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SCAM SITES ON AFTERDAWN
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LukeWiggy
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19. July 2008 @ 07:17 |
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hiya been reading about telebid and its a scam site they have robots automactically adding money on so you never win and ever time you bid you have to pay 50p or something like that and if your out bidded thats it no 50p its like a gambling site,,,,,
AFTERDAWN I WOULD REMOVE IT could send people who dont know anything about it and spend on Sh!t
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LukeWiggy
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22. July 2008 @ 10:37 |
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mmmmmmm what a surprise afterdawn dont bother about this post well its just about the money isnt it
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22. July 2008 @ 10:48 |
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I've never even heard of/seen what it is you're talking about (i'm one of those who deliberately ignores ALL adverts, even on the TV). Am sure if there's a problem that the Admins will look into it.
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varnull
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22. July 2008 @ 11:00 |
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If this is about the damn google adsense stuff again then I'm not surprised.. google don't give a toss.. it IS all about the money to them.
I have ads on my site, but they always seem to be about holidays and food and cool stuff, not the usual gambling and spam (oh noes.. it's Jenny Craig). I have a 50% off voucher for a weekend in the lakes for September free from one of my ads.. I checked out the hotel booking site and it is a real discount too... very nice.
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LukeWiggy
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1. August 2008 @ 06:23 |
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LukeWiggy
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1. August 2008 @ 06:36 |
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Originally posted by creaky:
I've never even heard of/seen what it is you're talking about (i'm one of those who deliberately ignores ALL adverts, even on the TV). Am sure if there's a problem that the Admins will look into it.
http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/685443
the admins know what the hell is going on
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1. August 2008 @ 09:47 |
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Holiday season here, looong delays until we get a chance to reply to anything. Anyway, could somebody please put a screenshot in .jpg format about this up somewhere, so I can take a look.
In any case, my guess is on AdSense (dunno if you know, but about one fourth of adsense ads are already image ads rather than the text ads) and if so, its next to impossible to do something about it.
But ye, post me a screenshot (in some image format, I don't support .doc) so I know what is the banner in question (the nastiest ads are very rarely targeted to Finland..).
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varnull
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1. August 2008 @ 21:48 |
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Hi Doc.. abiword opened the file with the image for me ;) Lovely M$ .doc format there..
So.. which one was the scammer? telebid??
Heres the screenshot from the previous poster....
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2. August 2008 @ 13:50 |
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We have similar services here in Finland and according to most tests, they don't seem to engage to the robot bidding, as their business model is already lucrative enough without the need to possibly get sued for fixing the auctions.
Basically the concept is this:
They offer an item, say Playstation 3, for $0.01 on auction, no reserve price set.
Bidding is done by $0.01 increments.
Each bid is placed via SMS message, which costs, say $2 to make.
Once there are no bids for more than 5 minutes, the auction closes and highest bidder wins.
The winner gets the PS3 for... dunno.. $200. Catch? The bids themselves have cost so far total of $40,000 (each SMS pushing the price of the item up by $0.01 and costing $2 to place), of which, the operator of the auction gets probably 50 percent cut.
So, even that the bidder has won a right to buy a brand new PS3 for very cheap price, its still a lucrative business.
So, it is not a scam, but like a national lottery run in most countries, a business model that benefits the rare indivual winners, but the biggest rewards are reaped by the operator of the business -- making legal money off people's greed :-) Nothing shady, IMO, just a great -- although some might argue, slightly unethical -- business model ;-)
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