Having seen what you sent, I would immediately agree with listing all the "CLEARCUT" domains, including at the least, CLEARCUTSAVINGS. COM, ccs44. com, peakedig. com, peakedigital. com and all the others you had previously listed.

It does look like a pretty clear case of "affiliate" abuse, and I'm still willing to give inphonic the benefit of the doubt. I would send an email (with copies of everything) to affiliates@inphonic.com and see what kind of response you get - if they don't drop clearcut/peakedigital et. al., I will stop buying from them and recommending them (I just sent them somebody on Friday, who bought two phones for $270 less than the local Cingular Store wanted for the same Cingular package - they were about $90 under Amazon).

InPhonic is big, not Fortune 500, but *very* large. They do have "emarketing", but as I have said - I've never gotten anything from them despite the fact that they have a valid email address (unique, so I also know it has never been sold or "rented"). The 800 number on the web pages will eventually get someone who will have a "real" manager (but still in "sales") call back - Corporate Communications is (202) 333-0001, and from their own Sprint press release (also on their pages), the V.P. for Corporate Communications is "Tripp Donnelly", email tdonnelly@inphonic.com. I have had *such* good dealings with them that I would expect some quick response - copy him as well as the affiliate address above.

Right now, I say inphonic looks clean, but is implicated by bad management of their affiliate program. The clearcut/peakedigital people are using at least two "spam friendly" hosting providers and should be listed right away (i.e. at least one is the same as the one Ralsky used for the emails that got Verizon to sue him - clearcut is using Yikes for both "unsubscribe" and a 1by1 pixel marker in the spam copy you sent).

Please tell me/us whatever you get back from InPhonic. It will certainly affect my sending them customers (I'm normally a quite loyal customer when I find a company with good service - though admittedly their "free extras" are junk).

Bye,

Paul Shupak track@plectere.com