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January's OAI Stars...Where Are They Now?

  
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January's OAI Stars...Where Are They Now?
08-01-2005, 06:45 PM,
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January's OAI Stars...Where Are They Now?
7 months after eBay's fee increase announcement, the most successful new US auction sites are a pair that did not engage in endless forum spamming...er, advertisment of their sites through posts on OAI boards: eBid.tv's US site with over 100,000 listings and WeBidz (WeBidz did recently get its own forum on PSU though).  BidChaser, OnlineAuction.com, and theAuctionMan have enjoyed lesser success, but the 3 sites are not technically new .

The most prolific forum spammers ...err OAI forum advertisers, have not lived up to the hype of their forum posts:

Wagglepop-closed
BidZig-closed
iCell.biz-closed
FeeAlt/GoShopGirl-16 listings
R*n*bay/eD*bz-39 listings
Lunarbid-74 listings

Many of the sellers who put their faith in the January/February chatboard hype ended up being driven back to eBay when their expectations were dashed and the much hyped auction sites turned out to be nothing more than a smelly pile of crap.

Every year, the same story happens with sellers being led to message board hyped auction sites that don't have a chance while they completely ignore the auction sites which could provide a viable alternative (i.e. sales)...and every year the failure of this forum hype to become reality causes many sellers return to eBay with the mistaken belief that there is no life (i.e. sales) anywhere but on eBay.

The moral of the story: forum spamming auction site owners over the years have done more to drive sellers back to eBay and help eBay keep its monopoly of the US auction market than any advertising eBay could possible buy.
"Well, Jay was so giddy that someone named Jay was involved with this site we posted our first non-eBay listing in 3 years here at Lunarbid (we tried two items at Yahoo once upon a time, they bombed)" -Marie posting in a LunarBid thread at OTWA in 2005 wins the award for 'most moronic reason ever given for choosing a venue"

"thanks twat u must have nothing better 2 do. do u talk to all your members like that. will not be recomending your site.
best way to put it is TULIPTOOLS.COM IS REALLY SHIT. DONT JOIN." -pubescent owner of rinky dink off2auction.com in 2011
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08-26-2005, 10:20 PM,
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Re: January's OAI Stars...Where Are They Now?
Listings on 'The Next Bid Thing' LunarBid have soared by over 35% in the past 3 weeks...to 100 total items listed on the site.  Smile

That reminds me, I should go relist those 200 items on Overstock that I was about to list before this post so rudely interupted me.  Smile :twistedevil:
"Well, Jay was so giddy that someone named Jay was involved with this site we posted our first non-eBay listing in 3 years here at Lunarbid (we tried two items at Yahoo once upon a time, they bombed)" -Marie posting in a LunarBid thread at OTWA in 2005 wins the award for 'most moronic reason ever given for choosing a venue"

"thanks twat u must have nothing better 2 do. do u talk to all your members like that. will not be recomending your site.
best way to put it is TULIPTOOLS.COM IS REALLY SHIT. DONT JOIN." -pubescent owner of rinky dink off2auction.com in 2011
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09-01-2005, 12:59 PM,
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Lunarbid 15 items 3 sellers
[quote author=bargainbloodhound link=topic=99.msg1034#msg1034 date=1125094804]
Listings on 'The Next Bid Thing' LunarBid have soared by over 35% in the past 3 weeks...to 100 total items listed on the site.   Smile

That reminds me, I should go relist those 200 items on Overstock that I was about to list before this post so rudely interupted me.  Smile :twistedevil:
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They only got 15 things today from  3 sellers on the sight this morning  Happy001
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09-01-2005, 04:42 PM,
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Re: Lunarbid 15 items 3 sellers
[quote author=dimucci link=topic=99.msg1148#msg1148 date=1125579557]

They only got 15 things today from  3 sellers on the sight this morning  Happy001
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If you go to the browse all categories it looks like there are only 11 items from 2 sellers listed on the site.  There has only been 1 post on their forums since early July, and that post is unanswered.  :Smile

I do hope that LunarBid's owner is happy that his slick salesman spiel on forums in February and his failure to even come close to what his BS promised has resulted in many of the sellers who fell for his crap returning to ebay never to leave again because they're now convinced sales at all non-ebay sites are like this one.  Angryfire
"Well, Jay was so giddy that someone named Jay was involved with this site we posted our first non-eBay listing in 3 years here at Lunarbid (we tried two items at Yahoo once upon a time, they bombed)" -Marie posting in a LunarBid thread at OTWA in 2005 wins the award for 'most moronic reason ever given for choosing a venue"

