Sounds like Vendio is starting to really integrate Andale into its operations, at least Andale’s strongest points, misleading and inaccurate information! Vendio used to be right up there with Market Works and InkFrog in terms of quality eBay vendors, but since they’ve acquired Andale, I can’t recommend them anymore.
In its "study"—and we’re quoting that term because that’s what Vendio called it!—Vendio picked out a dozen or so popular consumer electronics products (list below) and then used its Dealio shopping comparison toolbar to ferret out the lowest prices available from online merchants. The Dealio toolbar claims to be able to rummage through reported inventories from more than 100,000 online merchants an eBay sellers for availability and pricing information. Vendio then called up five offline retailers—including some large consumer electronics chains—and averaged their prices for the same goods to come up with an "offline" price.
Vendio’s conclusion? For popular consumer electronics items, consumers pay average of 44.2 percent more at local retail outlines than they do online. Vendio’s caveats? The prices looked up via Dealio including sales tax and shipping and handling, while brick-and-mortar prices only include an 8.25 percent California sales tax.
http://news.digitaltrends.com/article11618.html
Chouteau conceded that the survey compared "apples and oranges" somewhat because it compared the "average" offline prices with the "lowest" online prices. And he noted that bricks-and-mortar stores often can feature very low prices in promotions and in Sunday circulars, for instance.
http://www.informationweek.com/internet/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=193402588
Both bidchaser.com and qshopnow.com are down as of 11/20/2006 or before. Who knows when they’ll be back up. Weeks of non-answers from the Cunha’s and the Indian outfit that supposedly owns the sites probably describes how much attention they are paying to "top notch customer support". Continue reading »
Updated: 11/9/2006
PeSA (Professional Ebay Sellers Alliance / Ebay Elite) used to advertise itself as a non-profit, now their stripping that title from as many areas as they publicized it, and going the all greed and profit route.
Avoid all PeSA sellers, if you haven’t already, then you’re a fool!
Joe Cortese supposedly has organized crime ties? Splitting PeSA into 2 companies (PeSA and ECMTA), both shady, I’m sure. Your membership privileges have a price of $240 a year.
This is the same group that supported Scott Samuel and his near takeover of runehq.com and his door axeing antics at ethicaltools.com
It’s all at The Ross Show:
http://therossshow.com/showthread.php?t=6103
http://therossshow.com/showthread.php?t=6129&page=1&pp=50 Continue reading »
Wagglepop sellers are getting restless that nothing is selling at the site. The board moderator Karen Morrow claims that everything’s just peachy at Wagglepop. Sales are “skyrocketing” according to her and her boss, Ray Romeo.
Its obvious that Wagglepop is in a common state of lame auction sites, that the only sales on the site are between sellers, and some store owners on Wagglepop are waiting for some of THEIR crap to sell before they’ll be some other seller’s crap. Eventually, Wagglepop store owners will tire of the practice, and things will REALLY get heated up.
Some people are just now starting to get a clue about Wagglepop and Ray Romeo. Its too bad most of the kool aid drinkers can’t see the light. Its a “cult phenomena” and one former seller refers to Ray and his brainwashing as Hitler-esque!
Here is the Tulip Tools thread. These people must be of at least average intelligence to see through the smoke Ray is blowing up sellers’ asses.
http://community.tuliptools.com/index.php/topic,3775.1455.html
Comments about the Tulip Tools thread at The Ross Show:
http://therossshow.com/showthread.php?t=5940
After a couple of 14 day countdowns to garner page views, Dave Kellog has finally decided to throw in the towel and shut down Mad-cows on 10/1/2006. He promises there will be no “sale” like the imaginary one with mootalk.com, but leaves open the possibility that the site could stay open if the right people ran it. Dave even goes into calling his current members nasty names born from some kind of pent up frustration I guess.
He also promises all personal data will be removed after the site’s closure. That’s still to be seen.
He begs people to sign up at goodtopics.com instead, run by the elusive and secretive Patty Smith, a site that’s been dead for over 2 months.
But maybe he really could sell the site under the right circumstances, but he won’t provide any monthly cost statistics because he’s ashamed that he really hasn’t spent very much money on site hosting as he’s promised! He talks about “Apache upgrading itself” on a whim and that some Apache web server versions aren’t compatible with vBulletin! LIES!!
He can’t upgrade the mad-cows forums because some software in it (like the arcade) is incompatible with the newer version! LIE!! (Tntu.net is on vbulletin 3.6.0 and runs the same arcade software!) He claims to spend $300 monthly on the site yet still gets charged overages on bandwidth space! LIE!! He doesn’t want people to know about the “real” expenses!
No updates from Dave about where all the charity money went, or if all the investors in his mad-cows investment scheme were reimbursed, or even what that investment scheme entailed, it’s all still secret. There are still threads on Mad Cows from March with him begging for donations to keep the site running.
More juicy FACTS and INFO about this predictable announcement is on mad-bulls.com here (membership required):
http://mad-bulls.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=662
And at The Ross Show here:
MOOOOOOO! This just in, MAD-COWS To CLOSE DOWN!
How long before we see another scam run by Dave Kellog? I predict by Christmas.
From this thread on Mad Cows: Goodbye, Farewell, and Amen
CC = Crazy Chicken (Dave Kellog)
GT = Goodtopics.com (Patty and Dave’s “other” dead site)
MC = Mad-Cows site
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