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AuctionQuests - Cheap Sex Toys and phantom book listings
03-10-2009, 09:51 PM, (This post was last modified: 11-01-2009, 05:10 PM by sneakymagenta.)
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AuctionQuests - Cheap Sex Toys and phantom book listings
AuctionQuests home page count:
Quote: Books (111,657)
http://www.auctionquests.com/index.php

Books category: add 'em up 1,537 total book listings http://www.auctionquests.com/categories.php?parent=355&show=subcats
So where are the other 110,120 books? Boinktard

Is the owner hoping the inflated listing count will help him find a buyer for the site (AGAIN)? If he is, he had better hope any prospective SUCKERS don't wander over to Compete (http://siteanalytics.compete.com/auctionquests.com/?metric=uv) or Quantcast http://www.quantcast.com/auctionquests.com
OAI Moron Hall of Fame
<i>sell-thru is an irrelevant and illogical consideration.</i>
-KaRay, owner of WP giving selling advice, 2006

<i>the site was 'NOT' hacked but the little script that had recipes on had the link altered</i>
-Plunderhere Owner Mark Taylor after his site was hacked by a Chinese hacker gang, 2008

Some people have it like that, others don’t. I do.
-Probidscripts owner Spencer Osama Binweb Laden Ray bragging about his ability to scam the OAI without feeling any guilt, 2008.

How does an auction site get buyers?
-question asked at PSU by owner of auction site BidBeaver.ca, 2008

How do I get sales?
-question asked at PSU by online store owner, 2009.

I was told by my Tech. Support that my site dont really need SSL.. his servers
are well protected and that info your providing to join aint really top secret information

-owner of auction site TheTraderOutlet.com discussig his site's lack of basic security, 2009
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03-11-2009, 01:48 AM,
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Re: Auction Quests Pads Their Listing Count AGAIN With 110,120 Phantom Book Listings
[quote author=sneakymagenta link=topic=18949.msg74131#msg74131 date=1236721906]
Is the owner hoping the inflated listing count will help him find a buyer for the site (AGAIN)? If he is, he had better hope any prospective SUCKERS don't wander over to Compete (http://siteanalytics.compete.com/auctionquests.com/?metric=uv) or Quantcast http://www.quantcast.com/auctionquests.com
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OR I hope that the owner doesn't let anyone know that he hasn't updated the bug filled and hacker heaven version 5.25 of the script since 2007.
http://www.auctionquests.com/admin/ shows the version of the script. It was updated 5 times in the past few years and I believe is now on 6.05?

Or maybe that the admin probably hasn't even logged on this year to manage the site, since the copyright notice in the footer is still dated for 2008.

Just as long as they don't stop freely giving away the IP addresses of every visitor in their stat script:
http://auctionquests.com/bbclone/show_de...php?lng=en
Scratch that, those haven't been updated since 1/16/09...

Looks abandoned to me. It may be worth $10 even with the hacker's script to inflate counts.
"Listen up Mother****er. Try that bulls*** here and I will hand you and your head in a basket"
- Ray Romeo's alter ego Andrew Pittino responding when I signed up a new account on Wagglepop to verify the non-existence of a way to opt out of his sharing my information with third parties.
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04-20-2009, 03:10 AM, (This post was last modified: 04-20-2009, 03:13 AM by xwpopper.)
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Re: Auction Quests Pads Their Listing Count AGAIN With 110,120 Phantom Book Listings
Auctionquests changes hands again.
http://www.powersellersunite.com/viewtopic.php?p=252231

Perhaps he will make the site secure, protect the bbclone stats with a password, and finally upgrade the 3 year old script to the latest, somewhat more secure 6.05. But, then again, he bought AQ, when most would have required a fee to take it off the owners hands.
"Listen up Mother****er. Try that bulls*** here and I will hand you and your head in a basket"
- Ray Romeo's alter ego Andrew Pittino responding when I signed up a new account on Wagglepop to verify the non-existence of a way to opt out of his sharing my information with third parties.
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04-20-2009, 04:02 AM,
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Re: Auction Quests Pads Their Listing Count AGAIN With 110,120 Phantom Book Listings
Google Wrote:whatabid.net - Site Information from Alexa
Nicholas Dunec. xxxxx.  Bridgeport, CT 06604. US. Phone: +1 877 xxxxx pricezapusa [at] aol.com. Edit whatabid.net contact info.

Google Wrote:thriftybidder.com - Site Information from Alexa
Nick Dunec. xxxxx. Phone: +1 888 xxxx support [at] thriftybidder.com. Edit thriftybidder.com contact info. ...

2 failed and closed rinky dinks....will AQ be flop #3?

Flashback 2004, Auctionbytes forum:
AQ's new owner advertises his auction site whatabid.net and his wholesale site pricezap.com
http://www.auctionbytes.com/forum/phpBB/...r=whatabid
OAI Moron Hall of Fame
<i>sell-thru is an irrelevant and illogical consideration.</i>
-KaRay, owner of WP giving selling advice, 2006

<i>the site was 'NOT' hacked but the little script that had recipes on had the link altered</i>
-Plunderhere Owner Mark Taylor after his site was hacked by a Chinese hacker gang, 2008

Some people have it like that, others don’t. I do.
-Probidscripts owner Spencer Osama Binweb Laden Ray bragging about his ability to scam the OAI without feeling any guilt, 2008.

How does an auction site get buyers?
-question asked at PSU by owner of auction site BidBeaver.ca, 2008

How do I get sales?
-question asked at PSU by online store owner, 2009.

