Poll: Who is to blame for sellers leaving Wagglepop en masse? You do not have permission to vote in this poll. |
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Paid Feebay Employees With An Agenda | 1 | 1.64% | |
Infiltrators | 0 | 0% | |
Trolls | 0 | 0% | |
Naysayers | 1 | 1.64% | |
Morally Bankrupt Miscreants | 3 | 4.92% | |
Upstream Providers | 0 | 0% | |
Jealous Types | 1 | 1.64% | |
Deadbeats | 1 | 1.64% | |
Ray Romeo | 40 | 65.57% | |
Ray Romeo\'s Alter Ego KaRay | 10 | 16.39% | |
Wagglepop CEO Ray Romeo Listing Items On eBay In His eBay Store Instead Of Listing On His Own Site | 4 | 6.56% | |
Total | 61 vote(s) | 100% |
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Wagglepop 2: Deja Vu as Auction Site That Left Sellers Stranded Reopens
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04-26-2008, 04:45 PM,
Post: #17271
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Re: Wagglepop 2: Deja Vu as Auction Site That Left Sellers Stranded Reopens
Quote:SmartSell Pro will be superceded/replaced with a new participation structure, one that will generate fair revenues that will allow a smaller site such as we are to continue operation. Was not the idea of FEE HIKE brought to the members for a vote, and was overwhelmingly rejected? I thought WP was the place where THE PEOPLE rule. Quote:Ray and many sellers haven't woke up to the fact that the eBay alternative they've been looking for already exists. It's called search (both free and paid).No truer words were ever spoken. Quote:I believe that probably 99% of online sellers, given the right attitude, would be capable of building a more solid and profitable business on Wagglepop than on any other venue online. And what "attitude" is that? The attitude that sell-thru is an "illogical consideration", making money is not a part of business, warm fuzzies are more important than feeding your children or paying the rent, supporting the site owner's decision to support the competition with money YOU'VE invested in the site is good and necessary, being chastised, ridiculed and excommunicated for asking pertinent business questions is okay, and more? Nimrod. |
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04-26-2008, 09:23 PM,
Post: #17272
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Re: Wagglepop 2: Deja Vu as Auction Site That Left Sellers Stranded Reopens
I predict this seller is about to be banned :blinkie:
seller Wrote:Those 70,000 unique monthly visitors sure not hitting my showcase store. My site meter shows 99.9% of traffic to my store via trafficswarm which is a joke in it's self since one out of every 100 may stay a bit longer then 30 seconds and have more then one page view. seller Wrote:It's quite obvious that an increase of fees are in the works which is fine however, I want to know what Wagglepop is going to do for the sellers to bring buyers to the site???? seller Wrote:I'm also listing on Blujay and 5 other sites besides Wagglepop and that's my point. If I need to promote my Wagglepop store as I do the free sites, I can put that $50 to better use then to pay it here and do exactly the same thing here to drive traffic to my Wagglepop store. seller Wrote:AndRay Wrote:In response to what we will be doing to bring buyers to the site:Sorry to hear that Andrew. Wagglepop may not be the place for me. I have been holding out listing here in fear of just what you have said. AndRay responds AndRay Wrote:In response to what we will be doing to bring buyers to the site: AndRay needs mo' money now! AndRay Wrote:I am going to review this weekend and into Monday possibly accelerating both the announcement and related implementation schedules. I will update if necessary in the early part of this upcoming week. The Nimrod tells the seller that Wagglepop has more buyers than the rest of the planet put together Nimrod Wrote:Not that I qualify as a "most successful seller", at least not yet, but.......I do also operate stores on both of the huge venues, Amazon and eBay. My Wagglepop store almost always outperforms both of those stores in terms of sales, and even more so in terms of profits. Therefore, I do find search engine optimization to be a far more valuable tool than what the larger venues have as far as greater foot traffic that is generated by expensive advertising which is paid for out of the substantial fees that they charge. Nimrod Wrote:seller Wrote:"I'm also listing on Blujay and 5 other sites besides Wagglepop and that's my point. If I need to promote my Wagglepop