Shawn Hogan (Owner of DP) Is Getting Sued For Cooking Stuffing

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eBay Sues Alleged 'Cookie Stuffers'

SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - Three men defrauded eBay in a "cookie stuffing" scheme that made it appear the men's companies should be paid commissions, eBay claims in Federal Court. It sued Shawn Hogan and Digital Point Solutions, Todd Dunning and Kessler's Flying Circus, and Brian Dunning and Thunderwood Holdings.
eBay says the men devised software programs that, "unbeknownst to the [computer] user, redirected the user's computer to the eBay Web site without the user actually clicking on an eBay advertisement link, or even becoming aware that they had left the page they were previously viewing. As a result, the eBay site would be prompted to drop an eBay cookie on the user's computer even though the user never clicked on an eBay advertisement or even realized that their computer had ever visited the eBay site."
The complaint continues: "once the cookie was stuffed on the user's computer by one or more of the defendant's any future revenue actions initiated by that user when the user later visited eBay intentionally, and not as a result of any advertisement places by defendants, appeared to be eligible for commissions payable to one of the defendants".
eBay claims the defendants also used deceptive means to prevent it from discovering the fraud, and to conceal it. eBay demands compensatory, treble and punitive damages. It is represented by David Eberhart with O'Melveny & Myers.
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xmcp123 said:
Lol I JUST read this. It's just linkbait folks. I'm giving it about a 3% chance of being true.
Note the semi legit looking source, and no source beyond that? The courthouse news? Come on.
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I don't know... if it is linkbait then somebody sure went through a lot of effort to make that 16 page pdf:
http://www.courthousenews.com/2008/08/26/eBay.pdf

a few phone calls might be able to verify it... but I don't really care that much...
 
Clever linkbait. I will do the same on my blog. I can see the big headline: "The notorious Blackhat Xmcp turns over a new leaf and donates all of his earnings to Save-a-Puppy charity foundation, tears up his notebooks and detonates his servers"
 
_poto_ said:
I don't know... if it is linkbait then somebody sure went through a lot of effort to make that 16 page pdf:
http://www.courthousenews.com/2008/08/26/eBay.pdf

a few phone calls might be able to verify it... but I don't really care that much...
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That does look mighty official.
Searching for the lawyer names..
"Coleen M. Kennedy" = Gyno (vag doctor...wtf?)
"Sharon M. Bunzel" = Lawyer
"David R. Eberhart" = Lawyer
Well, glad I gave it a 5%. This should be interesting. Doesn't change the fact that it's complete linkbait and a bullshit source...but perhaps.
 
xmcp123 said:
Searching for the lawyer names..
"Coleen M. Kennedy" = Gyno (vag doctor...wtf?)
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lol, you of all people should know you can't rely on search to verify people...

but hey, maybe she got tired of looking at poontang all day and decided to get into law?
 
The courthousenews.com site is pretty fake I think. Someone spent a lot of time on it though. lol
 
_poto_ said:
lol, you of all people should know you can't rely on search to verify people...

but hey, maybe she got tired of looking at poontang all day and decided to get into law?
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Heh true. I know you can't rely on it for most common names and whatnot. Though with the middle initial in there too?
Heh. You're probably right though. one of those low probability-but-still-true things. I just thought it was funny.
 
Read this comment by Shawn on Shoemoney's blog regarding "cookie stuffing and ebay", LOL

Shawn Hogan said on September 10th, 2006 at 9:41 pm
As far as I know, it’s a perfectly legit way to make money via the eBay affiliate program. Also, I think “cookie stuffing” isn’t entirely accurate… unless you consider a “normal” affiliate link to be cookie stuffing too.
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Google Teams Up With Ebay Cookie Stuffer Misspellit.com - ShoeMoney®
 
MDSandB said:
Booooring, (yawn). What next?
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Next, the members of DP are going to come to his aid with a website dedicated to how it can't happen because cookies "dont exist". Followed by asking questions on how to make the site rank so they can get him help.

First question will be: "whens the next PR update so we can get linkz for teh intarweb site" followed by "where do we get these backlink things LO!L"
 
Bofu2U said:
Next, the members of DP are going to come to his aid with a website dedicated to how it can't happen because cookies "dont exist". Followed by asking questions on how to make the site rank so they can get him help.

First question will be: "whens the next PR update so we can get linkz for teh intarweb site" followed by "where do we get these backlink things LO!L"
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Is Jon lookin at it? <yawn> (hope this is not next)

What next ?
 
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