Comments on: How About a Little Snake Oil … Any Takers?

By: Lee

Lee — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 14:05:05 +0000

Hi! I'm Absolutelee on SP. Actually what you're saying is great news. My sites are either completely written by me with 100% original material, or they use some public domain material. (I use some PD material for sites about finance, for instance.) If I do use PD material, I make that really clear. Why do I think this is great? Because as the word gets out, buyers will eventually understand the important of dealing with ethical site flippers. The scammers will have to crawl off and do business somewhere else. Lee´s last blog post..How to Keyword Optimize Your Webpage

By: blackhat_shedboy

blackhat_shedboy — Thu, 28 May 2009 22:28:06 +0000

I have to say that sites such as sitepoint, warriorforum and digitalpoint are getting more and more of a joke with people churning out utter crap. This is probably what turns people to the dark side and blackhat methods by getting ripped off by these idiots. It has to be said that a lot of the products I see on some of these sites seem to be 'inspired' by various blackhat forums and websites. Its a shame because I have to say you blogs look pretty good, its a pity you have to list them on sitepoint. blackhat_shedboy´s last blog post..PHP 6 and MySQL 5 for Dynamic Web Sites: Visual QuickPro Guide (Paperback)

By: TotalTreasureChest

TotalTreasureChest — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 05:34:39 +0000

Excellent post Diva. I know you have I have spoken via Sitepoint quite a few times about [scammer's name] and the ridiculous stuff he posts. I have contacted him directly as well about his listings, and he chooses to simply ignore. It was my design he was trying to pass off as his own, that you mentioned up earlier above...lol.. I believe that was when he said he had 5000 customers and was too busy to keep everything straight. Kate is right. Sitepoint wont do anything about this fool. They make too much money off the volume of listings he creates daily! But it's only harming the marketplace in the end. We are seeing [scammer's name] copycats pop up, thinking they can do the same as he. The Kate 'wannabees' also are now crawling out of the woodwork. It makes those of us who actually care about what we build, and the value we provide our clients, get lost in the garbage available these days. Just had to pop my 2 cents in... Joanne P.S Oh! Diva! There's another Blackberry one to add to the list... He's sold 3 of the identical site now in the past few weeks, all for $297, claiming to be 100% custom original material.... TotalTreasureChest´s last blog post..Tokyo & Japan Travel

By: RobT JoneS

RobT JoneS — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 02:34:55 +0000

Hey I am glad i found this site i was going to buy one of their websites

off sitepoint . Thanks for the info.have bought a few off sitepoint, like

them better than ebay.Have a GoOoD night/day

Robt

By: Auggie Turnkey Geek

Auggie Turnkey Geek — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 02:25:18 +0000

Hey Diva, Nice post and I have to tell you, I have seen these guys and many like them take newbies for tons of cash for so long now. To be honest we have been selling turnkey websites for over 9 years now and are so sick of these type of sites being over priced and sold that we are now trying to set up a membership area just to train and warn newbies about people like these guys out lined above. Very nice job with pointing this out and let's hope that SP get's a grip on these scammers. if not they will end up like ebay lol Well good luck and let's hope that with your help we opened a few newbies eyes Regards to all Auggie Turnkey Geek´s last blog post..Why MoreMoney365 Is Different From The Others

By: Kate Anderson

Kate Anderson — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 17:10:10 +0000

I created the TrafficHeist website for a client who went on to sell PLR to it to a select few. I’ve seen it sold as unique by [scammer's name] on SP, along with other auctions he puts out there that are definitely not unique (but listed as such), but you know, SP doesn’t act on this stuff.. no matter how many times auctions are reported, they just don’t seem to be all that proactive in cleaning up the marketplace.

Great article, though.. at least someone’s taking a stance and warning newbies.. great job.

By: Bimo

Bimo — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:29:40 +0000

Well...I think I still can find genuine person selling at Sitepoint. Say like Kate Anderson. She is honest and great seller... Bimo´s last blog post..Latent Semantic Indexing And The Use Of Keywords

By: Rissa

Rissa — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 11:13:48 +0000

I don’t trust anyone on sitepoint who is selling sites. I’ve seen blogs selling for $17 on Warrior Forum and a day later some idiot is offering the same blog on Sitepoint for $199 claiming its his/her original design. The last few months the sites being offered on sitepoint are totally worthless, hastily put together junk. Sales pages are being offered as websites. You do better on ebay buying a site.

By: Michael S

Michael S — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 04:41:48 +0000

I agree with you on this. I’ve been buying a lot of sites on Sitepoint also and [scammer's name] just disgust me! I can’t never imagine how someone who runs a business for over 6 years and have 5,000 active clients a month (from what he said), be this low and rip people off without feeling guilty.

From some of the comments on his past auction claiming his website is not original, I’m sure he knows about it, but I guess he loves to rip off people. Thanks [scammer's name] for adding your junk to a great marketplace!

By: Tony

Tony — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 00:21:11 +0000

Hey Diva,

Thanks for outing this person. It is so stupid to misrepresent the facts when selling a site when there is a ton of money to be made just by creating and selling quality.

Information like yours is a great public service for the many unsuspecting people who are just trying to find ways to get some extra income.

Thanks again.