Information Concerning OLA

**#31**

innerpuppie wrote (View Post): › Gee, gone for a little while and found out I was in the movies! Then, I go to see who played me and find that the user removed the video. What I find absolutely humorous is the fact that no one - NO ONE - at OLA knows cr*p about me. All any of them knows is that each and every post I've ever made about that place is 100% truthful. Generally small-minded, illiterate, ill-mannered, ill-tempered and, yes, ignorant, people do such things believing that others will fall behind in lock-step...all the way to the Kool-Aid vat for another swig of the OLA hype.

Whatever it is that they believe I can expose about them and whatever it is that they think they know about me is just about as accurate as their statements about the OLA selling experience.

If it was as bad as I gather from reading some of the posts, the OLA harpies and cheerleaders must fear me to the core. Children often will malign and make fun of what they fear in order to boost their ego and self-esteem. Still wonder why it was removed. Could it be that they found intelligent people graded it to be trash and, in turn, related it to reflect the average intelligence of the OLA seller?

No one fears you... as seen on the video, most find you to be a joke. You are not truthful... you are a spiteful bully and will bend words and posts to fit your own agenda... and guess what? Except for a few trolls, everyone knows it (and they know it too, but maybe they're afraid of you, which would make you right in this case... that someone is afraid of you... it just isn't OLA members...)... and while I didn't agree with someone doing a video like that (didn't agree with the last 2 either), it was pretty funny...

**#32**

METZYMOM wrote (View Post): ›

innerpuppie wrote (View Post): › Gee, gone for a little while and found out I was in the movies! Then, I go to see who played me and find that the user removed the video. What I find absolutely humorous is the fact that no one - NO ONE - at OLA knows cr*p about me. All any of them knows is that each and every post I've ever made about that place is 100% truthful. Generally small-minded, illiterate, ill-mannered, ill-tempered and, yes, ignorant, people do such things believing that others will fall behind in lock-step...all the way to the Kool-Aid vat for another swig of the OLA hype.

Whatever it is that they believe I can expose about them and whatever it is that they think they know about me is just about as accurate as their statements about the OLA selling experience.

If it was as bad as I gather from reading some of the posts, the OLA harpies and cheerleaders must fear me to the core. Children often will malign and make fun of what they fear in order to boost their ego and self-esteem. Still wonder why it was removed. Could it be that they found intelligent people graded it to be trash and, in turn, related it to reflect the average intelligence of the OLA seller?

No one fears you... as seen on the video, most find you to be a joke. You are not truthful... you are a spiteful bully and will bend words and posts to fit your own agenda... and guess what? Except for a few trolls, everyone knows it (and they know it too, but maybe they're afraid of you, which would make you right in this case... that someone is afraid of you... it just isn't OLA members...)... and while I didn't agree with someone doing a video like that (didn't agree with the last 2 either), it was pretty funny...

Metzy once again you have ignored my requests to show me the proof that the views have increased.

According to Alexa today - Ola is ranked 120,788 with blujay at 48,000 and ebay 17. The only thing that has gone up is the number of pages people visit but their overall visitors hasn't increased. If I am not mistaken last week OLA was 118,00 so they might have gone down.

Please stop rah, rahing and show us some proof. Since I have paid for a year I wouldn't mind being proven wrong but I will not waste my time listing until sales improve. Two hundred sales a day out of 16 million listings isn't very encouraging.

BTW - I did not think the video was funny - it was disgusting just like his other two.

**#33**

No one fears you... as seen on the video, most find you to be a joke. You are not truthful... you are a spiteful bully and will bend words and posts to fit your own agenda... and guess what? Except for a few trolls, everyone knows it (and they know it too, but maybe they're afraid of you, which would make you right in this case... that someone is afraid of you... it just isn't OLA members...)... and while I didn't agree with someone doing a video like that (didn't agree with the last 2 either), it was pretty funny...

Metzy, you contradict yourself. Fear? This is the internet for crying out loud. Get a grip. You guys are like some sick club...you know, the kind in high school where an ostracized group of people who never fit in form their own little group and make fun of the people that they really envy? Go make some more soap.

BTW, the video has been removed.

