Dear Reader:
Hardcore Gamer magzine saved by eBay listing
Remember when we showed you guys the eBay listing for Hardcore Gamer magazine? It looks like that little stunt worked. The magazine has actually been saved by the eBay listing, which generated a ton of interest in the almost-dead print rag. The idea was put together by Tim Lindquist of DoubleJump Publishing, and it looks like it worked.
“Obviously, the print media market is a difficult market to be in, and we’ve been looking for investors to help out with Hardcore Gamer for quite a while. I see people auctioning all kinds of weird stuff on eBay, and they get all kinds of publicity from it. Sometimes people will just bid on an impulse buy, people with a lot of money, and buy a potato chip that’s shaped like Jesus for $15,000 just for the publicity of it.”