I'm sorry if I'm doing something wrong here, but this is getting weird. I posted a suggestion about how AoS could possibly make money from Ebay by carrying their banner below the welcome page. Apparently, anyone going to Ebay via this link and bidding on something, even if they are outbid, automatically triggers a payment to AoS from Ebay. There's an American audio site that has been doing this for over a year now. It sounds too good to be true but it's not. Ebay is the only worldwide internet auction site; their 'take' is that people find Art of Sound, read the posts and think "hey, that sounds interesting". They see the link, click on it and sometimes find what they've just read about. Even if they don't buy it, every bid they make pushes the final price up and increases Ebay's commission. Special interest sites like Art of Sound in the U.K. and AudioKarma in the USA funnel a lot of buyers to Ebay; I bought my SX-1980 and other gear on Ebay after reading about them on AudioKarma.
sorry if I'm doing something wrong? I've posted about this twice now; in the two previous threads I included a link to the thread on AudioKarma that covered this subject in detail. The weird thing? Neither posts appeared on Art of Sound. Is Ebay one of those dirty little secrets that no-one talks about (but most people go there?) or was it the link to another website that was the problem?
Anyway, if this post doesn't appear, I'll know that these are waters that the powers that be have decided not to paddle in