Seems like you could make at most a couple hundred dollars doing this, there really can't be that much of a market for downloads of OpenOffice and other GPL software. And any competition at all will quickly drive the price to the market price, free.

Still might make a good excuse to try Auctomatic.

I dunno... there were 25 bids on that auction. Unless we are missing something, there might just be that many stupid people out there. At least enough to support you and me.

Yeah, but do you want to make money ripping off stupid people?

Are you really ripping them off if they value the product at that price and are buying something they would have otherwise never heard of?

Well, if the people who are buying it don't know enough about computers and just want the office program that they are used to using, then I'd argue yes. I have absolutely no doubt that millions of people would look at that auction and believe it to be selling Microsoft Office, many people in my family are certainly in that group.

If you setup the auction to sell a cheap Office alternative and make it clear that it's not Microsoft Office, then that's not a rip off, but if you just want to catch people that don't know better, then I think it is.

It's a much better deal than buying MS Office at Best Buy, which apparently happens all the time.

Isn't that what Microsoft does?

Not so stupid, I'm sure there are a lot of people who judge the quality of software by its price.

The more I look at this auction, the more I'm in awe of it's dastardly brilliance. You don't actually get anything from the auction, you just get emailed a link to a special "download site".