store as I do the free sites, I can put that $50 to better use then to pay it here and do exactly the same thing here to drive traffic to my Wagglepop store."I would strongly encourage you to sell here at a Basic Store level as opposed to leaving the site. The point that I think I'm doing a poor job of trying to make is that once your Wagglepop store gets more established and starts building better rank in the search engines, you are going to be making far more sales here than on all of the free-to-list sites put together even you totally promote the heck out of them. The value of the search engine exposure that we can achieve HERE (by doing nothing other than simply listing well) is much greater than what can be achieved elsewhere even with a lot of money and effort put into promoting. I'm no good at promoting nor do I wish to put a lot of effort into it. That is one reason why I am so appreciative of Wagglepop. Nimrod Wrote:Blujay is one of the many sites that I have personal experience with. Other sites like that are nowhere near the same league as Wagglepop. I think that in the time I've been working on my Blujay store, my Wagglepop sales have been approximately 1000 times the dollar amount of Blujay sales (actually SALE singular) LOL. Nimrod Wrote:I am a former Silver Level PowerSeller. I started off on FeeBay taking the first few months learning how to sell enough to cover the fees. By the beginning of 2004, I had that figured out LOL. By the beginning of 2006, I was selling at a Silver Level PowerSeller level, that is averaging over $3K/month in sales. I am still right around that level now, but only a small percentage of that comes from FeeBay. She has more sales from Waggle than other sites she lists at because: a. she has spammed and linked to her WP store on 100 sites and doesn't link to her other stores.<--24/7 spamming not WP's SEO is why her WP store appears before her eBay store in searches b. She has 1050 listings on WP and only 140 on Amazon, 71 on eBay, 55 on Ecrater, 1 on Plunderhere, 0 on HiBidder
OAI Moron Hall of Fame
<i>sell-thru is an irrelevant and illogical consideration.</i> -KaRay, owner of WP giving selling advice, 2006 <i>the site was 'NOT' hacked but the little script that had recipes on had the link altered</i> -Plunderhere Owner Mark Taylor after his site was hacked by a Chinese hacker gang, 2008 Some people have it like that, others dont. I do. -Probidscripts owner Spencer Osama Binweb Laden Ray bragging about his ability to scam the OAI without feeling any guilt, 2008. How does an auction site get buyers? -question asked at PSU by owner of auction site BidBeaver.ca, 2008 How do I get sales? -question asked at PSU by online store owner, 2009. I was told by my Tech. Support that my site dont really need SSL.. his servers are well protected and that info your providing to join aint really top secret information -owner of auction site TheTraderOutlet.com discussig his site's lack of basic security, 2009 |
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04-26-2008, 11:57 PM,
Post: #17273
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Re: Wagglepop 2: Deja Vu as Auction Site That Left Sellers Stranded Reopens
So twice in 4 days my posts gets removed because I make observations but yet others talk "disorderly" and their posts are not removed..??????????????????
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04-27-2008, 12:16 AM,
Post: #17274
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Re: Wagglepop 2: Deja Vu as Auction Site That Left Sellers Stranded Reopens
[quote author=chrisasst link=topic=3775.msg69521#msg69521 date=1209254228]
So twice in 4 days my posts gets removed because I make observations but yet others talk "disorderly" and their posts are not removed..?????????????????? [/quote] The $50 monthly Ray receives from today's poster for a showcase and a featured store is probably the only reason the posts weren't removed. |
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04-27-2008, 01:09 AM,
Post: #17275
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Re: Wagglepop 2: Deja Vu as Auction Site That Left Sellers Stranded Reopens
[quote author=regic link=topic=3775.msg69522#msg69522 date=1209255392]
The $50 monthly Ray receives from today's poster for a showcase and a featured store is probably the only reason the posts weren't removed. [/quote] Not anymore. That store already down-graded to basic. So the gloves are off.
The one thing you can never afford to lose is your temper.
