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    April 29th, 2008 by knorby

    I was randomly browsing last night, when I came across some eBay sniping service. I was recently sniped in the last 5 seconds on a VAX I was bidding on, so I viewed the site with a mild degree of interest. I started to read through the user testimonial page when I noticed a little gem on the page. Each one seemed to be fine on its own; I never really trust these pages, but I could believe that these were real, until I noticed these two:

    Not your Daddy’s Sniping Service!!! March 27, 2007, by lambykins

    Hello, I have used a few sniping services and none of them really did it for me. I found BidSlammer and it was just totally different. Very intuitive. I can move fast. Good job guys. Slam-It is awesome, BTW. Wm. Howard, citro_cell

    This is the best one March 24, 2007, by lobster_soss

    Hello, I have used a few sniping services and none of them really did it for me. I found BidSlammer and it was just totally different. Very intuitive. I can move fast. Good job guys. Slam-It is awesome, BTW. Thanks, Jeff

    It seems that the only things they bothered to change in these two were the title, month, “username,” and end line. The worst part is that they put these two right next to each other. I guess it just goes to show how much you can trust advertising.

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