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

[Platzki]

[quote author=amy link=topic=3775.msg71401#msg71401 date=1216267403]

Because sellers can choose to be a showcase store, a featured store or both.  I don't know why anyone would want to waste their money like that but to each his own!!

If WP's stores hub is anything like eBay's then 90% of the visitors to the page are other sellers and you're not getting that much exposure to buyers by paying for a featured or showcase store.  Very few buyers will find you via the stores page--the majority of them will find you via WP search or Google/search engines/Google Product Search.


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Right... I never understood that either.  It's not like you're being put on the home page or like it gives you special privileges or something. You get just as much traffic as a non-featured or non-showcase store on Wagglepop... NONE! 

[Alskling]

[quote author=Platzki link=topic=3775.msg71412#msg71412 date=1216301609]
[quote author=amy link=topic=3775.msg71401#msg71401 date=1216267403]

Because sellers can choose to be a showcase store, a featured store or both.  I don't know why anyone would want to waste their money like that but to each his own!!

If WP's stores hub is anything like eBay's then 90% of the visitors to the page are other sellers and you're not getting that much exposure to buyers by paying for a featured or showcase store.  Very few buyers will find you via the stores page--the majority of them will find you via WP search or Google/search engines/Google Product Search.


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Right... I never understood that either.  It's not like you're being put on the home page or like it gives you special privileges or something. You get just as much traffic as a non-featured or non-showcase store on Wagglepop... NONE! 
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Ditto. Same goes for the totally absurd AdSense program on WP. Sellers are just singing to the choir as Ray's pocket ka-chings.

In fact, has Ray EVER come up with ANY marketing scheme that actually INCREASES traffic to a seller's individual store? All that come to mind are programs that do no more than beef up Ray's wallet. OH, and Berning has reactivated the Showcase. What's that about? 

[Blackeyed*Bunny]

Well, we can put down the popcorn - Ray's not going to list anything on WP he's going to link to stores OFF of WP.

Below is a quote direct from the horse's mouth.... or some other body part 



confused popper, 

I believe we will integrate standalone appropriately linked webstores to gauge interest in Marketshare initially.

Direct participation through the Wagglepop Marketplace with conventional listings is extremely labor intensive (as many online sellers can attest) and we simply do not have the labor resouces at this time to take that approach.

Should interest be high and participation increase, we can migrate into the actual Marketplace at some point, but initially, the approach we are taking we feel is the right one - in fact, the only practical one.

In related news, tech assures me that the new display sets will be in full view to all members by the end of this upcoming weekend.

AP

[amy]

[quote author=amy link=topic=3775.msg71330#msg71330 date=1216021450]

integration of many of the elements from our May announcement will begin in earnest over the next 7-10 days.

Watching him try to list thousands of Marketshare items without a bulklister should be amusing.

:popcorneaters:
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Direct participation through the Wagglepop Marketplace with conventional listings is extremely labor intensive (as many online sellers can attest) and we simply do not have the labor resouces at this time to take that approach.

I rest my case.

I believe we will integrate standalone appropriately linked webstores to gauge interest in Marketshare initially.

translation: the revised WP Marketshare will be a $149 DropShipDesign site (or one of the many similar ready-to-go dropship websites that come preloaded with 100,000-400,000 products)

[Alskling]

Quote
I believe we will integrate standalone appropriately linked webstores to gauge interest in Marketshare initially.

translation: the revised WP Marketshare will be a $149 DropShipDesign site (or one of the many similar ready-to-go dropship websites that come preloaded with 100,000-400,000 products)

Are you saying that WP will be offering the e-commerce world nothing more than any of us retards (speaking for myself) couldn't do with $149? Is that really what the "revolution" has reduced to?

Occasionally, when I have an attack of insomnia, I see those informercials for web sites like these at 3 a.m.
:turkey2: :turkey2: 

[bargainbloodhound]

Are you saying that WP will be offering the e-commerce world nothing more than any of us retards (speaking for myself) couldn't do with $149?

She's saying that...I'm not.  ;D  DropShipDesign's $149 is probably out of Ray's price range.  He'll definitely use a premade dropship store because it's the only way to sell items without listing (and he has no off-eBay selling experience), but I think he'll go with Shopster ($70 for the 1st store plus $10 each additional store) because it would allow him to setup multiple "appropriately linked" category specific webstores...plus he could also use the same account to sell dropshipped items on his preferred venue eBay since Shopster integrates with eBay.

[sneakymagenta]

Andrew,
If your stores are "standalone" stores how will that benefit us WP merchants?

The end benefit is to the overall reputation of Wagglepop as a good online destination to shop.

The Wagglepop Marketplace is woefully underpopulated currently. Historically, as population of items and products increases so does the overall sell-thru dynamic. Individual merchants will benefit from the increased traffic that only proper population of Wagglepop overall can bring.

As announced, as participation does not support that necessary volume, Marketshare will serve to subsidize the traditional Marketplace.

As far as the product search engine goes, will our stores come up as equals in a product search? For instance if WP is selling Ipods and my store is selling Ipods do they both come up in a customer search for Ipods? and if so what determines which match is listed first?

Wagglepop Marketplace Merchants will (as always) have search and browse display preference and represent exact item and product results in totality.

Marketshare portals "direct to category" will be accessible discreetly among category browse display sets.

For example, a potential customer who keyword searches "ipod" will have only Marketplace Merchant items and products displayed with a generic Marketshare link. However, should that customer switch to a category based browse method, a direct Marketshare link to the same Marketshare category will be presented as an additional option.

Likely placement is below the results, but not finalized. 

[Kaboing]

Ray is adding links to external web sites with a wider selection of overpriced goods in the search results?  :o  Good grief, even the hard core poppers should see this as a bad thing if they have any common sense.

[Alskling]

[quote author=Kaboing link=topic=3775.msg71443#msg71443 date=1216400142]
Ray is adding links to external web sites with a wider selection of overpriced goods in the search results?   :o   Good grief, even the hard core poppers should see this as a bad thing if they have any common sense.
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If they had any common sense, they wouldn't be on WP in the first place.

[Platzki]

That poppers priorities are all messed up.  They're worried about their items being found in the search but they should be worried about the fact that.... nobody is searching!!!!