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Parents and investors beware, Scott Samuel’s getting ready for another launch, leech, or losing opportunity.

His new Google Profile lists himself as a Strategic Consultant (hee hee). He’s STILL trying to shoot rainbows out of his ass, and see who’s smellin’ them.

No mention of the morning erections with pre-teen boys, the door he hacked with an axe, the grandma abuse, the xanax fits, the pot in the garage, if his mom’s cookin’ steaks, or if he repaid the people and investors that he screwed out of time and money.

I am the person who founded the 3rd party auction services industry out of a spare room in my home when eBay was Auctionweb   My initial hobby website eventually became Honesty.com, which by June of 1999 was ranked #22 in terms of overall global web traffic. Between 1985-1998, I owned and operated one of the first online ’social networks’ which, at first, utilized dial-in connections, and later the Internet. Prior to that, I ran one of the earliest Chicagoland BBS’.  I have been a member of the online world since late 1980.

Where I grew up

Chicagoland

Places I’ve lived

Chicagoland/Mountain View

Schools I’ve attended

North Central College

Something I still can’t find on Google

The Truth

My superpower

I intuitively know how to scale traffic on virtually any given website.

Interests

Dogs, People, Chess, The Internet.

As expected, Andrew Pittino (really Ray Romeo) is shutting down Wagglepop 2.0 after tripling fees to sellers a month ago.

Of course, Ray doesn’t put this information in the announcements area, which hasn’t been updated since December 2008, he only includes it in the sellers’, or more appropriately, ”listers’”, forum.

Although he still blames everyone but himself for the site’s dismal performance, the best part is that he wants to sell Wagglepop.com for $40,000 (or it could be $80,000 if you apply Romeo math). Wagglepop 1 didn’t even get out of beta, and he wanted $45,000 for that. Somebody needs to tell Ray that the dot com bubble burst almost 10 years ago.

Somebody else might have to explain to me how if a group is stupid enough to buy the domain wagglepop.com for $15,000, how Ray can keep “the LLC and the current trademarked logo”. Although Ray claims there’s a trademark on “wagglepop”, a simple search of the USPTO site tells anybody that there really isn’t. Another fabrication by Ray, I mean, Andrew.

Instead, if there isn’t a buyer,  Ray will simply replace the “revolutionary” Wagglepop with stock Amazon marketplace templates and widgets, which already exist as a lame and atrocious add-on in wagglepop’s search system.

This is the official “announcement”.
http://www.wagglepop.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=8577

Notice that even Andrew’s alter ego Ray Romeo can’t even make the announcement, it has to be the “customer care” director. Why would that be? Because only ONE PERSON owns the Rscript license and hosting account, Ray Romeo!

Hit the jump for the text of the official announcement, and the terms of “sale”.

So long Ray, hopefully it won’t be a year before you spam everybody again with your revolutionary, social-network based, new site, Wagglepop 3.0.

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If this doesn’t convince Wagglepop sellers that they’re being had, I don’t know what will.

Amidst a mutiny by sellers, and seemingly at no other options by “management”, Ray Romeo (as Andrew Pittino) somehow, SOMEHOW, found a way to not DOUBLE sellers’ monthly fees for having a store at Wagglepop.

Days of last minute “management meetings” regarding the unfortunate necessity of doubling these fees and Ray’s, I mean Andrew’s, stragegic dynamic of marketing skills, have resulted in a “win win” for Wagglepop and it’s sellers.

No longer will Ray be forced to edit the monthly fee field in Rscript from 29.95 to 59.95. He will simply have to change it to 39.95, a 10 dollar increase. Phew. I was thinking Ray would never be able to figure that out. In addition, sellers with mutliple stores (why would they want to even have one, nobody can guess), will have to pay some discounted price for them, rather than have them for free, as part of their 59.95 monthly plan.

I think Ray, I mean Andrew, was just trying to prevent any abuse from sellers that would all share one WP account, and each have different stores, all splitting the $59.95 monthly fee, but I digress. Somehow… SOMEHOW, Ray found a way, although he had solemly admitted that there really was NO OTHER WAY.

Anyway, although “Andrew” is ALREADY an owner of Wagglepop (with a nom de plume of  Ray Romeo), Andrew also makes an announcement that he is now also part owner of Wagglepop! Maybe he’ll eventually announce that he’s also changed his name from Andrew Pittino to Ray Romeo, so that he can say he never actually LIED to his sellers, under Wagglepop’s “revolutionary” “trust based system”.

And by the way, the last forum thread about the fees jumping to $59.95 have been replaced with the new thread and the 39.95 price. Although no mention of this price increase, which happens in less than a week, is posted on the announcements page, last updated December 2008.

Anyway, the announcement is after the jump, both the 39.95 announcement (new) and the 59.95 announcement (old), including some of the wailing and gnashing of teeth by sellers.

More on Ray and Wagglepop:
http://community.tuliptools.com/index.php/topic,3775.msg74318.html#msg74318
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=wagglepop+site%3Asneakydave.com&fp=RgodfiivdiU

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