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By Alex on August 6th 2008 - 4 comments

As you might have noticed, I have a Sitepoint ticker in my sidebar showing bids for a website I'm currently selling. It's been there for three days, but today I started getting emails and messages asking why I'm selling the same website on Digital Point for 1/10th the price. I know I didn't post it for sale there, so I cruise over and do a quick search, and find this thread.

http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?p=8768604

Some tosser copied the auction from Sitepoint, word for word, and put it up "for sale" for $1,500. Hilarious considering the current bid is $6,000. I posted a message on the thread and reported the user. The Digital Point mods closed the thread already, I wish they would just delete it. But at least you get a chance to see it now.

I was pretty mad, but they closed it down pretty quickly, but how stupid do you have to be to do something like this. Let me know what you think about this, I'm done venting.


Comments


August 6th 2008 @ 9:06 pm
i mean what can you do?

reading that a lot of people left comments ready to buy the site. They are just lucky you got it blocked, I mean what would they do if you never stooped that, what could they do?

not alot!

August 7th 2008 @ 5:23 am
Absolutely absurd. It's a harsh reality to realize what some individuals are doing to make money online- especially when other routes are sooooo much simpler and won't lead you to prison and the focal point of an angry blogosphere mob.

August 7th 2008 @ 8:51 am
@Bri, exactly. I did threaten that user for "stealing my identity and selling my personal property", but it's just an empty threat really. I saw you wrote about this on your blog too, thanks for the coverage :). I can only imagine if somebody did buy it from him, then I get all kinds of angry emails saying I'm a scammer for not giving him the website.

November 21st 2008 @ 6:42 am


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