[quote author=RiverRat link=topic=3775.msg69706#msg69706 date=1209854273]
Is it just me or does PS's attitude seem a bit subdued these days?
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Not from first blush. Her post on Pheebay last night:
Quote:I can speak from experience that WP does indeed deliver buyers. I often have items listed on half a dozen or more different sites at the same time that are found and purchased on WP rather than the others. It is true that few alternative users seem to want to pay for anything. I think Wagglepop is taking a real stand and saying that they are NOT looking for "free ride" sellers. They are looking for the true business people who will provide the best possible experience for buyers who come to the site. I think it's great that they will be getting in the trenches with us sellers to help populate the site with the items that buyers come looking for. That will increase traffic, and more importantly, it will encourage buyers to return the next time they look for something online. It's a unique approach that I've not seen from other sites except for maybe Amazon and Overstock??
Mind you she hasn't drop in today on Pheebay to offer new encouragement nor has anyone responded to her last post. But she has been vocal on PSU. You know the routine. She disappears to lick her wounds, complains via PM to anyone who will listen that she is being persecuted and comes back after an interval to plug again. If she has any regret at this point it is probably for posting the WP announcement on PSU which has had the opposite effect to what I'm sure she expected. Patch and Mongoose tore it apart and I don't think she anticipated that reaction to the wonderful restructuring of WP. Perhaps we should thank her for doing more to expose the corruption on WP then we could ever achieve.Â
BTW: where has the Dustbin gone on PB? The link is gone. It was so entertaining to read.Â
[quote author=sherrand link=topic=3775.msg69707#msg69707 date=1209855987]
BTW: where has the Dustbin gone on PB? The link is gone. It was so entertaining to read. Â
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It was mostlikely hidden along with the other 6,400+ posts in the old auction site unity section of the peebay forums. At the time of this post PB states 22,500 posts, a quick addition accounts for 16,045 viewable to the public signed in or not.
Let the Truth be Told
[quote author=bargainbloodhound link=topic=3775.msg69705#msg69705 date=1209851717]
WP's nameservers, not the WP server itself, have been the problem the past 2 days. The problem is probably due to a DNS configuration error on the part of the dimwits at RScript or Ezzi. A reverse DNS lookup of the IP address of the ns2.wagglepop.com nameserver is returning gogoviz01.gogoviz.net instead of the 66-199-236-122.reverse.ezzi.net hostname that it used to return.
http://www.robtex.com/dns/ns2.wagglepop.com.html
http://www.robtex.com/ip/66.199.236.122.html
FYI- gogoviz.net is a UK/US marketplace (based out of Blackpool) that also uses RScript
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And now for AndRay's explanation:
Quote:wagglepopCC2Â 03 May 2008 21:43Â Â Â
Some downtime is a normal and an expected consequence of operating any website, particularly one as dynamic and intricate as Wagglepop. No site can offer a 100% uptime unless mirrored offsite multiple times at considerable expense.
The service interruption Friday was due to a weather related event that disabled part of the network in our datacenter.
Total downtime was 3 hours 27 minutes while new routers were installed and configured and the site was brought back online.
The service interruption today was due to a power supply failure in the actual Wagglepop server - likely caused by yesterday's network fix and an incorrect or misconfigured backup supply that spiked our power supply.
Total downtime was 2 hours 3 minutes.
Overall downtime for this calendar year is now 10 hours, 22 minutes giving us an uptime of 99.9965% to date.
Our goal is 100% uptime but that is most assuredly unrealistic in application - perfection is difficult to attain in any form. I doubt any other site of similar function and size comes even close to our historical record for uptime.
AP
It's all about "weather" you believe this or not.Â
Any guesses as to how long it will take Ray to finish loading up all his dropshipped items, and then turn around and try and sell WP on Ebay?
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amy Wrote:PS Poppers A. bad weather doesn't effect data centers or the data center's peering partners (upstream providers) either; B. WP's server is located in a data center about 2 miles from me in lower Manhattan and there hasn't been any bad weather the past few days.
Ray isn't the first conman to use the weather as an excuse for a server outage. He also isn't the first idiot to claim "bad weather" when the weatherman said otherwise. Remember drugged out Scott from Ethical's posts on the PeSA board 2 years ago?
Scott S. Wrote:Due to heavy storms and outages in this area, our server bank has gone
completely offline, including the batteries which only hold a charge for a
short period of time.
http://community.tuliptools.com/index.ph...l#msg11002
http://community.tuliptools.com/index.ph...l#msg11018
http://community.tuliptools.com/index.ph...l#msg11036
At least Ray didn't mention batteries.ÂÂ
Quote:wagglepopCC2  03 May 2008 18:21   ÂÂ
WP Members,
When posting to this thread (and all Wagglepop Community threads), please post within the guidelines of the Board Participation Policy and all Board Participation Policy clarfications.
I have asked Chris is Customer Care for strict policy enforcement this weekend and moving forward due to an inordinately high number of posts removed due to being outside of the posted policy. Additional posts in violation will subject offenders to possible site sanctions as per policy.
Thank you for your support and respect for your fellow members and the User Agreement.
AP
A seller with 3 stores tearfully responded to Andrew's board participation policy post:
Quote:Sorry, Andrew. But please understand that recent changes may leave some of us old-timers and long-time supporters in a less than 30 day crunch... we aren't all bitter or angry, just very, very sad and disappointed and scared about the amount of work ahead of us. I'm just reaching out to my family on this site. I in no way want to attack your decisions or need to take the direction you are taking. But please respect me as a long-time, loyal member just reaching out to my friends to try and figure out any way to negotiate the changes or make a graceful exit.
Summers are slow in collectibles, and we are already in a situation where we are barely paying for my son's special needs and food. This is a shock (we expected an increase, but nothing like this), and my personal dream of having a store for special needs is now crushed.
Please have some heart. I have never in any way bad-mouthed WP and I support your decisions. But I am very scared and sad and worried.
Going to bed for a good cry.... can hardly read anything...
Quote:But please understand that recent changes may leave some of us old-timers and long-time supporters in a less than 30 day crunch... we aren't all bitter or angry, just very, very sad and disappointed and scared about the amount of work ahead of us.
Did the InventoryDirect bulklister have the ability to backup listings? If it did it may have been taken out of service in order to discourage sellers with a large number of listings from leaving. If that seller doesn't have a backup of her listings there is no way she'll be able to manually copy almost 5000 listings before the new fees kick in.
edited to add: boinktard Ray deleted her post already.
Scroll down to the last 2 posts left on 5/2 and 5/3. A WP Founding Member is lashing out at WP and its management. The complaints: fee hike, crappy site search, buyer unfriendly checkout, WP blaming sellers for everything, deleted posts, and on and on:
http://www.appscout.com/2008/03/wagglepo...y_work.php