Here's one of the best examples ever of a site count being inflated just prior to a sale in order to drive up the value and dupe some poor sucker.
new Showbidz owner Wrote:www.ShowBidz.com has over 341,000 listings and is not even showing up on the auction site count list?
http://www.powersellersunite.com/post-28...tml#283998
WHOIS shows the site changed hands 3 days ago on 11/11. Mandy and I started watching the site a few days before the sale.
The current owner is in Hawaii but guess where the prior owner was located...you guessed it, Palm Bay, FL.
The WHOIS on 11/10 the day prior to the sale:
Quote:
[pre]Registrant:
Richard Austin
599 Jewell S.T. S.E.
Palm Bay, Florida 32909
United States
Domain Name: SHOWBIDZ.COM
Created on: 20-Oct-09[/pre]
The reason we started watching this site was because on 11/10 (the day before the sale) the site was moved OFF of the probidhosting.org nameservers to nameservers at beenanza.com. The site is now back at probidhosting.org
Did I mention the site only has 54 registered users?
But wait the fun doesn't stop there...
The new owner's PSU signature also contains a link to a site called swoopbug.com which is running the swoopo clone script telebidauctionscript (it doesn't take a friggin' rocket scientist to figure out which script it is when you see a listing titled
"Sony PSP 3000 Now On Telebidauctionscript!" :
). The WHOIS hasn't been updated yet to reflect the new owner of swoopbug but guess who registered the domain on October 30, 2009...yep, "Richard"....and guess who owns the swoopohost.com nameserver domain (registered on 11/9/2009)...yep, boinktard boy Ray himself
Quote: Registrant:
Binarywebs Developments
3438 East Lake Road
Suite 14 PMB 652
Palm Harbor, Florida 34685
United States
Domain Name: SWOOPOHOST.COM
Created on: 09-Nov-09
The site has 341,000 items from one seller with 3 IDs and 0 items from the other
53 52 51 members.
Quote: Warning: include(store_templates/store8/header.php) [function.include]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/showbidz/public_html/includes/class_template.php on line 47
Warning: include(store_templates/store8/header.php) [function.include]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/showbidz/public_html/includes/class_template.php on line 47
Warning: include() [function.include]: Failed opening 'store_templates/store8/header.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/showbidz/public_html/includes/class_template.php on line 47
Warning: include(store_templates/store8/footer.php) [function.include]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/showbidz/public_html/includes/class_template.php on line 47
Warning: include(store_templates/store8/footer.php) [function.include]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/showbidz/public_html/includes/class_template.php on line 47
Warning: include() [function.include]: Failed opening 'store_templates/store8/footer.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/showbidz/public_html/includes/class_template.php on line 47
They must be using Ray's mods.
What kind of tard is seriously going to think that a site legitimately has over 300000 items with only 50 some members? I mean seriously.
Quote:[table][tr][td]And good luck with google, since google does not like duplicate content... and dropshipped items.[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]
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Lynette, but my friends call me Ho.
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Yes, she knows all about duplicates and dropshipped items.
[quote author=xwpopper link=topic=19006.msg75471#msg75471 date=1258278812]
http://www.powersellersunite.com/viewtopic.php?t=26035&postdays=0&postorder=asc&&start=0
It is a multi-level
scam marketing site that was called "Profit Sharing Auction" until 11/6.
So those 54 members look even more encouraging now that it took him 9 months to get them.
[/quote]
I should read PSU more often :-[ ...OK, I now agree with Mandy's 3 boinktards/no sale yet theory. The victim will be whoever buys the sites or registers on the sites.
Besides fake bidders (i.e. shill bidding), and fake item listings, Swoopbug visitors are also being exposed to another risk: privacy violations...their IP addresses and other information is being shared with the world. Click on the AddFree stats button at the bottom of any page or just follow this link
http://www9.addfreestats.com/cgi-bin/sho...r=00903453
Click on the more buttons on the stats page and the following information about every visitor is readily available:
Quote:Visitor Detail: 15 November 2009
HostName : 74-61-162-98.hon.clearwire-dns.net
IP : 74.61.162.98
Last Visit : New
ISP: CLEARWIRE US LLC
Country: UNITED STATES
Region/State: HAWAII
City: HONOLULU
Domain: US Network
Language: English US
Browser: MSIE [Win NT]
Screen Res: Unknow 4 Billion colors (32 bit)
Javascript: Enabled
Page Views: 1
Daily Visits: 1
Visit Length: 0 minute(s) 0 second
Entry Page: || Welcome To Swoopbug.com ||
Exit Page: || Welcome To Swoopbug.com ||
Referring URL: http://www.showbidz.com/index.php
Navigation Report
Time Page
10: 1 || Welcome To Swoopbug.com ||
I now know that boinktard #1 in Hawaii only visits his site once a day. Hi Scot!
tolensmiley:
boinktard owner #2 is more active. Hi Richard!