**#34**

innerpuppie wrote (View Post): › If it was as bad as I gather from reading some of the posts, the OLA harpies and cheerleaders must fear me to the core. Children often will malign and make fun of what they fear in order to boost their ego and self-esteem.

Not a contradictory statement on my part... you said that "OLA harpies and cheerleaders must fear me to the core"... I said "No one fears you... as seen on the video, most find you to be a joke. You are not truthful... you are a spiteful bully and will bend words and posts to fit your own agenda... and guess what? Except for a few trolls, everyone knows it (and they know it too, but maybe they're afraid of you, which would make you right in this case... that someone is afraid of you... it just isn't OLA members...)... and while I didn't agree with someone doing a video like that (didn't agree with the last 2 either), it was pretty funny..."

OLA members are too busy laughing to fear you...

Confused... you read the OLA Chat several times a day... the proof you seek is posted there... you know where it is... you've seen it... you can't argue it... Who are you trying to impress over here by being a bully? InnerPuppie? Cuff? Gaelictitca?

innerpuppie wrote (View Post): › You guys are like some sick club...you know, the kind in high school where an ostracized group of people who never fit in form their own little group and make fun of the people that they really envy?

Yeppers... now step away from the keyboard and go look in the mirror... because your own words described you and your band of merry monsters perfectly...

**#35**

Oh, phuuuuleeease, that "video" was some stitched together copyrighted material that wasn't funny, creative or informative. It was the work of a low IQ knuckle-dragger who is an embarrassment to every bipedal on the planet.

Further, if the good and decent sellers at OLA weren't offended by the site being associated with that lame attempt to be clever then it's only because they didn't see it.

I hope the hard working sellers that paid their founders fees appreciate the work the selfish, self-righteous sellers put into posting such a low class promo on such a highly trafficked site.

This is one of a myriad of reasons to keep seller ID's separate from social ID's. Some buyers put seller ID's in search engines. Finding this kind of garbage can cost a sale.

**#36**

Quoting Metzy:

"and while I didn't agree with someone doing a video like that (didn't agree with the last 2 either), it was pretty funny..."

Your sense of humor says it all Metzy. Here you are again and again with the same old tactics: I wouldn't, couldn't, shouldn't, but I did, well at least a little but I didn't mean it.

I have a suggestion for you. Get a mirror and take a long honest look at yourself.

Quoting innerpuppie:

"Get a grip. You guys are like some sick club...you know, the kind in high school where an ostracized group of people who never fit in form their own little group and make fun of the people that they really envy?"

I would say this is at the Junior High Level innerpup, don't give these people the credit for reaching high school level. Smile

So, how is the STR for OLA this week? hmmmmm?

**#37**

It doesn't seem to matter what we post... cartoons or links by CNN, you guys are never happy.

I would've thought the cartoons were funny even if they hadn't been attached to IP's name... they were funny cartoons...

I have said on this thread and other threads as well, that I do not support the nasty videos on any level... I don't care who made them or posted them... but that doesn't stop a cartoon from being funny... and those cartoons were funny.

**#38**

@ LurkeyLou

"Oh, phuuuuleeease, that "video" was some stitched together copyrighted material that wasn't funny, creative or informative. It was the work of a low IQ knuckle-dragger who is an embarrassment to every bipedal on the planet."

The best description I've seen of the childish video which stirred afresh the dying embers of a childish argument. If anything, you gave it too much credit.

Englishlord must be laughing his/her ass off with the success in stirring the pot they achieved with their equally as childish post of the rubbish. Simple things for simple minds...

Sure glad I'm off to a new project Monday and won't be around enough to be tempted to look in on who's winning the pissing match at any given moment.

**#39**

The CNN link was a press release picked up from MarketWire.com. It was an informative couple of paragraphs about a future business venture between a service and the site. Did AuctionFloor post that press release to make anyone happy?

Until something develops, it's meaningless. It's only interesting and something to keep an eye on. The project must be given an chance to create a track record that can be evaluated, performance charted and the tweaked in an attempt to arrive at the desired result. At this time, it is impossible to determine if this is a good, bad or neutral relationship for OnlineAuction.com or will increase sales performance for a significant portion of members.

