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Some very good sleuthing by people on another website including a mysterious web address and a phone number with a strange recording!!

I've been looking around the net and found a few suspicious things.

www.obay.ca , pretty much a blank site. One of the pre-links is www.becauseIsaidso.com which has a link to a page called "Amy's Page". Why is this relevant? Amy is the name of a kid mentioned in one of the ads "When my Amy started having thoughts of her own I nipped it in the bud with Obay!"

Finally, we had a radio ad today which gave a number. 1-888-YOU-OBAY

Here's a transcript of what's said on the recording if anyone's interested.

Quote:
"....Calling 1-888-YOU-OBAY. There's nothing worse than a child who won't do what they're told. You raise them, feed them, cloth them, sit through their violin recitals; and how do they pay you back?? They go ahead and think for themselves!

It's not right and it's not what you had in mind... Thankfully there's OBay! A new remedy from the makers of "why?BecauseIsaidso!" And "NotUnderMyRoof!"

Is your child ignoring your subtle suggestions? Are they not getting the hint when you tell them what to do!? It's time for OBay; Are they making important life decisions without listening to your valuable irriputable input!? Hello OBay! OBay works where other parental controls, like shouting, don't. Just one dose and you'll see a difference... Your truculant teenagers will be transformed into dosile pussycats, open to your thoughts, your ideas and most importantly the future you've mapped out for them.

So order your supply of OBay today... Because YOUR Wish is YOUR command!"

Commodiphilia, diagnosed as assigning value to valueless objects in the off chance that it may be worth something to another disparate individual, is an artist coined term that references both the commodity, and the sexual perversion of pedophilia. Obay.info critiques the mega-consumerist culture that surrounds Ebay, and is both a visual pun and a cautionary piece that succeeds when the user questions why they are so involved with buying and selling of the most mundane possessions.

hypermodern.net...

Originally posted by Yarcofin
Oh, and an EBay ripoff. Perhaps the strangest thing is that it actually does have a TM symbol above the trade names... which I didn't think you could do unless it actually was a registered trademark.

The Ones That Mother Gives You

...we were able to track down the origin of deVilla's source and confirm (with reasonable confidence on our part) that the responsible parties are "Ontario Colleges [which] had put together their money to run an ad campaign." This may or may not be cryptically corroborated by some cached text on Google exclaiming, "I saw this on the bus yesterday. It’s the first part of a two part ad for some Ontario college thing. If I see the second half, I’ll take a picture of it and upload. Enjoy. Obay!" Those sentences no longer appear on sam.cw.leung, which either means Sam was mistaken or revealed something he shouldn't have.