Re: : Does anyone have a Oneplus One phone invite?

On Fri, 2014-08-08 at 16:13 -0400, Christopher Browne wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 2:56 PM, CLIFFORD ILKAY
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I'm interested in the <http://oneplus.net/one> phone and I can only
> > purchase one with an invite code. Does anyone have one? If you have one,
> > what have your experience been like with the phone?

> [ ... ]
> There's a Reddit list out there where people can register and get put
> into a priority
> order so that people can "pay forward" by passing an invite to the
> next person on the
> list.  There are 7300 people on the list.  (I'm at location #6016 on
> the list, signed up
> on July 28th.)  They have given out about 300 invitations, so I
> imagine I'll get an
> invite some time in 2023.

Could be a Cunning Plan, per Blackadder.  Looks lifted straight from a
recent William Gibson novel, _zero history_, about marketing products by
making them almost totally unavailable.  The buzz created is incredibly
intense.
	
	Mel.


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