Flunkies of Fiction: Online Auction Industry Exposé

It’s been one month since Mark Taylor’s Palgold Card Services LLC purchased Plunderhere from its backstabbing former owners Lynette Jester and Spencer “AQ Ray” Ray.
What has Mark accomplished during his first month? About the same thing he did with his former auction sites Palgold and Bidz.org.uk. He’s provided a lesson on how not [...]

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Auction site Wagglepop’s privacy policy gives the site the right to share its users’ personally identifiable information with third parties, including advertisers.
Sharing Personally Identifiable Information with Third Parties
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To deliver advertising to you that most closely matches your interests, we share your personal information with carefully selected companies with whom we have relationships and trust. However, [...]

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Pheebay smut king Graham Warburton’s Auctionbuzz site has expanded its horizons from RSS adverts for porn videos to RSS adverts hawking sex toys as documented in the screenshot below:
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After announcing a 200% increase in its store fees from $9.95 to $29.95 on May 2nd, Wagglepop Auctions has attempted to stifle all fee hike protests by  using heavy handed censorship on its forums.  The site’s moderator Andrew Pittino, who many suspect is really a sock puppet posting ID of Wagglepop owner Ray Romeo, has [...]

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Wagglepop announced an increase in store fees from $9.95 to $29.95 monthly effective June 1, 2008.  New storeowners must prepay before opening a store.  The site also annunced its intention to pad its listing count by selling dropshipped merchandise on the site.
The announcement:
Wagglepop Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
5/2/08
We are very pleased today be be able to [...]

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Ray Romeo’s Wagglepop auction site went down shortly shortly before the site was to announce a massive fee hike.  The site, which has seen its store count decline from 939 in September 2006 to 230 today, has a history of crashes and downtime.
A poster on the TulipTools discussion forum was the first to report the [...]

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Good morning OAI!! There are 3 new additions to the blog this morning.
Channel Traffic Rankings - Traffic rankings of online selling channels.  The channels listed include auction sites, fixed price marketplaces and malls, barter sites, classified sites, and comparison shopping engines.
OAI Hall of Shame - Roll call of scumbag sleazy auction site owners and individuals [...]

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Graham “sunray” Warburton, owner of seedy forum Pheebay, has launched a scraper spam site Auctionbuzz.info.  Masquerading as an auction news site, the site contains numerous links to pornographic videos which are for sale.  The Warburton porn link was first exposed in a post on an online auction industry discussion forum.
Further questions were [...]

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