Gamertell

Add another potential fatality to the growing pile that includes 1Up and EGM. Double Jump Books is auctioning off the video game magazine Hardcore Gamer on eBay. It’s a bit late but if you missed buying someone a Christmas present, this could be a good opportunity.

Double Jump Books may have overestimated the value of is publication. The starting bid is set at $42,000.00 and, as of 2:15 p.m. CST, January 7, 2009, no one’s bidding. There are still six days left till the auction closes but I somehow get the feeling that Double Jump Books’ auction isn’t going to be feeling the love. The auction ends January 13, 2009.

If you decide to bid on and attempt to buy the magazine, you get everything. You get: rights and own all 34 issues published by Hardcore Gamer since June 2005, all back issues, the website, thirty other websites which point to the website, customer and vendor lists, employee contracts and all sorts of contacts.

While Kotaku‘s Luke Plunkett was taken aback and, dare I say, disgusted, by Double Jump Book’s chosen method of promoting the magazine, which is get people to buy by making it sound like companies will be begging you to cover them, I couldn’t help but laugh at it.

Yeah, major companies like Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft and the others listed are going to bend over backwards to try and earn the favor of someone who just jumps in and buys Hardcore Gamer. Maybe if you buy it and play hard to get, those companies will send you free Wiis, PS3s, PSPs, DSis and Xbox 360s.

Whoever wrote the promo for this sale should be writing for The Onion.

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