Oh man, my first year of college I was in a freshman seminar and idly bid on one of these with a fairly low offer (~$200). Twenty minutes later I was the proud owner of a WoW server.
My lack of foresight has led to it being stuck, still in the original shipping box, in my parent's basement.
I envy you greatly. When these were put on sale a freak snowstorm happened to hit the northeast and me and everyone else around had no power for close to a week. I was after one of the more populated servers (Kil'jaeden) and my phones battery just didn't last long enough to get that final bid in. I still regret not just putting in a higher bid earlier that day.
I just found my winning bid e-mail: I got Quel'Thalas for $212.50 on 2011-10-24. I remember that freak Halloween snow storm.. somehow it managed to avoid hitting me the capital region.
I'll probably sell the server at some point but I have no idea what a fair price for it is. Perhaps I'll sell it using a double-blind auction.
My lack of foresight has led to it being stuck, still in the original shipping box, in my parent's basement.