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Old 08-14-2002, 05:02 AM  
notjoe
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Originally posted by IntheBlue
A few months ago, I bid on an ebay auction for 9 million adult hits and won. Never thought I would get that many, but what the hell, so I did all the setup steps, although they were wholy incomplete and got less than 5 referrals to date. No biggie, I got ripped because I didn't do my research. I should have known because he hid his bidders and comments. Even tried to talk to the guy about it but he didn't care.

I was bored at work today so thought I would find out if that guy was still at it. Here are his current auctions: http://cgi6.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewSellersOtherItems&userid=vidscen tral&include=0&since=-1&sort=3&rows=25

Yep, so I looked at his completed items:

http://cgi6.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?MfcISAPICommand=ViewListedItems&user id=vidscentral&include=0&since=30&sort=3&rows=200

This guy has banked about $4,000 (paste into excel and add colums) in 1 month selling totally bogus advertising hits on a site that is fed chinese traffic. Unbelievable!!

Lesson = No morals or ethics, and very eloquent marketing text that ultimately promises the world but no guarantees = $4,000 income a month.

Sometimes it absolutely sucks to have a conscience.
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First off, the deal is way too good to be true, second (and to quote the auction page) :

"If just 1% of those people bought your item for say $5, thats $5,500,000 in your wallet!

The possibilities are endless.
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Well, 1% or 6 million is 60,000, now if those 1% all bought something for $5 (6*60k) = $300,000 not $5.5 million.

Whoever did this is a moon, you should be a lot more careful with ebay. ;)

Joe

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