WagglePop
23 August 2006If you haven’t heard of WagglePop, don’t be too surprised. I hadn’t either.
WagglePop is a online auction house, very similar to eBay. It’s been gaining ground lately with all the ruckus because of the fee increases at eBay. If you’re saying to yourself, “I’m so used to eBay I don’t think I could switch.” Don’t. The interface on WagglePop is very, very similar to eBay’s interface. In fact, it would appear that the designers of WagglePop went to great efforts to make it appear to be nearly identical.
At the moment, the auction count is quite a bit lower than on eBay, but has been rising. Fees at WagglePop are very competitive and much less confusing than eBay fees. There’s one fee structure for everything. The basic store is $9.95 a month and includes free auction listings of any format, free gallery, and free buy it now option. The biggest difference in the fee structure is the final value fee. WagglePop charges a flat fee based on the final selling price.
That structure has a $.03 minimum for items that sell for less than $.99 and a $99 maximum for items that sell for more than $5000. Insertion and enhancement fees seem to be half of those at eBay or less, and the store inventory fees are about half of what the eBay fees were before August 22nd 2006.
Add to that a program called “Red Carpet Rewards” which gives store sellers an easy way to set a repeat buyer rewards program up that automatically shows the set discount to the Red Carpet buyers.
Overall, WagglePop has a long way to go before it becomes a true competitor to eBay. The function is all there, but at the moment, the users are not. There are more auctions in the most popular category on eBay than there are in the entirety of WagglePop. It certainly will be a site to keep an eye on and to tinker with a little to see if the returns are greater than they would be on eBay.
Check it out and let me know what you think.
[tags]ebay, wagglepop, auction, online auction, fees, ebay fees, fee hike[/tags]
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September 3rd, 2006 at 10:02 pm
as a seller, I have found WP easy to use and understand. Registration was easy, and required NO credit card! the customer service rep, Karen, is simply AMAZING! I have never had a problem that she couldnt solve or question she couldnt answer. and I have always had a reply in under 30 minutes…usually, under 5 minutes!
My sales (boutique hairbows) have been literally 3 times more than what I was selling on ebay. Plus, they sell for less, since I dont have to worry about the fees…which makes customers VERY happy!
As a buyer, I have seen the listings EXPLODE over the past few weeks. For me, there is nothing on Ebay that I can’t find on WP. I have found other sellers prices to be lower, also, which is always a big plus! The only thing I had to “get used to” as a buyer, was waiting for the seller to invoice me, but i have never had to wait more than 24 hours. At first I found that irritating, but now, I actually like it. I can go back and browse (get the red carpet discount and buy more now discount) and not have to “ask” for an invoice. I also like that when I am done, I can request an invoice from the seller. this saves the hassle of me having to re-ask, because the automated invoices on ebay combined shipping wrong …I also like that most items have a BIN price or a one bid price, so I dont have to wait for an auction to end…
both as a buyer and a seller I find the site easy to use, the customer service department quick and knowledgable, and the sellers easy to work with and communicative. I really believe that this site will become (and quickly at that) a viable alernative to ebay, which I no longer buy or sell on.
September 3rd, 2006 at 10:18 pm
I was an ebay powerseller and have moved my store to Wagglepop. I am saving over $200 a month on listing and store fees. My sales on wagglepop are increasing every week. I recommend it to everyone!!
September 3rd, 2006 at 10:30 pm
I bought on ebay for over 8 years and sold through a store for over 2. In all that time I watched fees raised over 6 times, watched the scammers with the high s&h, seen more counterfeits then I could shake a stick at.
I kept my nose clean, didn’t cheat the buyers, maintained a 100% feedback, spent thousands of dollars shopping and selling always paid my fees. And ebay comes back and says, ” You sell junk in your store and you are destroying the magic.”
Well, I went over to wagglepop and am AMAZED at the prices, customer service, and ease of site. It is easy to list. The fees are spelled right up front. The others are friendly. I can post my thoughts without fear of auction interference. No rediculous s&h. NO counterfeits. It is growing so fast. I am proud to be here now at WP and am making $ hand over fist.
