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

[Sweet Girl 70]

[quote author=sherrand link=topic=3775.msg56644#msg56644 date=1181580590]
DB, thanks for your posts earlier today. They were some of your gems and worth repeating. Glad to see you back and hope your time with family was memorable. Here's the summary you were looking for:

Stores have been dropping faster than hailstones in a hurricane.

Another outage at Popland; duration 12 hours until KaRay woke up the next morning. But it wasn't KaRay's fault - it was everyone elses computer.

Karma gremlins have been making regular strifing runs. Misery does like company.

Tiny "T" has done a superb job of providing us with comic relief by posting on WP.

Copious deletions on the WP Boards when some brave (or foolish) poppers starting asking questions. KaRay now has a blister on the tip of their middle finger. Clarification of the clarification of the first clarification of Board Policy has been issued.

WP's feedback system was exposed as a sham. Along the lines of it's not who you know, it's who you b**w.

Many long standing poppers abandoned ship once 2 highly respected sellers, Pixie Soap and Little Bears, were axed for their unconstructive constructive attitudes.

Farewells and well wishes will no longer be tolerated.

Forum topics were stripped down by over 50%. As one TT put is "We The People" are now know as "Where Are The People".
Sales Report and Wagglepop Today were killed off. Victims of the revolution. The Revolutionary Newsletter survived but is gravely wounded.

Andrew crawled out from the cabbage patch. Karen had the breath knocked out of her. She was discovered yesterday reduced to a deflated pile of plastic in her chair in front of the computer. KaRay is retiring the pink robe and fuzzy slippers and replacing them with paisley boxer shorts and flip-flops.

Daily Chat turned into the Daily Fiasco. It is also gravely wounded.

Overall the WP boards are deathly quiet. That's because they are all over here lurking. And because our ace reporters, Unique, Moon, JoJo, Been There, Eclectica and others have been giving them the opportunity to catch on TT with all that is going on, and all that has been deleted.

KaRay bought a new car with his ill-gotten gains. He has yet to thank the poppers for their donations to his auto fund.

Sweet and Banana have shared further with us their skill with words.

New members have joined us. Either exiled or U-Hauling out of Poopland.

I've been doing my usual - reporting the stats on stores.

Everyone else who I haven't mentioned by name have contributed just as importantly by sharing their thoughts, their advice and their experiences.


Off Topic:

Patti is selling too much on Ecrater and is worried about reaching a goal of 500 listings because of it.

Rat did a terrific job installing TPG's Zen cart - site looks sharp. She has 2 more to go for them. They had sales already.

The daughter of TPG and FH did a practice run to the hospital with server problems er... false labour.

Platz is about to publish a book (no it is not a biography of her life on TT).

Platz dog Dusty appeared to be at death's door but she and the loyal gang here kept him from stepping through it.

Meow's husband has been hospitalized from flirting with pneumonia. We're all rooting for his recovery.

Brat's daughter was dumped by her date at a school dance but showed him the disdain only a confident woman can and had a good time despite him.

Scoops going to be a proud grandma again - Congratulations!

TPG and that wine guzzling Platz have exchanged some racy banter and FH, as ever, is patiently tolerant of their quips which have been quite hysterical. Worth going back to read. Platz is such an adorable tart.

Truth and I Want have been sharing this unique warped humour.

Race is still MIA today.

That should cover it...



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Man.... That had me huffing and puffing just to read through it all!!!
:animal040:

[youroverheadbin]

Man.... That had me huffing and puffing just to read through it all!!!
confused2 confused2 confused2 confused2 happy6 happy6 animal040

It wasn't easy trying to condense 50 pages of posts!

[Alskling]

Sherrand,

You take the Pulitzer for expert field reporting.

From your synopsis, I'd say it looks like piles of Poop have dropped onto a field of wind turbines. My guess is the "outage" was a result of the tempest among Ray's multiple personalities fighting over who was going to manefest and steer the ship after Karen "hit the bricks".  

I find it curious that as the hole in Ray's dike made of smoke and mirrors widens from a pinhole to a black hole, Ray is proportionately doing his best to bury all evidence (damage control) that may expose him as a total fraud and his site an unmitigated disaster. It started with the deletion of posts, proceded to the extermination of whole threads and proceded with the wholesale excommunication of Poppers who felt they deserved something better than yesterday's mashed potatoes. Next order of business was to do away with the listing count (can't let on that the count is a lie) and the rah-rah Alexa reports (they don't mean anything, anyway, right?). After that, deletion of forums, WP newsletter, sales reports and more. What will be the next casualty on the battlefield? As soon as the store count drops below 200, I'd bet Koolaid to Spamwiches that the store count number will magically disappear. And as for community forums, there'll be only one: the Kiss My Ass forum with PS and Tiny T exchanging brown noses and petting Ray's fuzzy slippers. So far, I have yet to see a business run purely on butt-kissing alone, but it appears Ray's willing to give it a go.  

