Now why, oh why...  would this fine consumer awareness/online safety site's page at http://www.companyexposed.com/575640/1/1/2007-03-01/eBay_Forums__USA312-before.htm
be blackballed?



Hard to believe, eh?

IMO, an outright falsehood, and more evidence of ebay sleazery. Clearly, the site is NOT a phishing site.
Never has been. There is not another entity in the entire world who would seek to make these pages unavailible, other than ebay. Furthermore, it is NOT the first time such sleazy low, cheating tactics have been used.
What the site is is an outspoken critic of ebay, and a valuable, honest friend of the consumer. Whoever owns/operates the site is someone whom I respect & admire.

I was in the course of getting ready to answer a question at a popular Youtube video, regarding the HACKING of ebay, by our friend Vladuz.

Searching my bookmarks, I found the pages, only to discover that the pages apparently have been wrongfully flagged as "Suspected Web Forgery" or  'phishing site" on Firefox 2.0.0.14 , the latest version.

I have some of those threads archived myself, so concerned readers of CompanyExposed.com and here, along with youtube viewers or newcomers to the world of ebay security failures need not be deprived of this important safety information.

Please check back into this post shortly, I shall zip all the files I have from that time frame and make them available as a download.

This is the url I had bookmarked:
http://www.companyexposed.com/575640/1/1/2007-03-01/eBay_Forums%20__USA312-before.htm

However, clicking the main page link for www.companyexposed.com/ still takes me to a valid, active site, so apparently, there is some 'selective' blackballing going on.
I repeated this several times over to be sure, on 2 different computers, with the same results.

This was, I believe, an archive of the "Massive, Worldwide, Multiple Users Hijack" thread, showing the 'pink " Vladuz posts. Note the 'before' in the url. That refers to before  ebay censored them, (thus causing great harm to the safety of the users of the site, which has continued unabated to this very day, as evidenced on my youtube channel, and on the companyexposed site.)

Update:
I have here  screencaptures (both full page sized, one reduced to 480 pixels wide, & one  full sized) of that archived thread from the archives  of companyexposed.com , which I saved on March 13th, 2007 as a complete html document.
I have several other threads from that time period, but it will take me a while to run them all down.
I only have so much time for this.

eBay_Forums__USA312-before_Massive_worldwide_multiple_user_hijacks_ARCHIVED_480.png

eBay_Forums__USA312-before_Massive_worldwide_multiple_user_hijacks_ARCHIVED.png

Now, I have sought confirmation from others as to what they are seeing, and I find that indeed the page is flagged, both through Firefox, and one resident anti-phishing application, at least.
Manually searching through the archives yields no results for the page in question, and again, going directly to the main url the site appears to display and operate normally.

I have also played around a bit with the url, taking out the extra spaces etc. Again, this was saved as a bookmark, and I have viewed that page not that long ago, perhaps 2-3 months.  Really not quite sure what to think of this,  but clearly it is being flagged. If this were actually 'not found' than I believe we would/should see a 404 page

This will be updated before too awful long. Just on the outside chance that anyone from companyexposed reads this, feel free to contact me. Just curious as to whether the site owner/operators are aware of this, or know of an explanation or the true nature of the trouble.
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Hi Bud,
love your blog and visit here often! The videos are awesome. Keep up the great work.
I had to remove the archive directory with all the archived copies of hacked auctions as phishtank (another great organization helping to keep internet safer) has a new bot which crawls the websites scouting for phish pages - and it was erroneously flagging the archive... so rather than worrying about it I password protected the archive - it is still there, just not accessible at the moment and as I have some extra time, I will resurrect most of the important pages.

Thanks for reading this & clearing that up. Gee, I have no idea why I (or anyone) would automatically believe it was ebay related or induced trouble, as if anything like that ever happened before. LOL

I think you have a lot more pages over there that are doing the same thing. In particular, the ones about padded listings.
(the occurrence of which I see are being reported again on an ebay alternatives/strike-related forum, on May 14, 2008)