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

UniqueSeller · 05-16-2007, 11:43 AM,

I was just able to access WP again... Lets see what "upper management" has to say ...

~Patti~

***regic*** · 05-16-2007, 11:49 AM,

[quote author=UniqueSeller link=topic=3775.msg53415#msg53415 date=1179315794]
I was just able to access WP again.
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Ray woke up right on schedule. Happy001

UniqueSeller · 05-16-2007, 11:52 AM,

Just found this gem. Someone was commenting on Alexia Traffic Ranking and then this post was next:

Quote:XXXXXXXXXXX 16 May 2007 03:20

Here is what I have learned about the Alexa traffic rank recently:

The lower Alexa rank is really just because there are so few sellers compared to December. The flood of sellers from Oct-Dec that came and left overnight drove the rank up, since so many online sellers use the Alexa toolbar. Actually, I know that many of the sellers used the toolbar so they could see daily traffic ranks on WP and other sites. The toolbar is the primary way Alexa tracks a site's activity. Therefore, I really don't place much stock in the Alexa ranking, because I think it was artificially inflated with the extra come-and-go sellers. Sure, it was nice to see the 50-60,000 rank for a while, but it was bound to fall. Using just the Alexa stats available, my breakdown shows that while 70% of the sellers have left but only 40% of the traffic has disappeared. Many of the 70% of sellers that left didn't have much lasting positive impact on the site, just judging from the listing counts and sales. Alexa compared to the sales means most the sellers have been replaced by buyers, and the sellers here are reaping the rewards of waiting.

Now, I see a huge window still for Wagglepop to succeed. The majority of stores that closed this year were either for non-payment, or the sellers may have listed a dozen items expecting immediate sales. Most obviously didn't read these boards, and see that was not the way to make sales on WP. If anyone is looking to increase the traffic here... List EVERYTHING, buy or make more items with the income from your sales to keep new, fresh items for sale, and the traffic and sales will grow. Before long, a solid customer base comes along that will constantly visit your store looking for what you will have next. Add in the occasional new satisfied buyer that comes back for more, and that is how you build a business. There are over 24,000 unique monthly visitors at WP. Out of 24,000 people, there is going to be someone looking for what you have... All that needs to be done is to list it.

As far as what I have learned about Alexa though, until you have several million hits a day, it is very difficult to just use the Alexa rank.
I prefer to use Quantcast, compared to Alexa, for full stats.
http://www.quantcast.com/wagglepop.com
This gives a much more detailed explanation of different keywords, possible places visitors enter the site from, etc.

Bolding mine. How can Poppers believe that the "majority" of sellers that left are non-payers? I left. I paid faithfully every 10th of the month, yet I am considered a non-payer? Hello? A lot of posters here left in good standing. Why can't Popper's see thru the smoke screen? I am SO happy I left when I did.....

~Patti~

Platzki · 05-16-2007, 12:05 PM,

Any lame excuses... er um... I mean news on WP's downtime yet?

Munky2

Touch my monkey...

UniqueSeller · 05-16-2007, 12:16 PM,

Touch

No word yet about anything.....

~Patti~

youroverheadbin · 05-16-2007, 12:29 PM,

Good Morning gang!

Banana, that song... I needed pee-pee and spew-spew no nos. I was flowing at both ends!! Happy001

Another outage huh? I missed it as I retired early. Here is the only comment made so far:

Quote:We had some terrific storms this morning and it took me about an hour to get on WP. Could get on "E" okay so it must have been the eastern trucks that got boggled up.

The author of the WP post quoted above did a 180 degree turn. I had been in correspondence with him and he was disgusted with WP ready to leave and even talked about starting an ex-popper site. Then he broke off contact, starting listing items again and is now cheering with the rest of them. I have no idea why he changed his mind but I'll bet someone talked him into it. Tongue3

Platzki · 05-16-2007, 12:32 PM,

[quote author=UniqueSeller link=topic=3775.msg53419#msg53419 date=1179317777]
Touch Smileylol

No word yet about anything.....

~Patti~
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Maybe he'll just ignore it... Sign10

Funny thing about the whole downstream server error crap is that he has claimed in the past to have a dedicated server... once I think he even mentioned that in the same post as the excuse for the error!!! Happy001

Bill left WP even before I did because of the downtime "excuses" not even the errors themselves. He couldn't deal with being lied to.

What KaRay doesn't seem to get is that someone, somewhere always knows more than you do... Bill knows how servers and networks work so to be blantantly lied to about it drove him crazy!!!!! Ray... when you lie, you make yourself look like a fool.

Try the truth... it works!!

bratpack · 05-16-2007, 12:45 PM,

Good Morning!

If you consider paying an invoice that you do not really owe to have your store closed nonpayment than guilty as charged! As far as listing a dozen items and hoping for immediate sales....ummm how about hundreds of items that sell anywhere else like hot cakes! I even let everyone in on the whole tickle me elmo craze to try to drive traffic in. How can you justify paying for a site that is not bringing results, and more importantly putting money in the hands of a person that lies & manipulates. You can not even ask valid business questions without him hitting the delete button or being attacked by dozens of angry cheerleaders!

youroverheadbin · 05-16-2007, 12:49 PM,

CC1 is up and at their post. This just in:

Quote:wagglepopCC1 16 May 2007 12:39

xxxxxxxxxxx,

According to our internal statistics, over the last 30 days we have had just over 27,000 unique visitors and roughly 8,000 individual sales, an excellent conversion rate.

Conversely, approximately 65% of all keyword searches results in "0 matches"!

Think about that.

The buyers are coming here, every single day, looking for sellers who carry the items and products they want, and 65% of the time coming up empty handed.

If this isn't the absolute biggest opportunity for online sellers, I'm not sure what could be.

On a personal note, I thought for sure we would have at least 3,000 Stores and 600,000 listings by now, but maybe the saying about leading a horse to water is true

Karen - WP Customer Care

Bolding mine. Happy001

And no mention of the outage...

UniqueSeller · 05-16-2007, 01:00 PM,

Talk about avoidance .... And I can't wait to see the lame excuse they ALWAYS use to tell Poppers everything is ok.

This newest post is unbelievable. I'll tell you what. If I went to a new site looking for 5 things I wanted and came up with squat I can tell you I wouldn't go back to the site to shop. They had everything - over 900 stores with TONS of items listed. We had people in a lot of categories (except antiques ect.) when the store count was high, and NOTHING was done to promote WP.

If they were honest and followed up on their promises maybe they'd still be inching up to Karen's expectations. I can't ever see the store count growing over 400 at this point, none the less having 3,000 stores....

~Patti~