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"Google Glass won't launch for consumers until later this year, but someone is already advertising a pair on eBay.\n\nUPDATE: The Google Glass listing is no longer on eBay. In a statement provided to Mashable, eBay said the listing was removed because \"it was in violation of our presale listings policy.\"\n\nIn a spelling error-filled post, a seller from Cleveland, Ohio, claims that he or she has been selected as an \"early adapter\" for the high-tech glasses and will be picking up a pair this week at a Project Glass launch event in New York. The auction started at $1,500 \u2014 the going price of Google Glass \u2014 but quickly skyrocketed and is now nearly $16,000. The auction ends tomorrow. \n\"If i am offered a choice, I will choose the color of your choice (see listing picture for variants),\" the seller writes. \"Project Glass will be shipped with Insurance at my expence, and signature upon delivery, so please use an address you can accept delivery in person.\"\nGoogle has held a couple hackathons this year to let developers play with Google Glass. The company also opened up pre-orders for the device to consumers who explained how they would use the product. Google's plan, as of right now, is to have a \"fully polished\" product available for consumers to buy by the end of this year.\nFor what it's worth, the seller has pretty positive ratings on eBay for previous auctions, which include several \"high quality sheet metal paperclips,\" a 16 GB flash drive and a body pillow, among other items. But if you add up all of those items, they still are just a fraction of the current asking price for Google Glass, so we suggest using caution before making a bid.\n\nImage via Kimihiro Hoshino/AFP/Getty Images"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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