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[bargainbloodhound]

These type of sites have been around since the '90's and have never generated significant conversions for sellers--that's not going to change. The site owners will try to tell you otherwise because they want your dollars (or traffic or want to sell you one of their other services)  but they're full of sh.it.

The site owners will also try to sell you on the SEO benefits of having a backlink from their site ("our site is ranked really high for bla bla bla obscure term..a backlink from us will drive a ton of targeted traffic your way"...never mind the fact that their site has little traffic to show for the high ranking on that term).  Ask yourself how much of a benefit you're really receiving from that link..the answer is probably very little if any.

Take a site like WPSSU that gives you your own page in their directory.  The WPSSU home page has a PR of 1 and the internal pages (the pages you'll be receiving backlinks from) have PR rankings of 0.. How much is that backlink from a PR 0 page on a low traffic site that has few (if any) quality backlinks to it really going to help your PR 3/4/5 store's rankings in search engines?

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[amy]

Let's just say that the number of visitors I receive for free from TheFind each month is significantly more than the 311 uniques the entire AvidCat site receives.

I was bored and checked to see how many referrals we received from free CSE's in June.  The top 4:

9.094 Google Product Search
1,968 TheFind
823 BuySafeShopping
140 HalfValue     

[usiff]

A list of Auction Sites Whose Users Are Putting Themselves At Risk of Identity Theft By Using The Sites because the site owners care so little about safeguarding their users' personal information that they haven't bothered to properly secure all registration, login, and user account pages.

If you don't mind your identity potentially  being stolen by packet sniffing hackers because the following site owners care so little about user security, then by all means rush on over and register at all of these sites.

Sites with unsecure registration, login, and user account pages
Plunderhere.com **
Blujay.com Site's checkout is also unsecure**Self-signed SSL expired on 4/23/07
BiddersNSellers.com **SSL Expired 1/29/08
HiBidder.com **SSL Expired 5/5/08
PatchAuctions.com **
UBidRight.com **
AuctionFire.com **
OvernightAuctions.com **
AtOncer.com**
DealGates.com **
BookAuctionz.com **
KaQoo.com **Self-signed SSL expired 1/26/07
Squeagle.com**

Sites with unsecure login and user account pages
AuctionQuests.com  (unsecure registration is also possible by clicking on the register link on the unsecure login page)**

Sites with unsecure login pages
DomesticSale.com **
AuctionsWorldWide.net **

Sites with unsecure registration pages
iOffer.com **
Loudfrog.com **

LEGEND
**Site owner can't afford the $15 it would take to buy an SSL certificate
**Expired SSL: Site owner can't afford the $15 it would take to renew an SSL certificate
**Site has an SSL certificate but site owner hasn't properly secured all registration, login, and user account pages

note to site owners: If you don't like having your name on this list too boinking bad.  Try taking proper steps to safeguard your users' personal information by securing all registration, login, and user account pages if you want your site removed from this list.

Could you add us to the list....  thanks....

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Please take a look and let me know if you find any SSL issues...

Take Care,

Rene
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