**This thread is devoted to the Moronic utterings Of A UK rinky dink
site owner. Please put all MORONIC quotes by this boinktard in this thread.**
Clueless UK auction site owner thinks more buyers than sellers read threads on OAI seller forums.
tolensmiley:
Quote:One thing everyone seems to forget when these little disputes appear on site threads. Its seen by more buyers than sellers.
http://www.powersellersunite.com/about24874.html
His cluelessness about the online habits of buyers might explain his site's beyond pathetic GMV and his inability to attract members (225) or listings (677)
http://www.auctionsworldwide.net/lastwins_bingot.php
January 2009: 8 sales, $133
December 2008: 4 sales, $23
November 2008: 8 sales, $40
Ah yes... The all wise one who fragments his 663 auctions into 10 sections for a world fayre...
Motor Mart, Auctions, Market Hall, High Street, Library, Garage Sale, Cottage Ind., Antique, Reverse, and don't forget those marvelous auction rooms.
Amazing that he can attract such massive numbers of 97,000 unique visitors...
http://auctionsworldwide.net/viewaccessstats_bingot.php
yet only post only 8 sales in the same timeframe...
http://www.auctionsworldwide.net/lastbids_bingot.php
I Think I would give up if that much traffic wouldn't give more than a .00008% conversion rate, but he just keeps plugging along. 1 of every 12,000 visitors places a bid... That's optimism!
The stats are especially funny when Compete has them at just 172 uniques a month:
http://siteanalytics.compete.com/auction...?metric=uv
Note to boinktard site owners:
If you use funny stats, make sure they all make sense together.
Traffic exchanges. I use 'em off and on and Chris's sites have frequently been in rotation almost since he joined PSU.
Here's the
ultra stupid part: he uses
auto surf exchanges. No eyeballs necessary.
There's more than one rinky dink venue in auto surf exchanges.
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Ah yes... The all wise one who fragments his 663 auctions into 10 sections for a world fayre...
Motor Mart, Auctions, Market Hall, High Street, Library, Garage Sale, Cottage Ind., Antique, Reverse, and don't forget those marvelous auction rooms.
Amazing that he can attract such massive numbers of 97,000 unique visitors...
http://auctionsworldwide.net/viewaccessstats_bingot.php
yet only post only 8 sales in the same timeframe...
http://www.auctionsworldwide.net/lastbids_bingot.php
I Think I would give up if that much traffic wouldn't give more than a .00008% conversion rate, but he just keeps plugging along. 1 of every 12,000 visitors places a bid... That's optimism!
The stats are especially funny when Compete has them at just 172 uniques a month:
http://siteanalytics.compete.com/auction...?metric=uv
Note to boinktard site owners:If you use funny stats, make sure they all make sense together.
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ps.......my least updated blog gets more traffic than that. tolensmiley:
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[quote author=jezebel link=topic=18895.msg73878#msg73878 date=1232940017]
Quote:he uses auto surf exchanges. No eyeballs necessary.
There's more than one rinky dink venue in auto surf exchanges.
http://www.sec.gov/investor/pubs/autosurf.htm
http://consumer.georgia.gov/00/article/0...87,00.html
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naaaw, I should probably clarify myself. I'm not accusing Chris of a pyramid/payment type of "auto surf".
The sites I've seen his sites on are traffic exchanges which offer completely free memberships. Members can buy traffic and members who manually surf are sometimes compensated pennies. There's an option to upgrade memberships and get better ratios.
My reference to "auto surf" is the method by which the software advances to the next site. There is "manual" and "auto". Manual surf requires clicking a graphic to advance to the next site, you have to look at your monitor. Auto surf automatically advances to the next site after a certain number of seconds have passed - your presence/interaction is not required, you can be out running errands or snowboarding.
Auto surf is really only helpful in puffing up traffic to a domain. This year, for the first time, I've seen amazon, stubhub and ebay in the exchanges - not affiliates but the sites' proper. Evidently a traffic puff to maintain rank for various data collection.
It's
useless traffic for a shopping site except that it allows a vendor to
lie say to sellers: We have a lot of traffic and need you to hurry up and list your inventory!!
Quote:ps.......my least updated blog gets more traffic than that.
Your blog's Alexa ranking is only 88,426...his auction site is 1,556,214. Bigger numbers are better, right? :twistedevil:
I'm undecided whether I should keep my Zen Carts or open a store on auctionsworldwide.net
tolensmiley:
http://siteanalytics.compete.com/tulipst...?metric=uv
SHORT TRANSLATION OF THIS POST: don't waste your time on sites like auctionsworldwide.net. You can do much better yourself.
Quote:One thing everyone seems to forget when these little disputes appear on site threads. Its seen by more buyers than sellers.
Ummm, if that statement was true then I'd be selling less than $10 per month.
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I'm undecided whether I should keep my Zen Carts or open a store on auctionsworldwide.net
tolensmiley:
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I think you should follow the vast crowds to auctionsworldwide.
tolensmiley: :twistedevil:
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[quote author=amy link=topic=18895.msg73884#msg73884 date=1233003528]
I'm undecided whether I should keep my Zen Carts or open a store on auctionsworldwide.net
tolensmiley:
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I think you should follow the vast crowds to auctionsworldwide.
tolensmiley: :twistedevil:
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I don't think anyone should follow the crowd to a site who's owner has publicly admitted 2 times in the past few months that his site(s) were hacked.