Witch School on Ebay
Wednesday April 11, 2007
Over the last couple of years, I've become accustomed to seeing breathless, self-referential press releases lauding the "Witch School" website, which sells automated online courses, as a real life Hogwarts school. Today's release is different- it seems that in the interest of getting people to "take Wicca seriously," the school is for sale on Ebay, alongside a smattering of books, tarot cards, and an odd assortment of tzotchkes.
The school offers online courses in everything from aromatherapy to spellcasting, with a specialty in "Corellian Wicca." The site's owners boast a membership of over a hundred thousand (or a million plus, according the the press release), which seems awfully unlikely. The owners of Witch School are thinking big- among suggested purchasers are Google, Youtube, and Warner Brothers.
Comments
WS isn’t thinking of selling to Disney or Google or YouTube. They have contracts with them to have a story done on the Sci-Fi channel and to place some of their videos on YouTube. AS it stands now the students and members of WS are trying to come up with the amount asked, and there has been a counter-offer. It is no longer on eBay, as the account was hacked, and an unauthorized third party removed it and 2 other high priced items.
If they weren’t ‘thinking’ of selling to Youtube or Google, then why the hinting around in the press release? It seems that was exactly what they were hoping for:
“an asset to many potential companies including Google, Youtube,”