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

[bargainbloodhound]

I've been doing a lot of research lately on the new auction sites that have sprouted up in the past 2 years. My conclusion so far, with WP included, they have no buyers

The problem's been going on for years.  The buyers are usually the site's small community of sellers.  WP actually has a lot more buyers than many small auction sites sites (case in point: PlunderHere, 530 total sales since 1/1, $3400 total sales since 1/1. 820 members. HiBidder isn't much better than Plunder for sales.  FYI for the Karma Gremlins:  Sneaky (kind of) had a few good things to say about WP in this post on the Plunder thread http://community.tuliptools.com/index.ph...l#msg49592).

Sellers want an alternative but the vast majority of auction buyers have absolutely no interest in switching to a new auction site.  Sellers would be much better off targeting the 75% of online buyers who don't shop at auction sites than they would be hoping (as they have been for 8 years) that an alternative auction site arises that appeals to the 25% of buyers who buy on auction sites.

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BBH & others, Thanks for the info and the PM's. I will work on the header issue when I get home tonight. I just called my old ISP to get them to update the DNS. I still can't access the new site from here. 

[sneakymagenta]

We think it is important to keep our forums friendly and courteous as a further way of defining our community and differentiating ourselves from the sort of unseemly things most boards will allow.

Day 13 and counting.....Hello? Hello? Come-in ebay....anybody working? What the h*ll are you doing to fix the inability to bulk relist on ebay motors? wait, I know.....N O T H I N G. As usual. No system announcement. Scripted e-mail responses. Live chat conversations that should be bronzed and put into the Comedy Hall Of Fame. Great job, ebay....just keep counting that money, and I'll keep bending over for ya - soon, I think I'll start to like it. You lazy bums. Get off your ass*s today and FIX THE DAMNED PROBLEM!

http://forums.ebay.com/db1/thread.jspa?m...=402021495&forumID=116&x#402021495

ha ha ha ha ha! OMG you are not going to believe THIS! The dirty rat bas*ards are RAISING the ebay motors insertion fees! $1.00 to 9.99 is now .35 instead of .30! Holy cripes , these mo****r f****ers got some BIG BIG balls. Jesus. What's next? They gonna come to my house and shoot my cat? So, basically, Im begging STILL for the honor of relisting, just so I can pay MORE. Other than this, I am speechless --- every day something goes wrong or costs more. Ah yes, ebay, the perfect American company: charge more, deliver less, and tell your customer to go screw themselves, with a smile of course! Couldn't be any more disgusted with this lousy company.

http://forums.ebay.com/db1/thread.jspa?m...=402034928&forumID=116&x#402034928

Two weeks today. But at least you rotten miserable no good leeches had the nerve to raise my fees 20%. Make sure you change the name too.... ScrewUBay.... Ugh.

http://forums.ebay.com/db1/thread.jspa?m...=402057544&forumID=116&x#402057544

:raypoop: :asshat2:

[chiquita]

What Sneaky said


That's good ole let's be courteous Ray Romeo at his finest.

[FineThings4U]

Personal disputes are not allowed on the boards

 

I remember quite well when DB, myself and a few others were attacked and called names.

Once it turned personal

 :wtf:

I thought it only got personal if you posted personal information like ~edit~

I thought the thread was kind of interesting and for the most part, productive and constructive and thus my participation, even though we generally do not allow "continuation" threads from other non-WP boards.

What a boinktard statement.  You loved it until the "let's bash the TT posters and former sellers" turned into "the pot calls the kettle black".  It was all fun and games til then, huh Ray?

Post this Ray  



Now, Banana girl, shoes are my weakness.  I wear a 6 1/2 C (Wide).  Stock up now.  My DH hates you for this (kidding).

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It is one thing to have a conversation among the members that is constructive... however, when members start to feel threatened or attacked then the post needs to be edited/censored to stop the downward roll of the thread. And that is exactly where that post was going... downhill. People were starting to read it just to see how far it would go... and like any "accident" that is putting a kink in the flow of traffic that needs to be flowing steadily onward toward success. Does that make any sense.?? Maybe not, but I do understand where Karen & Staff stand on this issue and I have followed their routine of pulling posts long enough to be thankful that they do this.... it is for the GOOD of Wagglepop and its members.

Like I said, I agree that we need to bring more people to the mix at Wagglepop. However those people must be respectful, curteous, and know the boundaries of the policies regarding the community boards. Isn't this the reason we signed up at WP to begin with... because it was friendly and inviting and different than the othErs?

WTF ?  Oh yeah....     

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April 20th is coming, and me thinks Ka/Ray is ramping up the ghost stores. Count is now 283.
Hmmmmmm.

[Platzki]

Sneaky... hopefully some of the WP lurkers here will see your post and see what Ray's temper is really like.  He is very hypocritical... friendly?  NOT!!  Constructive?  NEVER!  Lurkers... this was your leader in action... this is the person you say you trust... hmm...  why not start your own site and say bye bye to fees and aggravation?

Now on a lighter note...

'Nana girl... CONGRATULATIONS on the adwords campaign... I only have my Yahoo Adwords ads running right now... then Google will run and I'll pause Yahoo... I'm trying to see what hits I get and from where.  I'm telling ya babe... int'l shipping is the way to go... BUT if you are just going to ship domestic... make sure that your adwords campaign is only showing on US searches.  I have mine set up that way because I only have a very small daily budget and feel that the US is enough but I am getting hits on google, yahoo, msn and others from all over the world.  You can set up zones in your campaign so your ads only show in certain regions/countries.

Bill set up my site meter on my .net site and the referral domains are from everywhere!!!  I swear, I could just sit and watch that thing all day!!!  LOL  The thing I like about Site Meter is it only counts unique visits AND most importantly, it doesn't count bots and spiders so I get a more accurate ACTUAL hit count.  I zeroed out the counters on my site meter and my zen cart the day before yesterday and now the site meter shows about 330 hits and the zen counter is over 4000!!!  That's a big difference!!  LOL

I had issues setting up the java version on my zen cart site but Bill made a separate footer bar and it's working just fine now.  I'm wishing you the best of luck sweetie!!  It' a lot of work but at the end of the day, the money goes into the pocket of the person who deserves it... the person who did the work!!! LOL

[chiquita]

Platz, I have sitemeter and google analytics (it stopped working but I think I figured it out). It has sooo many features, that I am still learning them all. I just set goal conversions today. It shows you if people are leaving right before checking out, etc...
I also had a sale today. My adwords are set up for US only.

I have had sooo many hits today looking at sitemeter from all over the world. It must be from submitting to the zen showcase stores.
Even a view from Romania.

I need Bill to help me so I can use the javascript version of sitemeter. PM me if you have a chance. I have your site both in the banners and on my links page setup.

[chiquita]

Fine, I'll hook you up.
I need to do a survey to see what size shoes all you TT'ers wear. I have done an informal survey and it appears size 9 is average.
Tell your DH Fine that at least you are getting a bargain.