Poll: Who is to blame for sellers leaving Wagglepop en masse?

cash1381 · 06-13-2007, 09:26 PM,

From the WP boards...Seller math made more sense even back then than Wagglemath.

Quote:xxxxxx 06 Sep 2006 00:04

Thank you very much, I have enjoyed to be here for a while. It is a great site, you all are wonderful and it was a refreshing pleasure to meet you all.

But the little analizer I am, .I have done a short math.

Is Wagglepop really cheap?

I wouldn't say so.

WP has currently appr. 70,000 core listings, Ebay has appr. 13,000,000 core listings. This is appr. 0.5% of the Ebay listings..

Now let's look at the fees. I pay in average $500 Ebay fees a month (Paypal excluded). If the fee structure in WP were equal, I would have to pay here 0.5% of what I pay in Ebay, which would be $2.50. But in reality I pay $9.95 PLUS FVF, which isn't much, since I don't sell a lot. But only the store fees are already 4 times as much than all the fees I pay in Ebay even with more than double as many listings than I have here.

This is based only on the items listed.

Now let's have a look at the sell through rate.
With $500 fees I have a sell through rate on Ebay of $2,700 a month. (average) This is 5.4 times more than I pay fees.
With a $11 fee right now here on Wagglepop, I had a sell through rate of $25,. This is 2.28 times more than I pay fees.

...which leads me to the conclusion, Wagglepop isn't cheap. It is more than triple as expensive as Ebay is, if you see the relation.

Not to mention the fact that you don't even get the features and well developed easy to use software that Ebay has, for this outrageous price.

It looks cheap only to those that don't do the math.

Sorry, I liked this site a lot until I found time enough to use my brain.

Good luck to you all.

chiquita · 06-13-2007, 10:16 PM,

Sweet Girl, memories memories
I had forgotten about the smurfs, we were on a roll.
Happy001

Go get some of your waggletunes while you are diggin around through hundreds of pages
:blinkie:

Luv ya babe

youroverheadbin · 06-13-2007, 10:41 PM,

[quote author=Sweet Girl 70 link=topic=3775.msg56925#msg56925 date=1181769845]

There are numerous scheduled releases which have been delayed due primarily to the increase site activity:

Among them include:

Seller "Central"
We The People Program
Resources Center
WP Merchandising Center

In some instances, we have transferred the funds available for those projects over to design/engineering to pay for features and functionality upgrades.

We expect overall that we'll be able to make the implementations above only slightly behind the general schedule, however Smile

Karen - WP Customer Care

[/quote]

Bolding mine.

Sweet you are doing us all a favour. I forgot about this one!

Once upon a time the site feature enhancements were delayed due to increased site activity.
Today the site feature enhancements are delayed due to lack of participation.

Don't you just love the irony? Happy001

jojo-p · (This post was last modified: 06-13-2007, 11:16 PM by jojo-p.)

A good day to read old posts... nothing going on with the WP boards today, except Mr 3 stores (used to be 4 stores) is in very careful terms (so as not to be deleted again) asking how best to combine his current 3 into just 2 stores. And he's getting encouragement to do so.

scoop · 06-13-2007, 10:57 PM,

[quote author=sherrand link=topic=3775.msg56931#msg56931 date=1181774501]
[quote author=Sweet Girl 70 link=topic=3775.msg56925#msg56925 date=1181769845]

There are numerous scheduled releases which have been delayed due primarily to the increase site activity:

Among them include:

Seller "Central"
We The People Program
Resources Center
WP Merchandising Center

In some instances, we have transferred the funds available for those projects over to design/engineering to pay for features and functionality upgrades.
We expect overall that we'll be able to make the implementations above only slightly behind the general schedule, however Smile

Karen - WP Customer Care

[/quote]

Bolding mine.

Sweet you are doing us all a favour. I forgot about this one!

Once upon a time the site feature enhancements were delayed due to increased site activity.
Today the site feature enhancements are delayed due to lack of participation.

Don't you just love the irony? Happy001

[/quote]

Also in that post Karen says some of the funds for those projects will be use for features and functionality upgrades. Those feature and functionality upgrades never happened either. Poppers what does all this tell you? None of this stuff will ever happen.

Karma · 06-13-2007, 11:00 PM,

[quote author=sherrand link=topic=3775.msg56931#msg56931 date=1181774501]
[quote author=Sweet Girl 70 link=topic=3775.msg56925#msg56925 date=1181769845]

There are numerous scheduled releases which have been delayed due primarily to the increase site activity:

Among them include:

Seller "Central"
We The People Program
Resources Center
WP Merchandising Center

In some instances, we have transferred the funds available for those projects over to design/engineering to pay for features and functionality upgrades.

We expect overall that we'll be able to make the implementations above only slightly behind the general schedule, however Smile

Karen - WP Customer Care

[/quote]

Bolding mine.

Sweet you are doing us all a favour. I forgot about this one!

Once upon a time the site feature enhancements were delayed due to increased site activity.
Today the site feature enhancements are delayed due to lack of participation.

Don't you just love the irony?Â Â Happy001

[/quote]

Soooo true!!!!! Happy001

FineThings4U · 06-13-2007, 11:42 PM,

How many of the "old" crew are still there....I mean from when I was there....when there were over 900 stores?

Sherrand, do you happen to know?

Sunny

Platzki · 06-13-2007, 11:48 PM,

[quote author=FineThings4U link=topic=3775.msg56936#msg56936 date=1181778136]
How many of the "old" crew are still there....I mean from when I was there....when there were over 900 stores?

Sherrand, do you happen to know?

Sunny

[/quote]

Hey guys! I was out and about today and finally got a chance to check in! You guys have been busy today with all the old posts. I remember when DB originally posted that one about the top 20 reasons. Happy001

What a riot!

Moon... sorry to hear your booboo isn't better yet... thinking of you buddy!!

Sweet... you have been missed my little buddy... LOL

EVERYONE!! Hope you're having a nice night and careful of the Karma gremlins!!!

youroverheadbin · 06-14-2007, 12:10 AM,

[quote author=FineThings4U link=topic=3775.msg56936#msg56936 date=1181778136]
How many of the "old" crew are still there....I mean from when I was there....when there were over 900 stores?

Sherrand, do you happen to know?

Sunny

[/quote]

Yes I do.

128.

Some of these stores are multiples run by the same owner. And a few qualify as ghost stores even though they are active. These stores are all burdened with the floundering member icon.

FineThings4U · 06-14-2007, 12:23 AM,

Thanks, Sherrand.

I guess I shouldn't be shocked that over half of the stores that are left are old-timers. New ones come in, get the message, and slam the doors.

It was sooooooo different a mere year ago - hard to believe.

:o