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

[RiverRat]

[quote author=chiquita link=topic=3775.msg40869#msg40869 date=1169419464]
Is Ray now requiring phone verification for buyers and sellers? It was mentioned on PSU.
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Yes and it has to be a landline or a cellphone.  :blinkie:

[RiverRat]

Don't ya just love this one....

wagglepopCC1  20 Jan 2007 16:43     



Hello Members,

Just a reminder that seller invoices as issued on 1/10/07 and due no later than 1/19/07 if not yet paid are now overdue.

We would ask that anyone who has not yet paid their seller invoice please do so at this time to bring the account current by clicking on the Transactions link in My Wagglepop.

Seller invoices which are left unpaid will send the associated accounts into automated suspension mode before the end of January and will not be active starting February 1st, 2007.

As a matter of policy, seller invoices are issued on the 10th each month, and due no later than the 19th.

Prompt payment of seller invoices is the absolute "lifeblood" of our 100% trust-based community.

Karen - WP Customer Care

Bolding mine.
Even Ray is telling the sellers what the single most important thing is...at least to him.

[chiquita]

[quote author=RiverRat link=topic=3775.msg40871#msg40871 date=1169420594]
[quote author=chiquita link=topic=3775.msg40869#msg40869 date=1169419464]
Is Ray now requiring phone verification for buyers and sellers? It was mentioned on PSU.
:blinkie:
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Yes and it has to be a landline or a cellphone.  :blinkie:
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I can understand seller verification but buyer verification is a very fine line. If the reason is to avoid scammers, he needs a better plan, WP  is way too new and too small to start expecting buyers to jump through hoops. This will totally impact the sellers who are trying to get their ebay customers to purchase on the pop. Ebay doesn't even require this. If I were a seller on WP I would be pissed. The sellers better take a long hard look at this because it will impact their business directly. You find an item from say froogle, you like it and go to buy it BUT WAIT, you have to be phone verified?
Can you say hit the back button and jam on out of the site. Think people "think like a buyer", even if you really wanted the item would you want a phone call from a stranger and then pony up personal info. on top of that. Buyers have stated repeatedly that one of their top priorities is protecting their private information, for fear of identity theft among others.

This is a bad and I mean bad idea.

[FineThings4U]

Maybe that's why the store count has dropped to 411 today and nobody can find out if the mini mall is still operating (the one that Bric set up).  Also gone is the breakfast thread that zmorick started every morning.

Sellers are going poof and disappearing without a word from the boards and/or from poopland.

[chiquita]

Prompt payment of seller invoices is the absolute "lifeblood"only income I have coming in, and I am relying on the fact that at least 100% 90% of our trust-based community pays up.

:raypoop:



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[RiverRat]

[quote author=chiquita link=topic=3775.msg40873#msg40873 date=1169421419]
[quote author=RiverRat link=topic=3775.msg40871#msg40871 date=1169420594]
[quote author=chiquita link=topic=3775.msg40869#msg40869 date=1169419464]
Is Ray now requiring phone verification for buyers and sellers? It was mentioned on PSU.
:blinkie:
[/quote]

Yes and it has to be a landline or a cellphone.  :blinkie:
[/quote]

I can understand seller verification but buyer verification is a very fine line. If the reason is to avoid scammers, he needs a better plan, WP  is way too new and too small to start expecting buyers to jump through hoops. This will totally impact the sellers who are trying to get their ebay customers to purchase on the pop. Ebay doesn't even require this. If I were a seller on WP I would be pissed. The sellers better take a long hard look at this because it will impact their business directly. You find an item from say froogle, you like it and go to buy it BUT WAIT, you have to be phone verified?
Can you say hit the back button and jam on out of the site. Think people "think like a buyer", even if you really wanted the item would you want a phone call from a stranger and then pony up personal info. on top of that. Buyers have stated repeatedly that one of their top priorities is protecting their private information, for fear of identity theft among others.

This is a bad and I mean bad idea.

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I recently registered there and you literally had to wait for an automated phone call.  THEN you had to wait for an email to send you a verification number to enter.  Took almost 30 minutes for the email to show up.

So much for grabbing those impulse buyers.   :



[quote author=FineThings4U link=topic=3775.msg40874#msg40874 date=1169421485]
Maybe that's why the store count has dropped to 411 today and nobody can find out if the mini mall is still operating (the one that Bric set up).  Also gone is the breakfast thread that zmorick started every morning.

Sellers are going poof and disappearing without a word from the boards and/or from poopland.


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BricBracJo's store is gone too.  She may have had more than one...but the one she used in her signature has been closed.


[quote author=chiquita link=topic=3775.msg40875#msg40875 date=1169421840]

Prompt payment of seller invoices is the absolute "lifeblood"only income I have coming in, and I am relying on the fact that at least 100% 90% of our trust-based community pays up.

:raypoop:



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[Alskling]

[quote author=chiquita link=topic=3775.msg40869#msg40869 date=1169419464]
Is Ray now requiring phone verification for buyers and sellers? It was mentioned on PSU.
:blinkie:
[/quote]

A new post on PSU:

I've been trying to register at wp for 2 weeks----first 2 weeks ago it just would not go thru kept saying not registered--- but then i tried again and saw it had changed to include a phone number and they would call and give a code number to register with----

I LOVE the layout and looks like the best of all online site---and was wanting to get on and buy a bunch of stuff--- does anyone why registering has been so hard?

How about BECAUSE RAY DOESN'T GIVE A RAT'S ASS ABOUT YOU.

[RiverRat]

BTW - Quick update on my ended auction (for keyword spamming):

Received a very nice apologetic email from eBay last night stating they were in error and the listing should not have been removed.  They erased the violation from my record and reinstated the auction.

After the email I sent them  :twistedevil:, I fully expected to receive a "You have been NARU'd" response back.     

[chiquita]

River, frame that email, cause it's gonna snow, or someplace is going to freeze over.


OK another point regarding phone verification, I am not going to give my phone info. to a site to be verified if that site doesn't have a toll free number visibly posted in their contact info. so I can contact them too. Show me yours first bucko.
Ray you need a trip to an oxygen cafe so your brain can start working.

[racedream]

Store Count:    411
Listing Number: 149,694

The store count keeps dropping. Listings are down. And now to be a member of Pop Land, you have to have phone number verification?? Sounds like Ray is doing everything he can to make Pop Land the last place new sellers (and especially buyers) want to be. WP is not buyer friendly. That is one reason I only bought one item when I was a member there. The seller I bought from was great, no complaints at all there. It was just hard to navigate the site from the buyers side of it.

If I decided to become a member of a site to buy something I saw and liked, went to register and during registration noticed that I had to give my phone number and wait for someone from the site to call me, I would hit the back button, leave the site, and never go back. That is just an asinine way to conduct member verification for a buyer.