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

WebGraphicsSource · 08-27-2006, 04:17 PM,

I contacted wagglepop to maybe see about advertising on their site for my image hosting site (gotnetspace).

It seems that banner ads are in the future, and I offered a large sum of money for a banner ad (around $100).

It seems that they think their traffic is worth more,

Quote:"Based on the traffic numbers, it will likely be quite a bit more than that.

Once we have the module integrated, we'll post pricing and availablity "

Jen · 08-27-2006, 04:31 PM,

I guess they need a reality check on more than one issue Tongue3

bargainbloodhound · (This post was last modified: 08-27-2006, 05:57 PM by bargainbloodhound.)

[quote author=WebGraphicsSource link=topic=3775.msg21643#msg21643 date=1156695435]
I contacted wagglepop to maybe see about advertising on their site for my image hosting site (gotnetspace).

It seems that banner ads are in the future, and I offered a large sum of money for a banner ad (around $100).Â

It seems that they think their traffic is worth more,

Quote:"Based on the traffic numbers, it will likely be quite a bit more than that.

Once we have the module integrated, we'll post pricing and availablity "

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see below.Â I inserted WP into this old post and updated the other site's values (the numbers are based on one site wide text link ...if more than 1 link was sold the amount that should be charged monthly per link/banner is much less than what is shown below:

[quote author=Kristijntje link=topic=3843.msg14804#msg14804 date=1148392391]
TextLinkAds has added a free Link Worth Calculator to help you determine what to charge advertisers for a link on your site.

http://www.text-link-ads.com/link_calculator.php

According to the calculator, a site-wide top of the page text link on Slashdot isÂ valued atÂ "more than you can afford", on TheRegister.co.uk it is $13,156 monthly, on f*ckedcompany.com it is worth $407 monthly, OTWA is $114 monthly,Â here on TulipTools it is worth a lowly $63 monthly,Â Wagglepop $46, and on EcommerceArena it is worth a bargain basement $18 monthly. Smile

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edit to add monthly values from the calculator for other venues: Overstock $11,522, iOffer $1,184, LiveDeal $307, eBid $91, Bidville $80

stardust · 08-27-2006, 06:00 PM,

That's an interesting site! According to several well-known sites that I checked out, Kirk's $100 offer was more than fair.

BellisimaJ. · 08-27-2006, 06:53 PM,

bbh, is a site with an Alexa rank of 545,213 a waste of money to place a link on? I don't know a thing about Alexa ranks, obviously! Iamwithstupid

Anita · 08-28-2006, 01:36 PM,

[quote author=stardust link=topic=3775.msg21647#msg21647 date=1156701624]
That's an interesting site! According to several well-known sites that I checked out, Kirk's $100 offer was more than fair.
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My guess was that Kirk's offer was more than fair BEFORE BBH gave the stats. Tongue

thentavius · 08-28-2006, 05:10 PM,

Quote:It seems that banner ads are in the future, and I offered a large sum of money for a banner ad (around $100).

Holy crap.

If that's what Ray's asking... he must be hoping for a lot of hits from board users. LOL.

maggie777 · 08-28-2006, 06:35 PM,

Quote:Maybe we should have a code word to use . First person in after a nasty remark is made could type just that word and no one else responds to the OP.

Quote:the code word is Kumbaya

Their businesses are destined to fail if they can't deal with nasty remarks. : Smile

stardust · 08-28-2006, 08:47 PM,

Ray mentions *traffic they're getting*. If he's doing stuff behind the scenes with SEO or googlebase or something and is getting lookers off those, he just MIGHT be getting more traffic than we realise. Apparently, tho, it's not yet transforming into buys, or he would be promoting that. He might be expecting great things.

Still a jerk not work trusting, IMHO.

**amy** · 08-28-2006, 09:54 PM,

One of Bidville's biggest cheerleaders angelsolutions has finally seen the light and has decided to leave Bidville. Copy and paste of her farewell speech is here:

http://www.mad-cows.com/forums/showthread.php?t=53851

The reason I'm posting this bit of info here is Dimview's comment which all Wagglepooper's who are tirelessly doing Ray's work (advertising WP) for him should heed:

dimview Wrote:Moral of the story:

It is the responsibility of an auctionsite, not its sellers, to do the advertising.

FYI--angel will be concentrating on her website Thumbsup

which is what the WPers should be doing instead of spamming for Ray.