Friday, January 22, 2010

First Sale

What American company sold its first item, a broken laser pointer, for $14.83?

3 comments:

ilibbus said...

eBay?

eeverman said...

Guessing ebay.

paul said...

ebay is correct. The founder contacted the winner of the auction to make sure that he understood that the item was broken. In an email response, the winner explained, "I'm a collector of broken laser pointers."