WagglePop.. 400 Stores is SOARING !! wow!!

Anyone know if Wagglepop will accept google payments?

Hey Wahm!

I don't see it in the dropdown list for making an auction - there's four options, paypal, money order, credit card, and check.

However, I believe Waggle has a Lassiez-Faire approach to payments - in other words, we can accept what we damn well please.

I REALLY LIKE wagglepop. I'm in the process of setting up my store and poking around to see how everything works. They have active employees on the board, kinda like our much-loved Auctiva here It's VERY similar to eBay...so much so I'm surprised a copyright suit hasn't been levied ::giggle::

Most of the "Fee Hike" Protest auctions skedaddled over there.

-Fox

yes... it looks alot like ebay.... but some different in a BETTER way... less clutterred look.. more vibrant and smoother.. page loads is 2.7 seconds to ebays 3.5 seconds... i wonder what the speed is when the big stampede will go there from the ebay store owners?. This is definitely what buyers want from a site to go look and enjoy if it is safe...now they have 4.5 k monthly money to work with to make it even better..froogle is the fastest and clean to go look around but less ENJOYABLE for a buyer so far... both froogle and now wagglepop makes ones listing and items LOOK very valuable and look enjoyable to look at.. ecraters makes buyers get a weak feeling looking and confused with the feedback...

ebay did do alot of research on what buyers like... and it it stupid not to do similar...so partly copying makes the best sense .. but this site is even BETTER if it is safe...

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ebay did do alot of research on what buyers like... and it it stupid not to do similar...so partly copying makes the best sense .. but this site is even BETTER if it is safe...

What would the risk be that would not make it safe?

The fact that last time Wagglepop was opened the owner just picked up and left without warning, said he would destroy all info collected but when he reopened he was able to "spam" everyone!

Once bitten twice shy, Ray has to now prove himself to me cause I'm not falling again. I hope it does work out but I'm not even registed yet, I'm not gunna put in my time and effort this time, I'll sit back and watch

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Originally posted by wahm922:
The fact that last time Wagglepop was opened the owner just picked up and left without warning, said he would destroy all info collected but when he reopened he was able to "spam" everyone!

Once bitten twice shy, Ray has to now prove himself to me cause I'm not falling again. I hope it does work out but I'm not even registed yet, I'm not gunna put in my time and effort this time, I'll sit back and watch

Thanks for the head's up wahm922!

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Anyone know if Wagglepop will accept google payments?

I have opened a store there. You can take whatever payments you like as long as they are legitimate. Even Cash!

As for Google - Karen - the customer service person - says that they are digging into integrating it, but are not serious about it yet. They are waiting to see how it works with other businesses first.

I have 2 wagglepop accounts but I only listed one auction on there just to feel it out. I too am apprehensive about wagglepop still. I have been waiting for it to take off and show me something worth investing my time into. The things I do not like about wagglepop are:

1. The front page you see when you first log on, not attractive at all.

2. I do not like the One Bid format.

The one bid (like ebay's Buy It Now) almost guarantee's the same problems in the future that ebay is having right now with seller's driving down item values and using sharked shipping methods to recover. It also negates what an "Auction" site is supposed to be.

I feel that if Wagglepop wants to stay competitive in the future..they need to make the One Bid (buy it now) format expensive to use and regulate shipping charges, just like ebay is beginning to do. Sharked shipping charges drives people away and this isnt what any of us wants, is it? Just my thoughts on the matter. I wish you all lots of sales and lots of $$$$, William

415 paid stores at 10 dollars a store is very impressive for 2 months or so.... now checking the rate of new stores added.....last nite at 11 pm eastern... 396 stores today at 5 pm eastern 415.. could be about 25 stores daily until the big stampede the end of august when ebay store fees kicks in.. and thse store owners will see alot of inventory that these 415 stores hasn't seen in wagglepop and this will have the stampede.. in sept the inventory should be big and make buyeers start coming and buying.. sept will be the month to check and see what this is gonna be... and if sells are good then a thunderous stampede of listing for the christmas selling season....

if this adds 25 stores daily until august 22.. that will give it over 1000 paid stores at 10 dollars each... meaning wp will have over 10,000 dollars a month to work with to make it even better......

Count me in to add to the increase because I intend to give WagglePop a shot. I have a little over 2100 auctions on eBay now and I am thinking about listing at least half of that on WagglePop in August just to see what happens. With the fees I am already spending on eBay and will spend once the rate increase takes effect, I think it will be worth a shot to try to have a fully stocked store on WagglePop. At this stage the price increase on eBay isn't worth keeping lower priced items in my store that may take a few months to sell. If I don't see results on WagglePop in a couple of months the most I will have invested is my time since the fees compared to what I am currently spending on eBay will be relatively small. If WagglePop can attract enough sellers to fully stock stores it will be more inviting to buyers to surf around. Anyone here have a store on WagglePop yet and seeing any sales results ? Ya'll have a great weekend !

i think it will take to the end of sept to analyze the sales situation there... but then if it is beginning then one can set up for a good holliday sales season with both wagglepop and ebay... ebay will have to work alot harder and give sellers more profits so sellers will get better profits from both places.... but to do this one has to gamble alittil on making a competitor ... and this looks like the fastest way along with froogle

I too was burned on WP like Danielle was (as others) and I am hesitant to go back. I am not selling on ebay at all, just through ecrater (3 stores) only 2 sales in the 2 weeks been open... and then my own direct website. I am updating ecrater to take GBUY and then once I see what happens with WP, I might try that. I have had more hits on my ecrater items then I normally do with ebay... and I already searched my items on WP and none of my normal ebay competitors are there *yet*... well, they arent on ecrater yet either! Steph

anyone know if auctiva will be setting up with wagglepop.---just started a store there--but I love auctiva for my listing program--hope they link in the near future--

It's doubtful, as WagglePop is nowhere near one of the top auction sites.

Also, I don't think they would be devoting resources to developing services for other sites, when the eBay side of things keeps the staff here plenty busy.

It's easy to use Auctiva on other sites. I set up a template for each site. Then make my listing and pick the template and save. Then you just "get HTML" copy and paste into the other site

It's not perfect but it gets the job done and rather quickly!

That's a great tip. Thank you!

WAHM, myself and others use it to sell on blujay and other sites, too.

Our ads look really nice on those sites, too.

Here's a handy site thats updated hourly so you can have a handle on how other sites are doing.

http://www.powersellersunite.com/auctionsitewatch.php

To me it looks like WagglePop is not an Auction site... It's a Buy-it-now site...

I'm sure things are selling, but I'll be that more than 90% of the stuff goes out with the "One Bid" and if you ask me, that's not how you build excitement about a new Auction web site...

Mike

I wish there was some way of knowing sell through at WP.

That would make alot of persons minds up, if they could just see some stats.


Good Luck,
Donna