Quote:A lot of time, effort, and money went into trying to build Wagglepop as a site where just the barest minimum of cost would afford all or any eBay sellers the opportunity to participate. Outside of our loyal existing and a handful of past sellers, the response has been primarily one of two things: apathy through non-participation, or bad-faith non-payment of seller invoices.
He paid $500 for a script, about $2000 in customizations, and a $100/month server. That's exactly what Plunderhere uses with pretty darn near the same traffic and a much more burdensome database and script.
And it's all the fault of the couple thousand deadbeats who didn't have the right vision to go along with participation in the kool aid happy hour, or didn't pay their bill.
The only fault Ray takes himself is for believing a bunch of "blather" from a discussion board.
Quote:That is the fault of ownership and management in conception - misjudging the need for a site such as Wagglepop. It was simply discussion board blather that we took too literally and seriously.
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Quote:The delinquent account numbers are utterly staggering - I will spare everyone the exact numbers as they are beyond comprehension - and should Wagglepop fold I'll be shopping the remaining delinquencies to collection agencies at the highest bid.
Good luck getting them turned over to a collection agency without the first detail beyond an email, phone number, and address. I'd love to see a letter arrive in my mailbox so I can send all the emails to the agency with a big note... "GOOD LUCK!"
Education time Ray. When you offer deliquent accounts to collection agencies, and typically when more than 10% are not truly delinquent and contested, you will get sued for the entire balance of every account you sold to them. Not a suit for what they paid you, but a suit for their maximum return.
Last hilarious lie:
Quote:We have Chris doing all of that working under just 1-2 hours per day (well, more like getting paid 1-2 hours per day while working twice that I suspect), which I find remarkable and have told her many times that I do not know how she does it - but I am glad she does.
Chris is Ray's wife. She gets paid whatever he gets paid.
Andrew is, and Karen was Ray. That's why he never posts anything, anywhere on the site. You never hear from him. It is always his little stooge name and those stooges never speak the name "Ray." It's always "ownership" said, or "ownership" did.
Last reason I don't ever expect to drop a tear for old Ray...
In 2008, I signed up a new account to check out the WP privacy policy statement saying that I could opt out of the unsolicited marketing (SPAM) that I would receive per my registration, I got this in an email and still have the screenshot if anyone would like to see it... including any WP members, even the ones who have bashed me over the head as a lying deadbeat in the past for mentioning it. I may even be able to still forward the email. Keep in mind, I registered with my name, address, phone, etc, and within 5 minutes (before even activating the account) had this email.
Quote:"Listen up Mother****er. Try that bulls*** here and I will hand you your head in a basket.
AP"
I simply signed up an account to find a link so I could stop receiving spam from my old selling account, and that was the response.
Bye a$$hole! Time to get a real job.