"thanks twat u must have nothing better 2 do. do u talk to all your members like that. will not be recomending your site.
best way to put it is TULIPTOOLS.COM IS REALLY SHIT. DONT JOIN." -pubescent owner of rinky dink off2auction.com in 2011
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09-07-2005, 05:18 AM,
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Re: January's OAI Stars...Where Are They Now?
Things seem to be getting worse at the remaining 3 "prolific forum posting  eBay alternatives".  None of the site owners of the 3 remaining sites have made an appearance on either OAI forums or their own sites in months, and listing counts continue to drop:

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Quote:August 1
FeeAlt/GoShopGirl-16 listings
R*n*bay/eD*bz-39 listings
Lunarbid-74 listings
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Quote:September 6
FeeAlt/GoShopGirl-3 listings
R*n*bay/eD*bz-11 listings
Lunarbid-22 listings
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...oh yeah, and if you want to grab an expired domain name, the expiration dates for the 3 dead "prolific forum posting  eBay alternatives" are as follows:

wagglepopauctions.com December 21, 2005
bidzig.com January 13, 2006
wagglepop.com November 21, 2006
icell.biz January 15, 2007
"Well, Jay was so giddy that someone named Jay was involved with this site we posted our first non-eBay listing in 3 years here at Lunarbid (we tried two items at Yahoo once upon a time, they bombed)" -Marie posting in a LunarBid thread at OTWA in 2005 wins the award for 'most moronic reason ever given for choosing a venue"

"thanks twat u must have nothing better 2 do. do u talk to all your members like that. will not be recomending your site.
best way to put it is TULIPTOOLS.COM IS REALLY SHIT. DONT JOIN." -pubescent owner of rinky dink off2auction.com in 2011
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Re: January's OAI Stars...Where Are They Now?
Runabay is doing better than GoShopGirl?  Tongue1

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Re: January's OAI Stars...Where Are They Now?
[quote author=thentavius link=topic=99.msg1341#msg1341 date=1126207334]
Runabay is doing better than GoShopGirl?  Tongue1


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Barely, the latest item counts are:  Lunar 8, Runbaby 4, GoShop 3.

*caution--one time only nice words about Ray's WP about to be uttered. this is the only time you will hear me  utter niceties about WP*

Its hilarious that all 3 sites' owners bashed WP's Ray on numerous boards  and yet all 3 abandoned their sites a few months later without a word to their users--Ray at least did his Wagglefesto on FAS to notify users.

Its also kinda funny that WP had over 10,000 listings when it closed while none of these sites even came close to that "success".  The tops for these 3 sites was Lunar with a peak of 800 items, and Runbaby and GoShop never made it over 150 items.

All that Ado About Plum For Nothing!  Smile
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The Next Bid Thing...NOT! LunarBid Shuts Down Without Notice
Bye, bye!

LunarBid has closed indefinitely.
We are sorry for any inconvenience.


http://www.lunarbid.com/
"Well, Jay was so giddy that someone named Jay was involved with this site we posted our first non-eBay listing in 3 years here at Lunarbid (we tried two items at Yahoo once upon a time, they bombed)" -Marie posting in a LunarBid thread at OTWA in 2005 wins the award for 'most moronic reason ever given for choosing a venue"

"thanks twat u must have nothing better 2 do. do u talk to all your members like that. will not be recomending your site.
best way to put it is TULIPTOOLS.COM IS REALLY SHIT. DONT JOIN." -pubescent owner of rinky dink off2auction.com in 2011
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Re: January's OAI Stars...Where Are They Now?
Runabay/Edibz is D.O.A.  Smileyviolin

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<i>sell-thru is an irrelevant and illogical consideration.</i>
-KaRay, owner of WP giving selling advice, 2006

<i>the site was 'NOT' hacked but the little script that had recipes on had the link altered</i>
-Plunderhere Owner Mark Taylor after his site was hacked by a Chinese hacker gang, 2008

Some people have it like that, others don’t. I do.
-Probidscripts owner Spencer Osama Binweb Laden Ray bragging about his ability to scam the OAI without feeling any guilt, 2008.

How does an auction site get buyers?
-question asked at PSU by owner of auction site BidBeaver.ca, 2008

How do I get sales?
-question asked at PSU by online store owner, 2009.

I was told by my Tech. Support that my site dont really need SSL.. his servers
are well protected and that info your providing to join aint really top secret information

-owner of auction site TheTraderOutlet.com discussig his site's lack of basic security, 2009
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