Power Sellers Unite

[METZYMOM]

When reading the threads and posts in this particular forum, you should be aware that no one who has posted against OLA (OnlineAuction.com) has provided proof of their claims. PSU (PowerSellersUnite) does not require proof for any statement made in this, or any of their forums.

You should further be aware that only a couple of the posters have actually been known members at OLA. Take into consideration, when reading the threads and posts about OLA, that in almost all cases, the poster does not provide an ID that is used on any site, including OLA. In most cases, they do not even have information about where they are currently selling, which means their sole purpose here in this forum is to tell unproven stories about OLA. Consider that until caught, many PSU members have more than one PSU ID and it is therefore impossible to ascertain if you are reading posts from more than one or two people with multiple ID's here at PSU, done for the sole purpose of making it appear that there are many people unhappy with OLA.

Remember that anyone can post anything they want here at PSU as opinion, without regards to truth, as long as it has to do with eCommerce and as long as it stays on topic.

OnlineAuction.com is one of many 'alternative' sites to sell at. While it works for most people, it does not work for everyone. No site can be everything to everyone. The facts are that you sign up for a 'membership', which costs $8 a month to list unlimited amounts. No listing fees. No final value fees. No relisting fees. Sell anything and everything you can list (booze and tobacco products are restricted, along with a few other restricted items... you can, however, sell things like guns, parts, etc.). 4 free photos per listing. Feedback is a two way street. You get an 800 number to call for customer service no matter how much or how little you sell (no matter which membership you choose, everyone gets the same phone number because we are all equals and we all pay the same... there are no PowerSellers at OLA, every seller is important, not just those who sell tons and tons). Memberships include Basic Buyer, which is free to anyone at OLA. Verified Buyer runs $4 a month, and is required in a couple categories like weapons, or if you are planning to spend more than $1,000.00 a day (which most sellers offer to refund with qualifying purchase). Basic Member (Buyer/Seller), which is billed $8 monthly, provides you with unlimited listing privileges that every OLA seller enjoys, without any listing or final value fees, access to explore and chat in all forums, a private email (called an Omail account). Charter Members get the same thing as Basic Sellers, the only difference being they pay their membership for the year at one time instead of monthly. That membership is $96 for the year, paid all at once. Founding Members pay $96 for a one year subscription plus a one time fee of $100.00. The $96 pays for the year of unlimited listing with no listing or final value fees, same as the other memberships. The additional $100 gets you a store front with categories (called an OLA House), $200 in listing features (for things like Featured Items, extra pictures, etc.), and a guarantee that you will never EVER pay more than $8 a month for your membership. There are more perks to the memberships, and you can find out about them by visiting www.OnlineAuction.com on your own.

Are there 'drawbacks'? Well, it depends on how you look at it. You will be doing your own advertising (for your own store) and promoting for a while, but if you have a website or B&M, you know you have to do it yourself anyway. That is part of owning and operating a business of your own, right? You will need to relearn many things because eBay created lazy users and then charged them for it (that's why they get those big fees... to do the work you didn't know how to or didn't want to do). There is a full community of members in the Chat Forum who are just waiting to help you become successful at OLA, and they will help you in every aspect of relearning, or learning how to do things for yourself the first time. Members and Staff will help you learn how to do everything, and best of all, they'll do it because they want you to be successful, not because they have something to gain, like additional fees. Listing is Free, Relisting is Free, No Final Value Fees, Help and Support are Free, but you do have to have a desire to learn and a desire to succeed. You do have to have a "Can-Do" attitude, a Community attitude. You will most likely need some patience as OLA grows, but you'll be growing with it.

Again, check it out for yourself at www.OLA.com . I am offering proof that you yourself can see. Is OLA going to work for you? Only you can determine that. Don't let either side sway you: Check It Out For Yourself. It's Your Business - You Decide. Don't take my word. Don't take the word of others. Go Check It Out For Yourself!!! It may be the best thing you ever did on the road to owning and operating your own business online. It was for me!!!

[goodstuff4you]

Actually I think this should be titled.

