{"id":140,"date":"2008-05-24T23:28:46","date_gmt":"2008-05-25T07:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=140"},"modified":"2009-09-23T19:45:33","modified_gmt":"2009-09-24T03:45:33","slug":"scuttling-into-a-weak-shadow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=140","title":{"rendered":"Scuttling into a Weak Shadow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/contact.ebay.com\/ws\/eBayISAPI.dll?ReturnUserIdHistory&requested=rodrafael\">Rodrigo Pereira has now changed his eBay alias from <q>geekavailable<\/q> to <q>rod<u>rafael<\/u><\/q><\/a> (<u>Rafael<\/u> Schneider being one of his associates at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekavailable.com\/\">GeekAvailable.com<\/a>), in an attempt to make his tracks less traceable.<\/p> <p>This particular dodge is worse than useless for him \u2014 I can show that he\u2019s done it with <a href=\"http:\/\/contact.ebay.com\/ws\/eBayISAPI.dll?ReturnUserIdHistory&requested=rodrafael\">the eBay history of the account names<\/a>, and it will make it more plain to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbb.org\/\">the Better Business Bureau<\/a> that he\u2019s trying to conceal what he\u2019s been doing.<\/p> <p>Meanwhile, I note that my review was deleted from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kudzu.com\/\">Kudzu<\/a>.  So I wouldn't recommend using them more generally as a guide to the businesses with which one should deal.<\/p> <p><span style=\"font-weight: bolder; font-variant: small-caps;\">Up-Date:<\/span> Now I note that the whole company listing has been removed from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kudzu.com\/\">Kudzu<\/a>, after I'd posted a new, brief review.<\/p> <p><span style=\"font-weight: bolder; font-variant: small-caps;\">Up-Date 2:<\/span> Actually, <a href=\"http:\/\/sandiego.kudzu.com\/merchant\/16926835.html\">the entry for Geek Available (<abbr title=\"also known as\">AKA<\/abbr> <q>GeekAvailable<\/q>) was moved, with my review deleted.<\/a>  So I've posted a new review.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rodrigo Pereira has now changed his eBay alias from geekavailable to rodrafael (Rafael Schneider being one of his associates at GeekAvailable.com), in an attempt to make his tracks less traceable. This particular dodge is worse than useless for him \u2014 I can show that he\u2019s done it with the eBay history of the account names, [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,5,4],"tags":[68,268,214,217,215],"class_list":["post-140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-technology","category-personal","category-public","tag-computers","tag-geek-available","tag-geekavailable","tag-laptop-repair-san-diego","tag-rodrigo-pereira"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}