Gegy.com, a new online auction site in Beta testing, yesterday admitted a relationship between themselves and AuctionEagle.com, a site that was taken offline for spamming users. AuctionEagle, an online auction email newsletter, was closed down by its ISP for sending unsolicited email to users. The domain, which was registered on May 3, 2001, was found to be in violation of TwistedPair Network Consulting's Anti-Spam policy and was taken permanently offline.

An issue of AuctionEagle on June 29th ran a story about Gegy.com entitled, "Community Buzz- Newcomer Gegy.com Aims High to Conquer eBay".

According to a July 2nd statement issued by Gegy.com founder, Troy MacDonald, "Gegy Inc is in no way associated with, owned by or for, or in partnership with Auctioneagle. com. We did not request that they write an article about Gegy.com, nor were we contacted by any employee at Auctioneagle.com for our comments or input for the story."

MacDonald contradicted part of that statement yesterday when he wrote, "I approached management of Auctioneagle about their business and their large membership. I saw many previous articles on auctioneagle that had received tens of thousands of views, and knew of their large membership base. A deal was reached and I purchased a small block of ownership in the site and indeed promoted the site on a very limited basis as a result."

Troy MacDonald did not return email or phone calls from AuctionBytes, but he did respond to questions posted on the Gegy.com forum today. Gegy plans to restart Beta testing on their site July 15th.