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Old 04-21-2013, 09:48 AM   #50
Sil_liS
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Originally Posted by calvin-c View Post
One thing I don't think anybody's pointed out is that he was reportedly offered up to $90,000 for it. That's serious money-so serious in fact that I suspect there was a business purpose behind it. What business purpose could be served by getting one of these early models? I doubt if it would be anything good for Google.
It was pointed out in post #4.

I quoted the explanation in post #41:
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Marketplace quotes Kevin Dietz, a student at the Georgia Institute of Technology, who confessed he had gone to an online group for Glass Explorers and featured a link to Ed's auction. The idea, it seems, was to artificially raise the price to such a degree that the auction would become meaningless.

"The reason why I posted it in the first place was to prevent the auction from completing. The whole idea of being a part of the Explorer program is not about getting Google Glass or turning a profit. It's about being on the cutting edge, and this person clearly doesn't care about that," he said.
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