More power to you, Ray!  :turkey1: :turkey1: :turkey1:

[youroverheadbin]

[quote author=UniqueSeller link=topic=3775.msg56654#msg56654 date=1181583295]
[b] New store count 217 ... slowly on the rise. CC must have gotten a lot of emails requesting the closure of their stores....




~Patti~
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That last one was an empty store reactivated. Patty's Knick Knack Shack. It's been empty for 3 weeks. Observe the duplicate listing on the orange shirt. 

[racedream]

sherrand, excellent recap. 

I have my housework done, plants and flowers are watered, cat is fed, now it is playtime 
Well, playtime and I need to finish 2 afghans for orders I have. But I can multi-task, so I can try to keep up with you all and get some work done at the same time.

[flying high]

Good job Sherrand. That was the best.

[njr55]

Oh - you got me Sherrand!!!! I went and looked and found a blank page. I thought they were finally being honest!!!!

   

You got me too, you little stinker sherrand you!!!

[njr55]

I see the karma gremlins have been at it again.  How do they do that when I'm not online?  What pages were mentioned before that we could go give them a "visit"?

[chiquita]

Sherry,
You are da bomb, thanks for that flashback covering almost 1000 pages. :blinkie:
You have such a way with words, that if ya ever hang up your flight attendant wings I think Reader's Digest would hire ya in a NY minute.



Sweet Girl I am so glad you came back to sing songs, hang out, and chat. Stay around longer this time OK?

[Nikkicute]

[quote author=UniqueSeller link=topic=3775.msg56355#msg56355 date=1181490970]
A new topic started: What brought you here? and... some comments about negativity

10 Jun 2007 15:57     


First, I have a comment about "negative" posts. I think that publicly posting a "negative" post has the potential to turn off would-be buyers. I am an eBay education specialist and I teach my students NOT to be negative in their auction descriptions because I think nothing makes a GOOD buyer run away faster than "I will report you and leave you negative feedback for nonpayment" and "Don't bid on my stuff if you don't intend on paying", etc. A potential buyer sees that seller as hostile and would think "How would this seller handle a problem with my order if there was one?... well, I don't want to find out. Next seller please." Buyers also peruse community boards and they do know who are the frustrated, hostile, negative sellers. No one expects a bright sunny cheerleader doing cartwheels when it is raining cats and dogs outside... but who wants to be stuck indoors with someone who is forever moaning about the bad weather all day? Here in Texas we have had storm after storm after storm... flooding for months... and my kids have had several of their baseball games cancelled. You know what we did in the last storm? We bought hula hoops, pushed the table and couch to one side of the living room and we spent the day hula hooping. Better than staring outside at the rain puddles and crying about missed baseball games. You get the point.

Continuting with my "negativity" comment... [b]what does it matter if one of your posts was pulled? Will knowing the reason change anything (for you or for others) and why do you think you are entitled to get a public acknowledgement of your removed post? I know this comment is not going to endear me to most people but I just had to say it. If WP doesn't work for you then part ways with the site on good terms -- pay your outstanding bill and then go try something else. Email those customers or other sellers who have become your friends to tell them you are "moving on" and then do it... move on. Let others here have a chance to sell their wares and perhaps some day in the future you might want to come back ... and having left on good terms, I am sure you'll be welcomed back with open arms.

I am here to give Wagglepop a try. I'm willing to invest several months of time and money to try, during which time I will not rely solely on WP to promote my items for me. If it doesn't work for me then I'll close my store and I'll do so with respect for the owners of this site; I'll thank them for allowing me advertise my wares here by paying any outstanding bill. Then I'll continue buying from other WP sellers if I am still interested in their products and their good customer service. I view my selling relationship with WP as one in which I am buying an advertising space here on their spot that they won and that they have spent time and money building. Our company pays thousands of dollars a year in advertising, some of which we see an instant return and some of which we never see a return on. If a particular advertising venue doesn't work for us then we move on and try something else until we find something that works.

~Patti~
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If you blinked you miss this one:

June 10,2007
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What does it matter if one of your posts was pulled?

It does matter!!
It's about being heard!!
It's about being acknowleged.
Everybody want to be acknowleged.
Everybody wants to feel like they belong.
Being ignored is very dispiriting.
You feel you don’t count!!
You feel like you don't have a voice!!
Ask a question poof it's gone.
Don't you know that can HURT??
You ask yourself does WP even want me here?
Do they care?
Makes one feel like there is this big wall between you and them.
Your on the outside looking in.
Who wants to feel like that?
I don't.

Making your way in the world today takes everything you've got.
Taking a break from all your worries,
sure would help a lot.

Wouldn't you like to get away?

Sometimes you want to go

Where everybody knows your name,
and they're always glad you came.
You wanna be where you can see,
our troubles are all the same
You wanna be where everybody knows
Your name.

Theme song from CHEERS.

Post deleted, poster is now banned from
the site!!!