PlunderHere and AlsoShop: A Web of Privacy Violations, Backstabbing, and Deceit
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04-01-2009, 12:57 AM,
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Re: PlunderHere and AlsoShop: A Web of Privacy Violations, Backstabbing, and Deceit
PH users........
Quote:Thank you for the update. When the site returns, can you make sure an email goes out to notify us? I've had 4-5 sales in the last few days + several questions that came in shortly before the outage/down time. Quote:Thanks for the update. Was beginning to think the kids had done something to my computer! Well hopefully it will be up and running soon. Quote:Thank you Stormrunner507 for letting us know what happened. It can't be very frustrating when we don't know what is going on both as a seller and buyer. I hope the site gets up soon. Many sellers have had sales and so have I . Thank you again for stepping up and letting us know. And if it is possible to let us know when this is fixed it would be greatly appreciated Why are they so complacent when their businesses have been down for 7 days? One hour of downtime by a service provider is enough to set me off. After 24 hours I would have taken my business somewhere else permanently. |
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04-01-2009, 10:50 AM,
Post: #672
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Re: PlunderHere and AlsoShop: A Web of Privacy Violations, Backstabbing, and Deceit
[quote author=maggie777 link=topic=9139.msg74206#msg74206 date=1238547459]
Quote:Thank you for the update. When the site returns, can you make sure an email goes out to notify us? I've had 4-5 sales in the last few days + several questions that came in shortly before the outage/down time.[/quote] During all the downtime in the past, there was a visibility through their own forum. Now, that doesn't even exist. They will likely get the site up this weekend and say they had to use an older backup, but won't tell anyone why. The reality will be, someone screwed up (or lost) the database, there was a hacker, or someone crashed the server. And to think, real business people on eBay flip out when eBay or Paypal goes down from 1AM-4AM for planned maintenance. But I guess 9 days is OK for a rinky dink considering there is no real business being conducted.
"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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04-02-2009, 12:43 AM,
Post: #673
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Re: PlunderHere and AlsoShop: A Web of Privacy Violations, Backstabbing, and Deceit
Quote:They will likely get the site up this weekend and say they had to use an older backup, but won't tell anyone why. Restoring an old backup won't solve the problem. The 404s are either being caused by a directory permissions problem on the ../public_html directory or a configuration error (a mod_rewrite error is a likely culprit) in either apache.conf, .htaccess, or php.ini. This is the type of problem that a real Linux server system administrator could analyze and fix in under an hour (most likely in under 10 minutes). |
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04-02-2009, 01:46 AM,
Post: #674
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Re: PlunderHere and AlsoShop: A Web of Privacy Violations, Backstabbing, and Deceit
AtomicMall Wrote:Visitors are being directed to an error page which means PH admin has the ability to direct traffic to a page of their choosing. If that's the case, then it seems they could just as easily direct traffic to their index page Ummm no, those 404 error pages do not mean "PH admin has the ability to direct traffic to a page of their choosing"...quite the opposite you friggin' idiot. It means, as Regi said, there is either a directory permissions problem or an error in one of the 3 configuration files she mentioned.
"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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04-02-2009, 04:26 PM,
Post: #675
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Re: PlunderHere and AlsoShop: A Web of Privacy Violations, Backstabbing, and Deceit
Giraffe finally figures it out.
http://www.powersellersunite.com/about26...tml#248956 She is now sneaking closer to troll-like competence. Pretty soon she'll be spread "hate filled propagandistic drivel" herself and end up with her own OSUfools page on Auction News.
"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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04-02-2009, 07:44 PM,
Post: #676
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Re: PlunderHere and AlsoShop: A Web of Privacy Violations, Backstabbing, and Deceit
Quote:real business people on eBay flip out when eBay or Paypal goes down from 1AM-4AM for planned maintenance. Real business people flip out because they have fixed monthly expenses and their employees and lordlords won't accept a late payment excuse of "You'll have to wait a couple of weeks to be paid because I haven't sold anything in 9 days due to Marktard's broken external link".