Warning to Visitors & Members of PowerSellersUnite Metzy is on another Rampage.

I wonder if maybe someone is upset because they are not getting the Holiday Sales they think they should be at a particular online auction site and needs to blame that on something other that what the true cause is.

[LittleOnlineStore]

I think the real question to be asked is "Why is there so much contempt for OLA?"

I think the suggestion that other sites are just out to get OLA isn't the case. The real case is that former members are the ones out to get OLA.

[METZYMOM]

LittleOnlineStore wrote (View Post): › docWrite("quote")I think the real question to be asked is "Why is there so much contempt for OLA?"

I think the suggestion that other sites are just out to get OLA isn't the case. The real case is that former members are the ones out to get OLA.

I don't think a handful of multiple ID'd complainers would be considered 'so much contempt for OLA'. I also think that 'the other sites' aren't out to 'get OLA'... we're talking about a few members who weren't able to make a go at OLA... any 'sites' that are trashing OLA should be very careful... because when they lose a few members, it will happen to them too, and they will have basically 'okayed it' by not putting a stop to it.

OLA is not the first site to receive this treatment by bitter ex-members and just plain bitter people with nothing better to do. They are simply the current site being trashed. In some cases, the members are being rewarded (read: payment or incentives of some kind) by other sites to try to 'take OLA down' like they did another up and coming site.

Before you believe them, do the research on the site (any site... doesn't have to be OLA) for yourself. Make your own business decisions. That's all I ask. I don't expect my side of the argument to sway you, I just ask that you check it out for yourself before you believe people who aren't selling anywhere. They were unable to make sales at OLA (and I might add that at least 2 of them were never members at OLA... and are probably being compensated by another site to trash OLA, but that's just my opinion as I have no proof that they are employed by another site) and now they don't sell anywhere... that should tell you something... maybe they just aren't cut out for eCommerce, and it's easier to blame the last site they tried to sell at than to own up to their own failure.

[GAELICTITCA]

More spreading of the OLA smoke and
mirrors, eh Metzy?

Well, this PSU member has given OLA a whirl
on three occasions over the past three years,
all for plenty of time to let the site prove itself
or to see if anything there has changed.

Of course, I should have known better than to
give the site as many chances as I have, but
I kept hoping that maybe the site would have
finally gotten its act together.

Naturally, being OLA, it's all hype, spin, smoke,
and mirrors.....lure in unsuspecting sellers to
milk them as long as they can (even better if
that poor unknowing vendor falls for it and buys
a founding membership........)

My current account was cancelled three months
ago and yet OLA continues to bill the credit card
$8.00 every month for a service cancelled (not
unusual for OLA -- so anyone looking to join the
site on a month to month basis, be warned).

There are plenty of testimonials about OLA from
PSU members who have had first hand, up close
and personal experience with OLA. Try as you
might to spin what is said about OLA as coming
from a few dissatisfied users of the site, the truth
is OLA is an e-commerce dead end and there are
plenty of people who know that from expereince.

[gooddealsbooks]

yikes from all I've read on that site i would even go there : (

[goodstuff4you]

METZYMOM wrote (View Post): › docWrite("quote")goodstuff4you wrote (View Post): › docWrite("quote")Actually I think this should be titled.
Warning to Visitors & Members of PowerSellersUnite Metzy is on another Rampage.
I wonder if maybe someone is upset because they are not getting the Holiday Sales they think they should be at a particular online auction site and needs to blame that on something other that what the true cause is.
I think you make no sense and have therefore just made my point.
Thank You! I appreciate that!

What part does not make since?
Is is the fact the I have only ever had one ID at PSU & I have not been an OLA basher but am tired of seeing your rampages over & over again when someone comes to PSU to post an issue they are having.
YOU ALWAYS come here calling those people liars and asking for them to put up their personal information as proof. Putting up their personal information would be just plain stupid & leave them open for all kinds of cyber bullying & or identity fraud.

Or does my guess on what brought out this latest rant (since you are the one who started this thread) with that huge OLA cheerleader letter calling multiple members of PSU liars and bashing PSU at the same time.

