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Article #342Re: Cat of the Day Scam
From: David Clayton
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 08:08
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 08:08
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On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 17:17:58 +1000, Laura Norder wrote: > Catch of the Day have been running a scam today. Every hour they have > been putting up a product at low price. What is happening is that on the > hour, their site crashes. When it comes back, any decent item is listed > as sold out. I wouldn't mind betting that they had either no products or > only one or two. > > Be warned about this mob! So a place with tens (hundreds?) of thousand of subscribers sells out of limited quantity specials quickly and the web site has problems when all of these people (like YOU) all access the site at the same time? Whoda thunk it...... -- Regards, David. David Clayton Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Knowledge is a measure of how many answers you have, intelligence is a measure of how many questions you have.
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