I finally registered!
Well, it looks like Ray has been busy...
259 auctions on eBay now. Thanks to everyone who helped me realize I needed to close. I did open a new account last week, and just posted a message on the WP board to hopefully wake everyone up...
http://www.wagglepop.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=6305
In case it gets deleted before morning...
"Good evening,
Why not have your fearless leader, Ray Romeo, who supposedly hates eBay and believes in Wagglepop 100%, spam eBay as he encourages members to do to other sites? After all, he currently has over 250 items listed for sale on eBay, so all he has to do is add a 1-Line plug for Wagglepop! If he hates eBay so much, he won't mind doing this to help your cause.
View his store: http://stores.ebay.com/The-Vintage-Paper-Archive
He has also had several sales in the past couple weeks, many more than 99% of the sellers on Wagglepop have had:
http://search-completed.ebay.com/search/search.dll?GetResult&sacat=-1&ftrt=1&coaction=compare&fsop=1&sass=printed442
And if anyone has any difficulty believing this is really him, check out his past ID's:
http://contact.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ReturnUserIdHistory&requested=printed442
I just find it amazing that Ray/Wagglepop had no money for advertising, but suddenly has 45 cents to list with Buy It Now, plus 35 more cents for gallery (total 80 cents) for over 500 listings in the past month. That's at least $400 of last month's fees, and he hasn't sold nearly enough to make that money back. If he doesn't care about advertising the site HE owns, why should YOU? If he doesn't care enough about Wagglepop to sell on it himself, then why should YOU? Go to a free auction site and advertise yourself. It won't cost you a penny and you can make just as many sales.
Here is the scenario...
Ray doesn't have his $5,000+ monthly cash cow (Wagglepop) anymore OR
Ray doesn't believe in Wagglepop's income earning potential anymore and has to sell on eBay, proving that he really hasn't spent a dime on this site beyond hosting OR
Ray doesn't think he could sell anything on his own site either OR
All three...
You decide.
Stick with a site who's owner has so little faith in it that he is selling on eBay, and clearly proven that the money was just in his pocket all along by selling on eBay again once the stores dropped below 200 ($2,000/month) OR move on to a free site that offers all the features of Wagglepop, and more, including instant checkout/payment, buyer friendly registration (no phone call crap to run off the buyers) and as many, or more seller tools.
Or, you could just do as he did and go back to the evil eBay."
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