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Shoe game takes walk on eBay
The Internet entrepreneur behind an online video game inviting users to throw footwear at US President George W. Bush sold the property on eBay in just four days, he said on Friday.
- Reuters
- Published: 22:40 December 20, 2008
London: The Internet entrepreneur behind an online video game inviting users to throw footwear at US President George W. Bush sold the property on eBay in just four days, he said on Friday.
Briton Alex Tew, who made internet history in 2006 when he made $1 million (Dh3.67 million) selling pixels at $1 each on milliondollar homepage.com, set up sockandawe.com on Monday after an Iraqi journalist made headlines worldwide by pelting the visiting US President with his footwear.
What Tew called a "stupid little flash game" started getting millions of hits, threatening to overload the servers for a new humour site Tew is building.
"We've spent the last three days trying to keep the servers alive and we're meant to be working on our other main startup PopJam. So we whacked it on eBay," he said.
"It's really cool. From Monday concept, Tuesday launch, Wednesday growth, we've had a Thursday exit - so it's kind of a micro-Web start up if you like," said Tew.
He added that the funds were welcome and would go into his company.
The buyer was a British-based internet media company and the price the site fetched on the online auction site £5,215 (Dh28,692), he said.
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