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Site With Profane Name Ships Out of EBay

"Took the auction off of eBay - interested parties, contact me and tell me who you are," reads a notation on the home page of the site - FuckedCompany.com, the Dot-com Deadpool - so named to describe its targets' bad financial straits.

The site says traffic increased 120 percent since a site description containing visitor data was written sometime before the eBay auction began. One regular contributor to the site's message board raised the question of whether the eBay auction was a ruse to draw attention to the site.

"Don't know what the end result will be, but I gotsta give you a big-a** koodo for the publicity maneuver. Can't pay for that stuff," the posting said.

Kaplan was not immediately available for comment.

The site was first put up for auction on eBay on Sunday, and drew bids of more than $3 million before Kaplan called off the auction Tuesday night, in favor of taking offers directly to the site.

Originally, Kaplan wrote that he put the site up for sale because he was "bored" and that he did not have time to properly maintain the site and live up to other commitments. Several bids were retracted or cancelled, with one departing bidder explaining, "Woah, serious auction not for me."

A $9.4 million bid was yanked as a hoax, said eBay spokesman Kevin Pursglove. eBay is at www.ebay.com.

Reported by Newsbytes.com, www.newsbytes.com.

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