[quote author=Sweet Girl 70 link=topic=3775.msg34377#msg34377 date=1164903181]
Quote:Store "counts" can be quite the illusion when it comes to trends and projections.
The ups and downs are all a part of the process.
What we are trying to do is build a seller base for the long-term with the traits and characteristics that buyers value most.
Some sellers are more comfortable in a high-traffic eBay environment and need immediate returns, while others cannot operate in a trust-based environment. The effect that both groups have on the overall count was never something we would mark a part of the long-term trend.
Regarding the first group above, we will work hard to earn their business in the future and know we can with increased market share, while the second group has no place on Wagglepop at any point in time.
We are only concerned about and interested in sellers that buyers can count on and that we as a company can count on, both today and in the future as we grow together 
Karen - WP Customer Care
I added bolding and underlining. Read those lines, how very scary!!!
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This statement by KaRay always gave me the creeps, because it shows how retarded KaRay is/are and how much of a business venue this site is NOT. I'm glad you highlighted it Sweet Girl. Let's just analyze what's said here.
"What we are trying to do is build a seller base for the long-term with the traits and characteristics that buyers value most." First of all, buyers can't value ANYTHING they don't know exists, unless you are referring to the other store owners as the buyers. Secondly, what buyers were to value at WP is the same thing they would value anywhere else: good product, great service, fair price. This has nothing to do with the next sentence, which is ....
"Some sellers are more comfortable in a high-traffic eBay environment and need immediate returns . . . " No wombat poopoo, Sherlock! Some? I'd say ALL, regardless of venue. What sane, serious business person would feel comfortable in an invisible place where there's no financial incentives in sales or anything else to make it worth their while to be there?
"others cannot operate in a trust-based environment." Trust-based meaning blind investment, with no guarantee whatsoever of ever visualizing a return, in a project created by a guy who is a reputed liar and con artist.
"The effect that both groups have on the overall count was never something we would mark a part of the long-term trend." Translation: We don't want you if you're looking for traffic and sales or are unwilling to invest funds for no returns. If you are in either group, you will be weeded from our ranks or will simply get frustrated and dump us. Either way, "good riddin's".
"Regarding the first group above, we will work hard to earn their business in the future and know we can with increased market share . . . " Translation: Sellers looking for visible, trafficed venues where they can make "sells" won't find it here, but might in the future, as we gain visibility. Now think about that. How is WP going to gain market share if it is composed of sellers who don't care about visibility or return on investment and WP does nothing to bring buyers to sellers who couldn't give a rip, anyway. How will this earn the business of sellers who want a high-traffic environment with sales? It absolutely makes NO SENSE, WHATSOEVER!!!!!
". . . the second group has no place on Wagglepop at any point in time." We will never, ever, welcome sellers who are not FULLY committed to investing in our "vision" and for whom a return on investment is important. And since no sane, serious business person would invest without expecting a return on investment, our site will never be composed of sane, serious business people.
CONCLUSION: WP is and always will be, composed of desperate individuals (cultists) with no business sense, a fact that will never bring buyers. The whole "vision" is, was, and forever shall be, set up to benefit no one but KaRay -- period. Â
crew can see that as well.