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

[sneakymagenta]

65/9/825 

waggle 65/9/0/825

:raypoop:

[stardust]

Okay, I'll take your bait.

Ummmmmm.........what's  *0*?

[bargainbloodhound]

0 is probably the $49.95 monthly "showcase stores"

other RScript site numbers:
theauctionman 116/28/32/24,014

other smaller auction sites with stores:
eBid US 700 stores 168,000 items
eBid UK 2200 stores 185,000 items
ePier several hundred stores 134,000 auction items 280,000 store items
Bidville 450 stores 950,000 items

not auctions, but...
iOffer over 1000 stores, 600,000 listings
LiveDeal over 1000 stores, 2 million listings

Alexa traffic rankings (smaller numbers are better.  Yahoo is ranked #1, eBay #9, Amazon #14)
iOffer 2,193
LiveDeal 5,767
eBid 17,178
Bidville 24,001
TulipTools 61,827 <--included for comparison purposes
ePier 64,307
Wagglepop 305,131

WP has the least number of listings, the least traffic, and yet the highest listing fees (eBid, Bidville, ,ePier, iOffer, LiveDeal are free for both store and auction listings) and higher monthly store subscription prices than either eBid (free.  LiveDeal and iOffer stores are also free), or Bidville ($5).

The lack of selection means buyers won't come, the high fees mean sellers won't come (unless Ray limits his marketing to some of the clueless people on the eBay boards who have never stepped foot off eBay and don't know WP's prices are higher than 99% of the alternatives)

[bargainbloodhound]

Nothing has changed since last year. 

Effective immediately, we have terminated your user account.

and

Well it all started out with me speaking my mind, whoops, about NO sales. I guess they purge the dissedents over there.

http://forums.ebay.com/db2/thread.jspa?threadID=1000299252&tstart=0

[Anita]

The one WP post that stayed on the SB for a verrrrrrry long time is gone now.  The first post didn't give the actual URL, so why did eBay pull the entire thread? 

My post didn't contain the URL either and it got pulled right away.

Could it be that eBay IS nervous?! 

[Jen]

Wagglepop???

Geez, I take a leave of absence, and the world goes crazy. 

Jen

[iron_chick]

Folks on the stores board are getting all excited about WPs $10 a month plan. 

The only one I see that making money for is Ray.  (It has already bumped up the number of store subscriptions.) 

[Anita]

[quote author=iron_chick link=topic=3775.msg16176#msg16176 date=1150391822]
Folks on the stores board are getting all excited about WPs $10 a month plan. 

The only one I see that making money for is Ray.  (It has already bumped up the number of store subscriptions.)  
[/quote]

And PayPal.  PP got 8 cents from me when I paid my WP bill.

[amy]

I posted on that thread--all of the poppers  will blame BBH for the post.  :twistedevil:

[cranky_hippie]

You are so negative, Amy!