tolensmiley:
Quote: Visitor Detail: 15 November 2009
HostName : 229.116.101.97.cfl.res.rr.com
IP : 97.101.116.229
Last Visit : New
ISP: ROAD RUNNER HOLDCO LLC
Country: UNITED STATES
Region/State: FLORIDA
City: ORLANDO
Domain: US Commercial
Language: English US
Browser: MSIE [Win NT]
Screen Res: Unknow 4 Billion colors (32 bit)
Javascript: Enabled
Page Views: 7
Daily Visits: 4
Visit Length: 0 minute(s) 0 second
Entry Page: || Welcome To Swoopbug.com ||
Exit Page: || Welcome To Swoopbug.com ||
Referring URL:
Navigation Report
Time Page
2:51 || Welcome To Swoopbug.com ||
2:58 || Welcome To Swoopbug.com ||
3: 6 || Welcome To Swoopbug.com ||
3:21 || Welcome To Swoopbug.com ||
8:51 || Welcome To Swoopbug.com ||
8:52 || Welcome To Swoopbug.com ||
10:23 || Welcome To Swoopbug.com ||
additional info on that ip address from whatismyip Wrote:Geo-Location Information
Country: United States
State/Region: FL
City: Palm Bay
Latitude: 27.9107
Longitude: -80.6351
Area Code: 321
...and then there's boinktard #3, the web host and owner of the swoopohost name server domain. Hi Ray!
tolensmiley:
Quote:Visitor Detail: 15 November 2009
HostName : cpe-173-168-8-83.tampabay.res.rr.com
IP : 173.168.8.83
Last Visit : 1 Day(s)
ISP: ROAD RUNNER HOLDCO LLC
Country: UNITED STATES
Region/State: VIRGINIA
City: HERNDON
Domain: US Commercial
Language: English US
Browser: MSIE [Win XP]
Screen Res: 1024x768 4 Billion colors (32 bit)
Javascript: Enabled
Page Views: 4
Daily Visits: 3
Visit Length: 0 minute(s) 13 second
Entry Page: || Welcome To Swoopbug.com ||
Exit Page: || Welcome To Swoopbug.com ||
Referring URL:
Navigation Report
Time Page
8: 1 || Welcome To Swoopbug.com ||
9:21 || Welcome To Swoopbug.com ||
9:57 || Welcome To Swoopbug.com ||
9:57 || Welcome To Swoopbug.com ||
additional info on that IP address from whatismyIP Wrote:Geo-Location Information
Country: United States
State/Region: FL
City: Palm Harbor
Latitude: 28.0901
Longitude: -82.7251
Area Code: 727
Quote: And yest they are now just a popular as Ebay, once you have visited them you will find that to be true( not a start up but one of the fasted riseing sites on the net today�� again visit http://www.showbidz.com/�and start making money now.
http://blog.allaffiliateprograms.com/311...n_the_net/
If Showbidz is just as popular as eBay why did air traffic controller Scott Christenson list his 2006 Toyota Sienna van on craigslist yesterday instead of on Showbidz?
http://honolulu.craigslist.org/oah/cto/1465715244.html
xwpopper Wrote:It is a multi-level scam marketing site that was called "Profit Sharing Auction" until 11/6.
Here's the owner's description:
Quote: I just opened a new business, and applied an MLM or Amway type pay system, with downlines, to an auction.
Members earn sales commissions by recruiting other sellers and building their downlines. Then I take the selling fees your referrals would pay to ebay anyway, and split those up equally with your downline members.
FREE Co-op where the members are part owners in their own auction, and they split the profits. Earn sales commissions, retirement income, and Medical & Dental insurance. $50 credit to register, No Listing & No Selling fees, only Optional fees
http://forums.myspace.com/t/3922163.aspx...viewthread
FYI, Christenson previously owned the defunct FotoAds.com
http://avcosa.ning.com/forum/topics/topi...making-the
Here's an old press release for FotoAds. Christenson was based out of Spokane WA at the time:
http://www.spokanemicroblog.com/a87797-n...bay-by.cfm
edited to add:
maggie777 Wrote:They must be using Ray's mods.
As of 9/10 the site had paid binarywebs almost $1800 for buggy programming services.
http://www.profitsharingauction.com/comm...=41#post41
Quote: ISP: CLEARWIRE US LLC
According to the site's profit and loss statement the site's sellers/"shareholders" are apparently footing the 36.63 monthly bill for Scott's Internet connection. :
regic Wrote:the site's sellers/"shareholders"
showbidz Wrote:Stockholder
showbidz Wrote:FREE Co-op where the members are part owners
Ummm, the site is registered to an individual. The business is unincorporated. The business's legal business structure is 'sole proprietorship'. Sole proprietorships can not (legally) issue stock or have shareholders or issue ownership interests to others...maybe I should clarify that statement, they can violate the law and issue stock but in doing so they run afoul of several state and federal securities laws.