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

Anita · 10-16-2006, 11:51 PM,

You have to admit that Ray has quite the con job going! :o

sneakymagenta · 10-16-2006, 11:52 PM,

Quote:You are such an Ass Scott. What makes you such an expert oh great dorky bearded one? You had no experience before WP. 3 online sales and suddenly you're an expert? Do you kiss Ray's butt before or after he wipes?

Alskling · (This post was last modified: 10-17-2006, 12:00 AM by Alskling.)

[quote author=Sweet Girl 70 link=topic=3775.msg27897#msg27897 date=1161041445]
http://www.wagglepop.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=3777

Quote:Number of stores is irrelevant and a red herring. The important numbers are listings (up) visitors (up) page views (up) and sales (up).

Concentrating on a extraneous, garbage, immaterial, impertinent, inapplicable, inapposite, inappropriate, inapropos, inapt, inconsequent, inconsequential, insignificant, not germane, pointless, trivial, unapt, unconnected, unimportant, unrelated, number like total stores is a waste of time.

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Scott's absolutely right:

Number of listings up: hey, everybody let's list about 3,000 more sports cards and magazines -- woohoo!
Number of views up: hey, everybody, let's look at each other's sports card and magazines -- woohoo!
Number of sales up: hey, everybody let's trade a bunch of sports cards and magazines, or at least say we did to pump up the sales numbers -- woohoo!

Scott used a lot of big "in" words and "un" words -- woohoo! The ones he missed were the ones of self-description -- INSANE and UNDENIABLY detached from reality.

Alskling · (This post was last modified: 10-17-2006, 01:10 AM by Alskling.)

[quote author=Sweet Girl 70 link=topic=3775.msg27897#msg27897 date=1161041445]
http://www.wagglepop.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=3777

Highlights from the thread:

Quote:
Quote:At $9.95 per month, we'd submit that there's no other opportunity online (or offline) that offers such an incredible upside, with the risk of just $9.95 per month.

The single greatest attribute any retailer can have is the ability to recognize and act upon opportunity, particularly when the risk vs. reward ratio is so strikingly affordable.
Karen again!!!

What bunny bullets!!!!!!!!!!!! There are dozens of sites that offer the same and more for NO CHARGE WHATSOEVER -- every time I brought this up, my posts were deleted -- duh

No. 25 of my "characteristics of cult behavior, and philosophy" as stated in a previous post

25) control and eliminate, if possible, the availability to information that might tarnish the image or destroy the credibility of the leaders, its followers, or the movement in general.

chiquita · 10-17-2006, 12:37 AM,

Quote:For those who get discouraged (and believe me, I'm not above discouragement and bad days!!!), think of your WP store as your own website/domain! That's pretty much what it is!

Stop thinking in terms of paying WP a small monthly fee for nothing! Try to get easy set up, easy revisions, method to invoice and pay, site design, maintenance, web domain name and hosting for that little elsewhere - I seriously do not think it can be done! I pay that much per month just for hosting alone with my regular business site - and that includes nothing, just the space to load my pages onto.

I know this is out of the 'community as a whole' type of thinking, but try to see your WP store as YOURS - not just as you paying WP to list and promote your store as part of their (WP's) business.

It's WP's business to HOST OUR BUSINESSES and they provide us some really nifty tools to help us all set up and 'decorate' our store, they keep track of our inventory for us, provide a 'shopping cart', they provide us the use of WP as a community to help buyers feel a bit safer when shopping on the net.

For the 9.95 per month hosting fee, WP goes above and beyond what any other 'hosting company' would offer us.

Did I miss something? A shopping cart? Your store? : Smile

cash1381 · 10-17-2006, 03:28 AM,

We just closed our store here is a copy of our last post on the Advance Sellers Stores board.

We were going to just slip into the night but we had to say thanks for the interesting journey in e-commerce.
We will be watching in anticipation as the "staff" is finally revealed in a couple of months.
Happy Sales! Happy001

It took about 2 minutes to get pulled....Looks like the Staff is paying attention to the posts, at least.. Violent1

Alskling · 10-17-2006, 04:01 AM,

CASH! WHERE'S THE FAREWELL -- I'M DYING TO SEE IT!

I was sent this by email a moment ago, since I can't get into the boards any more:

From another seller:

"Advertising has been said over and over again and the reasons for the lack
thereof, thus far. Ok that was too wordy. Here's some English for ya: A revolution is change, duh. Look at all the changes here from eBay.
I know I'm being incredibly rude but this is so getting ridiculous. I was
upset too until I read and researched and listened.. THEN I realized what we
have that's so good. And I like Wagglepop's unspoken motto (purely my
opinion) of "weeding out the bad sellers".

And then to come in here, ranting and raving, and talking about a pissing
contest. Do some research before you come in pissing and moaning.

