BV Founder "we want to make sure Bidville maintains its presence on the internet

[amy]

Posted 5/23/2006 9:03:08 AM
Valued Members,

First, allow me to introduce myself. My name is Ed Orlando. I am the original programmer and founder of Bidville.com. As many of you already know, Bidville was acquired by Royal Palm Capital Group in August 2003. At that time, I stepped away from Bidville and watched the new owners, managers and employees build on this great website. They did a fantastic job adding features, functionality and scalability.

It is no secret that Bidville has since met with many challenges - both financial and technological. Back in October 2006, Bidville asked me to help get the website back in shape. I donated my time from October through December. In cooperation with the other Bidville consultants and employees, we truly fixed many of the issues plaguing Bidville`s operations. We changed many policies and procedures. And, we added more new features to the site than in the past year combined. In December, I once again needed to step away from Bidville for personal reasons - my second daughter was born!

Well...now I am back and preparing to assist the Bidville staff once again. I want to take this opportunity to let the membership know that we have a solid plan on moving Bidville forward. You will begin to see a much more active management and website development team over the next few months. Projects that were begun back in October will start to be completed. New projects will begin.

We will experience some rough times. We will change some policies. Not everyone will be happy with every decision we make. However, the overall viability of Bidville needs to be our main concern. We want to make sure Bidville maintains its presence on the internet.

I love this website. I always have and always will. I believe in it. I hope to make everyone in our community a believer too.

Thanks for continuing to grow with us.

Ed Orlando, MD
Founder, Bidville.com

[stardust]

We want to make sure Bidville maintains its presence on the internet.

[amy]

[quote author=stardust link=topic=3855.msg14952#msg14952 date=1148576035]

We want to make sure Bidville maintains its presence on the internet.

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What he really said:

We were unsuccessful in finding the investors we need to keep this sinking ship afloat.  As a last ditch effort, in the coming months we will be adding 'PayPal donation' buttons to all pages on the site and we strongly encourage you to contribute as much as you can.  It's your choice: donate or we file Chapter 7.

[sneakymagenta]

We want to make sure Bidville maintains its presence on the internet.

:popcorneaters:

[bidvillesucks]

Bidville's new revenue plan is Buy $250 worth of enhancement credits for $20

http://stores.bidville.com/shop/?index=8&storeID=10616&itemiD=173455

[amy]

[quote author=bidvillesucks link=topic=3855.msg15481#msg15481 date=1149184523]
Bidville's new revenue plan is Buy $250 worth of enhancement credits for $20

http://stores.bidville.com/shop/?index=8&storeID=10616&itemiD=173455
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That's the magic formula that helped Bidville report $91,000 in revenues for the entire year in 2004.  On the average day that year there were 1 1/2 million listings. 

[amy]

[quote author=amy link=topic=3855.msg15003#msg15003 date=1148603328]

We were unsuccessful in finding the investors we need to keep this sinking ship afloat.  As a last ditch effort, in the coming months we will be adding 'PayPal donation' buttons to all pages on the site and we strongly encourage you to contribute as much as you can.  It's your choice: donate or we file Chapter 7.
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I was right about the PayPal donate buttons, but I was wrong about which Auction site would add them.

...We have also added a link where you can donate to make ePier a better community. We all understand that no site can be great without good sound financials. In this effort we have created a link here where you can contribute to making ePier an even greater site.

Thank you for your continued support of ePier.

http://www.epier.com/donate.asp

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