Actually, I can't argue that as far as seller features that Rscript users have complained about since the start of PH, WP, et al, such as instant checkout and site feeds, it is better. But the total package is awful in comparison. People like Ray from WP at least had the forsight to redesign the Rscript completely, and host it on a server that could handle it. Mo/Ray/Mark did not, so it has problems. WP at least looks like it's own site, but PH is a "pleasingly colored" boxed Rscript site. (Was I actually defending Wagglepop?
) What difference will there be when all the Probid sites upgrade? The same identical script site to site once again. I don't care how much it is rebuilt from the ground up, because the current version was rebuilt from the ground up. Each 1-2-3-4-5-6 release was rebuilt from the ground up. It is slow, has serious database issues, timeouts, category errors (categories showing zero or negative when hundreds of items are listed) small images, small fonts, horrible layout editing, auction/listing template problems, WYSIWYG descriptions not allowing images, security bugs, and did I mention slow???
Seriously, Webidz, Auctionquests, Yourhighbid, Hibidder, Milbid, etc. are the slowest sites I have ever looked at next to Plunderhere. I tried buying on many of these sites, it was awful and I knew what I was doing! I can't imagine being a new member trying to figure out how to shop on any of those sites with just the basic boxed instructions to buy. Now, he's going to take 50,000 listings and move them to an already easily overloaded PHPProBid. Remember how slow Plunderhere.eu was at it's first launch? Multiply that times 50,000 listings.
But, looking at this it may actually be better for the site speed, save 1/2 second load time from PH's already turtle race times:
1 plunderhere.com 3.75 seconds
2 milbid.com 1.86 seconds
3 yourhighbid.com 3.16 seconds
4 webidz.com 2.23 seconds
5 auctionquests.com 2.08 seconds
6 hibidder.com 6.05 seconds
Either way, I'll never worry about being there. I just hate seeing so many sellers who could have done something great with their business waste so much time promoting someone else's business on any of the above sites.