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		warfangle on April 17, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Welcome To Our Site, Sorry You Can’t Use It Gmail also used invite codes, which - at the beginning - caused false scarcity, making getting a gmail invite code itself valuable. That's markedly different than just closing off unapproved signups.

abstractbill on April 17, 2009 [–]

We did this too, for broadcaster accounts. I was surprised to see a justin.tv beta code auctioned on ebay at one point!

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