Selling your Myspace Account
By hcromer
@hcromer (2710)
United States
January 16, 2007 9:33pm CST
Have you ever thought about selling your Myspace account on eBay? I have seen quite a few people selling their Myspace accounts on eBay and making a pretty nice chunk of change (especially since it is a free site). Do you have an obscene amount of Myspace friends that you don't know and don't talk to? Do you think people should sell their Myspace accounts?
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55 responses
@misskatonic (3723)
• United States
17 Jan 07
Who would want to buy a Myspace account? If they're free to create, what's the point of paying money for one? You can just create your own. Or am I totally missing something about the whole Myspace thing?
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@xionous (439)
• Belgium
17 Jan 07
this is a cool idea wow... im interested now and do have a good ammount of frnds at some lifestyl sites. that sounds gr8 if i could make some of those silly accounts. consider hi5, im a member in hi5 sinse its born, and had some frnds but never for at least once i have had any sort of conversation with them. so its silly and useless better i should take a step and some ebay juice....thnx for the idea dude..by the way how much could those accounts really worth? and how many frnds should have to be?
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@brazil123 (16)
• India
17 Jan 07
this is actually the latest source of marketing..it is prevelant even in orkut...nothing new..its legal o sell ur mylot account in return for a good sum of money...
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@czykibo (39)
• United States
17 Jan 07
I cant see anyone buying a myspace account since it is free to join and will never cost you anything. Everything for sale on ebay pertaining to myspace is a joke. Unless its a tee shirt or something, but to buy something to gain 10 million friends come on.
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@kaka135 (14916)
• Malaysia
17 Jan 07
I never thought there's such trade item on eBay. But I've heard about buying an online game accounts, so that they don't need to really play the games. Well, I just don't understand if they don't want to spend time in playing the games, why do they buy the game accounts for?
I guess buying MySpace at least sounds more reasonable. As some people don't want to spend time in designin their MySpace, they just want to use the ready-made MySpace, and also there are already many visitors to the MySpace, so they don't need to think of how to attract more visitors to the sites.
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@wesderby (178)
• United States
17 Jan 07
From what I understand from some friends who are online gamers, the reason for buying the game account is so that you can start out with lots of points, weapons, and other such things...Then, you don't have to struggle to build your character up and you can jump riht in and play with the "big guys". Sounds goofy to me, but that's the logic I've heard behind it.
@prakash86 (67)
• India
17 Jan 07
This is a nice way to earn money on internet.
It shows you can sell anything nowadays on ebay.
But selling your My space account does not break the terms and conditions set by the My space.
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@Julia1970 (410)
• United States
1 Feb 07
I think it does. I will check this out when I log on to myspace.
@jprakop (3)
• United States
17 Jan 07
Wow, goes to show that you literally can sell *anything* on E-bay these days. What I don't get is why someone would want to buy a MySpace account. Isn't part of the fun making your own page and adding your own friends? Haha, maybe I'm missing something...
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@ladybella (77)
• United States
1 Feb 07
I've made it a rule to not be "friends" with strangers on myspace. I don't have to be your best friend in real life, but we at least need to be acquaintances for me to add you as a friend. The only reason I do it is to keep up with friends I don't get to see very often, as we almost all have young children now and don't get to get together like we did before. Therefore, there's no way I'd sell my myspace account on ebay, because my "friends" on there are my real friends. I just couldn't do that to them.
@ProfessorPharmacist (1107)
• Egypt
17 Jan 07
You can sell it easily at any supermarket! Haha! Lol!.
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@maru_047in (1007)
• India
17 Jan 07
As far as i m concerned i think it should not b sold but their are some situations that make them to sell it it depends on them how they are and in which condition they are.
@hikarushidou (843)
• Philippines
17 Jan 07
wow this is a bit shocking! so you can actually sell your myspace account huh? cool! i see your point. those people who badly need a market would really buy a myspace account that contains access to reach alot of members and therefore would increase their sales or whatever at least. Its the first time ive heard of this, so wow.
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@icjackson (186)
• United States
17 Jan 07
I think that selling your MySpace account is smart, but buying it is dumb.
I am an avid MySpace marketeer, so I understand the potential in the leads that can be harvested from a friends list.
But it is 100 times more cost efficient to get some good, inexpensive friend management software (go to http://myspace.icjackson.com for more info)and get targeted leads for yourself.
500 targeted leads are worth more than 5,000 shots in the dark...
Why? Because out of the 5,000, you probably will only get about 10% will be in your target market. Niche marketing on MySpace is much more effective.
I.C. Jackson
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@umair2hot (1220)
• India
3 Feb 07
Myspace account is free then why peoples are buying it ! May be for some work or in that account people find more opportunity !
@Justareceptionist (870)
• United States
3 Feb 07
people are missing the point of selling a myspace account. it has absolutely nothing to do with being a free service. it all has to do with the amount of friends you have for a company's marketinig purposes.
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@crztle (21)
• United States
18 Jan 07
Myspace was developed for networking... If you are trying to promote a business then this is actually a great idea, you are paying for the work of applying to thousands of people which you need to ask them to be your friend. Spam is really not involved unless they are receiving emails.
@randomosity_prevails (1112)
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2 Feb 07
That's a brilliant idea! You'd have to put a lot of work into it though, getting to a large number of friends to be able to sell it. There's always the possibility that no-one would want it as well. It sounds like a good idea though, considering the amount of money some people have apparently got for them.
@joey_matthews (8354)
•
3 Feb 07
If people are selling their accounts then there breaking myspaces terms of service and will get deleted.
you can't sell something which isn't yours. if you have a profile on myspace the owner of the site owners your profile. also haven't you noticed how they delete people who spam? these people who are said to buy accounts will be classed as spam and then get took to caught.
I find this really stupid.
Next you find idiots selling "actual" forum accounts because they've made alot of posts. haha =)
~joey
