Quoted from punkin:You guys ever here of a company called Google?
I believe they data mine info.
10 years ago when I used to post on AussieArcade a trusted mate and I set up a fake sale of a pinball machine using actual pictures of a machine I owned at the time in the forum trading section to test site integrity due to some suspicions we had.
I was the "seller" and he was the "buyer".
The entire transaction was conducted and negotiated via internal forum private messages.
Within a week of the "sale" my mate was contacted by a now "super moderator" on that site offering to buy the machine at the negotiated price.
We both stopped posting there shortly afterwards.
This is also why today that 99% of private machine sales in Australia are conducted well away from the local forums either via facebook, gumtree, ebay, dedicated personal website or classifieds.
