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Quote:The posters on their forum are worried about the issues that are truly important to sellers sarcasm1

Quote: I wonder if iOffer knows that PH is violating their patent on counterfeit home page featured listings.
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Ironwood, you are doing the right thing, and are heads above those still clinging to the alt sites. 

May traffic for Plunderhere decreased.

Compete:
Plunderhere 18,802 uniques (Wagglepop received 56,113, HiBidder 4,977, Milbid 1,631, Ecrater 563,241, iOffer 738,004, Etsy 1,830,083)

Quantcast:
Plunderhere 20,580 uniques

[quote author=Kristijntje link=topic=9139.msg70621#msg70621 date=1212838715]
May traffic for Plunderhere decreased.

Compete:
Plunderhere 18,802 uniques (Wagglepop received 56,113, HiBidder 4,977, Milbid 1,631, Ecrater 563,241, iOffer 738,004, Etsy 1,830,083)

Quantcast:
Plunderhere 20,580 uniques


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compare PH's traffic to other online selling channels
http://community.tuliptools.com/index.ph...2.new.html

The verdict: PH's traffic SUCKS! tolensmiley: There are far better options available for online sellers.

[quote author=mandy link=topic=9139.msg70623#msg70623 date=1212850323]
compare PH's traffic to other online selling channels
http://community.tuliptools.com/index.ph...2.new.html

The verdict: PH's traffic SUCKS! tolensmiley: There are far better options available for online sellers.
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Hey we need some additions to that list and it won't let me post.

Tazbar.com 6364
auctionsworldwide.com N/A 
alsoshop.com N/A 
plunderhere.eu N/A
specialistauctions.com 13736



Let the Truth be Told

P.S. chshops.com N/A

[quote author=let the truth be told link=topic=9139.msg70624#msg70624 date=1212855916]
[quote author=mandy link=topic=9139.msg70623#msg70623 date=1212850323]
compare PH's traffic to other online selling channels
http://community.tuliptools.com/index.ph...2.new.html

The verdict: PH's traffic SUCKS! tolensmiley: There are far better options available for online sellers.
[/quote]

Hey we need some additions to that list and it won't let me post.

Tazbar.com 6364
auctionsworldwide.com N/A 
alsoshop.com N/A 
plunderhere.eu N/A
specialistauctions.com 13736
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Compete's numbers only show US based traffic so the figures for non-US based sites don't reflect the site's true traffic.

compete about us page Wrote:We have a diverse sample of 2,000,000+ U.S. internet users that have given us permission to analyze the web pages they visit and ask them questions via surveys.

Here are 3 examples that receive tens of millions of monthly uniques each but have low Compete numbers because they receive few US visitors:  China's largest auction site Taobao.com (compete 42,941), Poland's largest auction site Allegro.pl (compete 44,717), and Korea's largest auction site GMarket.co.kr (compete 18,965).   If you went by Compete's numbers you'd wrongly think these sites receive less traffic than Wagglepop In reality, their monthly traffic is right up there with Craigslist, Amazon, and eBay. GMarket's SEC filings show 15.7 million monthly uniques  and  Taobao's actual monthly uniques are approaching 50 million.   

Non US sites are the one area where Alexa will give you a better picture of a site's traffic than Compete or Quantcast. Taobao is ranked 58 by Alexa (for reference: eBay is 18 and Amazon 29), Allegro 167, and Gmarket 1,204.  

EDIT: Tazbar receives 22% of its visitors from the US and Specialist Auctions 50% so their actual monthly uniques are probably around 30,000 and 27,000 respectively.
EDIT 2: for anyone who is curious, Allegro receives 0.5% of its visitors from the US, Taobao 0.9%, and GMarket 1.5%.

We just moved TT from San Diego to Dallas. There was a 5 minute maintenance period during the move not 3 days.  :imptongue:   Users on the old and new servers are both using the same database on the new server so there was no need to put the old forum in permanent maintenance mode (like Marktard did with PH because the IDIOT didn't think to feed both sites off the same database). Nobody will receive a maintenance screen while they're waiting  for the move to propogate to their ISP. :imptongue:

I now return you to the never ending adventures of IDIOT Marktard's bungled attempt to move a website to a new server. :twistedevil:

Quote:We just moved TT from San Diego to Dallas

I don't want to post in Texas! Move it back! I'm a shark, I need to be near an ocean when I post!

TT server speed test Wrote:#
Domain name Size Load Time
1 www.plunderhere.com ERROR ERROR

websitepulse server speed test Wrote:Website test results

URL tested: http://www.plunderhere.com
Test performed at: 2008-06-08 00:41:29 (GMT -04:00)
Resolved As: 67.205.96.151
Status: Check timed out
Response Time: 121.210 sec
DNS: 0.000 sec
Connect: 0.000 sec
Redirect: 1.068 sec
First byte: 0.000 sec
Last byte: 120.141 sec
Size: 0 bytes

2 minute page load times! Way to go boinktardo!

Uh oh! Crash! Splat! The tard broke the server!  :chitfan:

TT ping test Wrote:#
Address

Status
PING Speed
1 www.plunderhere.com OFFLINE 0 ms

Quote:DNSInspector HTTP Request Results [Clear]:

Cannot connect to host: www.plunderhere.com port: 80 (Connection refused)

How long will this post last until it gets zapped:

Quote:If u ever want this site to be a contender with the top 3 your going to have to advertise. I've been here about 2 yrs & i'm getting really tired of waiting for this place to take off & get going. How can you expect to sell when most of the time there are only 5 to 8 people online here at anyone time. This is more like a social club than an auction site. I'd be real interested in knowing if there are any plans to get this place some recognition or not. If there are not plans to advertise them we're all just spinning our wheels here

:turkey1:

Quote:Uh oh! Crash! Splat! The tard broke the server!  chitfan

DAMN IT! I'm running out of friggin' change to replace keyboards with!   

Recent studies conducted on several small auction site forums indicate that forum signatures with clickable banners are the number one concern of (many) online sellers - outranking such issues as (lack of) sales, (lack of) security, and IDIOT auction site owners who don't have the brains to install SSL certificates.   tolensmiley: