The store count has doubled since AnKaRay's announcement of changes to WP.
The $50/month showcase stores have doubled since the announcement.
The listing counts have gone up in these 2 weeks
almost 3%!
It is starting to look like a viable auction site now! Nearly 80 sellers registered more than a week, who can't find time to put their $10 to use with more than 10 listings. A serious seller would do just like the "deadbeats" who post here did, list EVERYTHING to get their money's worth.
Speaking of the new sellers, what kind of sellers could they possibly be? They didn't board the Good Ship Wagglepop in 2006, so they are either new to the eBay world or must not be very business savvy to look for alternatives to eBay 2 years ago. One particular seller listed this item for sale, view it now before someone contacts him to tell him to retake the pic:
http://www.wagglepop.com/bin/auction/view?cmd=view&listingID=538496
Now, the first thing as a buyer that I look at is the price. The second is the pic. The third is the description. This is pretty standard for buyers. Now, if this is an example of a new revolutionist seller, who leaves a price tag on showing $5-10 less than he is asking, who would buy? If a seller won't handle this little detail, and write out a real description, who's to say he'll put the right mailing address on the envelope? This is just one example that I noticed easily, and I am sure I could find more of the new revolutionists if I could stomach viewing the site any longer today. If WP is attracting sellers who create listings like this, what future do they, or anyone have, past the *POOF* button Ray loves after they don't pay their bill?
Another thing to note. Almost 2 years online, and only 338496 listings have been added to the site (They started at 200,001.) I have a feedback in my profile on WP from a year ago that was in the 402,000 range. This means the amazing number of sales (and spam) by all the cheerpoppers have only resulted in 36,000 new listings in a year! No wonder sales suck! No one will visit a site that has the same thing every day, just sitting there collecting E-dust. That's revolutionary all right! The whole point is that Ray got 115 more sellers on board the Good Ship Wagglepop and he can't even get them to list anything. That's sad, and what's even worse is that there are Rscript sites out there with far more features, sales, and traffic than WP has ever had, and these sellers could have a better site to sell on for free.
Everyone here knows my story was pretty similar to FineThings4U. I came, I sold, tried to close, and was booted. I'm doing the same though, focusing all my efforts into my website, and I guarantee with no marketing other than Froogle and Usenet feeds, I can sell more than I did on WP because I've done it (wish I'd never stopped for the flea market folly!
) If any of the new poppers are reading, you'd be wise to jump ship to your own domain now before you drown.