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

chiquita · 12-27-2006, 05:21 PM,

Ill (soon to be Well, Healthy, Happy, and Whole) Toothy1

I saw the Tazbar commercial on youtube, it is very clever. Alskling your items could probably do very well in the UK, as you carry many european brands. I wish lady, ORUS,hollaback good luck with the new venture.
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chiquita · 12-27-2006, 05:47 PM,

Here is a great link for online free classes through the SBA (small business administration), including writing a business plan, and scroll down on the right hand side there is a category for e-commerce.

http://www.sba.gov/services/training/onl...index.html

Alskling · 12-27-2006, 06:41 PM,

So what happens when sellers are not allowed to talk about business on their own Store Owners' forums?

You end up with two of the first 4 threads being "prayer" threads, 1 being cyber coffee with pretend donuts and the last being the lame attempt at self-promotion called "share you wares", which is the shortest of them all.

NOw, if I were a prospective seller looking for a place to set up a store, I would want to see business issues on the STORE forum being discussed. Oh, silly me.

eclectica · 12-27-2006, 06:48 PM,

Ill! Glad to hear you're getting out of Popland - you'll be feeling better very soon Smile

[quote author=chiquita link=topic=3775.msg38258#msg38258 date=1167241629]
Here is a great link for online free classes through the SBA (small business administration), including writing a business plan, and scroll down on the right hand side there is a category for e-commerce.

http://www.sba.gov/services/training/onl...index.html
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Great link Chiquita, I bookmarked it - thanks!!

[quote author=Alskling link=topic=3775.msg38264#msg38264 date=1167244887]
So what happens when sellers are not allowed to talk about business on their own Store Owners' forums?

You end up with two of the first 4 threads being "prayer" threads, 1 being cyber coffee with pretend donuts and the last being the lame attempt at self-promotion called "share you wares", which is the shortest of them all.

NOw, if I were a prospective seller looking for a place to set up a store, I would want to see business issues on the STORE forum being discussed. Oh, silly me.
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It is rather pathetic over there lately. I used to be able to count on it for a good laugh or two. I also noticed that the "I'm gettin' the hell outta Dodge" thread is NOT being used. Big shock there. I still don't think any answer was given regarding the last 2 weeks sales' statistics. There probably isn't anything to report. Funny how KaRay is so quick to answer all other KoolAid laden requests in record time but remains ominously silent regarding this one. Huh... I wonder why Dontknow

FineThings4U · 12-27-2006, 06:55 PM,

Quote:wagglepopCC1 27 Dec 2006 15:32

Hello Members,

Just stopping by at the Breakfast Club for a quick hello as I head into the morning session.

We continue to offer a wide variety of items and products sitewide and are attracting new buyers through search engines daily, so be sure to have all of your selling optimizations configured, particularly the tools in BusinessBuilder.

Buy More Now with DynamicDiscounts has consistently been turning single purchases into orders of multiple items, so if you're not using BMN, be sure to enable it and create good targeted rules in your Merchadising Manager

Karen - WP Customer Care

Seems like Karen needs to regroup her dynamic responses. Likely she will be in the "morning session" until negativity breaks out on the boards or another seller says they are leaving. Once again, Karen tells sellers they are not doing a good job of running their businesses and they need to do more more more. Notice the pom pom waving is disturbingly quiet these days.

Occasion14

princessmirandajo · 12-27-2006, 08:51 PM,

[quote author=rho link=topic=3775.msg27529#msg27529 date=1160799203]
Alasking, I don't know if either of the sports card sellers are the following individuals, but regic posted the info quoted below in this thread last month.

Ray is really, really interested in making things look much better than they are. If he can pull $10.00 a month from unsuspecting sellers, and convince newbies to bring their friends along, he'll generate a steady income. OnlineAuction has done this for 2 yrs now. Their cheerleaders are as spellbound as WP's.

Reading about WP community values and integrity was almost shocking after the way he treated members the first time around. Lies. All lies.

[quote author=regic link=topic=3775.msg22226#msg22226 date=1157255239]

Quote:Feedback importing is not supported at this time.

Karen - WP Customer Care

bullsh.it. It's a built-in feature of the rscript software

ray's profile with imported feedback (1829 from ebay + 2 from WP)
http://www.wagglepop.com/bin/auction/vie...w_feedback&userID=1
ray's brother's profile with feedback imported from ray's ebay account: (1829 from ebay + 3 from WP)
http://www.wagglepop.com/bin/auction/vie...w_feedback&userID=6
ray's ebay feedback (1829_
http://feedback.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedback&userid=paper272

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BUMPING THIS UP FOR LURKERS AND NEW MEMBERS

Alskling · 12-27-2006, 09:56 PM,

Quote:Feedback importing is not supported at this time.

Karen - WP Customer Care

Translation: Ray does not support flipping the switch on this feature at this time, as this would mess up the "fudge" feedback system he has already in place which allows sellers to buy feedback from each other and rack up feedback for multiple "sales" to the same buyer. He also does not support asking bona fide business questions, having search of completed items, advertising or just about any other feature associated with a real business.

***regic*** · 12-27-2006, 10:07 PM,

[quote author=amy link=topic=3775.msg38250#msg38250 date=1167237608]
598 open WP stores
341 closed WP stores
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597

important milestone to watch for:
40% closed =563 open stores

let the truth be told · 12-27-2006, 10:43 PM,

WP Store count = 596

New Alexa numbers:

Daily 12/26/06 = 88,804

1 week avg. = 147,129

3 month avg. = 39,821

let the truth be told
u1it4less - "it's all in the name.."
X-POP NATION, A real seller's network

thentavius · 12-27-2006, 11:17 PM,

Quote:You end up with two of the first 4 threads being "prayer" threads, 1 being cyber coffee with pretend donuts and the last being the lame attempt at self-promotion called "share you wares", which is the shortest of them all.

I hate real coffee & donuts. I can't imagine snacking on imaginary coffee & donuts while the "share your wares" posts shrink into imaginary sales.