September 3rd, 2006 at 11:07 pm
I too left ebay over a month ago after selling for over a year with 612 positive feedback (100%). I LOVE Wagglepop! I am actually building my feedback very quickly - ALL feedback counts! I love the format, love the people, love the excitement and even LOVE paying such low fees! All listing fees are included in the $9.95 a month. NO surprises! I can actually lower my prices to my customers and still make a little money! The people are wonderful - KAREN answers questions quickly, and the boards are very, very helpful! It may not be at the sales levels of ebay (yet), but given time……..
September 4th, 2006 at 12:33 am
I’ve bought and sold on Ebay for a number of years and have been sad to se the site decline as it has become overrun with scammers and fee avoidance. For a long time I was an Ebay cheerleader and weathered the constant changes, the bizarre glitches and the nonexistant customer service.
When the fee increase was announced and I was basically informed that my unique vintage items were no longer wanted on Ebay, I decided to seek out other venues. And I found Wagglepop.
It’s so refreshing to have a community that respects one another and works together. It’s fantastic to have customer service that recognizes I am a person and not an ATM machine. I can list all I want for under $10 per month, including gallery pictures.
The sellers I have purchased from have had amazing prices and very reasonable shipping. I have been treated with a great deal of courtesy by my sellers and have been thrilled with my purchases!
My buyers have been great too! And only two of them has been other sellers. The others were people who found the site through Google/Froogle or the amazing advertising the sellers over at Wagglepop are doing. I’ve made more money in my one month on Wagglepop than I did in my last 2 months on Ebay combined…and I mean profit, money I get to keep!
This site is only about 120 days old. In that time it has surpassed other venues that have been in operation twice as long. There are now over 100,000 listings and 900 stores on Wagglepop. Pretty amazing growth, with no sign of slowing down. Yes, they’ve had problems in the past, but I tell ya, if I can survive Ebay, I can survive anything!
September 4th, 2006 at 7:04 am
What more can you want? Ease of use, low fees, great customer service, wonderful friendly and helpful community, excellent Google/Froogle placement. Wagglepop reopened on May 16, 2006 and just recently surpassed the 100,000 listings and 900 store count. We’re building it one day at a time.
Ginny
September 5th, 2006 at 10:48 am
I had my graphics store on eBay for months with minimal sales and paid out alot more than I was getting. At Wagglepop I am able to offer my services at a much lower cost & the sales in one month have more than covered all my fees. What are you waiting for? WAGGLEPOP - JOIN THE REVOLUTION!!
September 19th, 2006 at 12:06 am
Wagglepop cool place, being on Ebay for 6 years store sales for 2 i yanked it all and now on the Pop for 1 week 2 sales already plus I bought 8 item as prices seem to be lower than Ebay so I have to say Hat’s off to the wagglepop Adminstration
October 2nd, 2006 at 7:32 pm
Have you seen Kongbiz.com?
It is cheaper than WP and it has the same script and layouts. Very nice and growing!
$7.95 per month. Cant beat it.
October 8th, 2006 at 9:18 am
Ewaey will be returning soon.
Much cheaper and faster than any other auction site around.
October 27th, 2006 at 6:00 pm
I have now been on wagglepop for a couple of months sales are good whereas on ebay they were non-existant and the fees there were costing me way more than I was making and here on wagglepop the fees are so low that I have actually made a profit which I have not seen in the last year that I was on ebay. I used to pay well over $200 in fees now I only pay $9.95 for my store and listings are free with the store so no insertion fees. The fvf fees are low enough that they are affordable. I made one sale and paid all my fees and still had a little left over…Wagglepop is a great and growning community and yes they will have growing pains just like everyone else but they are good at responding and changing what needs to be changed in order to make things continue in a smooth manner. Once they are out of that initial growning period they will definately be a viable option to ebay and a really good one at that.
November 8th, 2006 at 3:26 am
Is this the same wagglepop as this
http://www.ecommerce-guide.com/news/news/article.php/3485161
November 23rd, 2006 at 11:52 am
I had a store on Wagglepop for over two months and not one sale, no traffic and to be honest the censorship on the boards finally opened my eyes and made me leave.