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 dont. 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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04-03-2009, 09:02 AM,
Post: #677
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Re: PlunderHere and AlsoShop: A Web of Privacy Violations, Backstabbing, and Deceit
Quote:PlunderHere and AlsoShop ASs recently celebrated its 1st birthday 631 members, 1 year GMV $18,934, 64 stores 28,441 listings (down over 30% from November's 43,000+) Average monthly GMV $1,578 (the site's GMV is roughly the same as Wagglepop's Ray Romeo averaged as an eBay seller during his Bronze Powerseller heyday), Average monthly sales per storeowner $24.65 (82 cents daily --a few cents short of being able to buy one item on McDonald's value menu but 82 cents more than Plunderhere sellers have averaged over the past 10 days ) |
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04-03-2009, 04:26 PM,
Post: #678
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Re: PlunderHere and AlsoShop: A Web of Privacy Violations, Backstabbing, and Deceit
MoPuppet Wrote:AS is well SEO'd. Oh Gee, AS even has RSS feeds, For free. And lets not even mention the shoppng aggregates AS submits to, not just Base and Products. but also surf and traffic exchanges, merchant directories, social networks... http://www.powersellersunite.com/post-24...tml#249032 Yeah I get the picture alright.....any auction site that is only generating $52 daily in sitewide sales after one year is a complete waste of time for all involved. ***** I now return you to today's featured entertainment episode 10 of FLOUNDERHERE AND THE EXTERNAL LINK FROM HELL
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 dont. 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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04-03-2009, 07:50 PM,
Post: #679
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Re: PlunderHere and AlsoShop: A Web of Privacy Violations, Backstabbing, and Deceit
[quote author=sneakymagenta link=topic=9139.msg74213#msg74213 date=1238701492]
Quote:real business people on eBay flip out when eBay or Paypal goes down from 1AM-4AM for planned maintenance. Real business people flip out because they have fixed monthly expenses and their employees and lordlords won't accept a late payment excuse of "You'll have to wait a couple of weeks to be paid because I haven't sold anything in 9 days due to Marktard's broken external link". [/quote] I just don't get it. I don't trust too many folks with my personal info, but I certainly wouldn't trust anyone who lets my info vanish into cyberspace randomly for a couple weeks at a time even have access to my initials. And, from Mark's side... I wouldn't keep a site like PH live with 8,000 members, if only about 20 members showed up on the largest related chat forum to ask what was going on when my site went black for 10 days. If that few of your members care so little as to ask questions on the largest eBay alternative forum online, how much do they care about your 80,000 auctions?
"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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04-04-2009, 02:59 PM,
(This post was last modified: 04-04-2009, 03:13 PM by xwpopper.)
Post: #680
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Re: PlunderHere and AlsoShop: A Web of Privacy Violations, Backstabbing, and Deceit
[quote author=mandy link=topic=9139.msg74214#msg74214 date=1238749375]
Quote:PlunderHere and AlsoShopASs recently celebrated its 1st birthday 631 members, 1 year GMV $18,934, 64 stores 28,441 listings (down over 30% from November's 43,000+) Average monthly GMV $1,578 (the site's GMV is roughly the same as Wagglepop's Ray Romeo averaged as an eBay seller during his Bronze Powerseller heyday), Average monthly sales per storeowner $24.65 (82 cents daily --a few cents short of being able to buy one item on McDonald's value menu but 82 cents more than Plunderhere sellers have averaged over the past 10 days ) [/quote] The 30% drop was one seller. 2/3 of what's left are a bookseller who has 18,488 books listed without a picture of any book on the first 5 pages, 4 sales, 2 negative feedbacks (none positive) lists a website in his profile that is dead, and a 1050 feedback score transfer from eBay that comes up as and invalid eBay user ID. This user has also never posted in the forums, and according to true eBay alternative masters, that is the best marketing strategy. ;D http://www.alsoshop.com/profile.php?user_id=222 PH member question: Quote:Are there any updates yet?http://www.powersellersunite.com/post-24...tml#249169 UPDATE for all PH folks: Hope you had a backup file for your listings so you can move them to another rinky dink that will vanish next month.
"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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