According to the well established site, courthousenews.com, Digitalpoint Forum as well as Shawn Hogan, Brian Dunning and Todd Dunning are been sued by Ebay for fraud by Ebay.  According to Ebay, a program was created that secretly visited Ebay’s site and dropped a cookie on the Digitapoint user’s computer.  According to Ebay’s complaint  the defendants  “accomplished their cookie stuffing through software programs and/or code that, unbeknownst to the user, redirected the user’s computer to the eBay website without the ser actually clicking on an eBay advertisement link, or even becoming aware that they ad left the page they were previously viewing.”

If the user ever visited Ebay legitimately in the future then one of the defendants would be eligible for any possible commissions.  Here is a copy of the actual court filing document.

Regular users of Digitalpoint.com have been wondering where Shawn Hogan has been over the last couple of months, especially since the site’s keyword tracker tool hasn’t been working well for the last month.   The keyword tracker tool is one of the main reasons why the Digitalpoint.com forum became one of the world’s busiest forums in the world. Shawn created the keyword tracker and has maintained it over the years. There has been no comment on the forum or even an acknowledgment of a problem.

We will try to  keep you updated.   Please let me know if you here of anything.

Edit: June 26, 2009

Here is an update http://www.web-directories.ws/blog/update-on-the-ebay-lawsuit-against-shawn-hogan-and-digitalpoint.html

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