There were many dedicated sellers on WP, some of which have posted here and no longer have stores on Wagglepop because there wasn’t any traffic or efforts on WP to self promote the site. Store owners are encouraged to spam craigslist and other sites and yet, shut down and attacked when they mention WP doing some of its own advertising.
If you are looking for a less expensive venue and you don’t mind putting in some effort of your own Ecrater is totally free!
November 27th, 2006 at 2:49 pm
“Monalisha Dash Says:
November 8th, 2006 at 3:26 am
Is this the same wagglepop as this
http://www.ecommerce-guide.com/news/news/article.php/3485161”
That article was written in February of 2005 and is now old news…..Wagglepop is back and better than ever!! You should check it out
November 27th, 2006 at 7:12 pm
former wagglepop seller karen is ray and karen is the only worker at wagglepop. mention anything other than WP is great and you get pushed out. there is no one to answer for any wrong doing at anytime no matter how small or big. try tracking down wagglepop and a trademark and you will gain information.
December 23rd, 2006 at 2:38 pm
ANY SERIOUS BUSINESS PERSON SHOULD AVOID WAGGLEPOP LIKE THE PLAGUE!!
DO NOT LISTEN TO SPAMMERS HERE. This is how Wagglepop gets recruits. Do your own research. Check out the threads on Tulip Tools, The Ross Show and Power Sellers Unite. Don’t waste time you don’t have.
I had a store there for 3 months and it was the biggest waste of my time, money and energy in the 8 years I’ve been selling on line. It is NOT a business, it is a cult run by a power-crazed dictator who terminates accounts for no reason, will not allow members to ask serious business questions, and expects his faithful followers to support him financially based on faith and promises alone.
THERE IS A REASON OVER 1/3 OF THE SELLERS THERE HAVE CLOSED SHOP IN THE PAST 3 MONTHS — THE HOTTEST MONTHS OF THE YEAR (no other auction site can claim that distinction) — And it wasn’t because they love Wagglepop and were making money. Most are having a hard time covering their store fees and NOBODY is making a living selling there. Probably more would close their stores if they simply knew how. There is no store closure link and sellers who go on the board to ask how to do it will have their posts pulled. Sellers must get permission and will NOT be allowed to close their store until Wagglepop SAYS the account is paid in full, even if, in fact, it IS paid in full. I, for one, continued to receive collection notices AFTER my account was permanently terminated by Wagglepop, and I owed absolutely NOTHING. And should your account be closed prior to the end of the billing cycle YOU WILL NOT GET A REFUND of any kind on the unused portion of it.
Traffic consists largely of sellers looking at each other’s listings. Traffic reports show that Wagglepop only receives a very insignificant 4-one-hundredths of one percent of the traffic eBay does. This is equivalent to a mustard seed as compared to the mass of an elephant, and it continues to decline.
If you like to pray, have staff censor your personal messages, have staff contact YOUR clients without yours’ or their consent or authorization, receive threatening collection notices when you owe nothing, be told to jeopardize your credit rating by opening a second PayPal account when your first account has been frozen (both illegal and against PayPal policy) for the sole purpose of paying your invoice, be in risk of account termination for simply asking what Wagglepop offers sellers for a fee that at least a dozen other sites offer at NO CHARGE (or just about any other business-related question), be expected to do ALL your own promotion and marketing by spamming (as is done on this thread) or whatever other “questionable” means, such as stick links to your store in violation of other auction site policies, because WP DOES NOT ADVERTISE or promote in any way to bring buyers, enjoy having your account information made public on the forums, like being told it’s none of your business should you ask how Wagglepop got its name or who owns the company — then, by all means join Wagglepop.
December 24th, 2006 at 12:07 am
yep wagglepop is the only site showing REAL buyer sales and repeat sales ..alot of people and sites are just jealous……
3 months ago wagglepop stores were averaging just one sale per month .. this has steadily climbed to now over 3.5 sales a month per store.. this means the buyers are loving this site and are coming back… this is what BUILDS a good site the buyers liking the site…
January 21st, 2007 at 11:03 pm
I am interested in your auction.
Where do I go to ask questions? Do you have an 800 #
Do I have to have a store to put in just one listing?
cyberjo1
March 5th, 2007 at 1:05 pm
WP’s ad compaign consists of all the previous responses from current Poppers spamming sites like this.
