# Anybody have a Gmail invite to give away? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 25, 2005, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-have-a-gmail-invite-to-give-away/300980 "2005-04-25T05:24:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Little\_Bird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Little\_Bird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Bird)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2005, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-have-a-gmail-invite-to-give-away/300980/21 "2005-04-26T18:22:49Z")
Gotcha. Thanks **Revtim**. ---
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2005, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-have-a-gmail-invite-to-give-away/300980/22 "2005-04-26T18:56:43Z")
Plenty of invites here. Priceguy at. ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2005, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-have-a-gmail-invite-to-give-away/300980/23 "2005-04-26T20:10:41Z")
Good grief. I was down to 25 invites yesterday. Then I got back up to 50 yesterday night. Now I’m down to 19 and expecting to be at 50 again tonight. sadpunk gmail com if there’s yet a human being alive accessing this board who doesn’t have as many gmail accounts as that person could possibly desire. I mean, in case the 300+ worth of codes already posted aren’t enough… ---
**Author:** ![JimSox5](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b5a626/32.png) [@JimSox5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JimSox5)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2005, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-have-a-gmail-invite-to-give-away/300980/24 "2005-04-26T20:15:51Z")
How do you start getting invites? I haven’t checked to see if I have any yet, but **iampunha** (and other’s) invite situation looks almost out of control. How does that happen? ---
**Author:** ![JimSox5](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b5a626/32.png) [@JimSox5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JimSox5)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2005, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-have-a-gmail-invite-to-give-away/300980/25 "2005-04-26T20:17:07Z")
grrrrrrrrr. . .[sub]stupid coding\*\*. . . That is, of course, supposed to be **iampunha**. ---
**Author:** ![JimSox5](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b5a626/32.png) [@JimSox5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JimSox5)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2005, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-have-a-gmail-invite-to-give-away/300980/26 "2005-04-26T20:18:15Z")
AHHHHHHHH! I quit. I’m done. I’ll go cry in a corner now. ---
**Author:** ![Kaotic\_Newtral](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/71e660/32.png) [@Kaotic\_Newtral](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaotic_Newtral)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2005, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-have-a-gmail-invite-to-give-away/300980/27 "2005-04-26T20:20:09Z")
I have a schload of them too. KaoticNew at gmail dot com ---
**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2005, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-have-a-gmail-invite-to-give-away/300980/28 "2005-04-26T20:28:00Z")
Another one with 50 invites to distribute My addy should be in my proofile but I am too lazy to check right now celynalba at [gmail.com](http://gmail.com) ---
**Author:** ![rfgdxm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c0e974/32.png) [@rfgdxm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rfgdxm)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2005, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-have-a-gmail-invite-to-give-away/300980/29 "2005-04-26T20:38:13Z")
These Gmail invites are a Google scam. EVERYONE with a gmail account has lots of them. I’ve invited myself for a couple gmail accounts to use as throwaway accounts that I can use to evade spammers. Gmail is in beta only in theory. One of the nice things about gmail is the huge per message and mailbox size. 10 MB per message IIRC. I’ve used gmail accounts to send and receive MP3s with people. At the moment I am on DSL (there’s a local price war here for broadband access, and thus this is quite feasible.) I figure if I have bandwidth to spare, why not use it? ---
**Author:** ![Greathouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/greathouse/32/2992_2.png) [@Greathouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greathouse)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2005, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-have-a-gmail-invite-to-give-away/300980/30 "2005-04-26T20:49:09Z")
I’ve got 50 of them to whoever wants them. daniel dot greathouse@gmail dot com ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2005, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-have-a-gmail-invite-to-give-away/300980/31 "2005-04-27T00:44:26Z")
> [@JimSox5](#): > > How do you start getting invites? I haven’t checked to see if I have any yet, but **iampunha** (and other’s) invite situation looks almost out of control. How does that happen? Coding fixed, if only in the quotation:) I don’t know if length of time with the account has anything to do with it, but I’ve had the capacity for 50 invites for a while now, and I think I’m in a majority of gmail users in that fact. The invites just keep coming, I think. Fortunately nothing bad happens to you if you don’t get rid of all of your invite codes. **rfg** , if they are free, how do they constitute a scam? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-have-a-gmail-invite-to-give-away/300980.md?page=1)