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
Complaining isn’t allowed at Wagglepop, yet somebody tried here, reported by ToyRanch at The Ross Show:
http://therossshow.com/showthread.php?t=5584
Ray Romeo owns Wagglepop and crashed and burned the first time he tried to rule the world with his site, he did a little better the second time around, but it seems he’s not persevering.Karen Morrow is the Customer Disservice agent at Wagglepop
Ray is still the disingenuous type because he promised that all hard drives and information were ‘wiped clean’ when he closed down the first wagglepop “forever”. But then he was able to find a number of emails to use to send out spam to members of the old wagglepop when he decided to try to relaunch the site.
Here, Wagglepop customer service glamorizes the fact that paging and load times are “extremely high”! Wow, just what you’d want in an auction site. There are also discussions about how wagglepop.com “isn’t compatible with some home users’ wireless routers”! Wow! How could that be? Are they pushing stuff from the site to users’s PC’s?
BigJozlyn,
I’m not sure what more we can do to convince you of the solidity of the infrastructure that allows access to and operation of the site.
The logs are relatively clean of timeouts and errors, and well within design standards.
The traffic numbers are extremely high.
The paging and load times are extremely high.
Those are the three things that typically access site performance, and they’re all performing extremely well.
It’s “cutting edge” stuff to be sure, so likely it’s a legacy router setting or standard that can’t translate the packets quickly enough for proper interactivity, which is why for some, everything is fine when the router is removed for testing, or the firmware is updated for compatibility.
For some, it’s just basic PC-stuff, like a setting or connection.
For many thousands of users, everything is fine, as shown by the three parameters for performance outlined above.
Karen – WP Customer Care
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