No I really don't have any intrest in promoting Waggelpop. My only intrest is that I used to have a store there. Some store owners do sell enough to pay there fees there though and I wouldn't go so far as calling the store owners idiots because of their hope for a alternate for Ebay. I know many of the sellers there are honest and wish to do well there. I also know many folks that were turned off by Ray and his actions and tactics. enough said about that.
There are some good points about Waggelpop.
1 A very Ebay type look that Ebay buyers should feel at home with.
2 Easy listing process
3 very reasonable cost $9.95 unlimited listing
4 fvf very reasonable
5 You really don't have to deal with Ray just don't try to tell him how to run his site
6 Items do fairly well on google searches
There also a lot I don't like also
1 Lack of buyers which is comman to all ebay want to bes
2 The invoice system would rather have a cart type checkout
Yep Bob I can see what sellers would like at WP BUT, it is buyers who make or break a site. Right now buyers have no desire for an eBay alternative. Buyers don't have a concern for fees and never will.
Point in fact:
I could have looked past the WP1 issue if the site owner would have answered legitimate business questions. Don't care if he would have said he didn't have the money to advertise as long as he was honest and truthful to his customers. All Ray had to do was be honest with his customers and address those needs. Instead his greed got the best of him. Even if he spent $50 a month (which he never did) in advertising and said that is what we have budgeted at this time, it would have been an answer instead of a lie like that there is somebody other than Ray in his basement running the show, need pictures? I can provide them!!!
Bob,
I understand what you like about WP and what your intentions would be if you were to use it again (marketing for your websites). My beef was and never will be with the sellers (maybe one spamming popper) it will always fall squarely on Ray romeo.
Whether anybody likes it or not, facts are facts and all the facts have been posted in the TT thread I posted here earlier. I encourage all to read it and make your own judgment. Look past the emotions and study what has been proven without a shadow of a doubt, wagglepop is a one man show to line the pockets of Ray Romeo!!!
Joe - The Bar Keep
P.S. I am finding it difficult to continue with this thread because of my own personal experience with this site (WP). The thread at TT is where this should be discussed and at this time I would like to thank the owners of TT for allowing #1 my participation in that thread and for providing a place where people exiting WP can go to tell there story.
For those of you who fear participation in that thread because you are pro WP I will say this, The Crabby Host forum would not be today if it wasn't for the WP thread at TT. It's where we (Deb, myself & countless others) met and formed an unbreakable bond as sellers who suffered the same consequences of our knee jerk reaction to an eBay boycott. Yep, WP was where most of us knee jerked to summer 06' and TT is where we found our sanity as well as helped countless others in finding there way out of WP.
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