Bonanzle changes it's name to Bonanza?

[LittleOnlineStore]

Well, I called AW out a couple of times. It was just so obvious that he was using the  drinkers to further his name and agenda. He thought he was the king and the    drinkers  his little minion...lol Just soo lame. The guy really needs to get a life and get off of Google. I swear every time I go into Google help, I see him all over. Sure he went pretty cheap though. Didn't seem like he'd hold out for much.

boohoo looks like a total POS site all the way from their lame az rainbow logo to their colorless template. Seriously, rainbow the tabs and they're good to go? Ugh.....another flop to waste some money and time on 

[regic]

question: http://whois.domaintools.com/bonanza.com  Why is the registrant of the domain still listed as Edward Yim of Blue Moon Ventures Inc?  The last change was on 9/5 (changing the name servers over to the the ns1/2/3.blueboxgrid.com servers bonanzle.com uses and changing the MX records to the Google apps mail servers used by Bonanzle).  I think I would have waited for all of the paperwork to be finalized and processed and for my company's name  to be listed as the registrant before opening the new domain to 1/4 million users.

It's always possible they're leasing the domain name from Yim (or paying in installments) and didn't purchase it outright yet.  Edward Yim is a general partner of Founder's Co-op, one of the venture capital firms Bonanzle received funding from earlier this year
http://www.founderscoop.com/people.php (Yim is on the bottom right)
http://www.founderscoop.com/portfolio.php (list of companies they've funded)

[bargainbloodhound]

boohoo  looks like a total POS site all the way

It looks very dated, like a 1999-2000 time warp.

I registered last night and I'm member no. 10,920.  The site has only been open 3 months but it's been heavily advertised in 300 newspapers so i would have expected the membership number to be much higher (in the 50K-100K range).

They had a great idea but the execution so far has sucked.  They need to make some radical changes to the site if they hope to compete with eBay craigslist Bonanzle

As far as AW...after singing the praises of Bonanzle he moved on to DealItLive (where he was "Seller Advocate" - see his LinkedIn profile) and then to Boocoo...I think his disclaimer in this February 2010 Examiner.com dealItLive puff piece sums up how much credibility anything he says has: "Disclosure Statement: As an online columnist who is also licensed auctioneer, appraiser, antiques broker, events speaker and promotor, you can assume that I get conpensated for anything I publish."  http://www.examiner.com/auctions-and-ant...es-sellers

Dealitlive.com, the pioneer in live video auctions is starting to attract antiques & collectibles dealers

Ummm....0 listings, the blog/news page hasn't been updated since last Christmas day, and Compete shows 2,323 monthly visitors (and Quantcast shows N/A)

Yim is a general partner of Founder's Co-op

that explains it.

[sneakymagenta]

Separated at birth?
Wally and Uncle G

[sneakymagenta]

Sneaky's Daily Deep Thoughts

#1a The phone number listed on Edward Yim's Bonanza.com WHOIS (will Bill Harding ever be listed as the registrant?) and ClassifiedAds.com WHOIS is the same.

#1b ClassifiedAds.com has 7 fans likers.  Yep, Yim is one of the 7. 
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Classified...8178299032

#1c Oh my, the craigslist ho's have found a new home! Quote from an ad "I will be your Ebony Love Slave for as long as you want. $50 per hour FS"
http://www.classifiedads.com/erotic_services-99.html

#1d the classified site receives 2.3 million monthly visitors vs Bonanza's (almost) 1 million

#1e-#1z who owns the classified site: Yim?, who really owns the bonanza.com domain name: Ed Bluemoon or Bill Bonanzle? any plans to let those 2.3 million classified eyeballs know that Bonanza exists?

#2  Is it safe to say not everyone at Bonanza investor Yim's Bluemoon Ventures is a happy camper?
http://www.jobvent.com/review-of-job-at-...res-R83703
http://www.rateitall.com/i-2071484-edward-yim.aspx

#3

is the corporate entity that owns Bonanzle called "William Harding LLC"?

Doubtful. The W.H. LLC is inactive.

[regic]

He has his hand in many sites: http://www.interwebstores.com/our_stores.html

I'd like to know the reason for displaying static non-clickable GoDaddy EVN seals on the sites...the 1st non-clickable GoDddy EVN seals I've ever seen :  arcasm1: ...when several of the the sites are encrypted with  other certificates: Comodo UserTrust SSL on  https://www.pet-spot.com/address , GoDaddy domain control validated (not EVN) on https://www.salinesolutionsite.com/address

The sites display BBB Accredited Business seals (static once again) but the BBB shows results like this "there are no results for Web Site URL 'www.interwebstores.com' " for all of the sites except Optimized Cables (which is accredited: O.C. and its URL is listed by the BBB as a DBA for Blue Moon).

I give him a very low grade for trustworthiness based on the seals.

Quote from: Beartard
is the corporate entity that owns Bonanzle called "William Harding LLC"?

Doubtful. The W.H. LLC is inactive.

I say probable.  The LLC may be inactive but the BBB lists Bonanzle as a DBA of the WH LLC