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

chiquita · 11-10-2006, 10:17 PM,

It appears that the poppers opening up another store are also the most loyal and vocal sellers on the boards. : Smile

There is one seller who has 2 featured stores. Ka Ching!!!

They have lost all common sense and reason. This collective blindness is so bad for several of the sellers that if Ray/WP suddenly vanished they would still defend him. Look at Amway as an example. There have been rumors for years it was a cult. Cults can develop without being based on a religious dogma. After all Amway is a so called business not a church.
Smileybrainwashed

cranky_hippie · 11-10-2006, 10:43 PM,

Quote:It appears that the poppers opening up another store are also the most loyal and vocal sellers on the boards.

You know I am beginning to doubt that those are even legitimate stores and sellers. With the issues of large numbers of feedback buys between these small groups who seem to SO love waggleflop and have multiple stores, I would bet they are just plants (or Ray himself) to make it look good.

Alskling · (This post was last modified: 11-10-2006, 10:49 PM by Alskling.)

NEW THREAD AT WP:
"Is it just me or is it really quiet on here today. I have not had one hit today."

Pooper Responses:

"I don't know about everywhere else, but here in PA it's almost 70 degrees. I think the whole eastern US is having above normal temps.
Me? I'm heading outside to do some last-minute fall projects !!! Maybe there's something to that?"

"No Hits for the last 24 hours."

"I just discovered why I am not selling easily. Why would I bother to sell something for 79 cents? I have wasted my time listing vhs tapes to find someone is selling 300 of them for 79 cents each. Guess I will pull them and put them somewhere else or give them to friends. Not worth leaving them here."

"It could be because tomorrow is Vertern's Day. A lot of places are "observing" it today."

"Thought.....we are business owners/people. Do we get paid holidays?? LOL "

Appears most of the active threads are "support" posts for fat poppers with health issues.

BTW: Can anyone out there tell me what VERTERN'S DAY is? Never heard of that one.

chiquita · 11-10-2006, 10:58 PM,

[quote author=cranky_hippie link=topic=3775.msg31653#msg31653 date=1163198625]

You know I am beginning to doubt that those are even legitimate stores and sellers. With the issues of large numbers of feedback buys between these small groups who seem to SO love waggleflop and have multiple stores, I would bet they are just plants (or Ray himself) to make it look good.
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Cranky the one I am referring to with 2 stores isn't Ray. However the sportscards sellers, among a few others could for sure be Ray.

Alskling any sign of SB posting?
They aren't getting hits because nobody knows they exist. Not the weather, the vets, or mercury retrograde can be blamed for zero sales on WP. Laughing7

Alskling · 11-10-2006, 11:02 PM,

Chiquita: NOPE, our dear friend SB has gone AWOL.

cranky_hippie · 11-10-2006, 11:08 PM,

As far as I'm concerned, any store or seller with a name that no one recognizes as having been an Ebay seller or known to internet selling in any other way...is suspect, especially if they are cheering too loudly for Ray and, seemingly, spending money on mulitple stores.

And Scott is definitely suspect as a legitimate seller, as well.

Alskling · 11-10-2006, 11:31 PM,

[quote author=cranky_hippie link=topic=3775.msg31657#msg31657 date=1163200100]
As far as I'm concerned, any store or seller with a name that no one recognizes as having been an Ebay seller or known to internet selling in any other way...is suspect, especially if they are cheering too loudly for Ray and, seemingly, spending money on mulitple stores.

And Scott is definitely suspect as a legitimate seller, as well.
[/quote]

EXACTLY! I've suspected as well, from as far back as July when I first joined. There were a ton of eBay defectors at the time, but they were easy to spot. As time went on, the store owners distilled down to sellers I'd never heard of on eBay and those that obviously had little or no on-line sales experience. The over-abundance of stores selling trading cards and magazines became suspect as soon as I heard that was Ray's speciality on eBay and that he still had (and still does, I believe) a store there. Due to the fact that several of the "card" stores on eBay had links to WP (in violation of eBay policy, but what would he care), I suspected he opened stores under several new eBay IDs to direct traffic over to WP stores which he either he owns directly or owns under friends/relatives/disciples' IDs.

***regic*** · 11-11-2006, 12:07 AM,

Quote:BTW: Can anyone out there tell me what VERTERN'S DAY is? Never heard of that one.

It's a sad statement on the education system in this country. Google it -half the search results are spelling challenged elementary school teachers :blinkie:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=VERTERN%27S+DAY&btnG=Google+Search

chiquita · 11-11-2006, 12:21 AM,

[quote author=regic link=topic=3775.msg31671#msg31671 date=1163203671]

Quote:BTW: Can anyone out there tell me what VERTERN'S DAY is? Never heard of that one.

It's a sad statement on the education system in this country. Google it -half the search results are spelling challenged elementary school teachers :blinkie:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=VERTERN%27S+DAY&btnG=Google+Search
[/quote]

Just remember our super smart President said "Is our children learning?" and the now famous "internets".
Happy001

chiquita · 11-11-2006, 01:57 AM,

OK TT techie people please translate this post by KaRay regarding a question about being able to sell internationally.

Quote:Hello Members,

I think it's important for eveyone to know that we are evolving Wagglepop just as quickly as we can, including this topic of "international" buyers.

As a new business less than 180 days old, it's imperative that we have every single possible peripheral issue related to any changes we make addressed fully and completely before making those changes.

Related issue include:

- The ability to specify "buyer only" locations allowable for registration, while limiting the seller locales to "like markets" concurrently. That's an advanced and completely new coding module that would have to be designed, created, tested, and implemented.

- The ability to authenticate registered accounts outside of the current locales. Without that (and perhaps even with it), non-paying bidder incidents could conceivably rise dramatically.

- Developing an effective criteria for inclusion into the allowable registration process.

- Currency conversion systems and methods, and the coding module for that.

etc.

There simply is no quick or simple way to expand, which is one of the many reasons we've decided to take the route we have by making this concern part of the larger sitewide evolution in mid-2007.

We thank you for your understanding, patience, and support while we do everything possible to help make Wagglepop everything it can be, and more

:blinkie:

Once again the question is about Rscript's capacity?