Too Hot For <cite>Edge</cite>: Phil Harrison's Auctioneer Days Over

Phil Harrison should not quit his day job for a life as an auctioneer. Edge magazine columnist Paul "Mr. Biffo" Rose attended a rock concert at which the Sony studios prez was also in attendance, and his recollection of what transpired was so gruesome that the magazine refused to run it:

Harrison offered to auction a brand new PS3, paid for from his “own pocket”. [...] Realising that this was another solid gold opportunity to promote his floundering device, he blurted out the launch date, probably mumbled something about “a new dawn of interactive entertainment”, and inexplicably re-booted the auction with a fresh starting price of 600 euros.

For several minutes Harrison attempted to cajole an entirely silent crowd of several thousand people into bidding for his console. Terribly, but somehow inevitably, the bidding never moved beyond Harrison’s starting price.

Obviously, this is framed in a rather negative light, but neither is it just some random guy who happened to be there. Ouch.

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