As a former Popper, I can say with experience IT ABSOLUTELY IS NOT THE PLACE FOR ANY SERIOUS, BUSINESS-MINDED, CREATIVE, INDEPENDENT-THINKING E-TAILER runs his/her BUSINESS with HONESTY OR INTEGRITY. I have been in contact with dozens of X-WP sellers who wish they’d never heard of the site.
Wagglepop has lost nearly 3/4 of its membership since October — this is no accident — and is sinking fast.
May 6th, 2007 at 11:20 am
Wagglepop refuses to allow a search of completed items. There is absolutely no way to determine what, if anything, is being sold on that site. Only seller claims, which must be taken with a grain of salt, because who is going to admit they keep throwing money away on a site that doesn’t sell?
I checked over forty categories and found NOT ONE single item with a bid.
July 1st, 2007 at 9:04 pm
I would have loved to make a decent amount of sales on Wagglepop, but it simply didn’t happen. My feedback is only 110 from 6 months of selling, and at 11 of those were from buying. At first, I had the big boost of being the only seller in my category (and still would be.) When I started, there were over 700 stores, near 160k listings according to PSUnite. I watched a while, liked the site, and opened my store in November. I enjoyed the one page listing format, especially since eBay had screwed up their listing process and turbo lister. When the first sellers started leaving, the traffic they brought with them left as well. I was selling over $500 a month, paying fees around 20 bucks, but My sales fell to maybe $20 a month, and the last 2 months less than $10. Not because I don’t know how to sell, but because the traffic is less than 20% of what it was when I started. Like in a mall, if 75% of the stores leave, what’s left won’t have any traffic passing their door. The “Grand Opening” was the best con-job of all, getting the old members to stick around a couple more months to pay those fees. $75,000 in advertising promised (less than half of what Ray had made) dozens of seller tools on the way, and nothing ever came of it. I even emailed a suggestion to increase the listing counts and seller numbers with free fee prize contests, then get buyers to come with just $20 Paypal gift certicate drawings, and Karen’s answer? If the sellers don’t want the suite of tools we offer them for such a low price, then that’s their problem. But, the tools offered for the price are nothing you can’t setup on any of the PHP auction sites, and they get more traffic. So, after the “It’s their problem” response, I gave up.
Now, keep in mind that there were 900 stores in September when I had first registered my account. Many, many, many sellers came in and left because the store numbers would slowly climb, then fall with each month’s non-payment suspensions. My estimates are around 2,000 sellers have come and gone since the 900+ mark in September. There are at least 20 sellers with more than one store from what I can see on the boards (what’s left of them, another forum disappears each day.) I don’t believe in destructive criticism, but get real! 150 sellers, maybe, running 200 stores, and it’s successful? Oh, wait, Andrew Pittino (Ray in disguise) basically said screw the sellers who left, Wagglepop was a bomb and would just have to be a small auction site. But no one else left after that comment? Karen left, meaning either Ray’s drag personality was getting boring, or his wife (”Karen” on the site) got another job.
All is well though… Ray still has 200 sellers producing a few thousand sales a month, making about $4000 monthly to let the script run itself as Rscript is setup to do. Nothing more to it, it’s a one man setup and show without any need for a staff. Ray has lied from day one. Legal department, collections department, Engineering department, and Customer Care department. It’s all him, sitting in his boxers and t-shirt rolling in over $250K the past year. He never planned to help sellers, only himself. He never wanted to give anyone an alternative, he just wanted to make himself a retirement fund. Invested properly, he can earn $50k+ a year (20%) off the cash he stole from sellers based on lies. That’s more than most families live off in a year, so he’ll be just fine. Not a bad years work, hey Ray?
A large seller base of disgusted eBay sellers: Free
A con-man’s business plan software program: $50
An easy to navigate auction site script: $1,000
Scratching yourself through your boxers while you sell lies to your trusting sellers from your bedroom: PRICELESS!
July 3rd, 2007 at 4:01 pm
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September 3rd, 2007 at 9:13 am
Quite why bother with these eBay alternative is really beyond me!