Palm Pre hits eBay prior to official launch: just $900 and a fistful of shame

Look, if this were one of those elusive GSM Pres, we might be able to understand this. But seriously -- $899.99 for a Palm Pre that you won't get until launch day anyway? 'Course, there are those certain folks that are born everyday, but we couldn't caution you enough to steer clear here. After all, lines won't even be a problem come tomorrow, right guys? On another note, how did some chap from Encino end up with five of these gems? White panel van delivery or something?

[Via GadgetVenue]

[qst4 Posted Jun 5th 2009 2:53PM]

Panel van delivery. lol, sounds like something you'd see on Sanford and Son. Classic.

[Gib Posted Jun 5th 2009 12:18PM]

UPDATE --

eBay yanked the auction and spoiled all of our fun... We demand to see who are the suckers who bought these so that we can mock them!

[modifiedbears Posted Jun 5th 2009 1:17PM]

There have been auctions ending around $600.

[lee7n Posted Jun 5th 2009 1:40PM]

$900.00????? Anyone who buys that from ebay is a moron

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 5th 2009 1:42PM]

What clock/ time zone is the Pre count down clock set to?

[Gi Posted Jun 5th 2009 2:00PM]

have nooo idea it says 3 hours which is when the special stores close tonite maybe hint hint?

[Inzain Posted Jun 5th 2009 2:07PM]

Another guy has listed the Pre at a BIN price of 949 bucks: http://tr.im/nyYt

[nbj622 Posted Jun 5th 2009 2:24PM]

there is something photoshopped about that image. bar code areas are different. ebay can be sketch.

[GingerFox Posted Jun 5th 2009 2:24PM]

says the item has been removed now, tough luck lol

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 5th 2009 3:06PM]

The irony of the Pre countdown ads running down the side of my page strikes me. Always surprised what people will do to make money at the expense of other people who don't know better.

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 5th 2009 3:23PM]

you would have to be out of your fucking mind to buy that phone for $900

[Frankenstein Black Posted Jun 5th 2009 4:17PM]

Fools GOLD!

[KrazyCalvin Posted Jun 5th 2009 4:33PM]

I hope that guys email address gets spammed to hell now that that picture is posted on here. Im surprised that the engadget people would post that up that way.

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 5th 2009 5:01PM]

Although eBay already pulled this earlier this afternoon the comments about spamming his/her email are hilarious! Has't anyone else noticed the email address is to "@ebay.com"? Not only does this send red flags up to those of use who weren't born yesterday but correct me if I'm wrong. Either this fool works @ eBay or there is really some moron out there who fell for this as his actual email address!

Traditionally companies reserve the postfix of an address as the one displayed in the picture for in-house email. For isntance, take Apple for example, if you have/had an .mac email address (although recently changed to "@me.com") it was simply "@mac.com" but current employees have the postfix "@apple.com".

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 5th 2009 5:15PM]

Excuse my speeling errors!


P.S. - Yes, that was intentional

[kingdom1 Posted Jun 6th 2009 2:46AM]

I just finished buying two of these, lit and a cigarette and then shot myself in the head.

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 6th 2009 10:45PM]

utterly insane

[Theodore Posted Jun 7th 2009 10:21PM]

There's a genius born every day. At least by MENSA standards. Probably a couple. I believe the time frame you're looking for is *every minute*.