Google Wave Free Invites Listed on eBay for $99

Google Wave is the much-anticipated new product from Google that, like Google Voice before it, everyone wants, even though they don't know what it is. The demand for the coveted invite from Google to try the Google Wave before its official launch is so high that the free invites are now being auctioned on eBay for up to $99 starting price.

Google products have become like the New York party scene -- the more out of reach, the more coveted. Google Wave has something to do with the future of e-mail and text messaging, but beyond that I don't understand it. What I do understand is that I can't get an invitation to Google Wave.

My friend Chris, who tells me about new technology, insisted this summer that I sign up for the wait list to get on Google Wave. I signed up and told everyone else I know to sign up because, like Google Voice, a wait list meant it had to be cutting-edge and cool.

I have been waiting in line for my Google Wave invitation now for about six weeks. Recently, Google gave out 100,000 invitations to join the Google Wave. Since I signed up early, I assumed I would get an invite. I didn't.

And, contrary to the old saying, "I don't want to be in a club that would have me as a member," I want to be Club Google Wave more the longer I wait to be invited. But, like Google Voice numbers that are being sold on eBay too, I'm not paying for an invite to Google Wave, especially because I have no idea what it is, except, well, new.

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