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

[Sweet Girl 70]

Kaboing, your graphics are awesome!!!  :turkey1: :turkey1:

One other thing I forgot to add to my list of reasons not to be on WP beside what Truth said about making a living and actually selling things:

I found it extremely strange that there was not a page that told about WP, its beginnings and who the owner is.  The monthly newsletter highlighted store owners including pictures, but not once was a picture of Karen, Ray or the "staff" featured in the newsletter.  Which made me believe there wasn't a staff or even a need for one. :blinkie:

[Sweet Girl 70]

By the way, I was at a band concert last night too!  My son plays percussion in the band and he was a "Triangle" playing fool last night!    We got a good laugh watching him run around on the stage to find cymbol's and other noise makers.  He was proud of himself cause...he only messed up once when he forgot to play softly on the gong. 

The embarassing part was my DH!!!  During "Winter Wonderland"  He was singing a twisted version...Walking round in women's underwear....I kept having to hit him to make him keep his voice down   

I kept picturing Raybil in his fuzzy bathrobe and slippers.

[Sweet Girl 70]

Walkin' 'Round in Women's Underwear

(Parody of Walking in a Winter Wonderland)


Lacy things the wife is missin'
Didn't ask for her permission
I'm wearing her clothes
Her silk pantyhose
Walkin' 'round in women's underwear

In the store there's a teddy
With little straps like spaghetti
It holds me so tight
Like handcuffs at night
Walkin' 'round in women's underwear

In the office there's a guy named Melvin
He pretends that I am Murphy Brown
He'll say "Are you ready?" we'll say "Whoa, man!
Let's wait until the wife is out of town"

Later on if you wanna
We can dress like Madonna
Put on some eye shade
And join the parade
Walkin' 'round in women's underwear

Lacy things...missin'
Didn't ask...permission
Wearing her clothes...Silk pantyhose
Walkin' 'round in women's underwear
Walkin' 'round in women's underwear
Walkin' 'round in women's underwear

[chiquita]

The study of human behavior is both fascinating and complex. I am going to post a link to information on the subject of cognitive dissonance.

http://community.tuliptools.com/index.ph...l#msg32718

reply#2636

I also found this interesting as well:

"True-believer syndrome"

Usage of the term

There are some confusion as to the proper use of the term. It was originally used by Keene very specifically about the continued belief after a fraud has been exposed, even by the original fraudsters, but the term is also used more broadly about belief that lacks evidence.

Examples

    * An example of the true-believer syndrome occurred in the case of "Carlos", a fake psychic created by James Randi, with Jose Alvarez portraying Carlos. Even after the hoax was revealed, some people continued to believe. Alvarez quotes people as saying "We know everything they're saying about you. We don't care. We believe in you." Randi said "No amount of evidence, no matter how good it is or how much there is of it, is ever going to convince the true believer to the contrary."

    * Crop circles - The creators of the first reported crop circles have admitted they were a hoax, and many others have demonstrated how complex crop circles are created, but there are many people who still believe more recent (unclaimed) circles could only have been made by landing alien spacecraft.

    * Flat Earth Society - The Flat Earth Society believes, based of the claims of Samuel Birley Rowbotham (1816-1884), that the earth is a flat disk centered at the North Pole and bounded along its southern edge by a wall of ice, with the sun, moon, planets, and stars only a few hundred miles above the surface of the earth. They believe the numerous modern satellite and Space Shuttle photos showing the earth as a sphere to be hoaxes.

[chiquita]

Sweet,
You made my whole day. I needed a gut busting laugh. Thank You
Now I have to go change my clothes, and wipe down my computer screen, also clear the tears from my eyes.

[racedream]

Sweet, i choked on a tater tot I was eating, then laughed so hard I peed my pants (just a little), and have tears streaming down my face.


:hoxmas7: :hoxmas7: :hoxmas7: :hoxmas7: :hoxmas7:

[chiquita]

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Sweet, i choked on a tater tot I was eating, then laughed so hard I peed my pants (just a little), and have tears streaming down my face.


:hoxmas7: :hoxmas7: :hoxmas7: :hoxmas7: :hoxmas7:
[/quote]

Sweet we are forever changed, none of us will be able to sit through another one of our kids school performances at Christmas and keep a straight face.
;D

[maryrussel]

I'm never going to be able to hear Winter Wonderland again without cracking up.

[racedream]

I'm glad that last night at my daughter's choir concert, the only song I laughed at was jingle bells. The little ditty that I shared last night was running through my head during the entire song. Next year's concert will be interesting, to say the least

[chiquita]

Another archived post from OTWA
A poster is responding to Ray

Originally Posted by romeo362
Maybe someone can answer a question for me...

I just took a look over at SellYourItem.com......what is it they are doing in terms of SEO?

I couldn't find anything of note regarding that....perhaps I'm just missing something, it's my first foray over there...

Ray

TR
Well, I hadn't checked in a while, and it looks like they have let off the gas on that (because it didn't do much good). For quite some time, you could count on your SYI listing to come up in the top 5 google results (unless it was "pokemon" or something with 980billion results and sponsors), and other search engines as well, when it was entered into search. They stayed on it and kept their listings at the top, but it never translated into a sales boost, so I guess they gave it up.

You aren't offering anything to bring buyers or sellers to your site. Oh, you might get 10,000 or 20,000 listings up and going, if you are doing everything right, and if you want to pad the stats with recipie auctions and dollar store junk for $5 each in dutch auctions with 30,000 units available and then count every unit of a dutch auction as an auction, then hey, you'll be like some others out there and post huge stats of half a million or a million auctions going....

What have you got to offer? I just don't see anything you have that is any better than, or even necessarily as good as, what 100 others are offering.

One came along with a big ad budget, said they were going to spend a million dollars over the course of a year, and got everyone excited. But you know, in 1999, Amazon introduced it's auction site. Do you know how much they spent advertising it? $66million over the course of one Quarter. That was probably almost enough to BUY eBay at the time. And they didn't even sniff success, and they had a more established brand. Yahoo rolled auctions with a multi-million dollar ad budget, and they had by far the most hits of ANY site on the web... but their auctions never managed to sniff eBay. In 2000, many of us eBay sellers felt that time was ripe to diversify or die... and we tried. We increased Yahoo's listings by over 800,000, and other sites by another hundred thousand (the goal was a million, and we came pretty close). Then it fell back to previous levels.

We've seen them come and go. Many other people, just like you, determined, confident... and it never works. Lots of them had more ideas or more to offer than you have presented. Do you have some big idea you are saving for later, that you don't want to unveil? Or is this it? Is this all you've got???