The tale of - eBay, FBI, Shawn Hogan and Brian Dunning.

[pocketrockets]

Good read. Wondering why both their flats/houses are pretty cheap with the items inside hogans are totally outdated... You seen his office? That's not $1/million a month for sure.

That was just his apt in San Diego -- when he got arrested he was in the middle of construction on a new house. He had started blogging about the building process with photos and a time lapse video.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AVPU0O4kdI"]Time Lapse - YouTube[/ame]

I would guess he got more satisfaction out of gaming the system than spending all the $$ on material things.

 

[AffPhil]

It would only be entrapment if they had not already NOT began criminal activity or wrong doing.

 

[teguh123]

But that's the problem. Some affiliates are banned too fast (such as I when I promote second life). Some are let to bleed $25 millions for years?

Don't they check the referrer? What about the alexa?

 

[Fraggler]

eBay had no reason to string him along other than to catch their method. He was doing nothing to send traffic so eBay had nothing to lose if they cut them off straight away. If they thought the traffic was genuine then killing the funnel for no real reason would cause them a huge chunk of sales that would need to be justified.

Why would eBay pay someone $25mil for doing nothing?

 

[Dan Corleone]

LOL its a hard knock life, 20 years though damn, certain child molestors do less time than that!

They should just take all his money, make him do a couple years. He'll learn his lesson.

 

[Your_Pal]

Nice read.

 

[amphetamine]

I'm just wondering how a guy that alledgedly made $28 million over the past few years has a shitty 36" tube television in his living room?

Either he didn't want to bring attention to himself or he just liked a frugal living.

 

[JMan1234]

I'm just wondering how a guy that alledgedly made $28 million over the past few years has a shitty 36" tube television in his living room?

That appears to be a Sony Trinitron 36 inch.
I had this exact same TV, bought it around 2001 I believe. It was about $2,200 if I remember correctly. Yes, it was 4:3, a tube, and only 1080i, but it had an absolute gorgeous picture.