AND I can say the above because I did it - I was pissing and moaning too,
hopefully never to such volatile means as some other posters have, but then
I got smart, read up, and SHUT UP.
until now. cuz this is aggravating. Wagglepop doesn't owe you anything
except a venue - that's what they are - a venue! Read through the entirety
of WP and you will see exactly what the Revolution is.
And find something productive to do other than complain. Sheesh.
**this was directed at the whole attitude from any/all sellers about
advertising and what Wagglepop OWES us, it is no way directed at any one
specific person**

peace,

Hey, mommy Karen, where are you? What happened to the policy of "personal responsibility, courtesy, constructive comments and respect" and the rest of that self-ritious, pious, bunny boinkbullet hypocritical Swiss cheese rhetoric!

***regic*** · 10-17-2006, 04:10 AM,

Good catch. They filed for the last 2 on June 14th? I'm shocked it took their lawyers so many years to understand that trademarking "buyitnow" but not "buy it now" created a loophole. Laughing7

[quote author=sneakymagenta link=topic=3775.msg27893#msg27893 date=1161040606]
Stupid, stupid Ray Boinktard

http://www.wagglepop.com/auction/images/buynow.gif

The words 'buy it now' infringe on #2 and #3. The red and black colors infringe on #2.

#1

Quote:Word Mark BUYITNOW
Goods and Services IC 035. US 100 101 102. G & S: Computerized on-line retail services featuring a wide variety of consumer products. FIRST USE: 19970915. FIRST USE IN COMMERCE: 19971101
Mark Drawing Code (1) TYPED DRAWING
Design Search Code
Serial Number 75530813
Filing Date August 4, 1998
Current Filing Basis 1A
Original Filing Basis 1A
Published for Opposition July 6, 1999
Registration Number 2281435
Registration Date September 28, 1999
Owner (REGISTRANT) CitySurf, Inc. CORPORATION OKLAHOMA 7170 South Braden #140 Tulsa OKLAHOMA 74136

(LAST LISTED OWNER) EBAY INC. CORPORATION DELAWARE 2145 HAMILTON AVENUE SAN JOSE CALIFORNIA 95125
Assignment Recorded ASSIGNMENT RECORDED
Type of Mark SERVICE MARK
Register PRINCIPAL
Live/Dead Indicator LIVE

#2

Quote:Word Mark BUY IT NOW
Goods and Services IC 035. US 100 101 102. G & S: operating online marketplaces for sellers of goods and/or services. FIRST USE: 20001201. FIRST USE IN COMMERCE: 20001201
Mark Drawing Code (3) DESIGN PLUS WORDS, LETTERS, AND/OR NUMBERS
Design Search Code 26.17.07 - Heat, lines depicting; Lines depicting speed, propulsion, heat or wind; Propulsion, lines depicting ; Speed, lines depicting ; Wind, lines depicting
Serial Number 78909320
Filing Date June 15, 2006
Current Filing Basis 1A
Original Filing Basis 1A
Owner (APPLICANT) eBay Inc. CORPORATION DELAWARE 2145 Hamilton Avenue San Jose CALIFORNIA 95125
Attorney of Record John W. Crittenden
Description of Mark The color(s) red, grey and black is/are claimed as a feature of the mark.
Type of Mark SERVICE MARK
Register PRINCIPAL-2(F)
Live/Dead Indicator LIVE

#3

Quote:Word Mark BUY IT NOW
Goods and Services IC 035. US 100 101 102. G & S: operating online marketplaces for sellers of goods and/or services. FIRST USE: 20001201. FIRST USE IN COMMERCE: 20001201
Standard Characters Claimed
Mark Drawing Code (4) STANDARD CHARACTER MARK
Design Search Code
Serial Number 78908566
Filing Date June 14, 2006
Current Filing Basis 1A
Original Filing Basis 1A
Owner (APPLICANT) eBay Inc. CORPORATION DELAWARE 2145 Hamilton Avenue San Jose CALIFORNIA 95125
Attorney of Record John W. Crittenden
Type of Mark SERVICE MARK
Register PRINCIPAL-2(F)
Live/Dead Indicator LIVE

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cash1381 · 10-17-2006, 04:23 AM,

Quote:CASH! WHERE'S THE FAREWELL -- I'M DYING TO SEE IT!

We were going to just slip into the night but we had to say thanks for the interesting journey in e-commerce.
We will be watching in anticipation as the "staff" is finally revealed in a couple of months.
Happy Sales! Happy001

That was it...short and sweet...Didn't want to waste alot of time typing something that would last only a few minutes.

***regic*** · (This post was last modified: 10-17-2006, 04:38 AM by regic.)

Quote:I was sent this by email a moment ago, since I can't get into the boards any more:

You forced me to search for it. Tongue

The post was by PrincessM who joined us briefly on pages 44,45,46 of this thread and didn't get the friendliest reception because she had been one of the most prolific WP board spammers.

http://community.tuliptools.com/index.ph...5.645.html