WordPress.com Invite on Ebay

Want an invite to join wordpress.com? Well, invites to get onto this site as a blogger are FREE, but mdawaffe, a notorious volunteer and mastermind behind a lot of what goes on behind the scenes in WordPress, is selling off his invite on ebay.

He’s promised that proceeds will go to a good cause, so you only have a few hours left to get your precious, but not free, invite to wordpress.com.

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valorben

Posted August 30, 2005 at 5:34 am | Permalink

Hello, I’m the winner of the bid!I just start selling wordpress.com invite on ebay. I paid it for $46.37, you can pay less to get it this time!

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Marcel

Posted September 28, 2005 at 6:50 pm | Permalink

If you have any spare invites, I would LOVE one!

Thank You sooo much!

Marcel

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Lorelle VanFossen

Posted September 28, 2005 at 11:11 pm | Permalink

An invite can be yours if you sign up at wordpress.com, just like anyone else can.

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J J

Posted March 10, 2007 at 5:18 pm | Permalink

why buy is word press not free?

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Lorelle VanFossen

Posted March 11, 2007 at 5:48 am | Permalink

WordPress and WordPress.com is free. This was in 2005 when WordPress.com was new and this was a silly publicity getter done by one of the volunteers to raise interest in WordPress.com blogs which were then by invitation only. For more on this see Don’t Buy WordPress – It’s Free.

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yvonne nolte

Posted June 1, 2011 at 1:16 am | Permalink

aww.. I never know if wordpress has invite features. Thanks for the info.

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