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Installation went fairly easy, though I had to play with it to understand how it worked. I thought the item description would show on the front end. (It didn't.) Which doesn't make much sense to me, still, I liked the idea so just told users to put the description on another place in their profile. Everything seemed great and I the potential for my site (of authors) was huge. Then the spamming started.

At first one or two a day, then 30-40 a day. I didn't connect the two at first. It was later, when I went to the backend to check how many were using it that I discovered the jibberish and prices like $85 connected to them. As far as I know, no one could buy these products. The auto generated spam registrations were never approved (though they found a way in passed capcha and self confirmed themselves). However, I don't like the feeling that this type of action was going on, so I , er, pulled the plug, so to speak.

I'm very disappointed and hope a fix will be forthcoming. I feel that if they work the bugs out, it will be a great feature. I had none of the problems the other reviewers mention and I'm not an advanced user, so things have to be easy enough for me to figure out and this is.

It might help if you showed an example of how to fill in the form, or gave a little bit of documentation.