12-19-2006, 11:58 PM
YOHB --- Kudos, my friend.
To all lurkers:
The AdSmart (or AdsDumb) program, is so absurd, we couldn't help poking fun at it. I, for one, could find NO redeeming feature about it: it's a true WTF. It's singing to the choir and paying the pastor for the privilege. Furthermore, its very nature leaves it open to fraud, as history has shown with similar programs elsewhere. Anybody, hypothetically, could pick an account and clickety-click away. Â The program wouldn't know if it's Joe Blow, Joe Blow's nom de plume, Joe Blow's 25 sisters and brothers using the same computer, or who was doing the clicking. Nor would it care. There is one, and only one person, who truly stands to gain by doing this (if such were to occur), and by doing it often. If you use your powers of reason you will figure out why.
There is only one person who can say that participation in AdSmart has directly resulted in a sale, and that's the one selling the feature. And coincidentally, the feature magically appeared as this wonderful new program, as the number of stores (and consequent monthly income to the site owner), diminished. Even if AdSmart turns out to be a total bust and sellers reject it, enough have tried it to make it profitable to the site owner. Further, it remains "in the bag" ready for use on the next boatload of disenchanted  eBay refugees.
Lurkers -- look at the totality of how the whole system is set up -- from fees (store & featured), to AdSmart, board censorship, WaggleStuff, upgrades, mentorship, "guides," and whatever other switches Ray has yet to turn on from his boxed auction software program. And then think about how much blood, sweat and tears YOU have put into HIS site and how little benefit YOU have gotten from it. Even when you're long gone, Ray will continue to reap the benefit of YOUR efforts to market HIS site, while he sits back in his fuzzy slippers and sips a glass of wine confident in knowing his worker bees are buzzing their brains out.
I rest my case.
Edited for a couple typos (I hate to preview)
To all lurkers:
The AdSmart (or AdsDumb) program, is so absurd, we couldn't help poking fun at it. I, for one, could find NO redeeming feature about it: it's a true WTF. It's singing to the choir and paying the pastor for the privilege. Furthermore, its very nature leaves it open to fraud, as history has shown with similar programs elsewhere. Anybody, hypothetically, could pick an account and clickety-click away. Â The program wouldn't know if it's Joe Blow, Joe Blow's nom de plume, Joe Blow's 25 sisters and brothers using the same computer, or who was doing the clicking. Nor would it care. There is one, and only one person, who truly stands to gain by doing this (if such were to occur), and by doing it often. If you use your powers of reason you will figure out why.
There is only one person who can say that participation in AdSmart has directly resulted in a sale, and that's the one selling the feature. And coincidentally, the feature magically appeared as this wonderful new program, as the number of stores (and consequent monthly income to the site owner), diminished. Even if AdSmart turns out to be a total bust and sellers reject it, enough have tried it to make it profitable to the site owner. Further, it remains "in the bag" ready for use on the next boatload of disenchanted  eBay refugees.
Lurkers -- look at the totality of how the whole system is set up -- from fees (store & featured), to AdSmart, board censorship, WaggleStuff, upgrades, mentorship, "guides," and whatever other switches Ray has yet to turn on from his boxed auction software program. And then think about how much blood, sweat and tears YOU have put into HIS site and how little benefit YOU have gotten from it. Even when you're long gone, Ray will continue to reap the benefit of YOUR efforts to market HIS site, while he sits back in his fuzzy slippers and sips a glass of wine confident in knowing his worker bees are buzzing their brains out.
I rest my case.
Edited for a couple typos (I hate to preview)