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Looks like GoDaddy is providing the domain name for a lot of these fronts. Someone could cause an awful lot of ruckus by emailing abuse@godaddy.com with a list of the offending sites (Urban Ice, Hype Authority and Brute Impact are still online: you can find the links in the article).

Just food for thought.

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If overpriced merch were abuse, kanyewest(dot)com and supremesclothingonline(dot)com would have been taken down a long time ago....

Do those sites have fraudulent affiliate marketing programs?

It sounds to me like they are over edges MLM companies are careful not to cross. I.e. they probably don't know if they could legally pay the "influencer" they are chatting with an affiliate fee.

Kanye and Supreme sell out on a weekly basis. The products are afterwards flipped for significant markup. If anything their products are underpriced.

If only bought to flip, it must be valuable just as Bernie Madoff’s fine product.

What exactly is the abuse in this case?

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