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

[BeenThereDoneThat]

Ray's hamster has kicked the bucket.

The hamster server at wagglepop.com is taking too long to respond.

[Platzki]

Maybe the wheel was squeaking in the middle of the night and he removed it from the cage...

... just a thought...

[sneakymagenta]

Countrygal, it is possible to share your site of choice without insulting me or Wagglepop. My Wagglepop sales are over $600. just since August 20. Other online sellers deserve to know that the site is a potential goldmine.

$300 per week after 2 years of forum spamming for Ray isn't a potential goldmine. 

If you had concentrated on your website two years ago instead of advertising Wagglepop you could be making $600 per day by now. 

http://www.powersellersunite.com/post-19...tml#199375

[bargainbloodhound]

[quote author=sneakymagenta link=topic=3775.msg72280#msg72280 date=1220555611]
If you had concentrated on your website two years ago instead of advertising Wagglepop you could be making $600 per day by now.  

http://www.powersellersunite.com/post-19...tml#199375
[/quote]

The potential for $600 per day or more from her website is there IF, AND ONLY IF, she gets rid of all the friggin' affiliate ads and AdSense ads on her site. 

I'm off to BabyAge.com to do some shopping because they're having a big sale on Lambs & Ivy!  If the first thing I saw when I visited PS's site hadn't been the BabyAge AdSense ad  I might have actually bought Lambs & Ivy products from PS's site instead

[bargainbloodhound]

YOU are clueless. Their RScript cost them $390. Then programmers worked the bugs out and completely rewrote it line by line in a different language that works much better than the original perl.

]http://www.wagglepop.com/perl/auction/catlisting

It must just be a coincidence that "they worked the bugs out and completely rewrite it line by line in a different language" and yet Wagglepop had the exact same gaping security hole as all of the other RScript sites using version 2.73.1.3 last year (http://secunia.com/advisories/25149/ )

[sneakymagenta]

The worst was when the site WAS dropping tens of thousands of dollars on advertising, and instead of getting a lot of "thank you for everything that you're doing for us", WP was getting a lot of continued complaints and hostility and insults

eBay spends millions on advertising and gets continued complaints and insults.  Should we all gather in a circle and sing kumbaya while kissing Donahoe's ass in gratitude? 

You're clueless because you think it's a cheap out-of-the-box site that anyone could launch for $500. It is NOT. Actually, I hear that RScript can be had for $99. now. But Wagglepop is nothing like a cheap out-of-the-box site.

[quote author=bargainbloodhound link=topic=3775.msg72295#msg72295 date=1220587144]

YOU are clueless. Their RScript cost them $390. Then programmers worked the bugs out and completely rewrote it line by line in a different language that works much better than the original perl.

]http://www.wagglepop.com/perl/auction/catlisting

It must just be a coincidence that "they worked the bugs out and completely rewrite it line by line in a different language" and yet Wagglepop had the exact same gaping security hole as all of the other RScript sites using version 2.73.1.3 last year (http://secunia.com/advisories/25149/ )[/quote]

[mandy]

The modifications were over $50,000.

Then programmers worked the bugs out and completely rewrote it line by line in a different language that works much better than the original perl.

In fact, the script that supports Wagglepop has in excess of $50,000 of custom code alone, including a complete line by line rewrite in a more powerful better performing language.

off topic - I added a new smiley :rayandhisparrot:

The code for this smiley is

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edit:

My Wagglepop sales are over $600. just since August 20.

If you upgraded to a showcase store your sales would have been $2,232 because Featured and/or Showcase Stores on average have approximately 172% more sales than Basic Stores for an overall sales rate of 272% of Basic Store average. For every 10 sales a Basic Store makes, a Feature and/or Showcase Store makes 27.2 sales on average. :twistedevil: Featured and/or Showcase Stores on average have approximately a 28% better sell-through rate than Basic Stores. :twistedevil:  Featured and/or Showcase Stores receive, on average, approximately 121% more click traffic than Basic Stores. :twistedevil:

You would have made an extra $1,632 in sales just since August 20th if only you had spent an extra $40 for a Showcase store! What are you waiting for - UPGRADE TODAY! :twistedevil:

[Alskling]

Quote from PS

The worst was when the site WAS dropping tens of thousands of dollars on advertising, and instead of getting a lot of "thank you for everything that you're doing for us", WP was getting a lot of continued complaints and hostility and insults

Reply from Mandy

eBay spends millions on advertising and gets continued complaints and insults.  Should we all gather in a circle and sing kumbaya while kissing Donahoe's ass in gratitude? 

I second that emotion!

I find it quite curious that PS somehow has all the inside scoop on WP's finances, dollars spent on so-called "advertising", its scripting, and supposed line for line "modifications." I don't recall any mention of what it cost to "customize" the now-obsolete, out-of-the-box software or any specifics on the scripting used ever published on the WP forums. I do recollect some wombat poo poo blah blah about $75,000 earmarked for a "specifics-not-to-be-disclosed" advertising campaign from the horses behind himself -- and we all know he NEVER lies.

[sneakymagenta]

we all know he NEVER lies.

Hey PS! DB is right, Ray NEVER lies.  Take Mandy's advice and upgrade to a Showcase store.  Your sales will jump 172%!

[amy]

poo poo blah blah about $75,000 earmarked for a "specifics-not-to-be-disclosed" advertising campaign

AndRay said in his first post as KaRay's replacement on 7/25/07 that WP spent 42K of the 75K ad budget but pulled the plug on the ad campaign because the only people it was attracting were deadbeat sellers and morally bankrupt miscreants.  ;D

We even spent an additional $42,510 of a $75,000 accessory budget without success marketing, attracting mostly sellers who did not feel it was important to pay their monthly invoice  or some rather unseemly characters oblivious to the User Agreement