@ all -
some more history on gegy (sorry, dont know what's on that link above to vendio forums, it wont open for me - my isp is having probs today and 1/2 the net is inaccessible)
from http://forums.ebay.com/db2/thread.jspa?threadID=2001139...=0&mod=1119065260446
quote:Shortly after Gegy went online it was revealed that the auction company was little more than an email address harvesting front for spammer Auctioneagle. When their ISP pulled the plug on Auctioneagle for spamming violations, Gegy went with it. That's why there was no big announcement.
This all happened back in 2001.
quote:gegy came back and started selling movies, music and games (not the auction gegy, same owner though, diffent angle). and they offered reseller opps. They just went down in June or something.
from http://auctionbytes.com/cab/abn/y01/m07/i06/s01
quote:Gegy.com, a new online auction site in Beta testing, yesterday admitted a relationship between themselves and AuctionEagle.com, a site that was taken offline for spamming users. AuctionEagle, an online auction email newsletter, was closed down by its ISP for sending unsolicited email to users.
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According to a July 2nd statement issued by Gegy.com founder, Troy MacDonald, "Gegy Inc is in no way associated with, owned by or for, or in partnership with Auctioneagle. com. We did not request that they write an article about Gegy.com, nor were we contacted by any employee at Auctioneagle.com for our comments or input for the story."
MacDonald contradicted part of that statement yesterday when he wrote, "I approached management of Auctioneagle about their business and their large membership. I saw many previous articles on auctioneagle that had received tens of thousands of views, and knew of their large membership base. A deal was reached and I purchased a small block of ownership in the site and indeed promoted the site on a very limited basis as a result."
gegy founder speaketh with forked tongue