Tuesday, December 12, 2006

Avoid Wagglepop Part 2

For all you Wagglepop the re-opening followers, I thought I would post an update. Apparently censorship is running high on the Wagglepop forums these days. Stores have dropped from almost 1,000 stores to 638! Wow that is a lot of stores closing down in a very short amount of time. The funny thing is over 300 of those stores have less than 50 items (are they real stores??) Many are complaining that their posts, or fellow store owners posts are being deleted. Their private messages are also being deleted and censored. That is a bit ridiculous. I mean the store owners are adults. Adults do not need someone (Ray) to proof read their private messages from other store owners and delete those that Wagglepop (Ray) does not think are warm and fuzzy! What else is going on behind the scenes that may be a little unethical? If it is ok to delete private messages what else is ok? Do I hear control freak?

There is another thing that does not sit well. If you decide to close your store, you must pay your invoice first (seems fair, but wait). Now let's say you opened your store on Jan 10, and want to close on Feb 2. Well from what I have read these store owners must pay Feb's bill before they can close. Well, you would think that the fee you paid on Jan 10 would cover till Feb 10, wouldn't you??? Are many of the supposive store listings just stores that are abandoned due to their refusal of paying extra fees and Wagglepop's refusal to close them until they do? That would explain all those stores with 1 or 2 listings that have sat there for a couple months. I mean who would pay $10.00 a month for a store with 1 listing? You know they say that the truth is often stranger than fiction. Makes you wonder doesn't it?

Will there ever be an alternative to ebay? I hope so, but don't think this is it.

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