OMG! The same ol' "rah, rah" 17th of the monthÂ
before the bill collector cometh on the 20th. Just like clockwork. Promises, promises. Blah, blah, blah.
And,
who the hell is Andrew Pattino? The only person I know stuck on the concept of
"perceived value" is none other than his royal boinktardedness himself, RR. And, remember the grand KayRay speech about the car (Mercedes, I believe it was) with no wheels? And now we have the "million dollar gold-plated Ferrari" analogy. Hmmmm. Oh, and did anybody say RR restores classic cars -- the most recent being a Cougar he bought off of EBAY? And coincidentally, 20% of WP's listings are concentrated in one store that sells AUTO FLOOR MATS. Does anyone find it odd that the only item this seller has apparently sold among his 1900+ listings in 5+ months on WP is a flashlight?
Who the hell are you kidding, Ray? Oh, yeah, the ignorant Poppers you keep sequestered in your censor-driven, sanitized, i-net compound.
Quote:If we can get participation up to 5,000 Stores that open and stay open, and 1-2 million legitimate competitive listings ... we as a company can use that to take Wagglepop to the next level of competive marketing and support further growth.
Really, Ray. How muchÂ
do you think you can mix to get 5,000 store sellers to buy into your crap and "stay open"?
According to my calculations, it will take over 30 years at the rate you're going, to get to that illusive "next level" (whatever that is). And that's with the rest of the e-commerce world stagnating, which it won't. You shouldn't have a hard time finding a few sellers who just couldn't stick it out for 3 decades waiting for the "next level" to blame for "lack of partipation" and the failure of WP to achieve its impossible goals.
Quote:Too many sellers are simply unhappy at having the overall eBay dynamic change so drastically as these individual but collective changes have done, making participation difficult and for some impossible. They want their "old" eBay back . . . we think that Wagglepop represents exactly what the "old" eBay used to be . . .
And I'd like 50-cent-a-gallon gas back, $5 haircuts back, my waistline back, and my '67 Mustang back. Should I wait another 30 years for that to happen, too?
The bottom line is that
WP, by its very concept, is, was, and always will be -- DOOMED! It is based on one paranoid, megalomaniac's vision of how e-commerce ought to be in a world that does not, and never will, exist -- EVER!
Frankly,
I don't even think Ray himself is stupid enough to believe in the BS he feeds to the faithful (otherwise he wouldn't be selling on eBay). He doesn't have to. All he has to do is keep enough blissfully ignorant sellers (that means acquiring enough to cover the monthly attrition rate) who buy into his "perceived value"Â
to keep his hamster in feed and cover his eBay costs.
Oh, and Andrew/AndRay, KayRay, or whoever the hell you are -- did anyone ever teach you the first cardinal rule of selling -- the one that even encyclopedia salespersons know?
NEVER KNOCK THE COMPETITION! It only makes you look pathetic and desparate.
Edit: Update on our friend PS: Her feedback shows she's sold 1 item for $1.89 on WP -- a "God's Inspiration" book -- in the past 30 days. One of the sellers doing "extraordinarily well", no doubt. WTG, PS! We're all so proud of you.