It's going to be 12 - 24 mos before meaningful data is generated. CNN picked up a press release - they pick up thousands a year. The big whoop will be when I overhear just one person in my town discussing OnlineAuction.com the way I regularly hear so many discussing eBay.

Thanks, mongoose. Coming from a wordsmith, that's high praise. Once again, I'm glad I edited before posting.

**#40**

LurkeyLou wrote (View Post): › The CNN link was a press release picked up from MarketWire.com. It was an informative couple of paragraphs about a future business venture between a service and the site. Did AuctionFloor post that press release to make anyone happy?

Until something develops, it's meaningless. It's only interesting and something to keep an eye on. The project must be given an chance to create a track record that can be evaluated, performance charted and the tweaked in an attempt to arrive at the desired result. At this time, it is impossible to determine if this is a good, bad or neutral relationship for OnlineAuction.com or will increase sales performance for a significant portion of members.

It's going to be 12 - 24 mos before meaningful data is generated. CNN picked up a press release - they pick up thousands a year. The big whoop will be when I overhear just one person in my town discussing OnlineAuction.com the way I regularly hear so many discussing eBay.

Thanks, mongoose. Coming from a wordsmith, that's high praise. Once again, I'm glad I edited before posting.

...but isn't informative information what a discussion board, say like this one, is for? Not for petty name calling and jostling for the lead in, as Mongoose so eloquently put it, a pissing match?

Perhaps if everyone got over 'the pissing match' and started 'discussing' information that actually mattered (read: more than personal opinion and spiteful remarks), this wouldn't be such a horrible site to visit.

...just a thought...

**#41**

METZYMOM wrote (View Post): › ...but isn't informative information what a discussion board, say like this one, is for?

Yes, but posting the exact same post
across mutliple discussion threads was
nothing more than spamming the board
and against the terms of service of PSU.

That, more than anything else, would be
the central problem with your actions last
night.

That put you up there in the same league
as the hit-and-run posters to PSU who
appear for an instant to post multiple times
where you can buy knock-off 'designer'
handbags.

**#42**

GAELICTITCA wrote (View Post): ›

METZYMOM wrote (View Post): › ...but isn't informative information what a discussion board, say like this one, is for?

Yes, but posting the exact same post
across mutliple discussion threads was
nothing more than spamming the board
and against the terms of service of PSU.

That, more than anything else, would be
the central problem with your actions last
night.

That put you up there in the same league
as the hit-and-run posters to PSU who
appear for an instant to post multiple times
where you can buy knock-off 'designer'
handbags.

Why don't you get past that? Is that the best thing you've got on me? That I made a mistake, corrected it, apologized for it, and moved on? Is that really the best you can reply with in response to my previous post? A post that looks like, to any sane person, as an olive branch and an attempt to put the 'discussion' back in 'discussion forum'?

There is simply no getting through to you, and your response to my last post proves it. You had a great opportunity to call an end to this pissing match...

Nice choice you made.

**#43**

Some discussion was occurring, a mocking statement or two about OLA were made then things were being steered back on track. Another site owner asked a question so he can update his own auction count software and then some member from OLA posted a link to another site to mock a member of PSU and PSU itself. The conversation went entirely down hill, information ignored.

Yes, forums are for networking information. Forums are also full of a variety of personalities. This is not your first time around the block, MetzyMom. You know when you post anything about OLA you're going to get some blow back from members who've had bad experiences with the site and/or sellers. Instead of working past it and back to a constructive discussion, an OLA member chose to toss rocket fuel on the conversation and light it with a frickin' match.

Now PSU members are supposed to be cooperative? Grateful? What? Contrary to the comments about the people participating in OLA threads on PSU, nearly every single one of us has or are currently giving OLA a go. Some have had extremely unsatisfactory experiences and were not allowed to continue to voice their opinions at the site. They have come here to voice concerns and grievances, and to share their experiences. They are using PSU to share information, the same as you came here to share information. They have been mocked and challenged every step of the way, the same way you have been mocked and challenged.