The quess I made was bassed on the fact that someone taking the time you have taken to write & post what you have today clearly shows you have plenty of time on your hands & a logical conclusion to why you have all that time on your hands is because you are not Packaging & Shipping Orders.

I am not easily offended at all but YOU and your actions have offended me and other great members of PSU over & over.

[LittleOnlineStore]

Metsy,

The thing is that you could probably do even better at another site. Your OLA store does not seem to offer much personalization. There are lots of sites that cost less and you can have a store that actually looks like a store.

Have you ever tried to list your items on other sites?

[GAELICTITCA]

gooddealsbooks wrote (View Post): › docWrite("quote")yikes from all I've read on that site i would even go there : (

Wise choice

[jewess]

Gael, you hit the nail right on the head. I had to cancel my credit card as "stolen" and was issued another one with a new number so that OLA would not have my account any longer. This is a nuisance, but it worked. And, for everyone's knowledge, I only post under one name as I'm sure the great majority of us on PSU do. The reference made by one certain person that many post here under aliases is not true. There are MANY unhappy ex and "trapped" OLAers. I still think that certain OLA people are on the payroll or they would not be trying so desperately to defend a losing cause and luring unsuspecting people in to their web of lies and deceit. The true lies and deceit about OLA are that it is a successful venue when it is an out and out failure with a bunch of diehards who for some reason won't put their pinky toe into another venue (and there are several) to try to make it. Maybe they are afraid of succeeding. It is a shame the sham of OLA continues to drag on. I'm sure the holiday rush must be making everyone there rich!

[DishWorld]

Being a person who fell into the OLA trap, my membership is to renew in July. I would never ever rejoin that site or ever list there again. I stop listing after updates were never completed.

Some of the things in this thread are sometimes over the top but there is always some truth to most comments.

Yes OLA is cheap but there are to many sites out there that will help you with advertising to bother with OLA. No feeds no traffic. No advertising help = no sales. Just sweet and simple.

There are so many other ways to help OLA other then first bashing the people making comments on this site. This whole thing is just .... whatever.

If you enjoy small or no sales then please join OLA if you want a true chance of making a living go somewhere else.

[pintobean]

METZYMOM wrote (View Post): › docWrite("quote")In some cases, the members are being rewarded (read: payment or incentives of some kind) by other sites to try to 'take OLA down' like they did another up and coming site.


Please back this up with facts.

[jewess]

It sure seems like the pot is calling the kettle black. People from other sites where they don't faint at the site of the holier than thou Fain paying people to bring down OLA -- give it a rest! What is more likely is that the diehards at a failing site called OLA who turn up to try to drive up the membership are the ones more than likely receiving "incentives". I know ebay isn't writing me a check for saying what I feel about the wasteful experience on OLA. They take those fees the within a blink of a sale! No one from ebay CALLS ME AT HOME to tell me to knock OLA, yet we all know that there are "hot lines" to the sainted moderator of OLA's forums and of course Lord and Master Chris Fain. "Me thinkst thou doth protest too much!" I'd wager my last REAL MONEY sale that people on OLA are paid off to keep the "good word" going!!! My comments are directed at the "site" called OLA and its failings NOT AT ANYONE PERSON IN PARTICULAR, but I am sure I will be hearing from someone shortly.

[anniesplace]

I had to threaten OLA with legal action before they would stop billing my cc.

The place is a scam and it's not free.

Try Atomic Mall, Bonanzle, BluJay, Craigslist or sell your wares locally.

I have only one PSU ID. I had only one ID when I was a member of OLA.

[pintobean]

Heck, I'm still waiting for Fain to call back. I wasn't available the first time. I emailed him personally twice to write back and haven't heard a thing. :roll:

BTW-It's not a crime to have multiple IDs and use them within reasonable boundaries. Look at what happened to all those sellers on ebay who used their 'real' seller ID's in chats. If people didn't like what the sellers had to say, they would sabotage their business, which is the lowest of the low things to do to someone's potential livelihood.