{mosimage}Ray Romeo (Karen Morrow/Andrew Pittino) is trying to milk his new sellers for as much as he can by offering them the chance to pay a minimum of $88.50 a month for “category flagship” ads on a site that currently has a Google Page Rank of “3″.
He makes promises of “up to 70,000 unique visitors” for those ads, but those are for the entire site, assuming those numbers are accurate. They would not be “per category”.
Ray’s trying to cash in quick with his influx of new sellers ignorant enough to join his Wagglepop.com site since the eBay fees. But he certainly won’t stand for non-payment, he remove 40 sellers from his site recently for non-payment.
Isn’t this the sort of thing eBay sellers bitched about years ago when ads from competitors would show up on a seller’s listing?
http://www.wagglepop.com/bin/Help?cmd=view&pages=category_flagship
{mosimage}Ray Romeo must have learned his lesson. He supposedly spent $42,000 of the $75,000 advertising budget on failed advertising plans that nobody saw. Now, he just wants his new sellers to spam for Wagglepop, EVERY DAY! In big black font, he tells his sellers that it is up to THEM to make Wagglepop a success. Less hassle for Ray anyway.
http://www.wagglepop.com/bin/Accessory/we-the-people
It must be working a little bit. A lot of eBay forums were spammed with Wagglepop half truths, and people bitching and moaning about the latest eBay fees have been taking the bait, and joining Wagglepop. At one time, Ray’s seller count jump from 110 to 190 in about a week. Its currently at 208. Hopefully they don’t listen to Ray and pay him more than a month’s fees to find out that there aren’t any buyers.
From Wagglepop’s “We the People” propoganda…
3. Tell Everyone
Use that address book. Email everyone you can about Wagglepop and ask them to do the same. Tell your barber, your mailman or anyone else you think might be interested.
Hit the jump for more…
Tags about Wagglepop:
http://sneakydave.com/forum/index.php?action=tags;id=63″>http://sneakydave.com/forum/index.php?action=tags;id=63
More on Wagglepop:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=wagglepop+site%3Asneakydave.com&btnG=Google+Search
It seems like the Wagglepop is in its death throws. Andrew Pittino has recently blamed the non-paying sellers for not making Wagglepop a success. Ray Romeo himself blamed sellers for not supporting Wagglepop 1.
“Andrew” also claims that Wagglepop has had $150,000 in expenses, and about $45,000 in “outright debt”. Ray Romeo himself suggested that Wagglepop 1 was worth $45,000, at least that’s what the bidding for his first failure was going to start at.
These are Andrew’s recent remarks about “changes” to Wagglepop, even creating polls, asking sellers if they’d like to keep prices the same and remove features, or raise prices and keep the features. He seemed disgusted that people wouldn’t support a fee increase.
Hit the jump for “Andrew’s” announcement and posts. I got that information from a poster on Tuliptools.com
Tags about Wagglepop:
http://sneakydave.com/forum/index.php?action=tags;id=63″>http://sneakydave.com/forum/index.php?action=tags;id=63
More on Wagglepop:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=wagglepop+site%3Asneakydave.com&btnG=Google+Search
Usually these notices come out just before the monthly billing cycle, to keep sellers at bay, paying Ray Romeo their $9.95 a month for a Wagglepop store, but this notice came a little bit late (10/28/2007).
These notices are posted by Andrew Pittino (Director of Business Development & Customer Care), which is rumored to by Ray Romeo himself. Andrew suddenly showed up after Karen Morrow left due to the meanness of Wagglepop users. Karen also is rumored to be a Ray Romeo sock puppet.
Hello Wagglepop Members,
Many of you have noticed over the past week or two the rollout and subsequent rollback for extended development of both appearance related changes and dynamic content integration. We feel confident the bulk of the implementation related “bugs” are worked out, and we anticipate full integration shortly of both.
Along with that we will be announcing very shortly some policy and feature changes that we feel better reflects the marketplace as structured both today and squarely focuses on the future direction of Wagglepop.
A bit further ahead in timeline we have secured and are developing some vertical properties that we feel will develop the overall pool of both buyers and sellers in the same ways in which the Web itself is developing. It’s a fast-evolving and ever changing landscape, and we see distinct opportunities for growth.
While not a complete philosophical change, we are thinking outside the box more than ever. Conventional promotional methods used to date have had mixed and strange results, leading us as a company to rethink the needs of online users and the ways in which those needs are fulfilled.
We have a solid and real-world tested foundation. Now is the time to start expanding, and seizing opportunities in every way we can.
Continued thanks to everyone for your continued support of Wagglepop. The visionary nature and enthusiasm of our membership is truly inspiring, and we look forward to working towards making that vision a reality each and every day.
Andrew P.
WP
More on Wagglepop:
http://sneakydave.com/forum/index.php/topic,2202.0.html
Older Wagglepop news:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=wagglepop+site%3Asneakydave.com&btnG=Google+Search
On 9/11/2007, Wagglepop is showing blank pages throughout the site. Ray Romeo has tried to disguise error message in the past by throwing up a blank page when errors occur, but I think I found out that it seems to be yet another database problem.
It also appears that Wagglepop’s “community” software is based on phpBB.
More…
http://sneakydave.com/forum/index.php?topic=2202.msg30002#msg30002
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