Karen Morrow, Ray Romeo’s customer service lackey, is gone, and the number of stores are dropping. The “Sales Reports” with projected growths over the next few years are gone, which is good because Ray would have to generate more than 15 times the number of stores he now has (217) to meet his first goal on 1/1/2008.
His last newsletter was updated in February, and has now been removed, as well as the infrquently updated “Wagglepop Today“. He has even removed the “farewells and goodbyes” forum, which was used by sellers leaving Wagglepop for greener pastures.
His stories of having $75,000 to spend on advertising must not have been true, as well as his promises of “dramatic increases in traffic, registrations, sales, and listings” on behalf of that advertising budget.
The poor suckers that have believed Ray’s story so long may finally be seeing the real picture at Wagglepop. Shame on them for thinking that Ray could shoot rainbows out of his ass, rather than understanding logic.
The next phase will be Ray’s attempt at selling the wagglepop.com “property”. Ray valued the first Wagglepop site made with buggy Mewsoft software at $20,000 or $40,000 depending on the source of the information. How much will Wagglepop 2 be worth? And hopefully we don’t have to wait a year or two before Ray starts Wagglepop 3.
Following are the “new rules” for the Wagglepop forums, and the announcement that screwball Karen isn’t a customer service rep anymore.
UPDATE: 7/25/2007: More about Wagglepop HERE…
Click the jump for more information….
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
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
Ray Romeo is one of the 3 biggest losers of the auction community. Right behind Troy MacDonald and Scott Samuel, Ray tried to start an auction site, wagglepop.com with no product, but plenty of promises.
In a nutshell, wagglepop was open for about 10 days before Ray claimed that a DoS attack had shut the site down, but the bidding started at 45,000 to buy it. He also claimed that somebody sent him a turd in the mail and supposedly his family was threatened.
All of his actions put him at the top of kooks in the online auction industry.
Now, Ray claims he has learned his lesson, and he’s ready to start a revolution with the new wagglepop.com
The good news is that he hasn’t appeared on any forums lying about the new auction site, and he doesn’t use Microsoft ASP for the usually buggy site.
The bad news is that he had to send out a spam mail to announce to everybody that it had re-opened, and if you read the OTWA thread, it looks as though Ray’s Terms of Service support him sending spam.
Story on OTWA
Story at The Ross Show
older stories…
Ray Romeo changes userid’s consistently
Ray Romeo quits the Wagglepop business
Insecure credit card transactions on Wagglepop
Waggle pop back door revealed
The innards of wagglepop
Ray’s promise to SPAM potential bidders
Wagglepop.com – auction vaporware
Avoiding riff raff and questions about his debacle as owner of Wagglepop? Sidestepping half truths and out right lies? Who knows, but Ray is still changing his eBay id every few weeks.
From romeo361 to type451rose to bocatlett to printed442
http://contact.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ReturnUserIdHistory&requested=bocatlett
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