Undercover Economist: The auction site that’s pure temptation

March 13, 2010 2:40 am

A New York Times columnist called it “devilish”. Jeff Atwood, a blogger, called it “about as close to pure, distilled evil in a business plan as I’ve ever seen”. Another online commenter called it an “evil hack of the human mind”. It’s Swoopo, or as The Register put it, “eBay’s (more) evil twin”.

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