I was told by my Tech. Support that my site dont really need SSL.. his servers
are well protected and that info your providing to join aint really top secret information

-owner of auction site TheTraderOutlet.com discussig his site's lack of basic security, 2009
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04-21-2009, 02:14 AM,
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Re: Auction Quests Pads Their Listing Count AGAIN With 110,120 Phantom Book Listings
They aren't failed and closed if you keep on recycling them every couple years:
Quote: We are also working on another site registered just today auctionquests.co.uk our UK site.
  Please see my other 2 sites - ThriftyBidderAuctions.com upgrading tomorrow and Biddays.com.

ThriftyBidderAuctions.com running Probid version 5.11?!?!? That one is like 4 years old? Happy001 He should do a fantastic job with AQ!
"Listen up Mother****er. Try that bulls*** here and I will hand you and your head in a basket"
- Ray Romeo's alter ego Andrew Pittino responding when I signed up a new account on Wagglepop to verify the non-existence of a way to opt out of his sharing my information with third parties.
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04-21-2009, 03:30 AM,
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Re: Auction Quests Pads Their Listing Count AGAIN With 110,120 Phantom Book Listings
My favorite kind of site owner...a boinktard who doesn't even bother to change the default email address and dummy mailing address that came with his $99 script.

Biddays privacy policy Wrote:please contact: Bid Days support@yoursite.com
Biddays TOS Wrote:The services herein are offered by Bid Days's. Any Inquiries can be made to the following address:

Legal Department
P.O. Box 2101
National City, CA 91951-2101

edit:
Quote:ThriftyBidderAuctions.com running Probid version 5.11?!?!? That one is like 4 years old?

The copyright date on the site is about that old too.
Quote:Copyright ©2004-2006
Thrifty Bidder Auctions

Oooh, it's an eBay and Yahoo Auctions alternative. Happy001
Thriftybidder about us Wrote:Thrifty Bidder Auctions was designed and built to provide a safe and user friendly alternative to Ebay and Yahoo Auctions.

I'll be surprised if AQ makes it back to 10,000 listings. :Smile
"Well, Jay was so giddy that someone named Jay was involved with this site we posted our first non-eBay listing in 3 years here at Lunarbid (we tried two items at Yahoo once upon a time, they bombed)" -Marie posting in a LunarBid thread at OTWA in 2005 wins the award for 'most moronic reason ever given for choosing a venue"

"thanks twat u must have nothing better 2 do. do u talk to all your members like that. will not be recomending your site.
best way to put it is TULIPTOOLS.COM IS REALLY SHIT. DONT JOIN." -pubescent owner of rinky dink off2auction.com in 2011
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04-21-2009, 04:12 PM,
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Re: Auction Quests Pads Their Listing Count AGAIN With 110,120 Phantom Book Listings
Quote:ThriftyBidderAuctions.com upgrading tomorrow
Quote:ThriftyBidderAuctions.com running Probid version 5.11?!?!? That one is like 4 years old?
Quote:Copyright ©2004-2006

He upgraded today --it's now running 5.25 (the same version as AuctionQuests) and the copyright has been updated to 2007.  Happy001

Quote:protect the bbclone stats with a password

The version 0.49 script is still unprotected...

http://www.auctionquests.com/bbclone/

...which makes the site extremely vulnerable to attack because bbclone 0.49 has a highly critical unpatched security hole which allows enterprising hackers to gain system access (i.e., any info stored in the server's databases is free for the taking).

http://secunia.com/advisories/23874/

PHPProBid v5.25 also has several vulnerabilities.

Joining either of this clown's 2 probid sites is akin to emailing your personal info to a Russian hackers forum. Smile


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04-21-2009, 05:38 PM,
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Re: Auction Quests Pads Their Listing Count AGAIN With 110,120 Phantom Book Listings
Quote:He upgraded today --it's now running 5.25

Upgrading to a very outdated version instead of the current version earns him a spot in the Boinktard Hall of Fame.

Boinktard
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04-26-2009, 06:32 PM,
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Re: Auction Quests Pads Their Listing Count AGAIN With 110,120 Phantom Book Listings
Quote:I'll be surprised if AQ makes it back to 10,000 listings.

The sky's the limit when you pad your count with phantom listings :imptongue:

Today's AQ fantasy numbers:
PSU chart: 66,000
AQ Book Category (AQ home page): 17,000.
Actual book listings are under 500 plus 16,500 phantom book listings
OAI Moron Hall of Fame
<i>sell-thru is an irrelevant and illogical consideration.</i>
-KaRay, owner of WP giving selling advice, 2006

<i>the site was 'NOT' hacked but the little script that had recipes on had the link altered</i>
-Plunderhere Owner Mark Taylor after his site was hacked by a Chinese hacker gang, 2008

Some people have it like that, others don’t. I do.
-Probidscripts owner Spencer Osama Binweb Laden Ray bragging about his ability to scam the OAI without feeling any guilt, 2008.

How does an auction site get buyers?
-question asked at PSU by owner of auction site BidBeaver.ca, 2008

How do I get sales?
-question asked at PSU by online store owner, 2009.

I was told by my Tech. Support that my site dont really need SSL.. his servers
are well protected and that info your providing to join aint really top secret information

-owner of auction site TheTraderOutlet.com discussig his site's lack of basic security, 2009
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10-29-2009, 03:31 AM,
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Re: Auction Quests Pads Their Listing Count AGAIN With 110,120 Phantom Book Listings
www.auctionquests.com
Redirects to:
http://primary.probidhosting.com/suspended.page/
Quote:This Account Has Been Suspended                  Please contact the billing/support department as soon as possible.     
Way to go thriftyboinktard!
"Listen up Mother****er. Try that bulls*** here and I will hand you and your head in a basket"
- Ray Romeo's alter ego Andrew Pittino responding when I signed up a new account on Wagglepop to verify the non-existence of a way to opt out of his sharing my information with third parties.
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