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04-27-2008, 05:23 AM,
Post: #17276
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Re: Wagglepop 2: Deja Vu as Auction Site That Left Sellers Stranded Reopens
another unhappy popper Wrote:I am one holding off on listing any further until I hear the changes. I have had zero sales here and according to the Site Meter, very few hits in my store, and even less going into my listings. I have had only 2 inquiries about my product here, and both of them bought from me at another selling venue. The other site I am on is free, and they also provide me with first page placement on Google. I've had numerous sales there, far more than I ever anticipated....and none here. I advertise both stores equally, but with higher fees here, I am not able to offer the same pricing as I do on my other site. As a result, this site is languishing for me. I had made a commitment to myself to stay here at least through the summer, to see if things picked up when all the changes hit over at the Bay. But with all the talk of change here, and the hint of higher fees, I am not sure it's feasible for me to continue to sell here. AndRay's reply Wrote:WP Members,
OAI Moron Hall of Fame
<i>sell-thru is an irrelevant and illogical consideration.</i> -KaRay, owner of WP giving selling advice, 2006 <i>the site was 'NOT' hacked but the little script that had recipes on had the link altered</i> -Plunderhere Owner Mark Taylor after his site was hacked by a Chinese hacker gang, 2008 Some people have it like that, others dont. I do. -Probidscripts owner Spencer Osama Binweb Laden Ray bragging about his ability to scam the OAI without feeling any guilt, 2008. How does an auction site get buyers? -question asked at PSU by owner of auction site BidBeaver.ca, 2008 How do I get sales? -question asked at PSU by online store owner, 2009. I was told by my Tech. Support that my site dont really need SSL.. his servers are well protected and that info your providing to join aint really top secret information -owner of auction site TheTraderOutlet.com discussig his site's lack of basic security, 2009 |
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04-27-2008, 02:08 PM,
Post: #17277
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Re: Wagglepop 2: Deja Vu as Auction Site That Left Sellers Stranded Reopens
Quote:WP Members, |
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04-27-2008, 09:17 PM,
Post: #17278
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Re: Wagglepop 2: Deja Vu as Auction Site That Left Sellers Stranded Reopens
yet another seller Wrote:I don't feel a need to leave because changes have been announced, but rather because the actuality of the changes has not been shared with us. We have basically been told things are changing and fees are going up. No specifics. It is hard to plan your business when your venue does not let you know what is going on. AndRay is getting sick of the negativity! AndRay Wrote:Change always brings spritied discussion along with it.
OAI Moron Hall of Fame
<i>sell-thru is an irrelevant and illogical consideration.</i> -KaRay, owner of WP giving selling advice, 2006 <i>the site was 'NOT' hacked but the little script that had recipes on had the link altered</i> -Plunderhere Owner Mark Taylor after his site was hacked by a Chinese hacker gang, 2008 Some people have it like that, others dont. I do. -Probidscripts owner Spencer Osama Binweb Laden Ray bragging about his ability to scam the OAI without feeling any guilt, 2008. How does an auction site get buyers? -question asked at PSU by owner of auction site BidBeaver.ca, 2008 How do I get sales? -question asked at PSU by online store owner, 2009. I was told by my Tech. Support that my site dont really need SSL.. his servers are well protected and that info your providing to join aint really top secret information -owner of auction site TheTraderOutlet.com discussig his site's lack of basic security, 2009 |
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04-27-2008, 09:49 PM,
Post: #17279
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Re: Wagglepop 2: Deja Vu as Auction Site That Left Sellers Stranded Reopens
Quote:In the intermim, I would ask that all members please note the requirements for participation on these Community boards. We will not allow them to become festered with negativity as on eBay or elsewhere. Of course not. It might make all the other stop and think.
Never argue with an idiot they drag you down to their level then beat you with experience.
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04-27-2008, 11:00 PM,
Post: #17280
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Re: Wagglepop 2: Deja Vu as Auction Site That Left Sellers Stranded Reopens
Quote:I am going to push up the announcement to this week, and I expect membership will find some very pleasant surprises within it. I fail to see how fee hikes and further reduction of features would be considered "pleasant surprises", but then, there's a lot about WP I fail to see: e.g. honesty, integrity, fulfillment of promises, sales, and much more, including a thousand or so sellers who gave it a try, got fed up and split. |
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