At some point, OLA members will choose not to engage in fanning the flames. They will address what they can in a professional manner and allow customers that are extremely unhappy with the site to get it out and get past it. Or, OLA members will continue to be a bad reflection on the general membership and this kind of behavior will continue until everyone's fingers are bloody nubs and not one thing is resolved, improved or helpful.

I don't care if I look like an idiot - it doesn't effect my business. And because I keep business and personal interests separate, I can not reflect poorly on the sites with which I am associated. The same can not be said for most sellers. Y'all wanna' wallow around in the septic tank, it's on you.

But don't, do not come here crying "Wounded party!" when it's so often OLA members unwilling to give it a rest.

Don't forget, MetzyMom, you erroneously talked "at" me on the OLA forums. You ridiculed, mocked and lied about me on the forum. You personally started the thread and other members joined in. Amazing treatment for someone who has never, not once, posted in the forums at OnlineAuction.com. Seeing that makes it crystal clear that people arriving at PSU with tales of disillusion, being subjected to unfair treatment and oppressed with cult-like mentality are more right than wrong.

OLA members can choose to bicker and they will continue to be indulged here on PSU. Or, OLA members can choose a dignified path and represent in a professional manner and turn things around. Eventually, regardless how much people dislike one another personally a respectful working relationship can be achieved if one party takes and stays on the high road.

People fled OLA and arrived here wounded. If OLA wants to poke 'em with sticks the wounds will never heal. You don't have to be a rocket scientest to know that people are inclined to protect the wounded...especially when they come seeking asylum.

**#44**

So what you are suggesting is that OLA members not come here until you feel better? Come on Lurkey, I posted on a thread that had absolutely nothing to do with OLA and you guys came after me there too... so unless I quit posting here altogether, you guys are going to consider any post I make a poke with a stick. For every positive thread an OLA member starts, you guys start 5 or 6 negative ones. One the single positive threads we post, you guys jump in and make it a living nightmare.

You guys aren't going to quit until no OLA member comes back here to PSU. You guys aren't going to let anything positive be said about OLA, regardless of who says it or what they say.

I don't know why you guys got the boot off OLA, contrary to what you guys think. I've said it before and I'll say it again: I didn't do it to you. I had no part of it or in it. And yet, I am your favorite target here. No one, especially me, knows why that is... but your venomous attacks give some clues as to why OLA wasn't a good fit for you.

How long are you going to be angry at OLA? At me? At Momo or Krysee or whoever your target of the month is?

One of you said earlier, in another post, that everyone should figure out what site works for them and then promote it. That's all I'm doing with OLA. It works for me. It works really well for me. I know it doesn't work well for everyone, but IT WORKS WELL FOR ME. Why would you offer that advice to others but then take me to the barn for doing it?

I know you guys think I've been around the eCommerce block, but it simply isn't true. I did sell on eBay for about 2 years... I was very small time... and sold there happily I might add. I listed items on iOffer at one point, but it didn't work for me so I left there. I joined OLA in February and haven't regretted a day since I've been there. It is exactly the right fit for me... and yes, I started as a Founding Member... I paid the whole $200 without knowing 'everything'... I just knew the site was going to work for me... and it has.

All I can say is that I've offered an olive branch. It isn't the first time I've done it, and it probably won't be the last time, although I sincerely hope it is. It's up to you and the rest of your buds to take it or leave it...

**#45**

All I can say Metzy is you can stick that often offered olive branch, well, you know where. You offer that darned thing here and on OLA so much that it must be worn and frayed from use. You come on like a lamb, head in for the kill and then when folks get fed up with you and start to give you what you gave to them, you offer that olive branch of yours. All I can say is that your posts are very bi-polar.

This is the internet, Metzy, the darned internet. No one is going to come through your computer screen and "get you" (although I bet a bunch of people would if they could Laughing

). Go make some soap and when OLA actually does what it has been saying it will do for the past 4-5 years come back and let us know. But until then, why don't you just stay in the forrest with the rest of the OLA harpies sharpening the ends of those olive branches that you so often offer here and on OLA. You know, the ones you offer and then stick the sharp end into the belly of the intended victim?

Or, how about hanging out with the OLA harpies passing around the hat for those 10 buck contributions you want to give to Fain for advertising. You know, the advertising that other sites provide to their sellers at no cost?