Quote:Being entertaining boosts sales and also brings people laughter and happiness. People like that.
OOO -- and how ecstatic they must be. Evidence of $81.99 in gross sales on your divine Bointardal site in the past 3 months, with about $70 in store fees. I'll bet they're just chuckling their heads off as your proudly trot off to the bank with that $4/mo. profit. And that's after your neverending spamathon as choir director for the holy church of the Kumbaya over 2-1/2 years of beating a mummified horse.Â
Give it up, P.S.! Only 75 stores left and fewer and fewer are following Fred in Florida, as they admit denial is not just a river in Egypt that flows with Koolaid. Who the hell do you really think you're fooling?Â
Where has Sherrand been all this time? Sherrand, if you've been watching the sales on WP, would you care to enlighten DB on what my actual numbers have been? How many of the triple-digit sales have you bumped into? Did you catch that nice one to the Canadian buyer?
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Quote:A site owner shared that RScript will not be updated and is currently "...non-compliant with the new version of mysql 5..."
What this means is everyone who rushes to purchase will be throwing a hundred bucks away. As hosting companies upgrade the MySQL software on their server your auction software will become problematic and eventually stop functioning.
http://www.powersellersunite.com/viewtopic.php?t=21211
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So what does that mean for WP since Ray runs Rscript? Oh, wait. Probably nothing, since the site, for all practically purposes, already stopped working for a few thousand sellers who tried it; and appears to work for precious few, including the highest-listing "seller" (if you can call him that) on the site.
Sellers don't leave in disgust if the site works for them. And those who were led down a smoke-and-mirror path by P.S. and other Koolaid-drugged, Kumbaya-singing cheerleaders eager to bring lambs to slaughter -- those sellers who put their blood and soul into trying to make WP work for them only to discover the whole endeavor was a cleverly-orchestrated plot of deceit set in motion by one ego-driven, chest-beating Boinktard behind a hamster-driven curtain, with less business sense than a nematode -- those sellers, who were THEN laughed at, berated, belittled and blamed for everything wrong with a site that did not, does not, and never could have worked (especially now with the Rscript issue) -- those sellers who were sent insulting, threatening emails demanding money they didn't owe, labeled "deadbeats," "trolls", "eBay informants", and more, simply because they wanted to make a living instead of spend their days "witnessing" for WP, engaging in mutual feedback games and dopey cyber-breakfasts, and praying to the WP idol -- yes, they have every right to be angry.Â
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I'm jealous, but not of the pathetic
sellers listers at WP, but of the savvy sellers who blew the pop stand, dumped their Koolaid into the toxic land fill along with rusted cans of paint thinner and old car batteries, revealed the truth about the WP sham to warn others and help them avoid falling into Ray's bottomless money pit, started their own sites and are now happy as clams making fortunes.
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Quote:So what does that mean for WP since Ray runs Rscript?
TulipTools is willing to do Perl programming for Ray for
$100 $150* per hour to keep the site running.Â
*$100 per hour standard rate plus a $50 per hour boinktard surcharge
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Quote:So what does that mean for WP since Ray runs Rscript?
TulipTools is willing to do Perl programming for Ray for
$100 $150* per hour to keep the site running.Â
*$100 per hour standard rate plus a $50 per hour boinktard surcharge
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...with a $1000 minimum charge per jobÂ
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Where has Sherrand been all this time? Sherrand, if you've been watching the sales on WP, would you care to enlighten DB on what my actual numbers have been? How many of the triple-digit sales have you bumped into? Did you catch that nice one to the Canadian buyer?
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Don't look to me for substantiation. I'm not 'stalking' you, your sales, or any of your business activities. I don't have the time nor the inclination. Frankly my dear I don't give a damn. In the past I confirmed that you had more sales than your feedback reflected. I'll grant you that but that is as far as my support of your obsession with WP goes.
You are doing well on WP. Great - no surprise there. If I remember correctly from the past you have the majority of your product listed on WP with minimal stock on any of the other 8 or 9 sites you list on. You only include a link exclusively to WP and nowhere else that you've set up shop on all the forums you post on. So bragging that your sales on WP are better than anywhere else is no leap of faith for anyone to believe. It's simple mathematics. Because your other sites are publicly buried at your discretion.
I repeat, you are doing well on WP. But you are in the minority. What number would you estimate represents the successful sellers on WP. How many stores. 5? 10? 15? Surely not much more than that from what I've researched. Do your think you and your closest allies on WP will keep WP afloat with your passion alone?
Today there are 75 stores. Monthly housekeeping of delinquents is fast approaching. Take a guess. How many do you think will be gone? FYI only 2 stores have signed up during August and we are three quarters through the month.
I recently read PSU posts made by you quoting the same mantra of people not allowing themselves longevity on WP to establish themselves. So what reason do you attach to the 12 Founding Members that have vacated in the past 2 months? They all stuck it out for 18 months or more. And what about the people who afforded WP a second chance, who came back to WP with Revolution Rewind? Of those, 9 have closed up shop for the second time.
Do you not see a pattern here? Do you honestly see yourself as one of the precious few that 'understands' the value of WP compared to the opinion of hundreds of worldwide online sellers? The been there done that crowd. Been there and done that anywhere between 3 weeks and 2 years ago - even longer? Can you really say with conviction that these e-commerce business don't know whats good for them? Even when they have given testimony to the improvement of their online commerce after leaving WP and setting up elsewhere? Do you truly believe that WP is being overlooked, abused or ignored due to misunderstanding from these people? If your inclination is to response with yes to these questions then you are indeed a martyr to the cause.
Unfortunately a martyr usually ends up dying for their cause or in your case becoming the victim of a dying cause. At the current rate of WPs 'progress' and reputation the day will come when your voice will be the only one left in the choir. I hope the echo doesn't hurt your ears.
Sherrand
I have agreed with Sherrand. P.S.'s WP FB does not reflect her sales. That's a given for any e-commerce merchant, including myself. But say that only 1% leave feedback (and that's a generous "given"-- I receive about 50% feedback) -- that's still only $400/mo. Big whoop!
I absolutely DARE, in fact DOUBLE DARE, P.S. or the elusive "User" to respond to Sherrand's last post. I truly doubt that they have the cajones.
But anybody who knows anything about WP -- has "been there, done that" -- will attest to lack of sales as being only part of the equation. It's also about smoke and mirrors, deceit, cult mentality and a Koolaid-drugged hamster behind the OZ curtain. This is not business. It's full-on B.S.
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Oh yes, these sales are really killing me. I just got another one for $110. I don't know how much more of this I can take.  :
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Eleven questions posed by Sherrand to P.S., and, as expected, P.S. couldn't answer a single one. She's definitely WP's poster child: ignore the issues, resort to divergenary tactics, play the sarcasm card, make unsubstantiated claims, blah blah and wave the blame finger liberally. She, of course, is joined at the hip with her divine master and therefore has impeccable insight. It's the few thousand sellers who left (and the number keeps increasing), some of whom have more experience in e-commerce than P.S. will have in several lifetimes and make more money in a day that P.S. sees in a year -- it's those misguided, misinformed, liars, trolls, infiltrators and similar vermin, who think WP is a flat-out sham that have it all wrong.