Wagglepop 2: Deja Vu as Auction Site That Left Sellers Stranded Reopens

[Alskling]

Question: Who is to blame for sellers leaving Wagglepop en masse?
Paid Feebay Employees With An Agenda
Infiltrators
Trolls
Naysayers
Morally Bankrupt Miscreants
Upstream Providers
Jealous Types
Deadbeats
Ray Romeo
Ray Romeo's Alter Ego KaRay

Esclating price of fuzzy slippers
Global warming
Alien invasion and/or asteroid strike
HCD (hamster coronary disease)
Sun spots over Ray's house
Grief over eBay gunning down Ray's cat
Readily available Koolaid antidote
Inability to copyright the word "dynamic"

Or how about this one:

WP is not a business, never was a business and never will be a business. It is a CULT, run by a frickin' boinktard cult leader with a divine calling to lie, cheat, and swindle naive, vulnerable sellers out of their time, energy and money.


Hey, Ray! I've had more sales on my FREE Ecrater store this week than most WP sellers have seen in months. And I have yet to do SEO.  NONE from buyers I dragged over from eBay, and NONE from other Ecrater sellers. So, Ray, this bud's for you  

www.designers-bargains.ecrater.com

[jojo-p]

KaRay's words of wisdom for Saturday:

Hello Members,

We really do have a very active marketplace!

Over 27,000 unique users visited us for April, and performed over 100,000 keyword searches, browsed thousands of categories, and visited numerous Stores.

They all visit WP for one simple reason: to find items and products to bid on and/or purchase.

The more sellers we can get to understand that and join and list, the more dynamic the overall marketplace becomes which creates business for everyone.

Buyers have no interest in the general dramas that it seems a new marketplace creates; they wish only for quality items and products, fairly priced, with good service on an easy-to-use site.

The key to building and growing WP?

List, list, list!

Items and products always drive any marketplace, and is the ultimate key in building WP into what we all know it can be

Karen - WP Customer Care

So... again, sellers are told it's their fault if WP doesn't succeed, because they didn't stock the shelves.   

[RiverRat]

So let's do the math here...

27,000 unique visitors/ 245 stores = approx. 110 visits per store

Hmmmm....my driftwood site had over 2,000 unique visitors in April and technically it's not quite 3 months old.

I'm only selling one product and I only average having 40 items at any given time.

I don't think it's a product/listing problem Ray. 

[FineThings4U]

Damn, that's one revolutionary, dynamically stupid post.

:blinkie:

[RiverRat]

[quote author=FineThings4U link=topic=3775.msg53987#msg53987 date=1179607164]
Damn, that's one revolutionary, dynamically stupid post.

:blinkie:
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Mine or Ray's?  :blinkie:

[bargainbloodhound]

I don't think it's a product/listing problem Ray.

Ray needs a refresher:

Q1 2007:
Wagglepop 100,000 listings GMV under $200,000
Overstock Auctions 20,000 listings GMV $4.4 million

Since the beginning of time:
Bidville: 1-1.5 million listings, cobwebs

Stocking the shelves isn't the magic cure for a lack of buyers.

EDIT:
Woot 1 item. More visitors and buyers in 1 day than Wagglepop has had in 1 year.

[RiverRat]

[quote author=bargainbloodhound link=topic=3775.msg53990#msg53990 date=1179607967]

I don't think it's a product/listing problem Ray.

Ray needs a refresher:

Q1 2007:
Wagglepop 100,000 listings GMV under $200,000
Overstock Auctions 20,000 listings GMV $4.4 million

Since the beginning of time:
Bidville: 1-1.5 million listings, cobwebs

Stocking the shelves isn't the magic cure for a lack of buyers.

EDIT:
Woot 1 item. More visitors and buyers in 1 day than Wagglepop has had in 1 year.
[/quote]


Excellent post!

OT:  I love Woot! I am one of their daily visitors. 

[Platzki]

[quote author=RiverRat link=topic=3775.msg54008#msg54008 date=1179608738]
[quote author=bargainbloodhound link=topic=3775.msg53990#msg53990 date=1179607967]

I don't think it's a product/listing problem Ray.

Ray needs a refresher:

Q1 2007:
Wagglepop 100,000 listings GMV under $200,000
Overstock Auctions 20,000 listings GMV $4.4 million

Since the beginning of time:
Bidville: 1-1.5 million listings, cobwebs

Stocking the shelves isn't the magic cure for a lack of buyers.

EDIT:
Woot 1 item. More visitors and buyers in 1 day than Wagglepop has had in 1 year.
[/quote]


Excellent post!

OT:  I love Woot! I am one of their daily visitors.   
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WhaddidImiss? What the hell is a woot?  ???

[RiverRat]

[quote author=Platzki link=topic=3775.msg54009#msg54009 date=1179617630]
WhaddidImiss? What the hell is a woot?  ???
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You've never been to Woot?  :blinkie:

woot.com
They offer one item for sale starting at midnight for 24 hours or until they run out, whichever comes first.

About once every few weeks, they have what they call a Woot Off.  Then they keep changing items every time one sells out (usually for around 48 hrs or so).

I forgot to add....on Tuesdays they do "Two for Tuesday" and usually have something really low priced that comes in a two pack.  I picked up some flash drives that way.

All their shipping is only $5.00 no matter what the item is.

[I want 1 2]

Somebody finally broke the cone of silence. The WP Adv Selling board went 8 HOURS and 9 minutes without a single post !
Oh Yeah, the sellers there are REALLY pumped up !!