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Bidville Closes Forums Due to "Abusive Postings", Adds Giant Google AdWords Ads
Bidville Closes Forums Due to "Abusive Postings", Adds Giant Google AdWords Ads
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Bidville Closes Forums Due to "Abusive Postings", Adds Giant Google AdWords Ads
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06-14-2007, 07:58 AM,
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Bidville Closes Forums Due to "Abusive Postings", Adds Giant Google AdWords Ads
Bidville has closed all of its forums.
Quote:The message boards have been closed due to misuse and abusive postings. The site has also added large 728x90 Google AdWords banners to the top and bottom of its pages. |
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06-14-2007, 03:49 PM,
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Re: Bidville Closes Forums Due to "Abusive Postings", Adds Giant Google AdWords
Quote:The site has also added large 728x90 Google AdWords banners to the top and bottom of its pages to the top and bottom of ALL pages...including the listings pages. The average item on BV receives 0 views so why even bother putting them on the listing pages. You can't make money from AdWords if no one sees them.  Quote:The message boards have been closed due to misuse and abusive postings. It's been 9 months since the last announcement from BV (unless you count the occasional board moderator post) so with the closing of the boards there is absolutely no communication.
"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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06-15-2007, 04:25 AM,
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Re: Bidville Closes Forums Due to "Abusive Postings", Adds Giant Google AdWords Ads
:cinqo2:
BIDVILLE SELLER THEME SONG The sun'll come out Tomorrow So ya gotta hang on 'Til tomorrow Come what may Tomorrow! Tomorrow! I love ya Tomorrow! You're always A day A way! :cinqo2:
OAI Moron Hall of Fame
<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 dont. 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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06-15-2007, 11:41 PM,
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Re: Bidville Closes Forums Due to "Abusive Postings", Adds Giant Google AdWords
[quote author=sneakymagenta link=topic=12020.msg57144#msg57144 date=1181881549]
:cinqo2: BIDVILLE SELLER THEME SONG The sun'll come out Tomorrow So ya gotta hang on 'Til tomorrow Come what may Tomorrow! Tomorrow! I love ya Tomorrow! You're always A day A way! :cinqo2: [/quote]  I love that show. 
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06-16-2007, 12:12 AM,
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Re: Bidville Closes Forums Due to "Abusive Postings", Adds Giant Google AdWords Ads
That is the perfect song for Bidville.
The forum closing is becoming an annual event. This is the 3rd or 4th time they've shut them down. |
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06-17-2007, 12:17 AM,
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Re: Bidville Closes Forums Due to "Abusive Postings", Adds Giant Google AdWords Ads
I've been surfing around trying to find out some information on Bidville. I can't find much here but from the little I have seen are you all saying that it is right up there with WP? I see that there are a lot of sellers. Can someone fill me in? Any thing would be appreciated! Thanks
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06-17-2007, 12:37 AM,
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Re: Bidville Closes Forums Due to "Abusive Postings", Adds Giant Google AdWords
Hi myobeeswax
 Here are a couple of links to get you started. Someone else who can tell you more about Bidville than I can will probably respond.  http://community.tuliptools.com/index.ph...137.0.html http://community.tuliptools.com/index.ph...477.0.html I can tell you that their site ranking is near the bottom of the chart--------BidVille 32,539. As a comparison, eBay is no. 13. |
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06-17-2007, 02:22 AM,
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Re: Bidville Closes Forums Due to "Abusive Postings", Adds Giant Google AdWords
[quote author=myobeeswax link=topic=12020.msg57294#msg57294 date=1182039444]
I've been surfing around trying to find out some information on Bidville. I can't find much here but from the little I have seen are you all saying that it is right up there with WP? I see that there are a lot of sellers. Can someone fill me in? Any thing would be appreciated! Thanks [/quote] TT member "bidvillesucks" name about sums it up. ;D 1 million listings...80% of them sports cards, 900,000 members...most of them inactive. The site has had 3 owners in 7 years and none of them have ever advertised to buyers. Ubid bought the site last year (for the mailing list) and has essentially abandoned the auction site. From 2003-2006 we had 200-600 listings running at all times. Most items received 0 views, a few 1 view, and on very rare occasions we'd have an auction that received 2 views. Traffic is way down since we stopped listed there. Traffic to stores is even worse than to their auctions. Most non-sports card sales are seller-to-seller, and most of those are arranged by "share your wares" type postings on either the BV forums (now closed) or in off-BV groups. If you don't actively participate on the boards you'll have almost no sales...if you do participate you'll still have very few sales. I wouldn't waste my time listing there until Ubid's management shows some sign that they're going to advertise the site to buyers...which I don't see happening based on Ubid's virtual abandonment of the site during first year of ownership.
"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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06-17-2007, 01:10 PM,
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Re: Bidville Closes Forums Due to "Abusive Postings", Adds Giant Google AdWords Ads
Thanks all for the replies. I will get busy reading but will not waste my time at this point seeing as I have no time to waste! :turkey2:
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