someone else to maintain it, his million dollars won't last long. :money:
     
    kuemper, Nov 28, 2005
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    Watching that page hurts :(
     
    Thor, Nov 28, 2005
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  17. Taluntain

    Taluntain Resident Alpha and Omega Staff Member ★ SPS Account Holder Resourceful Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) New Server Contributor [2012] (for helping Sorcerer's Place lease a new, more powerful server!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) BoM XenForo Migration Contributor [2015] (for helping support the migration to new forum software!)

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    The cost of maintaining those few pages that are up there is practically nothing.
     
    Taluntain, Nov 28, 2005
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    Seems like the fellow has made 100,000 more dollars since my last post. Interestingly, it's the upper part that gets filled first. :spin:
     
    Wordplay, Nov 30, 2005
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