Earlier this week, Bushwick-based artist Nick Schmidt was about to make at least $165 from selling his Facebook login info on eBay. Looking to delete his Facebook anyway, Nick decided to instead auction it off and treat it as a social experiment, seeing what people would do when granted complete access to a stranger’s Facebook forever.

The auction was 34 bids in when eBay stepped in and shut the whole thing down Tuesday night mentioning it violated the site’s selling policies.

“I actually see [the shutdown] as a positive that’s shifted my motive for the piece,” Nick Schmidt told us. “It’s still about holding a mirror to the buyer, but also how I can’t sell myself but the social media sites can; and don’t bother for my permission because they’ve already taken it without asking.”