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

[Sweet Girl 70]

We have 128 stores already and looking for more it's free Advertising.

Radio spots are written and we are into now phase 2 which is to promote the heck out of us which will start tomorrow. If you have any question just ask away.

Hi Wagglepoppers,


Ok 2 days up on WPSSU and we have had 780 hits so far I just checked the server site and they have a very detailed breakdonw of everything so it's just going to get higher. Wow just shocked on the amount of hits in 2 days.

Now we are in all the searches hopefully I check Google and others we are going to be in over 300 search engines shortly. Also we have 3 more stores among WPSSU which are Snuggly Bears, Classic Kitchens & KK's Clothing Lot

Welcome to you all to WPSSU. We are going to get many more hits in the near future plans are in effect. You will be abole to see in your sight meter if you have one.

Total stores 132 Stores come on we can do more tell your friends in the fourums or other sellers help out your fellow Wagglepopper We are going to make this website Rock!!!

For those who don't know it's FREE FREE FREE I'm investing some of my own money and bought the web domain I'm doing my part ask not what Wagglepop can do for you Ask yourself what can you do for Wagglepop Auction Website to benifit us all.

Any myspace or Bloggers out there feel free to use the WPSSU logo on your blog here it is below.....Link us all over the place.

This guy is a major koolaid drinker!!!!

[allmusicsearch]

[quote author=Sweet Girl 70 link=topic=3775.msg31840#msg31840 date=1163290965]
http://www.wpssu.com/

You need to see this site.  The Poppers are paying to be featured on this site.

Their $10.00 monthly fees to list items that don't generate traffic or sales has just increased!  They are paying for the exposure on this site as well.
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I'm too lazy to log out and log back in with my BBH ID. 

sneakymagenta mentioned how bad that site was a few pages back.  It's the site owned by the Popper who took a week off to learn web design.  :blinkie: 

Alexa traffic rank: not even in the top 5 million.  Yep, they'll be getting tons of exposure for their "donation" 

Crappy link pages like that never work because there is absolutely no reason for a buyer to visit them.  99% of the traffic that mini mall sites like that receive is from sellers.

I'm investing some of my own money and bought the web domain

The domain name was free. From the domain WHOIS records "You get *FREE* DOMAIN REGISTRATION for life when you host with BlueHost.Com."

[cranky_hippie]

Radio spots are written

:blinkie:

[chiquita]

They will probably claim they get more hits than ebay express too.  8)

If it wasn't so very sad it would be funny. OK it is funny.

When I first looked at the name I thought it said wassup (what's up?)  :blinkie:

[allmusicsearch]

[quote author=cranky_hippie link=topic=3775.msg31845#msg31845 date=1163292286]

Radio spots are written

:blinkie:




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You think that's funny...I read a press release this week for the launch of yet another generic $200 phpProBid auction site (the same script HiBidder uses). The site has a whopping 200 listings. :blinkie:  The press release said the site is a serious eBay contender and they're planning a NATIONAL TV AD CAMPAIGN.  Uh, yeah, National TV and the only change they made to the default install of the script was to slap a bad logo on the top.

[stardust]

Gosh.  Poor maroons....... 

[Alskling]

The WPSSU was started by a cheerleader some time ago. The thread is under the "Seller" Board of the WP forum called Wagglep*p Sellers Unite and explains his grand plan with a diagram that looks like some kind of pyramid scheme that I can't reproduce here. Poppers pay for advertising plus a monthly fee to be on the site. I wonder who's actually getting the fees? These misguided followers are so loyal they'll pay anything for the privilege of calling themselves Poppers. Again, what kind of business sense does that make?

The WPSSU-creator's post:

02 Sep 2006 16:55      
My goal is to have Wp create a link/portal into itself through a group of stores, similar to the mini mall concept but with WP providing the support. A few questions before we can go any further.
1)Would you be willing to pay say 2$ more a month for this privilege
2)Would you be willing to contribute to the advertising campaign
3)Would you be willing to help draft bylaws and such.
4)Are you willing to stay the course here and self promote WP aggresivly?

Here's his original post:

31 Aug 2006 18:12    
My name is Sam, I and many others have defected from feepay. Some of us are united through a thread started on feepay. Our desire is to aggressively promote WP. We hope to form a coalition of store's aptly named " circle of stores" I have been in contact with Karen and her kindness is appreciated! With that said she awaits a draft of the concept I have afformentioned. We are working on that now and would like to invite those who would like to participate to post there user id and store names here, Here is the concept.

There are still alot of details ok a ton! But it is a concept. Karen I guess this is a rough draft. If you think this is worthy to consider e-me and we will pursue it, Thank you all for your kind consideration and objective criticism I hope will follow,

[chiquita]

New Karen/Ray post:

Hello Members,

As noted in the recent edition of The Revolution Newsletter, Wagglepop is scheduled to grow and expand in some rather dramatic ways in both functionality and marketing exposure.

This "shift" in approximately mid-2007 is intended to both fully address any current limitations or issues as voiced by both membership and potential membership, and build general buyer awareness and interest.

An important topic we would like additional input on during the specifications phase is:

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WP Listing & Sales Management Tools

*Which of the following current eBay tools would you like to see built as functional approximations or duplicates for Wagglepop?

- My eBay (with all current functionalities)
- Selling Manager
- Selling Manager Pro
- Turbo Lister
- Blackthorne Basic
- Blackthorne Pro
- File Exchange
- Sales Reports
- Accounting Assistant
- Marketplace Research
etc.

*What unique 3rd-party tools and features would you like to see considered for implementation?

*What "direct upload" tools would you like to see support for?

- Fillz
- Art of Books
etc.

*What ideas do you have that do not yet exist that you feel would be good additions to any of the sales listing and management tools above?

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We would like to thank everyone in advance for your participation within this important thread as we continue our mission to build Wagglepop into everything it can be, and more

A few of the sellers wanted to use Auctiva and Inkfrog w/ WP. My understanding is that both of these sites have absolutely refused to do business with Ray, indicating that if/until he proves his site is viable they want nothing to do with it.

:popcorneaters:

[stardust]

mid-2007 ??  8 months from now? 

[bargainbloodhound]

until he proves his site is viable they want nothing to do with it.

Viable to a major solutions provider doesn't mean shaky finances, 160K listings, and a miniscule membership of 7,000-8,000.  There is no financial incentive for a solutions provider to invest in the development of support for a site like WP because it's unlikely they will ever recoup their investment which is why the major solutions providers only support multi-million dollar mega companies like eBay, Amazon, Yahoo, Overstock.  Channel Advisor and Infopia finally added support for uBid recently, but uBid is a site with $20 million plus revenues and 4 million plus members...compare those numbers to WP.

A few months ago someone asked Karen Ray if WP would support Marketworks and he/she/it answered The best approach would be to contact the provider directly, and express interest .  Umm, get a clue Karen Ray, WP sellers expressing interest isn't going to make MW add support for WP. Even if everyone expressing interest was a PeSA member it would be unlikely they'd add support.  Smaller sites just don't generate the revenues to justify the development costs. Even a site like Yahoo is unlikely to justify the costs which is why most solution providers don't support it (or Bidville, etc).  Marketworks added support for Yahoo in 2000 and someone at MW told me in 2004 that they had yet to recoup their costs...and yet Karen Ray can sit there with a straight face and tell a member support for WP is a possibility? :